Track Pledges from commitment to completion
Capture donor commitments, track every installment, and keep donors on course to complete them. Built for capital campaigns, stewardship drives and annual appeals, with a real-time ledger and automated reminders.
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Every pledge, seen through to the end
With Pledges, every commitment stays visible from the moment it’s made to the final payment.
Built for your donors largest commitments
When a donor pledges a major gift to a Capital Campaign, most organizations track that promise in a spreadsheet. Pledges in Fundraise Up help you manage the commitment to completion, all in one donor record.
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One commitment
Donors commit to a total amount and a schedule, monthly, annually, or lump sum, and the pledge is recorded the moment they say yes.
One ledger
Every pledge’s balance, installment history, and fulfillment status lives in one real-time record, not a spreadsheet someone updates by hand.
One system
Pledge data sits alongside the rest of your donation data. No separate pledge tool, no reconciliation between systems.
From the first yes to the last payment
A pledge isn’t a single transaction, it’s a relationship spanning months or years, exactly where most fundraising tools fall short. Pledges tracks that whole journey, so no pledge quietly stalls out halfway through.
Make the commitment
A donor sees exactly what they’re agreeing to, the total amount, frequency, and schedule, before they ever enter a card number, and the pledge is recorded the moment they say yes, not whenever someone gets around to entering the card.
Know it’s real
The donor gets confirmation right away, and the organization has a record from day one, instead of a pledge card sitting in a folder waiting to be typed up.
Watch it come in
Anyone on the team can see at a glance whether a pledge is on track, ahead, or falling behind, a real answer to “where do we stand,” not just a raw balance, for any donor or for the campaign as a whole.
Help it get finished
Most pledges fail for a simple reason: not because donors change their minds, but because nobody followed up. Reminders go out on schedule, and paying the next installment takes one click, so each pledge has its best chance of being completed.
Spreadsheets weren’t built for capital campaigns
Pledges is built around the moments where commitment-based giving already carries the most weight.
Faith-based organizations
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Higher education and alumni organizations
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Hospitals and healthcare foundations
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Give major commitments the follow-through they deserve
A pledge is only worth what actually gets collected. Here’s what changes when the whole lifecycle, from commitment to final installment, is actually tracked and collected.
Finance can plan around it, not just report on it
A pledge is future revenue. When the balance and schedule are accurate, finance can forecast against it instead of treating it as a rounding error at year-end.
Donors keep the promise they meant to keep
Most people who miss a pledge installment aren’t backing out, they simply forgot. A reminder paired with a one-click payment is often the difference between a completed pledge and a lapsed one.
Staff time goes back to the mission
Staff time goes back to donors and the campaign, instead of manually tracking spreadsheet balances or typing up pledge cards.
The number is always accurate, not estimated
When someone asks how the campaign is tracking against goal, the answer comes from a real-time record, not a best guess based on the last spreadsheet update.
FAQ
No. A pledge is a defined commitment, a total amount over a set period, fulfilled in installments. Recurring giving is ongoing and open-ended. Pledges is built specifically for the pledge lifecycle: a fixed total, a schedule, and a tracked balance.
A pledge is the commitment itself, a donor’s promise to give a total amount over a set period, paid in installments. A Capital Campaign is the broader fundraising effort, often built around a building, renovation, or endowment, that pledges are collected within. Most Capital Campaigns run largely on pledges, but pledges also show up in annual appeals and stewardship drives that aren’t part of a capital campaign at all.
Donors choose a total commitment amount and a payment schedule, monthly, annual, or lump sum, and receive confirmation immediately. From there, they can see their pledge balance and complete each installment with one click.
A real-time pledge ledger showing every donor’s committed amount, installment history, fulfillment status, and remaining balance, all in one place.
No. Pledge campaigns are set up directly in the Fundraise Up dashboard.
Yes. Pledges sync as native pledge objects, not generic recurring gifts. Virtuous and Salesforce NPSP are supported at launch, with Bloomerang and DonorPerfect following shortly after.
Yes, Pledges is included as part of the Fundraise Up platform. Request a demo to get started.
Yes, Pledges is a separate giving option alongside one-time and recurring giving, not a replacement for either.
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