Video: Your First Donation Form

Studio builds a polished donation page you can put on your website in just a few minutes. In Forms, click New form, then choose Studio donation. Start with the basics. Give the form a name your team will recognize, pick the subcategory where gifts are recorded, and enter the email addresses that should hear about each new donation. You could save it right now with the polished defaults. But click Customize the form, and you'll see each step listed on the left, with a live preview on the right that updates as you go. First, the layout. Typographic is a clean, single column that needs no photo. With photo adds a large picture beside the form. We'll keep Typographic. Next, the colors. Each palette is hand-tuned, so the whole page always matches. Try Forest and Sage, or Burgundy and Gold, and watch the preview change. Custom lets you pick your own. Under Amounts, donors can choose between a one-time gift and a monthly gift. The monthly button can be highlighted with a short message on why monthly giving matters. Pick one of these, or write your own. The suggested gifts start out as chai amounts. One click switches them to round numbers. Donors can still enter their own amount, and you can let them cover the processing fee. Under Purposes, choose Show as visible tiles. Then add the funds donors can give to, like general support, camp scholarships, and Chanukah. Start typing a name, and pick it from the list. Each fund you add appears on the form as its own tile. Donors tap the one they want, and the gift is recorded under that fund. Content is the wording on the page. Type your own headline, or pick one of the suggestions. Below it is the thank-you message donors see right after they give. Or, send them to a thank-you page on your own website. Every donor also gets a thank-you email right away. Set who it comes from, the subject, and the message. It fills in the donor's name and the amount for you. Under Fields, choose what donors fill in. Address and phone can be shown or required. You can add a dedication line, for gifts in honor or in memory of someone, and a box for a personal message. Last, open Embed code and save the form. Copy this snippet and paste it on your website. That's it. You're ready to take donations online. Studio gives you a polished donation page in minutes, with your own colors, funds and wording, and every gift is recorded in CMS automatically.