An order page for every team, a live leaderboard, emails that tell the team what to send and when, and pickup sheets the moment orders close. Run it for the groups you supply, or run your own group's sale. Middleman handles the part nobody wants.
Running live for a Georgia BBQ company. Best fundraiser so far: $15,020 for one high school baseball team in four weeks.
Two kinds of account, told apart by one thing: where the product comes from.
A business whose product groups sell: a BBQ joint, bakery, farm, greenhouse, print shop. You hold the account, you set the prices, and groups sign up under you. Your payout matches the product total.
A scout unit, youth group, PTA, booster club or band that buys its own product and sells it. Your group holds the account and keeps its own supplier and prices. The money goes to your group's bank account.
Selling a business's product for them, and they already have the account? You are the third case: your group sells for a business.
Not the product. The hours around it.
The booster treasurer collects cash and checks, and you wait on one check before you know what you made.
Paper forms with half the names unreadable, totaled by hand, and a parent texting to ask how many their kid sold.
Two hundred orders, sixty families, one printout, and a pickup list built the night before.
Middleman takes all three off your plate.
Put in your products once, whether that's BBQ boxes, candy bars, cookie dough, or discount cards. Every team you say yes to gets its own page, and buyers pay by card when they order.
Most families will buy. The hard part is getting kids to ask. The leaderboard shows how many players have sold, and how many more orders it takes to hit the goal.
164 orders · $54.51 average · 11 players haven't sold yet
The difference between a small fundraiser and a big one is whether the team keeps asking. So the asking is scheduled. Each email has the team's numbers and a message ready to send.
The team contact gets a page that shows exactly who hasn't sold, with a text to send each one. They fix their own mix-ups, so you stop being the help desk.
The morning after orders close, you get an email with exactly how much to have ready. Print the pickup sheets: a checklist plus one slip per family, sorted by kid.
| Smoked Boston butt | 2 |
| Pulled pork, 2 lb | 1 |
| Brunswick stew, quart | 1 |
What teams can sell and what it costs. A starter list is filled in for you to edit.
Each team picks its dates, pickup spot, and goal. You say yes with one click, or add a team yourself.
Buyers order and pay by card. The leaderboard and the team emails keep kids asking.
Totals by email, pickup sheets to print, and a reminder to everyone who ordered.
On one high school baseball team, only 15 of 65 kids had sold anything after the first week. Once the team had a list of who hadn't started and a text to send each one, 63 of 65 sold.
A service fee on each order, plus card processing, added at checkout. Buyers already pay a fee on Cheddar Up. Nothing comes out of what the team raises, and nothing comes out of your pocket: your payout matches the product total.
Nothing. Buyers pay a $2.85 service fee on each order, plus card processing, so your payout matches the product total. Prefer to cover processing yourself? Switch it in Settings.
Yes. Families pay straight into your own Stripe account. The money never passes through us, and we never see your bank details. Our system never moves money out of your Stripe account: refunds and payouts happen only in your Stripe dashboard, behind your own Stripe login. Once your Stripe is connected, nobody can swap it for theirs through our site, because getting into your account takes a login link that only goes to your email inbox. And a person reviews every new account before it can take a single payment.
We review every new account, usually within a day. You can build your menu and try your sample fundraiser right away; your pages and payments switch on once you're approved.
Straight to your own Stripe account, then to your bank. Stripe's first payout to a new account usually takes 7 to 14 days while it checks things over, then about two business days after that.
Pick dates, a pickup spot, and a goal. Announce it at practice and send the texts the emails give them. Every kid gets their own link.
Anything with a per-item price and a delivery day: BBQ boxes, candy bars, cookie dough, discount cards, baked goods, farm boxes, family meals.
Yes, and there is no separate mode to find. Your group is the account and your sale is its first fundraiser, so you keep your supplier, your product and your prices. How it works for a group.
Refund the order in your Stripe account. It shows up in your dashboard on its own, and our fee on that order comes back to you.
Set up your products, and a sample fundraiser gets built so you can see every page before your first team signs up. Same account whether you supply what groups sell or run your own group's sale.