Case Study: Laravel for a School Fundraising Dashboard
SupportFund is a nationwide fundraising platform built to empower schools, teams, and small organizations to meet critical financial needs through easy, accessible online campaigns. Across the U.S., countless small groups struggle to run effective fundraisers because they lack technical resources, time, or support. SupportFund bridges that gap by providing a simple, intuitive platform where anyone — with or without technical expertise — can quickly launch, manage, and promote a campaign. Their mission is to remove barriers to fundraising success and give every school and team a fair shot at achieving their goals. When SupportFund approached us, they needed a digital experience that was as accessible and powerful as their vision: a clean, mobile-friendly, user-first site that could streamline donation collection, encourage campaign sharing, and support future growth without overwhelming users.
The Challenge
Optimize a highly accessible, mobile-friendly fundraising experience that supports multiple payment processors and ensures donation trust on Laravel.
Payment Processing Friction and Inconsistencies: Payment flows across various fundraising campaigns were unreliable, with inconsistent transaction logging, occasional failures in third-party gateways, and no centralized way to verify or reconcile donations in real time.
The internal messaging system often failed to deliver updates to users, especially during high-volume fundraising events. Some notifications were delayed or never sent, creating confusion and missed opportunities for donor engagement.
Several critical backend jobs—such as syncing donation statuses, updating sponsor lists, or triggering reminders—lacked monitoring and failed without alerts, leaving admins unaware of broken workflows until users reported issues.
Our Solution
Centralized Fundraising Dashboard: We built a custom dashboard that aggregated data from all sources into one place, giving users a single pane of glass for donations, events, and sponsorships.
Live Metrics & Alerts: The new system supports near real-time updates and configurable alerts (e.g. when daily goals are met), so stakeholders always know where they stand.
Automated Reporting Engine: Reports now generate with one click and can be scheduled automatically. No more manual exports or combining spreadsheets by hand.
Donor Insights & Segmentation Tools: We included built-in segmentation — e.g. by donation frequency, recency, and amount — so the fundraising team could easily target campaigns, identify lapsed donors, and optimize outreach.
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Results
SupportFund has successfully handled a high volume of secure transactions, giving donors and fundraisers confidence in the platform’s reliability.
The platform makes it easy for new users to launch their first campaigns, removing technical barriers and streamlining the setup process.
As more causes join the platform, SupportFund continues to perform without slowdown, demonstrating the scalability of its infrastructure.
With real-time dashboards and clear reporting, SupportFund empowers organizations to raise money with full visibility and minimal overhead.