How to Integrate Donorbox with Airmeet | Step-by-Step Guide
Virtual and hybrid fundraising events blew up in popularity during the pandemic, but they aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Organizations love how easy and cost-effective online fundraising events are, while donors love the convenience of being able to support their favorite causes without interrupting their busy schedules. Donorbox's integration with Airmeet makes it easy for nonprofits to host successful, online fundraising events. Read on to learn more!
Virtual fundraising is a must in today’s landscape. A virtual fundraising event is a fundraising event that is hosted virtually or online through live streaming, virtual summits, virtual donation drives, and more! Virtual events are becoming increasingly popular and a suitable way for fundraisers to meet donors where they are and raise money online.
Airmeet makes hosting virtual fundraising events simple for nonprofits. And as you integrate it with Donorbox, giving becomes even simpler – No more navigating out of your virtual event to make a donation!
First, we’ll have a look at what it means to integrate Airmeet with Donorbox for your next online fundraising event.
Integrating Airmeet with Donorbox
Airmeet is an all-in-one virtual events hosting platform that allows customers to host and stream various events, increase engagement of hybrid events and encourage virtual networking.
If you are hosting your virtual or hybrid fundraising event on Airmeet, you can now integrate your Donorbox campaign form into the event panel and make your donation form super-accessible to all event attendees.
Donorbox and Airmeet integration will let you raise donations during your event or Livestream – without taking your donors away from your event. Watch this video for a quick walkthrough of the Donorbox and Airmeet integration –
Also, watch our webinar on how to run impactful fundraising events using Airmeet and Donorbox featuring the Airmeet’s Product Manager and Donorbox Fundraising Coaches.
5 Simple Steps to Integrate Airmeet with Donorbox
1. Create your Donorbox campaign
To create your campaign on Donorbox, sign up on Donorbox or sign in to your existing account.
Make sure you complete the steps required to create a live campaign:
Connect your payment processor.
Create a campaign form.
Preview the campaign and customize it as per your requirement.
You can refer to our getting-started guide, or watch the video tutorial below to get more information.
At the Backstage of your Airmeet event, find the “Manage” tab on the right panel.
Click on “Activities” and select the Donorbox option here.
Toggle the button to enable Donorbox.
Next, add your Donorbox campaign URL and tab name.
Next, you can save the setting or proceed to add “Enable Widget in Chat”. Once you Save, you will start seeing the donate tab on the right side of the panel.
Note that the tab name you enter will be the text that shows up when hovering on the donate tab.
4. Add a donate button to the chat window
You can add a donate button on top of the chat window by switching on “Enable Widget in Chat”. Add the widget title and a call-to-action text that you want visible on the widget.
This option will add a donate button on top of the “chat” window – making your donation widget more visible and accessible to the attendees.
Once you save the widget title and call to action text, a pop-up will appear confirming that.
Here’s how your donation widget will appear on the chat window.
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5. Your virtual event is donation-ready – Go live and raise donations!
Your Donorbox donation form will now show up on the right-side panel, under the donate tab of your Airmeet event.
Attendees can easily donate without getting redirected out of the Airmeet platform.
Go live and start raising donations with Donorbox during your online event on Airmeet!
Conclusion
While you take care of making your online events fun and entertaining on Airmeet, Donorbox takes care of the fundraising in the most efficient way possible. Just follow these 5 simple steps and you’ll be all set to boost donations through your virtual events!
Here are some insightful Donorbox articles to help create successful virtual fundraising events for your nonprofit –
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. What is a virtual fundraising event?
A virtual fundraising event is an event hosted online with the goal of raising funds. Instead of gathering together physically, guests attend the event using video and audio through a virtual events platform like Airmeet. With the Donorbox-Airmeet integration, you can now run your virtual fundraisers from start to finish on Airmeet. All you need to do is to enable the Donorbox widget within Airmeet sessions and enable attendees to make contributions, without ever having to navigate out of your event.
2. What is Airmeet?
Airmeet is an online venue for your events, designed to deliver real engagement and best-in-class interactions. It allows participants to connect through videos and virtual table chats and gives speakers the ability to broadcast live sessions. Learn how to host an Airmeet Event here.
3. What is a ‘session’ on Airmeet?
A live session is either a video broadcast started by the host of an Airmeet event or a video streamed in from an external platform. When a session is live, you will be able to see the video streams of designated speakers only.
The Social Webinar format allows for one session at a time.
The Conference format allows for parallel sessions, run at the same time.
You can also chat with attendees via text and react with emojis during a live session. And as an attendee, you can come on stage and interact with speakers using the ‘Raise Hand’ feature.
4. What is the Donorbox – Airmeet integration?
The innovative Donorbox-Airmeet integration helps you run effective virtual fundraising events on Airmeet by embedding the Donorbox widget within Airmeet sessions. This allows you to engage your supporters and enable them to make contributions, without ever having to navigate out of your event.
You can also drive more donations by promoting your cause through a customized message within the event’s chat.
5. Which Airmeet Plans is the Donorbox Integration available on?
The Donorbox – Airmeet integration is currently available on Airmeet’s Standard and Pro plans.
6. How do you disable the Donorbox integration on your Airmeet Event?
Go to the right-hand side of your session and click on the Activities tab. Click on the Donorbox integration. Toggle the button towards the left to disable the integration from the session. Click Save to disable the tab temporarily.
Note: The widget will also be removed from the session chat feed when you disable the integration.
7. Who can enable the Donorbox integration for your Airmeet Event/Session?
The Donorbox integration can be enabled and disabled by the session’s Host/Co-Host and the account’s Event Manager.
8. Once enabled, is the Donorbox integration active on all your Airmeet Sessions?
No, integrations need to be enabled for every particular session. They can’t be enabled for all of the sessions at one time.
Raviraj heads the sales and marketing team at Donorbox. His growth-hacking abilities have helped Donorbox boost fundraising efforts for thousands of nonprofit organizations.
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