Bonterra Development + Digital vs. Kindful, a Bloomerang product

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bonterra Development + Digital
Score 6.8 out of 10
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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
Kindful, a Bloomerang product
Score 7.7 out of 10
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Kindful aims to help nonprofit organizations across the world fundraise more effectively. Kindful includes fundraising tools, reporting, and analytics all in one CRM. Kindful was acquired by Bloomerang in January, 2021. It is now a Bloomerang product.
$119
per month
Pricing
Bonterra Development + DigitalKindful, a Bloomerang product
Editions & Modules
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$119
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$239
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$349
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$459
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$579
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$699
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bonterra Development + DigitalKindful, a Bloomerang product
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsContact team@info.bonterratech.com for more information about pricing.All plans include: unlimited admin users, unlimited donation pages with peer-to-peer fundraising, built-in integrations, and automated reporting. Pricing also includes comprehensive web-based training upon signup and ongoing online support at no additional cost.
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Bonterra Development + Digital
Chose Bonterra Development + Digital
By far the best user interface and documentation, wide feature set, and ability to integrate outside of walled gardens. EveryAction is the most usable out-of-the-box tool and extends well into other platforms.
Kindful, a Bloomerang product

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User Ratings
Bonterra Development + DigitalKindful, a Bloomerang product
Likelihood to Recommend
6.7
(140 ratings)
8.8
(19 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
1.4
(5 ratings)
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Usability
4.7
(6 ratings)
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Availability
8.2
(135 ratings)
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Performance
8.5
(2 ratings)
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Support Rating
3.5
(8 ratings)
9.8
(11 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
5.7
(134 ratings)
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Configurability
5.7
(2 ratings)
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Ease of integration
8.9
(2 ratings)
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Product Scalability
10.0
(2 ratings)
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Vendor post-sale
10.0
(1 ratings)
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10.0
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User Testimonials
Bonterra Development + DigitalKindful, a Bloomerang product
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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Bloomerang
Kindful is well suited when:
  • Important to integrate with a wide range of systems such as online fundraising tools or event registration without being tied to a single vendor
  • Small to medium sized organizations looking for an affordable but powerful donor database/CRM
  • Need a powerful but user friendly tool with customizable reports
Kindful is not well suited when:
  • You need very advanced customization such as the ability to built entire custom screens
  • You need to track donations in multiple currencies
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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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Bloomerang
  • We particularly love the flexibility of Kindful's donation pages and donation plug-ins. They make it possible for us to accept donations on our website, without having donors have to leave the website.
  • Kindful effectively streamlines back-office functions including acknowledgements for gifts - which saves our small 2-person team vital hours each week.
  • Kindful integrates to a variety of valuable platforms, allowing us to manage all of our data in one place. Currently, we integrate with MailChimp [so all email recipients are segmented in Kindful, emails are sent from MailChimp], Fundraising Report Card, and several custom integrations through Kindful's open API [including one that tracks volunteer events and another that connects to CauseVox].
  • Kindful's basic metrics and "dashboard" give us instant access to live fundraising results that are shown against historical information - giving us the ability to see how we're doing at all times.
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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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Bloomerang
  • Detailed custom email campaigns and reports can be confusing to navigate. However, Kindful provides excellent customer support and training to make it as easy as possible.
  • The price can be a turn off for many people, but if you have an aggressive plan to increase funding, Kindful pricing is scalable based on the size of your database.
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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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Bloomerang
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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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Bloomerang
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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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Bloomerang
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Performance
Bonterra
Will not go higher than 8 because of how often I end up locked out
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Bloomerang
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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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Bloomerang
I have not utilized the support for Kindful very often but the one time I have was fantastic. It was quick, courteous and thorough. Kindful consistently offers Webinars that outline the best way to utilize their product and get the most out of it. I think Kindful does a pretty solid job with support.
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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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Bloomerang
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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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Bloomerang
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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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Bloomerang
We recently added HarnessApp to our software tools. Harness has a strong donor interface but not the backbone that Kindful has to offer. We find them a good match. I looked at dozens of other platforms that compare to Kindful but we always find ourselves sticking with Kindful as our primary CRM.
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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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Bloomerang
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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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Bloomerang
  • It is great to be able to quickly tell a prospective sponsor how we are doing financially in each fundraiser along with repeat donors that are helping to keep us going.
  • I love that it sends a receipt to the donor immediately (if the email address is included in the profile) without me having to do anything! I am sure our donors love it too.
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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.

Kindful, a Bloomerang product Screenshots

Screenshot of Reporting analyticsScreenshot of Contact profileScreenshot of Fundraising functionality