<h1>Add Crowdfunding Capabilities to Your Site</h1>
<p>Add crowdfunding capabilities to your site with <strong>Crowdfunding Pro for WooCommerce</strong>. Crowdfunding gives your store special options to gather funds.</p>
<p><strong>Fundraise for charitable giving</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Fundraise for a non-profit.</li>
<li>Raise money for an individual or a group in need.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Use Crowdfunding for purchases</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Allow multiple shoppers to contribute to the purchase of merchandise. For instance, individuals could contribute various amounts to the purchase of musical instruments for a children’s orchestra. Or siblings can come together to buy an anniversary gift for their parents.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Raise funds for new projects</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Ask customers to help fund a new product you are developing or one that’s their idea.</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Features</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>Works for members and guests</li>
<li>Includes two crowdfunding campaign charging types
<ul>
<li>Charge contribution immediately</li>
<li>Charge contribution on campaign completion</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Crowdfunding Campaign types
<ul>
<li>Fundraising campaign</li>
<li>Product purchase campaign</li>
<li>Project funding campaign</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Crowdfunding Campaign ending methods
<ul>
<li>End when the campaign reaches its goal amount</li>
<li>End on a specified date</li>
<li>End on reaching goal amount or a date (whichever comes first)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Crowdfunding Campaign ending methods for Product Purchase Campaign,
<ul>
<li>End on Reaching Quantity</li>
<li>End on Reaching Quantity / Date</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The campaign never ends (charge immediately campaigns)</li>
<li>Contribution amount input methods
<ul>
<li>Editable textbox</li>
<li>Non-editable textbox</li>
<li>Predefined buttons</li>
<li>Predefined list box</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Option to set Recommended Contribution Amount</li>
<li>Option to set Minimum & Maximum Contribution Amount</li>
<li>Contribution amounts can be sent to the campaign creator directly from the site(Using a PayPal account)</li>
<li>Option for the site admin to charge a commission from the contributions</li>
<li>Using Frontend Form submission, you can allow the user to create campaigns</li>
<li>Option for the site admin to review the campaign & approve or directly approve the campaign for the users(using Frontend Form submission)</li>
<li>Offer perks for the Crowdfunding campaign to contributors</li>
<li>Option for the Site Admin to optionally include tax costs for Crowdfunding contributions</li>
<li>You can set any number of perks to the contribution</li>
<li>Allow users to mark them as Anonymous on the checkout page</li>
<li>Option to redirect the contribution directly checkout page</li>
<li>Include or exclude the user or user roles for a campaign contribution</li>
<li>Option available to hide progress bar in shop & campaign product page</li>
<li>Option available to hide all the completed campaign products on the shop page</li>
<li>Email notifications available for both users and Site Admin</li>
<li>Shortcodes available to display campaign products</li>
<li>Customizable messages and frontend labels</li>
<li>Display user created campaigns(My Campaigns) on their My Account page</li>
<li>Separate Post table for site admin to track the crowdfunding campaigns</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Benefits</strong></h2>
<p><strong>Learn about your customers</strong></p>
<p>Get to know your customers better. Crowdfunding tells you what is important to them.</p>
<p><strong>Lower new product development costs</strong></p>
<p>Ask customers to contribute to the development of products they want.</p>
<h2><strong>How it Works</strong></h2>
<h3><strong>Campaign types</strong></h3>
<p>There are two basic types of Crowdfunding campaigns.</p>
<p><strong>Charge immediately campaigns</strong></p>
<p>Campaign contributions are charged when the user contributes.</p>
<p><strong>Charge on campaign completion campaigns</strong></p>
<p>Users are not charged at the time of contribution. They are charged when the campaign goal is reached. If the campaign goal is not reached, they are not charged.</p>
<h3><strong>Fundraising campaigns</strong></h3>
<p>The workflow of fundraising campaigns is:</p>
<p>Once the campaign is set up and configured, the campaign will be ready for contributions. When customers land on the Campaign page they will see the following details.</p>
<ul>
<li>Purpose of the campaign</li>
<li>Campaign goal</li>
<li>Min/max/recommended contribution</li>
<li>Campaign end date (if applicable)</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>Customers will be able to contribute to the campaign by entering the contribution amount (based on configuration) and proceeding to complete the payment.</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>Once the payment is complete and the order reaches the specified status, the total raised contribution amount will increase and show on the product page. The contributor name and contribution amount will be visible on the Campaign page.</li>
</ul>
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<ul>
<li>The campaign will close based on the conditions set in the product.</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Product purchase campaigns</strong></h3>
<p>The workflow of Product purchase campaigns are as follows:</p>
<p>Once the campaign is set up and configured, the campaign will be ready for contributions. When the customer lands on the Campaign page they will see the following details.</p>
<ul>
<li>Purpose of the campaign</li>
<li>Campaign goal</li>
<li>Min/max/recommended contribution</li>
<li>The campaign end date (if applicable)</li>
<li>Customers will be able to contribute to the campaign by entering the contribution amount (based on configuration) and proceeding to complete the payment.</li>
<li>Once the payment is complete and the order reaches the specified status, the total raised contribution amount will increase and show on the product page. The contributor name and contribution amount will be visible on the Campaign page.</li>
<li>The campaign will close based on the condition set in the product. Once the campaign closes, and the campaign goal amount is reached an order will be created for the product linked to the campaign. The order will be assigned to the campaign creator.</li>
<li>The campaign creator will receive the product.</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Admins review campaigns</strong></h3>
<p>Site admins can review crowdfunding campaigns by going to <strong>WooCommerce > Crowdfunding Pro. </strong>Within this section, site admins can review created campaigns.</p>
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<ul>
<li>Site admins can also view the contributors’ details when they go to the View Details section.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>Minimum PHP version: 5.6</p>

