Donation tipping recommends, to the donor, that an additional percentage be added to their donation to cover transaction fees or other administrative costs. You can make this mandatory or optional for the donor.

80% of donors have opted in to help cover the fees. On average, this has been an additional 3% in donations for nonprofits.

To enabled this option, just follow these easy steps:

1. Login to your CauseVox admin
2. Select your fundraising site
3. Go to “Site Settings” and then “Fundraising Settings”
4. Check the box for “Donation Tipping”

This is free and included in all plans. Get started with donation …

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One of the most important parts of online fundraising is understanding what your technology platform can do. A few of our nonprofits have asked us to give regular updates on product features and what we’re working on. Starting this month, we’ll be writing one blog post a month that highlights a few of those topics.

Released: Website Launch
With the New Year comes a new corporate website. We’ve included tons of new case studies, detailed our product features, and included new videos about CauseVox. Take a look by going here.

Improved: New Site Editor
Late last year we released a …

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Last week, Erika Johansson invited us to give a demo at Purpose. It was really fun, and we ended up making a demo campaign for All Out in 10 minutes. Here is the result.

You can see that the campaign site we whipped up looks pretty similar to the All Out website. One big thing that was missing was the ability to upload a background image.

I’m happy to announce that now we have the ability to include background images. You can easily do that via the on-screen live editor.

Let’s see how simple it works. After logging in …

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Fundraising online lets you reach a broad audience in a cost effective manner, but it can become impersonal. Many times, effective fundraising is driven by relationships and personal ownership.

One way we make online fundraising personal is through donation tiers. Why are these tiers needed? A couple of reasons:

1. It communicates the impact of the organization’s work — or at least the intended impact.
2. It gives the donor a better experience by helping them tangibly understand what their donation will do.
3. It helps organizations forecast fundraising results by providing a soft recommendation on how much donors should …

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