Two New Ways to Fundraise on Droplet: Team Merch and Golf Tournaments

By Brandon Rumancik · 5 min read

Your Fundraiser Just Got a Whole Lot More Versatile

When we built Droplet, the idea was simple: let supporters round up their everyday purchases to fund the teams and causes they care about. That's still the foundation — and it works. But we kept hearing from coaches and organizers who wanted to do more with their Droplet page.

"Can we sell team merch through here?"

"We're planning a charity golf tournament — is there a way to handle registration?"

Now there is.

We've added two major features to the Droplet platform: a Team Merch Store and a Golf Tournament Fundraiser. Both are live and ready to use today.

The Team Merch Store: Sell Gear, Keep Everything

Every team has merch. T-shirts, hats, hoodies, stickers — parents want them, players want them, and grandparents will buy three of everything. The problem has always been logistics: collecting orders, tracking sizes, handling payments, coordinating pickups.

Droplet's store feature handles the payment side so you can focus on the product.

Here's how it works:

Set up in minutes. From your org dashboard, click the Store tab. Add items with a name, price, description, and photo. That's it — your store is live and accessible from your cause page.

Keep 100% of your sales. Droplet charges zero platform fee on store purchases. The only cost is Stripe's standard credit card processing fee (2.9% + $0.30), which gets added to the buyer's total — not deducted from yours. If you price a hoodie at $35, you receive $35.

Optional Droplet tip. At checkout, buyers see an optional tip to support Droplet (choices are $0.50, $1, or $2 — or no tip at all). This is how we keep the store free for organizations. It's never required.

Automatic emails. When someone places an order, they get a receipt and you get a notification with the order details — item, quantity, buyer name, and contact info. No chasing people down.

Customize your storefront. Add your org's logo, give your store a custom name and description, and make it feel like yours. Supporters can access it directly from your fundraiser page.

The store works great alongside your existing round-up fundraiser. Think of it as another revenue stream on the same page your supporters already visit. A parent who's rounding up their purchases might also grab a team hoodie while they're there.

Golf Tournament Fundraiser: Registration, Sponsorships, and Payments in One Place

Charity golf tournaments are one of the most effective fundraising events out there. A single well-run tournament can raise $10,000 to $50,000+ depending on size and sponsorships. But organizing one usually means juggling spreadsheets, chasing checks, manually tracking foursomes, and calling every business in town about hole sponsorships.

Droplet's golf tournament feature puts all of that in one place.

Create your tournament. When you set up a new fundraiser, choose "Golf Tournament" as the type. Enter your course name, tournament date, check-in and shotgun times, and format (Scramble, Best Ball, Stroke Play, or Alternate Shot). Add a cover image and description to make your registration page look sharp.

Set up packages. Create registration packages for individuals, twosomes, threesomes, and foursomes at whatever price points you want. Default suggestions start at $150 for individuals and $500 for foursomes, but you control the pricing.

Sell add-ons. Dinner tickets, drink packages, mulligans, raffle entries — create any add-on items you want and set prices. These show up on the registration page alongside your packages.

Offer hole sponsorships. Set up all 18 holes (or any number) as sponsorship opportunities. Businesses can claim a hole right from your registration page. They can upload their logo, and you can set different sponsorship tiers at different price points — a tee box sign for $250, a premium hole with signage for $500, the beverage cart sponsorship for $1,000. Whatever fits your event.

Day-of items. Need to sell something at the event itself? Set up day-of items with QR scan-to-pay. Participants scan a code with their phone and pay instantly — no cash box needed.

Collect the details you need. Choose which registration fields to include: name, email, phone, shirt size, dietary restrictions, handicap. Each golfer in a group fills out their own info.

Track everything from your dashboard. See registrations as they come in, track revenue, view golfer details, and monitor which sponsorships have been claimed. Confirmation emails go out automatically.

The platform fee is $2 per golfer — that's it. A foursome at $500 has an $8 platform fee. Sponsorships and add-ons have no additional platform fee.

A Real Scenario

Say you're running a 100-golfer charity scramble. You offer foursomes at $600, individual spots at $175, hole sponsorships at $300 each, and a dinner add-on for $50/person.

If you fill 25 foursomes, sell 10 hole sponsorships, and 80 people add the dinner, you're looking at:

Foursomes: 25 × $600 = $15,000
Hole sponsorships: 10 × $300 = $3,000
Dinner add-on: 80 × $50 = $4,000
Total: $22,000

All collected online. No chasing checks. No spreadsheets. Confirmation emails go out automatically and you can see every registration from your dashboard.

Both Features Work Alongside Round-Ups

Here's what's great about all of this: these aren't separate platforms. Your merch store and tournament registration live on the same Droplet page where supporters are already rounding up their purchases.

That means a parent who signed up for round-ups six months ago can buy a team hoodie and register for the golf outing all in one place. And every dollar from merch sales and tournament registration flows into the same fundraiser — no juggling multiple accounts or platforms.

Getting Started

Both features are available now to every organization on Droplet.

To set up your store: Log into your org dashboard, click the Store tab, and start adding items.

To create a golf tournament: Create a new fundraiser and select "Golf Tournament" as the type. The setup wizard walks you through everything.

If you haven't started your Droplet fundraiser yet, head to givedroplet.com and click "Start Your Fundraiser." It takes less than two minutes.