Fundraising software for arts and culture organizations
Membership tiers you define yourself, event registration, and a donor gift in the same transaction.
Quick answer
How does Donately work for arts and culture organizations?
Donately lets arts organizations define their own membership tiers through Cart Items, sell an event ticket and take a donation in one transaction while keeping the two separate in their records, and control the fields on every donation page. It syncs natively with Salesforce, HubSpot, Mailchimp, and Virtuous so your data lives where it needs to be.
Built for how arts organizations raise money
Orchestras, theaters, choirs, film festivals, youth arts programs, and arts councils raise money in a shape most donation tools handle poorly. Donately runs all three, and lets someone buy a membership and add a gift in the same transaction.
Memberships
Sell a membership with customized tiers and benefit levels.
Events
Run an event with ticket prices and a separate donation ask.
Annual appeals
Send an annual appeal targeted at existing members and users.
Why a general-purpose donation form fails an arts organization
An arts organization rarely asks for a plain donation. It asks for a membership, a seat, a sponsorship, a subscription, or a gift on top of one of those.
A form with a single amount field cannot tell those apart afterward.
When the membership, the ticket, and the gift all arrive as the same undifferentiated transaction, nobody can answer the one question that decides next season's plan: where the growth came from. Donately handles those transactions differently.
Membership tiers you define yourself
Every arts organization's membership program is its own invention. The levels, the benefits, the names, the price points, and the language are specific to one organization in one place.
No fixed model
A platform with a fixed membership model makes you describe your program in somebody else's vocabulary.
Tiers through Cart Items
Donately handles this through Cart Items. You define the tiers, what each is called, what it offers, and what it costs.
A record of what was bought
A supporter picks one, and the transaction records what they actually bought rather than flattening it into an amount. The same mechanism runs event registration.
Sell a ticket and take a donation in one transaction
Someone registers for an event through a Cart Item and adds a donation to the same checkout. Cart Items separates the two, so the ticket revenue and the gift stay distinguishable in your records.
What you can change on a donation page
Start from a theme, then change what you need: colors, typography, language, styles, fields, content, layout. There is little on the page that isn't editable.
An arts organization's ask depends on naming the specific thing being funded, and on asking for the information that organization actually uses.
What Donately connects to
Donately does not replace the tools you already use; it connects to them.
Salesforce, HubSpot, Mailchimp, and Virtuous.
Neon, Copper, ActiveCampaign, Zoho, and Google Sheets, plus event ticketing tools including Eventbrite, Luma, Cvent, Whova, RegFox, and Humanitix.
WordPress, Squarespace, Webflow, Sanity, Wix, GoDaddy, and more.
Frequently asked questions
Can we run membership through Donately?
Yes, through Cart Items. You define the tiers, their names, their benefits, and their prices rather than fitting your program to a fixed model, and the transaction records which tier was bought. Adjust payments to weekly, monthly, yearly, all from one form.
Can someone buy a ticket and make a donation at the same time?
Yes. A supporter registers through a Cart Item and adds a gift to the same transaction, and Cart Items keeps the purchase and the donation separate in your records.
Does Donately work with other ticketing tools?
Can we match the donation page to our brand?
Yes. Start from a theme and change colors, typography, language, fields, content, and layout. The control that matters most for an arts organization is over the fields and the story, not the styling.
Do we have to move off our current donation tool to try it?
No. The usual starting point is one campaign or one membership drive run alongside what you have, judged on what it raised. A page is live in minutes, which is short enough to test against a real appeal.
Build your membership tiers and point your next appeal at Donately.
Start with one campaign or one membership drive alongside what you have.