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Perks, Wish lists and Rewards

You can break down your fundraising goal into a wish list, offer a meaningful perk in exchange for a donation or add a reward – all these engagement tools will enhance your campaign and boost the donor’s interest and engagement. You can easily add them and manage the inventory. Learn more

Scheduled campaign updates

Timely, frequent campaign updates are a powerful marketing and engagement instrument. Everyone who contributed to your campaign receives an email notification to let them know to check it out. It helps your community stay in touch with your progress, celebrate milestones, receive news – every update inspires more donations and social shares.  Learn more

Sponsorship & co-branded banners

Engage your sponsors in your campaign by activating a sponsorship and promotional banner that prominently showcases your sponsor, matching funds, or exclusive offers at the top of your campaign page. This not only empowers sponsors to contribute more to your cause but also makes these benefits accessible to your online audience.

Referral tracking

Discover your most effective promotion channels. Create referral links to analyze the effectiveness of your marketing channels, social media sharing, influencers, and more. You can create unlimited links, assign them names, and see how many contributions you received from each channel.

Automatic subscribers enrolment on exit

Not all visitors will make an immediate donation, but that doesn’t imply they won’t be ready to contribute in the future. This is why FundRazr proactively suggests visitors subscribe to your campaign when we sense their intention to leave the page without making a donation. Whenever you post an update, they will automatically receive notifications to stay informed.

Custom branding and whitelabeling

Elevate your fundraising campaign’s brand by incorporating your logo, colour scheme, fonts, and customized background to uphold a consistent and easily recognizable identity for your cause. Forge custom links on your fundraising page that connect to your main website and other essential resources. Unlike other fundraising platforms that impose charges for branding modifications, FundRazr offers this service at no cost.

Live Streaming on YouTube

You can effortlessly integrate live streaming into your fundraising campaign. The video will seamlessly appear in your media gallery or campaign story, enabling supporters to contribute while watching or listening. What’s even more thrilling is the option to create a live contribution overlay. This means that every time someone donates to your cause, a small pop-up will emerge, displaying the excitement of other supporters. Learn more

Social sharing superpowers

The wider you promote your campaign, the higher your odds of achieving success. Share your campaign both publicly on platforms like Facebook, X, or LinkedIn and privately through email, Messenger, or WhatsApp. The more, the merrier! If you prefer to utilize a different channel, simply copy the link and distribute it anywhere you choose. Additionally, you have the option to embed your campaign on any website under your or your contacts’ control using a widget or a donate button.

Fundraising emails

You have the option to import or upload your current donor email list on the FundRazr platform. Additionally, our platform offers user-friendly features for scheduling and sending communications to your internal team, fundraisers, or team captains. With a flexible email editor, you can seamlessly include photos, videos, links, and other multimedia in your emails. Furthermore, we support Mailchimp integration, should you prefer to use it for your email fundraising efforts.

SEO and custom URL links

Our goal is to simplify the process for your donors to find your campaign. Once you launch your fundraising campaign, it will promptly secure a prominent position on the initial pages of Google or Bing search results. Moreover, you have the option to tailor your meta description and link URL to enhance visibility. If, for any reason, you choose not to appear in search results, you can easily disable this feature.

Custom domains

To enhance your brand identity and take your fundraising to the next level, you can set up a unique custom domain for your website. By using a custom domain, your organization can create its own dedicated fundraising hub and bolster its online presence and search visibility. If you’re interested in setting up a custom domain for your organization, please reach out to our support team for assistance.

Pages designed for conversion

Our page designs are finely tuned to provide donors with a seamless experience and maximize conversion rates. Featuring carousel galleries, mobile-friendly design, and a rich story and media editor, you can trust that our pages and designs will yield the most successful fundraising outcomes for your organization.

Custom registration forms

Gather any information you need from sub-campaign owners/fundraisers by customizing form fields during registration. You have the flexibility to add or remove specific form fields and establish rules based on triggers and actions. This customizable registration form allows you to collect the important information required to run a successful fundraiser.

