Our new, all-in-one donation form has everything you need to run robust fundraising in the easiest way possible on your website and on your CauseVox fundraising sites.

Let’s walk through our new donation form enhancements to see how they’ll help you have happier donors and convert more donations.

New Donation Form Enhancements

Pledge Now, Pay Later

Pledge Now, Pay Later (aka PNPL) is the state-of-the-art donation model that allows donors to select or enter a dollar amount and commit to completing the gift through several automatic monthly or annual installed payments.

This “buy now, pay later” model is a preferred donation type among nonprofits and donors. Here’s why:

• Increase gift size and frequency. Donors can pledge a large gift and pay it in smaller amounts over time.
• Automatically fulfill pledge installments. Donors can “set it and forget it”, plus you don’t have to go knocking on doors for pledge payments. Win-win!
• Flexible payment schedules. Donors can select their preferred monthly or annual payment schedule to meet budgetary needs while helping you receive predictable revenue for more sustainable growth.
• Acquire younger donors. Millennials and Gen Zers especially prefer PNPL options, so you can boost your popularity among the next gen.

Flexible Giving

Revolutionize your fundraising by providing your donors with more options. Offer up to three donation frequencies per form: one-time, monthly recurring, and Pledge Now, Pay Later.

Everyone wants to feel in control of their spending, and this is a great way to give your donor more freedom and autonomy.

You can use one, two, or even all three donation types at one time. In your settings, simply default the donation type you’d like to be automatically selected when the donor opens the form.

With online giving at an all-time high, it’s crucial to incorporate more donation options to encourage your donors’ online giving. Use flexible giving to:

• Allow donors to give in many ways.
• Mix and match options with one-time, monthly recurring, and PNPL or have one option for specific campaigns.

Flexible Payment With New PayPal Integration

Previously, our payment processors were campaign specific meaning you could only connect either Stripe OR PayPal to one form. Our new PayPal integration allows you to connect both of these payment processors to one form allowing you to use PayPal as a primary or secondary processor alternative to Stripe for one-time donations.

The new donation form gives your donors access to more choices for the fastest transaction. Use flexible payments to:

• Allow donors to pay in many ways.
• Display up to three mobile wallet options per form: credit card and Apple/Google Pay for all gifts (one-time, monthly recurring and PNPL), and PayPal for one-time gifts.
• Access a new, streamlined connection process between CauseVox and PayPal. It’s easy to connect and has a stronger, more reliable connection!

New Donation Form And Receipt Styling

In addition to donor payment options, we’ve given a full makeover to our donation form design and customizations. Our streamlined, two-page form has clean, easy-to-read donation buttons, and form fields.

It’s so important to maintain the look and feel of your organization throughout the donation process, so we’ve added more customizations:

• Add a title and subtitle to your embeddable forms.
• Change the font style. Choose between a serif or sans serif font.
• Change the accent and button color to your organization’s hex colors.

We also upgraded our donation receipt styling. Now your automated donation receipts display the transaction information in a clean, easy-to-read table format.

Use our new donation form and receipt styling to:

• Have more control over donation form language and donor experience.
• Enjoy a white-label website integration. The embedded form will seamlessly fit into your existing page design!
• Use your own hex colors and font choice to closely match your brand.

How Do I Access The New Form?

If you’ve signed up for CauseVox in March 2022, your forms are already up to date with all of the new enhancements. For existing users prior to March 2022, any new forms created after March 1, 2022 will default to the new, enhanced version.

If you are an existing customer currently using the old version of our form, you can email support@causevox.com to request your form be switched to the new version.

Interested in learning more about the new settings? Check out our support center for information on setting up Pledge Now, Pay Later,  donation frequencies, PayPal integration and donation form design.

Transform Your Fundraising On CauseVox

CauseVox is here to help you optimize for larger gifts and lasting donor relationships. Ensure your fundraising dreams become realities with our new donation form.

Book a demo to learn more about the benefits of the new CauseVox donation form and how it can help your organization reach its funding goals this year and beyond.

You’re likely using one software for your online fundraising campaigns, another for your donation page, another for your events, and realistically, many many more.

Then, you have to get all this information into yet another software for donor management.

You’re often left spending a good chunk of your time reconciling donation data and wrangling clunky databases, taking up valuable time you could be using to grow your relationships with your donors (and thereby grow your fundraising).

CauseVox helps you easily grow and manage your fundraising better than any other way.

Optimize your fundraising with CauseVox. Here’s a few best practices to help you make the most of the CauseVox Fundraising CRM to help you grow.

Keep All Your Fundraising In One Place

Import Your Contacts

The first step to helping you streamline your fundraising is to be able to view all your donors, fundraisers, subscribers, and more in one place so you can begin to track and manage your community.

We’ve made it easy for you to import contacts into the CauseVox CRM.

Once your contacts are imported, any future actions your contact takes will be recorded automatically, whether they make a donation, sign up to fundraise, or more.

As your contacts increase their activity with your organization, having their contact record and their actions recorded automatically saves you hours and hours of time each week. No more manually tracking data or inputting data in your clunky donor database.

Run Your Fundraising On CauseVox

We know your online fundraising needs vary, which is why we’ve worked to provide a product that can meet any of your fundraising needs.

Whether you’re looking to boost your recurring giving, enhance your donation page, engage your community to fundraise, run a peer-to-peer event, or more, you can use CauseVox all year round to optimize your fundraising.

Here’s a few key fundraising opportunities you can accomplish with CauseVox:

Take donations right on your website with embeddable Donation Pages.

We’ve looked at a lot of nonprofit’s websites, especially their donation page.

