Setting up your Fundraising Event on mycause.com.au is quick and simple, and allows your participants to fundraise for you easily.
Once you are signed up please log in to mycause and you should land on your Partner Dashboard (which has orange text, and your school name at the top.)
Select "Events" from the menu on the left hand side of the screen.
Then, select the 'Create a new event' button in the top right corner.
Now you will begin to create all of your event settings.
SCREEN 1
Enter the event name and this will also generate the event URL (which is part of the link for the event). It's best to keep the event name concise and informative.
For the event date, enter the date that your event is actually happening. Fundraising for the event will begin as soon as the event is published, and will end based on a later setting (see further down).
If your event is taking place over multiple days, like a week long reading challenge for example, then tick the check box and add in the start and end date of your event.
for the Event logo, upload your organisation's logo for best results.
Scroll down to the remaining fields.
The Title tag is generated from your event name. This will appear as the name of the tab on people's computers.
For the Meta description, write a brief explanation of why the event is being held.
For the Main event contact, add the details of the individual who will be managing the event and assisting the community with everything.
Scroll down further to select which modules you need for your event. In most cases, only 'Fundraising' and 'Event Q+A' are required, unless you are charging your fundraisers to participate, in which case, you would also toggle on 'Registration'.
Then, click the 'next' button in the bottom right corner.
SCREEN 2
In the next screen, open each of the sections and answer them as follows;
For the Target, enter the amount that you want the entire community to raise by the end of the event. This may be the amount needed to fund a specific project.
For the Fundraising dates, the fundraising will begin as soon as you publish the event, and end on the date in this section. The date is automatically two weeks after your event date (as entered in the first screen) to give the community enough time to donate to the event even after the day of the event has passed. You can change the Fundraising end date to whenever you wish, but please keep in mind that mycause sends your funds on the first working day of each month.
For the Charity settings, your charity will appear with four checkboxes next to it. If no charity appears, click the orange text to add a charity, and search it in the field that appears.
Once you see the charity listed, make sure that either the third or fourth checkbox is ticked. You can ignore the first two.
For 'Manage the customise Fundraising Page step in registration flow' the toggle is turned on so that participants can join the event quickly. They can always come back and update their page once it has been created.
If you turn the toggle OFF, participants will be asked to update their fundraising page during the sign up process and will take longer.
If you are fundraising for two charities, or are allowing fundraisers to choose their own charity, you will need to update the Multiple charities, and Number of charities settings.
If you are allowing participants to add their fitness activity (Fitbit or Strava) please turn on the Fitness activity settings.
For the Fundraising types, decide if you want people to fundraise individually, or as a team. If you want people to fundraise as a team, you also need to decide if all team members will be required to provide an email address.
You can have all fundraising types on and allow individual, team (email required), and team (email not required) pages to be created, but make sure to name your group types different things, e.g groups where email is not required are labeled 'Family', and groups where email is required are labeled 'Team'.
Click 'next' in the bottom right corner.
SCREEN 3
In this screen, you will set up the defaults and design of your event fundraising pages.
Fundraising page targets refers to the amount you want to be raised by each individual or team. Depending on which settings you chose for the Fundraising types, change the target amount for either the Individual pages, or the Group pages. You do not need to change the target for the type of pages you have not entered in the above settings.
The Fundraising description text is the text that will show on every fundraising page for the event. You can change this to add more information about the event, but it is still best to keep it concise. This is default text that will appear on every page created through the event, but your participants are able to change the text on their own page.
The Fundraising page images and colour section dictates the design of all of the fundraising pages.
First, in 'Customise Banner' upload the desktop and mobile versions of the banner that will display at the top of the fundraising pages. These two banners should have the same information as each other, but are different sizes to best suit the different devices they are viewed on.
Once you upload the banners, make sure to click the 'Crop and Save' buttons directly below them.
PLEASE NOTE: Your event will NOT be approved if you have not added banners.
In the same section, toggle to 'Customise Base Colour' to update the colour of all of the buttons on the fundraising pages.
The top row of colours in the box are taken from the logo you uploaded in the first screen. You can click on a colour to make it your "base colour" or you can enter a HEX colour code.
You can choose to add Donation dollar handles to all fundraising pages so specific amounts are displayed as donation options. If you leave this setting OFF, the mycause default donation handles will display.
For Milestone Badges, decide which (if any) you would like to display on participants' fundraising pages when they achieve the milestone.
Click 'next' in the bottom right corner.
SCREEN 4
If you have turned on Q+A (recommended as mycause only gathers participants full name and email address) you will now be able to add questions for your participants to answer.
Phone number is already here as a default question, but to add others, click the 'add question' button, then choose the answer style from the drop down.
Once you have finished writing a question, click the 'submit' button and select whether the question is mandatory, and whether it needs to be asked once per team, or per person using the checkboxes to the right of the questions.
Once you have added all your questions, click 'next' in the bottom right corner.
SCREEN 5
In this screen you need to make sure that at least one event manager is receiving the 'Daily Summary' by ticking the check box.
The daily summary is an email with updates about the event and how much has been raised.
You can add more contact people if you wish to allow others to manage the event and receive communications about event progress.
When you have finished, click the 'next' button in the bottom right corner.
SCREEN 6
In this screen you can add an image and text that will display when someone shares the link to your event on various social media platforms.
Click 'next' in the bottom right corner.
SCREEN 7
Now you will select a landing page template. The landing page is the outward facing site that your participants see and use to join the event.
We have created a variety of templates with different features that you can use as a starting point, customising with your colours, images, and text using our drag and drop page builder.
If you are confident using a web builder you can also choose the DIY option.
To select a template, hover over it and click the 'Use template' button.
If you have past events on mycause and would like to copy the template from one of them, click the 'clone template' button in the top right corner, select one of your past events from the left hand side of the pop up, and type "CLONE" then confirm that you would like to use that event as a template.
You will now be taken to the Event Landing Page Editor, where you create the event website that the community will see. (To find out how to edit your event landing page please click here)
Once your event is ready you can request for your event to be approved here.