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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/AFinancial Edge NXT is a cloud accounting solution tailored for nonprofits that provides a general ledger, projects, grants, endowments, accounts payable and receivable, fixed assets, banking, and more. It offers real-time reporting, with one-click drill-down functionality and export capability.N/A

    Customer Focus

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/ACustomer Focus is solution that includes order management, inventory management, warehousing, CMS, E-mail marketing, CRM, and general accounting functions. E-Commerce web stores are also included in the solution.

    $50

    # of stores and users

    Pricing
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTCustomer Focus
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Standard
    $50
    # of stores and users
    Ultimate
    $99
    # of stores and users
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTCustomer Focus
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequired$249 Site setup and training
    Additional DetailsBlackbaud is currently offering the first six months of Financial Edge NXT free for new customers. Limited conditions apply.—
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    Community Pulse
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTCustomer Focus
    Considered Both Products
    Blackbaud
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    Customer Focus, Inc.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
    100 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    79%
    Delivers good value for the price
    78 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    80%
    Happy with the feature set
    102 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    71%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    44 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    65%
    Implementation went as expected
    52 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTCustomer Focus
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT and Customer Focus
    Feature
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
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    Ratings
    Customer Focus
    9.2
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Product catalog & listings00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Product management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Bulk product upload00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Branding00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Mobile storefront00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Product variations00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Website integration00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Visual customization00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    CMS00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT and Customer Focus
    Feature
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
    -
    Ratings
    Customer Focus
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Checkout user experience00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT and Customer Focus
    Feature
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
    -
    Ratings
    Customer Focus
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Personalized recommendations00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    SEO00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT and Customer Focus
    Feature
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT
    -
    Ratings
    Customer Focus
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Shipping00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Custom functionality00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTCustomer Focus
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    Score10 out of 10
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    MIP Fund Accounting
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Shopify
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTCustomer Focus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.7
    (166 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (18 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (17 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXTCustomer Focus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Blackbaud
    The look of the reports and the platform is great. It's easy to lookup vendors and find some information. I wish the flow to navigate around the system was more intuitive. We tend to do more going back and forth to move to another vendor. It must be an easier solution. But that's the learning curve piece we need.
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    Customer Focus, Inc.
    Today, with a globalized competition and without truce, a company must evaluate and take into account its size, and use this to analyze which of the tools available in the market is more suited to their needs. If it is a small company, you can improve your customer service by incorporating a chat. But a company of national level must evaluate other aspects like: marketing, tastes, preferences, tendencies, etc. To achieve the effective management of relationships with our customers, this technology provides us with effective tools and easy access.
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    Pros
    Blackbaud
    • It is integrated with our other databases enabling our business office to work easily with our fundraising and academic offices.
    • Mass email platform to contact all of our constituents.
    • Provide a starting point for any prospect research that we need to do.
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    • Facilitates the interaction between the company and customers, through various communication channels, thanks to the storage of information of interest, such as the needs and preferences for products or services.
    • Access data of interest (about the clients, their histories, products, prices, etc.,) from any place with access to the internet
    • An extensive knowledge about the clients allows the company to present commercial offers adapted to their needs, so the income is also higher, through a lower sales cycle. The CRM allows to enhance sales and marketing functions.
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    Cons
    Blackbaud
    • Queries is not fully set up yet and could use more functionality within the reporting structure
    • Recurring payments do not seem to be moving forward and we have several annuities that run quarterly
    • Queue appears to be going away and report scheduling is coming, however, you cannot send to users outside of your organization. We run so many monthly reports that we used to have emailed out via queue that now we have to run them manually and save them to a sharepoint site for our campus partners to access.
    • A little concerned with printing checks once database view goes away since the one time I tried it the printing margins were totally off.
    • Integration of papersave products and cash receipts.
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    Customer Focus, Inc.
    • Cost is always an element to consider when purchasing a computer solution, both for the purchase of the software and for its maintenance, many forget about the ongoing support costs that come with software.
    • Many systems are backed up automatically through the cloud or through some other solution, but not all. So there is a good chance that the data will be lost. it is therefore necessary to take the safe backup forecasts in the event of any unforeseen occurrence and cause us an unpleasant surprise.
    • There is a difference between being served by a real person when making a phone call, to an automated attention system. Sometimes it is good to make the tasks more automatic, but it is also good to have a little personalized help to avoid losing the human value of relationships.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Blackbaud
    It is meeting our needs very well and they continue to introduce enhancements. Much of our staff is not very technical, and the ease of use is very important. Training is quick and easy. The licensing is reasonable and affordable. And, the time, effort, and cost of finding another solution and implementing it would be very substantial.
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    Customer Focus, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Blackbaud
    I don't have much to compare it to but if I speak of just the reporting options; sometimes there are so many options I spend more time finding the "perfect" report when a basic report with minimal columns is needed. But I know I can always add to the report if asked.
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    Customer Focus, Inc.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Blackbaud
    We've been customers for many years and it has only gone down 2 or 3 times ever. Highly available.
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    Customer Focus, Inc.
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    Performance
    Blackbaud
    Consistently displays pages quickly without delay.
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    Customer Focus, Inc.
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    Support Rating
    Blackbaud
    No one is perfect, but this support team is as close as it gets. They respond promptly and if the person I'm talking to doesn't have the answer they find someone that does. They also provide documentation and/or resources to support their responses to my questions. The online chat is awesome and usually all I need
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    Customer Focus, Inc.
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    Online Training
    Blackbaud
    The training is semi helpful if you have already been in the system. If you are completely new it does make it kind of hard since chart of accounts will be different among organizations. For a general idea it is helpful. One complaint on training would be that as FENXT is attempting to go fully to the web solution there were often times things that were moved or changed that even the trainer was unaware of and had to adapt on the fly.
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    Customer Focus, Inc.
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    Implementation Rating
    Blackbaud
    The implementation can be easy depending on how familiar you are with Blackbaud products. It is cloud based so there is not a need for IT involvement but you do need to know your business requirement.
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    Customer Focus, Inc.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Blackbaud
    Prior to using Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT, a financial software package offered by Sage was used. Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT is much more user friendly, and integrates with the fundraising software used by the Foundation, Raiser's Edge. The integration has eliminated duplicate entry of donor information into the financial software. In addition, the add-in tools provided by Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT make journal entries a much more efficient process.
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    Customer Focus, Inc.
    Sales management is based on the management of customer relationships and must be centralized so that its analysis is effective. The data that is collected must be available for the generation of statistics for decision making by the directory. This tool allows us to generate the necessary data to generate results, save time and production cost. The other products did not fit our objectives.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Blackbaud
    The ability to get a discount for multiple years would be nice.
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    Customer Focus, Inc.
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    Scalability
    Blackbaud
    When we've had changes or new cost centers, they are easy to add and get live quickly. Very scalable.
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    Customer Focus, Inc.
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    Return on Investment
    Blackbaud
    • Record accuracy has gone up with Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT. We are able to keep everything separate using both natural accounts and projects.
    • The AP module has increased our speed in issuing checks. We are able to easily review and see where approvals may be stuck in order to get checks out promptly.
    • The approval chains and easily viewed records of approvals have helped our auditors easily track processes for internal control walkthroughs.
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    Customer Focus, Inc.
    • With the information available, about the clients, the company can know and segment the markets and develop effective and successful marketing campaigns.
    • With the information the employee can develop more personalized relationships with the client.
    • This customer service tool facilitated the administrative processes of sales to achieve higher performance and better results in the company.
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    Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT Screenshots

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