Creating a Hosted Page

A Hosted Page is a donation page that iDonate hosts for you. It displays your giving form alongside your own messaging, branding, and a goal meter, so you can share a complete giving experience with a single link and no website of your own required.

This article covers how to create a Hosted Page, customize it, and publish it.

Creating a Hosted Page

1. Navigate to Fundraising > Embeds.
2. Click the embed you want to create a Hosted Page for. This opens the embed's detail page.
3. Click Create Hosted Page in the top right.
4. Enter a Page Title. This is the name donors see in their browser tab. It defaults to the embed's name followed by "Hosted Page", and you can change it later under Details.
5. Click Create Page.

Once a Hosted Page exists, the Create Hosted Page button on the embed's detail page changes to View Hosted Page. Click it at any time to return to the editor.

The Hosted Page Editor

In the editor, settings are on the left, organized into collapsible sections, and a live preview of your page is on the right. The preview updates as you make changes, so you can see exactly how the page will look to donors before you publish.

Appearance

1. Primary Color: The main color used across your Hosted Page. Click Edit below the swatch to pick a color or enter a hex code.
2. Font: The typeface used for your content blocks, such as the header, footer, and custom content.

Appearance settings style the Hosted Page around your giving form. The giving form itself keeps the styling set in its own editor.

Details

1. Page Title: The name of your Hosted Page. This is what donors see in their browser tab, so use a name they'll recognize.
2. Slug: The last part of your Hosted Page's web address. Each slug must be unique. Use lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens, for example spring-appeal-2026.
3. Page Favicon: The small icon that appears in the donor's browser tab. The iDonate icon is used until you upload your own. Click Browse to upload an image.
4. Select Page Layout: Determines how much of the page the giving form takes up and where it sits.
   • Full Page centers the giving form across the page.
   • Half Page, Left Aligned and Half Page, Right Aligned place the giving form on one half of the page.
   • 1/3 Page, Left Aligned and 1/3 Page, Right Aligned place the giving form in one third of the page.

Changing the slug on a published Hosted Page changes its web address. Any links you have already shared, such as in emails or social posts, will need to be updated.

Want the page to live on your own domain, such as give.your-organization.org? See Configuring Domain Masking.

Content

The Content section controls everything on the page other than the giving form itself. You can turn on a header and footer, and add content blocks above, beside, or below the giving form.

1. Header: Check Enable Header to display a header at the top of the page.
2. Above the form: Content blocks that appear above the giving form.
3. Beside the form: Content blocks that appear next to the giving form when you use a Half Page or 1/3 Page layout.
4. Below the form: Content blocks that appear below the giving form.
5. Footer: Check Enable Footer to display a footer at the bottom of the page.

To add a content block:

1. Click + Custom Content in the area where you want the block to appear.
2. Enter a Name for the block. The name is for your reference only and is not shown to donors.
3. Add your content in the text editor. You can format text, change text color, add lists, insert links, and add images.

You can add as many content blocks as you need. To delete one, click Remove next to the block.

Goal Meter

A goal meter shows donors how close you are to a fundraising goal. Each Hosted Page can display one goal meter.

1. Enable Goal Meter: Check this to display the goal meter on your page.
2. Section Title: The heading shown above the goal meter.
3. Select Goal Meter: Determines which donations count toward the goal.
   • Campaign tracks progress across every embed in the campaign.
   • Channel tracks progress for this embed only.
4. Select Goal Meter Visual: The style of the goal meter, such as Progress Bar.
5. Goal Amount ($): The fundraising goal, in whole dollars.
6. Display Options: Choose which details appear with the goal meter.
   • Show Amount Raised displays the total raised so far.
   • Show Goal Amount displays the goal.
   • Show Days Left displays a countdown to the Goal End Date.
7. Goal End Date: The date the goal ends. Used for the days left countdown.

Custom CSS

Custom CSS lets you style elements of your Hosted Page beyond what the Appearance settings offer. Enter your CSS in the code editor, and the preview updates to show the result.

For sample CSS, see Custom CSS and Goal Meters and Common Custom CSS Queries.

Save and Publish Your Hosted Page

At the top of the editor, you'll find the Save and Publish Page buttons. Hosted Pages publish the same way giving forms do.

• Save keeps your edits as a draft without changing what donors see.
• Publish Page makes your Hosted Page live. Edits made after publishing must be published again to appear on the live page.

Clicking Delete permanently removes the Hosted Page, and its web address will stop working. Your embed and its donations are not affected.