Changes of address have been one of the most painful things project creators and their backers have had to deal with on Kickstarter. Now the world’s largest rewards-based funding platform has released a new feature to help backers deal with that very problem. This comes according to a new blog post from the site.
Kickstarter has an intrinsic survey system that allows project creators to gather information about what rewards are requested and where they should be shipped. Now project creators can check a box while creating these surveys that would allow a backer to change his or her address in the event that the backer moved. This can potentially solve a pain point in the process of reward fulfillment on Kickstarter.
Backers are able to see and edit the address they originally submitted in the survey. If you moved or think you may have written in the wrong apartment number, here’s your opportunity to let the creator officially know, without having to tweet or Facebook them, or track them down via smoke signals. The creator will get a notification that you changed your address, and all should be well and good.
The feature can be turned off when rewards are almost ready to ship, and at that point backers will have 48 hours to put in any changes before they’re disabled.
What has the response been? As project creator Mythos Labs said in the comments, “Thank the sweet heavens!”