The fundraising platform that does the compliance, not just the campaign.
One gift — an annual appeal, a memorial tribute, a legacy bequest — entered once, becomes the correct receipt (a tax receipt where DGR endorsement supports it), posts to your books without double-entry, and assembles an ACNC/ATO-ready report. With a 0% platform cut*.
*Card processing (~1.7% + 30c) is paid to the payment processor — never to Everflame. It’s opt-in for the donor, and many donors choose to cover it.
Enter it once.
A single gift flows the whole way — no re-keying, no reconciling two systems that disagree.
Gift
A donor gives online, in person, or by recurring pledge. Captured once, cleanly.
The correct receipt
The right receipt for the entity's status — a tax receipt where DGR-endorsed and in date, an ordinary receipt or acknowledgement otherwise — with every ATO field, issued automatically.
Books
Posts straight to your ledger — no double-entry, no second system to reconcile.
ACNC / ATO report
Period figures assemble into a report aligned to your obligations, ready to review.
Everflame records, computes and assembles — it does not advise or lodge on your behalf.
Our cut of your donations is nothing.
*Card processing (~1.7% + 30c per transaction) is charged by the payment processor and goes to them — never to Everflame. It’s opt-in for the donor, and many donors choose to cover it so the cause keeps the full gift. Everflame is not free: we earn a flat compliance subscription, billed predictably regardless of how much you raise.
- A flat subscription, not a slice. You pay a predictable fee for the compliance engine — not a percentage that grows as you grow.
- Aligned incentives. Because we never take a cut of donations, a bigger campaign doesn’t cost you more in fees.
- Donors can cover processing. An opt-in checkbox lets donors absorb the processor’s fee so your cause receives the whole gift.
One platform, or three workarounds.
What the alternatives leave you to stitch together by hand.
| Capability | Everflame | Donation / crowdfunding platform | Accounting tool + a form |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform cut of donations | 0%* | 3–8% typical | n/a (no fundraising) |
| Correct DGR tax receipts | Automatic, ATO fields | Generic / often missing | Manual templates |
| ACNC / ATO-ready reporting | Assembled for you | Export & rebuild | You build it |
| One-entry chain (no re-keying) | Built in | Re-enter into books | Re-enter from form |
| Multi-entity / funds ring-fenced | Yes, can't co-mingle | Single pool | Manual tracking |
| Who owns the donor data | You do | The platform | You do |
| Custody of funds | Settles direct to you | Held, then paid out | n/a |
Built around the real Australian rules.
Not a generic receipt and a hope. The fields, the ring-fencing, and the obligations that actually apply.
Tax-Deductible Gift Receipt
Ring-fenced funds
Each entity and each restricted fund is kept separate in the ledger — donations can’t be co-mingled across causes.
Every way to raise, fused to the compliance.
The giving surface, the receipt, the ledger and the report — one platform, no reconciling.
Every way to raise
Peer-to-peer fundraising
A supporter raises on the charity's behalf through their own page under the campaign — their network gives through them, every gift still landing in the charity's account and carrying the charity's compliant receipt.
The appeal and the standing fund
A timed appeal that runs to a target within a window, and a standing fund that simply accumulates with no end date, either branded to the cause.
Ticketed events
Attendance sold for a gala, a dinner or an auction, with the deductible part of each ticket worked out under the fundraising-event rules rather than guessed.
Regular giving
An ongoing monthly commitment by card or, better, by direct debit, which fails less and costs less, so the charity keeps a dependable base of income.
Pledge campaigns, all-or-nothing
Supporters commit an amount they choose and are charged only when the campaign reaches its goal, so demand is proved before a cent is collected.
Multi-year pledges
A donor commits a fixed total paid in instalments the platform collects on a schedule, each receipted as it is taken and tracked against the total with reminders.
The thermometer that climbs
Goals, not just a bar
The progress display can be a plain total, or a staged ascent in which the published target lifts as each threshold is reached, every threshold carrying a short description of what it unlocks.
