Please note: FundHub Live requires the Text Fundraising or Mobile Suite plan.

With FundHub Live, you can live-cast your campaign thermometers. It's perfect for making an ask at an event and showing your donors' progress towards your goal in real-time!

Fundraising Hub Setup

To get started, you'll want to hop into your Fundraising Hub and configure your settings. Select your Fundraising Hub from the Forms menu in your left-hand navigation.

You can also go to Form Management in the org-level control panel and select Manage Hub.

You'll be taken to your Fundraising Hub dashboard. Along the left, you'll see your control panel. To configure your settings, click Hub Settings.

You'll land on the Fundraising Hub Settings page. In the first section, you'll fill out your Fund Hub Information.

Enter an Internal Hub Name. This will only be visible on the admin side and won't be visible to people visiting your public-facing Fundraising Hub.

Next, add any informational Form Tags you'd like to use. These tags are for internal use and will not display on your public-facing form.

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Then, enter the Hub Name. This will be the public-facing name of your Fundraising Hub!

When you're ready to go live with your Fundraising Hub, you can change the status to Active in the Hub Status drop-down. You can also disable or close the hub completely.

Next, enter your Hub Goal.

In the Forms & Events to Include field, select the form or forms you'd like to display information for in your FundHub Live.

Next, you'll see the Search Settings section.

These options exist to make searching through multiple associated forms a bit easier when a Fundraising Hub is being used to show the fundraising progress across a variety of Qgiv donation and peer-to-peer forms.

In the Advanced Settings, you'll need to enter a Fund Hub Alias before saving your settings. This will be appended to the end of your Fund Hub URL. Make sure you don't update this after you've already sent out marketing communications—all of your links will be broken if you do!

Click Save Hub Settings when you've configured settings to your liking.

If you'd like to add links to your social media accounts and add content that will appear when someone shares your Fundraising Hub on Facebook, head to the Social Settings item in the control panel. We won't go over the nitty gritty of this section in this article since you'll just be using this to cast your FundHub Live page!

Setting Up FundHub Live

Ready to set up FundHub Live? Click on Fund Hub Builder in the upper-right corner of the screen.

Adding a New Page

In the drop-down menu of Fundraising Hub pages, select +Add New FundHub Live Page.

When this option is selected, a default FundHub Live Page Template is created. The template automatically inserts a fundraising thermometer, a Recent Activity widget, and a custom content widget you can customize to provide instructions on how donors can text a donation to your organization's keyword.

The default template is our recommended layout for screen-cast purposes. If you decide to ues a different layout, you can change the layout by clicking and dragging the Layout Container Widget onto the page. A pop-up window will appear asking you to choose a layout. Select your layout and then proceed to customize the page with the available widgets in the Fund Hub Builder.

Managing Widgets

To insert a widget, simply click the Widgets tab from the toolbar along the right side of the screen, then click and drag the widget you'd like to place into your desired location.

In the thermometer widget settings, you can set your thermometer to display information from forms and events or display auction fund-a-need items. Note that thermometers will factor unfulfilled pledges and pending eChecks in the fundraising total.

If you're selecting a form, make sure you select the form from which you'd like to display associated donation activity!

If you selected fund-a-need items, you'll need to choose if you'd like to display an amount or quantity goal. The thermometer will display all fund-a-need items for your organization.

Here's what the layout will be like once you've placed the widgets according to our recommended setup.

Once you've dragged and dropped your desired widgets onto your page, you have quite a few options to spruce up the page.

Adding a Banner Image and Custom HTML

To start, you can upload a banner image that will display when you cast your FundHub Live. The banner size is 1600 x 280 pixels. To upload a banner image, click Change Banner Image in the upper-right corner.

You can then select an image from the files on your computer. You can use the drag and adjust options to change the positioning. Once you're satisfied, click I'm Done Editing to save your banner.

You can use custom HTML if desired by clicking the icon shown below:

Once clicked, the banner image will be replaced by the Custom HTML Editor. Insert the custom HTML then select Update Custom HTML to apply the custom HTML into the banner of the FundHub Live page.

Customizing the Theme

You can set a theme for your page by clicking the Theme tab to the right of Widgets in the Page Builder Toolbar.

