Your money stays yours
Gifts land in your Stripe or Square account. We never hold funds, add a surcharge, or act as merchant of record.
Coming this summer
Run giving night without the tech stress.
We built this for volunteers like you: parents running a dinner, a PTA auction night, a school gala. Guests give by credit card, bank transfer (ACH), or pledge from their phones. The whole room watches the total climb. Your team logs cash and checks at a desk. We host it all for free, and you keep every dollar in your own Stripe or Square account.
You keep every dollar. We never hold your funds. No platform fee and no subscription. Card and bank gifts run through your Stripe or Square checkout. We never touch card numbers or processor fees.
One email when signup opens. No spam.
Why we built this
No platform fee. Every gift reaches the cause it was meant for.
You are volunteers with full-time jobs and a gym full of patrons who came to give. A check written at a school dinner should pay for the field trip, not sit in the wrong account or vanish into someone else's cut.
We built RunTheFundraiser for the night you are running right now: live, local, and rooted in trust. We take nothing from the gift. We charge nothing to host. We just help the money get where it was always meant to go.
One relay, three moments
No app to install. Share two links, open the board on the projector, and you are ready.
1
A guest at the table
Gives from their phone
They scan a QR code or open a link. Card and bank gifts run through your Stripe or Square checkout, not ours.
2
The whole room
Feels the momentum
Running total, gift count, recent names on the big screen. The room gives more when they can see it working.
3
Your volunteer desk
Keeps everything honest
Log cash and checks at the back table. Close out with a CSV your board can trust.
Built for volunteers, not IT staff
You are not running a black-tie auction platform. You are running one night that has to work.
Ready in under an hour
Connect payments once. Share the give link and put the board on the projector. No passwords to pass around on event night.
Free hosting, honestly
No subscription. No per-event fee. School groups should not pay twice to raise money for kids.
Verified badge for PTAs
Optional trust signal for school groups. A designated approver confirms by email so donors know the give page is yours.
Four steps to go live
From blank page to a room that is giving.
1
Name your event
Pick a name and you get a give link, a board link, and a volunteer desk link.
2
Connect payments
Link Stripe or Square once for card and bank gifts. Pledge-only night? Skip this step.
3
Share the links
QR on the tables. Board on the projector. Send yourself a test gift if it helps you sleep.
4
Run the room
Online gifts hit the board in seconds. Volunteers log cash at the desk. You focus on the program.
Safe for donors. Simple for you.
Card numbers never touch us
Donors pay on Stripe or Square's secure checkout page. We only hear that a gift happened, so the board stays current.
One night, not a year-round CRM
No auctions, ticketing, or donor database to maintain. When the event ends, export your report and go home.