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For race directors

Setting up a fundraiser

A fundraiser adds a Donate button to your event page and an optional thermometer showing progress toward a goal. You control how much athletes see — and whether the donation prompt appears during registration.

Enabling the fundraiser

From your event's Edit page, open the Fundraiser card. Check "Enable fundraiser" and set your goal in dollars (optional — you can leave it blank if you don't want a visible target).

A live preview of what athletes will see appears below the form. If your event hasn't taken any donations yet, the preview uses a sample 35% fill clearly labeled "Sample data" so you can see how it'll look at progress.

Show or hide the thermometer

The "Show thermometer on event page" toggle controls whether the public fundraiser panel is visible at all.

  • On (default): the full fundraiser panel shows on your event page — caption, bar, raised total, and a Donate button. Plus a Donate button next to Register in your event's action stack.
  • Off: the panel is hidden completely. Just the Donate button next to Register. Useful when you want to accept donations without showing the goal or progress publicly.

What counts toward your total

By default the "amount raised" is your donations — every donation a supporter gives, whether they use the Donate button or add one during registration checkout. Both land in the same total. For events where the entry fees themselves are the fundraiser (a lot of charity races), you can fold more in with the checkboxes on the Fundraiser card:

  • Count registrations in the total: adds what your event keeps from entry fees to the thermometer. Off by default.
  • Count sponsor payments: adds paid sponsor invoices to the thermometer. Off by default.
  • Count giveaways / merch: adds paid giveaway (merch) sales. Off by default. Note this counts the full sale price — which includes what you paid for the items — so it reads higher than what actually nets to your cause.

Leave them all off and the thermometer shows donations only.

Each dollar is counted once

Entry fees and merch are separate switches, so if someone pays $40 to enter and buys a $10 shirt, that's $40 under registrations and $10 under merch — never $50 in both. Tick all four boxes and the thermometer shows everything your event brought in, each dollar once.

Donation amounts

Configure the preset chips athletes see on the donation page and during registration checkout. Defaults to a ladder of $5, $10, $25, $50, $100. Click any chip to remove it, type a new amount and click Add, or click "Reset defaults" to restore the standard ladder.

How donations are collected today

Athletes can add a donation during registration checkout — it rides on the same payment and your event receives 100% of the chosen amount. Supporters who aren't registering can give on your event's standalone Donate page, which runs its own secure checkout and emails each donor a receipt.

Round-up at checkout

The "Offer round-up donation" toggle adds a checkbox to registration checkout asking athletes if they'd like to round their total up to the nearest $5 and donate the difference. Volunteer signups never see this prompt — they don't pay anything, so there's nothing to round up from.

Round-up hasn't shipped yet

Checkout is live, but the round-up checkbox itself hasn't shipped. Your toggle is saved and will take effect automatically when it does. The donation tile at checkout works today.

A note about the thermometer

The thermometer on your event page animates from 0% to the current amount when it scrolls into view. Buttery 60fps fill and dollar-count-up, respecting users' reduced-motion preference. It's designed to feel a little celebratory.