Crowdfunding Pro

<p>Create and run crowdfunding campaigns in your WooCommerce store with Crowdfunding Pro for WooCommerce.</p>

<p>The Google Product Feed extension allows you to create a real-time feed to supply product information to Google Merchant Center, a prerequisite for setting up Product Ads.</p>
<h3>Why use this?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Imports product data to Google Merchant Centre, but gives you full control over your ad setup & spend</li>
<li>Maximize your campaign performance, and minimize your costs by improving product data quality with our extensive list of supported fields allowing you to provide the richest possible data to Google</li>
<li>Improve your product quality scores by mapping existing product data onto Google’s required fields from your site’s taxonomies, attributes or product fields</li>
<li>Capture additional data recommended by Google not normally held in WooCommerce using the plugin’s additional data entry fields</li>
<li>Lower your data entry burden with store-wide defaults, category-level data entry, or product-specific information against products or even individual variations if required</li>
<li>Add rich data more easily with full support for WooCommerce’s importer and REST API for bulk importing data</li>
<li>On-demand feed shows the latest information for your products, maximising product approvals</li>
<li>Integrates with a wide range of <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/google-product-feed-extension-compatibility/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">common WooCommerce extensions</a></li>
<li>Extensive documentation covering setup and customisation and</li>
<li>Rich set of WordPress filters and actions allowing flexible customisation if necessary</li>
<li>Get your products found more easily with support for Google’s local product feeds, and review feeds</li>
<li>Keep control over your product listings with category-specific feeds and individual product submission opt-out</li>
</ul>
<p>Once your products have imported into Google Merchant Centre they’ll be available to your linked Google Adwords account, giving you the flexibility to set up product ads as you want. Using the full power of Google Adwords – <strong><em>you’re in full control of your ad setup and budgets</em></strong>.</p>
<h3>Product data fields</h3>
<p>The extension supports <strong>50+</strong> feed attributes including all mandatory fields. Simple fields such as link, title, image_link etc are all populated automatically for you. Other fields provide a simple one-click mapping to allow you to map across your product fields onto the feed. You can provide store-level, or category level defaults and the feed will automatically pick the right values to include.</p>
<p>Where you don’t have data, the plugin provides custom fields on your products to allow you to enter richer product data. These fields are all available to the standard WooCommerce CSV import tool, and exposed via the WooCommerce REST API.</p>
<p>Fields currently supported include:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong><em>Core fields</em></strong>: availability, brand, color, condition, description <em>(main product short/long, variant description or both)</em>, google product category, GTIN, ID, image links (including featured images, product gallery images, embedded content images, and support for custom images), link, MPN, price, product type, sale price (including effective date), shipping label, size, size system, size type, title (including ability to provide custom titles), short title</li>