The Theme tab allows you to define the color scheme of your FundHub Live page. If you want to base this page off of an existing page, find and select the desired form name from the Copy Theme Settings drop down menu.

Selecting a theme to copy will apply the existing color scheme to your FundHub Live page. Once you've selected the form, select Preview Theme to preview the FundHub Live's copied color scheme.

If you want to create a completely custom design for the form, you can adjust the Background Options and Theme Settings manually.

Background Options allows you to select a background image that will appear behind the banner and widget content. To upload an image, click the grey box under Background Options or click Upload Image below the grey box.

This will open a pop up window that allows you to search your computer for your desired background image.

Once your background image is selected, you can choose how it's displayed in the background. The default settings are Centered and Repeated Vertically.

To change the background image's Position, select the desired position from the drop down menu under Background Options.

You can change the Repeat Pattern settings by selecting a repeat pattern from the Repeat Pattern drop down menu beneath Position.

Under Theme Settings, you can select the page's Background Color, Primary Color, and select Font and Font Size.

Clicking the Background Color and Primary Color boxes opens a color selection window where you can fund your desired color or copy and paste a color value.

To change the page's font, select your desired font from the Font drop down menu.

To adjust the font size, slide the white ball up or down the Font Size Bar to preview the font size change on the page and select your desired font size.

You can also adjust where the page navigation will appear. The default setting is Standard: Horizontal Navigation. You can change the Theme Layout by selecting a layout from the Theme Layout drop down menu.

Switching to Vertical Navigation will move the page navigation from the top header of the page to the left side of the FundHub page.

Individual Content Styles

If you want to use different theme settings to highlight specific content or draw attention to certain page content, you can modify Individual Content Styles for different content areas of your FundHub Live page. Select what content you want to add an individual style to from the Individual Content Styles drop-down menu.

If you're not sure what will be modified when you select one of the Individual Content Styles options, hover over What Is This? beneath the drop down menu to highlight which parts of your page will be changed.

If you want to revert back to the original look of the page, select Restore to Default beneath What Is This? to revert individual page elements back to the overall page theme.

You can change the Font Size, Background Color, and Text Color of Individual Content Styles by adjusting the settings below the Restore to Default button.

Advanced Settings

You can also change Page-Specific Settings and Global Page Settings under the Advanced tab of the Form Builder toolbar.

Under Page-Specific Settings, you can create a Page Title, Page Alias, Page Description, Page Specific Header, and a Page Specific Footer.

Creating a Page Title gives your FundHub Live page a unique title that is displayed in browser tabs and when sharing the page.

Creating a unique Page Alias customizes the page's URL and makes it easier for users to remember.

The Page Description helps browsers find your page easier in search results.

The Page Specific Header section is where you can add custom meta tags, stylesheets, and scripts to this specific page's header.

The Page Specific Footer is where you can add additional HTML and scripts at the footer of the specific page.

The Global Page Settings allow you to add custom content across all of the FundHub pages. You can add Custom CSS code and custom Header and Footer Content.

Publishing and Accessing Your FundHub Live Page

When you've configured everything to your liking, it's time to publish and save the page. To set your page to Published toggle the Published button.

Then click Save Page.

To obtain the link for your FundHub Live page, click the chain icon next to the page navigation drop-down menu, and it will copy the link for you to paste into a browser.

Adding FundHub Live to Your Fundraising Hub Navigation

If you'd like to add your FundHub Live as a navigation item on your main Fundraising Hub page, you can enter this URL when adding a new navigation item and selecting the Links to: Custom URL option.

click the Plus Sign icon in the navigation bar.

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You’ll be prompted for the Link Label and to indicate to where you’d like the new navigation item linked.

Choose Custom URL, and then add the link to your FundHub Live page.

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Click Add Link once you've configured your new navigation item.

You can quickly view your FundHub Live pages via your My Fundraising Hub Dashboard. On your org-level dashboard, select Forms in the left-hand navigation and select one of your FundHubs.

This will take you to the My Fundraising Hub Dashboard. To view and select a FundHub Live page, click the View Fund Hub Live Page button on the Dashboard header.