GiveBack Guide
Updated January 17, 2023
About GiveBack
Do you remember being in school and fundraising for a project by selling candy bars or wrapping paper? As a kid it was annoying, but it works because you instantly had a real life sales team selling products.
GiveBack is a Shopify app that helps you (the shop owner) run a fundraising campaign for a cause (or causes) you care about, and turns those recipients to go out and help sell your products. It's a win-win for everyone.
You as the shop owner can choose a time frame for when the campaign will run, which products are eligible for the campaign, and who the recipients are for the fundraiser.
One thing that makes GiveBack unique is that you can have your fundraising campaign have more than 1 recipient and when your customer purchases and eligible product, they get to choose which recipient they want to support. This can be a fun way to have a friendly competition between the different recipients
1. Add the Fundraising Banner to the Product Page
(optional)
The Fundraising Banner is a banner that will show up on your product page when you have a fundraising campaign running and the product your customer is viewing is part of the campaign. This helps your customers understand that they are supporting a cause when they purchase your product.
- Visit the Shopify Admin > Online Store > Themes and click on Customize for the theme you are using.
- Navigate to your Product page
- Choose which section in the template you'd like to have the banner show up. In that section click Add block > Fundraising Banner (blue arrow in the image above)
-
Customize the font size of the banner text by clicking on the banner itself
The Fundraising Banner is a banner that will show up on your product page when you have a fundraising campaign running and the product your customer is viewing is part of the campaign. This helps your customers understand that they are supporting a cause when they purchase your product.
- Visit the Shopify Admin > Online Store > Themes and click on Customize for the theme you are using.
- Navigate to your Product page
- Choose which section in the template you'd like to have the banner show up. In that section click Add block > Fundraising Banner (blue arrow in the image above)
-
Customize the font size of the banner text by clicking on the banner itself
2. Creating a Campaign
Creating a campaign is easy and takes only a few minutes. The major things you need to decide is:
- When you want the campaign to start and end
- What products are eligible for this campaign
- Who you want to be the fundraising recipient(s)
The first step is setting up the starting & ending dates as well as setting a benefit amount. You can either choose to have a percentage of each sale (of eligible products) to go to the fundraising recipient(s) or you can choose to have a fixed amount of each sale go to the fundraising recipient(s).
3. Selecting Eligible Products
Next, select which products you want to be eligible for this campaign.
4. Choose Fundraising Recipients
Finally, you can create one or more fundraising recipients. You can add up to 3 possible recipients. If your cause has a website, you can link it here and your customers can read more.
Multiple Recipients
Adding more than 1 possible recipient is a fun way to run a campaign. You can have your customers choose on which recipient they want to support.
When you have more than 1 recipient, your customer will see a selection box on the thank-you page where they pick which organixation they want to support.
5. Managing an Active Campaign
Once your campaign is up and running, we give you a dashboard where you can see how much money has been raised by each recipient.
