Almabase vs. WildApricot by Personify

Smaller fundraising shops that use RE NXT are definitely well suited to use Almabase. I know there are other connections they offer but I am not able to speak to them. Almabase customer support is very easy to work with and they are quick to respond. They also listen closely and make quick improvements based on requests, when possible.

It is well suited to our environment, that's why I chose it. Where it might not be as successful is in operations such as gyms, where specific areas or equipment need to be scheduled.

Incentivized

• Automate member renewals and provide reminders for members with automatic renewal
• Tracking of member donations and the ability for a member to retrieve detailed donation receipt/acknowledgement for a variety fo donation types (in-kind, cash, etc)
• Provide integration between membership records and the association's website - using either the integrated CMS or code snippets
• Track member financials - open invoices, paid invoices
• Enable event management for both free and paid events

• Query functionality could be improved to allow appropriate granularity for item selection.
• Enhancement requests take a long time. Feedback from development on enhancement requests seems to be lacking.

Incentivized

It is set up logically for the most part and is intuitive to those using it to track attendees (super easy check-in kiosk process), map and process gifts, and create and track registrants for events. There are easy ways to stay in contact with registrants regardless if they have a full record in the parent system.

When compared to iMIS, Wild Apricot is an order of magnitude easier to implement and use. It is also a tool that can be administered without a considerable amount of outside support and expense. Wild Apricot is also a more fully integrated system that does not require complicated module licensing and the associated costs. iMIS is also much more expense than Wild Apricot Ultimate Membership Pro (UMP) is a WordPress plugin solution for managing association memberships. Since this is an add-on software, the cost is a small faction of the expense associated with Wild Apricot. The feature set of Wild Apricot is more extensive than the capabilities of of UMP, however, Wild Apricot is easier to use and understand that UMP. Being a hosted solution, Wild Apricot is also much more stable and predictable.

• Has helped us track our participants' arc through our series of workshop
• Has helped us keep track of demographics of registrants to ensure we are reaching a diverse set of practitioners

Incentivized