Goal Meter Designer

A goal meter displays the progress of a fundraising goal and updates dynamically as you receive gifts. You can customize the goal meter's style to match your website. After you embed it on your website, any future changes you make to the styling or goal amount update automatically.

You can use either a gift list or a donation form as the source of donations for a goal meter. When a gift list is the source, the gifts must be approved in batch to be included in the goal's total amount. After approval, it may take up to 30 minutes for your embedded goal meter's total to update.

When a donation form is the source of a goal meter, the total amount is updated shortly after the donation is processed via the form. Donor cover fees are included in the goal meter's total amount. For more information, see Fee Coverage. Changes made to the donation after the initial transaction, such as a refund, are not reflected in the total amount. For recurring gifts received through the donation form, only the first gift is included in the total amount.

  1. Enter an internal name for the goal meter.

  2. Set a goal amount.

  3. You can set additional goals that will display automatically after the previous goal is met. This means that as your fundraising goal grows, you can use the same goal meter without re-embedding it on your website.

  4. Select a Source of donations for the goal meter: a donation form or a gift list.

    5. Warning: To ensure that your goal meter can load and update, don't select a gift list that was set to private.

  5. Select a gift date range for the goal meter.

  6. Style the font and background of the goal meter. Your style selections automatically update under Display.

  7. Select a Display style for your goal meter.

  8. Select Save and Next.

  1. Review the goal meter styling under Preview.

  2. Select Copy to copy your goal meter's code.

  3. Paste the goal meter code on your website. You only need to embed the goal meter once. Any future changes appear automatically after you select Save.

    Note: The goal meter's initial upload may take a several minutes to load the data from the gift list. It will display $0 on your website until it finishes loading.