Needs Your Support Online Fundraising Website

With our Needs Your Support online shopping site, you can Raise money by adding an Online Store to any fundraiser! To grow your fundraising business, supporters can purchase products online using debit cards, credit cards, and other popular electronic payment methods. Having the necessary tools to market fundraisers via social media, email, text, and more is extremely important.

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Add our Needs Your Support online shopping website to any traditional brochure fundraiser, or run an online store as a stand-alone program! Your organization can profit from up to 40% of product sales and 70% of donations. The donations category is optional and selected when the online store registration is set up.

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Benefits of offering our Needs Your Support Online Fundraising Website:

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★ Simple to use for sponsors, sellers, and supporters

★ Adding an online store increases sales and participation

★ Hundreds of items are available for purchase and are displayed by category for easy, fast, and simple shopping.

    Organizations receive up to a 40% profit on online product sales. 

★ A donations tab is optional for an organization to include in the online store.  Donations include $20, $50, and $100

    donations. The organization receives 70% if the organization chooses to include the donations tab. 

★ Ship-to-Home or Ship-to-Group option available

★ All major credit cards and electronic payment methods accepted

★ Secure and encrypted transactions

★ Accessible on any device with an internet connection

★ An online store can be run for a specified time frame or perpetually

★ Progress visible to the coordinator in real-time from a secure administration account

★ Shareable links and flyers help sellers market through social media, email, and text

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How does it Work?

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● We'll provide your organization with fundraising packets, which include a group ID. This ID should be on top of the seller’s order form in the space provided for quick reference. 

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● The online shopping portal is activated when your organization submits your Purchase Reservation Agreement.  Your group’s online ID will become inactive unless it runs perpetually on your selected date. If you run a brochure fundraiser from the same company, your online shopping portal will be deactivated when the company receives your order forms. 

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● Your sellers will register online so supporters can order under their name, giving credit for the sale to that particular student. Sellers can then advertise their fundraiser via social media, text, and email, providing the group ID, then sit back and watch the profits roll in!

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● Your supporters will enter the group ID to our Needs Your Support website. They will select the student they wish to support, choose whether to have items shipped to their home or their group, and browse hundreds of available items. The checkout process is encrypted and secure—simple, smart, and safe.

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● Once an online order has been placed, the company will receive it instantly. If the shoppers choose the ship to the home option, products will typically ship out via USPS or FedEx within 48 hours. If shipping to the group is selected, we will process the order at the fundraiser’s conclusion, packing the items along with the rest of the seller’s order. A report showing who purchased items online will include the seller’s items.

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● Fundraising totals and “per-student” reports will combine online and brochure sales for an easy look at the fundraiser’s overall success; alternately, the Profit Summary and Seller’s Packed Items reports provide a straightforward look at the breakdown of brochure vs. your online sales.

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Online Products—The online shopping portal will include all items available from the distributor. New items are added regularly.

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Shipping Options - Supporters choose whether they want their items shipped directly to them or shipped to your organization on your scheduled delivery day. Frozen and temperature-sensitive items can only be shipped to the group.  Frozen foods can't be shipped directly to home. Also, frozen foods shipped to a school/organization may not be available in some areas of WA, OR, CA, NV, AZ, ID, UT, MT, WY, CO, NM, ND, SD, NE, MN, and TX.  However, we have hundreds of non-frozen/shelf-stable selections, kitchen items, gift items, and more.  Organizations can be set up only to allow ship-to-home or ship-to-group. If sellers are not registered, their supporters can only have items shipped to homes.

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Registered Sellers - Each seller should register on the Needs Your Support website using the group ID provided. If a seller does not register, supporters can still add their name as the person they would like to support; however, delivery options will be limited to ship-to-home only, restricting the items from which they can choose. If possible, we encourage your organization to have your sellers register at your kickoff event!

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Seller Dashboard- The Seller Dashboard allows your sellers to track their sales and share their requests for support through various methods. Your sellers can share via social networks like Facebook, import their email addresses to send messages, and text using a mobile phone.

 

Coordinator Dashboard -  The coordinator can log into their dashboard anytime to track the fundraiser’s sales, social and email sharing, and overall progress.

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Profit Organization—If you offer a brochure sale from the same company, your organization will receive the same profit percentage from online sales as from brochure sales. Online-only items receive a 40% group profit fundraiser.

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Instructions 

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Seller Instructions - 

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1. The organization will receive its group ID on the fundraiser's day.

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2. Your sellers go to the website to register as a seller. As a sponsor. you may want to take a few minutes on the day of kick-off and allow your students to register while they are all together, which will cut down on unregistered sellers and repeat questions (mainly if it’s a class fundraiser and the students have Chromebooks or another electronic device at their disposal).

 

3. Your sellers will click the “Register Seller” link, fill out the Group ID, name, and email fields, and then create a password for their account. After registering, your sellers can access their dashboard anytime by clicking the “Seller Login” link and signing in with email and password. Here, they will find links to share their fundraiser via Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and email and a Support Flyer that can be downloaded and printed for fundraising in person. They can also access a list of items that supporters have purchased online, which is broken down by items that have been delivered to the supporters’ homes vs. those the seller is responsible for picking up and delivering personally.

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Coordinator Instructions - 

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1. The company will set up the “Coordinator Login” information, and we will share it with your fundraising coordinator. The Coordinator Dashboard is immediately available to the fundraising coordinator.

 

2. The fundraising coordinator can see sales, shares, and credit card at the door information; further, upon completion of the sale, the coordinator can also access accounting reconciliation information.

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Supporter Instructions - 

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1. Supporters will go to the Needs Your Support website and enter the group ID provided by the seller. If using a shared link (such as one received

2. Next, they will select the seller they wish to support from a list of registered sellers. If they do not see the seller's name, supporters can add the seller by first and last name; however, if the seller is not registered, supporters will only be able to see those items labeled “Ship to Home.” This excludes all frozen products and is done so to prevent unexpected items from being shipped to the group.

 

3. After selecting the items they wish to purchase and adding them to the cart, supporters will proceed to the secure checkout. We accept all major credit cards and PayPal, and a receipt will be emailed to the supporter upon completion of the transaction.

 

4. The home delivery option will include shipping and handling fees and will be processed.

and shipped within 48 hours of receipt. Upon order processing and shipment, a notification will be sent to the email address indicated at checkout.

 

5. Ship-to-Group orders will be student-packed with the brochure orders and distributed to the group on the fundraiser’s delivery date.

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