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- NetForum by Community Brands is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
iMIS Engagement Management System
60%
6 Ratings
9.0
NetForum by Community Brands
90%
2 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
iMIS Engagement Management System
iMIS Engagement Management System is well suited for associations or other non-profits that operate without a lot of bells and whistles. So far in my experience if you want to do more sophisticated operations, marketing in my specific role, then iMIS Engagement Management System may not be the best AMS. It does the basics well but the more high-powered you want to get then the more it's going to cost by having your vendor of choice to work to enhance or upgrade what you have.
Director of Marketing
Financial Planning AssociationNon-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
NetForum by Community Brands
If you have a question about a function or tech problem it's a great place to get answers
Social Media Manger
ATTIC, INCNon-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Pros
iMIS Engagement Management System
- One-stop-shop. I love that we have one system that will track our income, manage membership, email contacts, manage our website and pull reports.
- Response time on support tickets. Whenever I have a problem using iMIS, I can either log into their support site to submit a help ticket or send it directly from my email account. Someone normally responds to me within the hour and then I will get a solution within the day no matter the time of day I submit the ticket.
- Easy to use widgets. I love using widgets to pull a page together. They have slideshow widgets that use on a daily basis. There are also forum widgets and widgets to pull an already created query to a page you choose to display this information on.

Verified User
Director in Marketing
Non-Profit Organization Management Company, 1-10 employeesNetForum 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 Engagement Management System
- System Performance: iMIS has always seemed to have had performance issues....sluggish specifically. Though some of that may be in part to some of our customizations, but we don’t think so.
- Integrations with 3rd Party Products: we would like to see more integrations with 3rd party apps.
Director of Information Technology & Assistant Pastor
Second Baptist Church, Houston, TXReligious Institutions, 1001-5000 employees
NetForum by Community Brands
- need more users
- better search
Social Media Manger
ATTIC, INCNon-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Pricing Details
iMIS Engagement Management System
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Required
Starting Price
—NetForum by Community Brands
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Alternatives Considered
iMIS Engagement Management System
I think both are great tools. They both have their strengths and weaknesses. I really like the CMS component that comes with iMIS. It is important for an organization to be able to quickly build websites to engage their members. iMIS provides tools to do this out of the box.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employeesNetForum 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 Engagement Management System
- iMIS had a neutral impact on my non-profit organization's overall business objectives. Both the finance and department teams just worked around the limitations that iMIS had.
Development Coordinator
Congressional Black Caucus FoundationNon-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
NetForum by Community Brands
- Easier to use product
- Features i never new before
- Save a ton of time
Social Media Manger
ATTIC, INCNon-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees