The Tale of 3 Pledge Managers

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This blog post is 100% inspired by James Mathe’s excellent post about Pledge Managers. Like many creators, Mathe’s blog and facebook group helped me immensely when I was getting started. I am writing this to add to that discussion and update it a bit.

This post compares my experience with GameFound (3 projects), Pledge Manager (4 projects) and Crowd Ox (2 projects) in several different areas to help you figure out what Pledge Manager would serve you best for your project. While this post includes some info on Backerkit for comparison’s sake. I have never used them (0 projects). I am opposed to Backerkit’s pricing structure where they charge you a % of your Kickstarter success. They had nothing to do with your success and they’re using your success to gauge your willingness to pay. That being said, it is clear that their platform is very sophisticated. Think of them as the luxury brand pledge manager. They’re very nice but it will cost you. You can check out Mathe’s post above for more in-depth coverage of his experience with Backerkit.

TLDR:

Every Pledge Manager I’ve used has had the functionality I’ve needed. While I do my best to compare features, User Interfaces, customer support etc, it really boils down to price for me. You make yourself more money by using a Pledge Manager. Anyone who says “[INSERT PM NAME] more than paid for itself and made me money” is taking credit away from themselves. You’re sending (hopefully thousands) of backers to a 3rd party platform who already want your thing. They are ready to spend money because of your Kickstarter. Don’t forget they are your crowd and you put in a lot of hard work to garner their support.

Setup / Admin Backend

Crowd OxGameFoundPledge Manager
Initial SetupManual: Medium TouchManual: Low TouchManual: High Touch
New Project CreationManual: Low TouchDo it Yourself (DIY)Manual: High Touch
Manage Products (admin)Yes – Automatic/DIYYes / DIYNo
Stripe/PaypalYesYesYes
Import/Invite BackersAutomaticDIYManual: Medium Touch
Analytics (FB & Google)YesYesGoogle only
Final ReviewManual: Low TouchManual: Low TouchManual: Low Touch
I'll be use the terms Low, Medium, High touch etc. When I talk about touch, I'm referring to the level of personal contact required with the customer service of the platform. In general, the higher touch something is the more time/effort is spent communicating back and forth. Everyone has their own personal preference on this type of thing.  Some customers may like having a closer relationship with a real person where others may be annoyed that they can't just do it themselves.  If you're coming from Kickstarter, it is a very low touch platform. You setup pretty much everything yourself and then submit to them for approval. In general, high touch interactions require more time/money.

I believe you have to contact Crowd Ox and sign a contract before they add your project into your dashboard. They do a nice job of grabbing your Kickstarter URL and prepopulating things in their dashboard. Once you have access to the admin dashboard, the setup is really slick. As you can see above, they have a really nice setup dashboard that walks you through each step. When you click the “Do It!” button it jumps you right to where you need to go.

Crowd Ox requires that you make setup their account as a contributor via on Kickstarter which allows them to automatically generate your pledge levels and easily import your backers using the Kickstarter API. Some people may not be comfortable with that kind of access, but they do not get access to anything they are not going to get anyway. The API integration does make setup easy though.

Crowd ox’s admin interface is robust and you are also free to create new products, add-ons, etc and build it all out as you go. Crowd Ox’s admin interface is very straight forward and the most visually appealing. I really have no complaints and think it’s well done. I found it easy to use and feature rich.

Once you have an account setup on GameFound, you can pretty easily create a new project yourself right from a dropdown menu. GF also has a pretty nice dashboard that walks you through all the essential steps. The first project I setup took me a bit of time to learn how it all worked. It takes some time to get familiar with how they do things and the terminology they use and how you can restrict products to certain user groups, but it all gets to a lot of the features that I want.

I will say that I absolutely LOVE that Gamefound lets you create “Sets” of products. Whether you’re creating a bundle or making a SKU cheaper for group pledges or something, you can create a bunch of different sets to represent all your different pricing without having to create new convoluted SKUs or duplicate products. It’s not quite as user friendly as CrowdOx but I do find the features in GameFound more and more robust.

Pledge Manager’s setup process is very high touch. If you are used to Excel spreadsheets and don’t like learning/navigating websites and backends, Pledge Manager is for you. Part of me has to admit that the setup is pretty easy because they do it all for you. You fill out a spreadsheet and email it to them and they set everything up for you on their platform.

