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Raise Money

Fundraising & Donation Campaigns That Resonate With Your Donors

On The Stage is a fundraising and donor management platform built into your ticketing system. Run donation campaigns, collect recurring gifts, and manage your donor base from the same place you sell tickets.

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WHY IT MATTERS

Effective campaigns are critical to your success.

Whether you're a drama club launching a fundraiser for your spring musical or a performing arts center running a capital campaign to build a new performance venue, raising money is an imperative - and doing it well requires active relationships with reliable donors. OTS gives you the tools to run proven campaigns, track donations, and manage donors from the same platform where you sell tickets.

Diversify Your Income

Generate money beyond ticket sales with campaigns, recurring gifts, and giving built into checkout, not tacked on as an afterthought.

Make Giving Easy

Meet donors where they are to solicit donations during checkout, in-person, and online via built-in dedicated campaigns.

Know Your Donors

View a donor's giving history alongside their sales and attendance history in one place, for a more holistic view into their behaviors and preferences.

BUILD CAMPAIGNS

Run Fundraising & Donation Campaigns

Launch a campaign in minutes with a ready-to-use template, or build one from scratch — for a single production, a capital need, a booster drive, or a year-round effort.

Campaign templates

Start with ready-to-use templates instead of a blank page, or build a campaign from scratch.

Targeted and general giving

Let donors sponsor specific items and needs from a wishlist, collect general gifts, or run both in the same campaign.

Team & peer-to-peer fundraising

Give every team member, booster, or volunteer their own fundraising page and a public leaderboard to keep momentum visible — and to reach donors beyond your own contact list.

Automated campaign promotion

Every campaign generates its own email and social sequence timed to its launch and its close, so nobody has to write or schedule a thing.

Box office-only campaigns

Run non-public campaigns directly through your box office, and attribute gifts to the right donor and campaign.

Anonymous giving

Let donors who'd rather not be named give just as easily as those who want recognition.

SIMPLIFY GIVING

Make Giving Part of Every Transaction

Build recurring and one-time giving into the moments patrons are already engaging with you.

  • Donation asks at checkout

    Create an opportunity to give when someone buys a ticket.

  • Standing Donate pages

    Host an always-on giving page live on your website to collect gifts any time of year.

  • Recurring donations

    Collect monthly or annual recurring gifts that donors can manage themselves — no invoice required.

  • Membership-based giving

    Create tax-deductible membership programs that reward your most loyal donors.

  • In-person and box office giving

    Take donations and sell campaign items at the window, attributed to the right campaign and team member.

  • Turn a cancellation into a gift

    Convert unused tickets into donations rather than refunds.

A patron managing recurring donations in the On The Stage patron portal

DONOR MANAGEMENT

Know Your Donors

Fundraising works better when donor management isn't a separate system from ticketing and box office data.

Household rollups

Group related contacts into a household and see their combined giving, ticket, subscription, and add-on revenue in one place — a family that looks like three modest patrons individually can tell a very different story together.

Complete donor records

Every gift, ticket, and interaction lives on one patron record instead of a spreadsheet or a separate system.

Segment your donor base

Build lists from giving history and other patron attributes to send the right ask to the right people.

Track giving over time

See what a donor — or a household — has given across seasons, not just their most recent gift.

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MEASURE EFFECTIVENESS

Report, Reconcile, and Stay Compliant

Know what a campaign raised, keep your books straight, and give donors the documentation they expect.

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Campaign and donation reporting

See what each campaign raised, broken out by donor, team member, or item.

Giving tracked by source

Fundraising campaigns, donations attached to ticket orders, and organization-site gifts are all tracked distinctly, so your reporting matches how the money actually came in.

Automatic tax-deductible receipting

Add your EIN once, and it appears on every donation confirmation from then on. Deductibility is set per campaign and per item, so nothing is ever claimed until you say so.

BEYOND FUNDRAISING

Do More With Your Audience

Fundraising works best alongside the rest of how you engage your audience.

Sell Tickets

The same platform your donors are already buying tickets on.

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Offer Subscriptions & Memberships

Subscribers and members tend to be your most consistent supporters — sell recurring giving right alongside season passes.

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Manage Patrons

See every gift alongside ticket history, tags, and communication, on one patron record.

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CUSTOMER PROOF

Our experience with OTS has been very positive and I have even used it as a learning tool in our classroom. I have had students use their creativity to help build sites and fundraising campaigns. I am so glad to have this tool and the support that comes with it.

— Kelle Martin, Drama Teacher, Madonna High School

Kelle Martin

FAQ

Common questions about raising money.

Can we run a fundraising campaign without making it public?

Yes. Box office-only campaigns can be sold entirely at the door, with no public page or link.

Does On The Stage ask patrons to give without us building a campaign ourselves?

Yes. Two built-in Plays automatically ask frequent ticket buyers and engaged subscribers to give, once a year, with no campaign for you to set up.

Can students, cast members, or volunteers fundraise on their own?

Yes. Peer-to-peer fundraising gives each participant their own personalized page, with a leaderboard to keep momentum visible.

Can patrons give on a recurring basis, not just once?

Yes. Offer monthly or annual recurring donations, or a standing membership, that donors manage themselves.

Can we accept donations without naming the donor publicly?

Yes. Anonymous giving is available alongside standard, recognized gifts.

Can we see fundraising and ticketing data in one place?

Yes. Donations, ticket sales, subscriptions, and add-ons all roll up on the same patron and household records, with reporting broken out by source.

Does OTS provide tax-deductible receipts for donations?

Yes. Add your EIN once, and it appears automatically on every donation confirmation from then on. Deductibility is set per campaign and per item, so nothing is claimed as tax-deductible until you specify it.