Nimble AMS by Community Brands vs. StarChapter

It seems Events/Products/Exhibitors and Programs seem to work fairly well in this system. They are very functional out of the box and I appreciate the ability to customize without having to do it with code. I'd like to see more attention focused on Donation functionality, i.e. pairing a donation with a merchandise purchase, ability to match a guest donation with a current person account, ability to have multiple entities and use recurring donations. I'd also be interested in seeing the Community Hub Management tool be expanded to allow for more flexibility and customization of pages and their underlying fields and data sources.

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Once you understand how to use the system, it is pretty useful. But it has some definite areas where it could be brought up to speed with other modern tools. It is basic and could be better.

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• Responsiveness
• Knowledgeable employees.
• Thoughtful solutions.

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• The blast communications are clear and easy to read.
• Reporting- the reports within StarChapter are very helpful and easy to use.
• The tools for tracking attendee information are super easy to use.

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• More thorough and updated online help documentation.
• Larger focus on building out Donation module and making it more seamless with the Accounting module.
• More modular on-demand training, focusing on specific parts of Nimble AMS that are used most or are most challenging.

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• Website's back-end could be more updated with templates that are editable like wordpress
• Back-end email generator could function like a Constant Contact or MailChimp with features to make emails nicer and more modern looking
• More customizable fields that could be added to any form

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They create these long chains of responses. So for everything you write in they repeat what you wrote and then respond to it. It gets very confusing trying to figure out where the conversation is sometimes especially on a long trail of back and forth.

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Nimble AMS was much further developed while other groups were just beginning. Their continued growth and moving forward over the years have lent them a degree of expertise I have not yet seen in comparable groups.

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I have not yet used other products similar to StarChapter.

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• It's made a significant impact on the way we approach strategic decisions due to the data we're able to collect and analyze.
• It's allowing us to automate processes that we never thought of automating in the past, freeing up staff resources to focus on other tasks
• Our initial implementation was a bit messy, but working with the Nimble AMS team to analyze and rethink our strategy with a clearer vision has been very positive

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• It helps us to track revenues.
• It helps us to track attendees’ information.
• It is a great tool for sending email blasts.

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