Bonterra Guided Fundraising offers a nonprofit fundraising suite of applications, with donor management features like intelligent tracking of donor readiness and targeted messaging.
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GiveSmart
Score 8.3 out of 10
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GiveSmart, a Community Brands company, offers a full-service event management platform supporting event website, event registration, attendee tracking, donor management and data insights, and full customer service for entities wishing to raise funds via an auction or charity event. The platform also integrates technology from Community Brands brand Gesture to provide a comprehensive suite of services.
GiveSmart replaces the former 501 Auctions, a platform to support charity auctions, mobile…
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee
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Additional Details
Pricing is based on how many contacts are imported into the Donor Management System. All packages have unlimited users, unlimited campaigns, unlimited peer-to-peer pages, unlimited emails and communications, and optional events and auctions. They all also include full support and complete data migration.
We liked that we could integrate our MailChimp newsletters and email with GiveSmart, the text messaging feature, and it seems the reporting will be easier for us.
GiveSmart is often praised for its intuitive and user-friendly interface, making it easy for both nonprofits and donors to navigate the platform. Network for Good also offers a user-friendly experience, although the specific design and user interface are different.
We also checked out HandBid, Charity Proud, and Auctria. We chose GiveSmart for the breadth of capabilities, competitive pricing and credit card processing fees, unlimited logins, ease for our accounting staff to manage, and high support availability.
Don't offer an integrated auction platform but do offer a portal that can be integrated into the website donation page and better donor profiles, integration, and tracking.
I checked out Handbid, OneCause and another I cannot recall. A lot of the reason I chose GiveSmart is because I had experience with them before. I had a great experience in 2013 when I had used it with another client. Since 2013 the platform has improved tremendously! The sales …
I did a demo of about 5 other platforms and asked colleagues for referrals. Honestly, it came down to the fact that GiveSmart had the flat fee. I was a little surprised other platforms were taking a percentage of auction sales and sponsorships. In my opinion that did not seem …