Release Update: Improved Segments
Segments and You
Kickstarter and Indiegogo crowdfunding project creators often decide to use BackerKit for our surveys, add-ons system and pledge manager platf...
BackerKit at GX3
The third annual GaymerX gaming convention, GX3, is this weekend Dec 11-13 in San Jose, California. If you like video games, tabletop games, card games, cosplay...
Release Update: Image Galleries for Surveys
We’ve added image gallery support for items. Creators can now upload multiple images for each add-on and pre-order item to give backers more views of individual...
Crowdfunding Fulfillment with BackerKit Postage
BackerKit Postage: Origin Story
We noticed that a large percentage of our customers were handling shipping themselves, but they were overwhelmed by the shippin...
Crowdfunding Shipping Deadlines
Holiday Deadlines
UPS, FedEx, and the USPS have all posted their Holiday 2015 schedules complete with deadlines on the last day to ship to make sure that packa...
BackerKit Games at IndieCade Festival 2015
BackerKit will be at the IndieCade Festival of Independent Games in Culver City this weekend to meet with video game creators and consult on upcoming projects....
The Back-End for Your Campaign
Keep Your Project On Schedule
Campaign management services can be divided into two categories: “front-end” services that backers interact with such as the back...
Re-thinking Survey Tools
Sending surveys is easy. The hard part is collecting information, getting backers to respond, making sure that everything is accurate, organizing it into useful...
Digital Downloads Official Launch
We’re proud to announce that the new BackerKit Digital Downloads system is now out of beta! We released the initial version in July and we’ve had several projec...
What Happens in the BackerKit Setup Review?
One of the services we provide to project creators is a final setup review before sending out survey emails. Most project creators are able to build fantastic s...
BackerKit Support Statistics
Backer support is one of the major problems that blindsides project creators when they end their first successful campaign. You barely have time to celebrate me...
BackerKit: 1,000 Projects
BackerKit started as a simple searchable list of backers (Kickstarter didn’t have this feature in 2010). We had zero idea if anybody would find it useful, let ...