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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

    Tiltify Catalyst

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ATiltify Catalyst is a community-driven peer-to-peer fundraising platform designed to help nonprofits turn supporters into active fundraisers and expand donor reach. Built for modern fundraising strategies, Catalyst supports DIY fundraising, team campaigns, fitness challenges, corporate engagement initiatives, livestream fundraising, and large-scale peer-to-peer events. Catalyst prioritizes the volunteer fundraiser experience with built-in engagement tools that…N/A
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    Salsa Labs (discontinued)Tiltify Catalyst
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    Salsa Labs (discontinued)Tiltify Catalyst
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Salsa Labs (discontinued)Tiltify Catalyst
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    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    60%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Best Alternatives
    Salsa Labs (discontinued)Tiltify Catalyst
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    Agentforce 360 for Nonprofits
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Bonterra Network for Good
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    DonorPerfect
    Score8.4 out of 10
    GiveSmart by Momentive
    Score7.5 out of 10
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    Ellucian CRM Advance
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Salsa Labs (discontinued)Tiltify Catalyst
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Salsa Labs (discontinued)Tiltify Catalyst
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Tiltify Catalyst
    I mean, I love having any and all non-profits use Tiltify! From a fundraising standpoint —having all my favorite orgs easily accessible for fundraising across my platforms is SO NICE. That said, I've also worked with orgs that are just getting into the space, and they really struggled with getting set up due to a lack of resources. Yes, I can walk them through everything and encourage the use of all of Tiltify's features, but there isn't a readily available/accessible source to learn what's available to them and how it works.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Tiltify Catalyst
    • Fundraiser & donor data collection.
    • Customizable pages & features per event.
    • Toggle-able options for non-profits to use based on their core audience and what makes the most sense for them.
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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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    Tiltify Catalyst
    • (1) How Tos for the charity, please! Donors/fundraisers have them available, which we LOVE, but not having a "How Set Up An Event" or "How To Use Your Reporting" for the non-profits, I feel, is a bit of an oversight, as, you know, they're users too!
    • (2) Event Page Design: Under the Fundraiser Rewards section, there is a tiny corner of pixels that pokes out from behind the "Top 100" or "Raise $200.00" labels, and it BOTHERS ME TO NO END. I understand the labels over the rewards images have curved corners, and the rewards have the hard 90-degree corners, which is why it happened. It's just like when someone goes to erase what's on a whiteboard but leaves a single line in the middle. My current solution has been to just cut that corner off my rewards images prior to upload —anyways, super tiny and just a pet peeve.
    • (3) Event Page Design: You've given us so many customization options, and I'm not taking those for granted. I would love the option to change the color of the buttons, just as we can change the color of each individual section.
    • (4) Branding, Social Links: Two things. "Twitter" is still on there (I know it's annoying, but "X"). Would love a "Bluesky" option.
    • (5) Event Options, Lifetime donor rewards: Is there something we could get for Lifetime Fundraiser rewards?
    • (6) Reports: When I download the Donations report is has the Date & Time of donation in a single column. I don't know how other people use this report, but I usually have to download the donations, create a new column, delineate the data for date/time, then pivot table from there. Plus, the "time" data we receive is delivered in a way that's borderline unusable. Example: 2023-12-31 07:46:07.667963Z -- *I* know to read this as December 31, 2023 @ 7:46:07 AM , but do we *really* need the ".667963Z" ? All it does is mess up any automated data analysis.
    • (7) Repots: Could we get a disclaimer at the top of the page that says if you don't toggle the UTC, the reports pulled will be from the time zone of the user pulling them? It took *way* too long to figure out why the report pulled by my colleague in Pacific time was different than the report pulled in Central time.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    It suits all of our needs.
    Incentivized
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    Tiltify Catalyst
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    You do not have to be a tech-savvy person to be able to use the CRM. Reporting is easy to do.
    Incentivized
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    Tiltify Catalyst
    Again, as someone who has been on this platform for a very long time, I find it easy to use. Where I find myself mostly having issues: Navigation. I have built out 40+ events & campaigns over the years (both on the fundraiser & charity side) and still find myself getting lost in the language hierarchy and difference between Setup/Event detail/Brand & marketing/Options (like those all feel semantically the same??).
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    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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    Tiltify Catalyst
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Tiltify Catalyst
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Tiltify Catalyst
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    ScreenShots

    Salsa Labs (discontinued) Screenshots

    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

    Tiltify Catalyst Screenshots

    Screenshot of Modern peer-to-peer fundraising pagesScreenshot of the set-up, designed to turn supporters into volunteer fundraisersScreenshot of leaderboards that keep fundraisers and donors active, engaged, and energized