And unfortunately, many nonprofits today tend to have outdated pages, clunky forms, or an unbranded Paypal button that provide a poor donor experience- hindering the amount of donations they can receive.

But you can raise more through your website with embeddable Donation Pages.

Embedding a donation page on your website helps you raise more funds through an easy donor experience and increase dollars raised through higher conversion.

With customized branding on your donation page, you can easily create a look and feel that seamlessly fits with your website while also earning the trust of your donors.

Donors have the ability to easily make their donation recurring, or you can even default your donation page to recurring to help increase your monthly donor base and retain donors.

Donation pages are mobile optimized, helping you easily accept donations from the 50% of people that navigate to your website on their phone or tablet.

Each donation is automatically tracked in your CauseVox account, making it easy for your to pull reports and keep track of your donor history in your Fundraising CRM. This empowers you to get to know your donors and easily track all donor activity, saving you hours of time each week.

Charge event registration fees for peer-to-peer campaigns, like for a walk or run.

We’ve added in Peer-to-Peer Registration, which is perfect for charging a fee for participating in a fundraising event or challenge, helping you cover the bottom line for event costs.

This is perfect for:

• Walks and Races
• Competitions (ie. board game competition, trivia night, dragonboat races, etc.)
• Challenges (ie: climbs, no-shave challenges, create your own personal challenge, etc)
• Individual participation events (ie. mission trips, sleepout for homelessness awareness, meal skipping for hunger, etc)
• +more!

Peer-to-Peer Registration helps your supporters to easily pay their registration fee and create their fundraising page all in one go, minimizing confusion and helping you seamlessly run your event.

Having a clear list of registrants in your CauseVox Fundraising CRM will not only help you keep your event organized this year, but also help you identify opportunities for participants in future events.

Run Long-Term Campaigns

While campaigns are often associated with giving days (ie. GivingTuesday) and short fundraising sprints, the opportunities long-term fundraising presents are often overlooked.

Long term fundraising campaigns are essential to building your fundraising community all year long.

Long term campaigns looks like:

• Birthday campaigns
• Create your own challenge campaigns (aka DIY Fundraising)
• Recurring giving campaigns
• Annual program fundraising

These campaigns often don’t have an end date, because they’re driven by your community’s rolling participation throughout the year.

With long term campaigns, you’re empowered to engage your community in fundraising throughout the year, retaining your strongest supporters and helping you grow your fundraising in 2019 and beyond.

This kind of open invitation to fundraise is a sure-fire way to automate your fundraising, as your community can continue to engage with your campaign and allow it to gain momentum over time.

With all your activity tracked in the Fundraising CRM, you can literally see your community grow throughout the year, and use your data to target individuals who may be key to joining in your long term fundraising efforts.

When you can run all your fundraising in one place, you not only take the burden of reconciling these lists off your shoulders, but also help yourself manage and grow your community using data that’s automatically tracked for you.

Make The Most Of The Fundraising CRM

So what happens when your contacts are easily tracked in one place?

Let’s take a look at the data you can glean from your community, and what actionable steps you can take to make the most of it.

Segment Your Audience With Groups

On your “Community” page, we display your contacts and arrange them into unique groups, helping you easily sort and segment your audience, and get keen insight into your community.

Your contacts are automatically sorted into five groups:

• All
• Donor
• Fundraiser
• Recurring
• Subscriber

To make groups most effective and applicable for you, you can create custom groups to help you better segment your audience according to your needs. You may want to create groups for board members, volunteers, major donors, and more.

With these filters, you can easily track the groups of supporters based on dates of activity and the action they took. This way, you can activate your community to get involved in your latest fundraising efforts, giving you the tools you need to you personalize your communications, strengthen relationship with your supporters, and help you raise more.

View Key Data In Contact Profiles

Anytime a contact takes action on one of your CauseVox campaigns or donation pages, it’s recorded in their Contact Profile.

The profile pages centralize and track donations, fundraising activities, and engagement in real-time, helping you get to know your supporters.

With advanced insight into who your supporters are, you’re able to tailor your messaging so it’s specifically designed to speak to donors and fundraisers — helping them at once to feel seen as well as providing appropriate asks, helping you grow your fundraising effectiveness.

When you access a contact’s profile, you can see data including:

• Contact name
• Contact address
• Contact group: Donor, Fundraiser, Recurring, Subscriber, Registrant
• Total amount raised
• Total amount donated
• Number of fundraising pages
• Number of teams joined
• Number of donations raised
• Number of donations made
• Number of updates
• Recurring donation amount
• +more

In the contact’s activity feed, you can see all recent activity including:

• New donations
• New personal fundraising pages created
• Donations made to a personal fundraising page
• Recent updates to a personal fundraising page
• New blog post updates

Notes To Track Offline Information

We know that not every interaction your community has with you will be online, and for these cases we’ve made it easy to keep everything tracked in your Fundraising CRM with notes.

With each interaction you have with your donors tracked all in one place, it’s easy for you to streamline your processes and manage your fundraising.

You no longer need to track down your colleague to ask what your major donor, Gerald, said on the phone the other day — it’s all tracked right on his profile. Not only does this save you time, and potential headaches with miscommunication, it helps you streamline communications and and makes it easy for you to delight your donors with each interaction.

A few things you may want to note are:

• Significant dates for them, like birthdays and anniversaries
• In-kind donations
• Reasons why they have cancelled a recurring donation, didn’t fundraise, etc
• Interactions you have with the contact outside of CauseVox (contents of emails, phone calls, or in person conversations)

Using notes will help you better understand your existing relationships with each of your supporters, equipping you to reach out with the right messaging and ask, to help you grow your fundraising.

Actionable Steps Based On Data To Help You Grow

While the data you’ll be able to track with the Fundraising CRM is a lot of information to take in, there’s simple applications you can use this information to help you target your community with the right ask.

A few ideas on how you can use this information are:

• Find donors who gave to previous campaigns and ask them to donate to your new one
• Find fundraisers who fundraised on previous campaigns and ask them to fundraise on your new campaign
• Asking fundraisers who are not donors to make a donation
• Asking donors who have donated more than once to become recurring donor
• Asking donors who have donated multiple times to fundraise on your behalf
• Reaching out to fundraisers who have not raised funds to check in and provide resources for fundraising if needed
• Request that Subscribers follow you on social media
• For fundraisers that have raised a large amount or raised funds multiple times, you may want to ask that they form a team and recruit others to fundraise
• +so much more!

The key value you’ll see from the Fundraising CRM is when you use donor data to take actionable steps to grow your audience.

Fundraising Backed By Data Helps You Flourish

A centralized Fundraising CRM provides everything you need to easily organize, track, and grow relationships with your community of supporters and fundraisers.

Eliminate unnecessary spreadsheets and back-office tasks as CauseVox tracks and logs supporter engagement automatically — whether they give through your donation page, create a personal fundraising page, or donate to your annual campaign.

With so much information from your community at your disposal, you’re empowered to fundraise based on practical data, all the while increasing your productivity, and making it easier for you and your team to fundraise.

The best part is the Fundraising CRM’s value increases the more you fundraise, helping you build your community and develop strong relationships with your donors for the long term.

Ready to get started with the Fundraising CRM?

Book A Fundraising CRM Consultation

You’re in the middle of writing your year-end appeal, thinking about your plans for #GivingTuesday (or lack thereof), and working to get everything done as efficiently as possible.

We know that the tools you use for fundraising are important, because they empower you to raise more and save you time: both invaluable assets you need to succeed.

And so we’ve made a few updates to CauseVox to provide even more functionality and help you easily raise funds all in one place.
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Here’s a look at our recent updates:

You Can Now Take Registration Fees As Part Of The Fundraising Page Creation Process

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Do you have any walk, runs, races, or other events coming up?

You’re now able to require your event participants pay a registration fee, helping you seamlessly build registration into your peer-to-peer fundraising campaign.

You have everything you need to effectively run your run/walk or fundraising challenge: you can easily collect registrations, donations, and activate participants to fundraise — all in one place.

You can sign into your CauseVox account or sign-up here to see Peer-to-Peer Event Registration up close.

Find out more about how you can Set Up Peer-to-Peer Event Registration.

Or, view how your fundraisers can seamlessly pay their fees and create their page.

Please email us at support@causevox.com if you have any questions about peer-to-peer registration and how it can work for you, we’re happy to help.

Fundraising Template Selector and #GivingTuesday Template

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Now, when you login and create a new campaign, you’ll see a new option to select your fundraising template based on your specific needs. This includes Peer-to-Peer Registration, Recurring Giving, DIY peer-to-peer, and even includes a #GivingTuesday template to make it even easier to fundraise on #GivingTuesday.

Want to listen to top tips on #GivingTuesday or year-end strategy? Don’t miss out on our #GivingTuesday and year-end fundraising nonprofit leader panel discussions.

Fundraiser Enhancements

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• Fundraisers have a new stylized email sharing template, helping them more easily share their page with their community.
• Along with the new fundraiser email share, they can now share their updates with their donors automatically, helping them easily engage their donors and keep them filled in on their progress.
• To empower your fundraisers to engage with their donors, we’ve added a fundraiser donation export with name, amount, e-mail and date so they can easily follow up with each of their donors.

Analytics and Branding

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• We expanded our analytics tracking support to include Facebook Pixels, to track visitors, events, and build audiences, and HubSpot, to view activity and trigger workflows.*
• We’ve added advanced email customization options so every email you send showcases your branding and logo.*

+ More Enhancements

• You can now cc or bcc email addresses on donation receipts (helps with tax records)
• Previously, you were only able to embed one donation page on your website. Now, you can embed multiple donation pages on your website.
• You can now add your fundraiser’s name and campaign title to your welcome email using new merge tags
• In your fundraiser sign up notifications, we have started including the fundraiser’s email address.

We look forward to releasing even more features and content that can help you make the most of CauseVox. We’ll keep you updated on everything with our Product Updates!

More product updates:

• CauseVox Product Update: Fundraising CRM, Insights Dashboard, Secure Custom Domains, + More
• CauseVox Product Update: Embeddable Donation Pages, Enhanced Donation Page Customizations, + More
• CauseVox Product Update: Take Donations Everyday With New Donation Pages, Recurring Donation Enhancements, + More

And we’re excited to announce some big changes on CauseVox as well.

We’ve launched our new Fundraising CRM and Insights Dashboard that will provide invaluable insights into your community, helping you power year-end fundraising and year-round fundraising alike.

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Introducing Our Fundraising CRM

The CauseVox Fundraising CRM is a centralized CRM that provides everything you need to easily organize, track, and grow relationships with your community of supporters and fundraisers.

Eliminate unnecessary spreadsheets and back-office tasks as CauseVox tracks and logs supporter engagement automatically — whether they give through your donation page, create a personal fundraising page, or donate to your annual campaign.

Get to know your supporters through personal profiles that centralize and track donations, fundraising activities, and engagement in real-time. Quickly see the data you need to personalize communication, identify opportunities, and activate and rally your supporters.

Price: Included at no additional cost

The Fundraising CRM is included with any paid plan, and you’ll see it added to your account automatically. Login to view your CRM.

For more information, view our article on How The Fundraising CRM Works.

