The Problem
The creators of Reward Insights needed to partner with a trusted company for their non-profit website design. They saw a solution to the funding issues many other non-profits ran into for their missions but didn’t have the technical knowledge to make it happen adequately.
The vision they had would provide relief to socio-economically challenged families through donations and loans from those able to give to the cause. In addition, those donating would be able to and needed a secured website to process the loans and donations. Further, the website would need to function with little user input to disburse the funds to the designated recipients.
They also needed the website to be user-friendly and mobile-compatible to access the programs and view their donation accounts from anywhere. One of the more unique features of the website concept was the reward system in place for those who invested or donated regularly.
The previously explored options could do some of the things needed, but couldn’t hit all the marks. Many of the rewards and processes needed to be automated. There was no perfect solution on the market, so a bespoke custom-built website was their only option. They partnered with the Orange County Boutique web design company, Idea Maker.
Our Solution
After consulting with Reward Insights, Idea Maker created a plan. Our team discussed the needs, wishes, and hopes of this website with the people responsible for the idea and walked them through our tried and true website development process. The process for a non-profit website design isn’t much different than a for-profit design. We knew from the start that we had the right team to make this project a reality.
We had lengthy discussions with many different minds on the project to pinpoint exactly what needed to be done, we determined that we could create the perfect customized website and automate much of it to work without more than essential user input. Thus, the Idea Maker’s team collaborated to create a beautiful and functional website using a combination of systems.
Our experts created a perfect function by combining Django, Linux, Nginx, Gunicorn, React, JavaScript and JQuery. Each facet of the design added to the functionality and helped simplify the end product’s usefulness. These varied programming languages allowed this custom non-profit website design to do many different things that overlapped seamlessly.
Non-Profit Website Design
With our team’s expertise and the Reward Insights creators, we were breaking ground on a project that had the potential to change lives.
What We Did
PDF Reader and e-Signatures for Legal Documents
When you’re dealing with money and investing, you have many legal obligations to the customers you work with. We installed an easy-to-use PDF reader to convey important documents to donors and lenders, and those who benefited from our contributors.
Payment Processing (ACH & Credit Card)
Using Plaid and Stripe to create a cohesive and dependable payment processing system was one of the main critical points of this website build—further, much of the process needed to be custom-coded to automate transaction fees to the correct accounts. For example, When a loan is taken, the transaction fees are shouldered by the borrower. At the same time, the transaction fees are the responsibility of donors when they donate. Plaid — a banking system, and Stripe – a credit card processing system, were used to ensure the best rates and highest protections were available for everyone involved.
Supporter Portal
We created a user-friendly dashboard for our supporters; the dashboard is easy to use and regularly updated. This dashboard provides a place for donors to monitor their donations, loans, contributions, and earnings.
See What Our Clients Think About Our Services
Check our what one of our top clients has to say about Idea Maker.
PlaneFax
Aviation Marketplace Platform
The team was very responsive and easy to work with. They are professional, talented, and experienced team. They were able to meet all our requirements.
Idea Maker is distinguished for their personalized collaboration and white glove services. The team is dependable and reliable, sticking to the project's plan, offering feedback, and pushing back on the right things.
The way they understand the requirements we present to them is fairly solid. Both in terms of bringing their own interpretation in nailing the requirements and their design sense. By the time we launched, I had gotten significantly more value from our collaboration than what we had discussed in the original specs.
This is a boutique development firm where the Founder is directly involved with the project and the primary contact. This is unlike many development firms where you are simply handed off to developers that are not stakeholders. This is an important distinction that results in much better project accountability.
I have never had a site like this built before. I felt that Idea Maker and Tom had built numerous sites like this, and they were pros.
Idea Maker's portfolio is what drew us in. Their design style was in alignment with what we were after. We had initial consultations with 3 companies that we had narrowed it down to. Once we had our initial meeting with Tom at Idea Maker we knew we had the right choice to make. Their communication style works well for us.
Their customer service is excellent — they’re incredibly accessible and available, which I appreciate. Furthermore, they have enough experience and bandwidth to fulfill all my needs. They’re one of the best vendors I’ve worked with.
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Tom Kwon
CEO
If you’re interested in discussing how we can collaborate to meet your goals and overcome challenges – whether on the technical side or the business side – I’m just a message away. Let’s dive into a conversation!
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