Bonterra Development + Digital vs. Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bonterra Development + Digital
Score 6.8 out of 10
N/A
Bonterra Development + Digital enables nonprofits to increase efficiency, optimize supporter and prospect interactions, and raise more money by providing expansive fundraising, digital, and organizing tools on a unified CRM.N/A
Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce for Nonprofits, the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud, is a nonprofit constituent relationship management platform from Salesforce, which supports constituent engagement, fundraising, and grants. Nonprofit editions contain Salesforce Lightning Edition along with the former Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) combined.
$36
per month per user
Pricing
Bonterra Development + DigitalSalesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud
Editions & Modules
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Sales Cloud - EE
$36
per month per user
Sales + Service Cloud - EE
$48
per month (billed annually) per user
Nonprofit Cloud - EE
$60
per month (billed annually) per user
Nonprofit Cloud - UE
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Pricing Offerings
Bonterra Development + DigitalSalesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Bonterra Development + DigitalSalesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud
Considered Both Products
Bonterra Development + Digital
Chose Bonterra Development + Digital
For me, the problem with comparing EveryAction is that it tries to do so much that it's hard to compare it to a single tool. Most of the online organizing tools it is usually contrasted with aren't yet on TrustRadius (e.g. Action Network, New/Mode, etc.). We lump these online …
Chose Bonterra Development + Digital
I didn't select EveryAction. I don't know that EveryAction works significantly better than Salesforce does but it does seem simpler to navigate. But I do think Salesforce's report function works better.
Chose Bonterra Development + Digital
We selected EveryAction for its balance of ease of use, customer support, advocacy tools, and price.
Chose Bonterra Development + Digital
I have been a Raiser's Edge user for over 20 years. It was tough to convert to new platforms but when you work at smaller shops, there are budget limitations that make it cost prohibitive to use. I then spent at year completing a conversion to Salesforce, which was an awful …
Chose Bonterra Development + Digital
EveryAction combines all of these tools into one platform. There is no need to import contacts from Mailchimp, as our sign-up forms integrate directly into our website. Event management is also integrated so we have no use for a separate tool. Compared to Network for Good, …
Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud
Chose Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud
I have managed CRM technology on a variety of different products in my career, including Salesforce (NPSP), Salesforce (Sales Cloud), NationBuilder, CiviCRM, Breeze, Hubspot. They all have strengths and weaknesses that I find compelling. Overall, they've all done the job! …
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User Ratings
Bonterra Development + DigitalSalesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
6.7
(140 ratings)
8.4
(29 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
1.4
(5 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
4.5
(6 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(135 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Performance
8.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
3.3
(8 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.6
(134 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
5.7
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.9
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bonterra Development + DigitalSalesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Bonterra
I have used the Bonterra Development + Digital tool at 4 different organizations since 2016. I think Bonterra Development + Digital is an excellent tool for smaller non-profit organizations as well as those organizations that have not used a CRM in the past. Its functionality, ease of use, and excellent customer support make it an excellent tool for small non-profit organizations. Once an organization has more than 5,000 donors/prospects the tool becomes less effective primarily because of the inability to track contacts, integrate with desktop email systems such as Outlook.
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Salesforce
If you only want to track donations, I'd go with something simpler. If you want to track donations and programs and connections between them, there may be nothing better. If you have no technical abilities and no budget, restricted yourself solely to what it does as described exactly in the manual. If you can't devote about 0.25FTE to the constant maintenance and upgrades, don't go with it.
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Pros
Bonterra
  • Some people find the Create A List tool more intuitive than other record-querying equivalents, which can make it easier for digital organizers to target and segment bulk emails, broadcast texts, door-knocking sheets, etc.
  • The ability to add custom fields on both Contact and Contribution records allows for some flexibility in making the system adapt to your organizing model
  • There aren't a lot of other tools out there that make phone banking quite as accessible
  • EveryAction's Email Series/Automations allow for some pretty sophisticated things to run mostly on their own, from welcome and reactivation series, to drip campaigns
  • For the most technical EveryAction users, the ability to customize online form appearance and functionality using callback functions allows for pretty intricate customization of submitter experiences (e.g. redirecting form submitters to different destinations based on how they filled out the form)
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Salesforce
  • NPSP is designed to help with donor management.
  • There are free add-ons for volunteer management.
  • There is a new Program Management Module to better manage program participation and attendance.
  • Campaigns help organize and report on marketing efforts though we use a third-party solution to send out marketing materials.
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Cons
Bonterra
  • Event Summaries & Contributions - I wish we could add more than one contribution to an event at a time; this ends up taking hours to apply for donations.
  • Volunteer Activity and Scheduling - there is currently not a robust Volunteer section to schedule and track.
  • Faith Tracking - a space for churches, pastors, etc. would be great so we don't have to use Custom Contact Fields.
  • Planned Giving - needs a tab in the 'View All Details" view, currently only in 'View Contact Record" mode.
  • Primary Contact - needs multiple options with labels. We have many contacts at the same place and Relationships don't always have the right option.
