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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Brown Paper Tickets

    Score6.6 out of 10
    N/ABrown Paper Tickets is an event registration solution built to provide customers with a marketplace to sell tickets without fees. Additional features include mobile ticketing, social media integration, and built-in customer relationship management (CRM) capability.N/A

    Virtuous CRM

    Score6.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Virtuous Software, headquartered in Phoenix offers a nonprofit CRM, fundraising, volunteer, and marketing tools used to create more responsive donor experiences and grow giving. The CRM unifies fundraising, marketing, and donor development activities.N/A
    Pricing
    Brown Paper TicketsVirtuous CRM
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter (under 5K contacts)
    Contact Sales
    Up to 5 users and includes 1,000 supporter records
    Platform (5K-30k contacts)
    Contact Sales
    Unlimited users and includes your first 5,000 supporter records
    Enterprise (30k-Millions)
    Contact Sales
    Unlimited users and (potentially) unlimited supporters
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Brown Paper TicketsVirtuous CRM
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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    Features
    Brown Paper TicketsVirtuous CRM
    Communications and Marketing
    Comparison of Communications and Marketing features of Brown Paper Tickets and Virtuous CRM
    Feature
    Brown Paper Tickets
    -
    Ratings
    Virtuous CRM
    6.2
    2 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Constituent engagement and marketing00 Ratings6.52 Ratings
    Social listening00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Digital advocacy enablement00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Reporting and Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting and Analytics features of Brown Paper Tickets and Virtuous CRM
    Feature
    Brown Paper Tickets
    -
    Ratings
    Virtuous CRM
    5.3
    2 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Reporting and data visualization00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Wealth screening00 Ratings4.52 Ratings
    Fundraising and Events
    Comparison of Fundraising and Events features of Brown Paper Tickets and Virtuous CRM
    Feature
    Brown Paper Tickets
    -
    Ratings
    Virtuous CRM
    4.2
    2 Ratings
    29% below category average
    Online donation options00 Ratings4.52 Ratings
    Event registration and ticketing00 Ratings4.52 Ratings
    Text and phone donations00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
    Volunteer shift management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Mobile event check-in00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Security and Platform
    Comparison of Security and Platform features of Brown Paper Tickets and Virtuous CRM
    Feature
    Brown Paper Tickets
    -
    Ratings
    Virtuous CRM
    3.7
    2 Ratings
    55% below category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Integrations00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Score5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Brown Paper TicketsVirtuous CRM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.5
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Brown Paper TicketsVirtuous CRM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Brown Paper Tickets
    For non-profits running free trainings, Brown Paper Ticket is great because there are no fees for using the service for this, whereas most other event registration software charges a per transaction fee. I wouldn't recommend it if you are hosting a conference or other event where there are breakout sessions that you need to register people for.
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    Virtuous Software, LLC.
    Virtuous is a great tool for fundraisers and nonprofit organizations that want to keep all their donor records, gift transactions, donation landing pages, and reporting in one platform. It may not be well suited, though, for for-profit businesses, organizations, and agencies.
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    Pros
    Brown Paper Tickets
    • Hard copy tickets. They make it very easy to customize and order hard copy tickets for your events.
    • Ease of event setup.
    • Good customer service
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    Virtuous Software, LLC.
    • User-friendly CRM.
    • Knowledgable support staff.
    • Allows for email marketing on a mass level.
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    Cons
    Brown Paper Tickets
    • Accounting Reports. They are not very concise.
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    Virtuous Software, LLC.
    • Virtuous only keeps track of contacts on forms for a given period of time, not the lifetime of when the form was deployed.
    • Virtuous Customer Support can sometimes lag, and you end up waiting days for a response to your inquiry or issue.
    • Virtuous reporting, while very detailed and segmented, can sometimes be a little overwhelming, and the terminology does not always translate to what you are looking to accomplish with your reporting outcomes.
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    Usability
    Brown Paper Tickets
    No answers on this topic
    Virtuous Software, LLC.
    In my experience, Virtuous CRM has great self-marketing, talented salespeople, and a half-baked CRM that shows glimmers of competence but the actual experience is more akin the the scene in the Simpson’s when Sideshow Bob keeps stepping on rakes.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Brown Paper Tickets
    I have used Bloomerang's event management option, which is not very easy to use or pliable when it comes to customization. Evite - not professional enough Regonline - not very user friendly and the fees are a bit high. Qgiv - Very easy to use and has great reporting. However, there is a fee to use it for free events.
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    Virtuous Software, LLC.
    In my experience, the sales pitch and demos are slick, but upon actual use there is a quick realization that no small or medium charity should touch this software with a 10-ft pole. In my opinion, if you have a large org with lots of cash, and a dedicated database manager who is tech-literate, you can make this work. HubSpot is by far my favorite but lacks the nonprofit features needed to truly manage donor relationships and portfolios.
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    Return on Investment
    Brown Paper Tickets
    • Brown Paper Tickets has given us a free and easy to use option to register people for free trainings which has helped us cut our costs for these types of events.
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    Virtuous Software, LLC.
    • Better donor management.
    • Better predictive analytics on donors and giving numbers.
    • Increases were seen in overall revenue since joining with Virtuous.
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    ScreenShots

    Virtuous CRM Screenshots

    Screenshot of Automation Workflows: Automation personalized communications!Screenshot of Merge: Easily merge records for clean data!Screenshot of Constituent Scoring: Make the right ask at the right time based on predictive analytics!Screenshot of Reporting Widgets: Customize your data views for easy at-a-glance reporting!Screenshot of Social Insights: Get social information on your donors automatically!Screenshot of Donor Information: Easy to navigate donor information and recent activity!