Insights Dashboard: Easily Track Your Fundraising Performance

A real-time dashboard to visualize and monitor your fundraising performance and track the growth of your community.

See all your fundraising metrics in one place, spot trends, and identify opportunities to take action on. Track individual campaign performance, personal fundraisers, donation pages, and recurring donors with ease.

Share your fundraising results and growth with your entire team and board in one easy-to-understand snapshot. Uncover the data you need to make decisions that will help you grow.

Price: Included at no additional cost 

The Insights Dashboard is included with any paid plan, and you’ll see it added to your account automatically. Login to view your Insights. For more information, view our article on How The Insights Dashboard Works.

SSL Now Available On Custom Domains

Online security helps you build more trust and loyalty with your donors.

While we’ve always ensured our donation form is secured, the addition of the SSL on your custom domain ensures all activity on your site is secure.

Price: Included at no additional cost

As part of our Standard plan, you can add a SSL-secured custom domain at no cost to you on CauseVox.

If you’re currently using a custom domain, here’s what you’ll need to do to update it to the secure domain.

If you’re interested in setting up a new custom domain, here’s how you can set up the SSL secure domain.

Join Us For Our Webinar on September 12: The All New CauseVox Fundraising CRM & Insights Dashboard

Join Rob Wu, CauseVox’s CEO and Co-Founder, on September 12 at 3 pm EST to learn about the new CauseVox Fundraising CRM.

You’ll also see exactly how you can use CauseVox’s fundraising platform to easily manage relationships with your supporters and create personalized fundraising sites, peer-to-peer campaigns, and donation pages, all in one place.

Save Your Seat

We look forward to releasing even more features and content that can help your nonprofit grow. We’ll keep you updated on everything with our Product Updates!

More product updates:

• Product Update: How CauseVox Helps You Create Seamless Giving Experiences
• CauseVox Product Update: Embeddable Donation Pages, Enhanced Donation Page Customization, + More
• CauseVox Product Update: Take Donations Everyday With New Donation Pages, Recurring Donation Enhancements, + More

Have questions? Email us at support@causevox.com

At the new restaurant in town, you had to try, yet when you arrived the host left you questioning your decision.

While buying a new pair of jeans online with a 40% coupon that failed to work at checkout.

Or a plumber who told you she’d be right over, which actually meant next week, which you only uncovered after four unanswered phone calls.

^ these experiences leave you full of regret, skeptical, and unlikely to recommend.

Have you had similar experiences? Me too …

Your giving experience directly impacts donor retention and new donor acquisition.

Unfortunately, if you’re not intentional, these same potholes can show up throughout the experiences you deliver to your supporters.

Whether giving a one-time donation on your website, setting up a personal fundraising page, or contributing to your year-end campaign—a negative giving experience will determine if your supporters:

• Complete their donation. Too much friction, long forms, clicks, or time required will drive supporters away before they give.
• Trust your organization. Hiccups or security flaws will give donors pause and you’ve lost more than a donation.
• Recommend you. Today, what people say about your organization is more important than what you say about yourself. Their experience determines this.

Donor retention averages have remained below 50% for 10+ years now and donor files are shrinking. Both placing a spotlight on this reality.

However, nonprofits who’ve invested in providing a seamless giving experience have seen their supporters:

• Increase donations and support
• Give again when asked
• Tell others to supporter your cause

And that’s why CauseVox’s fundraising software is designed to help you create a seamless giving experience your supporters will LOVE across all your online fundraising.

CauseVox’s fundraising platform lets you:

Build trust and loyalty in your online fundraising through branded fundraising sites and peer-to-peer campaigns.

Unlike expensive and confusing fundraising tools, CauseVox is purposely simply while providing flexibility for your unique fundraising needs and personalization to your organization’s brand without the help of IT or web developer.

With CauseVox, you can create and manage fully-branded fundraising sites and peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns that tell your story, help you activate your supporters, and raise more online.

Decrease friction and build trust with CauseVox’s embedded personalized donations pages.

Your organization is unique, and your donation page should look and reflect your cause.

CauseVox Donation Pages help you showcase your brand and personalize for your needs. And, now your personalized one-time or monthly giving donation page can be integrated directly onto your website using our easy-to-implement embed!

By using the embeddable page, you’ll ensure your donors have a great experience giving online to your organization. Our embeddable donation page provides donors an easy way to give on any device, on a branded, secure form right on your website.

CauseVox joins Stripe Partner Program as a Verified Partner

We’re also excited to announce that CauseVox is one of the first to join the new Stripe Partner Program as a Verified Partner (learn more here). By joining the program, you will benefit from the combination of CauseVox’s fundraising platform with Stripe’s seamless payments platform.

This gives your supporters confidence that their data is safe when they support your cause.

Deliver seamless giving experiences and raise more online with the power of CauseVox

Check out our new product update that has all the details on our commitment to helping you deliver a seamless giving experience.

Thousands of organizations, like CCAN, Volo City Kids Foundation, and Habitat for Humanity, already trust CauseVox to help them streamline and grow their fundraising.

Interested in exploring how you can use CauseVox to create a streamlined giving experience? 

You can create your free CauseVox account here or watch a 2-minute demo here.

Late last year, we introduced Everyday Donation Pages to help you raise more online all year long through your website, email appeals, and more.

And since then, we’ve heard great feedback from our users that we jumped to put into action, to help you make the most of our online donation pages.

With Spring just around the corner, we’ve pushed some exciting updates that enable you to customize your donation page even more, helping you create a donation page you and your donors will love!

Here’s more about our donation page updates that will help you raise more funds throughout 2018:

You Can Now Embed Your CauseVox EveryDay Donation Page On Your Website

Now, your customized donation page can easily be integrated with your website using our easy-to-implement embed!

