
They are ready to spend money because of your Kickstarter. You’re sending (hopefully thousands) of backers to a 3rd party platform who already want your thing. Anyone who says “ more than paid for itself and made me money” is taking credit away from themselves. Remember that you make yourself more money by using a Pledge Manager. At the time of I used Backerkit, Gamefound did not support charging VAT/TAX but I believe that feature has been implemented now, so I’ll probably go back to using them. While I do my best to compare features, User Interfaces, customer support etc, it traditionally has boiled down to price for me. Worst case scenario, I paid too much to be able to write this blog post for you all, so enjoy it! TLDR:Įvery Pledge Manager I’ve used has had the functionality I’ve needed.

It helps that Backerkit’s pricing favors the higher funded projects too. BackerKit, Backerkit was still more expensive but it was close enough that I figured I would give them a shot. When I calculated the cost of Pledge Manager vs. For my most recent project, I absolutely needed VAT/Tax features, which Gamefound did not have implemented at the time. If you read my original Tale of 3 Pledge Managers, you may know that I have been very averse to using Backerkit because of their pricing structure (which they did adjust recently). I should note that while I kept Crowd Ox in here for posterity, Backerkit purchased them and that service will be dead soonish.

This post compares my experience with GameFound (3 projects), Pledge Manager (4 projects), Backerkit (1 project) and Crowd Ox (2 projects) in several different areas to help you figure out what Pledge Manager would serve you best for your project.
