Adding CrowdFunding campaigns to your ConvertKit emails

Adding Crowdfunding campaigns to your ConvertKit emails
Adding Crowdfunding campaigns to your ConvertKit emails

Are you creating an email marketing campaign using ConverKit? Would you like to add Crowdfunding capabilities, and campaigns to your emails? This tutorial will show you how you can quickly add a fully white labeled Crowdfunding campaign to your emails.

This article is part of the blog series for adding Crowdfunding features on your emails. You can learn about using other email marketing tools for your Crowdfunding campaign such as MailChimp, MailerLite ConstantContact, and AWeber.

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 emails for any type of email campaign using white label technology such as Atlas. To gain the capabilities to add a Crowdfunding link, you may want to subscribe to an Atlas subscription plan if you want a fully white labelled campaign. For those who are interested in running a single campaign for free, you can use the Reach Crowdfunding platform.

Note: when using the Atlas white label technology you will have to setup, and configure your Crowdfunding site to be accepting donations before you create a campaign. You can learn how to quickly setup the platform by reading Thrinacia Atlas Standalone Web UI Quick Setup

Learn how to add Crowdfunding campaigns to your ConvertKit emails

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 approve it.

Approve the campaign
Approve the campaign

Once the campaign is created, you can approve the campaign by going to the admin dashboard, click on the status dropdown menu for the campaign, and choose approve/running.

Step 3: Copy the campaign URL.

Note: The campaign that you are using must be approved/running, and live. If the campaign has not started yet, it will not be live.

Go to the campaign that you have created, and copy the URL.

Step 4: Paste the URL into the email template.

In order to create a button in your email template, you will have to enable the modern template.

Log into ConvertKit, and click on your profile icon.

ConvertKit main dashboard menu
ConvertKit main dashboard menu

In the dropdown menu, click on the Account settings option.

Choose the Account settings option
Choose the Account settings option

Next, click on the email templates at the top of the page.

Click on email templates
Click on email templates

Choose the Modern template.

ConvertKit email templates
ConvertKit email templates

Now that you have chosen the modern template, you can create a button to reference your Crowdfunding campaign.

To do this, click on the automations option in the main ConverterKit dashboard menu. Then click on New Automation.

New automation button
New automation button

Browse the templates to choose which would be good for your email campaign.

Browse the templates
Browse the templates
Choose the email template
Choose the email template

Once you have chosen the template, you can then begin to design your own email. Choose the email that you would like to design.

design email using ConverterKit
Designing your email

To add a button to the email, you need to be in code view, and paste the following:

<a href=”YOUR-URL-HERE” class=”button”>Enter Text Here</a>

Enter the highlighted text
Enter the highlighted text

You can now save, and preview the eamil.

View the email:

ConvertKit email
ConvertKit email

When users click on the donate button, they will be directed to your Crowdfunding campaign as per example below:

 

Campaign preview
Campaign preview

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