{"repo":"cmod/craigstarter","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/cmod/craigstarter","clone":"git clone https://github.com/cmod/craigstarter.git","description":"An open source crowdfunding tool built on Shopify","language":"Liquid","stars":577,"topics":["crowdfunding-campaigns","kickstarter","shopify","shopify-theme"],"license":"MPL-2.0","category":"ecommerce","readme_excerpt":"Craigstarter A free to use / edit / extend crowdfunding tool for Shopify with multiple goals and variants as campaign tiers. Made by Craig Mod. Supported by SPECIAL PROJECTS. Released under Mozilla Public License 2.0. Video tutorial for setting this up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXP9iKARaYY ---- ---- Why? Crowdfunding campaigns are great ways to \"activate\" communities. Shared goals and a sense of \"unlocking\" a creative project help incentivize consolidated and immediate action. Kickstarter is an excellent way to run a crowdfunding campaign. But if you already have a community built up, and have communication channels in place (via a newsletter, for example), and already run an online shop, then Kickstarter can be unnecessarily cumbersome. Kickstarter's 10% fee is also quite hefty. By leaning on Shopify's flexible Liquid templating system and reasonable CC processing fees, an independent publisher running a campaign can save some $7,000 for every $100,000 of sales by using Craigstarter instead of Kickstarter. That's materially meaningful, especially in the world of books. Advantages and disadvantages The goal of Craigstarter is to provide a straightforward way for folks to run crowdfunding campaigns on their Shopify shop without having to pay a monthly fee for metafield editing plugins or other crowdfunding plugins. Craigstarter offers the following benefits over Kickstarter: - free to use / modify - only pay Shopify's payments fee ( 2.8%) instead of Kickstarter's fee ( ","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/cmod","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/cmod/craigstarter/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}