Test drive your Campaign Pages before you go live.
Draft Mode allows you to preview your Campaigns and test out all the features before you begin fundraising. View your Campaign Page setup, make test transactions, and finalize all details before you go live.
Before You Begin
- Please note that you won’t be able to accept actual donations or payments until your Campaign goes live. When you go live, all test payments and test data will be removed from your records.
- We don’t recommend sharing Draft Campaign with donors before you go live, as they won’t be able to submit live payments.
View in Draft Mode
- Select Campaigns from the left menu.
- Click on the Draft Campaign you want to test, then select Campaign Setup. To create and test a new Campaign, select NEW CAMPAIGN.
- Select Test Campaign in the top right corner of the screen.
- You are now viewing your Campaign in Draft mode. Campaign in Draft mode will have the following banner at the top of the page.
Run Test Transactions
- Select Campaigns or Donation Pages from the left menu.
- Click on the draft Campaign or Donation Page you want to test, then select Campaign Setup or Donation Page Setup.
- Select Test Campaign in the top right corner of the page.
- While the page is in Draft Mode, complete a transaction, such as making a donation or placing a bid on an Auction item.
- Proceed to checkout. When you get to the Please enter your card information step, test card numbers will autofill.
- You won’t be able to accept real payments until your Campaign goes live.
- Select the Pay button to complete the test transaction. You’ll receive a test receipt, and the transaction will appear in test reports.
Good to Know
- You can preview your Campaign as many times as you like, but once you go live, you won’t be able to go back to Draft Mode again.
- At this time, you can only run card or check transactions in Draft Mode. You won’t be able to simulate a donor using their PayPal, Google Pay, or Apple Pay account to donate.
- If you wish to see test funds in your payment processing dashboard, go to your Stripe dashboard and turn on Test mode or create a sandbox PayPal account so you can view test transactions there.
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* Terminology may vary depending on your setup choices and type of event.