About
Crowdfunding is a great and effective way to raise funds instead of spending time on the conventional fundraising methods. Simply a practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people who each contribute a relatively small amount, typically via the Internet. When done right, crowdfunding can bring a lot of benefits to your business idea. It acts as a double media exposure as well as allows you to gain social presence even before your business has launched. Crowdfunding can be done for numerous genres of crowdfunding such as rewards, donation, equity, and so much more!
“Crowdfunding Plugin” helps to raise money and create some of the more highly successful projects ranging from a few hundred dollars to a few million dollars. In fact, thanks to crowdfunding, which is a viable alternative to bank loans and credit cards.
Site users can launch Crowdfunding Campaigns with a specific funding goal, campaign duration, reward tiers and with commission rates which they will pay to the site owner etc. Expiration Date for the Crowdfundings can be set. Fundraiser is allowed to raise funds for various categories. Funds will get distributed via secure PayPal Payment Gateway both for the Fundraiser and Site Owner.
What is the need of this Plugin?
- It’s more efficient than traditional fundraising methods as users can easily raise funds online for the needy relatives & friends and get donations & funds.
- It’s reliable & secure to distribute funds via this plugin as transaction process followed with the secure Payment Gateway.
- It is a viable alternative to bank loans and credit cards and a fast way to raise finance with no upfront fees.
- Pitching a project or business through crowdfunding can be a valuable form of marketing.
- Donors will also get suitable Rewards from the Fundraisers if they donate enough minimum amount required to be donate in crowdfunding.
Unlimited Crowdfundings Creation
This Plugin provides you almost all the functionality which you will need to create crowdfundings on your website & get donations for the needy friends and relatives.
Easy creation of Crowdfundings, Crowdfundings display in 2 attractive view designs, Easy to manage Robust Dashboard, Location, Page Roles, Insights & Reports, Manage Notifications, Manage Apps, etc features will enable you to have robust and very powerful fundraising system on your website.For both the views(List, Grid) various settings Tab Type etc are available in the Layout editor in admin panel.
Text for Crowdfundings
Admin can choose Text and URL for the word “crowdfunding” and “crowdfundings”. You can use crowdfundings for any other purpose on your website easily.
Enable/Disable Sharing
Admin can enable/disable sharing of crowdfundings on your website. With this feature users are allowed to share crowdfundings on your website.
Text for Crowdfundings
Admin can choose Text and URL for the word “crowdfunding” and “crowdfundings”. You can use crowdfundings for any other purpose on your website easily.
Enable/Disable Publish Date
Admin can enable/disable Custom Publish date for crowdfundings which fundraisers can enter at the time of crowdfunding creation.
Enable Location
Location for crowdfundings can be enable/disable from the admin panel which users can add at the time of creating crowdfunding on your website.
Proximity Search Unit
With the location enabled for the crowdfunding, Proximity search unit in Miles/Kilometres can be enabled also from Admin Panel.
Menu Items Count in Main Navigation
Admin is allowed to set number for Menu Item Count which will get visible to the users in Main Navigation Menu of this plugin.
Fill Color & Outer Color for Donation Bar
Admin is allowed to choose fill color & outer color for the Donation Bar by clicking on which users can donate money to the fundraiser.
Redirection After Crowdfunding Creation
Crowdfunding page can be redirected either to the Crowdfunding’s Profile Page or Dashboard after the creation of the crowdfundings.
Auto-Open Advanced Share Popup
Admin can enable.disable Auto-Open Advanced Share Popup whenever users want to share crowdfundings on your website. This setting will only work if you have placed Advanced Share widget on Crowdfunding View or Crowdfunding Dashboard, wherever user is redirected just after Crowdfunding creation.
Categories
Admin can enable/disable categories for the crowdfundings as users can choose this categories at the time of crowdfunding creation on your website.
Short & Long Description
With the short & Long description Fundraisers can express their idea and views through text behind raising funds via crowdfunding. This will help them to make crowdfunding more effective.
Main Photo
Fundraisers are allowed to choose Image while creating Crowdfundings on your website. This image can be easily changed from the Dashboard of the crowdfunding.
Tags / Keywords
Each Crowdfunding can have its own Tags / Keywords which will help in better searching of the Crowdfundings on your website. These tags can be shown in attractive Tag cloud or Tag list on your website.
Enable search
You can enable fundraisers on your website to choose if people can search for their Crowdfundings on your website or not. This will help them choose the visibility of Crowdfunding in Global search on your website.
Title
Users are allowed to give title to the crowdfundings while creating it on your website. With this title users can easily recognize the purpose of crowdfunding creation.
Custom Url
Fundraisers can choose custom urls for their Crowdfundings and you can allow them to even Edit their custom urls from the dashboard of their Pages. This will help increase the SEO of your website as the custom url slugs are more SEO friendly.
Approve / Disapprove Crowdfundings
From Member Level Settings of this plugin, you can choose to allow fundraisers to enable / disable auto-approval of crowdfundings on your website.
Expiration Date
Fundraisers on your website are allowed to set expiration date for the crowdfundings at the time of creation. This expiration date will get visible to the site visitors at the view page of Crowdfunding.
Goal (USD)
Simply the purpose of creating crowdfunding is to collect funds(money) for the needy people. So fundraiser can set specific Goal amount according to the requirement while creating crowdfunding on your website.
Privacy Settings
Fundraisers can choose the view privacy & comment privacy for their Crowdfundings on your website. This will help them choose the audience for their Crowdfundings. You can select the privacy options based on the Member Level of the page owner for each type.
Crowdfunding Dashboard
Crowdfunding Plugin has a very robust and feature rich Dashboard. You can easily configure it from the Admin panel of your site. All the features can also be made available based on the Member Levels. Page Dashboard Comprise of Manage Crowdfunding, Promotions, Crowdfunding Apps, Styling, Payment & Settings, Insights & Reports. All these sections are explained below:
Manage Crowdfunding
Fundraisers can edit their Crowdfunding and configure various features for them from this section.
Settings which can be configured for this section are:
- Edit Crowdfunding
- Location
- About You
Promotions
Fundraisers can configure the promotional settings in this section. The settings contain everything related to advertising crowdfunding, managing crowdfunding and the rewards which donors will get when they submit enough amount to the fundraiser etc. Below is a list of settings in this section:
- SEO
- Overview
- Advertise
- Manage Announcements
- Manage Rewards
Crowdfunding Apps
Fundraisers can easily manage what apps / tabs to show in their crowdfundings from this section.. Features will here display based on the Member Level settings and dependent modules.For now we have enabled Photos & Albums for the crowdfundings.
Styling
Fundraisers can also configure the design for their Crowdfundings easily by uploading main photo, background photo, CSS styling and choosing the display of their Crowdfundings as in below settings.
The settings related to styling are:.
- Main Photo
- Background Photo
- Css Style
Payment & Settings
All the settings related to payment & rewards can be managed from this section under dashboard of the crowdfunding:
- View Donors : All the details related to the Donors such as Donor Name with amount donated, Order Date & ID.
- Account Details: Details of Payment Gateway can be entered by the fundraiser for the crowdfunding under this section. By setting up all the details fundraiser can accept donations from the donors.
- Payment Requests
- Payment Received
Promotions
Fundraisers can configure the promotional settings in this section. The settings contain everything related to advertising crowdfunding, managing crowdfunding and the rewards which donors will get when they submit enough amount to the fundraiser etc. Below is a list of settings in this section:
- SEO
- Overview
- Advertise
- Manage Announcements
- Manage Rewards
Crowdfunding View Page
This plugin has very attractive 2 View designs in the tabbed widget. 10+ widgets to be placed on the Page View pages and configure view page according to the requirement of the site owner.
Breadcrumb for crowdfunding
With this feature users will easily recognize the path where crowdfunding has been created on your website. It’s always recommended to place breadcrumb widget at the view page of the crowdfunding.
Description
This section will display the idea and purpose behind the creation of crowdfunding by the fundraiser. Fundraisers can enter description for the crowdfunding at the time of the time of crowdfunding creation on your website.
About Me(Fundraiser)
About Me widget will display the details of the Fundraiser who have created crowdfunding on your website. The details can Crowdfunding Owner Name, Photo and its Email ID.
Donors
This widget can be placed on any page of this plugin and will display all the donors with their names, amount donated and time of donation at crowdfunding’s widgetized page.
Profile Cover
In this widget, Profile Cover Photo of the Crowdfunding with various details such as category, number of likes, views & location of the crowdfunding.
Updates
From here users can post anything informative and valuable related to the crowdfunding and all the updates posted will also get displayed under this section.
Social Share Button
Advance share is available to enable users to share Crowdfundings on various other social networking sites, in site message, quick share in feeds or via Tell a friend in email.
Like Button
Crowdfunding Like button can be displayed in widget providing full control to the users to like on the crowdfunding which they like among various created crowdfundings.
Donate Button
Users can donate fund amount of their choice by clicking on the donate button and that amount will get submitted to the crowdfunding owner.
Create Crowdfunding
Easily create crowdfundings from the sidebar widget which you can place at any page of this plugin.
Raised Amount
At crowdfunding view page, total raised amount by the fundraiser for the crowdfunding will get displayed with the percentage of amount donated by the donors till now. Also it shows the time to which the crowdfunding is valid.
Location
The location for the crowdfunding will get displayed in the sidebar of the Crowdfunding View Page.
Message Owner
For any query related to payment or other issues. Users can send message to the owner of the crowdfunding by entering the suitable subject and Message in the form.
Comment on Crowdfunding
Users can comment on the crowdfunding from its View Page or from other page of this plugin where comments widget can be placed.
Tell a Friend
Users can also share crowdfunding by clicking on Tell friend button in which various fields should filled up with the message which user want to enter while sharing.
Report
Users can also report any crowdfunding on your website if they find anything abusive, inappropriate or abusive.
Manageable Campaigns
- The crowdfunding Campaigns created by the users can be easily managed from the Manage Campaigns section of this Plugin.
- Admin can View, Edit, Delete any specific Crowdfunding with its details also.
- These Campaigns can be marked as featured, Sponsored, Verified, Of the Day according to the choice & requirement.
- Admin is also enabled to search any Campaigns by entering the fields into the search filter under this section.
Crowdfundings Donations
- Donation-based crowdfunding is a way to source money for a project by asking a large number of contributors to individually donate a small amount to it.
- In return, the donors may receive rewards for donating enough minimum donation amount decided by the fundraiser. Also Goal Amount can be set by the crowdfunding owner at the time if its creation.
Manage Donation Orders
From here Admin can manage all the donation orders with the respective details of the Donors such as Order ID, Crowdfunding Title, Crowdfunding Owner Name, Donor Name & Email, Donation amount, Commission to Site Owner etc.
Goal amount for Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding owner can set specific Goal amount for the crowdfunding as per the requirement while its creation. This Goal amount will get visible to the Donors and other Crowdfunding viewers at various widgetized pages of this plugin.