Create a campaign
Donations and campaignsA campaign is a donation purpose with its own title, its own image and its own amounts, for example “Winter aid 2026”. You create it in the Studio under Campaigns. Once it's switched on, it appears on all screens straight away.
Before you start
- Your community has been approved.
- Only “Owner” and “Finance” can create campaigns.
How it works
- Step 1: Open Campaigns in the Studio.
- Step 2: Under your campaigns, click the Create campaign tile. The New campaign page opens. The On screen preview shows how the screen will display the campaign.
- Step 3: Enter a Title.
- Step 4: If you like, write a Description.
- Step 5: If you like, choose an Image as a JPG, PNG or WEBP file of up to 5 MB. Without an image, the screen shows a simple icon.
- Step 6: Set the Amounts, see Set donation amounts.
- Step 7: Leave Show on screens switched on if you want the campaign to appear straight away.
- Step 8: Click Create.
If you haven't set up any donation yet, the page starts with the local donation. In that case, click Create a campaign instead.
How the campaign appears on the screen
When someone taps “Donate now” on the screen and then the “Our campaigns” card, all campaigns that are switched on appear. Each has its own card with an image, title, description and the Select button. The screen shows at most two lines each of the title and the description.
Each card under Campaigns shows how much has been donated to the campaign in total and in the last 30 days. Everyone who is allowed to see Reports can see these figures.
The campaign doesn't appear on the screen
- If the switch at the end of its row is off, the campaign is paused. Switch it on.
- If the Amounts column shows “No amount”, nobody can donate to the campaign. Set some amounts.
- If the screen has no internet connection, it shows the campaigns it last knew about.
- If the template has no donate button, add the Donate button block in the editor, see Add, move and arrange blocks.
- If your community's subscription has ended, the screens show “This screen is temporarily out of service.” instead of the donations, see Cancel the subscription.
Related articles
- Set donation amountsUp to three fixed amounts and, if you like, a custom amount with a minimum and maximum: here's how to set what donors can choose on the screen.
- Pause or delete a campaignPausing hides a campaign on the screens and can be undone at any time. Deleting removes it permanently.
- Break down donations by campaign or screenAbove the chart, “Campaigns” and “Screens” show what people donated to and where: as a ranking with value and share.
More on “Donations and campaigns”
- How do donations work with SadaqaNow?Donations are made at the screen and paid at the SumUp terminal, and the money goes straight to your community's SumUp account. Here you can see the whole journey.
- Set up the local donationThe local donation is the general donation to your community. Here's how to set it up and choose which amounts are offered on the screen.
- Change a campaign's title, description and imageYou can change a campaign's text and image at any time under Campaigns. Besides Owner and Finance, Admin and Content can do this too.
- Design the entry cardsDonors see the “Local donation” and “Our campaigns” cards first after “Donate now”. You design the title, text, image and button in the editor.
- How does a donation work at the screen?From the first tap to the payment receipt: what donors see on the screen, what happens if there's a problem and what you can set.
Still have questions?
Write to us at info@sadaqa-now.de and include the name of your community. That way we can help you as quickly as possible.
