Brand new this week - survey forms and payment forms will now have the same expansive features available to donation campaigns. You'll see these options now available on the admin pages for all forms.
In addition to the original sharing features, you'll now have these enhanced options:
Also notable New reporting gives you two options for viewing your online registration responses (payment forms only). View Responses - basic table with all information and payment columns View Purchases - inventory report to help you keep track of how many of each item were sold
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We make it easy to raise funds for your initiatives, whether you are hosting a fundraiser event, selling items, or hosting an online donation page.
We have several tools to choose from. Here’s some info to help you choose the right one for you... Registration/Payment forms: Custom payment forms are perfect for event registrations, merchandise sales, donations or any type of one-time or recurring online giving. Flexible form fields and highly custom payment item options make it easy to create complex registrations, allowing you to collect the information you need.
Donation Sites: Interactive micro-websites let you raise funds round the clock! Donation sites are easy to set up, can be customized with photos, video, a donor ticker, goal meter and more. They are perfect for any type of goal-driven fundraising effort, whether you are funding a nonprofit or personal cause. In addition to open-amount payments, you can also sell tickets, merchandise or other items to help raise funds towards your goal.
Event sites. Are you selling tickets to an upcoming fundraiser? An event site may be the perfect tool for you. Promote your event with a micro-website, generate buzz with comments, RSVP lists and social sharing, and collect payments for tickets.
Quickpay: Use Quickpay to invoice a simple payment from a member. They are easy to set up and easy for members to pay directly from their email notification. Here’s how to get started. *All of these features are free to create and all payments collected are subject to the flat site fee of 5% + 30 cents per transaction. This includes all site fees, merchant fees and credit card fees. As always, our team is here to help in any way we can! Feel free to reach out to us with for more assistance choosing the right feature. memberplanet is the perfect tool for managing school communication. In fact, many of our features and upgrades have been developed as custom solutions for our school clients. For example, the entire online packets module (seamless bundles of multiple pre-created forms) was created for one local school district who needed a seamless, paperless, and cost-effective registration process for parents. But MP has more to offer than just seamless registrations, and most of our school clients are active year round on our system via desktop and mobile app. Here's how schools are using memberplanet year round. Event Registrations Whether you are hosting a carnival, a homecoming dance, a PTA dinner, or a school play, memberplanet makes it easy to manage. MP allows you to host a free-standing event webpage, issue email invitations, sell tickets, monitor guest lists and inventory and much more. Custom Newsletters Keep parents and faculty in the loop! MP custom newsletters are a professional and cost-effective solution for school-home communication. Manage tracking, post button links, schedule future sends, and save your templates to use over and over. Group Texts for Alerts and Reminders memberplanet makes it easy to quickly send a text message to your whole list, or just a segment of your list. Inform parents about last-minute delays and cancellations, or send safety notifications. memberplanet will provide your group with a free local number that your group members can save in their contacts. Online Forms Our online forms are simple to create and flexibly accommodate any type of data collection. Even better, they are 100% white label, export seamlessly to excel, and offer a competitive transaction rate for online payments. Unsure which type of field would most efficiently capture the data you want? Our support team will walk you through the creation process to build the best form for your needs. Online Donations Raise money for new technology, library additions, field trips, textbooks and more. We offer competitively priced online donation campaigns so you can raise money for anything. Database Management The student and parent roster can sometimes feel like a revolving door, requiring constant maintenance and often out of date. memberplanet makes it easy to collect and sync information, and even allows for parents to submit and update their information independently. Distribution lists allow you to quickly and easily segment your list into unlimited cross sections for targeted communication. Transferring Leadership Roles Once your account is up and running, you can seamlessly pass admin responsibilities from one leader to another. Unlike other sites that tie to the primary creator's email address, memberplanet anchors to the group name, allowing you to fully pass administrative to another user, no strings attached. You can also manage administrative access for multiple leaders easily and efficiently. Collaboration Most schools have many small groups working within the larger group, like PTA, Boosters, Student Government, etc. The platform allows you to collaborate with these groups by sharing specified data or combining forms for a shared registration packet. Photo Sharing Whether you are creating an album from a school dance, an overseas trip, or a recent community project, memberplanet allows you to host and share full pixel quality photos and albums. Even better, email-uploading allows you to seamlessly crowd-source photos from everyone at an event. To learn more about any of these school solutions contact a team member at Successteam@memberplanet.com Do you use PayPal to host payment buttons on your site? If so, you could be getting so much more flexibility - at the same low rate. Like PayPal, MemberPlanet also allows you to easily host a 1-click payment button for a website. If you already have a PayPal link, you are familiar with the simple process of dropping an html snippet. If you are frightened by phrases like "html snippet" then you are in the right place! MemberPlanet is made for people like you. However, MemberPlanet gives you so much more flexibility... Unlike PayPal, which only allows you to link to a generic PayPal button to a generic PayPal invoice form, MemberPlanet allows you to link to ANY kind of form, payment item, or invoice. Additionally, while PayPal retains it's logo on it's buttons, as well as the invoice pages, MemberPlanet allows you to customize the button, invoice, and form pages to achieve a fully branded interface for your group. Even at the same transaction rate as PayPal, MemberPlanet forms offer many more options...
