Were you left scrambling when GivingWay shut down? If you were, don't fret – Donorbox is here to help! As the perfect alternative to GivingWay, Donorbox has tons of features to match (and exceed!) GivingWay's capabilities. Read on to learn more!
GivingWay is shutting down. This online platform was a popular choice for its customizable campaign pages, embeddable donation form, and button, as well as peer-to-peer fundraising options. Charities and organizations using these tools are now having to look for alternatives.
If you’re one of them wanting to make a smart fundraising choice and a swift transition, this article is for you!
Donorbox is an easy-to-set-up, simple-to-use, and robust fundraising platform that doubles as a donor management tool for organizations of all types and sizes.
Donorbox is an online fundraising platform, chosen by 80,000+ organizations across 96 countries for raising funds, selling event tickets, managing donors, and running membership campaigns.
Our intuitive and affordable features range from unlimited fundraising campaigns to crowdfunding to peer-to-peer fundraising, embeddable recurring donation forms and donate buttons, event ticketing, memberships, text-to-give, donor management to even more.
You can sign up for free – no monthly fees or contracts involved! The platform fee starts at just 1.75%. We use Stripe and PayPal for payment processing, so there is a small processing fee. However, Donorbox gives you the option to ask donors to cover all these fees to maximize the donation.
Stripe and PayPal ensure that your donors can donate via credit/debit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Venmo, ACH bank transfers, Canadian PADs, and other payment methods.
Learn how Donorbox is helping nonprofits help others across the world –
Whether you were creating customizable fundraising campaigns and donation pages or embedding their donation form into your website or using peer-to-peer crowdfunding, Donorbox has got you covered!
Here’s how –
Let us now move on to the features that make Donorbox the best alternative to GivingWay.
Wondering if the transition would be hassle-free? We got you.
Here’s a list of some of our best features to ensure you continue to receive (even increase) online donations and acquire and retain more donors.
You can create unlimited fundraising campaigns on Donorbox – for free. As soon as you sign up and create a donation form on Donorbox, your fundraising page gets automatically created. You can customize this page with your logo, choice of colors, description, images, and videos to ensure the page represents your nonprofit brand.
These pages are hosted on Donorbox and are easy to share with your audience. Just add the link to your website or social media accounts or your email marketing pieces to redirect people to the donation page.
You can also add a goal thermometer, virtual donor wall, social media sharing buttons, and a background image to these pages. With so many customization options, you can make your fundraising campaign the best that it can be to raise more donations.
Look at this customized and on-brand fundraising campaign page on Donorbox, that not only reached its fundraising goal but managed to raise more.
Create Fundraising Campaigns For Free
You can create and customize a donation form easily (and for free) on Donorbox. You can add your brand color, suggested donation amounts, a custom amount field, donation designation options, tribute donation option, and additional questions to your donation form.
These forms are embeddable on your website. You can embed it on your website donation page or use it as a popup form anywhere on the website. Here are two examples –
An embedded form on the Muso Health website –
A popup form on the Truthout website homepage –
You can also add our donate button to your website to redirect donors to your fundraising campaign page on Donorbox. We give you 2 donate button options – 1) CSS button – to be added to your website HTML (example shown below), 2) PNG button – to be used for email campaigns.
Embed a Donation Form/Button in Your Website
The Donorbox donation form can have one-time as well as recurring donation intervals including weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual. This helps convert your one-time donors into recurring donors.
With Donorbox UltraSwift Pay enabled on our donation forms, the giving process is super fast for your donors. They can skip the step to input personal information and directly make a donation using digital wallets.
You can create crowdfunding campaign pages on Donorbox and customize them to your liking. Add your nonprofit’s logo, colors, images, campaign descriptions, and videos to the pages. The page also includes a goal thermometer, a popup donation form, an updates tab, and a donor wall.
The popup Donorbox donation form ensures a neat look on the page. People can select from suggested donation amounts and quickly complete a donation. The updates tab lets you add campaign updates to the page which can inspire more donations. In addition, a virtual donor wall helps add social proof to your crowdfunding page. As visitors see others supporting your campaign, they’d feel the urge to donate.
