# Your sample campaign

> The example campaign and donations we seed for you, and how to clear them before you go live.

Source: https://donorcare.my/help/organizations/getting-started/your-sample-campaign/

**Who can see this:** Owner, Admin, Finance

DonorCARE seeds a new organization with sample campaigns and sample donations so there's something real to click through on day one — and it hands you a one-click way to remove them before you take real money.

## Why it works this way

An empty dashboard doesn't teach you anything about how DonorCARE works. So the moment your organization finishes onboarding, DonorCARE clones a small set of sample campaigns — matched to whether your organization runs Dharma or ritual events, or general fundraising — complete with their own sample donations. You can open one, see how a donation record looks, and see what a real receipt looks like, before a single donor has given. Seeding only happens once: if your organization already had any campaign at onboarding, nothing is added.

## The terms

**Sample campaign** — a campaign DonorCARE created for you, marked internally so the platform always knows it isn't real. Sample campaigns never appear in the public NPO directory, and their donations never send confirmation emails or get submitted to LHDN as e-invoices.

**Sample donation** — a donation belonging to a sample campaign. Everywhere except e-invoicing, it behaves exactly like a real completed donation.

## What this means in practice

**Do**

- Remove sample data before you trust a dashboard total or export figure. Sample donations are ordinary completed donations to DonorCARE's dashboard and finance exports — they are not automatically excluded.

**Don't**

- Confuse a sample donation with a sandbox test donation. A sandbox test purchase (a separate, DonorCARE-enabled toggle for rehearsing your own checkout) is watermarked "DEMO" and is kept out of your dashboard and exports automatically. A sample donation carries no such protection.

A banner naming how many sample campaigns exist appears wherever you would otherwise see an empty state, with a **Remove sample data** action right on it. You can also remove sample data from the **Danger Zone** section of your organization's settings. Either way, removing it deletes the sample campaigns, their donations, and any demo-donor links created for them — your real templates and settings are never touched, and the action can't be undone.

## Worked example

Your organization is seeded with two sample campaigns and eleven sample donations totaling RM2,340. Until you remove them, your dashboard's "Total raised" figure and your finance exports both include that RM2,340 alongside any real donations you've since taken — which is exactly why the setup and go-live checklists tell you to clear sample data before relying on either.

## Related

- [Before your first real donation](https://donorcare.my/help/organizations/getting-started/go-live-checklist/)
- [Work through Setup Health](https://donorcare.my/help/organizations/getting-started/setup-checklist/)
- [Plans and what changes between them](https://donorcare.my/help/organizations/getting-started/plans-and-limits/)