Dashboard Documentation
This is where you see the SWET you support and the SWET you create…
…however, setting up your account and creating your first project can be overwhelming. Click on this link to open this page in a new tab for easy reference while you’re working.
Here you find recent activities and posts on the platform. You may search for content as well.- your profile information (some of which may already be populated),
- your shipping address (for rewards from projects you supported),
- modify your password (even if you took advantage of signing up using your Facebook credentials)
- modifying your password will not impact your Facebook account but will give you the ability to use the email associated with your FB account with the password you created and
- payment settings for projects you support.
Items with a red * may be publicly visible.
This is for you to be able to receive funds for your projects. Ideally, as project creator you should have a Stripe account before starting a campaign. If you don’t have a Stripe account (or haven’t connected your Stripe account) and your project gets published, our Stripe account would capture your funds instead.
The Stripe Connect button in the Creator Account tab will prompt you to connect your existing Stripe account. If you don’t have an account already, you will need to create one.
Currently there isn’t a method to force you to connect your account (meaning: prevent you from submitting your project for review without having first connected your account); however, we will check to see if you have connected your account before we publish your project.
From the My Projects tab, you can create and manage your project(s).
Upon clicking the Create Project button, you will be taken to the Project Submission form, where you can enter all your project’s pertinent information and submit it for review.
The Project Submission Form
The information entered here will be displayed on the project page, with clickable, linked icons for Facebook and Twitter in addition to the full link specified under Your or your team’s URL. The Project Owner’s name can be your name or the recipient of the Crowdfunding campaign whichever is appropriate or applicable here.
Set the basic information about the project – title, goal amount, and campaign dates. Any project categories will appear in the drop-down Project Category menu for all project submitters.
Select whether a project continues to accept orders or not after the end date is reached.
Project Short Description
The text you enter here will display when viewing a multitude of projects in the grid view. HTML is not supported in this field.
Project Video
To insert a video for your project, place a video embed code (not a direct link!) into the project video field. These links are usually generated by video upload sites such as Youtube or Vimeo. If you need to use video content that doesn’t have an embed link already provided for it, you can try making your own embed link for it with a service like Embedly
Project Long Description
This text will display beneath your featured image/project video on the full product page.
Project FAQ and Updates
These are additional areas for you to provide summaries of important information about your campaign. The Updates field only appears when editing a project that has already be submitted.
By clicking “Choose File” and uploading an image to the Feature Image slot, you can set the default image that appears both at the top of the main project view as well as in the project’s preview (shown in your project grid view, etc). You can easily swap out featured images by clicking the Remove link and re-uploading a new image.
In the main project view, the featured image occupies the same location as the project video. If you’ve entered a link for a project video, then the project view will initially display the featured image with a video play button overlaid on top of it. Upon clicking the play button, the video will replace your featured image and begin playback.
Additional Images and Media
In addition to the featured image and project video, you can upload additional media into any project or level “Long Description” field, as well as into the project FAQ and Update sections. To do this, simply click the Add Media button that appears next to the field title, and you’ll be presented with the standard WordPress interface for uploading/inserting media content.
If additional images were uploaded using the Project Images upload buttons, images can be added to the fields using HTML by copying and pasting the image URL using the following code example:
<img src=”image url here” />
Here, users can specify the number of levels (the available levels to edit will update dynamically as this number changes), and set the basic information about each specific level – price, description, quantity limits, and funding type (if applicable).