Platform for Progress: New Text Editor and Custom Thank You Message
Tell your story with our new campaign text editor and elevate your campaign by sharing a customizable thank you message with your patrons.
This blog is part of our Platform for Progress series, highlighting what our team is developing to improve your experience on Patronicity. Each quarter, we share updates about the new features and tools we’ve developed to empower your crowdfunding success and help you build vibrant communities.
We’re excited to share two new features designed to help you tell your story and connect with your community: our new campaign text editor and customizable thank you message. These features were developed in response to user feedback, creating a more user-friendly campaign development process and allowing you to thank your patrons personally. Learn more about these updates and how to make the most of these new features with your next crowdfunding campaign.
New Campaign Text Editor
The campaign text editor is where you tell your story. This long-awaited update simplifies developing your campaign pitch with an improved user interface. The new text editor features a new toolbar with more advanced formatting options. In addition, it supports easy copy-and-paste from other sources, such as documents and PDFs.
Heading Options
The new campaign text editor includes more heading options to add depth to your narrative.
Bullet Points and Numbered Lists
Create lists by adding bullet points and now numbered lists. Lists are great for adding lists of materials you’ll purchase or the steps you’ll take to complete your campaign promise.
Tables
Add a table to your campaign page. This is great for adding project budgets. The table tool includes many options to add rows and columns and merge cells.
Undo and Redo
Sometimes, we make mistakes. The new toolbar allows you to undo and redo your typing.
More Image Options
Add image captions. Provide context to your images by adding captions.
Add alternative text. Alternative text provides essential context to images but is not visible on the page, unlike a caption. This is especially helpful to individuals who use screen readers to navigate websites. Where there is alternative text, a screen reader will read the information in the alt attribute aloud to the user. Alternative text should succinctly and accurately describe the image and avoid redundancies. Learn more about how to write effective alternative text from WebAIM.
Copy and paste images into the text editor. You can now copy and paste images into the text editor. Previously, the text editor could not accept images copied and pasted into it, which, in worst-case scenarios, would result in the loss of content. We still recommend that users use the toolbar to insert images into the campaign page.
New campaigns have access to the new campaign text editor. Existing campaigns will continue to use the previous text editor.
Start a campaign to explore these new features.
Customized Thank You Message
Our new customized thank you message, introduced late last year, allows you to share a personalized note of appreciation with your campaign patrons.
On the project Edit page, under the Elevate section, you can include a brief 200-character message with a custom attribution. This message is shared with patrons after contributing to a campaign on the thank you page and included in the email confirmation.
This is a simple yet powerful way to connect with donors and extend gratitude for their support.
These updated and new features were built to help you create vibrant communities. Are there any features you would like to see us build? Email info@patronicity.com with your idea!
