Creating a fundraising page

Fundraising pages are public pages supporters use to give to your organization or a specific cause. The goal is to make giving as frictionless as possible.

Connect payments before you launch

Before any fundraising page can accept a real donation, your organization needs a connected Stripe account. Open Fundraising in the workspace sidebar; if payments aren't connected yet, a banner links you to Set up payments, which walks through Stripe's identity and bank-account verification. A page can be created and previewed before this is done, but donations won't process until your Stripe account shows as active.

Creating a page

From Fundraising, select All Fundraisers and create a page. Set a title (a URL slug is generated automatically), a goal amount, a layout (five visual styles are available, from a classic hero layout to a narrative-first multi-section page), a cover image, and a description of what the money supports. You can also enable recurring giving with a choice of weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual cadence; recurring donors provide predictable revenue that makes planning easier. The edit form also has toggles for whether the page shows a donor wall and whether donors are allowed to give anonymously -- see Donor recognition and the donor wall.

Sharing the page

Once published, the page has a public URL anyone can open and give through; donors do not need an OrganizeOS account. Share it by email, SMS, social media, or link it from a canvasser's materials.

CRM integration

Every donation automatically creates or updates a contact in your CRM. That means your donor list, your member list, and your volunteer list are the same list. You can immediately see that a donor also attended an event or volunteered, and target accordingly.

Fees and compliance

A platform fee applies to donations, and any payment-processor fees are deducted at the transaction level so the amounts you see are transparent. Donors can optionally choose to cover these costs themselves at checkout, increasing what your organization nets. If your organization is a political committee, keep your reporting requirements in mind: the donation form can require additional donor details (address, employer, occupation) for compliance -- see Donation records for where those fields show up on a transaction.

For viewing donor records, transaction history, refunds, and recurring-gift management, see Donation records and Recurring donations.

Why this matters

A well-configured fundraising page removes every unnecessary step between a supporter's decision to give and a completed transaction. Connecting donations to your CRM means you build a unified picture of each supporter rather than maintaining separate lists. Capturing the right compliance fields up front and keeping per-transaction fees transparent means you're not scrambling to reconstruct donor details later. Taking a few minutes to set the page up correctly saves time across every campaign you run.