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Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT

Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT

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What is Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT?

Raiser's Edge NXT is cloud fundraising and constituent relationship management software from Blackbaud.

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Popular Features

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  • Role-based user permissions (9)
    8.9
    89%
  • Mobile access (9)
    8.0
    80%
  • Reporting and data visualization (9)
    7.6
    76%
  • Wealth screening (8)
    6.5
    65%

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What is Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT?

Raiser's Edge NXT is cloud fundraising and constituent relationship management software from Blackbaud.

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Features

Communications and Marketing

Constituent engagement and marketing features

6.6
Avg 5.3

Reporting and Analytics

Reporting and analytics about constituents and donations

7
Avg 6.2

Fundraising and Events

The ability to accept and process donations and manage events

5.1
Avg 4.9

Security and Platform

Features related to security and general platform usage and implementation

7.6
Avg 6.8
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Product Details

What is Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT?

Blackbaud Raisers Edge NXT is a cloud-based fundraising and relationship management solution that's purpose-built exclusively for fundraising. It is designed to streamline data and reporting processes, increase operational efficiency, and provide insight to every stage of the constituent lifecycle, helping users attract new supporters, engage them with the right communications according to their unique preferences, and grow their impact on a mission.

Blackbaud states that on average, Raiser's Edge NXT customers experience:
  • 35% growth in number of donors
  • 48% growth in number of gifts
  • 44% growth in total dollars raised

Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT Features

  • Supported: Donor Information Management
  • Supported: Reporting and Dashboards
  • Supported: Open, Cloud Platform
  • Supported: Data Health Services
  • Supported: Simple Email Marketing
  • Supported: Donations, Pledges, and Payments
  • Supported: Recurring Gifts
  • Supported: Wealth Analytics
  • Supported: Crowd-Fundraising Tools

Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT Screenshots

Screenshot of Benchmarking in Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT helps users understand fundraising performance by comparing their organizations against other organizations within a specific vertical or mission, or organizations of a similar size. The reports also quantify the revenue potential associated with improving, and surface actionable insight. Metrics include retention rate, recapture rate, acquisition rate, total revenue, revenue per donor, and current donors.Screenshot of Integrated analytics in Raiser’s Edge NXT help organizations identify their constituents’ gift capacity and recommends whom solicitors should be targeting for maximum major gifts. Simple & reliable ratings appear on constituents’ profiles, and lists include a ranking of all screened constituents from highest to lowest wealth.Screenshot of Work Centers enable management of a portfolio with a cohesive, clearly-defined process for all fundraising activities. They are designed to instill a deeper understanding of constituents and drive action. Action-triggering insights reveal areas that should be focused on, actions completed, constituents who need attention, proposals in progress, gifts received, and progress towards goals.Screenshot of Out of the box dashboards and reports display how an organization is performing at all times. Dashboards can be customized based on what’s important, to achieve a clear view of the organization’s performance.Screenshot of Online giving pages.Screenshot of Constituent records are designed to surface everything needed to know about a supporter in a single place. Tiles containing important supporter information such as contact information, giving history, and wealth ratings can be collapsed and organized according to each user’s preferences.Screenshot of Social sharing toolsScreenshot of Open, cloud platform

Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT Videos

Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT is a cloud solution for nonprofit fundraising and relationship management. Designed exclusively for nonprofits, it brings together people, technology, and processes into one solution to help users raise awareness, increase engagement, and drive results for an organization.

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Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT Integrations

Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Raiser's Edge NXT is cloud fundraising and constituent relationship management software from Blackbaud.

DonorPerfect, Salesforce Sales Cloud, and Bloomerang are common alternatives for Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT.

Reviewers rate Role-based user permissions highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The Work Center for our fundraisers gives a fantastic snapshot of past due actions and overdue pledges. Clicking on the number brings up a detailed list with the ability to add Actions straight from the list.
  • NXT's ability to customize dashboards and insights gives me the ability to report on statistics that my team needs. The visuals are compelling and helpful.
  • List generation is incredibly easy. The filters are easy to use, and one the list is made, can easily be exported or shared.
  • The tribute module is only available in database view.
  • I'm not a fan of having to manage table entries in RE-NXT view. It was recently moved over from database view, and finding what I need is difficult.
  • The volunteer module needs to be managed in database view. You can't do anything with it starting in RE-NXT.
Sharon Sandberg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User-friendly interface
  • Auto-payment for recurring gifts
  • Summaries/Lists
  • Gift Entry- I absolutely cannot use Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT for day-to-day gift entry - that has to be done in RE (database)
  • It would be nice to have auto-pay for pledges
  • Sometimes lists are difficult to use- it's very linear and/or not all options needed for a robust list are available
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Customization of View
  • Holds the information we need to see in one place
  • Has good options for support
  • Additional automization to remove some manual processing
  • Extend full functionality across both the database and web views
  • Ensure information is the same in both database and web views
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • snapshot view of constituent contact info
  • snapshot view of constituent giving
  • flexibility for each user to format their own view of data
  • Not all data points can be filtered on to generate reports
  • clean up/removal of old reports is one-off, no global clean up
  • duplicate records created - merging and removing too labor intensive
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • They continue to improve the platform
  • Customer support is responsive
  • Online processing is a fairly smooth process
  • Reporting tools are not flexible enough to cover our needs
  • The import/update tools do not cover all data points (e.g. fund relationships)
  • If there isn't a way to do something in RE, you're forced to come up with your own solution - support does not help in this regard
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Quick lists
  • Clean overviews of constituent data
  • Fast edits to donor profiles
  • Entering and editing information for specific gifts has limited functionality
  • Built-in acknowledgement generation (requires a third party plug-in)
  • Lists, while helpful, are not as detailed as queries/reports available in Raiser's Edge
Katrina Noplos | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Allows for editing constituents on the go
  • Gift entry and processing
  • Gift income reporting
  • Reconcilation to Financial Edge
  • Not all functions are available in webview yet
  • Switching views can be cumbersome at times
  • Doesn't allow screen and tile colors to be personalized
Roger Berg   Jr. | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Gift recording, generating thank you letters and receipts
  • Recording our interactions with constituents
  • Providing insights (which can be customized) into an individual's giving capacity
  • Creating donor giving forms online
  • The 'back-end" of Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT - database view has functions that have not been fully developed yet in my opinion.
  • Using Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT for gift recording can create duplicate records I've found.
  • I've found not all fields in the database view are available in Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Modern looking donation forms and event pages
  • On-the-go information thanks to the Cloud
  • Ease of updating donor information and actions
  • Tech issues sometimes take a while to resolve. Usually these are minor glitches that are annoying and do not harm functionality
  • It is not as easy to pull a detailed list as it is in the traditional database view of Raiser's Edge
September 08, 2023