You really need to get that spreadsheet right though because what irks me with Pledge Manager is once they set it up, they don’t really trust you to make changes. All you can really do is change up your product titles and descriptions. You can’t even upload and change product images. I also think it lacks the same kind of currency and analytics features as the other two.

With all that being said though, the PM team can actually do some pretty fancy stuff with your setup. I’ve done different shipping waves, sold extra stock from previous campaigns and of course done multiple language selections for each product all within their system. I just had to set it all up in Excel and email/skype with them back and forth, so the features are there – they’re just not readily available to you from their admin dashboard.


Setup / Admin Backend Summary – Winner: Crowd Ox!

I find that both Gamefound and Crowd Ox have more features in their admin backend than Pledge Manager. Pledge Manager is easy to setup (especially is you’re a new creator and/or have a simple project) but it requires them to do all the heavy lifting for you. I much prefer to have the tools at my finger tips. While I think GF can do everything that CO can, the reality is that Crowd Ox’s interface is just prettier and easier to learn.


Shipping

Shipping is where the Do it Yourself method can be really tedious. Crowd Ox’s system is easy to use: you create a shipping Zone and go through and select each country it applies to manually. Then you have to put in weight ranges and prices for each weight. Building these charts is time consuming. Crowd Ox also doesn’t have a quick and easy shipping calculator testing method. You can login and simulate being a customer though so that’s how I always double-checked my shipping costs.

I would like to note that I utilized different waves of shipping on one of my Crowd Ox projects. It worked well and they do a nice job locking only specific products via their export system. Like all the platforms, Crowd Ox has easily integrated with my fulfillment company’s software/system. Most use Shipstation, but Crowd Ox does have other integrations and apps you can install.

Gamefound’s shipping system is very feature rich and is easily the most complicated as a result. I don’t think the complicated nature of it makes it hard to use, but it adds time to the process and you have to click through a lot of menus. Now the pros for their setup is that you can create completely independent shipping models, shipping stages, shipping rules and more. It can pretty much do whatever you need, but it offers way more than I’ve ever needed. Like Crowd Ox, you have to manually create shipping zones, add countries/locations (I do like that you can easily separate out Hawaii/Alaska from the USA though!) and then edit each zone and put in the weight ranges and prices. All very time consuming. It’s especially annoying that I can’t save my zones from previous projects and reuse them.

Luckily, after all that work, Gamefound has an amazing and easy to use Shipping Calculator to check all of you work. You type and add as many products/pledges as you want and then click calculate and it spits out the shipping cost for each region. This is a very very easy way to check your KS shipping table graphic against the shipping that you actually put into their system and makes finding any errors very easy.

Now here is where I think Pledge Manager’s down and dirty approach really benefits them. When you’re getting quotes for shipping from different fulfillment services (Funagain Logistics, ShipQuest, Quartermaster) – the will send you a spreadsheet or PDF of their pricing. You actually probably already have a shipping pricing spreadsheet or table that you worked on before you launched your Kickstarter. Pledge Manager is the only platform that I’ve seen that lets you easily upload a CSV spreadsheet to take care of all of your shipping. Format your shipping table into their format, 1 click to upload and you’re done. Working in a spreadsheet for shipping is just easier and faster since you don’t have to click through all the layers of things.

Pledge Manager also offers the best of both other platforms when it comes to double checking shipping. You can click the test weight button and put in the region/weight you want to check and it quickly jumps /highlights the shipping table OR you can login and view the checkout process as a customer.


Shipping Summary – Winner: Pledge Manager!

I’ve used both Pledge Manager and Crowd Ox to do more complicated projects where I’ve sold excess stock with inventory tracking and had multiple shipping waves. Crowd Ox was not able to ‘hide’ certain add-ons from people by region (because our inventory differed from each regional hub) which did let some human error trickle into one of my projects and as Mathe noted, Pledge Manager can do this. All in all though, they both were able to do what I needed them to do. While I haven’t gotten into this same level of complexity with any of my recent projects on Gamefound, I’m sure their shipping system can also handle it. It really comes down to the setup time and ease of adjusting my shipping table and Pledge Manager is the clear winner in that department, plus you’re not sacrificing any real shipping features.


