fieldraiser.com

What It Is

Fieldraiser is a SaaS platform for student-led club sports teams. Its core goal is to bring players, parents, alumni, and staff into a private network, then use that network to collect dues and raise donations. It emphasizes self-service onboarding: no sales process, no credit card required, and once a roster is imported, it can generate an organization homepage and shareable links.

Core Features and Collaboration

The platform includes an organization homepage, member directory, private feed, notifications, direct messages, profile pages, search, and group tags. Admins can import a CSV or paste email addresses; the system automatically deduplicates entries and applies tags. It also supports linking parents to players and organizing alumni information. For collaboration, Program Administrators can be assigned so presidents, treasurers, coaches, and others can receive management permissions. This makes it suitable for student organizations that need to preserve rosters, alumni data, historical donations, and communication records after annual leadership transitions.

Fundraising, Payments, and Security

Fundraising features cover donation pages, dues, recurring donations, automatic receipts, refunds, reconciliation, contribution history, and CSV exports. Payments are processed by Stripe, with support for credit cards, ACH, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. Security information is mainly focused on payments: the text mentions PCI-DSS Level 1, TLS 1.3, end-to-end encryption, and 3D Secure. Broader enterprise compliance such as SOC 2 and GDPR is not described.

Pricing and API

The free plan is free forever, but only includes the community network and does not support fundraising. Pro has no monthly fee and charges a 3% platform fee on donations and dues, plus Stripe processing fees. Elite costs $499/year, reduces the platform fee to 0%, and includes custom domains, advanced branding, priority support, CSV import/export, API access, and audit logs. If annual fundraising exceeds roughly $16,633, Elite is more cost-effective than Pro.

Pros, Cons, and Best Fit

Its strengths are a focused use case, low barrier to launch, and transparent pricing, making it especially suitable for college club sports teams, alumni associations, and small nonprofit groups. Its limitations are relatively limited disclosure around general CRM capabilities, external integrations, and developer documentation; the API is also only mentioned under Elite. The platform also depends on Stripe, which may affect organizations outside Stripe-supported regions.

Access from China and Alternatives

Availability for access and payments in mainland China is not disclosed, so it should be considered unknown. Because payments rely on Stripe, domestic teams collecting from Chinese users may need to consider local membership management, form-based payment collection, and community operations tools, or compare it with overseas fundraising platforms such as Classy, Givebutter, and Snap! Raise.