Creating An Online Store
Simple Raise provides a comprehensive solution for creating a fully customizable online store, enabling you to sell a diverse range of products, including spirit wear, event tickets, seasonal items, and other school-related merchandise. With Simple Raise, you can effortlessly set up and manage multiple storefronts, ensuring a seamless shopping experience for students, parents, staff, and community supporters.
Upon registering for a Simple Raise account, you gain the capability to launch fundraising campaigns and create one or more online stores. The platform’s store feature offers unparalleled flexibility, allowing you to tailor your store setup to the specific needs of your organization. Whether you are developing an online store to support fundraising efforts or creating a standalone store for spiritwear sales, you can choose to consolidate all offerings into a single store with multiple categories or establish separate stores, each dedicated to different products. This versatility ensures that your store(s) can be precisely customized to meet your objectives and audience.
Building Your Store
From your program's organization dashboard, select the "Stores" option, located second from the left, and click on "Add New Store" to begin creating your online store.
If you have previously created products for your store, they will appear in a checklist at the top of the page. You can choose from these existing products or opt to create a new one on the following page.
Next, provide a title and description for your online store. Both the title and description will be displayed publicly on your webpage.
Please note, once an online store is published and active, its name cannot be altered.
Raiser Options
If you're using your online store to support fundraising, you have the option to include participants, donor contacts, and a monetary goal. These fields are optional and can be left out if you're setting up a standalone online store.
Store Stages
Choose a date for each stage of your online store. A stage determines when your store will be live and ready to accept orders. Set the date you'd like your store to go live, and Simple Raise will automatically publish it on that day. Additionally, you can set a closing date, which will automatically deactivate the store and remove it from public view. Once you've selected your opening and closing dates, click "Create Store" to save your settings.
If you prefer to keep your online store active, you can set the end date to a far-off time to prevent it from being automatically deactivated. You can also view and modify the end date at any point through the store dashboard. See more about the dashboard here.
Deleting An Online Store
An online store without any processed sales can be deleted. However, once a sale has been completed, the store cannot be deleted in order to preserve financial records. Alternatively, you can deactivate the store to remove it from public view without deleting it.
To deactivate your store, select "Stores" from the organization dashboard. Choose the "Edit" option next to the store you wish to deactivate, and adjust the end date to the current date and time.