Adding CrowdFunding campaigns to your OpenCart site

Adding Crowdfunding capabilities to your OpenCart website
Adding Crowdfunding capabilities to your OpenCart website

Are you creating your website using OpenCart? Would you like to add Crowdfunding capabilities, and campaigns to your website? This tutorial will show you how you can quickly add a fully white labeled Crowdfunding campaign to your new or existing OpenCart website.

This is the eighth article of the blog series for adding Crowdfunding features on your website. You can learn about adding Crowdfunding capabilities on other platforms such as Shopify, SquarespaceWix, BigCommerce, GoDaddy, PageCloudand Mozello as included in this series.

The solution described in this blog article can be used for any rewards/pre-order, or donations based Crowdfunding campaigns and paradigms. It is great for running a single campaign, or multiple campaigns on separate pages for any new or existing OpenCart website using white label technology such as Atlas. To gain the capabilities to run a fully white labeled Crowdfunding campaign on your OpenCart website, you need to subscribe to an Atlas subscription plan. The Micro subscription plan is great to use for this purpose. Included in the subscription plans is the Sedra widget. You can use the Sedra widget to host a campaign on any web page.

For those that are interested in using OpenCart for the first time, it is an open source software that anyone can host on their own servers or use a hosted SaaS service with. It is a great solution for those that want to use open source software.

Please note that it is recommended to read the following article to quickly set up the widget for this tutorial.

Creating a Crowdfunding campaign page on your OpenCart site

Step 1: Subscribe to the Atlas subscription plan.

New Atlas Subscription plans Thrinacia UI
Atlas subscription plan options

Step 2: Create the Crowdfunding campaign, and copy the widget code.

Campaign creation steps preview widget code
Campaign creation steps preview widget code

Step 3: Log into the OpenCart dashboard, and create a new page:

Click on the catalog option from the menu.

OpenCart Dashboard UI
OpenCart Dashboard UI

 

Click on the information button to view the pages

OpenCart catalog page UI
OpenCart catalog information page UI

Click on the blue plus (+) icon in the top right side of the page. This will create a new page.

Step 4: Paste the widget code into the page.

Fill out the necessary fields, click on the following symbol: (</>) in editor to paste the widget code:

Paste the widget code into the following section
Paste the widget code into the following section

Step 5: Save the page, and preview.

Widget Preview on the page
Widget Preview on the page

That is how you can add any pre-orderrewards, and donations based Crowdfunding campaign on to your OpenCart website. For a full and more detailed tutorial, you can watch the following video: