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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Blackbaud eTapestry

    Score3.6 out of 10
    N/ABlackbaud eTapestry is a donor management solution that helps growing nonprofits build a stable foundation for success, beat fundraising goals, and catalyze growth. eTapestry boasts more than 6,000 nonprofits and institutions as users, who manage and track fundraising performance, engage new supporters, and maximize existing donor relationships with the software.

    $115

    per month Usage based per constituent record

    Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce for Nonprofits, the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud, is a nonprofit constituent relationship management platform from Salesforce, which supports constituent engagement, fundraising, and grants. Nonprofit editions contain Salesforce Lightning Edition along with the former Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) combined.

    $36

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Blackbaud eTapestryAgentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Sales Cloud - EE
    $36
    per month per user
    Sales + Service Cloud - EE
    $48
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Nonprofit Cloud - EE
    $60
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Nonprofit Cloud - UE
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    Pricing Offerings
    Blackbaud eTapestryAgentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Blackbaud eTapestryAgentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Considered Both Products
    Blackbaud
    Chose Blackbaud eTapestry
    I used and set-up Salesforce.com at a previous position and Blackbaud e-Tapestry is simpler to use 'out of the box' and has a much lower learning curve. My supervisor is looking at Raiser's Edge to replace e-Tapestry for the more premium features.
    Incentivized
    Salesforce
    Chose Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    We used Zoho as a database before we knew we needed a CRM. We even thought of creating our own database. We then tried Neon for a couple of years and then eTapestry. We found a few features missing with each of the packages when trying to manage our complicated family …
    Incentivized
    Chose Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    DonorPerfect appeared to be a decent enough solution, fairly robust. eTapestry and NeonCRM left much to be desired from a UX standpoint. Ultimately, Salesforce would compare with solutions like Microsoft Dynamics, etc. since it's a well-rounded CRM solution and platform that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Salesforce for Nonprofits is more user-friendly and customizable than eTapestry and DonorPerfect. It also visually displays client/donation/etc. information in a more efficient and aesthetically pleasing manner.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    56%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    22 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    68%
    Delivers good value for the price
    36 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    60%
    Happy with the feature set
    38 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    24 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    74%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    88%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    74%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    Blackbaud eTapestryAgentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Communications and Marketing
    Comparison of Communications and Marketing features of Blackbaud eTapestry and Salesforce Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Feature
    Blackbaud eTapestry
    5.0
    1 Ratings
    29% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    -
    Ratings
    Constituent engagement and marketing6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social listening4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Digital advocacy enablement5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting and Analytics features of Blackbaud eTapestry and Salesforce Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Feature
    Blackbaud eTapestry
    5.2
    3 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    -
    Ratings
    Reporting and data visualization3.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Wealth screening7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Fundraising and Events
    Comparison of Fundraising and Events features of Blackbaud eTapestry and Salesforce Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Feature
    Blackbaud eTapestry
    4.6
    2 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    -
    Ratings
    Online donation options4.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Text and phone donations4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Volunteer shift management5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security and Platform
    Comparison of Security and Platform features of Blackbaud eTapestry and Salesforce Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Feature
    Blackbaud eTapestry
    5.2
    2 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions5.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile access4.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrations4.92 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.4 out of 10
    Bloomerang CRM
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    DonorPerfect
    Score8.4 out of 10
    DonorPerfect
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Ellucian CRM Advance
    Score5 out of 10
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    Score5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Blackbaud eTapestryAgentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.1
    (91 ratings)
    8.5
    (33 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (27 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    1.1
    (29 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.1
    (15 ratings)
    8.2
    (10 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.9
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Blackbaud eTapestryAgentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Blackbaud
    As we are a small Foundation with only one Administrative Assistant, eTapestry is perfect for me to keep all of our CRM. Once I got used to how it worked, I found it to be user friendly. If I have any problems, I can either try to find the answer for myself in the extensive library, chat to support or email our Customer Service Representative with questions. I cannot fault either the Support team or Customer Service Representatives I have dealt with over the years as all of them have been knowledgeable and extremely helpful. I would prefer to have better options within the Email section as the templates are very basic. There is another option to use an eTapestry partner, but there are additional costs involved in that. The email templates are OK to use if you wish to send quick information to your database.
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    Salesforce
    I’d say it’s very well suited for organizations looking to move toward AI integrations and make more data-driven decisions. As I mentioned, I’ve also used the competing product from Blackbaud, which is a very closed system — you can’t really pull out the data. Salesforce, on the other hand, has a big advantage with its APIs, allowing you to extract data, store it in Data Cloud, and do much more with it.
    However, if your requirements aren’t clearly defined or if there’s heavy customization involved, the implementation can get messy. So I wouldn’t recommend using Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud in cases where the requirements and structure aren’t clearly laid out.
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    Pros
    Blackbaud
    • Report Scheduling is great. Reports can be scheduled daily (even on specific days of the week), weekly, or monthly) and auto-emailed.
    • Reports can be displayed on the screen, downloaded, or emailed in CSV, excel, or pdf and can have columns pre-sorted in your preferred order.
    • Online donations are automatically added to the donor's account and automatically create an account for a new donor.
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    Salesforce
    • NPSP is designed to help with donor management.
    • There are free add-ons for volunteer management.
    • There is a new Program Management Module to better manage program participation and attendance.
    • Campaigns help organize and report on marketing efforts though we use a third-party solution to send out marketing materials.
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    Cons
    Blackbaud
    • When I started using eTapestry, you had to pay for courses to learn how to do more complicated things in the database. These courses were fairly expensive and our small organization couldn't afford that. I had to figure a lot out on my own or using the tech folks in chat or the odd free thing. Not sure if the courses are still costly or not.
    • It is not particularly user friendly--for example, you would think the drag and drop email template would be pretty straightforward but it is not! And there aren't built in instructions to help as you try to use things.
    • Figuring out how to organize queries and reports and communications in folders in order to find things again has been challenging. It is possible to search on keywords, which is very helpful. But finding something in a list of queries that is not alphabetical isn't particularly easy.
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    Salesforce
    • Organizations that are new to Salesforce need to be prepared for report building and other configurations. Customization is a great feature, but it can be overwhelming if not impossible for a brand new user.
    • Salesforce Trailhead is robust but can be confusing and overwhelming.
    • I'm currently comfortable with only using Salesforce CMS or any iteration on a desktop.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Blackbaud
    We do not always get positive solutions from Etapestry. There are a lot of resources and solutions that you can read about and reach out to. I participate in Community Forums and trainings to see what we can be doing differently.
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    Salesforce
    There is really no other tool to compare and especially since Salesforce for Nonprofits is free!!
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    Usability
    Blackbaud
    eTapestry was the first donor database I had ever used and always found it to be much easier to use and administer than the databases I was used to (patient care and payroll databases). The rare times I can't figure out how to do something, I just hope on the chat and someone from the team pleasantly walks me through the process. If it's something that database is incapable of doing, they encourage me to log my suggestion in the idea bank so it can be considered for enhancements. On top of that, the regular training provided allows you to continue building your skills within the database
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce CMS is very intuitive and easy to use. I have not found where it glitches or crashes out. You can tell where data is "supposed to live" and it you aren't sure, there is an easy search function. Support is made readily available.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Blackbaud
    I have never had an issue accessing eTapestry. It does occasionally go down for maintenance. When that happens, they give you a lot of notice and generally schedule maintenance for hours between midnight and 6am so that business won't be disrupted.
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    Salesforce
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    Performance
    Blackbaud
    The product does what it is supposed to, although there are downsides. There are positive and negatives for every product. This is less expensive alternative for a small organization tracking minimum information.
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    Salesforce
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    Support Rating
    Blackbaud
    My favorite feature is the Live Chat. If we get stuck, we can get immediate help, download the chat and save it for later so if we need help again we have it on file. The Knowledge Database is also extremely helpful.
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    Salesforce
    I have never had bad conversations with any support people with Salesforce but we also have not used them very much. I put it a little less because we are struggling to switch to lightning (some of our custom features do not migrate well) and it feels like the help and support for a little organization is not incredibly helpful unless we want to spend a lot of money.
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    In-Person Training
    Blackbaud
    In person training is always helpful for a new product however I think that the online tutorials would do just fine.
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    Salesforce
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    Online Training
    Blackbaud
    They explained everything well to us throughout the process. It was easy to find resources needed to answer any questions that we had. Support was also available should we need further assistance from the resources found online. They were also quick to respond to our teams inquiries, which was much appreciated.
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    Salesforce
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    Implementation Rating
    Blackbaud
    I was not there for the implementation of this platform. Unfortunately I am unable to just skip this question as it requires a response, which needs to be fifty characters, so here we are. At thirty four, I need to add a few more words to satisfy this requirement. Done.
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    Salesforce
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    Alternatives Considered
    Blackbaud
    We have researched 2-3 other donor platforms and we just aren't at a place to change, although we are very tempted. eTapestry is getting us by for now and we don't look forward to the day when we have to change platforms and have to change things for our monthly donors. We worry about attrition if our donors have to change platforms.
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    Salesforce
    As a cloud native organization with no previous Microsoft infrastructure, Salesforce was a more logical and effective option for us. The suite of products was also far more comprehensive and required less customization. We were able to adopt a "configure not code" approach to our development of systems to support our mission that lowered the cost of upgrades.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Blackbaud
    No, I would not change anything
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    Scalability
    Blackbaud
    The product overall is not too bad but I would not suggest for a large nonprofit organization.
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    Salesforce
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    Professional Services
    Blackbaud
    We didn’t use professional services
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    Return on Investment
    Blackbaud
    • Increased our capacity to fundraise.
    • Allowed more opportunity to know our donors (tracking and data collection).
    • Limited users - due to steep learning curve - as such less of our development staff know how to use the system to its fullest potential.
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    Salesforce
    • New email platform (integrated with Salesforce and based on Salesforce segmentation) increased open rate by 7%
    • Using Salesforce Flows to design a custom batch process for approving small grants reduced days of work to one or two clicks.
    • We replaced a paper system (walking around with a clipboard) to a virtual system (you can do it from anywhere!) for approving payments.
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    ScreenShots

    Blackbaud eTapestry Screenshots

    Screenshot of Constituent profiles in eTapestry are customizable and provide a complete view of supporters and their interactions with other oganizations from a single screen.Screenshot of The eTapestry home screen can be customized to surface whatever is important to the organization—progress towards goals, campaign performance, recent gifts, top supporters, upcoming events, and key performance indicators that provide a clear view of fundraising performance.Screenshot of eTapestry comes with out-of-the box reports that can help segment the supporter-base and develop strategies for engagement and outreach.

    Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits Screenshots

    Screenshot of Case ManagementScreenshot of Contact RecordScreenshot of Home DashboardScreenshot of Management ModuleScreenshot of Marketing Cloud for Nonprofits