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Pledge campaigns are a Ministry plan feature.
A pledge campaign is different from a fundraising campaign. A fundraising campaign tracks money received. A pledge campaign tracks money promised, and then how much of it has actually arrived.

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When to use one

Building projects, mission commitments, anything where you need to know what the church has committed to before the money exists.
The useful number in a building project is rarely what has come in this month. It is the gap between what was promised and what has arrived — that is the number that tells you whether to sign the contract.

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How it works

1

Create the campaign

Set the goal and the period people are pledging over.
2

Members pledge

They commit to an amount — a one-off figure or something over months.
3

Money comes in through your own links

As with all giving in Harvest, payments go to your accounts, not ours.
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You record what arrives

Each recorded gift counts against the pledge.

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The gap is the point

You can see, per person and in total, what was pledged and what has been received.
As everywhere in Harvest, the received figure counts recorded gifts. If nobody has entered this month’s payments, the gap will look worse than it is.Record weekly during a pledge campaign. The numbers are the reason the campaign exists.

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Handling it pastorally

A pledge is a commitment made in good faith, and circumstances change. Harvest shows you the figures; what you do about a shortfall is a conversation, not a dunning notice — there is no automated chasing, deliberately.