useful albeit cumbersome

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • provides statistics on how many people have opened the email
  • editing the email is very cumbersome. I know how to do it but if I have to teach a new person there are too many non intuitive steps
  • mails don't get past the spam filter
  • adds extra spaces which you have to go back and delete , checking every time
  • slow
  • if we send from a gmail id the message will not actually go to any recipients with gmail ids, yet their email ids will be listed under recipients. very misleading.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Tracking incoming revenue.
  • Running financial reports.
  • Recording donor interactions
  • Tracking marketing efforts
  • Exporting large amounts of donor information
  • Recording donor attributes and communication preferences
  • Steep learning curve for a new user
  • Interface is not user friendly
  • Queries and Exports are extremely prone to user-error
  • Searching for donors by information other than name
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Pulling lists with very specific qualifiers
  • NXT view is friendly for non-technical users
  • Able to create limited reports within NXT
  • Too many fields end up in Attributes because there is no other good place for them
  • Some attributes do not have the option to export the most recent update to that field
  • Complex exports can take way too long or just crash and never finish.
Cynthia E. Williams, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Captures donor engagement
  • Reports donors gifts
  • Identifies donors giving and capacity
  • Provides organization contact information
  • Linking to other platforms such that communication can be easily prepared
  • Capture contact changes in organization
  • Tracking the donor gifts and recording to specific program
  • Preparing a detailed report of donor gift
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • the Workcenter is designed with frontline fundraisers in mind
  • Donation forms have QR codes!
  • Event management in NXT is better than in the database (or classic) view
  • The out-of-box dashboard/reports are helpful and insightful, and push to best practice
  • Several modules are still read-only, such as Volunteer Management and Memberships
  • Gift Batching in RE NXT is too simplified, users need more cash management control
  • Would be nice to be able to search for any kind of record, not just constituents
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Keep track of actions on prospective donors
  • Keep track of participants in events
  • Easy to create unique emails to send to donors and employees
  • Include county in the address section
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Track gifts by event, campaign, appeal, etc.
  • Allows us to easily organize portfolios and track donors
  • Is user friendly for our development officers which leads to them utilizing the platform more than before our transition to NXT
  • It was a bit of a transition for our development officers - there is a lot NXT can do and getting familiar with all of those functions can take a while
  • I prefer working in database view and find it easier to pull reports and make changes to records in that view
  • Confusion over the purpose of the list function has tripped us up and we tend to use query and export in database view instead
Bailee Copas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Tracking various donations though funds, appeals and campaigns.
  • Automating pledges is not user-friendly - you have to manually run reports and apply donations to pledge payments.
  • You still have to use the 1990s-looking backend of the software when using Raiser's Edge NXT.
  • Creating and saving letters from the database is not user friendly.
January 02, 2023

Cautiously optimistic

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Tracks history of gifts and makes it easy to see giving over time, also good at organizing and accessing complete constituent information around contact information, displaying gifts with date and designations, restrictions etc..
  • NXT provides easy access to analytics and reports to share for specific dates etc. to support decision making and planning
  • Display format and organization of analytical information is very intuitive and easy to navigate and helpful in developing reports for presentations.
  • Wealth information to identify constituents including donors and prospects regarding their capacity to give is not readily available and should be part of the package.
  • Should be able to move information back and forth from other platforms like Imodules.
  • Running queries is more complicated than it should be and recommendations vary between RE support staff and website.
  • Finding the right RE/NXT Courses to take is very complicated and time consuming to sift through; it’s too difficult to find a RE staff person knowledgeable to make recommendations. I feel I am on my own to find the courses I need and so delay taking class.
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