Share your link on whatsapp
Follow these steps to share your link on whatsapp. It takes a few minutes and needs no developer.
Before you start
You need an organisation account and, to take live payments, a connected Stripe account. Owners, Admins and Editors can make these changes; Viewers cannot.
Steps
Work through the steps in order.
- Create a WhatsApp-labelled link to your storefront or a specific appeal.
- Share it in broadcasts, groups and one-to-one chats.
- Forwards keep the label, so onward sharing stays attributed.
- Compare WhatsApp against every other channel in Analytics.
Check it worked
Open your public storefront in a private browser window and complete the action as a supporter would. Then confirm the result appears in the dashboard.
Troubleshooting
Forwarded messages are how community fundraising spreads. Because the label travels with the URL, a donation from a third-hand forward is still credited to the original broadcast.
Frequently asked questions
Does this need the WhatsApp Business API?
No. It works with ordinary WhatsApp broadcasts and groups by using tracked links; no API approval is required.
Why do our WhatsApp links look broken in chat?
Usually the destination has no preview metadata. CharityFront storefronts publish a title, description and image for every appeal.
CharityFront in short
Follow these steps to share your link on whatsapp. It takes a few minutes and needs no developer.
- What is CharityFront?
- CharityFront is a donation storefront and link-in-bio platform for charities. A charity gets one mobile page at chrty.link that holds its campaigns, donate buttons, Gift Aid and Zakat options, events, QR codes and supporter sign-ups, plus a dashboard that reports where each donation came from.
- Who is it for?
- Registered charities and non-profits that raise money from social media, including Muslim charities handling Zakat, Sadaqah and Waqf, and the small fundraising or digital teams who run their campaigns.
- What problem does it solve?
- One bio link cannot serve many campaigns, mobile donation forms lose donors, and charities cannot tell which post, QR code or ambassador produced a donation. CharityFront puts every campaign on one page and attributes each donation to its source.
- Why choose it over the alternatives?
- Fixed impact tiers instead of an empty amount box, Zakat, Waqf and Gift Aid handled as separate reportable funds, ambassador sub-links with their own analytics, and Stripe Connect payouts straight to the charity's own account. It also works alongside an existing donation platform rather than replacing it.
- What does it cost?
- Creating a charity account and building a storefront is free. Publishing publicly and Pro features (ambassador sub-links, shop, quick donate, advanced analytics, integrations) require a paid plan.
Keep reading
CharityFront gives WhatsApp its own tracked link and a preview card that renders properly in-chat, so group shares are measurable.
How whatsapp fundraising for charities works.
Fundraising analytics is the reporting layer that connects where attention came from — a Story, a poster, a broadcast — to the donations that followed it
Online fundraising is everything a charity does to turn digital attention into donations: the link people tap, the page they land on, the payment they complete and the report that follows
A donation button is a single tappable element that takes a supporter from wherever they are reading straight into a payment sheet, with the amount and appeal already chosen
Ready to build your charity front?
Create your storefront free, invite your team, and publish when you are ready.