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Case Study 05 · Hasanat · Technology

A two-click giving journey behind an eight-module admin portal

A full-stack donation platform and administration portal for an Australian charity raising funds across multiple causes and regions. A two-click giving journey with five payment methods and five giving frequencies sits in front of an eight-module admin portal, giving the charity team direct control of projects, content, payments and reporting in three donor languages.

Client
Hasanat
Sector
Nonprofit / Charity
Capability
Technology
Services Delivered
  • Full-stack donation platform development
  • Admin portal build
  • Multi-gateway payment integration
  • Multilingual delivery
  • Reporting views
  • Security and banking integration
Illustrative Improvements
Multimillion USD

Donations processed

2 clicks

Homepage to completed donation

34

Projects live across 8 admin modules

Challenge

Why do donation websites lose donors before the gift is completed?

Because every step between intent and payment is a point at which a decided donor can stop. A giving journey that asks for more moves than the donation requires loses supporters who had already chosen to give, and the loss never appears in the donation record because it happens before one is created.

Why does website experience matter for charity credibility?

Because the site is where a donor forms a judgement about the organisation before any gift is made. A dated experience presents a credible charity in a frame that does not carry that credibility, at exactly the moment trust is being decided.

What happens when a charity has no admin control layer over its own platform?

Projects, content and payments have to be managed by hand and outside the site. Every campaign, banner or notification waits on technical help, so the pace at which the charity can respond to an appeal is set by developer availability rather than by the urgency of the cause.

Why do charities struggle to report on donors, donations and projects?

Because the data sits across separate sources with no single reporting view. Questions about donation volume, donor behaviour or project funding have to be answered by assembling figures manually, which is slow enough that the answer is rarely current when it arrives.

Why do limited payment options reduce charity donation conversion?

Because a donor who cannot pay the way they normally pay is a donor who does not complete. A narrow set of methods and giving frequencies asks supporters to adapt to the platform, and for a global donor base the payment habits vary by market.

What does a growing international donor base require in donor data and payment safeguards?

Stronger protections around donor data and payments than a small local operation needs. Regulatory readiness has to be built into the platform foundation rather than added once the donor base has already grown past what the original build was designed to hold.

Hasanat — Challenge
Solution

Does Borders & Gates build custom donation platforms for charities?

Yes. Borders & Gates designed and built Hasanat's donation platform end to end: a public giving experience engineered to convert, and an administration portal placing every feature of that platform under the direct control of the charity's own team.

How does Borders & Gates shorten the donation journey?

Through an e-commerce-grade giving journey that takes a donor from the homepage to a completed gift in two clicks. Quick Donation on the homepage carries project, frequency and amount in a single panel, and checkout shows the donation, processing fees and total before payment.

What payment methods and giving frequencies does the platform support?

Five ways to pay, covering Apple Pay, Google Pay, cards, PayPal and bank transfer, and five giving frequencies from single gifts through to daily. Donors give the way they already pay rather than the way the platform requires.

What does the Borders & Gates admin portal give a charity team?

Eight modules built for business users rather than developers: live overview, projects, website content, blogs, notifications, reports, payments and admin roles. Projects are managed by cause, region, urgency and completion status from a single screen, and homepage sections, project stories, weekly features and campaigns are edited and published by the team directly.

What reporting does Borders & Gates build for charity fundraising?

Seven live reporting views covering donations, donors, gift donations, payments, Zakat, Zakat al-Fitr and Qurban. Manual and offline donations are recorded against the correct project in seconds, so the reporting reflects total giving rather than only what came through the site.

Does the platform support multilingual donor communication and role-based administration?

Yes. Donor notifications are sent in English, Arabic and French, and administration is role-based with permissions managed in-house. Security and integration foundations were built for donor protection and connected to the charity's payment and banking providers.

Hasanat — Solution
Impact Realised / Result

What donation volume has the platform processed?

Multimillion USD in donations and thousands of donor transactions have been processed through the platform. The giving journey and the payment infrastructure behind it carry the full donation load rather than part of it.

How short is the donation journey after the rebuild?

Two clicks from homepage to completed donation. Project, frequency and amount are selected in one panel and checkout shows the donation, processing fees and total before payment, so the donor sees the full position before confirming.

How much of the platform does the charity team now control without a developer?

Eight modules, with zero code required. Projects, website content, blogs, notifications, reports, payments and admin roles are all managed in-house, so a campaign or appeal goes live when the team decides rather than when technical help is available.

How many projects and reporting views does the portal cover?

34 projects managed from one portal at go-live, with 7 live report views replacing scattered manual reporting. Project status by cause, region, urgency and completion sits on a single screen alongside the reporting that describes it.

How did expanded payment options and languages widen donor reach?

5 payment methods and 5 giving frequencies replaced a narrow set of options, and donor notifications run in 3 languages. Supporters across different markets can give in the way and the language that fits them, which is what makes a global donor base addressable.

Hasanat — Impact Realised / Result