Project states
About projects states
Projects can have various states. These states determine their visibility and whether they are open for fundraiser creation. In the table below, we have summarised all the states a project can have.
Events have the same states as projects and follow the same rules as projects.
Project/Event State | Accessible by Direct Link | Visible in the Start Fundraising Flow | Visible on Project/Event Index Pages | Possible to Create Fundraising Pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Draft | Only logged-in admins | No | No | No |
Hidden | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Published | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Finished | Yes | No | No | No |
Trashed | No | No | No | No |
Changing project states
Delete a project
If you delete a project, it will be deleted forever. It will no longer be displayed anywhere. All fundraisers for the project will be set to 'finished' and will no longer be able to accept donations and are only reachable via direct link.
Deleting a project is a non-reversible action, even for BetterNow employees.
Finish a project
If you finish a project, it disappears from the list of available projects that you can fundraise for, and it is no longer possible to create new fundraisers within that project.
The project will still be listed under the index page of all projects, but will not be listed as available to fundraise for.
You can also choose to disable donations to all existing fundraisers.
Disabling donations for a project is a non-reversible action, even for BetterNow employees.
Publish a project
In order to publish a draft project, find it in the list of projects in your dashboard. Sort by all projects that are labelled 'awaiting_approval'.
Press the cogwheel icon and choose 'View and manage project'.
Then choose 'More options' and press 'Publish project'.
Hide a project
If you hide a project, you can still create fundraisers, and you can still donate to fundraisers for the project. The project is hidden from all index pages, so you can only access the project through an existing fundraiser page (which links to the project page), or through a direct link.
Disabling donations through scheduling
You can schedule a day on which donations are disabled for a project. You will find this setting at the bottom of the edit project page.
If set, the fundraisers for the project will accept donations until the end of the day set.
For example, if set to 2021-12-31, a donation given at 23:59:59 on New Year's Eve will be allowed, but a donation given at midnight will not be accepted.
You can change this setting if you need to later.
Use this setting if you, for example, have competitions or campaigns that need to close down on a given date.
Updated on: 09/04/2026
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