Gala fundraising software
Kause follows one event the whole way through: tickets and tables weeks before, one-tap check-in at the door, live pledge rounds from a QR code on every table, and a donor record that is complete the morning after.
Free for organizations raising under $5M a year. No card, no waiting, sign in the moment you sign up.
Running their galas on Kause
The night
A gala is the most money most organizations raise in one place, and it is usually managed with a ticket tool, a printed guest list, paper pledge cards and a spreadsheet that someone rebuilds the next morning. It leaks in three places.
The door
Guests arrive in a rush at the same twenty minutes. Volunteers flip through printouts, the walk-in has nowhere to go, and the person who bought a table cannot find out who is sitting at it.
The appeal
The room gives in a few charged minutes. Cards get collected, amounts get misread, and the announced total is a best guess that finance will quietly correct a week later.
The morning after
Tickets in one system, pledges on paper, donors in another. Someone reconciles all three by hand, thank-yous go out late, and half the pledges are never followed up at all.
What Kause is for
The platform
Gala software usually stops at the ticket. Kause follows the night the whole way through, so nothing gets re-typed from one spreadsheet into another.
Weeks before
Individual seats, whole tables and sponsor tiers with their own perks, promo codes, custom intake questions and reserved seating. Money goes straight into your own Stripe account, and every order and refund is tracked against the event.
At the door
Volunteers search by name, email or phone and tap once. Walk-ins are added on the spot, tables and paddle numbers are assigned at the door, and the whole team can see who has arrived from anywhere in the room. Guests get their details by text before the night.
During the appeal
A QR code on every table opens the giving screen on a guest's own phone: pick a fund, enter an amount, tap once. Rounds stay locked until you open them, the board updates the moment a pledge lands, and the total you announce is the total you have. Anonymous gifts and employer matching are built in.
The morning after
Tickets, pledges and gifts from every event land on one contact record. Pledge fulfilment is tracked with automatic reminders, duplicates are found and merged, and a Google Sheet stays in sync so the reports you already have keep working.
Three minutes
From creating the event to the morning after: tickets, the door, the live appeal, the donor screen and the follow-up.
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Getting started
Three steps, in order. Most organizations finish all of them in one sitting.
1
Sign up with your email and you are in. No card, no approval queue, no call with sales. Add your organization's name and the teammates who will work the night.
2
Link the Stripe account you already have so money lands with you directly. Set up ticket tiers, tables and sponsorships, the funds guests can give to, and the pledge rounds you plan to run.
3
One code per table. Check guests in at the door, open the rounds when the emcee is ready, and read the total off the board. The thank-yous and the donor records are done before the room empties.
Pricing
No Kause fee on tickets, pledges or donations for organizations raising under $5M a year. Larger organizations and multi-chapter networks pay a flat annual subscription instead of a percentage.
Most organizations
$0Kause fee, ever
For organizations raising under $5M a year. Sign up and start; there is nothing to approve and no card to enter.
Flatannual subscription
For organizations raising over $5M a year and networks with several chapters running their own events.
Payments are processed by Stripe at Stripe's standard rates, paid to Stripe, through your own account. Kause adds no percentage on either plan.
On the night
The door keeps moving
One tap per guest, walk-ins added in seconds, and everyone on the team can see arrivals from their own phone.
The total is real when you announce it
Every pledge is on the board the moment it is made, under the round it belongs to, with the name the guest chose.
The follow-up starts that night
Thank-yous go out on the spot, pledges are tracked to fulfilment, and the donor record is complete before anyone opens a laptop.
Questions
Yes, for organizations raising under $5M a year. There is no Kause fee on tickets, pledges or donations, no monthly cost, and no card to start. Payments run through your own Stripe account at Stripe’s standard rates, with no markup from us.
A phone. Each table gets a QR code; guests scan it, pick a fund, type an amount and tap once. No app, no account, no login. They can give anonymously if they prefer, and the thank-you arrives on their screen straight away.
Create an account and you are in immediately. Connect Stripe, build the event with its ticket tiers, tables and sponsorships, and print the QR codes. Most organizations do all of it in one sitting.
Yes. Import your guest list, and use Kause for check-in, the live appeal and the follow-up. You can add ticketing on the next event, or never; the parts work on their own.
You do. Every guest, ticket, pledge and donor record can be exported at any time, and Kause can keep a Google Sheet in sync automatically so your existing reports keep working.
Locked rounds stay hidden until you open them, the board updates the moment a pledge lands, and walk-ins can be added at the door in seconds. Institutional plans include event-night support from our team.
Create your account, connect Stripe and build the event before the invitations go out. Nothing to install, no card needed, and you are signed in the moment you sign up.
Free under $5M a year. No Kause fee on any gift.