$170,000 in Additional Revenue From One Funnel Fix

client

DonorSee

result

Donation Flow Optimisation

website

www.donorsee.com

year

2022/2023

DonorSee, a global charitable giving platform with over 22,000 funded projects, generated $170,000 in additional revenue after a conversion audit by Cian Condon at Conversion Haus identified a single sequencing flaw in their donation flow.

The Problem

When a platform's core value proposition depends on donors receiving video follow-ups from recipients, losing 45% of donors before they create a profile is not a retention problem. It is a funnel problem.

That was DonorSee's situation. A giving platform that had raised over $10 million for people in need, with 60,000 video updates sent from recipients to donors worldwide. The product worked. The donation flow did not.

Nearly half of donors were completing transactions as guests. DonorSee could not reconnect with them. Those donors never received the follow-up video that made the platform worth using. The experience DonorSee had built, and that drove 3x the industry average in repeat giving, was being skipped by nearly half of new donors.

DonorSee brought in Conversion Haus for a conversion audit to find out where the process was breaking down.

The Problem

The problem was sequencing, not messaging.

New donors were being asked to create a profile after completing their donation. By that point, the transaction felt finished.

Asking for account creation at that stage felt like an additional task after the real thing was already done, and 45% of users left without creating a profile.

The fix was not about persuasion. It was about order.

Between these two steps, we identified a major drop-off and area for improvement.

What We Changed

The payment step and the profile creation step were combined into a single screen.

New donors entered their contact details and completed their donation in one action. A simple checkbox gave them the choice to create a profile or continue as a guest.

The friction of a separate step was removed entirely. The moment of peak motivation, during the transaction rather than after it, was used to capture the information DonorSee needed.

No redesign. No new copy framework. One structural change to when the ask was made.

The Results

Within a month of launching this update, 85% of donors were now creating a profile (an increase of over 143%).

That meant a much greater percentage of donors are getting the full DonorSee experience. Plus it made a huge difference to how DonorSee was able to connect with and retain donors.

  • More donors were now receiving follow-ups on the impact of their donations
  • DonorSee could connect with these donors again for future projects
  • There were much more registered donors on projects adding to the sense of community
  • Improved better donor engagement and fundraising

This single change to their donation flow resulted in  $170,000 in additional revenue.

The engagement with DonorSee extended across 20+ conversion experiments in total, including a landing page optimisation that increased click-through rate by 2.3% and an onboarding email series that reduced churn and increased repeat donations.

One conversion audit. One structural fix. $170,000.

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