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CharityEngine vs. Digital Alumni (discontinued)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CharityEngine

    Score4 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    CharityEngine is a CRM specifically for nonprofits. It allows nonprofits to centralize and leverage their data to enrich donor relationships and raise money. Features include forms, advocacy campaigns, text-to-give, email marketing, peer-to-peer fundraising, and real-time personalization, and PCI-certified payment processing.N/A

    Digital Alumni (discontinued)

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ADigital 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
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    CharityEngineDigital Alumni (discontinued)
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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
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    User Ratings
    CharityEngineDigital Alumni (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
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    Usability
    4.0
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    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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    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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    Alternatives Considered
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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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    Screenshot of the campaign dashboard.Screenshot of the performance dashboard.Screenshot of the sustainer dashboard.