Set per campaign, in the builder
The charity chooses plain or staged for each campaign and writes the levels itself, with no code.
Live wherever it sits
The same thermometer runs on a hosted page or embedded on the charity's own site, updating in real time as gifts arrive.
The giving page itself
A fund-picker where it is needed
Where a charity holds several gift funds, the donor can direct the gift to the fund they choose and it lands in that fund's own account.
Amounts that mean something
Each suggested amount is paired with the concrete thing it funds, so the donor is choosing an outcome rather than a number.
A donor wall, if you want one
The gifts made can be listed, each donor appearing by name or anonymously — off unless the charity switches it on.
What the donor gets
Give as a guest
No account and lowest friction, the receipt by email as a matter of course; an account is offered only to the donor who wants their receipts and recurring gifts in one place.
The deductibility, shown before giving
Whether and how much of the gift is tax-deductible is shown at the point of giving, and where a payment carries a benefit the deductible part is shown too.
Tribute giving
A gift made in memory or in honour of a named person, with an optional card the platform sends to someone the donor names.
A portal that holds the relationship
Manage or pause recurring gifts, keep every receipt with the consolidated end-of-financial-year summary, and read the charity's updates on what the giving did — on the web and in the app.
Not every campaign is the same shape.
An appeal races to a goal. A standing fund never closes. A ticketed event splits out the deductible part. Pick the shape that fits — the page, the progress and the receipt follow.
Goal + deadline
Appeal
Runs to a target within a window.
No deadline, never closes
Standing fund
Accumulates indefinitely.
Supporters raise for you
Peer-to-peer
Supporters raise on the entity's behalf through their own sub-pages.
Tickets + deductible split
Ticketed event
Sells attendance; may yield a deductible contribution under the minor-benefit rules.
Recurring monthly gifts
Regular giving
Solicits ongoing commitments.
All-or-nothing goal
Pledge (all-or-nothing)
Supporters commit and are charged only when the goal is reached.
Paid in instalments
Multi-year pledge
A fixed total fulfilled in instalments the platform collects on a schedule.
Donors find causes. Charities get found.
A searchable public directory of endorsed charities and funds — by cause, location, and need.
4 organisations
Southern Cross Foundation
NationalEndowing the arts in Australia for the long term.
Threefold Commonwealth Society
NationalAdvancing science, art and the life of the spirit across its sections.
Globe Players Australia
VICKeeping Shakespeare alive on Australian stages.
Riverkeepers Trust
NSWRestoring the health of our rivers and wetlands.
The form on your site, two lines.
Place the full donation form, progress display or give button on any page. Two lines of code, no backend.
Paste where the form should appear
<div data-fundraising-campaign="restore-the-organ"></div> <script src="/embed.js" async></script>
A CMS plugin places the same component without code.
Full donation form
Complete giving flow with the correct receipt for the entity's status, fund-picker and donor wall — identical to the hosted page.
Progress display
The climbing thermometer with staged thresholds, live-updating as gifts arrive.
Give button
A minimal CTA that opens the full form in an overlay — one element for a sidebar or header.
Your donors, your money, your data.
You own your donor data
Your supporter list is yours. We never resell it or hold it hostage.
We hold no card data
Payments run through the processor’s secure vault. Card numbers never touch us.
Funds settle direct to you
Donations land in your account from the processor — we don’t sit between you and the money.
Export anytime, no lock-in
Download your records whenever you like. Leaving is always a clean export away.
Straight answers.
Isn't this just another fundraising platform?+
No. The fundraising platforms run the campaign and leave the compliance, the donor record and the reporting to a second system, and the compliance and accounting systems do the reverse. Everflame is the one product that does both — the gift entered once and flowing into the receipt, the books, the thank-you and the regulator reports without re-entry.
