Donations go to your account. Cadrify takes 0.5%.
A fundraiser is a public donation page on your organisation's own Stripe account. Every gift is recorded against a donor and checked against the rules on permissibility.
Connect your organisation's Stripe account once and every fundraiser you publish charges through it. The money settles in your Stripe balance and pays out to your bank on Stripe's schedule. Cadrify never holds it. A 0.5% platform fee is taken by Stripe at the point of payment, alongside Stripe's own card processing fee.
A fundraiser is built on the same page builder as your events and petitions. Set a target, choose whether donors pick from suggested amounts, pay one fixed price or buy named items, and offer a monthly gift alongside a one-off one.
Every donation lands in a ledger that applies the permissibility rules. Gifts over £500 from one donor, in one go or added up, are queued for a permissibility check. Anything that has to go back starts a 30 day clock. The return builder in Finance reads the same ledger.
How a fundraiser works
Connect Stripe under My branch
An admin connects the organisation's Stripe account from the branch settings page. Stripe walks them through its own onboarding and the account shows as connected once charges are enabled. One account serves every branch and every fundraiser in the organisation.
Until an account is connected, a fundraiser can be built and saved but not published. The editor explains why, so no page goes live that cannot take money.
Set the target and the amounts
Give the page a title and a money target to draw a progress bar. Tick auto-raise and the target climbs by a step you set as gifts come in, up to a cap, so an appeal that takes off is never shown as finished.
Choose how donors give. Suggested amounts show a row of buttons with a blank for people to enter their own figure, with one preselected. A fixed amount makes a plain payment page. Products list named items, a table at the dinner or a print run, each with its own price. Leave monthly giving on to offer a recurring gift next to the one-off.
Build the page and publish
Make the case in text blocks, add an image, and place the progress bar and the donate form where you want them. The page carries your branch's header, footer and imprint. Write the thank-you page and the share text, and set the disclaimer that appears under the form.
Publish and the page is live at your branch's address, then donate, then the fundraiser's name. Close it when the appeal ends and the page comes down.
Take the payment
The donor picks an amount, gives a name and email, and pays in Stripe's payment form on the page. The payment methods on offer follow your Stripe account's own settings, so cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay work without any setup here. Stripe sends the receipt. A single online gift can be anything from £1 to £25,000.
A monthly gift is a Stripe subscription on your account. Stripe takes each payment, retries failures and chases the donor, and every payment lands in your ledger as it clears. The donor gets a link to manage or cancel it themselves.
The donations ledger
Each gift is written with the donor's name, email and postcode from the card details, the amount, the method, whether gift aid was declared and the date received in British time, which is the date the statutory clocks start from. A donor becomes a contact by email, without any marketing consent, because a gift is a transaction with its own legal basis.
Finance lists every gift over £50 for attention and every donor over £500, in one gift or several, for a permissibility check against the electoral registerElectoral register nounThe official list of everyone registered to vote in a local authority area, published in full once a year with monthly updates in between.In Cadrify Cadrify imports the register on every update, matches it to the right ward and polling district by GSS code, and keeps each import as its own dated version so nothing recorded about an elector is lost.Full definition →. An impermissible gift starts a 30 day return clock. The return builder excludes anything impermissible or returned, and gifts received offline by cheque or bank transfer are recorded by hand alongside.
In practice
A leaflet fund before the local elections
Target £1,500 with suggested amounts of £10, £25, £50 and £100, and £25 preselected. Put the link in the branch email and on the back of the first leaflet with a tracking code. The dashboard shows which brought the money in, and the print run is paid for from your own Stripe balance.
A fundraising dinner
Products mode lists a single seat, a table of eight and a programme advert, each at its own price. The item bought is recorded against the gift, so the seating plan comes from the donations list.
Regular givers
Leave monthly giving on and set monthly as the default. Each payment Stripe takes is written to the ledger as it clears, so a £20 a month donor is queued for a permissibility check at the twenty-sixth payment, when their total passes £500.
The large gift
A £2,000 donation arrives online. Finance flags it for a permissibility check. The treasurer looks the donor up on the register, records the decision and the evidence, and the gift is ready for the return. If it is impermissible, the return clock shows how many days are left to send it back.
A charity appeal
For an organisation registered as a charity, an admin turns gift aid on in organisation settings and the fundraiser offers the declaration at checkout. Each gift records whether it was declared, ready for the claim.
FAQ
What does it cost?
Cadrify takes 0.5% of each gift, collected by Stripe at the point of payment. Stripe charges its own card processing fee on top. There is no monthly charge for fundraising and no fee to connect an account.
Does Cadrify hold the money?
No. Payments are charged directly on your organisation's Stripe account and settle in your balance. Payouts to your bank follow your Stripe settings. Cadrify sees the record of the gift, not the funds.
Which payment methods work?
Whatever your Stripe account has switched on. Cards work from the start. Apple Pay and Google Pay appear automatically on devices that support them. Monthly gifts run as Stripe subscriptions.
Does the ledger cover the PPERA rules?
The ledger records what the rules need: donor, amount, date received in British time and the permissibility decision. Gifts over £500, alone or aggregated per donor, are queued for a check. Impermissible gifts start a 30 day return clock. The return builder in Finance reads the same records and excludes anything returned.
Does a donor get added to my mailing list?
A donor becomes a contact so the gift has a record to sit on, but no marketing consent is collected at checkout. A gift is a financial transaction with its own legal basis. Ask for consent through a sign-up if you want to email them about campaigns.
Can I record gifts that did not come through the page?
Yes. Record a cheque, cash or bank transfer by hand in Finance with the donor, amount, method and date, and it sits in the same ledger and the same permissibility queue as online gifts.
Can I put the page on our own website?
Yes. The embed tab gives a snippet that drops the page into any site as a frame that sizes itself. Gifts through the embed land in the same ledger.
What this means for your campaign
The treasurer stops reconciling a payment provider's export against a spreadsheet. Every gift is one record with the donor, the date, the method and the permissibility decision on it, and the return is built from those records.
A branch can put up an appeal on its own account and know that what comes in is recorded the way the Electoral Commission expects to see it.
See Cadrify in action
Book a demo and we will walk you through it on a real ward.
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