Fundraising with Simple Raise and CutTime
Raising Funds Online Shouldn’t Be So Hard
Getting a financial boost for attire and uniforms, equipment, instruments, literature, scholarships, and travel is critical to your program's success.
But generating donations for these items in a secure, compliant, and reliable way can be way more complex than meets the eye. What begins as a well intended endeavor, often spirals into hours of unexpected administrative task overload and can cost you precious days, nights, (and weekends!).
Enter our sister platform, Simple Raise. CutTime users can connect their program accounts with Simple Raise to create, launch, and manage a variety of online fundraisers AND stores. You drum up amazing support without all of the extra bookkeeping hassles.
Sync Fundraising Participants
Connect your existing CutTime Group Member Contact Data. With a few clicks, you can select who you want to participate and add them. Plus use their current outstanding balance as a starting goal.
Manage Online Stores
Pop up a storefront in minutes. Feature a single hero holiday product, or create a ‘general store’ with various categories of spirit wear, merch, concessions, and other themed goods. We collect payments, you fulfill and deliver them to your donors.
Apply Credits Instantly
Connect your existing CutTime Financial Dashboard. Receive an automated bulk credit that applies fundraising credits to individual member account balance statements and your program’s Angel Fund at the conclusion of your fundraiser.
Give Your Program a eCommerce Boost
Get all of the online shopping power without the hassle. With Simple Raise, you can set up a store to promote and sell your fundraising products in minutes. With the store, you have all the flexibility you need to offer multiple size and color options. Your patrons and fans can shop anytime, pay via credit card, and save their card details for easier repeat shopping.
A Powerful Fundraising Connection for You
With a CutTime Connected Account, you jump right into online fundraising - no extra ID and password needed!
See How Simple Raise + CutTime Works
Frequently Asked Questions
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First, you will need to request access by submitting this form here. Our support team will review and then connect your CutTime account credentials with Simple Raise. Our support team will review and then connect your CutTime account credentials with Simple Raise. Sign into your CutTime account and then look for the ‘Fundraising’ link, which is located in the main side navigation. Click on ‘Fundraising’ and it will instantly recognize your account credentials and take you to a Simple Raise Explainer Landing Page, where you can learn more and continue your connection over to the Simple Raise application.
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No! The simple beauty of CutTime’s integration with Simple Raise is that your existing account credentials are instantly recognized when you enter directly from CutTime. CutTime users DO NOT need to sign up for an additional account with Simple Raise.
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No, they will instead be ‘invited’ by the Organization’s Administrator or Fundraising Assistant via email or mobile phone to join a specific fundraiser. Once they accept their participant invitation, they complete their profile and set a password. At this time, we are unable to send participant invitations via the Member’s CutTime Magic Link.
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You can create a store to sell a single product or a handful - it’s up to you! For each product listed in your store, you will enter the total available quantity that you have to sell. At checkout, if a product has reached its maximum sales, Simple Raise will display a ‘sold out’ message to the shopper and the item will be removed from their shopping cart
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Yes! You can list third-party vendor products, just be sure to include details about delivery and/or pickup instructions in the description so your donors will understand what they need to do to receive their items post-sale.
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Great news, CutTime handles the fundraising credit allocation for you! Using the Member Participant Contact and Goal Amounts, CutTime knows how to allocate the credit entries into the relevant student account balance statements as well as your Angel Fund (if you’ve enabled Stripe Connect for your program). We make the entries according to how you set up your fundraiser - either based on group/team goal or individual goals.
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We will collect your financial information to set up payout of your proceeds via ACH or manual check. Typically, your payout is scheduled within five days of the conclusion of your fundraising activity. For product sales via stores, payouts can either be scheduled on a recurring basis for stores with a longer time horizon or one-time if the store is only open for a limited time period.
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Yes, currently there is a modest platform fee of 10% for using Simple Raise, which is paid at the conclusion of each fundraiser, based on the actual amount raised. There is no up front cost to set up or maintain your Simple Raise account connection with CutTime and you can create and run as many fundraisers and stores as you want. Donors can also choose to pay a 3.5% convenience fee to offset costs for the organization when making a monetary-only donation.
Ready to Fundraise with More Smiles?
Simple Raise can make a big impact in the way you run your fundraising activities. Discover how we can help you generate and net more funds with less hassle! If you are a current CutTime subscriber, we can connect your account in a flash.
Not yet a CutTime subscriber? You can still use Simple Raise as a stand alone fundraising platform for your program. Learn more and sign up today.