Campaign Countdown is an interactive donations board for your political fundraising campaign.
With simple graphics to show progress toward your campaign goals and easy-to-use online giving, you can significantly boost donations:
- Increase donor motivation: By nature, people – especially politically active citizens – want to solve problems. Visual fundraising tools give them a job to do. An interactive donation board creates a compelling sense of progress and urgency, showing your donors how they can make a tangible difference.
- Enhance engagement: Actively engage your donors by making the giving process more enjoyable and interactive. Donations are shown immediately on your donations board, so your supporters see their impact in real time. They’ll form a stronger emotional connection to your campaign.
- Psychological triggers: We use the marketing law of social proof: once supporters see that others are giving to your campaign, they’re more likely to join in, too. And as you approach campaign milestones, having a visual representation makes it easier to show how close you are, providing your supporters that crucial push to help you reach your next goal.
- Use wherever your supporters are: Your Campaign Countdown donations board can be shown anywhere, so you can use it at both live and virtual events, and your campaign staff and supporters can share it far and wide.
- Easy on you – and your staff: Campaign Countdown is user-friendly, because we completely set it up for you! We’ll customize the look to match your campaign’s branding, and work with you to discover the right mix of donation amounts to match your supporters’ giving levels. We even email you weekly donation reports in an uploadable .csv format, so there’s no need for your staff to learn another complicated reporting system.
Campaign Countdown is the affordable, engaging alternative to traditional donation methods!
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a setup fee for Campaign Countdown?
Yes. Unlike many online fundraising platforms which offer ‘zero upfront costs’ but then take as much as 20, 30, or even 40% of your online donations, Campaign Countdown has an upfront setup cost that is less than half the cost of many online platforms. Click here to request pricing.
I’ve been fundraising for my campaign for months! Why would I switch to a new fundraising tool now?
If you’ve already made progress toward your fundraising goal, we’ll meet you there: We can use your total campaign goal and show all donations you’ve received to date as ‘closed’ contributions on the board. Studies have also shown that once you hit 66% of your goal, supporters are twice as likely to give, so this approach uses your momentum to motivate supporters! Plus, you’ll only pay for the remaining amount to be raised.
Why would we pay for a fundraising platform when there are options, such as ActBlue, that offer donation forms for only the processing fees?
A study by Qgiv.com found that fundraising requests that incorporate visual fundraising tools, such as a thermometer graphic or branded donations board, result in an average of 38% more contributions than a simple donation form. For even a small, $40,000 campaign, a 38% boost more than covers our setup costs.
Are there ongoing processing fees with Campaign Countdown?
Campaign Countdown connects to your campaign’s PayPal, Square, or Stripe account. Each of these payment processors charges a processing fee. We offer an optional feature that asks your supporters to cover processing fees; we’ve found that 85% of donors will opt to include this in their donation.
How soon can I access my donations?
Donations made through your Campaign Countdown portal are deposited directly into your PayPal, Square, or Stripe account. Typically, these payment processors make the funds available to you within one or two business days.
Are donations made through Campaign Countdown secure?
Absolutely! Payments are made through reputable top nationwide payment processors – no payment data is ever stored on our site. Your donor information is secure, too; we employ secure servers with reinforced DDoS protection, 24/7 hackscan monitoring, and brute force defense, along with the best-in-class SSL protection. And of course, we’ll never sell, rent, or share your donor information to a 3rd party or another campaign.