First Steps

Our innovative RaiseNow platform supports ambitious fundraisers to grow their online fundraising. Use solutions for all digital touch points – from SMS donations and mobile phone apps right up to peer-to-peer event fundraising and donation forms. We integrate your email and social media channels and make everything tightly work with your existing fundraising and donor database.

Within this product landscape the RaiseNow team develops a core component which provides a uniform Web service interface for various payment methods, including credit cards, Sofortüberweisung, SMS and PayPal. Furthermore, the interface allows a donor to initiate a credit card recurring donation where the card will be periodically charged.

On merchants’ side, this interface simplifies the integration with the desired payment interfaces, because their software developers only need to program against a single uniform interface and there are tools, support, and documentations available to help them. Through the use of RaiseNow Web Widgets (see chapter about Web Widgets) the integration with the payment interface is made much simpler, so that merchants only need to adapt the graphical look and the texts if necessary. The following services complete the core component of the RaiseNow platform with additional functionalities:

RaiseNow Manager / Widget Configurator 

A Web-Administration interface is provided for a central access to our services. Thanks to filtering with faceted search and dashboard functions of the Manager, key characteristic numbers important to the merchants can be extracted and exported to an Excel or CSV file. Moreover, various important settings can be configured through the RaiseNow Manager.

Notification System using Email and Webhook 

If needed, transaction details about donations can be made available to a third-party system via email or webhooks. To cope with temporary failures on the third-party system, security and retry mechanisms are in-place to guarantee the integrity of the data transferred. The required webhooks can be configured by the merchants themethselves through the RaiseNow Manager GUI. Go to webhooks section (Link hinzufügen) 

Donation forms 

Donate online simply and quickly with mobile, tablet or desktop computers. Right on your website. Monthly giving solutions available. Go to web widgets section

CRM integration 

Fully automated data and process integration with your existing fundraising database. We are ready for Care, FunTrade, iInfo, OM and SextANT.

Social funding 

Crowdfunding, peer-to-peer event and corporate fundraising solutions out of the box.