Steps gives your supporters one more reason to walk: your cause. Our team sets it up with you, then it runs itself, quietly, all year.
“So much work for so little back.”
A walk by text needs no venue, no route and no event day. Our team sets the campaign up with you once, and it runs for as long as you like.
“It all ends up on me.”
After launch, Steps welcomes every supporter, counts their steps, sends the monthly reports and charges each donation, while your team stays on the work only it can do.
“We keep asking the same donors.”
A donation that only goes through when you walk is something people talk about. Every walker gets a link to invite friends, who hear about your cause from someone they trust.
Before Steps, our team spent years raising money for companies and advising charities. The hardest part was always keeping supporters close after their first donation, so we built Steps to keep them walking, and giving, all year round.
Supporters hear from Steps once a month, with a short report of the days they walked and what went to your cause. They can switch to a weekly report, or text to ask for their score any time.
Your campaign dashboard, which only your team can open, shows who is walking, the days they walked, their monthly donations and what went through. Donations land in your own Stripe account, so the money is yours from the first day walked. You can download your supporter list whenever you like.
The Steps app counts steps on iPhone and Android, with the walker's permission. They install it once when they join, and never need to open it again.
Every day a supporter walks is a donation to your cause, month after month, with no new ask. A walker with a reason keeps walking, and every friend they bring in gives for their own walks too.
Examples only. Every campaign is different, and we design yours with you.
Every supporter gets their own link to send to friends. Each friend who joins sets up their own monthly donation and gets a link of their own, so one supporter can bring in a group chat, and each of them can bring in theirs.
Right after they join, and again at the end of each monthly report, every walker gets their own link for group chats and posts. Each friend who joins through it sets up their own monthly donation. Steps never messages anyone for them.
Each walker's own, with the friends who joined through their link, and the cause's. Both rank days a goal was hit, fair at every pace, and show average daily steps. Walkers appear only if they choose to.
A walkathon used to mean permits, T-shirts, volunteers and a rainy Saturday. Here the walk happens wherever your supporters are, on their own time, for as long as your campaign runs.
A supporter sets up a monthly donation, like $30. For every day they hit their daily step goal, $1 goes to your cause. A missed day gives nothing, and they are charged once a month for the days they walked, up to their monthly donation. The more days they walk, the more your cause receives, up to their monthly donation.
Supporters hear from Steps once a month, with a short report of the days they walked and what went to your cause. They can switch to a weekly report, or text to ask for their score any time. There are no daily texts and no reminders to walk.
Nothing, unless you want to. Once your join word is out, supporters join, give and walk on their own. Steps welcomes each one, counts the steps, sends the monthly reports and charges each monthly donation. You watch who walks and what goes through on your campaign dashboard, which only your team can open.
Straight to your own Stripe account. Steps connects to it when we set up your campaign, and every donation is paid straight to you, so Steps never holds your money. Stripe sends each donor a receipt, and tax receipts stay with you, for the amount actually given.
Nothing, for a nonprofit or a personal cause. When supporters give, they can add an optional tip to Steps, and those tips are how Steps is paid for. Stripe's usual card fees apply to donations, as they would on any donation page.
A campaign only works if supporters trust it. Messages are encrypted on the way to us and while they're stored, in the EU. Donations are handled by Stripe, in your own account. Some services Steps uses, like Sendblue for iMessage, are in the US.
Steps is software. A local AI model writes its short replies to supporters. Nothing a supporter sends is used to train AI, and Steps never gives health advice. Step counts are read by the Steps app only with a walker's permission, and used only to count the days they walk and add up your campaign.
Your supporters are yours. Steps runs the campaign for you and never sells, rents or shares their details, and it never messages them for anyone else.
Every supporter can reply STOP any time, or ask to be deleted. Download your supporter list whenever you like. Read our privacy promises →