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Salesforce
  • Learning curve - very powerful, but takes time to learn
  • Batch processing - takes time and advanced skills to reach efficiency for data entry and certain operations which you want to do in batch
  • Mass email is extremely limited - must choose a third party tool which adds complexity and cost to the system
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Likelihood to Renew
Bonterra
We will never us EA, nor recommend them to another org, simply based on their failed promises to deliver training, on-boarding and then charging our account during our free 3 month period, then after cancelling the contract their legal department tried to force us to sign a cancellation agreement that barred us from writing reviews, making comments, etc!
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Salesforce
There is really no other tool to compare and especially since Salesforce for Nonprofits is free!!
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Usability
Bonterra
It's just so easy--there isn't a lot of techy lingo or graphics, so a regular person can log in and have a sense of what does what. There might be a few terms you need to learn, but everything is in common English so you can almost always find what you're looking for.
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Salesforce
I think Salesforce has so much functionality that it makes it difficult in terms of overall usability. Once you can figure it out, it's a 10/10, it's just getting there. If you're willing to do the work to figure it out then you're golden. For what it's worth, I don't know if you're going to find something with this level of functionality that's easier to figure out
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Reliability and Availability
Bonterra
On the whole, EveryAction has been very responsive. When we have had errors, they usually respond within a few days, and there have not been outages that I can recall. When they need to take the system down for maintenance, they always give plenty of notice
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Performance
Bonterra
Will not go higher than 8 because of how often I end up locked out
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Bonterra
I feel like product support and training should go hand in hand. Having to pay $5k to learn how to use a database is absolutely ridiculous and should be offered with the cost of your database, as it is with every other database I've ever used in the last 10 years of my career. With that being said, once I took the training, I found that the support was much more available. Having training and support behind a paywall is bad business in my opinion
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Salesforce
I have never had bad conversations with any support people with Salesforce but we also have not used them very much. I put it a little less because we are struggling to switch to lightning (some of our custom features do not migrate well) and it feels like the help and support for a little organization is not incredibly helpful unless we want to spend a lot of money.
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Online Training
Bonterra
They went through all the features and explained in easy-to-digest details what features the system had. They were also responsive to questions we had. We were able to check in with the support team after training and received prompt followups that helped supplement the training after we had real-world experience using the system.
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Bonterra
I expected more. We made the decision not to transfer data from my old system into EveryAction, starting fresh and new. But when we have sought assistance, it is rarely given. We are most often directed to the training videos. That component I will add, is very frustrating and upsetting.
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Salesforce
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Alternatives Considered
Bonterra
EveryAction is just more accessible and intuitive to navigate. It is straightforward, easily embedded on our site, and easy for our new team members to familiarize themselves with the platform. Especially for the advocacy and form-building features, EveryAction has been the best tool our team has used thus far. We enjoy using EveryAction and will likely continue to do so.
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Salesforce
As a cloud native organization with no previous Microsoft infrastructure, Salesforce was a more logical and effective option for us. The suite of products was also far more comprehensive and required less customization. We were able to adopt a "configure not code" approach to our development of systems to support our mission that lowered the cost of upgrades.
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Scalability
Bonterra
It just works whenever we need it. We'd grown our list and scaled up substantially since buying the product and have had no issues.
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Salesforce
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Bonterra
  • It has saved me time because I can create events and connect Zoom directly and immediately save new contacts to my database from the registration.
  • In targeted emails, we have been able to collect small dollars through low effort fundraising asks.
  • Negative impact is many of our staff is not able to use it yet due to difficulty of navigation so they are going through user guides and tutorials and training to figure it out.
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Salesforce
  • Salesforce has allowed us to easily track donor communications in one area, which I believe has improved our donor communication overall.
  • Salesforce for Nonprofits has made it easier on my org to track and pull donation-related information and has reduced the amount of time we need to do these regular tasks.
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ScreenShots

Bonterra Development + Digital Screenshots

Screenshot of donor segmentation and targeting by evaluating donors' past behavior, which highlights best opportunities to improve retention, increase donor value, and raise more money.Screenshot of a single, unified platform to support all kinds of campaigns by sending newsletters, creating action alerts, crafting fundraising appeals, and building automated workflows with a modern, targeted email tool boasting deliverability rates.Screenshot of multi-channel workflow automations.Screenshot of a picture of an individual record. These feature customization options used to tailor the page and highlight important information.Screenshot of a Bonterra form. 33% of forms have at least one pre-filled file due to a previous action taken across our network, boosting overall conversion rates.

Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of Case ManagementScreenshot of Contact RecordScreenshot of Home DashboardScreenshot of Management ModuleScreenshot of Marketing Cloud for Nonprofits