2014 Chip’n Ship for Schools

CONTENTS A Crowdfunding Platform for Online Shopping & Group-Gifting Build A Library For Your School A Sample Use-Case for School Monna Lissa Altlimit 8/13/2014

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A Crowdfunding Platform for Online Shopping & Group Gifting Chip’n Ship is a new platform for crowdfunding strictly for online shopping and group gifting. It lets users create a shopping wish or more and provide a way for others to chip in any amount they can. When granted, it gets ordered and delivered to its beneficiary automatically. WHO IS IT FOR? Chip’n Ship targets any user who needs to buy an item online and wants to share expenses with others through chip ins. This tool is perfect for group gifting and purchases, and in managing donations that can be non-monetary. WHY CHIP’N SHIP? Chip’n Ship is easy-to-use and easily accessible through its website – www.chipnship.com. It uses industry standard tools for its framework such as Amazon as its online retailer platform, Google Cloud Platform for hosting, and Stripe for its credit card processing.

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Build A Library For Your School and more Chip’n Ship is ideal to manage donations for schools requiring books and other school supplies. It will give your school an advantage because of the following reasons:

Transparency & Confidence The transparency that Chip’n Ship provides through its website gives parents and other backers confidence that the money they will donate for a book goes to a book.

More Engaging Having options which items they can donate to and how much makes it more engaging to parents and other backers. Seeing the pictures and the progress builds up gives a more personal feeling of accomplishment and participation.

Expanding Coverage & Reach Out Using the sharing tools of Chip’n Ship, it is easier to reach out to parents and other backers by sharing your page to popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter,

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A Sample Use-Case for School To demonstrate the usability of Chip’n Ship for your school, we take a look at an imaginary school called ABC Elementary School. ABC Elementary School needs projectors, tables and chairs and some books because it opens up a new library for its younger students. Aside from a portion of school budget, it also started reaching out to parents for donations that will go to the supplies needed. To further out its coverage, ABC Elementary School registered with Chip’n Ship and created wish list picking the actual items they needed for the school. The whole process was easy and did not cost them any amount of money.

ABC Elementary School Wish List

Altlimit (Alternative to Limitations) 4 Chip’n Ship for Schools To reach out to their contacts, they used the “sharing tools” found inside the “View Details” page of each wish to share it to their Social Network accounts.

Sharing Tools Contributors

Wish Details

After sharing their wishes, a few users online saw it and decided to check the link. They find it easy to chip in and re-share the wish to their own online networks. After a while, four (4) pitchers chipped in to the wish for projector and it was granted. It would have cost the school more than $300 to buy a projector but they got it for free with helping hands and

Chip In Form

Altlimit (Alternative to Limitations) 5 Chip’n Ship for Schools all it took them was a few minutes to setup their account and create a wish. ABC Elementary School was delighted to see their wish granted. They thanked their pitchers for the help and looked forward to receiving the items. Through their wish’s details page, they can view the status of shipment through the tracking information provided.

Trackiing Information for Granted Wishes

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