InkSoft Online Fundraiser Campaign Stores.
What is a Micro Store?
We’ve been hard at work developing new and powerful technology to help our users to sell more effectively.
InkSoft powered fundraising stores allow you to quickly create and deploy online fundraising stores to support your customer’s promotional needs and goals. Additionally, fundraising stores have been designed and developed to replace those old school paper based order forms.
Benefits of fundraising stores
- Help your customers raise money
- Easy to ‘share’ on social media and email
- Professional presentation
- Get paid upfront!
- Major competitive differentiator
- Print products in bulk
- Control over product and design
- No paper based order forms
- Control ordering time window
- Develop new selling opportunities
Micro Store Features
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Professional Look
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Responsive Layout
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Shopping Bag
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Checkout Process
On Monday June 16th, we will begin offering a limited beta testing program. If you are interested in early access to fundraising stores and want to help with testing and providing feedback, please use the form below to register for the beta program.
Love it! Now we can compete with the “Big Guys”, thanks!
This is only the beginning! We have a lot of plans to make Micro Stores even more powerful!
Thank you for listening! Few questions that I have concerns, If a customers goal is not met by the deadline what happens with the order? I know other websites that already do this type of sponsorship does not charge a customers card until the order has met its goal. My main worry is after a goal is not met do our customers get an automatic refund? Is it going to be possible to not charge a customer till the goal is met?
Last thing I want is someone pledging a goal of 100 shirts at $10 only selling 5 and customers still expecting to get them for $10 after they have been charges weeks prior.
Second, is what does the back end look like? Do we get a breakdown size total (i.e full list of what was ordered with its totals at the bottom) and the other is about shipping. Is this also given to us in an easy to use form.
Brian:
Orders are charged immediately as the customer goes through the checkout process. Thusly avoiding all complexities with auto refunds and pre-authorization.
All orders placed through a Micro Store enter the InkSoft Order Manager. You can filter by store and export results, or manage the orders in bulk via the InkSoft Order Manager.
So this doesn’t work like, saaay… Kickstarters campaign checkout payment system?
Ryan:
Can you be more specific? Are you referring to billing IF the campaign is a success? We are exploring this now. It appears that most payment processors will allow for ‘pre-authorizing’ transactions for later processing.
i don’t think it will look like kickstarter which is more of a crowdfunding rather than a crowdselling campaign system. i think it is more like teespring.com. except for that feature to be able to bill after successful target is complied with (and reverse/cancel bill when target is not met), this feature is an excellent marketing tool. i would imagine that the feature will clearly define the sponsor’s share as well as the biz owner’s profit.
How many mico stores are we able to offer at any give time?
Does the customer decide the retail cost of the garment and the timeline?
Hi Rod:
We consider a Micro Store the same as a Web Store. So, your InkSoft license will dictate how many stores you can have at one time. If you exceed the stores available in your license you can always add more stores for $6 per store per month. So it is very scalable.
We decided against allowing your customer to create a fundraiser campaign site. You will establish this on their behalf. This allows you to define the details and offer your customer personalized service.
Hello InkSoft, Rod addressed a very valid question that was not answered:
The expectation of shirt cost to those who “bought” the items, and the goal is not reached for a reduced price. As decorators, we are “obligated” to fulfill the order at the lower quantity and at the set price for a larger quantity?
Please advise how that should work? We certainly don’t want to set a goal too high, or a price too low and be stuck to fulfill an order…
Thanks
This is quite simple: You establish the product price NOT the customer. This gives you full control. Additionally, the ‘goal’ is just that…a goal. There is no setting or contingency that says a goal must be met in order for the program to activate. In this case the goal isn’t the minimum.
I hope I get chosen for the Beta….. This new option is simply SLATHERED in Awesome Sauce!
Thanks guys… you all aren’t half bad! 😉
This seems very promising, something to consider creating would be a dedicated contact form page with input fields covering the basic requirements for the request of a microstore i.e. organization, name, email, goal (why they want to make a fundraiser), etc. I also believe it was a smart choice to let the store admin have complete control on pricing, and product specifics…
What a great idea!! We are going to integrate this in!! What a great way to cross promote. Think: A visitor on one fundraising Micro Store could want their own fundraiser for a group or cause they are connected with! Thanks for sharing!
Amanda showed me this concept, and I think it will work for me!
Not a ninja, but in training.
At this point, can we only offer one item? My schools usually offer T-shirts, Crewnecks, Hoodies and Zip Hoods.
Shirley:
Micro Stores can now support up to three products — and we will be increasing this soon. See the announcement / instruction for multi-product support here: https://www.inksoft.com/inksoft-micro-store-beta-update/