Help centre
For school admins
You set up the read-a-thon, add students, connect the bank account, and watch the whole school's progress.
Get set up
Getting your school set up
Sign up, start a free trial, and follow the setup guide to launch day.
Creating your campaign
Pick dates, set goals, and get your campaign approved to go live.
Paying for your campaign
What the free trial includes, what a campaign costs, and how to pay so it can go live.
Connecting your Square account
How donations land directly in your school's bank account, not ours.
Adding your students from a spreadsheet
Add every classroom and student in one upload. Activation codes are made for you.
Inviting teachers
One at a time, or all at once with a quick spreadsheet.
Printing take-home sheets
One sheet per student, one PDF per classroom (or the whole school in one go).
School-wide rewards (everyone earns them together)
Pizza party, principal-gets-pied — things the whole school earns when they hit a goal together.
Rewards & prizes
Student prizes (each student earns their own)
"Read 500 minutes, get a fidget spinner." Every student earns their own.
Classroom goals and rewards
A goal nudges your room toward a number; a reward is something they earn together when they hit it.
Handing out student prizes
Mark each prize as handed out, and see who's still waiting for theirs.
More setup
The four stages of a campaign
What changes at each stage, and what your school can and can't do in each.
Adding classrooms and students by hand
For a small school or a single new student — skip the spreadsheet and just type it in.
Replacing a lost take-home sheet
A sheet got lost or ended up in the wrong hands. Swap the code for a new one.
Managing school admins and teachers
Change someone's role, remove someone who's left, see everyone on your team.
School settings
Name, address, contact info — the things that show up on take-home sheets and donor pages.
Run the read-a-thon
Your dashboard
What's on each part of the page, and how it changes as the campaign moves through its stages.
Logging the class's reading time
One quick form gets your whole classroom logged in five seconds.
Logging for one student
When a student reads on their own and you want to log just their time.
Undoing a reading log
Logged the wrong number, or the wrong day? Roll it back with one click.
Tracking donations
Where to find every donation and what each status means.
Wrap up
After the campaign ends
Late donations, the final results, and what stays put afterwards.
Refunding a donation
Refunds happen in Square, not here — and the donation updates back here automatically.
How fees and pricing work
A flat fee per campaign, no percentage of what you raise, and how Square's small card fee fits in.
Frequently asked questions
Not to get started. Signing up creates your school's account straight away, on a free trial, so you can set up your campaign and see how everything works. See Getting your school set up.
Before a campaign can go live, its flat fee needs to be paid by e-Transfer. We approve the campaign when the payment arrives. If it's been more than two business days since you sent it, email hello@pagepledge.com and we'll dig in. See Paying for your campaign.
Still stuck?
Email hello@pagepledge.com and a real person will get back to you, usually the same day.