Add Crowdfunding Capabilities to Your Site

Add crowdfunding capabilities to your site with Crowdfunding Pro for WooCommerce. Crowdfunding gives your store special options to gather funds.

Fundraise for charitable giving

• Fundraise for a non-profit.
• Raise money for an individual or a group in need.

Use Crowdfunding for purchases

• Allow multiple shoppers to contribute to the purchase of merchandise. For instance, individuals could contribute various amounts to the purchase of musical instruments for a children’s orchestra. Or siblings can come together to buy an anniversary gift for their parents.

Raise funds for new projects

• Ask customers to help fund a new product you are developing or one that’s their idea.

Features

• Works for members and guests
• Includes two campaign charging types
  • Charge contribution immediately
  • Charge contribution on campaign completion
• Campaign types
  • Fundraising campaign
  • Product purchase campaign
  • Project funding campaign
• Campaign ending methods
  • End when the campaign reaches its goal amount
  • End on a specified date
  • End on reaching goal amount or a date (whichever comes first)
• The campaign never ends (charge immediately campaigns)
• Contribution amount input methods
  • Editable textbox
  • Non-editable textbox
  • Predefined buttons
  • Predefined list box
  • Contribution amounts can be sent to the campaign creator directly from the site

Benefits

Learn about your customers

Get to know your customers better. Crowdfunding tells you what is important to them.

Lower new product development costs

Ask customers to contribute to the development of products they want.

How it Works

Campaign types

There are two basic types of Crowdfunding campaigns.

Charge immediately campaigns

Campaign contributions are charged when the user contributes.

Charge on campaign completion campaigns

Users are not charged at the time of contribution. They are charged when the campaign goal is reached. If the campaign goal is not reached, they are not charged.

Fundraising campaigns

The workflow of fundraising campaigns is:

Once the campaign is set up and configured, the campaign will be ready for contributions. When customers land on the Campaign page they will see the following details.

• Purpose of the campaign
• Campaign goal
• Min/max/recommended contribution
• Campaign end date (if applicable)

• Customers will be able to contribute to the campaign by entering the contribution amount (based on configuration) and proceeding to complete the payment.

• Once the payment is complete and the order reaches the specified status, the total raised contribution amount will increase and show on the product page. The contributor name and contribution amount will be visible on the Campaign page.

• The campaign will close based on the conditions set in the product.

Product purchase campaigns

The workflow of Product purchase campaigns are as follows:

Once the campaign is set up and configured, the campaign will be ready for contributions. When the customer lands on the Campaign page they will see the following details.

• Purpose of the campaign
• Campaign goal
• Min/max/recommended contribution
• The campaign end date (if applicable)
• Customers will be able to contribute to the campaign by entering the contribution amount (based on configuration) and proceeding to complete the payment.
• Once the payment is complete and the order reaches the specified status, the total raised contribution amount will increase and show on the product page. The contributor name and contribution amount will be visible on the Campaign page.
• The campaign will close based on the condition set in the product. Once the campaign closes, and the campaign goal amount is reached an order will be created for the product linked to the campaign. The order will be assigned to the campaign creator.

• The campaign creator will receive the product.

Admins review campaigns

Site admins can review crowdfunding campaigns by going to WooCommerce > Crowdfunding Pro. Within this section, site admins can review created campaigns.

• Site admins can also view the contributors’ details when they go to the View Details section.

Requirements

Minimum PHP version: 5.6