What CrowdCreate is — and what it isn't

One donation widget. You paste a single <script> snippet on your site — Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, Ghost, plain HTML, or any builder that allows custom code — and donors give without leaving your page. If your platform blocks scripts (Substack, Notion, free Wix, free Webflow, Google Sites), every account also gets a hosted page at crowdcreate.app/c/your-name that you can link from anywhere a URL works.

A connection to your own Stripe account, via Stripe Connect. Donations flow straight to your account. CrowdCreate never holds the money, never routes it through our balance, and takes 0% of it. We charge you $20 a month for the tool; Stripe charges its own processing fee on top, paid to Stripe.

A dashboard with the things a small operator actually uses: who pledged what, when, an exportable CSV, a guided $1 test-pledge flow, a payout schedule view, an installation health-check that confirms the widget loaded on the host you declared, and a snippet you can re-grab whenever you need to put the widget on a second page.

Not a donor CRM. There's no donor-management database, no segmented outreach, no major-gift cultivation workflow, no campaign-level reporting beyond what the dashboard CSV gives you. If a CRM is the load-bearing part of your fundraising, a nonprofit suite is the right tool, not us.

Not a tax-deductible-receipt processor. CrowdCreate does not determine 501(c)(3) status, does not issue deductible-gift receipts, and does not represent any gift as deductible. If your nonprofit needs receipts, you issue them from your own Stripe records.

Not a membership platform. No paid tiers, no gated content, no member feed, no creator-style subscription mechanics. If tiers are what you want, Patreon (or a similar tool) does that, and we don't.

Not a peer-to-peer fundraising platform. No per-organizer sub-campaign pages, no team rollups, no donor-to-organizer attribution. If P2P is how you raise, that's a different shape of tool.

Not a political-compliance tool. No donor occupation/employer collection, no contribution-limit enforcement, no FEC-style reporting. If you're handling regulated political money, a compliance-aware platform is the right place to handle it — not a general donation widget.

Not an events or ticketing tool. No seat sales, no auction modules, no text-to-give, no overlays for livestreams. If your raise lives inside events, an events tool fits and a widget doesn't.

Not a conversion-optimization layer. The widget renders a single form; there's no built-in A/B testing engine, no AI-tuned suggestion amounts, no multi-step optimized checkout. At high nonprofit traffic where conversion lift outweighs a percentage fee, an optimization platform may earn its keep. At small-to-medium volume, the flat $20 usually wins.

V1 is the smallest product that earns its keep. The widget works, takes pledges, settles to your Stripe, and gets out of the way. The dashboard shows what happened. The hosted page covers the no-custom-code case. That's it.

What's deliberately not in V1: widget theming (light/dark/auto), layout variants, multi-currency on a single account, custom thank-you-page redirects, native goal thermometers, native funder-wall display, custom domain on the hosted page, multi-language. Each is a fair feature request and several are on the near-term plan; none of them is here yet.

What's also not in V1: a public roadmap with dates we can't keep. Promising features by quarter is the easiest way to lose trust; we'd rather ship something and say so afterward.

What we don't know yet: which of those gaps actually blocks you. If a missing piece is a deal-breaker, we'd rather hear about it now — hello@crowdcreate.app — and either say honestly that it's not in scope or move it up the list for a reason we understand.

It's $20 a month, flat. We take 0% of your donations; Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢ per payment goes to Stripe, the same as on any platform that uses Stripe. The break-even versus a 5%-platform tool is around $400/month in donations — under that, a percentage-based tool is genuinely cheaper, and we say so on the comparison pages.

We're not running an introductory rate, a freemium tier, or a trial-and-upgrade ladder. The price is the price.