Who is this platform for?+
Any Australian not-for-profit that raises funds. Legal structure (incorporated association, company limited by guarantee), charitable registration with the ACNC, and DGR endorsement are distinct and separate layers — not every not-for-profit is a registered charity, and not every registered charity is DGR-endorsed. Everflame serves entities at every point on that spectrum: the small community group with no charitable registration, the ACNC-registered charity, and the DGR-endorsed fund. The receipt issued depends on the entity's status: an ordinary receipt for a non-deductible gift, a tax receipt only where endorsement supports it. Individuals can also create fundraising pages — a birthday appeal, a sponsored run, a memorial collection — where every dollar raised flows to a registered organisation on the platform. Everflame does not support fundraising for personal benefit.
We have only one fund and we're a small charity. Is this overkill?+
No. The multi-fund structure is simply the fuller case, and a single-fund organisation is the simple instance of it. The donor front end is free, so a small charity can run campaigns at no platform cost and add the compliance subscription only if it wants the deeper layer.
We aren't a DGR. Can we still use it?+
Yes. Everflame serves the whole spectrum, from the non-charitable not-for-profit through the registered charity to the deductible-gift-endorsed entity, issuing an ordinary receipt where a gift is not deductible and a tax receipt only where the endorsement supports it.
Does Everflame lodge our ACNC or ATO returns for us?+
No. It assembles the inputs to the Annual Information Statement, the figures the tax office needs and the donor summaries from the data it already holds, and you or your agent lodge them. Everflame prepares; it never lodges - no return, statement or distribution is ever lodged for a fee.
Do you take a percentage of donations?+
No. The donor-facing front end is free under the donor-contribution model, and Everflame earns from a compliance subscription rather than a cut of the gift, so more of each gift reaches the cause.
Where is our data, and is it ours?+
Your data is held in an Australian region, owned by you and your donors rather than by Everflame, never mined or sold, and exportable in full at any time, so adopting the platform never means being locked into it.
Is our money safe? Do you hold our funds?+
Everflame holds no card data and takes custody of no funds. The payment provider holds the card data and gifts settle to your own account, not ours. Every account that can move money uses two-factor sign-in, every compliance action is written to an immutable audit record, and an independent penetration test is run before launch.
How do you keep up with the rules as they change?+
The compliance encoding is a versioned, maintained component, tracked against the reforms under way, and each receipt and report records which version of the rules governed it, with reform notes surfaced to you where a matter is in flux.
Can supporters raise money on our behalf?+
Yes. A supporter creates their own page under your campaign and raises through their own network, and every gift still lands in your account and carries your compliant receipt.
Can I run a fundraiser as an individual for a charity I want to support?+
Yes. You don't need to be a staff member or a volunteer. You can create a personal fundraising page — a birthday fundraiser, a sponsored run, a memorial collection — and choose which registered organisation on the platform the gifts flow to. You'll indicate whether you're running it as an affiliate of that organisation or on your own initiative. The funds always go to the charity, never to you. Everflame does not facilitate fundraising for personal benefit.
Can our donors give without creating an account?+
Yes. Giving is done as a guest in a few taps with no sign-up, and the receipt arrives by email straight away. An account is offered only to the donor who wants their receipts and recurring gifts in one place.
As a donor, is my gift tax-deductible?+
You are shown before you give whether the gift is deductible and how much of it is, which depends on the charity's endorsement and the nature of the gift, and your receipt arrives the moment you give, computed from the entity's recorded endorsement status.
As a donor, can I give monthly and change it later?+
Yes. A monthly gift is set up in seconds, and you can change the amount or the card, or pause or stop it, at any time from the donor portal or the app.
Run the campaign. We'll keep the compliance — for a 0%* cut.
One entry becomes a correct receipt, clean books, and an ACNC/ATO-ready report. We take no slice of your donations. No long contract. Export your data anytime. *Card processing is paid to the processor, not to Everflame.