Donorbox Crowdfunding pages include a subscription button for potential donors and visitors to sign up for updates. This helps convert your visitors into supporters. Your donors are automatically added to your subscribers’ list. You can choose which updates you want to send to your subscribers right from the page.
Crowdfunding pages on Donorbox also come equipped with social media sharing buttons that encourage people to share your campaign with their networks.
Organizations that used GivingWay for peer-to-peer crowdfunding campaigns can breathe easy. With Donorbox, you can turn just any fundraising campaign into a peer-to-peer campaign. It’s as easy as toggling a switch on the campaign settings page.
Donorbox Peer-to-Peer lets you invite your supporters by inputting their email addresses and names. Your invitees will receive emails from Donorbox guiding them to create and customize their own fundraising pages. You can also add a button to your original campaign encouraging visitors to start fundraising for you. On Donorbox, you also have the ability to approve such campaign requests.
If you’re wondering where these donations go, rest assured that donations from all peer campaigns go to your original peer-to-peer campaign!
Look at this successful peer campaign created from a crowdfunding campaign that effectively raised money to help school teachers.
Start a Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaign
Donorbox Donor Management automatically stores your donor and donation data as soon as a donation is made. You can apply advanced filters such as location, donation frequency, donation amount, number of donations, time frame, campaign name, etc. to segment your supporters, as shown below.
Our donor management tool also lets you create reports and get a deeper insight into your donor and donation data. The “Reports” module on the Donorbox dashboard includes “donor overview”, “new donors”, and LYBUNT” report options. This is helpful for you to create personalized communication pieces for donation appeals.
Donorbox integrates with leading CRM tools such as Salesforce, Blackbaud RE NXT, and HubSpot ensuring your donor and donation data can be synced and used for significant organizational tasks. You can also connect to 2,000+ applications including Google Sheets, Airtable, QuickBooks Online, Slack, Active Campaign, etc. via Zapier.
Our seamless integration with MailChimp helps boost your email marketing efforts. Donorbox also partners with Double the Donation to give you a chance to double your donations.
Nonprofit events are essential in generating revenue through ticket sales. Donorbox Events is a simple-to-use tool letting you create online event pages and embeddable ticketing forms for your fundraising events.
It is up to you to use the Donorbox-hosted event page or embed the ticketing form on your website. Your purchasers can make donations from this form and pay using Apple Pay or credit cards.
You will be able to set a ticket-buying deadline and highlight it on the page. You can also add tax deductibility for each ticket level. The calculation is done automatically on the tool when you input the fair market value and the tax rate. You also get to refund the ticket amount in full if the need arose.
Check out this example of an event ticketing form hosted on Donorbox.
A well-crafted membership campaign means that you are able to create a loyal supporter base for your nonprofit. These people are passionate about your cause and stick with you through tough or good times. Donorbox Memberships make it a breeze for you!
You can create monthly or annual membership campaigns on Donorbox. You’ll be able to add unlimited membership tiers to the membership form. It’s also easy to manage members and membership payments at the backend.
Either embed the form in your website (copy and paste the code) or use the Donorbox-hosted membership campaign page. Here’s an example of the latter.
Getting back on track (as soon as possible) is crucial for your mission! No worries!
Starting to fundraise with Donorbox takes these 4 simple steps –
For more information and help, we suggest that you refer to this step-by-step guide.
You can also watch this visual tutorial guide to start fundraising right away!
The Donorbox support team is always there for you every step of the way!
Organizations that created customizable fundraising pages or peer-to-peer crowdfunding campaigns or embeddable donation forms on GivingWay have no need to worry at all! Donorbox is here for you – with all this and more!
Our prompt support team is there to guide you through the whole process. And in case you need more help, we have a plethora of guides on our Nonprofit Blog to walk you through all our features.
Sign up for free and start fundraising today!
80,000+ organizations have chosen Donorbox to embed donation forms or create numerous fundraising campaigns to raise money online. Now, it’s your turn to make the right choice and take your nonprofit to the next level!
Chirasree Bose is the Content Editor at Donorbox. Apart from editing and writing, what holds her interest the most is reading books. Chirasree loves to explore the world of fiction and has authored some books herself. Connect with her on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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