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    Salsa Labs (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Salsa was a donor and constituent management system. Salsa Labs was acquired by EveryAction in 2021 and joined with Bonterra. The Salsa CRM product is no longer available for sale.N/A
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    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptional
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    Salsa Labs (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
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    Chose Salsa Labs (discontinued)
    Salsa Engage is one of the easier products to set up and use, but with that comes limitations. If you want something simple, this works, but if you have more complex needs, then you'd be better off investing in another system that requires more set up work, but provides more …
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    Chose Salsa Labs (discontinued)
    EveryAction is a lot cheaper, but Salsa has more featured with targeting certain elected officials/better text messaging strategies.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salsa Labs (discontinued)
    Because Salsa Engage was part of the suite.
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    Chose Salsa Labs (discontinued)
    Salsa Engage provides a pretty simple interface, which is great for most applications. It buries some key functionality, however, that requires intervention for technical personnel. The errors in synchronization are poorly stored, and there's no way I can parse through hundreds …
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    Chose Salsa Labs (discontinued)
    Classy is about the same cost per month. Classy was really good at peer-to-peer and crowdfunding. Salsa encompasses many more facets of a nonprofit. With Classy, we also had to have an email company and manage our supporters in a different program. Now, we do all three of those …
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    Chose Salsa Labs (discontinued)
    It boiled down to Bloomerang and Salsa CRM. The only winning factor that Bloomerang had over Salsa was that it was cheaper, as in free, but would only for a short period of time as we have increased our donor base. Salsa CRM is actually very cost effective for our nonprofit.
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    Chose Salsa Labs (discontinued)
    I have reviewed Salsa Engage and perhaps after our transition has taken place it might be a viable option versus using Constant Contact for internal and external correspondence.
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    Chose Salsa Labs (discontinued)
    We switched from DonorPerfect to Salsa CRM. Salsa CRM was much more dynamic and better suited for a non-profit. DonorPerfect seemed a little dated and needed a bit of an overhaul in order to meet our specific needs. In the end, when we couldn't get all the capabilities we were …
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    Chose Salsa Labs (discontinued)
    We chose Salsa CRM prior to Bloomerang coming into existence. We chose Salsa CRM over the two products (eTapestry wasn't part of Blackbaud at the time) due to costs, ease of use, and fitting into the needs we had within our own agency. We are happy with our choice and aren't …
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    Chose Salsa Labs (discontinued)
    We used to use several platforms for all of our needs and we found that it was nearly impossible to maintain accurate records that way, the inconsistency was inevitable. Salsa has really helped us solve that issue by creating a system (with a reasonable price tag) that talks to …
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    Chose Salsa Labs (discontinued)
    Salsa CRM is more flexible than Abila Fundraising 50. It is cloud based so that unlike locally installed Abila Fundraising 50 you can use it at the events and all donations at events are automatically entered. With Abila Fundraising 50 there was a clunky interface with Sage …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    60%
    Happy with the feature set
    3 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Best Alternatives
    Salsa Labs (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    DonorPerfect
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Ellucian CRM Advance
    Score5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Salsa Labs (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Salsa Labs (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Salsa Engage provides a robust interface to Salesforce--our primary CRM--allowing non-intervention synchronization to categorize supporters into groups for email communication. As we are only six months into our implementation, we have not found areas where it's not appropriate to use beyond nit-picky synchronization delays and smart group updates.
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    Pros
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    • Autoresponders and automated emails have been really cool and simple to use, that tool in itself has added a lot of value and has been a powerful way to keep supporters engaged.
    • Donor management is one thing that Salsa CRM gets really technical with. There is so much information that you can have on each donor.
    • I like the forms and how easy they are to embed on the website, like email sign up forms or donation forms. I can make them look seamless as they sit on the website and gather information and donations.
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    Cons
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    • When we started with Salsa, not every option was available online, some were desktop specific. As it has been some time since I worked with Salsa these have probably been resolved.
    • The ability to communicate between Salsa CRM and other Salsa software options. Sometimes the crossover was not as efficient as was needed.
    • Tagging and setting up rules for particular donors was somewhat confusing - meaning, therefore, that the amount of training needed to implement the software was somewhat intensive.
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    It suits all of our needs.
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    Usability
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    You do not have to be a tech-savvy person to be able to use the CRM. Reporting is easy to do.
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    Support Rating
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    Support response has been swift and knowledgable, though not always the answer I've wanted. One huge design flaw is if I add a new Salesforce field to sync, Salsa Engage will not sync it unless it has changed since the last sync, requiring me to fake an update for an entire database or re-sync the whole enchilada. Better to recognize it's a new Salesforce field and perform the sync en masse.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Salsa Engage is one of the easier products to set up and use, but with that comes limitations. If you want something simple, this works, but if you have more complex needs, then you'd be better off investing in another system that requires more set up work, but provides more customization and robust reporting opportunities.
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    Return on Investment
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    • Has helped increase our donor retention as we are able to track all communications with donors ensuring that they remain connected.
    • The improved emailing (with fewer bounce rate) has helped increase our website and donation page visibility.
    • We've sold more tickets to our fundraising events with an improved event management system.
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    Screenshot of the development dashboard.Screenshot of a donor detail report showing donation history.Screenshot of donor cultivation for major giftsScreenshot of mail merge and direct mail fundraisingScreenshot of a donor profile with unlimited custom fields