Bonterra Development + Digital vs. Little Green Light

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bonterra Development + Digital
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Bonterra Development + Digital enables nonprofits to increase efficiency, optimize supporter and prospect interactions, and raise more money by providing expansive fundraising, digital, and organizing tools on a unified CRM.N/A
Little Green Light
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Little Green Light offers headquartered in New Hampshire offers a donor management platform providing constituent profiles with membership management features in a SaaS application, as well as featuring communication, collaboration and organizational task automation.
$45
per month Up to 2,500 constituent records
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Tier 1
$45.00
per month Up to 2,500 constituent records
Tier 2
$60.00
per month Up to 5,000 constituent records
Tier 3
$75.00
per month Up to 10,000 constituent records
Tier 4
$90.00
per month Up to 20,000 constituent records
Tier 5
$105.00
per month Up to 30,000 constituent records
Tier 6
$120.00
per month Up to 40,000 constituent records
Tier 7
$135.00
per month Up to 50,000 constituent records
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bonterra Development + DigitalLittle Green Light
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsOver 50,000 constituent records? Add $15/mo for each additional 10k tier. Discounts for prepayment: You can prepay for 12 months and get a 10% discount off your monthly price. Discounts also apply to prepayments of 3 months (2.5%) and 6 months (5%).
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Bonterra Development + DigitalLittle Green Light
Considered Both Products
Bonterra Development + Digital
Chose Bonterra Development + Digital
I like both databases a lot. For civic engagement and political non profits you gotta go with EA for sure. LGL was/is great for other types of orgs without advocacy components and is cheaper to my understanding.
Little Green Light