Preorders / Late Pledges

Crowd Ox’s preorder page does a great job of summarizing your Kickstarter and linking back to it. It’s also the most aesthetically pleasing of the preorder pages. It actually sits between the two other platforms as far as their preorder strategy goes. You can have the preorder / late pledge option available as soon as your Kickstarter ends like Gamefound, but at first people just select the pledge they’re interested in and it takes their email address and adds them to your list. Then when you actually launch your surveys, everyone who signed up as a late pledge is included in those surveys and can login to actually pay and checkout.

If you’re willing to put in the work before/during your Kickstarter, you can add your late pledge button on Kickstarter as soon as it closes. This is what I did for my Lawyer Up campaign and you will see pledges start rolling in immediately and avoid the KS messages about “just missing it.” I love that Gamefound can start taking orders and collecting money immediately.

Pledge Manager’s preorder system mimics the look of your Kickstarter page. They have to set it up for you so they’ll grab all the info from your campaign page and you’ll need to email them to change things. They may have changed this now, but I was never able to get my preorder up immediately after my campaign and always had to wait at least 2 weeks for the campaign to wrap up and to get the backer export. I do think getting up a late pledge button as soon as your campaign closes is an important thing so I hope this is something PM has or will address.


Preorder Summary – Winner: Gamefound / Crowd Ox

I don’t think there is a clear winner here. Gamefound captures the purchase immediately which may give it a slight edge, but Crowd Ox’s UI is prettier and slicker. If Pledge Manager could get their preorder going as soon as your project ends, I’d really say it’s a tie. They can all do preorders and there’s no reason a Kickstarter creator shouldn’t offer preorders or late pledges after their campaign has closed.


User Interface – Winner: Crowd Ox

This is a somewhat subjective category, but I find Crowd Ox’s design and interface to be the most intuitive and aesthetically pleasing. Everyone can pretty much judge this for themselves so I’m not going to dwell on it.


User Checkout Experience


User Checkout Summary- Winner: TIE

I can have backed almost 100 KS projects and I can tell you that as a User I do not care what pledge manager you use. In my experience, they all send me an email with a link I click, then I click and pick my rewards, put in my address (or my address is already saved on the site), I pay for shipping and then I get a confirmation email. As a customer, they all let you edit your pledge (while you can) and change your address. I’ve never missed completing my survey on any of the 4 platforms shown above. In fact the only quibble I have with any of them is that Backerkit can be a little overzealous with their reminder emails. I’ve used 3 different pledge managers and have never heard from any backers complaining about using one above the other or any of my surveys being difficult to complete.

When I posted to a Facebook group that I was working on this post, I had some one ask, “Is a specific pledge manager more popular among backers than others?” The answer is no… or even if it does to some one out there… that percentage is so small that it isn’t significant. We’re talking less than 1% here. Another person asked, “How much extra sales the PMs is raising for you?” Zero. As I mentioned earlier, I bring extra sales to the PM because of my own marketing and product. If a PM has featured me in a free newsletter, I haven’t noticed any spikes in funding. I agree with James Mathe when he said, “On average you can expect 10-20% additional sales post-campaign.” That seems about right and I wouldn’t expect it to change from platform to platform. The bigger indicator is the differences between the projects.


Order Lookup & Maintenance

I know I’ve already covered some of the backend features of each of these platforms when I talked about setting them up, but that’s really just a small part of what you will be doing with these pledge managers. As you work on fulfilling your project, you will deal with cancellations, looking up orders, order changes, and other customer support issues.

Crowd Ox has an easy to use order search that lets you find stuff quickly. It also has several filters that you can apply. It has a few more features when it comes to views, sorting, etc. than the other platforms. You can cancel an order with the click of the bottom and I really like how they display all the emails the customer has been sent (invite, confirmation, receipt, etc). You can easily view them or resend these emails. Backers will sometimes ask “did I fill out the PM correctly?” and it’s nice to be able to send their confirmation to them again.

Crowd Ox gives you all the tools to change an order. You can add/remove items, change pledges etc all from their backend and there’s even a button that logs you in as the backer and impersonate them. I find this really useful to see where they are stuck or to login as them myself to back them up and fix things.

Another thing you’re going to need to do other than check up on orders, is verify quantities of each of your products / skus for manufacturing and then how you’re going to split them up by shipping lane. Crowdox has a nice way to jump to the overall stats, but you have to filter by country to really break it down for your shipping lanes.

Gamefound has an easy to use filtered search to lookup backer’s orders, statuses, etc. I’ve had no issue looking up orders, inviting/importing users, cancelling orders, or processing refunds. When you process a refund, if it is a really old order you may have to send the actual refund outside of GF’s system. I think it has more to do with Stripe/Paypal’s api than their platform though. I like that you can include fees (KS + CC fees) with a cancelled order so the customer has a record of the breakdown.

