A Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Fundraising Event allows you and your supporters to raise money for your organization by leveraging your supporters' social networks. When you create an event, you have a range of Registration types to choose from. Registrations are the various ticket levels that can be configured for purchase by fundraisers and their guests. The information in this article will help you determine which type of registration is right for your event.
For a complete overview of P2P Fundraising Events, read our P2P Overview.
Getting started
When you select the type of event registrations, or ticket levels, you want for your event, it helps to understand the difference between the various attendees and participants in your event.
Fundraisers are supporters who raise money on behalf of your organization. They help raise money through a Fundraising Page, a webpage that Fundraisers can manage and use to promote your events and collect donations.
Fundraisers can also can add Guest Registrants to your events. Guests, or Non-Fundraiser Registrants, are supporters who attend events but do not independently raise funds for your organization. For example, a walker in a 5k who signed up to participate but does not fundraise on your behalf would be a Guest Registrant for your event.
Fundraisers can be also be group into Teams. Teams are groups of fundraisers whose individual donation totals are applied to a team total.
Types of Registrations
When you set up an event, you can determine which types of participants you want to be able to sign up for your event. Before you set up registration, first identify which registrations your P2P event will support.
Fundraiser Team
A fundraiser that starts a team or registers as part of an existing team.
Set up requirements:
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Create at least one ticket level that includes a fundraising page
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Set Will this event allow teams? to Yes in the Registration step
Individual Fundraisers
Individual event participants who can raise funds online on behalf of your organization. This registration includes entry to the event and a personal fundraising page.
Set up requirements:
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Create at least one ticket level that includes a fundraising page
Individual Fundraisers with Guests (Family or Group Registration)
An individual event participant who will raise funds online and register other participants at the same time. This registration includes event entry for multiple participants, but only one fundraising page, managed by the primary registrant.
Set up requirements:
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Create at least one ticket level that includes a fundraising page
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Create at least one non-fundraiser ticket level. There are two ways you can configure these tickets:
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A supporter can purchase one fundraiser ticket and add as many non-fundraiser registrants (guests) as they would like.
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A supporter can purchase a pre-defined number of tickets.
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Only the purchaser is required to supply an email.
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Individual Non-Fundraisers
An individual non-fundraiser is an individual event participant who will be attending the event but not raising funds online.
Set up requirements:
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Have at least one ticket level that includes fundraising.
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Have one ticket that does not include fundraising, allowing your supporters to choose whether or not they would like to raise funds on behalf of your organization.
Online Only Fundraising
Fundraising with no physical event; fundraisers only participate online.
Set up requirements:
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Select Yes for the Is this event online only? option in the Registration step.
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You do not need to enter a start date, end date, or location.
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If there is no charge for the event, create only one ticket level with a $0 price level.
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Please note: It is not currently possible to have multiple people who will be fundraisers on one transaction. Each fundraiser ticket requires a unique transaction.
Setting up Registration options for your event
Before selecting registrations, you will set up the basics for your event and fill in event details. One of these details includes choosing if you would like to allow teams for the event. Your selection in this step will determine which registrations are available to you later.
To set up registrations for your event, follow these steps:
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Click Activities from the left navigation menu.
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Select the Peer-to-Peer tab.
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Click the + Create a Peer-to-Peer Event button to the right of the window.
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Choose a pre-existing event template or create a new layout.
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Click Next to go to the Basics tab.
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Fill out the the fields on the Basics tab, making sure to select if your event will allow teams
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Yes is selected by default and enables Team Page later in the workflow.
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If you select No, you will not see the Team Page later in the workflow.
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Click the Next: Registration Levels button to the bottom-right of the window. The Registration window appears.
For detailed steps about setting up the basics for an event, review the information in Create an Engage Peer-to-Peer Event.
Selecting Registrations for your event
The Registrations tab is where you create a list of event registration types for an event by clicking on + Create a Registration.
You can select from two options to set up registrants:
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Fundraiser—An event participant who is fundraising on behalf of the organization. This ticket type enables the supporter to create a personal fundraising page, which you will create a template for later in the P2P event builder.
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Non-Fundraiser—An event participant who is attending the event but is not fundraising. This could be an individually purchased ticket or the guest of a Fundraiser.
Troubleshooting Event Registrations
Additional information about creating P2P Fundraising Events can be found in Create an Engage Peer-to-Peer Event.