Learn about DoJiggy’s Peer-to-Peer options and how to customize them.
Peer-to-Peer fundraising, also known as team fundraising, is a way for your supporters to help raise funds on your behalf. It gives supporters the ability to share your fundraising Campaign with their family, friends, and social media network. This maximizes your Campaign's outreach, which can boost the amount of funds you raise.
Peer-to-Peer can be enabled for any of the following Fundraising Activities:
- Raffles/Sweepstakes (supporters can get credit for entries sold)
- Events and Ticketing (supporters can get credit for tickets sold)
- Crowdfunding (supporters can get credit for donations made)
- Store (Sale) (supporters can get credit for items sold)
- Auctions (supporters can get credit for Buy It Now items; please note that Peer-to-Peer can only be enabled for Auctions if you're also running another fundraising Activity)
Note: Peer-to-Peer cannot be run on its own. If you want to run a traditional Peer-to-Peer Campaign, select Crowdfunding and then enable Peer-to-Peer.
DoJiggy provides many tools and customization options to help you run a smooth and successful Peer-to-Peer fundraiser. The links below will take you to other Knowledge Base articles with further information.
Peer-to-Peer Examples
Peer-to-Peer vs. A-Thons
Peer-to-Peer fundraising is similar to but not quite the same as an A-Thon. Both allow supporters to help you fundraise, but in different ways:
- Peer-to-Peer: Supporters sign up as participants to help spread the word about your fundraiser. When someone makes a donation or purchase, they can credit the participant that sent them to your fundraiser
- A-Thons: Supporters sign up to complete units of a specific activity (e.g., walking laps) and earn donations for each unit completed (e.g., someone pledges one dollar for each lap their friend walks)
DoJiggy-Athon fundraisers: What you need to know
Enable Peer-to-Peer
You can enable Peer-to-Peer in Campaign Setup:
- Select Campaigns from the left menu.
- If you have chosen a list view, click on the Campaign Title. If you have chosen a grid view, click on the Campaign Image
- Select Campaign Setup*.
- Go to Basics in the timeline at the top.
- Scroll down to Select which fundraising activities you want to include in your Campaign and select Peer-to-Peer:
Choose Which Fundraising Activities Will Use Peer-to-Peer
If you add more than one Fundraising Activity to your Campaign, you can apply Peer-to-Peer to one, several, or all Activities:
- Go to Peer-to-Peer in the timeline at the top.
- Scroll down to Enable Peer-to-Peer for one or more Activities:
3. Select the Activities you want by clicking on the checkboxes. You can select one, all, or some.
Participants and Teams
You can allow supporters to sign up as individual Participants, fundraise together in Teams, or both. If a supporter creates a Team, they can invite others to join their Team.
How can I Add or Import Participants and Teams for Peer To Peer Campaigns?
How to Limit the Number of Participants that can Join a Team
How to Invite People to Join Your Fundraising Team
Customizable Terminology
The following Peer-to-Peer terms are customizable:
- Participants
- Teams
- Participant Center
How to Customize Campaign and Activity Terminology
How to Rename Your Participant Center
Pre-Registration
Pre-registration allows donors to create a DoJiggy account, save a payment method, and sign up as a Participant before your Peer-to-Peer fundraiser begins. When your Peer-to-Peer fundraiser starts, they can check out quickly and easily:
Campaign Pre-Registration for Donors
Public or Private Registration
If you opt for public registration, anyone who visits your fundraiser can sign up as a Participant and/or Team. If you opt for private registration, you’ll need to manually add Participants and/or Teams instead of allowing them to sign up on their own.
Public vs. private registration: What’s the difference?
Prizes and Leaderboards
One effective way to generate excitement and healthy competition among your participants is to display leaderboards and offer prizes to top supporters. You can also add different leaderboards or prizes for different criteria, such as the highest amount raised vs. the most unique donors.
How to Add Peer-to-Peer or A-Thon Leaderboards
How to Add Prizes to Incentivize Participants on your Campaign
Participant Center
When you enable Peer-to-Peer, a Participant Center will be added to your Campaign where supporters can learn how to participate, register as a Participant and/or team, and view leaderboards and/or prizes.
What is the Participant Center?
Personal Fundraising Pages
Each Participant and/or Team will receive a Personal Fundraising Page that can be customized, shared on social media, and sent to family and friends. If a donation is made to a specific participant of any team, the participant’s amount raised and the team’s total amount raised will reflect the donation.
How to Customize Peer-to-Peer and A-Thon Fundraising Pages
NOTE: Peer-to-Peer fundraising cannot be used to fundraise for personal causes. DoJiggy is a fundraising platform for nonprofits and other charities only.
Crediting a Participant or Team
When someone donates or makes a purchase, they can choose which Participant and/or Team gets credit for the donation, or donate without crediting anyone:
If the donor can’t find the Participant and/or Team they’re looking for, DoJiggy allows write-in donations by default. However, if you allow write-in donations, you must manually credit the appropriate Participant or Team. You can disable write-in donations anytime.
How to Disable Write-In Donations for Peer-to-Peer Campaigns