It’s worth noting that Gamefound does not allow you to quickly impersonate a backer right from the order. I’ve found this helpful on the other platforms, because you can click through the survey or impersonate them and see what they’re stuck on. You can easily do everything from the backend though (change pledges, add items, change quantities).

Gamefound doesn’t have any product summaries for SKU counts and requires you to export everything into a CSV or spreadsheet. Not a huge issue, but an extra step and a pain if you’re not good at Excel.

Pledge Manager’s quick search is pretty smart contextually. You can paste a name, email, etc and it will return any result that might be a match. I also love that they have the tabs at the top to quickly jump to incomplete pledges, etc and that the list itself is color coded. It all comes together to give you a lot of info. You can jump to any order by clicking the Tools icon or impersonate a backer from the dropdown there.

Like the other platforms, you can easily modify an order, process a refund etc. from the “review order” backend. After fulfillment, I also like how each tracking number is included on the order pages with a link to the tracking service (DHL, Fedex etc website.

Pledge Manager is also the only platform where I could easily click and get SKU counts by country. I can’t tell you how any times I need to double-check this info leading up to freight shipping / fulfillment. It’s nice to just have it ready to go, rather than having to filter countries or download a spreadsheet.


Order Lookup & Maintenance – Winner: Pledge Manager!

This is probably a bit subjective since the featuer sets are all very close, but when it comes down to it I think I can lookup/change an order and/or get my SKUs by country the fastest in Pledge Manager. I also think that their color coding and tab search gives them a slight edge – especially after fulfillment when dealing with the “I didn’t get my pledge” support issues.


Fulfillment / Exporting

Basically you use Crowd Ox’s robust order search and filtering system to create exports. Filter the search and then just click the export button and the fulfillment service provider you’re using. If they’re not already in the list you can install nearly every provider from their app list. This makes sure your exports are formatted exactly the way your shipping partner needs them which is nice.

A really nice feature about Crowd Ox’s segmented search is that it allows you to export a shipping report for your European Depot and lock the orders in that export or even the individual products. For my last Crowd Ox project, I sold a bunch of stock I had leftover in the EU and AU and was able to export and lock those specific products in people’s orders so that they could still modify/change the main pledge from that Kickstarter.

I should start by saying that I have not finished fulfilling any of my current Gamefound projects yet, but they do allow easy CSV and Excel spreadsheet order exports from their filtered order search. They do not have the same number of featured apps as Crowd Ox, but they do feature many of the major board game fulfillment providers like Quartermaster Logistics.

I’ll update this section more as I finish up fulfilling these projects, but they appear to have all the features I need here. Their project dashboard has a nice snapshot of % shipped vs pledged so I’m very confident they will allow me to upload tracking information and/or integrate with Shipstation.

This is actually probably the single biggest issue for me when it comes to Pledge Manager, but they only really have 1 backer list export and it is pretty useless. It just downloads a spreadsheet of the above backer search with their addresses etc added. You have to contact their customer service to get a true order report with the breakdown of SKUs that you would need for your fulfillment company. As I mention below, the customer service there is excellent, but it annoys me that the data is in there and I can’t get it without asking.

With all that being said, they integrate with with all the major fulfillment companies and the Shipstation software that everyone uses. If you take the time to get the integration working, your shipping hub can just batch and download all the labels etc. from their system. Best of all, the tracking numbers etc will post back to Pledge Manager.


Fulfillment / Exporting – Winner: Crowd Ox!

I’m in the process of completing my most recent Crowd Ox project, but the project i fulfilled back in 2015 had no issues and while I haven’t had any issues with Pledge Manager either, I do recognize that Crowd Ox has more fulfillment app integrations and features.


Customer Support

I’ve personally met Chandler Copenhaver ([email protected]) on several occasions at conventions both big and small. He even playtested the Few and Cursed at Metatopia a few years back. All my interactions with him have been positive. He’s more on the sales/account rep side but he always got me in touch with the right person or pointed me to the very helpful knowledgebase that Crowd Ox has whenever I got stuck or had a question.

Not only can you pretty much find every answer you’ll need in this portal, but they even contextually link to some of the more relevant articles or help you may need from their admin backend.