Most importantly, MemberPlanet offers so much more than just site buttons, or any one feature. We offer the entire suite of tools you need to manage your club, team, school, church, or group online. No matter what feature brings you to our site, your account will give you access to all of our tools. Forget having a separate site and login for forms, payments, email campaigns, donation campaigns, events and photo-sharing. We do it all, on a streamlined, integrated platform. Sign up or Log on now!
We are on a roll with our templates! We have payment forms for all of the key functions your groups use most, and as of this week we have also expanded our selection of donation campaigns! Now you can log on and modify a pre-made template form or donation campaign for even the most complex, multi-faceted donation drives. Our new donation campaign templates include feilds to raise money in all kinds of ways, like selling t-shirts, dinner tickets, event registrations and more. Hosting a dinner to raise funds for a friend with a disease? We've got a form for that! Not only can you sell tickets to your dinner right from your page, you can also set giving levels, take open donations, and host a compelling donation page with your goal meter. We have campaign templates for the trends we see most, but more importantly, we have the back-end forms built out completely so you can skip the hassle of building extra forms for each piece of your fundraising effort. Simply swap in your photos and text, set prices, and you are good to go! Bonus! We care about the details, so we've taken care of those too. For example, the average profit margin on a dinner ticket is about 50%, so we have gone ahead and set those details as well, so you're "total raised" will be as accurate as possible. You can always adjust your profit margin with a click or two on step one, but we like to think we saved you a step, especially for those of you who haven't yet braved the "more options" fields! Go straight to the Donation Campaign builder!
We have been working like busy bee's behind the scenes here at MP, and we had a special surprise go live on the site last night! ...Templates! Now you no longer need to create payment and registration forms from scratch (unless you want to of course!) because we added templates for all the things you all ask for most! Whether you are selling t-shirts, registering new members for your club or PTA, hosting a gala or just pooling funds for a Super Bowl party, we have a form ready to go! Check out some of our favorites by clicking the thumbnails below! Right now the bulk of our templates are for Payment Forms, but keep checking in because every week we are rolling out goodies in all our form categories! These are only a few of the new templates, and more are being published each day.
Log on now to customize a pre-made form! You may have noticed that more and more fundraisers are being managed online. If you are weighing the costs and benefits of an online fundraiser, this article is for you.
You have a lot of great choices for online donation campaigns, but we're pretty sure you'll choose us. Here's why:
MemberPlanet isn't just the most affordable option for donation campaigns, we are also the best value. Regardless of whether you choose to use a donation campaign or a simple payment form, joining MemberPlanet for your fundraising efforts will give you access to a whole dashboard of tools and capabilities to launch it to it's fullest potential. Unlike any other donation campaign site, MemberPlanet provides you with a whole suite of tools to organize, motivate, and inspire your group or donor pool. From custom branded email campaigns to online event management, ticket sales, and surveys to website hosting and photo-sharing - we do it all. AND, we will bend over backwards to see that it's done right. Contact us at successteam@memberplanet.com to learn more about your donation campaign options, and the other amazing group management tools on MemberPlanet. Online donation campaigns are a fantastic way to reach more donors, but they aren't free. No matter what platform you choose, you will pay a transaction fee. However, there is a surprising amount of variation in the fees you will pay at the top fundraising sites. Read below to see how the top sites compare. Background Info: What are these costs? Most sites will charge: 1) A site fee – typically about 4-5% of the total funds raised in addition to… 2) A credit card processing fee - typically around 3% per transaction (as most of these sites partner with PayPal). On average, this results in a total cost of approximately 7-9% of the total raised. Site fee + PayPal fee = total cost (about 7% - 9%) Some sites will charge a flat membership fee, often in lieu of taking a cut of the funds raised. These fees typically range from $50-$300. They can be one-time start-up fees or monthly membership fees. This does