No platform fee. No cut. Just your Stripe.
Stripe's standard fee applies — 2.9% + 30¢ per pledge. We add nothing.
Free to start. The $20 rate locks for 12 months when paid billing begins.
- Unlimited donations through your widget
- Direct deposit to your own Stripe account
- Embed on unlimited pages of one site
- Dashboard with funnel + donor data
- Funder PII auto-expires after 13 months
- Email support, response within 1 business day
- 30-day no-questions-asked refund
The Founding Member rate is locked for early signups. No card needed today.
What's included
- The widget. Embed on any page. Visitors donate via Stripe; money goes straight to your account.
- The dashboard. KPIs, conversion funnel, donor list, top supporters, daily chart, Stripe payout state.
- Stripe Express setup. We create the account, walk you through verification, handle the webhook reconciliation. You never see a config file.
- Email support. One business day. Real human, not a chatbot.
- The 30-day refund. If the widget doesn't work on your site, write us, we refund the month. No script.
Honestly, what isn't (yet)
- Multi-site embeds. Today the snippet ties to one site. Multi-site is V1.1.
- Custom widget branding. The widget uses our visual discipline — your color and logo overrides land in V2.
- CSV export. Coming with the V1.1 dashboard update.
- Team seats. One account per workspace for now.
- Campaigns with deadlines. V1 is rolling support only. We may add Kickstarter-style campaigns later if creators ask.
The math
Most fundraising platforms take a percentage of everything you raise. We don't. CrowdCreate is a flat $20 a month — the same whether you raise $100 or $100,000. Drag the slider to your monthly volume and see what the percentage platforms would have taken.
At $2,000/mo, you keep $80 more with CrowdCreate than with Buy Me a Coffee (5%).
Ko-fi's free tier takes nothing here — on pure platform cut, it's cheaper than our $20.
At $2,000/mo, you keep $140 more with CrowdCreate than with Patreon (~8% (Pro)).
Below about $400/mo, a free tool may cost you less. What you get here that they can't give you: the pledge happens on your own site, under your own name. See the comparisons.
Stripe's standard fee (2.9% + 30¢ per pledge) applies on every platform here, including CrowdCreate. We add nothing on top.
Want the exact per-donation breakdown, including Stripe's fixed 30¢? Try the free fee calculator.
Why pay $20 before you've raised a dollar?
Fair question. Here's the honest answer, including the part where the flat fee isn't the right call for everyone yet.
At 5% or 8%, the platform's cut grows every month you grow. $20 stays $20 whether you raise $200 or $20,000. The flat fee is the thing that stops scaling against you: once you have steady volume, every dollar past break-even is yours, not the platform's.
We'll say it plainly: if you're raising a little, or you don't know yet whether you'll raise anything, a free tier or a percentage fee can come in under $20 a month. A 5% fee only crosses $20 once you're past ~$400 in monthly pledges. Below that, the math favors the percentage tool — and we'd rather you knew that than felt misled later. The flat fee wins once your volume is steady.
The pledge happens on your own site, not a profile page on someone else's domain. The money lands in your own Stripe account — we never touch it and take no cut. And the funder list is yours to keep. More on what that means below.
It's your audience, not ours.
A percentage platform rents you an audience. CrowdCreate doesn't own one. Your funders are yours from the first pledge — and they stay yours the day you leave.
The pledge happens on your site, not a CrowdCreate profile. Nobody lands on a marketplace, sees three other campaigns in a sidebar, and wanders off to fund someone else. There is no sidebar. The only name on the page is yours. If you don't have a site yet, the hosted page lives at your campaign's own address — still your name on the door, not a directory listing under ours.
This is the part most people don't check until it's too late. Leave a percentage platform and you leave with little — the followers, the page, the relationship history all stay behind on their servers. On CrowdCreate the funder data lives in your own Stripe account and your dashboard the whole time. Cancel any month and the names, emails, and amounts of everyone who backed you are still yours to keep and export. We hold nothing hostage. (Funder PII auto-expires after 13 months by policy, so export before then if you want it long-term.)
Never a cut when you raise more — $20 is $20 whether this is your best month or your slowest. The only way we earn next month is if this month was worth keeping. Our incentive is your renewal, not your volume. A percentage platform makes more when you raise more; we make the same. That is the whole difference.
Trying it is low-risk
Cancel anytime
Cancel from your dashboard whenever you like. Your first month carries a 30-day, no-questions-asked refund if it isn't a fit.
Free to start
Set up your fund and see the widget work before you pay. The $20/mo only starts once you go live.
Your donors and data are yours
Export your funder list whenever you want. We never email your donors, surface them to anyone else, or sell data.
The money never touches us
Donations go straight to your own Stripe account through Stripe Connect — CrowdCreate never holds or routes a cent of what you raise.
Pricing questions
Hosting the widget, running the dashboard, reconciling Stripe webhooks, storing your donor data securely, and the engineering work to keep it all online. CrowdCreate makes money from the subscription; we don't take a cut of donations, so we have no incentive to push your donors to give more.
Because creators are tired of cuts. At $400/month in donations, a 5% platform fee adds up to the same $20 — and from there, every dollar above $400 is pure platform profit. We chose flat-rate so the math gets better as you grow, not worse.
Not currently. We tried the freemium math: free-tier costs would force us to either advertise to your donors (no) or raise prices on paying customers (no). A single transparent $20 plan keeps incentives clean. If $20 is genuinely the wrong price for your scale, email us — we'd rather hear that than lose a relationship over a fee.
Not yet. We'll add one if there's demand. Founding Member pricing is already 12 months at $20 — so functionally you get a price-lock today.
Yes. If Stripe declines your Express application for any reason, we refund the most recent month immediately and cancel. You don't owe anything for the months the widget wasn't live.
Other questions? See the general FAQ on the landing or email hello@crowdcreate.app.
Ready when you are.
Start free today. Lock in $20/month for your first year when billing begins — 30-day refund once it does.
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