Team and individual fundraisers

Your event may enroll and raise funds with the help of individual or team fundraisers. These individuals or teams can have their own goals, engage in friendly competition, and earn recognition on a leaderboard. This highly engaging fundraising approach produces outstanding results and motivates participants to remain actively involved throughout the campaign.

Tickets

Your event can offer both complimentary and paid tickets for entry. Once contributors obtain a ticket, it will be promptly sent to their email. Each ticket is equipped with a unique number and a barcode, which can be used for validation by scanning.

Leaderboards and grids

You have the option to select from a list, leaderboard, or grid format to display the participants. The event leaderboard will exhibit the names of individual fundraisers or teams, along with the funds they’ve raised, in descending order from the highest to the lowest amount collected, placing a strong emphasis on the funds raised.

Personalized fundraiser stories

Your fundraisers have the ability to share their personal stories, explaining their belief in your cause and the reasons behind their participation in the event. This distinctive content will be prominently displayed above the primary content on their individual pages. Such personalized storytelling typically results in significantly greater engagement and support from donors, as it allows them to connect with the fundraisers on a personal level.

Promo codes

If your event features various types of rewards and tickets, you might consider incorporating promo codes into your promotional strategy. Our platform simplifies the process of generating these promo codes, and it will automatically update the cost and other inventory details when they are applied.

Mobile-friendly fundraising page

A majority of donors choose to contribute via their mobile phones and tablets. Therefore, it’s essential to enhance the mobile and tablet user experience to ensure that they can access all vital information seamlessly from various devices. Your fundraiser will appear sleek and optimized for receiving donations from a wide range of popular devices.

Great giving experience

We’ve refined the giving process of our fundraising pages to ensure your donors feel fantastic when they contribute. We’ve made the experience seamless and hassle-free, allowing your community to easily explore your cause, track its progress, subscribe to updates, and, of course, make contributions in the way that suits them best.

Layouts

We offer a variety of easily interchangeable fundraising page layouts for you to select from. These configurations provide the flexibility to display or hide your donation tracker, incorporate storefront functionality, and activate or deactivate social sharing. This allows you to exercise creativity and choose the fundraising page layout design that aligns best with your organizational objectives.

Media, video and carousel

You have the capability to upload an extensive collection of photos and videos that will assist in narrating the story of your cause and establishing a connection with your community. Additionally, you can activate the slideshow or carousel feature, allowing the photos to cycle through. Donors also have the option to comment, share, or like the photos (with the option to disable this feature). Furthermore, any time you publish an update with a photo or video, it will automatically be incorporated into your media gallery.

Custom tabs

Custom tabs transform your fundraising page into a mini-website. You can design personalized tabs that include frequently asked questions, a detailed breakdown of fund utilization, and additional information about your organization. This popular feature will help you organize information and address critical campaign questions, all while ensuring your donors are not overwhelmed.

Donation feed

Whenever you receive a donation, your campaign’s donation feed will be promptly refreshed. This provides new donors with added confidence and motivation to contribute, as they can observe what other supporters are expressing about your cause. Donations will display the donor’s name and the amount of their contribution, along with any special messages for your cause or a listing of anonymous donors, should they prefer to remain unidentified.

One-click social media sharing

We’ve streamlined the process to make it very easy for you and your community to rapidly share the campaign far and wide. Successful fundraising campaigns rely on swiftly and efficiently mobilizing the community by spreading the word. Therefore, with our one-click social sharing feature, it only takes seconds to share the campaign and connect with a vast audience.

Milestones and progress

FundRazr creates visual milestones like “First contribution,” “Goal attained!”, “$1,000 raised!”, and “$10,000 raised!” and showcases them in your activity feed. These milestones can be shared on your social media and featured in updates for your donors. This keeps your community informed about your progress and allows them to celebrate your accomplishments with you.

