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How do I set up a Status Widget/Thermometer Bar?
How do I set up a Status Widget/Thermometer Bar?
Ashleigh Alldredge avatar
Written by Ashleigh Alldredge
Updated over a week ago

If you'd like to display the fundraising efforts of your campaign on your website, you can configure a status widget. A status widget is also called a thermometer bar. It shows your campaign's progress towards a set goal:

In order to create a status widget, you need to to set up a goal first.

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Creating a Goal

Within your campaign, click on the Goals tab:


There are 2 different goals you can create are: Financial and Number goals. Financial Goal is for a specific dollar amount you want to reach and Number Goal is for a specific gift count you want to reach. 

In order to set up either type of goal, you will click the "+ADD" button on the upper right-hand side of the corresponding section:

Enter in the Name for your goal, the Goal Amount (if creating a financial goal), and click Save:

*If you have a Date to reach your goal by, you can add it there as well. 

Once you save the goal, it will appear under either Financial Goals or Number Goals depending on the goal you created. You can the click on the goal to make additional edits to the newly created goal:

You can edit the name of the goal, the date, amount, progress modifier, and decide whether or not to include Peer-to-Peer Adjustments (offline donations):

You can also choose which data to gather for the goal, and which questions you would like to exclude:

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Creating the Status Widget

After creating your goal, go to the Widgets section for the campaign and click "+ADD" next to the Status Widget section:

Select the Type of status widget; for Financial Goal select Money and for Numeric Goal select Count:

Then you'll name your new Status Widget in the Name* section, and select the Goal you want to use which will be the new goal you configured earlier:

Once you click "Save," you will see your new Status Widget listed within the section. It has its own snippet code and preview button as well:

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Customizing the Status Widget

In order to edit or customize the new Status Widget, you will need to click on the name of the widget:

That will bring you to a list of items that are all configurable for the widget. To make changes to the widget and add summary information, you'll just click edit next to each section:

*Personalization Overrides are specifically for P2P Fundraisers, and enabling these overrides will allow the Status Widget to update when on an Individual or Team fundraising page.

*Summary Information is the information you would like to display.

*Leaderboard (by amount) is a listing of your Top Donors.

*Fundraiser Leaderboard is a listing of your Top Fundraisers.

*Recent Response List is a listing of your most recent donors.

The Leaderboards and Recent Response List options have customizations that you can update in order to display the information your team wants on your Top Donors or Fundraisers, and Recent Donors:

If you have questions about creating goals and status widgets, please contact our team at enterprise-support@givegab.com.

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