Your custom fundraising sites have a settings section used to program the site performance. Enable critical settings, input key data, metrics and default peer-to-peer information to set up the site's backbone functionality. In this article, we'll explore what the site settings are and how they are used to create a custom fundraising site.
What Are Site Settings?
Site Settings are a set of configurable options that determine the behavior, appearance, and functionality of your fundraising site. Through the settings, you can input data for specific fundraising elements that can be displayed through the Site Design tab. By adjusting these settings, site admin can ensure their sites align with their brand, and fundraising goals and objectives.
General Settings
These settings are the foundation of your site's identity. You can configure elements like the site URL and custom domain, currency and contact information.
Site Metrics and Sharing
The Site Metrics and Sharing settings help to increase urgency and engagement with your audience.
Set up a Funding Goal to track progress and drive donations.
Create an End Date to set a participation timeline.
Set up the Impact Metric to quantify goods or services and display the impact your donors make based on funds raised.
Set up an Activity Metric to track activity for walks/runs/races across all of your peer-to-peer pages.
Set up social Sharing to attach a compelling image, title and description to the site URL displayed when shared on social media platforms like Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and X.
Peer-to-Peer
Peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising is vital for community building and donor acquisition. The peer-to-peer site settings are essentially default settings that you can set up for your fundraisers in advance.
There are three P2P tiers:
Personal Pages: Supporters can create personal fundraising pages under the main site.
Team Pages: Supporters can create team pages so personal pages can join and form their own teams under the main site.
Organization Pages: Supporters and partnering organizations can create organization pages so personal pages can join organization pages under the main site.
Set up the default settings to give your supporters something to start with so they don't have to begin their page from scratch. You can set up default elements including:
Page Title
Media Gallery
Fundraiser Image
Recommended Funding Goal
Default Appeal
Welcome Email
+ more!
Get to know your fundraisers better by asking custom questions upon sign-up. These custom fields are great for collecting information such as t-shirt size, mailing address, guest information and more!
Creating custom fundraising sites and donation pages with Site Settings is available on our new Site Editor. For access to the Site Editor, or if you have additional questions, contact us at [email protected].