The platform behind campaigns that get funded

We needed 42,000 for a CNC machine and hit it with nine days to spare, from 380 backers. The builder walked me through the budget breakdown section, which I would never have thought to include, and that is the part people kept quoting back to me.

We moved eleven years of fundraising off our old platform in a single afternoon. Our platform fee dropped from 8% to 3% after charity verification, which on last year's volume is roughly 14,000 back into programmes rather than into software.

Thirty-four campaigns backed so far. What keeps me here is that organisers actually post updates, and I can see the receipts. I have had exactly one project go quiet, and support refunded me inside a week.

First campaign, no audience, no idea what I was doing. I raised 7,800 for a short documentary in six weeks. The pre-launch checklist told me to line up thirty people before publishing, and that one instruction is why the first day worked.

I requested a payout on a Tuesday morning and it was in our account Thursday. We were paying a roaster on 30-day terms, so that two-day turnaround is not a small detail, it is the whole reason we could commit to the order.

I built and published our campaign page in about 50 minutes, including the gallery. The editor does not fight you, and the preview is honest about what the page will actually look like on a phone. That sounds minor until you have used the alternatives.

Verification took under a day and support answered every question in plain language. My only wish is more local payment options for backers in West Africa, which the team tells me is on the roadmap.

Three campaigns in two years, 96,000 raised in total, and the exports drop straight into our accounting without reformatting. The reporting could go deeper for multi-campaign accounts, but nothing else we tried came close on fees or payout speed.