My contact at Gamefound is the illustrious Martyn Poole ([email protected]). He frequents many of the board game groups on Facebook and is the person that convinced me to try Gamefound. He’s really accessible on Facebook and has hopped on FB messenger to share screens or even logged into my account to fix things for me.

Gamefound could use a knowledgebase or better documentation though, but again I think that pain point is alleviated by the always available team they have there to help you.

I have never had an issue with Pledge Manager support though I did find the best way to communicate with them was using Skype. Adam Clark and his team are all very nice and regularly attend conventions, so you even have the chance to meet them in person.

Pledge Manager has a fantastic “Backer Boiler Plate” help text that you can grab an email to people that message you. I’ve copied this to my clipboard way too many times to count – it’s super helpful.


Customer Support Summary – Winner: Depends…

I really would recommend working with all three of these people. The only thing I would reiterate is that all things held equal, Pledge Manager is a lot higher touch. You will absolutely be interacting with them (so it’s great that they are helpful) on every project. For my last Gamefound project, all I had to do was send a message to Martyn to do the final review and publish it on the day my Kickstarter ended. When it comes to customer support, I don’t think you can go wrong with any of them.

It really depends on how much hand holding you want or need. Are you brand new to pledge managers or do you get frustrated learning websites? Pledge Manager might be best for you because you’ll spend more time reviewing their setup than learning how to use a website. Are you a control freak like me? Crowd Ox and Gamefound give you more control. If you’re less tech savvy, Crowd Ox’s knowledgebase could get you over the hump where Gamefound may overly frustrate you without callling on customer support.


Pricing

Setup FeesTransaction Fees
Backer Kit$199 + 2-3% of Campaign0% or 5% + ~3% CC fees
Crowd Ox$0.75* per backer ($525 min)5% + ~3% CC fees
GamefoundFree~3% CC fees (2.9% + $0.30)
Pledge Manager$0.25 per backer ($150 min)5% + ~3% CC fees
*Listed price – volume pricing available

BKBK ProCOGFPM
$20 Small Game (500 backers, $5k shipping, $1k PM)$879.00$679.00$855.00$180.00$605.00
$20 Small Game (1500 backers, $15k shipping, $3k PM)$2,239.00$1,639.00$2,565.00$540.00$1,815.00
$20 Small Game (3000 backers, $30k shipping, $6k PM)$4,279.00$3,079.00$5,130.00$1,080.00$3,630.00
$50 Small campaign (1000 backers, $15k shipping, $5k PM)$2,799.00$2,299.00$2,350.00$600.00$1,850.00
$50 Medium (2000 backers, $30k shipping, $10k PM)$5,399.00$4,399.00$4,700.00$1,200.00$3,700.00
$50 Large (4000 backers, $60k shipping, $40k PM)$12,199.00$9,199.00$11,000.00$3,000.00$9,000.00
$90 Miniatures Game (2000 backers, $40k shipping, $36k PM)$9,879.00$7,879.00$7,580.00$2,280.00$6,580.00
$90 Big Hit (4000 backers, $80k shipping, $72k PM)$19,559.00$15,559.00$15,160.00$4,560.00$13,160.00
$100 Blockbuster (20,000 backers, $400k shipping, $400k PM)$104,199.00$84,199.00$79,000.00$24,000.00$69,000.00

Pricing Summary – Winner: Gamefound!

While Gamefound remains free, it is always going to come up as the cheapest option and is really hard not to recommend. People sometimes question Gamefound’s integrity around privacy because they are free. They might even quote, “‘if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” but Gamefound is fully GDPR compliant just like every other pledge manager. I can tell you that I’ve had no privacy/data issues with ANY of the platforms that I’ve used. Plug in any of Awaken Realms (the company that created Gamefound) blockbuster Kickstarters into the calculator above and I think it pretty clearly shows you their incentive to build something themselves. I mean if you have even one $2+ million Kickstarter you’re paying a salary to use a pledge manager.

Pricing is a big deal for me so I tend to recommend pledge managers based on the results above. Everyone likes to talk about how much money a PM will make you, but making money isn’t just about sales it is also about controlling expenses. Is Backer Kit really going to make you $5k-$10k more than Pledge Manager? How does using their platform drive any more eyeballs to your late pledge than Gamefound? Saving $2k-$3k is a big deal, especially for smaller campaigns. I’ll just reiterate what I said in the beginning. You are driving 99% of people to the pledge manager. It’s your crowd and you shouldn’t pay extra for bells and whistles that you don’t need.

