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    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

    Flipcause

    Score5.3 out of 10
    N/AFlipcause is a nonprofit fundraising management platform from the company of the same name in Oakland.

    $125

    per month

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    CharityEngineFlipcause
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    CharityEngineFlipcause
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    CharityEngineFlipcause
    Likelihood to Recommend
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.3
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.1
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CharityEngineFlipcause
    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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    Flipcause
    If you are doing this for fun, and don't actually need the money that you raise through Flipcause, they're great, but if you need the funds to, say, run payroll or pay rent, do not even THINK of using them. You will spend a lot of time tearing your hair out, and sending yet another email begging them to transfer funds
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Flipcause
    • Flipcause has a great user interface for donors.
    • Flipcause sends customizable donation receipts.
    • Flipcause easily integrates with our website.
    • Flipcause has great customer service.
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    Cons
    CharityEngine
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    Flipcause
    • You have to contact them multiple times to get them to give you your money.
    • It generally takes at least a month to get funds from them to you.
    • They take a really long time to respond to support emails, if they respond at all.
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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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    Flipcause
    Website design is great and easy to use
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    Support Rating
    CharityEngine
    No answers on this topic
    Flipcause
    Flipcause has amazingly responsive customer support staff and "Success Teams." When you sign up, your Success Manager makes sure you have all the information and support needed to get up and running quickly and easily. Your Success Team will happily provide support on an on-going basis as needed, although we have not needed much support due to the easy-to-use interface
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    Alternatives Considered
    CharityEngine
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    Flipcause
    We previously used Network for Good to process online donations and to sell event tickets, but Flipcause has proven much better at meeting our needs. I prefer the Flipcause interface and functionality, especially for event registrations. We have also used PayPal and PayPal Here to collect donations online and in person. While these are trusted and recognizable for our donors, they are only useful for collecting donations and do not have easily customizable donation receipts.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Flipcause
    • Diminished trust from employees because of payroll delays.
    • Unable to plan ahead because we have no idea when we will get our funds.
    • Excessive time spent chasing funds, rather than fulfilling our mission.
    • Excessive time spent researching new platforms, and changing all our infrastructure because we've finally decided we can't stay with them any longer.
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    Screenshot of the campaign dashboard.Screenshot of the performance dashboard.Screenshot of the sustainer dashboard.