Note: The Sponsors feature can be enabled on any Pledge It campaign type with the exception of Donation Forms.
If you have sponsorship packages that you’d like to display, sell, or manage alongside your campaign, Pledge It provides a comprehensive solution to help you track your sponsorships. If your campaign does not have specific sponsor packages or if you don’t have a need to track sponsorship sales as part of your event, you can still display and recognize sponsor logos using our Logo Grid feature.
The Sponsors feature can help you streamline how you handle sponsorships for your event and reduce staff time. While you don’t need to utilize all these features, you will be able to do the following once enabled:
Build and curate sponsorship packages
Display sponsorship packages for purchase
Easily add offline sponsor payments and track unpaid sponsors
Include free tickets in a sponsorship package, allowing sponsor-affiliated attendees to easily claim tickets with an invite code
Recognize sponsors instantly with automated sponsor logo display
Customize an automated receipt to sponsors
Easily message sponsors
Steps
Visit your campaign’s Dashboard.
Select Settings on the left side menu, then select Sponsors.
Click Add Sponsorships. This will enable the feature on your campaign and immediately take you to your Sponsorship settings, where you can adjust your fee options for online payments, add purchasing instructions that will display at checkout, and determine what information is collected from the sponsor.
After reviewing your settings (which you will also be able to adjust later), click Manage Sponsorships in the top right to be taken to your Sponsors dashboard, where you can begin creating sponsorship packages.
Sponsorship settings
When enabling the Sponsors feature, you will be able to adjust settings that affect the sponsor checkout experience. Below is a preview of the sponsor checkout experience that shows the default information collected. If you need to ask purchasers additional questions, visit the Collect Info tab in your Sponsorship settings.
Note: If tickets are included in a sponsor package, the checkout experience will include the option for them to customize an invite code. This will not appear if tickets have not been applied to their package.
The sponsor's experience
If you have enabled the Sponsors feature, your potential and current sponsors will be able to:
Browse available packages and see which packages are sold out
Checkout via an online payment portal
Customize a unique invite code their attendees can use to claim their tickets (if tickets are enabled for their package)
Receive an instant receipt for their sponsorship when paying online or when their offline payment has been marked as received
Immediately see their logo or name appear on your Sponsors logo display, hyperlinking to their website (if you have enabled the Sponsors display)
Note: If a sponsor wants to pay by check, they will need to mail their check to you. We recommend including instructions for check payments in the Purchasing Instructions, which you can customize under Settings > Sponsors.
Additional setup
The Sponsors feature is a powerful and comprehensive tool that can help you streamline selling, displaying, and tracking sponsorships on your campaign. Once the Sponsors feature is enabled, we recommend reviewing the following articles to learn how each component of this feature works together: