> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.theharvest.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Campaigns and statements

> Run a fundraising campaign, and give your members their year-end receipts.

## Fundraising campaigns

A campaign is a goal with a progress bar — a building fund, a mission trip, a new sound desk.

Create one under **Fundraising**, set the target and the closing date, and it appears in the member app with your [payment links](/giving/payment-links) attached.

### How progress is counted

<Warning>
  A campaign's progress bar only moves when gifts are **recorded**. Money sitting in your PayPal that nobody has entered does not show up.

  If your bar says 6% funded and you know you have more, the gifts are waiting to be [recorded](/giving/recording-a-gift).
</Warning>

This catches people out during a big push, when giving is heaviest and admin time is shortest. Record daily during a campaign.

## Giving statements

At year end, your members need a record of what they gave. Harvest builds these from the gifts you have recorded.

Each member sees their own statement in their account, broken down by year, with a downloadable receipt for each gift.

### What a member sees

* Every gift you recorded against their email address
* A per-year total
* A receipt they can download

### What they do not see

* Gifts recorded against a contact with no email
* Gifts recorded against a different email from the one they sign in with

<Note>
  A member can only ever see their own receipts. Harvest matches on the email address they signed in with, so one member cannot see another's giving.
</Note>

## Before you send people to their statements

It is worth a check in December:

<Steps>
  <Step title="Make sure every gift is recorded">
    Compare your payment accounts against your dashboard total.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Check the contacts with no email">
    Any gift recorded against them is invisible to that person. Add the email and the statement fills in.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Then tell your congregation">
    They will find their statement in the member app under their profile.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Accounting

Every recorded gift also lands in **Accounting** as an invoice, so your books and your giving totals agree without anyone entering the same gift twice.


## Related topics

- [Plans and limits](/getting-started/plans-and-billing.md)
- [Pledges](/giving/pledges.md)
- [Recording a gift](/giving/recording-a-gift.md)
- [Blog and community](/content/blog-and-community.md)