On the night
Each event can have its own donation page, in your colours. Put its code on the big screen and on table cards, or let people text a word to your number, and anyone can give in seconds with Apple Pay, Google Pay or a card, from the room or from home while the event is open. Each gift can join the total on the big screen as it arrives.
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Real screenshots of Paddlit, taken with a made-up organisation, Maple & Main Children's Fund.
Giving is switched on event by event, by a manager or owner, once your organisation can take card payments. On the event's Giving screen you choose:
Every change can be undone straight after.
Donors pick a suggested amount or type their own, in whole dollars up to $50,000, and can tick a box to cover the card fee if you offer it. They can give anonymously, and they enter their name and email for the receipt. Then they pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay where their phone offers it, or with a card.
Afterwards they see a thank-you with how much they've just added to the night's total, and a receipt is on its way. For nonprofits whose status is confirmed in Paddlit, the page shows the tax-deductible amount.
The page takes gifts while the event is open or live. Before that it says it isn't open yet, and afterwards that the event has finished.
The donation page's code can sit next to the total on the big screen. For tables, download a print-ready card (4 × 5.5 inches) with your organisation's name, "Scan to give", the code, the event's name and the page's short address, and print as many as you need.
Each gift records how it arrived: the big screen, a table card, the donation page, the event page or a text.
On plans with texting, guests can text a word to your organisation's own number and get a link to the donation page straight back. The word is GIVE unless you choose another: one word of 2 to 12 letters or digits, and never one the carriers reserve, such as STOP or HELP. Two events that are both coming up can't use the same word.
The first time your organisation switches text to give on, it's added to your texting registration with the mobile carriers. If that registration has already been approved, that's a one-off charge, shown before you confirm. After that it's free to switch on and off for any event; reply texts are charged like any other.
When a donor gives anonymously, their name isn't shown anywhere public: the big screen says Anonymous. Your team still sees who gave, and the donor still gets a receipt.
Your team can send a receipt again, or refund a gift in full straight back to the card. A refunded gift comes off the big-screen total.
In practice
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