By using the embeddable page, you’ll ensure your donors have a great experience giving online to your organization. Our embeddable donation page provides donors an easy way to give on any device, on a branded, secure form right on your website.

Here are a few key things you should know about how our donation page embed works:

1. It’s Easy To Implement: We provide the code for you to copy and paste onto your website. Don’t have the access to embed it? You can simply email the code using our easy-sharing option.

2. Embed The Donation Page Anywhere: The donation page embed can easily pop up on any page of your website. You can quickly replace your donate button by changing the link to #donate, send donors directly to the donation page in an email by adding #donate to any URL on your site, and even replace image and text links to #donate to trigger the donation popup.

3: It Makes Giving Seamless: Your donors will enjoy a seamless giving experience right on your website, with a branded and customized page that fits your nonprofit’s needs so that you can take one time and recurring donations easily.

4: We Take Care Of The Back Office Tasks: You focus on rallying support for your cause, and CauseVox will take care of the logistics. We host the pages on our server, ensure your donation page has the highest level of security, send out donation receipts automatically, and keep all your data saved for you. We want to make processing donations every day as easy as possible.

5. It’s Free: Great news! The donation page embed is included FREE with any plan, so you can easily implement your donation pages on your website at no extra cost. We want to make it as easy as possible for you to accept donations right on your website.

You can take a closer look at how the embeddable donation page works for yourself by clicking on the Live Example on this page.

Ready to get started?

Our branded, secure, and mobile-ready donation page can easily be added to your website.

Learn how you can embed your donation page.

Want to learn more about how you can set up your page? Find out How To Create A Donation Page On CauseVox

Enhanced Customization Options To Personalize Your Donation Page

We know that the content on your donation page is an important part of connecting with your donors.

So, we’ve added additional customization options to help you personalize your donation form, helping you better connect with your audience.

Here’s where you’re now able to add additional content:

1) Your Donation Page Subtitle

While we automatically put your Donation Page title on the donation page for you, you’re now able to add subtitle text.

Your subtitle text can be used to inspire donors to complete their donation, call them to action, communicate impact, or celebrate donors. However you choose to use it, your subtitle gives you the opportunity to add an additional message to your donors right on the page.

2) Thank You Text

It’s important for your donors to know you appreciate them, and what better place to communicate this than right on your donation page?

You’re now able to add text on the Donation Confirmation screen, so you can personalize your thank you to your donors, communicate how much you appreciate them, and share how their donation will be used.

*Available on the Lite plan and above

Pricing Note: With our updates to donation page functionality, all new Donation Pages on the Free Plan have a 5% CauseVox transaction fee. Older donation pages are grandfathered into our 2% CauseVox transaction fee.

Lite plan users and above only have a 2% CauseVox transaction fee on Donation Pages.

View our pricing here.

New Resources For You:

7 Donation Page Examples That Will Help You Raise More Online

You may already have a donation page on your website, but how can you optimize your donation page to increase online donations and average gift? Here are seven donation page examples that you can use throughout your fundraising plan to raise more.

Read more

[Webinar] How To Optimize Your Donation Pages & Raise More Online

In this 30-minute training on March 8 at 1 pm EST, you’ll learn online fundraising best practices, how to evaluate and improve your current donation pages, and how personalized donation pages can increase average donation amount.

Save Your Seat

We look forward to releasing even more features and content that can help you make the most of CauseVox. We’ll keep you updated on everything with our Product Updates!

More product updates:

• CauseVox Product Update: Take Donations Everyday With New Donation Pages, Recurring Donation Enhancements, + More
• CauseVox Product Update: Enhanced Fundraiser Interface, Branded Donation Page, + More
• CauseVox Product Update: Custom Fields, Site Preview, + More

Fellow fundraiser, now is the perfect time to put forth a robust fundraising plan for the upcoming year. So start on that fundraising calendar, create a financial plan, delegate tasks, and get everything in place, to begin 2018 on a strong note.

As you craft your plan for the year, consider how you’ll be incorporating online fundraising. After all, it’s a growing trend that’s expected to continue increasing year over year. Naturally, many of your donors are going to expect a chance to give (and engage) online.

Whether you’ve never fundraised online, only dabble now and then, or you’ve put all your eggs in the online fundraising basket, we want to help you succeed and meet your online fundraising goals. That’s why CauseVox has made some significant platform updates designed to help you raise more online in 2018.

Here are the updates you need to know about before you begin your fundraising efforts this year.

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1. Donation Pages

As a nonprofit or charity, maintaining a permanent online place for donors to give isn’t just encouraged, it’s essential. Your donors require a brand-specific, static site to give to your cause.

Cue CauseVox Everyday Donation Pages, a fundraising tool designed to capture the everyday donation as well as campaign-related gifts that come in throughout the year. We developed Everyday Donation Pages with ease in mind. In a matter of minutes, you can set up your own branded donation page (logo and color scheme included) and go live.

We handle the technical aspect. You collect the donations and the data. It couldn’t be easier.

These are just a few of the ways you can use donation pages for your online fundraising:

• Collect everyday donations
• Create campaign-specific pages
• Recruit donors for your recurring giving program
• Link to your donation page in emails and on social media
• Establish specific donation pages for a variety of donor segments
• Promote and collect fees/donations for nonprofit events
• Engage local businesses and partners with a custom donation page

Get started with CauseVox Everyday Donation Pages for free and pay a nominal 2% transaction fee.

2. Recurring Donation Pages

We can’t say enough about recurring giving.

It brings in a steady income. It keeps your donors engaged. Your organization remains top-of-mind. It’s the ideal way to promote donor engagement and thus, retention.

