Progress Bars for Challenges
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Kathryn Ethridge Henderson
It would be nice for the challenges to have progress bars. It is more exciting for someone to give to a challenge if they know we are ALMOST there. Our team is going to have to track this manually and then update the description to say (25% of the way there). That seems wild considering this is a crowdfunding platform....
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Ginu
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Sydney McKim
This would be so helpful for us as well. It makes the challenges more exciting to see the progress.
Sahil Mallick
Great to hear your perspective, Kathryn Ethridge Henderson! I have a few more questions for you:
- What specific information would you like to see displayed on the progress bar?
- How frequently should the progress bar update to reflect new contributions?
- Are there any specific challenges or events where you think progress bars would be most beneficial?
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Sydney McKim
Sahil Mallick 1. Having either donor numbers or donations, to be able to choose between what you want the bar to show depending on the challenge. 2. Every time a person makes a gift to that challenge page. 3. For competitive giving pages where you can create challenges. Especially for donor number challenges and matching gift challenges. Ex: https://alumni.semesteratsea.org/g/giving-tuesday if you scroll to the challenges bar, it would be great if it had progress bars.
Kathryn Ethridge Henderson
Sahil Mallick when I manually updated it, I did it about every 10 minutes but I was having to manually track gifts in excel and use a formula to track challenge progress. Instantaneous updates would great as alumni are constantly refreshing to check. I noticed anytime I manually updated the challenge name to include how far along we were to unlocking the challenge that we got a flurry of gifts, particularly as we got close to completing a challenge.
Dollars raised towards a particular area or number of donors are the challenges we focused on.