Finally I would just like to add that I used the current public pricing of the pledge managers on their website, but you should absolutely contact them about pricing (especially the more expensive ones) since they’re not set in stone. Backer Kit has courted me and offered to adjusting pricing/fees. I also got a lower publisher/volume rate than the advertised $0.75 per backer setup fee over at Crowd Ox to try them again (Crowd Ox used to have an amazing SAAS model where you paid $29/month + X% transactions that I used for my first project). Pledge Manager’s pricing is more than fair at $0.25 per backer but even they have some flat fees for low average pledge and/or smaller projects. If any pledge manager owners are out there listening, I believe PMs should look to emulate Kickstarter’s own pricing structure and charge a simple 5% (or less) on transactions.


Crowd Ox Summary:

Crowd Ox is a higher end platform with more features and flexibility but you’re going to pay for those luxuries. If you have a complicated project with add-ons, in stock items in different fulfillment zones, multiple shipping waves – then the price may be worth it to you (after negotiating them down). I can tell you that this platform was an absolute steal at $29/month back in 2015 – tremendous value. While I didn’t pay $0.75 per backer for my recent project, I did pay more than $0.25 per backer and find it hard to justify spending more when the other platforms could’ve met my needs and saved me money.

  • Pros: Fully featured, Beautiful Interface, Low Touch, Tons of integrations, Online chat, Great Knowledgebase, Individual Product locking for easy multi-wave shipping, Easily resend emails/receipts
  • Cons: Expensive (especially for cheaper games with a lot of backers), Setting up Shipping tables is time consuming, requires collaborator invite on Kickstarter

If you’re interested in Crowd Ox, you can visit https://crowdox.com/ or contact Chandler Copenhaver at [email protected].

Gamefound Summary:

Gamefound is currently my go-to pledge manager. While it took me some time to adjust to it, its feature set is quite robust and it is hard to justify spending hundreds or thousands of dollars more to use the other platforms. It’s hard to argue with free, but I would actually gladly pay Gamefound 1-5% of any additional funds raised on their platform. It’s also nice that Gamefound is focused on Board games. It’s also the only platform with some discovery and some form of storefront to potentially be found by users.

  • Pros: Free, Low touch, Create different product bundles without a bunch of new skus, Late Pledge can Launch ASAP and collects money immediately, Different user groups for group pledges, retailers, etc, Actively being developed/improved: New project dashboard is great, designed specifically for board games
  • Cons: Bit of a learning curve, Shipping setup is time consuming, Default Currency (with currency conversion) is a bit fiddly/buggy, Have to download spreadsheet for product counts and order details, Can’t impersonate backers

If you’re interested in Gamefound, you can visit https://gamefound.com/ or contact Martyn Poole at [email protected]

Pledge Manager Summary:

The only bad thing I can really say about Pledge Manager is that I find it very annoying to request database exports. Yes, I realize that you only realistically do this a few times during a project, but it’s just a feature that should be in there. I also think that an easy to use feature that lets you bulk re-invite people that haven’t completed the survey would be nice (you can manually do it one by one). You can see I’m reaching for complaints. Pledge Manager is very strong and run by excellent people. It has all the features that 95% of creators need.

  • Pros: Shipping Table upload, Order Quick search w/ tabs, Fair price and great value, Great Customer support, Easy to test by impersonating backers, Efficient
  • Cons: Hard to batch email reminders, Preorder waiting period, High Touch, Smaller team, Platform hasn’t evolved/improved much over the years, Have to ask for exports

If you’re interested in Pledge Manager, you can visit their website at https://www.pledgemanager.com/


That’s it for me. Hopefully this information can help creators choose the best Pledge Manager for their project. If I messed anything up or if you have any comments, suggestions, or feedback please comment below. I will do my best to keep this post updated with the most relevant information.

4 Responses

  1. Regan

    Thanks for your detailed review Mike, it’s great to get an overview of the three main pledge managers. I wanted to ask what are three features you would like to see in the pledge manager which are done poorly/don’t exist and why? From what I can see shipping setup, survey flexibility and customer service seem to be the biggest pain points currently.

  2. Andrea

    Holy cow, that’s an extensive revew! Thank you so much for your effort. We’re currently very happy with Gamefound and after reading your review I’m even more certain that we made the right choice.

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