That’s why we’ve added recurring giving options directly on the donation pages. Do you want to give every donor the opportunity to give monthly? You can do that. Are you looking for an easy way to track your monthly donors and donations? We handle that for you.

Adding a recurring giving option to the donation form helps you build your recurring donor base and ensure a constant flow of incoming funds throughout the year.

Follow this link to learn more about launching a recurring giving campaign using CauseVox.

3. An Enhanced Peer-to-Peer Fundraiser Experience

By making some minor changes, we’ve enhanced the platform to meet the needs of your personal fundraisers.

Team-based campaigns are now more accessible to manage using your Dashboard. Personal fundraiser team leaders can create a new team and track team progress directly on their team page. It’s easy (and entirely intuitive). Plus, personal fundraisers can now invite their friends and family to join their own team.

Personal Fundraiser Page

At the same time, individual peer-to-peer fundraisers also experience a number of enhancements, including an improved interface, easy sharing options, and a user-friendly blog feature.

4. Custom Fields

We completely understand that the needs of your organization are vastly different than others in the field. That’s why custom fields are necessary.

While pre-populated, default fields are perfectly acceptable to some donors, you may be looking for something a little more custom. That’s why we’ve added custom field options on the donation form. Now, you can collect the information YOU need.

Capture event-specific information. Ask donors to note their preferred T-shirt size. Custom fields help you capture whatever info you need to run your campaign or event.

5. Zapier and Google Analytics Integration

As your online presence increases, so do the number of tools you need to use to reach your audience and manage your donor base. Keeping it all straight is overwhelming, to say the least.

To help streamline your online tools, we’ve integrated Zapier and Google Analytics directly onto the CauseVox platform. With the click of a button, you can seamlessly connect your CauseVox page to any number of fundraising tools from Quickbooks and Eventbrite to MailChimp, Constant Contact, and more.

The Zapier and Google Analytics integrations allows you to track your communications, websites, and donation pages in one place.

Learn more about these integrations and how they improve the donor experience here.

6. Better Team Fundraising

We mentioned team fundraising above, but it bears repeating. You see, many fundraising tools don’t accommodate teams but we’ve found a way to add team fundraising capabilities without taking away from the personal fundraiser experience.

When you use CauseVox in 2018 for a team fundraiser, it’s easier than ever to create a team, join one, or invite your friends and family to come along for the ride and try out fundraising for themselves.

Team Fundraising Page

More fundraisers = more exposure= more donations.

7. Comprehensive Assistance

You’re dealing with a lot. Fundraising. Friendraising. Planning, Implementing. Keeping your energy high while dealing with a limited budget and a finite amount of time to get everything done.

We’re here to help you reach your fundraising goals—let us ease your burden.

CauseVox offers our partners services to help remove some of the “behind the scenes” technical work. When you work with us, you don’t just get a tool. We integrate powerful technology, industry-leading best practices, and experienced support to guide you to success. Whether it’s increased security, PCI compliance, SSL, smart optimization, an intuitive and responsive design, or an optimal donor experience, CauseVox is here to help you.

But that’s not all. CauseVox is dedicated to your success. After all, when you succeed, we all do.

That’s why we’re investing in more educational resources and tools to help guide your fundraising efforts, expand your reach, and improve your results. Every week, we’re adding more content to our educational library. Throughout the coming year, be on the lookout for live trainings, online courses, online fundraising guides, and new, relevant best practice articles.

We’re also continuing to ramp up our customer service efforts by offering more hands-on support to you—our customer. Amazing customer service from experienced fundraisers comes with every account. This includes additional help articles and other support documentation, access to customer service chats and email, and more. Plus, if you’re using a Standard plan or above, you still have unlimited access to your dedicated Success Manager.

There you have it. You have the tools. You have the knowledge. It’s time to put it all together and start 2018 off on the right foot.

Thousands of nonprofits use CauseVox’s community-driven fundraising platform to active their supporters, reach new donors, and raise more online. Join them in 2018 by creating your free CauseVox account today.

“You have the tools. You have the knowledge. It’s time to put it all together and start 2018 off on the right foot.“ tweet this

We’ve been working hard to launch one last round of updates before the end of the year that can help you best execute your year-end fundraising plans and streamline your fundraising in 2018.

With our latest release, we’re very excited to announce the launch of our Donation Pages, so you can easily take donations online everyday!

On top of that, we’ve also made some significant enhancements to recurring donations so you can raise more funds and generate sustainable income.

Find out more about how you can take advantage of Everyday Donation Pages and our recurring donation enhancements to help you raise more this year-end.

You Can Now Take Donations Everyday With Our Everyday Donation Pages

When we talk to our users, we listen carefully to their needs. And something we kept hearing was that many many nonprofits didn’t have donation pages on their website that leverage fundraising best practices..

Whether it was difficult to update and manage, provided a difficult donor experience, or simply didn’t offer impact visibility into their donors, many people we talked to noted that something wasn’t quite right.

So, we went ahead and created Everyday Donation Pages! You can now create a branded, secure, and mobile-ready page in  just a few clicks. We’ve worked to make it simple for anyone, on any device, to donate online in support of your cause.

Here’s five key things you should know about how our donation pages can help you raise more:

1) Donation Pages Are Easily Customized To Your Needs. We’ve put the power back in your hands by making it easy for you to create and update your donation page yourself. You no longer have to rely on your tech team to create and update your donation page!

You can now create a branded, secure, and mobile-ready page in just a few clicks with CauseVox. With all the tools you need to create a donation page, we’ve made it really easy for you to design a page that matches your branding perfectly and select from a ton of settings that can help make the page work the best for your nonprofit.

