For Companies & Teams

Run an office step challenge that raises real money

Employees record steps with the counter in their phone browser. Participants can optionally connect Fitbit, select a day, review that day's daily summary of steps, distance, and active minutes, and choose whether to import it. Submitted results roll up into one leaderboard. Sponsors pledge per step and securely save a card with Stripe without a charge at pledge time. After eligible verified totals are finalized, ScanRaise attempts each capped charge. Failures remain visible for follow-up.

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Why step challenges work as fundraisers

Everyone can participate. Walking is the lowest barrier to entry of any team activity. New parents, knee injuries, remote workers, sales reps on the road, the executive team. Nobody gets left out.

Use the phone-browser step counter or an optional Fitbit import. The counter records steps while its page stays open and the screen stays awake. With Fitbit, the participant selects a day, reviews the daily summary of steps, distance, and active minutes, and chooses whether to import it.

The metric compounds. Single-day races feel arbitrary. Multi-week step totals reward consistency, build a habit, and let the numbers grow into something dramatic by the end. 50 employees, 30 days, 50,000 collective miles is real and feels real.

It scales to any company size. 5 people in a small studio, 5,000 people across regional offices. Same setup, same leaderboard, same charity check at the end.

How it works

Create a campaign in 2 minutes. Pick the unit (steps, miles, kilometers) and the recipient charity.

Employees join through a single link and use the built-in step counter in their phone browser as the primary path. They can optionally connect Fitbit from their private tracking flow. There is no ScanRaise app to download.

Participants run the counter from their private tracking link while the page stays open and the screen stays awake. For Fitbit, each import requires the participant to select a day, review that daily summary, and choose to import it. Each submitted result is added to the campaign for organizer review.

Per-step pledges from the company, leadership, friends, and family come in alongside the activity log. The total compounds in real time.

The campaign closes and the organizer finalizes eligible verified totals. ScanRaise attempts each saved-card charge, never above the sponsor's authorized maximum. Failed charges remain visible and may require sponsor authentication or a secure card update. Everyone sees a final leaderboard with personal totals.

Real scenarios

30-Day Wellness Push

March Madness, but for steps

A 200-person insurance company runs a March step challenge. The CEO pledges $0.50 per 1,000 steps. Department heads kick in their own pledges. By March 31st the team has logged 18.4 million steps, the company writes a $9,200 check to the local food bank, and the wellness vendor renews for another year on the strength of the numbers.

Open-ended Office Tradition

The annual "1,000-mile club"

A consulting firm runs a year-round step challenge. Anyone who walks 1,000 miles in a calendar year gets a custom jacket and the company donates $500 in their name to a charity they pick from a curated list. Forty-eight employees finish in year one. The firm donates $24,000 across nine charities and the program becomes a recruiting talking point.

Department vs Department

Engineering vs Sales vs Marketing

A 90-person SaaS company splits into three departments and runs a 6-week step challenge. The losing two departments buy lunch for the winners. Side bet, the company donates $5 per employee per million collective steps to a charity the winning department picks. Total raised: $4,400. Sales wins (they walk a lot anyway).

More step-challenge ideas

Open enrollment kickoff

Pair the challenge with the annual benefits enrollment. Employees who hit a step goal get a wellness credit. The company also matches with a charity donation per million steps.

Healthcare partner co-promo

Run the step challenge in partnership with the company's health insurance carrier. ScanRaise reports the verified activity totals, and the carrier makes the matching donation.

Multi-office showdown

HQ vs the regional offices. Per-capita step totals so smaller offices have a chance. Live leaderboard projected in every break room.

Mental Health Awareness Month

May, every step counts toward a mental health charity. Employees opt in, no judgment, no opt-in form on the calendar invite. Total miles get matched 1:1 by the company.

Ready to launch your step challenge?

Built-in phone-browser step counting and optional participant-reviewed Fitbit daily-summary imports are included. 2.5% flat fee, no setup cost.

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