not, however, eliminate the payment processing fee of about 3% per transaction, which will still be charged through a site like PayPal or WePay. For groups that process a very large volume of payments on a consistent basis, a membership-based site may be an economical choice. Monthly membership (or start-up fee) + PayPal fee = Total Cost At MemberPlanet, we only charge a site fee of 5% + 30 cents per transaction – never an external payment processing fee. By avoiding a third-party processing charge we are able to pass on significant savings to you. In addition, we throw in a host of other tools (like email campaigns, online events and online forms) to help make your donation campaign a success. We are the only site to offer all of these tools - in one place. Here are the rates for some of the most popular funding sites you may have heard of: Fundly.com: 4.9% site fee + credit card processing fee 3.0% = 7.9% Gofundme.com: 5% site fee + 2.9% + 30 cents Paypal fee = 7.9% + 30 cents Gogetfunding.com: 3.5% site fee + 2.9% +30 cents PayPal fee = 6.5% + 30 cents Causewish.com: 4% site fee +2.9% + 30 cents PayPal fee = 6.9% + 30 cents Indiegogo.com: 4% site fee + 2.9% + 30 cents PayPal fee = 6.9% + 30 cents (If you reach goal) 9% site fee + 2.9% + 30 cents PayPal fee = 11.9% + 30 cents (if you don't meet goal) Kickstarter.com: 5% site fee + 3-5% Amazon fees = 8-10% Crowdrise.com: Basic : 5% site fee + 2.9% + 30 cents PayPal = 8% Featured : 4% site fee + 2.9% + 30 cents PayPal + $49/month site fee = variable total Royale : 3% site fee + 2.9% + 30 cents PayPal + $199/month site fee = variable total Razoo.com: 4.9% site fee, includes payment processing. At MemberPlanet, we work hard to bring you the best overall value for your dollar. Not only do we offer a low cost option for online fundraising, we bring you a whole tool set of features to help make that campaign a success. It's important to choose the right platform for your needs, so we encourage you to explore all of your fundraising options. If you would like to learn more about fundraising or managing your group, don't hesitate to reach out! successteam@memberplanet.com Groups need cash to make things happen, and MemberPlanet makes it easy to collect and manage your group's precious funds. Quickpays are simple online invoices that allow you, as a group leader, to request funds form a group member for items like dues or fees. The simple online format allows your group member to pay with a credit card right from the email link. It's simple, efficient, and cost effective. Payment forms function as online registration forms with flexible field and payment options. Use these forms to register attendees for events, sell t-shirts, collect donations and much more. Fund raise online with interactive online donation campaigns. Our campaigns offer the most competitive rates available, while also providing a unique, shareable, online giving site. Mobile App payments allow group leaders to collect credit card payment on the go. Use the MemberPlanet app to collect dues at a meeting, or donations from an eager donor who doesn't carry cash. Wherever you go, you can conduct your business simply and efficiently. Whatever your group plants to do, you will need the funds to do it. MemberPlanet makes it easy to accept payments, manage funds, and and keep your labor and costs down. Online reporting, simple refunds, and excel exporting makes it the simplest way to stay ahead of group finances. Log in to MemberPlanet now to start collecting funds! Wouldn't it be great if you could just log on and find a pre-made form that fit your needs? We are getting there! We recently launched a new feature called Templates and that's exactly what they do. Templates are pre-made forms that come pre-populated with payment items, text and images. We have forms for t-shirt sales, school fundraisers, church potlucks and much more, and we are adding more every week. We currently have templates for Donation campaigns, surveys, and payment forms, and a few Holiday-related Email Newsletters. Thus far we have prioritized the types of forms that our clients request most, but we are committed to growing our library to be as comprehensive as possible. To access the template gallery, simply log on, and click the circular icon for "raise funds" or "build a survey" (depending on your goal), and scroll down to view the template options. Choose "use this template" to get started with a pre-made form. Don't see what you are looking for? Just ask! We are always taking suggestions for new template ideas, and if you need it, someone else probably needs it too! We would love to create your form or donation campaign to add to the public library. (don't worry - your group's personal information would never be posted!) Simply contact successteam@memberplanet.com if you have a great idea for a new form, email, or donation campaign! Log on to MemberPlanet! |