2) Donation Pages Make Giving Simpler. You can be assured your donors will enjoy a seamless giving experience on your donation page. With our mobile optimized page, donors can give from anywhere, anytime.

Our donation pages even allow you to specify where you’d like the page to redirect to after your donor complete their donation, so you can direct donors to a customized donor thank you page, or just bring them back to your homepage so they can continue exploring more about your organization.

3) Donation Pages Help Streamline Your Data. With the addition of everyday donation pages, CauseVox can solve all your fundraising needs. Without the need to use multiple platforms, you can ensure all your donations come through one place, meaning it makes it easy to quickly access all your data.

Within CauseVox, it’s easy to download donation data anytime to share with your team or simply upload it into your CRM. You can even use our Zapier integration (in beta) to immediately transfer your data across 750+ applications.

You’ll also get notified of every donation instantly and receive daily summary emails so you can easily thank donors in real time and begin cultivating donor relationships right from the beginning.

4) We’ve Made It Easy For You. You focus on rallying support for your cause, and CauseVox will take care of the logistics. We host the pages on our server, ensure your donation page has the highest level of security, send out donation receipts automatically, and keep all your data saved for you. We want to make processing donations everyday as easy as possible.

5) We’ve Made It Really Affordable. The best part is that everyday donation pages are included for FREE with all CauseVox plans and have an extremely low 2% CauseVox transaction fee.

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For our current users, we’ve helped you start the donation page creation process by dropping a drafted page right into your account. And, if you’ve set up Stripe for donation processing previously, you can now easily select it to start taking donations without any Stripe sign in required.

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Want to learn more about how you can set up your page? Find out How To Create A Donation Page On CauseVox

Our Enhanced Recurring Donations Makes It Even Easier To Raise More, Sustainably

Fundraising campaigns are amazing tools to help quickly fund a particular program or raise a large amount of funds in a small amount of time.

But what about in between campaigns?

It’s always helpful to have sustainable and predictable income — donations that you know are coming in every month. Even better, recurring donors are more likely to be retained, giving you more stability and more opportunities to cultivate donor relationships.

Recurring donations not only help your nonprofit to take donations during your campaigns, but allows you to raise more funds for the long term by effectively turning what could have been a one-time donation into a recurring donor.

Specifically, you can now not only have the option to have recurring donations as an option, but also default donations to be recurring, or even have recurring be mandatory, which is perfect for campaigns or donation pages specifically aimed at gaining recurring donors.

Not only does this come in handy for your campaigns, but you can use it to also boost recurring donations on your everyday donation page as well.

Nothing’s better than setting your organization up now to raise more in 2018! Start off the year with a bang by setting up a recurring giving donation page to help you gain supporters in January and February that will carry over throughout the year.

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Learn more about running a recurring giving campaign on CauseVox.

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December Fundraising Playbook

Don’t panic, but the last few days of the year of fast approaching. Naturally, you’re exhausted. Yet, the end really is in sight and you’re thisclose to the finish line. As always, we’re here to help you through the last hurdles of the fundraising season.

So before you plow through the last couple weeks of 2017, take a look at this December Fundraising Playbook.

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We look forward to releasing even more features and content in 2018 that can help you make the most of CauseVox. We’ll keep you updated on everything with our Product Updates!

More product updates:

• CauseVox Product Update: Enhanced Fundraiser Interface, Branded Donation Page, + More
• CauseVox Product Update: Custom Fields, Site Preview, + More
• CauseVox Product Update: Team Goals, Security Updates, + More
• CauseVox Product Update: Zapier, Google Analytics, + More

Our team at CauseVox loves GivingTuesday as the movement’s “why” aligns with what sparked Rob and Jeff to step out and build CauseVox in 2009: a belief that together we can help good flourish.

So, as we approached GivingTuesday, I asked our team what GivingTuesday fundraising campaigns they were inspired by and felt truly captured the spirit of the movement.

There were hundreds of campaigns, however, we decided to spotlight six standout examples below. The people and organizations behind these campaigns believe that together we can make a change in our world and bring grit, resilience, and drive to seeing that through.

Here are six GivingTuesday fundraising campaign examples:

Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois

Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois believes that every girl should have the opportunity to discover their interests, tackle challenges and find their inner self.

In an effort to include as many girls as possible in the Girl Scout Leadership Experience (GSNI), they are using GivingTuesday to raise $10,000 for their financial assistance fund. GSNI’s financial assistance gives girls like Patty the opportunity to develop, learn and lead.

Things we love about their campaign:

• Defined a clear and specific SMART fundraising goal for GivingTuesday
• Focused on impact over transactions in their fundraising appeal
• Used nonprofit storytelling and the experience of one girl to inspire and showcase the “why” behind the campaign
• Leveraged community-driven fundraising and activated supporters to create personal peer-to-peer fundraising pages

The Painted Turtle

At The Painted Turtle, children with serious medical conditions are not defined by their illness. Kids come away from a week at Camp with the courage to try something new, confidence to make new friends and new independence in their healthcare.

Their camp is always free of charge to campers and their families, and that’s why their GivingTuesday fundraising campaign showcases the impact of Camp and seeks to raise $50,000 to allow more kids with chronic illnesses to experience the adventure that awaits them at The Painted Turtle – while also providing the expert pediatric care they need in a safe and comfortable environment.

Things we love about their campaign:

• Use video storytelling to share their mission and inspire the community to become a supporter
• Leverage a major donor’s gift of $25,000 as a matching grant, doubling the impact of others’ gifts
• Showcase various donation tiers and the impact of the gift on their online donation page

Jewish Voices of Peace

Jewish Voice for Peace members are inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, equality, human rights, respect for international law, and a U.S. foreign policy based on these ideals.