<li><em><strong>Rich data fields</strong></em>: adult content flag, age group, consumer datasheet, consumer notice, energy efficiency class (including min/max), energy label, gender, lifestyle image, material, pattern, product detail, product highlights, tax category, transit time label</li>
<li><em><strong>Advanced fields</strong></em>: adwords grouping filter, adwords label, availability date, bundle flag, cost of goods sold, custom labels, disclosure date, expiration date, identifier exists flag, included/excluded destination, instalments, minimum/maximum handling time, multipack, pause flag, promotion ID, ships from country, unit pricing measure & base measure</li>
<li><strong>Shopping actions-specific fields</strong>: google funded promotion eligibility, product fee, purchase quantity limit, return address label, return policy label, sell on google quantity, shopping ads excluded country,</li>
<li><strong>Local-inventory-specific fields</strong>: pickup method, pickup SLA</li>
</ul>
<h3>Product review feeds</h3>
<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-3894232" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/hoodie-ad-with-product-review.png?w=120" alt="" width="102" height="201" />In addition to the standard product feed, the extension provides a Google Product Review feed which integrates with WooCommerce’s built-in review system to provide a feed of product reviews that Google can cross-link to your products to display more compelling product ads including product ratings.</p>
<p>These ratings can show star ratings on Shopping ads and, in some instances, on product listings on Google. These ratings can help shoppers with their purchase decisions, driving more qualified shoppers to your product pages.</p>
<p>The extension provides full feeds, and incremental weekly, and daily feeds. Review data is automatically linked with your product feed data to allow Google to match reviews to products, and you have the ability to exclude reviews from the feed if required to meet Google’s policies.</p>
<h3>Integrated with other WooCommerce extensions</h3>
<p>The extension includes automatic integration with a wide range of WooCommerce extensions, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Product Bundles</li>
<li>Composite Products</li>
<li>Brands</li>
<li>Product Brands for WooCommerce</li>
<li>Cost of Goods</li>
<li>Multi-Currency</li>
<li>Min/Max Quantities</li>
<li>Product CSV Import Suite</li>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/google-product-feed-extension-compatibility/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">and more</a>….</li>
</ul>
<h3>Feeds</h3>
<p>The extension provides a number of feeds to help you integrate, including:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Google Product feed</strong> – integrate your products to Google Merchant Centre so you can use them in surfaces across Google, and product ad campaigns</li>
<li><strong>Google Local inventory feed </strong>– set up local surfaces, and local inventory ads</li>
<li><strong>Google Product Reviews feed</strong> – send product review / ratings data to Google to enhance your product ad campaigns</li>
<li><strong>Google Promotions feed</strong> – automatically send supported promotion data & pricing to Google</li>
<li><strong>Bing product feed</strong> – integrate your products to Bing’s Merchant Centre so you can use them in product ad campaigns</li>
</ul>

Google Product Feed

<p>Feed rich product data to Google Merchant Center for setting up free product listings, product ads, and local inventory campaigns. Full control over your field mappings, and feed content so you can maximize campaign performance and ad spend.</p>

Crowdfunding Pro vs Google Product Feed