The client reached out to find a team that can handle crowdfunding platform development. The main idea behind such a charity app – accept as many charity payment processing methods as possible. Users can log in to this non-profit app and create a project with a description of the cause. Therefore, the platform should be built in such a way that content management should be easy and user-friendly while keeping the security of the operations at the highest level. The spreading of the word about charities and crowdfunding causes is important, so users also need to have tools to share the word about such projects on social media in just a few clicks.
Charity crowdfunding web platform
- User can manage the project description intuitively and add media content for the campaign: photos, videos, text, etc.
- Platform members can also support other charities with a wide arrange of options for payment.
- Campaign owners and contributors can share charitable campaigns with a few clicks to social media accounts – Facebook, Twitter, Medium
The client reached out to find a team that can handle crowdfunding platform development. The main idea behind such a charity app – accept as many charity payment processing methods as possible. Users can log in to this non-profit app and create a project with a description of the cause. Therefore, the platform should be built in such a way that content management should be easy and user-friendly while keeping the security of the operations at the highest level. The spreading of the word about charities and crowdfunding causes is important, so users also need to have tools to share the word about such projects on social media in just a few clicks.
Business Challenge
One of the major challenging parts of the project – is to make precisely secure payments. This is somewhat contrasting to the ease of content management since the majority of popular CMS tools are not known to be the best at security measures. We chose the Laravel framework for custom crowdfunding software development to protect users’ payment as possible. Also, another point that Chudovo developers needed to address – accepting utility bills as payment methods. This is a practice that is used in many charities’ payment processing, so we needed to handle that issue too.
Solution
The web system is created for charity crowdfunding. The users can create crowdfunding projects for certain charity causes and at the same time donate to the other projects. For payment, users can use PayPal, credit cards, utility bills, etc. After the payment, people can share their contributions to the campaign on social media platforms. The team implemented a custom WordPress theme and customized back-end functionality to suit the project requirements. For example, one of the payment methods is built to accept utility bills (for gas or electricity) from another project from the same client.
iCause features
- Create a new project and describe your charity cause
- Set your own time frames and acceptable payment methods
- Manage the page of your project with ease and set the content for your campaign: photos, videos, text, etc.
- Support other charities as you wish, with a wide range of options for payment.
- Easily share charitable campaigns with a few clicks on other social media – Facebook, Twitter, Medium
Business Impact
The crowdfunding platform was created as a web app and presented to the client. The nonprofit application started the work and also was shown to some investors who wanted to support charitable causes and were supported and gained some traction.
- User can manage the project description intuitively and add media content for the campaign: photos, videos, text, etc.
- Platform members can also support other charities with a wide arrange of options for payment.
- Campaign owners and contributors can share charitable campaigns with a few clicks to social media accounts – Facebook, Twitter, Medium