A live giving session is a scheduled fundraising window for your event — a gala, a telethon, a giving day. Put a short code and QR on the big screen, and donations stream in from phones, kiosks, and widgets while the whole room watches the tally climb in real time.
Joining takes seconds
Every session gets a short 4-character code and a QR code on your organization's live domain — live.aloragiving.com. Put them on the projector, the program, or the table cards. Donors scan or type the code on their own phone and give in seconds — no app to install, no account to create first.
Each donation lands on the live display the moment it settles. The room doesn't just hear an ask — it watches the response.
The live display — tally, donor recognition, and join code on one screen
How a session works
A session is a fundraising window with a beginning, a middle, and an end — so the energy of the event has a shape, and the results have a clean boundary for reporting.
Create the session, link it to a campaign or fund, set the goal and the time window. The join code and QR are ready to print in the program days in advance.
The session goes live at the scheduled start — or when you start it from the console. Donations from every channel attribute to the session and stream onto the display in real time.
When the window closes, the final tally locks in. Every donation is already recorded against the campaign and each donor's record — nothing to reconcile the next morning.
Every channel, one tally
A session isn't a separate donation form — it's a live window over your existing channels. Phones, kiosks, and widgets all feed the same total, at the same moment.
Donors scan the QR or type the 4-character code and give from their seat. Each donation appears on the big screen within seconds.
Tablet kiosks at registration and by the exit feed the same session. Tap-to-give donations count toward the same live goal. See kiosks →
Supporters who can't attend give through the donation widget on your site — and their donations land on the venue screen alongside everyone else's.
The total, the progress bar, and milestone moments update live as each donation settles — no refresh, no delay, no manual updates from the stage.
Friendly competition for giving days and telethons — top tables, top teams, top fundraisers, updating live as the donations come in.
Recent donations scroll on the display, with names shown only for donors who opted in. Anonymous stays anonymous — recognition is always the donor's choice.
Run the room
While the display faces the audience, the console faces you. Staff watch donations land in real time, track pace against the goal, and control the moment — from a laptop backstage or a phone at the back of the hall.
On the big screen
The session's live view is built for the biggest screen in the room. Point any display at the session — a projector, a lobby TV, a browser fullscreened on the venue's AV system — and it shows the tally, the join code, and donor recognition as they happen.
Pair it with digital signage to keep campaign progress on your lobby screens after the event ends.
The moments when your whole community is in one place — or watching from home — deserve more than a donation link in the chat.
The paddle-raise, reinvented: the ask from the stage, the code on the screen, and a tally that climbs while dessert is served. Kiosks at the door catch the late arrivals.
A long live window with a running total, milestone moments, and leaderboards that keep the energy up hour after hour — on screen for everyone watching.
A 24-hour session for your annual giving day. Supporters give from the website widget, social links, and phones all day — one goal, one live tally, one shared finish line.