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Raisely
Peer to peer and campaign fundraising platform funded by optional donor tips rather than a platform fee
As of 31 August 2026, Raisely's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. An Australian fundraising platform for challenge events, appeals and peer to peer campaigns, built to be customised by front end developers. Softwr lists it under Nonprofits. Raisely is available on Web.
Overview
What Raisely does
Raisely is a campaign fundraising platform founded in Australia in 2016, used for peer to peer challenges, appeal pages, recurring giving programmes and matched giving campaigns. It is unusually developer friendly for the category: campaign pages are assembled from components that can be overridden with custom code, and the API and webhooks are documented well enough that agencies build bespoke supporter journeys on top of it. The fee model is the decision. Rather than charging the charity a percentage of donations, Raisely asks the donor to add an optional contribution to the platform at checkout, and the charity receives the gift less only card processing. For an organisation running a large peer to peer event, the difference between a percentage platform fee and a tip model on the same volume is a genuinely material sum, and it is money that would otherwise leave the cause. The honest qualification is that the cost has been shifted rather than removed. Tip rates depend heavily on audience: younger, digitally native supporters running challenge campaigns tip well, while older and offline recruited donor bases tip less, and the shortfall shows up as an unbudgeted cost of doing business rather than as an invoice. Buyers are typically digital fundraising and campaign teams at mid sized charities, often with an agency partner, running multiple campaigns a year and wanting each to look different. The trade off is that Raisely is a campaign platform and not a donor database. Supporter data has to flow onward into a CRM, and organisations that treat Raisely as a system of record discover the gap the first time they need lifetime giving history across channels.
What people use it for
- A charity running a challenge or endurance event where supporters raise money on their own pages
- A campaign team that wants each appeal to look bespoke without rebuilding infrastructure each time
- An organisation unwilling to give a platform a percentage of a large peer to peer income line
- A digital team with front end skills or an agency partner who will customise the supporter journey
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The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Raisely.
- The tip model performs unevenly, so an organisation with an older or offline recruited donor base sees a lower tip rate and quietly absorbs more of the platform cost than the model assumes.
- It is a campaign platform, not a CRM, so supporter data must be synced onward and organisations that skip that step lose cross channel giving history.
- Getting the most out of the customisation requires front end capability, and charities without it run campaigns that look like the default template while paying for a platform built for the opposite.
- Support hours are anchored to Australian time zones, which leaves European and North American teams waiting overnight during a live campaign.
- Payment processing is tied to a small set of processors, so organisations with an existing merchant relationship or unusual regional payment needs may not be able to keep it.
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What people choose instead of Raisely
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Classy: Better for large peer to peer programmes wanting an enterprise platform and support model
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Funraise: Alternative for organisations that want fundraising and donor tooling in one paid platform
Pricing
What Raisely costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Raisely
On request
- No platform percentage charged to the organisation on the core plan
- Donors are prompted to add an optional contribution to the platform at checkout
- Card processing is charged separately by the payment processor
- Paid plans exist for organisations wanting the tip prompt removed or added support
Capabilities
Features
Peer to peer fundraising
Supporter created pages, team leaderboards and fundraising targets
Customisable campaign pages
Component based pages that developers can override with custom code and styles
Recurring giving
Regular giving programmes with donor self service management
Matched giving and appeals
Match funding mechanics and appeal thermometers for time limited campaigns
Open API and webhooks
Documented endpoints for pushing supporter and donation data into a CRM
Automations
Triggered emails and journeys based on supporter fundraising milestones
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
How does Raisely make money if there is no platform fee?
Donors are prompted to add a voluntary contribution to the platform at checkout, and some organisations pay for plans that remove the prompt.
Does the tip prompt reduce donation totals?
It changes the checkout, and results vary by audience. Test it against your own list rather than relying on published averages.
Is it a donor CRM?
No. It runs campaigns and pushes data to a CRM through the API or an integration.
Who is it best for?
Peer to peer and challenge event fundraising where a percentage platform fee on high volume would be the largest single cost.
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- CharityEngine
- Handbid
- Foundant Technologies
- Fundraise Up
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- Give Lively
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