A BrightStar fundraiser is a campaign page with a goal, a progress bar, rewards and updates. Use it to fund an album, a temple or studio build, seed money for a festival, or a charity drive.
It is built like an event: you create it in the same event wizard, and backers pay through the same checkout as tickets. You keep what you raise. There is no all-or-nothing rule: every gift is paid to you as it comes in, even if the campaign ends below its goal.
Starting a fundraiser
Open Events → Create event.
- 1On the first step, under "What are you creating?", choose A fundraiser.
- 2On the campaign step, pick the day the campaign opens and the last day people can give. It opens at the start of the first day and closes at the end of the last day, in the timezone you choose. A campaign can run for up to 365 days.
- 3Set your goal and its currency.
- 4Choose Rewards campaign or Charity drive. For a charity drive, name who you are raising for and describe the cause.
- 5There is no venue step: the campaign page is the place.
- 6On the Tickets step, add your rewards, then tap Add a donation tier so people can give any amount.
- 7Publish.
Rewards and the donation tier
Each ticket type is a reward, such as "$25 Digital album" or "$75 Album and a ticket to the release concert". The donation tier uses the pay-what-you-can pricing, so backers choose their own amount.
If a reward includes a ticket to another of your events, describe it in the reward and send the ticket or a discount code to those backers yourself when the time comes.
What backers see
The campaign page replaces the date and venue blocks of a normal event page.
How the total is counted
The amount raised is what backers paid for rewards and donations, less discount codes and refunds. A refund comes off the total, and a cancelled or abandoned checkout never counts. It is worked out from your orders each time the page loads, so it is always current.
When the campaign ends
At the end of the last day every reward closes and the page reads "Campaign ended: raised X of Y". You can still post updates to your backers after it ends.
Updates and your backers
From your event dashboard, the Overview tab shows a Fundraiser panel.
- 1See the amount raised, the goal and every backer with their reward and amount.
- 2Tap Export CSV for a spreadsheet of your backers.
- 3Write an update and tap Post update. It appears on your campaign page.
- 4Tick "Also email it" to send it to every backer. One emailed update per campaign per day: posts in between show on the page only.