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Understanding Fundraiser Statuses

Every fundraiser in WeGive shows a status: Draft, Pending, Live, Ended, or Archived. You’ll see it as a badge on the fundraiser in your dashboard. The status isn’t something you set directly. WeGive works it out automatically from the fundraiser’s start date, end date, and whether it has been archived, so it updates on its own as dates pass.

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What each status means

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Can donors give in each status?

  • Draft, Pending and Live: Yes. Donations are not blocked. A fundraiser showing Pending can still receive donations.
  • Ended: Only if the fundraiser’s Allow donations after end date setting is turned on. Otherwise donations are declined.
  • Archived: No. Archived fundraisers don’t accept donations.

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Why a new peer-to-peer fundraiser can show Pending

When someone creates a peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraiser from your donor portal, the Start Date field is filled in for them automatically:
  • If your P2P preset has a start date, the new fundraiser starts with that date.
  • Otherwise, it starts with the current time rounded to the nearest half hour.
Rounding to the nearest half hour sometimes rounds forward, so a brand-new fundraiser can have a start time up to about 15 minutes in the future. Until that time arrives, the status reads Pending. It then changes to Live on its own. You don’t need to edit or re-save anything. If a P2P fundraiser still shows Pending well after it was created, its start date is genuinely set in the future. Either the fundraiser’s creator picked a later date, or the preset you’re using has a future start date, which every new fundraiser created from that preset will inherit. Edit the fundraiser’s start date to make it go live sooner.

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How to check or change the dates

  1. In the dashboard, go to Fundraisers and open the fundraiser.
  2. Check the Status shown on the fundraiser’s summary, along with its start and end dates.
  3. To change the dates, edit the fundraiser and update Start Date and (optionally) the end date. If you use a P2P preset, the preset can lock the start date so supporters can’t change it.
Last modified on October 22, 2026