Would you like to add Crowdfunding capabilities, and campaigns to your BigCommerce website? This tutorial will show you how you can quickly add a fully white labeled Crowdfunding campaign to your new or existing BigCommerce website.
This is the fourth 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, Squarespace, Wix, GoDaddy, and PageCloud 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 BigCommerce website using white label technology such as Atlas. To gain the capabilities to run a fully white labeled Crowdfunding campaign on your BigCommerce 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.
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 BigCommerce site
Step 1: Subscribe to the Atlas subscription plan.
Step 2: Create the Crowdfunding campaign, and copy the widget code.
Step 3: Log into the BigCommerce website, click on the storefront tab in the site menu.
Next, click on the Web pages tab, and add a new web page by clicking on the “create a web page” button.
Step 4: Embed the widget code.
Click on the radio button called “contain raw HTML entered in the text area below”, then paste the widget code into the text area. Remember to save!
Step 5: Preview the page.
NOTE: DO THE FOLLOWING TO VIEW THE CAMPAIGN:
You need to open a new browser (example: if already using Chrome, use Firefox), an incognito tab, or Log out of the BigCommerce website to view the campaign.
Below is an example of what the campaign will look like when following these steps:
That is how you can add any pre-order, rewards, and donations based Crowdfunding campaign on to your BigCommerce website. For a full and more detailed tutorial, you can watch the following video: