Enabling Donations to a Team vs. individual team member

Monika Schlaak

Can you create a Team Page in just giving that allows donors to give to the Team overall--not an individual fundraiser?

Rachel Cavalier

@Monika Schlaak

There are two ways to go about it that get talked about here.

One is creating an actual team page and I believe that donations can be made to the team as a whole, as well as to individual team members' fundraising pages.

The other is to create an individual fundraising page and just say in the story on the page that it's for Team X and who the members are and about why they are fundraising together.

Monika Schlaak

@Rachel Cavalier Thank you! we are exploring the latter option – however, when we create the individual fundraising page we have to provide a first and last name and it does not allow us to use numbers. The team numbers are their class years. As a workaround we put Class of (in first name) and nineteen in the last name .. but that is not very intuitive

Monika Schlaak

@Rachel Cavalier In regards to the first option: creating an actual team page – I don't see a place where you can make a donation to the team as a whole--it only allows you to make a donation to an individual fundraiser – am I missing something?

Rachel Cavalier

@Monika Schlaak

I'm afraid I'm only working on my own memory of donating to teams in the past in a personal capacity, it may have changed since then.

Have you considered making a campaign page instead? This is one that we created recently for a fundraising activity - we needed pages per school/nursery and like you say, creating individual fundraising pages has the need for a human given name and family name. You can allow individual fundraising pages to be created as part of that campaign, or do what we did and not allow them to avoid confusion for the families involved.