Describe your campaign and giving schedule. Makeform creates an editable pledge form for commitment amounts, installment preferences, recognition choices, and follow-up details.
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Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a starting point, adjust its campaign details, or send it to the Makeform builder. The field structure is an example you can edit.
Audience
Members supporting a new worship and community space
Format
Multi-year pledge form with installment schedule
Prompt size
219 chars
Example form structure
Multi-year pledge form with installment schedule
Donor or household name and contact
Total building fund commitment
Preferred contribution schedule
When should installments begin?
Recognition and follow-up preferences
Suggested routing tags
New pledges
Follow-up requested
Anonymous recognition
Ask for both the total commitment and the intended schedule. A total alone does not tell the campaign team when to plan for installments.
Step 1
Commit
donor, amount, and campaign purpose
Step 2
Schedule
frequency, installment, and start date
Step 3
Route
records and follow-up reach the right team
Step 4
Steward
preferences guide reminders and recognition
Clear campaign commitments
Capture timing, attribution, and follow-up preferences so staff can plan communication without deciphering paper cards.
Record the full commitment, expected installment amount, frequency, and starting date. Those fields give the campaign team a useful forecast instead of one isolated total.
Use conditional paths to reveal reminder, matching-gift, or campaign-team contact questions only when a donor's earlier answer makes them relevant.
Route submissions into an organized inbox or spreadsheet with the donor's preferred channel, requested timing, recognition choice, and notes attached.
Campaign-ready variations
Start with the campaign audience, then edit the language, schedules, project choices, and internal routing to match your own stewardship process.
Use household attribution, multi-year schedules, and recognition preferences for a church campaign shared across a congregation.
Let supporters express interest in named project areas while keeping a greatest-need option available for flexible campaign planning.
Ask whether a donor wants a conversation, then reveal preferred contact method, suitable time, and the topic they want to discuss.
Capture email or phone preference and desired reminder cadence without confusing a pledge submission with the contribution itself.
Build your pledge workflow
Give Makeform the essential campaign details, refine the generated questions, and connect each response to the team responsible for donor follow-up.
Name the facility project, campaign period, intended audience, giving schedule options, and the campaign contact donors should see.
Edit project wording, amount choices, installment timing, household naming, recognition consent, and questions that should be optional.
Show employer-match details only when relevant and contact preferences only when the donor asks to speak with the campaign team.
Share the form by link or embed it on the campaign page, then route pledge records to your inbox and tracking sheet.
Choose the right record
Paper can work at one event, but an editable online form gives remote supporters the same questions and keeps schedule and preference details structured from the start.
Field guide
Use these six sections as a practical checklist. Keep required fields focused, explain why sensitive details are requested, and let donors choose how the campaign team contacts and recognizes them.
Donor identity
Collect the individual, household, or organization that owns the pledge record. Use separate contact fields for reliable follow-up.
Commitment amount
Separate the overall commitment from planned installments, using currency fields instead of free text.
Timing
Offer frequencies your team tracks, paired with a start date and optional completion date.
Campaign purpose
State what the fund supports and provide a controlled project list when the campaign tracks donor interests.
Stewardship preferences
Ask separately about public naming, anonymity, reminders, and personal conversation requests.
Confirmation
Summarize the record, distinguish a pledge from payment, and provide a contact for corrections.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for church leaders, development teams, and campaign volunteers preparing to collect commitments.
It records an intended commitment to a church or nonprofit facility campaign, including the donor, total, schedule, preferences, and follow-up details.
Include donor or household details, total commitment, installment amount, frequency, and start date. Add project, recognition, reminder, matching-gift, and comment fields only when useful.
No. A pledge records an intended commitment and schedule; a donation flow handles a contribution. Explain that distinction and the campaign's next step near submission.
Yes. Ask for the household name, primary contact, and additional recognition names so one shared pledge is not mistaken for separate commitments.
Yes. Offer frequencies your team tracks, then ask for installment amount and start date. Hide schedule questions when a donor selects one-time giving.
Yes. Offer public recognition, anonymity, or no preference separately from internal contact details, and explain how the choice will be used.
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses. You can generate, edit, publish, and collect pledges; the paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Send submissions to a shared inbox or sheet with structured pledge fields. Assign a follow-up owner and use the donor's selected reminder channel and cadence.
Make every campaign commitment easier to steward.
