CharityEngine vs. Digital Alumni (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CharityEngine
Score 4.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
CharityEngine is designed to simplify the complex world of online fundraising for nonprofits, as a nonprofit CRM. Integrated tools for donations, emails, and other elements of fundraising feed data into a central view to make it easier to know and care for donors. The solution boasts secure, payment-ready forms to give users complete control of donors' information.N/A
Digital Alumni (discontinued)
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Digital Alumni was alumni tracking software designed to assist with keeping track of past students and used to advertise positive experiences to prospective students. It is no longer available.N/A
Pricing
CharityEngineDigital Alumni (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
Standard
$350-$700
per month
Professional
$700-$1,500
per month
Enterprise
Call for Customized Pricing
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CharityEngineDigital Alumni (discontinued)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$200
Additional DetailsPricing starts based on our core offering and your projected contact and email volume.
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Community Pulse
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Best Alternatives
CharityEngineDigital Alumni (discontinued)
Small Businesses
Bonterra Guided Fundraising
Bonterra Guided Fundraising
Score 9.2 out of 10
Bonterra Guided Fundraising
Bonterra Guided Fundraising
Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Bloomerang
Bloomerang
Score 8.9 out of 10
OneCause
OneCause
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Blackbaud CRM
Blackbaud CRM
Score 7.3 out of 10
Blackbaud CRM
Blackbaud CRM
Score 7.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
CharityEngineDigital Alumni (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
4.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
4.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CharityEngineDigital Alumni (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
CharityEngine
CharityEngine has the POTENTIAL to be a good CRM, but both unresponsiveness to the more complex problems go unresolved for months at a time. Employee turnover is huge, which is likely because upper management is doing nothing to solve the internal problems. I would NOT recommend this CRM at this point. While CharityEngine does allow reasonably robust storage and querying of data if you plan to send emails through your CRM, look elsewhere. CharityEngine's framework is clunky and counter-intuitive, in addition to frequently just not working at all.
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Digital Strategy Technologies
For updating tone's skills and finding out the current jobs on the market.
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Pros
CharityEngine
  • Allows users to create unique queries to generate targeted data.
  • Allows the entry of addresses from all around the world, not just US addresses.
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Digital Strategy Technologies
  • Way of connecting people
  • Way that it restricts access to user records
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Cons
CharityEngine
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Digital Strategy Technologies
  • It's definitely the UI
  • Can add lot of other features, where they can get in touch with them using their own chat application, for instance.
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Usability
CharityEngine
There are a lot of frustrating things about the general usage of CharityEngine. It syncs with a nine-digit zip code database, but doesn't automatically populate exportable fields with this data - it must be manually requested for each record. Buttons that allow a user to quickly move to a specific area of the data in a customer record frequently stop working after updates; are found by users and reported, and then take a month or longer to be fixed. A clunky and counter-intuitive "creative" database frequently fails completely and is always slow.
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Digital Strategy Technologies
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Alternatives Considered
CharityEngine
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Digital Strategy Technologies
Provide a much interactive and well designed and clear UI
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Return on Investment
CharityEngine
  • CharityEngine has allowed our organization to grow in the past few years, but it has not kept up with industry trends and avoids making changes and updates requested by users.
  • Our overall business objectives cannot be met with CharityEngine alone. We must export data and use other applications to generate the data we need.
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Digital Strategy Technologies
  • The UI is not really improved, which has a huge scope for improvement
  • Wish there is a in-built chat or some sort of mechanism to communicate with the alumni
  • Great algorithm that's running behind though
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ScreenShots

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