Services we offer

Donation Tracking

Online fundraising is transparent, easy to use and publicise and is a great complement to booking and managing challenges online. Put simply, online fundraising is the enabler behind what we do. There are some excellent services out there for getting tax-efficient donations to charities, and a host of reasons to choose each one.

However, whilst it's possible for charities to perform a certain amount of analytics and progress tracking on each system, it can be troublesome to keep an overview of a specific challenge, team or organised event, especially if the charity uses multiple fundraising systems. Often, event organisers have no such tools available to them, and resort to manually checking fundraising pages to keep an eye on progress. Visiting hundreds of web pages a week and writing numbers down? Yawn.

The Solution

Once a participant has signed up to a challenge through us, they are provided with a link to their selected charity's preferred online fundraising system. After their page goes live, this profile can be entered into their Choose a Challenge account through their challenge control panel on our website. Our donation tracking system automatically recognises the fundraising system used, and then adds the page to a list of profiles that are automatically checked around the clock.

The fundraising page is checked to ensure that it's not been used on a previous challenge, although we do allow teams to share pages between them - we just divide by the number of people using the page to get their individual totals. What's more, we keep checking pages for six months after the challenge date, unless otherwise stated, so with any luck the total will keep rising for some time!

We'll also check fundraising progress against defined targets, sending out reminder messages where applicable, and our challenge admin panel will provide up to the minute statistics on the adherence to the targets and requirements in place to the event managers.

Coverage

Our scope is essentially limitless, and we can cover multiple platforms, currencies and languages with our methodology. If your charity or non profit uses a bespoke system, then our easily extended service can almost certainly work to your requirements. At present however, our donation tracking service tracks fundraisers on the following popular online fundraising systems:

JustGiving - one of the original and most commonly used systems, JustGiving boast a great range of charities, an excellent corporate fundraising service and a great user interface.
Firstgiving - the US subsidiary of JustGiving, Firstgiving is our primary system for $ (USD) fundraisers and US 501C non-profit organisations. It may not benefit from Gift Aid, but its basis in JustGiving's technology gives it a competitive edge.
BMyCharity - the very first online fundraising system, BMyCharity switched to a commission free model in early 2010, and now partner with Help for Heroes in addition to many other charities.
Virgin Money Giving - the newcomer to the market, Virgin Money Giving offer an excellent commission rate and are the preferred supplier of fundraising platforms to some of the biggest UK charity challenges, including the London Marathon.
Charity Giving - the only fundraising system run by a charity, The Dove Trust, offering fantastic commission rates and zero subscription or sign up fees! For non Gift Aid donations, these guys come out top.
My Charity Page - a favourite for smaller UK based charities and university RAG groups, due to its low cost range of services. Fundraising pages are tracked until after the challenge date, after which they become “archived”.
mycharity.ie - this award winning system primarily caters for charities based in the Republic of Ireland (Eire) and donations are taken in € (Euros), extending the benefits of online fundraising to a whole new segment of the market.
Everyclick - a relatively new entrant to the market, Everyclick offers a wide range of fundraising tools to charities, including background eBay, retail and search engine fundraising solutions.

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Find out more

If you'd like to find out more about our donation tracking services, or discuss pricing options, please contact us.