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iMIS
iMIS is great for membership associations who need one place. I love their contact database, I just wish we could pull reports easily from their system and publishing would not freeze when making changes to our website. Everything that does work correctly is really easy to set up.

Verified User
Director in Marketing
Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 1-10 employeesNetForum by Community Brands
netFORUm is generally good for small to medium membership organizations but can definitely pose problems in the amount of data and the reporting tools as the membership grows.
Program Development & Special Projects Coordinator
The Optical Society (OSA)Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees
Pros
iMIS
- Flexibility and Customization: iMIS is like a tailored suit. We track all kinds of information and it gives us the ability to customize our screens, add custom fields, and build out the navigation to mirror actual data processing and workflows.
- API: iMIS is like a box of legos. Not only do you get what’s pictured on the box, but the API gives us the ability to adapt it, add new bricks (custom apps), and extend it beyond its original design. We have created several new modules that solved our Gap Analysis identified during our product evaluation process.
- Great Support: Our relationship with ASI like a good marriage. They provide great support and they listen to their customers. Their product team also does sprint reviews and invites customers to participate and have a voice in the product road map.
Director of Information Technology & Assistant Pastor
Second Baptist Church, Houston, TXReligious Institutions, 1001-5000 employees
NetForum by Community Brands
- Can store a lot of information. There are many different modules and each module has a lot of spaces for details such as birthday, gender, spouse and children's names, emergency contact information, photos and more.
- Can be linked to our internal systems. Our awards system is run through our organization's website but the winners are sent to netFORUM so that their records indicate the awards and distinctions they have achieved without us having to manually enter all of these.
- Can provide a lot of reporting information which is useful for data collection or year-end reporting needs.
Program Development & Special Projects Coordinator
The Optical Society (OSA)Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees
Cons
iMIS
- The iMIS integration process could use some improvement. Integrating iMIS with 3rd party applications can be challenging. This is an area where my company, Organized Bits, is working to help the community. We have built an integration platform solves this problem.
Senior Consultant
Mind Over MachinesComputer Software, 11-50 employees
NetForum by Community Brands
- The queries and reports are not user-friendly. One really needs to understand the search terminology to run queries and reports.
- There is no way to prevent duplicates so if someone enters an updated address for a member but creates a new record instead of updating the current record, there are now two records for that person which makes some of the data difficult to sift through.
- Linking members to their organization is difficult because if someone enters an organization slightly differently from the way it is registered in netFORUM, the person will not be linked to the organization and the reports that say how many members come from a specific institution is now inaccurate.
Program Development & Special Projects Coordinator
The Optical Society (OSA)Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees
Alternatives Considered
iMIS
As a fundraising professional, I would highly recommend Raiser's Edge and Advance 9.8 over iMIS as true donor databases.
Development Coordinator
Congressional Black Caucus FoundationNon-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
NetForum by Community Brands
netFORUM is better at data collection and support for the price.
Program Development & Special Projects Coordinator
The Optical Society (OSA)Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees
Return on Investment
iMIS
- Ability to keep track of membership

Verified User
Manager in Other
Religious Institutions Company, 51-200 employeesNetForum by Community Brands
- Easier to see expiring or expired memberships and initiate the renewal process
- Streamlining of data increases employee efficiency
- Difficulty in using it to its full potential means that the total possible ROI may not be achieved
Program Development & Special Projects Coordinator
The Optical Society (OSA)Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees
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NetForum by Community Brands
—Pricing Details
iMIS
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Required
NetForum by Community Brands
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No