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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Caterease

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $85

    per month

    DonorPerfect

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ADonorPerfect is a fundraising software solution, used by fundraisers to manage gifts, donor relationships, communications, receipting, and other initiatives from a single system. DonorPerfect supports monthly giving success. Dashboard analytics and reporting provide insight into what drives donations, and organizations can send personalized email communications through Constant Contact to donors and supporters. Integrated online forms automatically enter gift…N/A
    Pricing
    CatereaseDonorPerfect
    Editions & Modules
    Express
    $85
    per month
    Standard
    $125
    per month
    Professional
    $165
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CatereaseDonorPerfect
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPrices are available at a 20% discount if billed annually.—
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    Community Pulse
    CatereaseDonorPerfect
    Considered Both Products
    Caterease
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    DonorPerfect
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    34 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    36 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    27 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    27 Answers
    Features
    CatereaseDonorPerfect
    Reporting and Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting and Analytics features of Caterease and DonorPerfect
    Feature
    Caterease
    -
    Ratings
    DonorPerfect
    6.4
    1 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Reporting and data visualization00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
    Fundraising and Events
    Comparison of Fundraising and Events features of Caterease and DonorPerfect
    Feature
    Caterease
    -
    Ratings
    DonorPerfect
    5.0
    1 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Online donation options00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
    Event registration and ticketing00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
    Security and Platform
    Comparison of Security and Platform features of Caterease and DonorPerfect
    Feature
    Caterease
    -
    Ratings
    DonorPerfect
    5.5
    1 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings1.81 Ratings
    Integrations00 Ratings5.51 Ratings
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    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CatereaseDonorPerfect
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (3 ratings)
    7.3
    (95 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (32 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CatereaseDonorPerfect
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Caterease
    Integration with Microsoft Access - We use Access for a lot of different Queries, such as for our bar back to know the specifics of each bar. Caterease allows Access to pull data directly so all we have to do is run the report instead of entering all the information manually. Same with diagramming, having software like Placez that pulls from Caterease allows for such things as table and chair counts to be pulled directly from Caterease instead of having to place each individual table.
    Incentivized
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    DonorPerfect
    I love that I can integrate with Donor Search to learn about a person's past giving history to learn more about their interests. DonorPerfect also lets us upload a photo of our donors so we can easily identify them when they visit us or Attend a function. I wish the photo upload offered a larger image and multiple images, some donors send me pics of their visits and pets and it would be great to also store those right in their DP account.
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    Pros
    Caterease
    • Quick updates to contracts/files
    • Great integrations available
    • Report generation
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    DonorPerfect
    • DonorPerfect is extremely customizable in every possible way. I love that you can customize what you see when you view a donor's record and how you see it. Fields can be active or hidden, and arranged in any way you choose. In addition, you can create custom fields and parameters, which can be used to enter text freely, as a drop-down box, or as selections with check boxes. The other awesome thing about the options for customization is that you can add, remove, or change fields at ANY time. My organization has used DonorPerfect for over 10 years, but just a few days ago, I added a field to the main screen in our donor records that is now relevant and helpful to my colleague and me as we work together. I feel like the possibilities are limitless in making it DonorPerfect your specific needs.
    • DonorPerfect reports are extremely versatile, and can literally be created to produce any data set imaginable. You can create, name, rename, save, and delete any reports in your profile. You can run very broad, lengthy reports, (which generate surprisingly quickly!), or very specific, detailed reports. You can create and save filters for quick use, or start from scratch each time you run a report.
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    Cons
    Caterease
    • It’s a great program, but it’s missing some aspects that would be incredibly useful. It has the ability to store venues and locations that you’ve used in the past, but it doesn’t allow you to associate a tax rate with the saved venue. As our company handles events all throughout Southern California and tax rates are constantly changing, it would be nice to be able to assign certain tax rates to certain zip codes and venues.
    • It can be a little finicky sometimes with its equipment conflict algorithm. There will be events In the system that have been marked as cancelled, yet it will insist that an event I am working on has an equipment conflict with it (even though that event is not going through). It will not let you save out of your event and, sometimes, will end up deleting all your changes and progress, which is incredibly frustrating.
    • I wish there was a way to export PDFs of your proposals without re-saving your entire proposal. Sometimes, clients will ask for two versions of the same proposal with just slight changes, and it’s annoying to have to go in and completely re-do and save the proposal and have to adjust it back to the original.
    • It would be nice if there was a way to see a history of all of the changes that had been made in a proposal, that would be great. Because we often have many hands on each event we do, having a comprehensive list of all the changes made to each proposal and the date and times, and users who made these changes would be an incredible asset.
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    DonorPerfect
    • It could provide some of the standard reports fundraisers need as canned reports
    • It could provide optional salutations so you could mail to only one person - not both
    • It could enable us to set up monthly giving categories without using their donation program
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Caterease
    No answers on this topic
    DonorPerfect
    It is by far the most cost-effective
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    Usability
    Caterease
    No answers on this topic
    DonorPerfect
    Poor cash batch interface. Almost half of our receipts are generated by cash and this interface does not support our needs very well.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Caterease
    No answers on this topic
    DonorPerfect
    It's always up when we need it. There are some errors that happen and are not reproducible and cannot be resolved. But [they are] very few and none that cause disruption for the organization.
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    Performance
    Caterease
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    DonorPerfect
    DonorPerfect is as reliable as your internet connection. It is a cloud based application and therefore you cannot pinpoint where the bottleneck is should you have one. But for the most part the app runs quickly.
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    Support Rating
    Caterease
    I have not had to use the support in my over 3 years of using Caterease. This is why I gave it a 9 rating because even though I haven't had to interact with support, the fact that I haven't had to use support speaks volumes to how good the software is and how it is user friendly.
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    DonorPerfect
    Support is so easy. We use chat most often - as we can get someone quickly. The support folks know the product and get answers quickly. If they need to escalate an issue, they do so quickly. The training is great and easily accessible. You can take classes over and over until you completely understand concepts
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    In-Person Training
    Caterease
    No answers on this topic
    DonorPerfect
    I was able to utilize the support team to train me in areas where I could not figure out how to use the application.
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    Online Training
    Caterease
    No answers on this topic
    DonorPerfect
    It was decent.
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    Implementation Rating
    Caterease
    No answers on this topic
    DonorPerfect
    DonorPerfect provides an extremely easy to use importing tool and the support team was awesome. You don't have to do it in house; for a reasonable fee you can get it done by them.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Caterease
    I haven’t used too many other events programs in the past – at a former company, we used the back end of our website in order to create events, but Caterease is a lot more user-friendly. Our website wasn’t particularly fancy – it didn’t allow us to conflict check or see if there was another event at the same time. It was used for the sole purpose of posting the information to our system – not for creating full proposals. Caterease is much more effective for what we need to use it for in this context.
    Incentivized
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    DonorPerfect
    I have only ever used DonorPerfect, but I have looked into two or three other options over time. I apologize that I cannot recall all their names at this time. What I found was that even though they typically brought more to the table at that time, the cost jump was huge and I couldn't justify the ROI to myself. But DonorPerfect has continued to add to what they offer and I was glad I never changed platforms.
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    Scalability
    Caterease
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    DonorPerfect
    [There have been] only two outages since we have started using it and they were extremely information proactive. This should scale easily based on your internet connection.
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    Return on Investment
    Caterease
    • Has made our team more efficient and be able to have a central place to store all info so everyone can access it.
    • Manually printing BEOs has proven to be incredibly inefficient as they get updated quickly and often times just causes confusion and mistakes.
    • It's nice to be able to generate contracts fairly quickly for clients
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    DonorPerfect
    • Positive - using a standard Donor management system across a wide geographic area has reduced our infrastructure costs and training requirements
    • Negative - We are not realizing the full potential of our donors because we are missing opportunities for engagement, and missing connections and opportunities because DonorPerfect's limitations.
    • Negative - Limited/poorly implemented API has significantly increased our development costs as we struggle to implement DonorPerfect data with other internal systems.
    Incentivized
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