New feature: Collect your donors’ addresses

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We’ve just released a new feature on Chuffed.org to save you time and to help you get those fantastic perks to your donors even quicker.

After talking to a number of campaigners, we realised pretty quickly that while getting hundreds of donors is great, it becomes not-so-great when you have to collect hundreds of postal addresses to deliver them perks.

Some campaigners told us they spent several days just following up with people to make sure they had the right details.

So, we decided to find a way to make that whole process even simpler for you. Now, in your Chuffed.org campaign backend, you can choose to collect addresses from your donors.

 

Collect addresses from your Chuffed.org donors

We’ve even put in some smart internationalisation features to make sure addresses format correctly for your international donors.

This feature is now available to all our campaigners, and it’s up to you to decide whether or not you want to turn it on.

 

Some common questions

 

1. Will I be forced to collect addresses?

Definitely not. Our default setting is not to collect addresses, and that will remain so. If you don’t collect addresses, everything on the payment form will look exactly like it does right now.

 

2. I’m running a political fundraiser and need to collect addresses for compliance reasons. Can I use this feature?

Yep. This is definitely the way to do it if you need to meet your compliance requirements.

 

3. Should I collect addresses just to put into our CRM?

We are against collecting information that you don’t really need or intend on using. We think you should only collect addresses if there’s a good, clear reason to do so.

Two Million Dollars Raised on Chuffed.org

You may remember back in September we announced that we hit our first $1,000,000 through the platform. Well since then, things sped up, and we’re really excited to announce that we’ve now hit $2,000,000 donated to Chuffed.org campaigns.

We were blown away by the first million dollars coming in in 11 months since we launched, but this second million was even faster – it took under 5 months!

For the stats geeks amongst you:

  • Donations came from 49 countries
  • The average donation through our credit card system was $94
  • The biggest campaign raised $162,000; and
  • We now get >50% of traffic coming from mobile/tablet devices

None of this would be possible without your amazing support and trust. We can’t thank you enough.

2015 is set to be a very big year for Chuffed.org – with international expansions underway, and new product expansions on the horizon, we’ve got a lot to keep us busy. But first off the rank will be some feature releases that many of you have been asking for. Stay tuned.

Thanks once again, and if we can support you for any of your campaigns in 2015, please feel free to reach out.

Chuffed Love,

Prashan, Liv, Seb & Katie, and all the Chuffed.org family