Privacy configurations

If you wish for your campaign to be exclusively shared through a link without public discoverability, you have the option to deactivate public visibility. Furthermore, your contributors can individually choose whether to make their donations public or private, concealing their names from public view if they prefer.

Donation bar and thermometer

The fundraising campaign comes with a donation bar, displaying the goal’s progress, the contributor count, and the campaign timeline. This feature assists your supporters in tracking progress, providing transparent access to all relevant metrics, and keeping them informed about the campaign’s performance in sync with your updates.

Custom transaction reports

You have the flexibility to filter and retrieve transaction reports by specific dates, tags, and status (completed, pending, not completed). These transaction reports encompass crucial data, including unique transaction IDs, contributor names, email addresses, and any supplementary details like attribution or actions. Our reporting system helps you attain a comprehensive understanding of your donor data and maintain complete control.

Tax receipts

If your organization holds legitimate tax-exempt status and accreditation in the US or Canada, you can automatically issue tax receipts to your donors. Enabling this feature is a straightforward process – you provide your address and credentials, and our platform automatically generates tax receipts for donors following their contributions. Additionally, you have the capability to oversee and manually re-issue tax receipts as needed.

Analytics

As the saying goes, “You can manage what you can measure.” Our analytics tab serves as the central hub for evaluating the campaign’s performance, offering you a comprehensive overview. You can track metrics like traffic, subscriber count, goal progress, timeline, as well as crucial payment KPIs including average donation size, effective fee rate, and payment breakdowns. If you desire an extended perspective, you can effortlessly link our analytics to Google Analytics, granting you an in-depth insight into the campaign’s performance.

Offline donations

If you happen to receive funds for your campaign through methods such as personal checks or other offline sources, you can include them in the campaign as offline donations. This will contribute to your campaign’s overall goal and will also be included in the transaction report for full transparency.

Roles and permissions

Your fundraisers may require varying levels of access to different parts of your account and crowdfunding campaigns. It’s not necessary for every campaign team member to have access to all aspects, and you can opt for the appropriate role based on your needs, your campaign, or your organization. The roles available for assignment include full control ownership, manager, editor, promoter, or member, each with distinct responsibilities and permissions within your account. This approach aids in scaling your efforts and ensuring effective involvement of team members, fundraisers, and advocates in your campaign.

Cloning

This feature is a fantastic time-saving tool, especially if you run the same campaign type annually or multiple times in a year and prefer not to start from scratch each time. When cloning, you’ll have the choice to select which campaign elements you wish to incorporate into your new campaign. This flexibility allows you to decide whether to clone the entire campaign or selectively recreate elements from your previous one.

Email uploads

If you already possess a list of donors you intend to communicate with, you have the option to either import them directly from the source or upload them onto our platform using widely-used .csv or .vcf spreadsheets and files. The procedure is straightforward and user-friendly, enabling you to broaden the reach of your campaigns and enhance your chances of success.

Integrations

Data flow and consolidation are important for reporting and scaling your fundraising activities. Our platform functions as a stand-alone platform or as an addition to your marketing and fundraising toolstack. FundRazr offers the option of integration with your CRM system, marketing tools, or other software through native integration or the use of Zapier workflow automation, that helps connect any apps and tools within minutes. You can set it up independently or contact our team for assistance.

Fiscal sponsorship features

FundRazr is the only major crowdfunding platform where all fiscally sponsored projects can simultaneously raise unrestricted funds via the fiscal sponsor. You can effectively Increase unrestricted funds by utilizing crowdfunding to encourage recurring donations, fill budget gaps, and cover grant cost-share and business expenses. All contributions move directly from the donors’ accounts to your fiscal sponsor account. Learn more

Multi-location support

If you have various chapters or locations requiring independent or collective fundraising efforts, FundRazr is the ideal solution for your needs. Our platform simplifies the process of establishing a robust foundation for running multiple campaigns across different chapters. This enables you to harmonize your digital fundraising campaigns and expand your activities without encountering administrative challenges. Elements such as branding, money flow, transaction reports, role assignments, tax receipts, and other fundamental operational functions will be aligned and customized in a way that is effortless, smooth, and fully operational.