JVP is starting on a super ambitious 5-year growth plan and they are using their GivingTuesday fundraising campaign to build momentum toward their larger goals by focusing on recuriting more supporters and $40,000.

Things we love about their campaign:

• Customized the look and feel of their online fundraising site to build continuity and brand recognition
• Have a clear financial goal, however, are primarily focused on cultivating relationships and growing their community
• Recruited peer-to-peer fundraisers from their community to create personal fundraising pages to share with their friends, family, and community

JW House

JW House was the vision of Jan-Willem (JW) Knapen, a boy who, in the midst of battling brain cancer, wanted to do something to help other children and families facing similar situations. Now in their 10th year of operation, JW House has welcomed visitors over 65,000 times.

Their GivingTuesday fundraising campaign expands their year-round efforts to keep families together during medical crises by offering a welcoming home away from home and providing a caring and compassionate environment that inspires hope.

Things we love about their campaign:

• Campaign video shows donors their impact (hope) and inspires support
• They use GivingTuesday to kick off their holiday fundraising campaign

Housing Opportunities Commission

The Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County (HOC) was established to provide affordable housing and supportive services that enhance the lives of low- and moderate-income families and individuals throughout Montgomery County, Maryland.

Their GivingTuesday fundraising campaign is an opportunity for the community to partner with HOC to further their mission and impact.

Things we love about their campaign:

• Share exactly what their $50,000 goal will provide and the impact those services/programs will have on the community
• Incorporate their GivingTuesday with their year-end fundraising to expand the impact they can have during their campaign
• Invite you to become a “partner”, not a donor, as they are committed to cultivating long-term relationships

The Motherhood Collective

The Motherhood Collective was established to “nurture the mother to grow the child” by providing FREE evidence-based education and social support programming to women from preconception through postpartum. With immense value placed on peer-to-peer support, they find that offering women a place to belong results in deeper connection to her community.

Their GivingTuesday campaign is focused on raising $5,000 in additional support to ensure they can offer free support and programs to women in the community throughout 2018.

Things we love about their campaign:

• Used CauseVox to customized the design of their crowdfunding website to be simple, beautiful and aligned with their brand
• Highlight the importance of investing in “our community” and that together we can serve women in their community
• Use stories from those that benefit from their programs to inspire supporters to give
• Integrated their online fundraising campaign with a creative fundraising event idea at a local chocolate shop they partnered with

It’s safe to say that you’re probably very busy putting the final touches on your #GivingTuesday and year-end campaigns.

And as you launch your year-end campaigns, we want to do anything we can to help improve your supporters’ experience and empower your supporters to raise funds on your behalf.

With that in mind, we made some updates in functionality to make your donors and fundraisers’ experience even better.

Here are the top product updates that will help improve your year-end campaigns, and pave the way for your year-end fundraising success.

We’ve Enhanced The Fundraiser Interface To Empower Your Fundraisers

At the end of the day, fundraising revolves around your community. And when your community is empowered to easily fundraise on your behalf, you’re set up for success.

That’s why we’ve enhanced the fundraiser interface so that it’s easier than ever for your fundraisers to reach their fundraising goals.

Aside from being able to more easily edit their page’s appeal, post blog updates, and view their donations, the enhanced interface offers an easier sharing and team fundraising experience.

We’ve made joining a team more seamless than ever, creating a team more intuitive, viewing your team easier, and making edits to your team page simple. And, for the moment you’ve all been waiting for: we’ve even given your fundraisers the ability to send others an invitation to join their team.

With simpler navigation and these enhanced features, your fundraisers’ experience is better than ever because your fundraisers are not only more equipped to fundraise on your behalf, they’re also more empowered to fundraise together with easier team fundraising.

View our support article for a closer look at managing your personal fundraising page.

Introducing Your New Branded Donation Form

Your campaign site is customized to your brand, and now your campaign’s donation form is too!

Your campaign’s donation form includes a refreshed look that now carries over the branding you set for your campaign, helping ensure your branding is built into every page your donor sees.

The consistent look and feel provides your donors with a better experience and works to help donors recognize your brand throughout the donation process, so they feel extra secure when completing their donation.

We’ve Also Refreshed The Fundraiser Page Templates

Along with our new fundraiser interface rollout, we’ve also refreshed the look of the fundraising page templates. With a new section added on the right of the fundraiser’s page, it’s easier than ever to track the fundraiser’s progress, donate or share, and see what team they’re on (if applicable).

With easier-to-navigate peer-to-peer fundraising pages, your community is even better equipped to create a page that stands out.

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New Resources For You!

#GivingTuesday Social Media Toolkit

With #GivingTuesday less than two weeks away, you’re thinking about what to post on social media to get the word out.

Crafting social media content can be hard. We’ve made it easy with this template you can use to copy, paste, and adapt to your needs:

Get the toolkit here.

December Fundraising Playbook

Around 30% of total annual giving is made during December. How can you make the most of it?

Our December Fundraising Playbook helps you navigate raising funds during the year-end. It’s not too late to have the best year-end yet.

Read the guide here.

How To Incorporate #GivingTuesday Into Your Year-End Fundraising Campaign

#GivingTuesday and the year-end go together like turkey and stuffing! They both can be used together to make one delicious year-end.

Tap into #GivingTuesday to help drive momentum for your year-end campaign.

Read the blog post here.

We look forward to releasing even more features and content that can help you make the most of CauseVox. We’ll keep you updated on everything with our Product Updates!

More product updates:

• CauseVox Product Update: Custom Fields, Site Preview, + More
• CauseVox Product Update: Team Goals, Security Updates, + More
• CauseVox Product Update: Zapier, Google Analytics, + More