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
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Communications and Marketing
Comparison of Communications and Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Bonterra Development + Digital
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Ratings
Little Green Light
8.6
2 Ratings
25% above category average
Constituent engagement and marketing00 Ratings8.62 Ratings
Reporting and Analytics
Comparison of Reporting and Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Bonterra Development + Digital
-
Ratings
Little Green Light
9.0
1 Ratings
30% above category average
Reporting and data visualization00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Security and Platform
Comparison of Security and Platform features of Product A and Product B
Bonterra Development + Digital
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Ratings
Little Green Light
9.1
2 Ratings
25% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.12 Ratings
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Score 9.5 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 7.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Bonterra Development + DigitalLittle Green Light
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
(150 ratings)
8.6
(12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
1.1
(5 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
3.5
(6 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
8.1
(145 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
1.9
(8 ratings)
8.9
(8 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.9
(143 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
5.7
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.9
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Bonterra
It is a great tool overall, but it is expensive. Selling it to management to keep as an expense for small nonprofits is challenging. It is a powerful mobilization tool and often underused when compared to the price tag, however. Moreover, it is cumbersome for new users to learn how to use it and there is little in the way of video tutorials.
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Little Green Light
When I came on board, we had a mess. We had so many gift types, categories, and campaigns that it was an epic disaster, and there was no way any reports could easily be pulled. With time, patience, and the bulk edit feature, I could clean up the mess and start again with set campaigns, funds, and appeals...We now have a clean slate for all data entered in 2023 and the future. Thank you for bulk edits
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Pros
Bonterra
  • Some people find the Create A List tool more intuitive than other record-querying equivalents, which can make it easier for digital organizers to target and segment bulk emails, broadcast texts, door-knocking sheets, etc.
  • The ability to add custom fields on both Contact and Contribution records allows for some flexibility in making the system adapt to your organizing model
  • There aren't a lot of other tools out there that make phone banking quite as accessible
  • EveryAction's Email Series/Automations allow for some pretty sophisticated things to run mostly on their own, from welcome and reactivation series, to drip campaigns
  • For the most technical EveryAction users, the ability to customize online form appearance and functionality using callback functions allows for pretty intricate customization of submitter experiences (e.g. redirecting form submitters to different destinations based on how they filled out the form)
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Little Green Light
  • Donor touch tracking (calls, meetings, etc.)
  • Relationships and stewardship
  • Forms for event and other registrations
  • Financial reporting and gift tracking
  • Great support team! I was initially worried because they don't have a contact number, but they reply to support questions really quickly and are always helpful.
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Cons
Bonterra
  • Tech support resolutions and turnaround time (when going through basic channels).
  • Continuity of the software—We recently lost a feature we had enjoyed for the first several months and were told that it is "not currently possible" with our version of VAN—even though we had it.
  • I wish you could see ALL bulk uploads at ALL times, not just the last 100 batches or lines.
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Little Green Light
  • I wish it had email formatting rather than integrating with MailChimp, but a small price to pay since it does in fact handle email communications. I've actually found that donors appreciate the "personal" touch versus the more polished, formatted email of MailChimp because they feel like the email went just to them.
  • Wish it had the ability to email year-end statements as easy as it is to print them.
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Likelihood to Renew
Bonterra
We will never us EA, nor recommend them to another org, simply based on their failed promises to deliver training, on-boarding and then charging our account during our free 3 month period, then after cancelling the contract their legal department tried to force us to sign a cancellation agreement that barred us from writing reviews, making comments, etc!
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Little Green Light
We have had no issues with LIttle Green Light so I do not see us moving to another software platform at this time. We are all familiar with how to use it and we are a small and mighty team so we don't want to rock the boat too much. LOL
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Usability
Bonterra
It's just so easy--there isn't a lot of techy lingo or graphics, so a regular person can log in and have a sense of what does what. There might be a few terms you need to learn, but everything is in common English so you can almost always find what you're looking for.
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Little Green Light
Pretty easy to manage
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Reliability and Availability
Bonterra
I have found that system disruptions are rare and find that the communication from Bonterra Development + Digital in those instances to be informative and timely. I can only recall the system being down one or two times in the 8 plus years I have used Bonterra Development + Digital.
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Little Green Light
No answers on this topic
Performance
Bonterra
Will not go higher than 8 because of how often I end up locked out
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Little Green Light
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Bonterra
I feel like product support and training should go hand in hand. Having to pay $5k to learn how to use a database is absolutely ridiculous and should be offered with the cost of your database, as it is with every other database I've ever used in the last 10 years of my career. With that being said, once I took the training, I found that the support was much more available. Having training and support behind a paywall is bad business in my opinion
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Little Green Light
LGL support is absolutely unreal. Send a question straight from inside the software and within minutes you will receive a response from someone at the company who will help you. Most of the time, the person responding to my questions is one of the developers or owners of the company. They are kind, patient, and very helpful. The online knowledge base is very comprehensive as well.
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Online Training
Bonterra
They went through all the features and explained in easy-to-digest details what features the system had. They were also responsive to questions we had. We were able to check in with the support team after training and received prompt followups that helped supplement the training after we had real-world experience using the system.
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Little Green Light
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Bonterra
We had some issues in the transition. The group that was contracted by EveryAction to transfer our data was not adequate. Information was misplaced, and everything took longer than it was supposed to. However, our personal EveryAction rep was fabulous, and eventually, they made everything right, including giving us some additional time with the rep.
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Little Green Light
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Alternatives Considered
Bonterra
Blackbaud is a Cadillac, and not needed by most small nonprofits of 3 million or less in income. We looked at several prior to choosing EveryAction. We are very pleased with EveryAction but wish that the training was more involved from a corporate perspective and that customer service could actually help more.
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Little Green Light
Little Green Light blows these other two CRM's out of the water. {Little Green Light has] ease of use, user-friendly prompts, and more pertinent information is captured. Little Green Light is perfect for my small-sized Non-Profit organization.
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Scalability
Bonterra
It just works whenever we need it. We'd grown our list and scaled up substantially since buying the product and have had no issues.
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Little Green Light
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Return on Investment
Bonterra
  • It has saved me time because I can create events and connect Zoom directly and immediately save new contacts to my database from the registration.
  • In targeted emails, we have been able to collect small dollars through low effort fundraising asks.
  • Negative impact is many of our staff is not able to use it yet due to difficulty of navigation so they are going through user guides and tutorials and training to figure it out.
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Little Green Light
  • In two years of using it, we went from $200,000 annually in donor revenue to $500,000. Many factors went into that, but the ease of communications through LGL is definitely one of them.
  • We went from managing communications with ~200 donors to ~400.
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ScreenShots

Bonterra Development + Digital Screenshots

Screenshot of donor segmentation and targeting by evaluating donors' past behavior, which highlights best opportunities to improve retention, increase donor value, and raise more money.Screenshot of a single, unified platform to support all kinds of campaigns by sending newsletters, creating action alerts, crafting fundraising appeals, and building automated workflows with a modern, targeted email tool boasting deliverability rates.Screenshot of multi-channel workflow automations.Screenshot of a picture of an individual record. These feature customization options used to tailor the page and highlight important information.Screenshot of a Bonterra form. 33% of forms have at least one pre-filled file due to a previous action taken across our network, boosting overall conversion rates.

Little Green Light Screenshots

Screenshot of Data migrationScreenshot of Constituent relationship managementScreenshot of Alerts and tracking reportsScreenshot of Fundraising and donor management reports