Crowd Funding App for Shopify

Before starting the details about Crowd Funding App for Shopify, let’s first understand what crowdfunding means. Crowdfunding is the concept of ‘money from many’ to complete a project.
A process of raising funds/money from the mass for a project/venture, where the project owner explains and informs about his/her idea of the project and then sets the budget which will be required for the completion. Then the public contributes towards the project if they feel that the project is worthy enough.

On a similar concept, we have created this amazing app called Crowd Funding App for Shopify.

So let’s get started with the installation first.

 To install the app Click here on this link, enter your store URL and click on the Install button to start the Installation.

Once your installation is complete, you will be landed here on the home page of the app which will be showing you all the related statistics of your projects.
The app is divided into three major sections:
-HOME
-CONFIGURATION
-PROJECTS

Let’s look into them in detail.

The configuration section manages the configuration of the app. The works totally on the basis of how you enter details here in this section. The configuration section of the Crowd Funding App is further divided into four sections:

-General Configuration

-Label Configuration

-Theme Configuration

-Mail Configuration

From this section of the configuration, you can manage the general settings like configuring your business email id, displaying the donation detail and much more.

From this section of the configuration, you can change all the front end labels and make them as per your requirement.

To change the color of the theme for frontend display use this theme configuration section.

From here, admin can configure the mail send to the bidding winners.

This section of the Shopify Crowd Funding App will list and displays all the projects (finished and ongoing). You can view and edit the project from this section.

Also to add the new project you have to click on add project button of this section.

By clicking on the add project (as shown in the screenshot above) you have to start the process of creating a new project.

The add project process involves three stages.

-Project Detail

-Donation & Reward

-Additional Detail

Your Projects can be of two types:

1. Normal Projects.
2. Customer Choice Projects (with Bidding Feature)

Let’s understand how to create projects.

You can start creating a project from this section. Enter all the details related to the selected project like Project Type, Title, description, image, duration of the project and goal amount and click on save and proceed to proceed further.

From this section, you can create rewards for those donors who are contributing to your projects.
In this section, the Crowd Funding App fill in all the donation and rewards details that you want to create for your customers for funding the project.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS

Put any additional details about the video to make the public understand more about your project. From this section, you can upload any related additional detail of the project here in this section for the customer to know more about the project.

You are Done. Congratulations you have just created your project.

You need to configure your theme to make this Crowd Funding App work. Copy the code given on the homepage of the app as an important note and paste it to their respective files as specified.

• Go To Themes.
• Click on Customize Theme button.
• Click on the Edit Code button.
• Select the respective template or .liquid file as given in instructions.
• Paste the code and save it.

If you are using Online store 2.0 (Example- Dawn), you need to follow the steps to add the codes.

To show donate button & rewards on product description page, add the codes to sections/main-product.liquid:-

<div id="wk_crowdsourcing" product_id="{{ product.id }}" variant_id="{{ product.variants[0].id }}" product_tags = "{{ product.tags }}" product_type = "{{ product.type }}" customer_id = "{{ customer.id }}" customer_name = "{{ customer.name }}" customer_email = "{{ customer.email }}"></div>

Also, to show project story like video, description & rewards listing details on product description page, add the codes to sections/main-product.liquid:-

<div id="wk_crowdsourcing_story" product_id="{{ product.id }}" product_tags = "{{ product.tags }}" product_type = "{{ product.type }}"></div>

To show comments on the product page, add the codes to sections/main-product.liquid file:-

<div id="wk_crowdsourcing_comments" product_id="{{ product.id }}" product_tags = "{{ product.tags }}" product_type = "{{ product.type }}"></div>

Also, to show the Progress Bar on collection page, add the codes to snippets/product-card.liquid file:-

<div class = "wk_crowdfunding_bar" product_id="{{ product_card_product.id }}"></div>

To hide the add to cart button, price & variants on project’s product page, add the codes to sections/main-product.liquid file:-

{% if product.type != "wk_project" %}
{% endif %}

To show bidding page on customer account page, add the codes to templates/customers/account.liquid file:-

<div id = "wk_view_crowdfunding" customer_id="{{ customer.id }}" customer_email = "{{ customer.email }}"></div>

Now, to show the Pie Chart of donations, add the codes to layout/theme.liquid file:-

{{ "https://www.gstatic.com/charts/loader.js" | script_tag }}

Once you have created the project and have configured your app and your theme by pasting the codes, then on the front end this is how your project will get displayed.

From here donors can choose the donation amount and click on the donate button to make the contribution and can even view other ongoing projects by clicking on view all button.

You can now allow backers to add comments on the projects while donating for the projects. You need to enable the option in the app.

Go to App>>Configuration>>General Configuration.

Enable Allow Backers to Add Comment

Donate as Anonymous

You can enable this option if you want to display the backer’s name as an anonymous commenter on the product page.

To show comments on the product page, you have to paste the below code on Sections/product-template.liquid file:

<div id="wk_crowdsourcing_comments" product_id="{{ product.id }}" product_tags = "{{ product.tags }}" product_type = "{{ product.type }}"></div>

The same appears like this on the front end:-

https://crowdfunding-demo.myshopify.com/pages/demo

Furthermore, if you need any kind of support/Consultancy then please raise a ticket at http://webkul.uvdesk.com/ or drop an email at [email protected]

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