Keep-It-All or All-or-Nothing

You have the choice to configure your crowdfunding campaign in either “Keep-it-all” (KIA) or “All-or-nothing” (AON) modes. In the KIA mode, you retain all funds as they are contributed, regardless of whether you reach your goal or not. This is a suitable option if your project can progress even with less than the initially set goal. On the other hand, in the AON mode, you only receive the funds if your campaign successfully reaches the goal. Until then, you collect pledges until the goal is met. This option is ideal when you have a fixed and mandatory cost for your project, such as acquiring a van for your charity or funding a specific building project.

Secure and modern payment processing

To guarantee the security of your funds, FundRazr collaborates with reputable and established payment providers, namely PayPal and Stripe. Your contributors can make donations through various methods, including credit cards, GPay, Apple Pay, and other applicable options. The funds are directly deposited into your PayPal or Stripe accounts and subsequently transferred to your bank account as per your chosen schedule (daily, weekly, monthly). FundRazr does not retain or handle your funds, ensuring expedited and highly secure payment processing.

99.9% platform uptime and stability

Our platform’s uptime ensures a 99.9% assurance that your campaign will remain accessible without service disruptions. Our dedicated technical team conducts daily monitoring to uphold the platform’s stability, guaranteeing that both your contributors and you encounter minimal technical issues linked to server availability or any other form of interruptions that could impede their ability to contribute. Equally significant is the security of your account and donor data.

Money withdrawal schedule

Certain fundraising causes are time-sensitive, needing swift access to funds. You might be curious about the speed at which money reaches your bank account. You have the flexibility to determine the frequency and timing of fund withdrawals through your selected payment provider. Withdrawals can be set to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis according to your preference. The arrival of funds and the time required for deposit are typically standard and dependent on your bank’s procedures.

Great donor experience from mobile and tablet

A majority of your donors choose to contribute via their mobile phones and tablets. Therefore, it’s essential to enhance the mobile and tablet user experience to ensure that they can donate seamlessly from various devices. Your fundraiser will appear sleek and optimized for receiving donations from a wide range of popular devices.

Campaign updates about your progress

Timely, frequent campaign updates are a powerful engagement tool. Everyone who contributed to your campaign receives an email notification to let them know to check it out. It helps your friends and family stay in touch with your progress, celebrate milestones, receive news. What’s important is that every update inspires more donations and social shares.  Learn more

Great giving experience

We’ve refined the giving process of our fundraising pages to ensure your donors feel fantastic when they contribute. We’ve made the experience seamless and hassle-free, allowing your friends, family and community to easily learn more about your need, track its progress, subscribe to updates, and, of course, make contributions in the way that suits them best.

Designed for best results

Our page designs are finely tuned to maximize your chances for success. Featuring carousel galleries, mobile-friendly design, and a rich story and media editor, you can trust that our pages will yield the most successful fundraising outcomes for you.

Donation feed

Whenever you receive a donation, your campaign’s donation feed will be promptly refreshed. This provides your donors with added confidence and motivation to contribute, as they can observe what other supporters are expressing about your campaign. Donations will display the donor’s name and the amount of their contribution, along with any special messages for you or a listing of anonymous donors, should they prefer to remain unidentified.

Media, video and carousel

You have the capability to upload an extensive collection of photos and videos that will help you tell your story. Additionally, you can activate the slideshow or carousel feature, allowing the photos to cycle through. Your community can also have the option to comment, share, or like the photos (if you enable this functionality).

Custom tabs

Custom tabs transform your fundraising page into a mini-website. You can design personalized tabs that include additional information about your ask such as a detailed breakdown of how you plan to spend money, frequently asked questions or more. This will help you organize and address critical questions, all while ensuring your donors are not overwhelmed.

Milestones and progress

FundRazr creates visual milestones like “First contribution,” “Goal achieved!”, “$1,000 raised!”, and “$10,000 raised!” and showcases them in your activity feed. These milestones can be shared on your social media and featured in updates for your friends and family. This keeps your community informed about your progress and allows them to celebrate your accomplishments with you.

Add wishlist items to your campaign

Wishes help you demonstrate how you plan to use the funds you raised. For example, wishes can be to cover one week of rent, pay for food, cover travel or medical transportation, the cost of medication, fund a wheelchair or more. Your family and friends can choose the wish they want to fund and see the impact of their support.

Give perks to say thank-you or create memories

Say “Thanks” to your community by giving back gifts, swag or perks to your supporters.The most common types of perks or swag are thank-you cards, T-shirts, shout-outs or event tickets. It is all about acknowledging support, endorsing a donation and amplifying gratitude.

Host fundraising events with tickets

If you are hosting a personal fundraising event, concert or any other event that requires access and tickets, you can easily do it with FundRazr. You can create different types of tickets with various pricing or access levels.

Create a storefront with products

With FundRazr, you can launch your storefront with products.The storefront will help raise money and sell digital or physical products. Select variants such as amount, colour, size, and pricing, and set each product’s cost, shipping and availability.

One-click sharing to public social media

Easy sharing via private channels

If your network or community is mostly in chats like Messenger or WhatsApp, you can share your fundraiser in the private chats too. Private platforms tend to perform really well since people usually pay more attention to private messages and chats. You can also share your fundraiser via regular texting.

Sending your campaign via email

Upload your email list to FundRazr and send the email with your ask to all or select contacts. Email communication is considered to be one of the most effective ways to share your fundraiser, since people receive your email straight to their inbox and are more likely to open it.

Adding your campaign to a personal blog or website

If you have a blog or website, you can embed a link or a widget with your fundraiser. It is a great way to show your visitors you are raising funds and directly send them to your fundraising page. Embedding your campaign is easy and fast and doesn’t require coding or advanced knowledge.

Keep-It-All or All-or-Nothing

You have the choice to configure your crowdfunding campaign in either “Keep-it-all” (KIA) or “All-or-nothing” (AON) modes. In the KIA mode, you retain all funds as they are contributed, regardless of whether you reach your goal or not. This is a suitable option if your project can progress even with less than the initially set goal. On the other hand, in the AON mode, you only receive the funds if your campaign successfully reaches the goal. Until then, you collect pledges until the goal is met. This option is ideal when you have a fixed and mandatory cost for your project.

Secure and modern payment processing

To guarantee the security of your funds, FundRazr collaborates with reputable and established payment providers, namely PayPal and Stripe. Your donors can send you money through various methods, including credit cards, GPay, Apple Pay, and other applicable options. The funds are directly deposited into your PayPal or Stripe accounts and subsequently transferred to your bank account as per your chosen schedule (daily, weekly, monthly). FundRazr does not retain or handle your funds, ensuring expedited and highly secure payment processing.

99.9% platform uptime and stability

Our platform’s uptime ensures a 99.9% assurance that your campaign will remain accessible without service disruptions. Our dedicated technical team conducts daily monitoring to uphold the platform’s stability, guaranteeing that both your contributors and you encounter minimal technical issues linked to server availability or any other form of interruptions that could impede their ability to contribute. Equally significant is the security of your account and personal data.

Money withdrawal schedule

Certain fundraising campaigns are time-sensitive, needing swift access to funds. You have the flexibility to determine the frequency and timing of fund withdrawals through your selected payment provider. Withdrawals can be set to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis according to your preference. The arrival of funds and the time required for deposit are typically standard and dependent on your bank’s procedures.