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What is GiveSmart?

GiveSmart, a Community Brands company, offers a full-service event management platform supporting event website, event registration, attendee tracking, donor management and data insights, and full customer service for entities wishing to raise funds via an auction or charity event. The…

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What is GiveSmart?

GiveSmart, a Community Brands company, offers a full-service event management platform supporting event website, event registration, attendee tracking, donor management and data insights, and full customer service for entities wishing to raise funds via an auction or charity event. The platform…

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Product Details

What is GiveSmart?

GiveSmart is a full-suite online fundraising, event, and donor management platform designed to elevate fundraisers. From mobile-friendly silent auctions to dynamic peer-to-peer events and guest management to donor engagement, the solution helps missions to motivate donors.

The vendor states that their software has helped thousands of nonprofits raise $7.5+ billion. The full GiveSmart suite of solutions and expert support helps exceed fundraising, event, and donor management goals, and helps users focus resources and make an impact all year round.

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GiveSmart Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesUnited States

Frequently Asked Questions

GiveSmart, a Community Brands company, offers a full-service event management platform supporting event website, event registration, attendee tracking, donor management and data insights, and full customer service for entities wishing to raise funds via an auction or charity event. The platform also integrates technology from Community Brands brand Gesture to provide a comprehensive suite of services. GiveSmart replaces the former 501 Auctions, a platform to support charity auctions, mobile bidding, and general event management with automation for nonprofit fundraising.

OneCause, Greater Giving, and Classy are common alternatives for GiveSmart.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.3.

The most common users of GiveSmart are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Customer Support: Users have appreciated the responsive and supportive customer support provided by GiveSmart, noting the team's helpfulness during onboarding and event management.

Ease of Use: Many users have highlighted the platform's user-friendly interface, intuitive design, and streamlined processes for setting up events, managing auctions, and processing donations.

Text to Give Feature: Users have found the Text to Give feature to be particularly useful as it offers convenience for donors to contribute easily. This feature also allows for recurring gifts without requiring an account creation. The seamless integration of this functionality has been positively acknowledged by reviewers for its impact on fundraising efforts.

Lack of Integration Between GiveSmart Events and Fundraise: Users have expressed dissatisfaction with the incomplete integration and differing merchant fee processing methods between GiveSmart Events and GiveSmart Fundraise platforms, hindering seamless operations for those utilizing both services simultaneously.

Confusing Crowdfunding Options: Reviewers find the setup and customization of different crowdfunding options perplexing, particularly in distinguishing between team and individual funding processes, leading to inefficiencies in fundraising campaigns.

Challenges in Communication Processes: Users have mentioned difficulties in streamlining communication tasks within the system, from emailing receipts to sending auction donor thank-yous en masse. This highlights a need for enhanced communication features to simplify these processes effectively.

Reviews

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Easy to use for galas and auctions!

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 02, 2024
BR
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
5 years of experience
Each year our event has a completely new theme and we are able to use GiveSmart's platform to create a look and feel that matches that theme. We used to use WordPress to customize our event website each year and while it offered more customization, it was SO burdensome.

GiveSmart is a Smart Choice for Schools

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 24, 2024
JD
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
2 years of experience
For the most part, I like when we can put our logo in one place and it shows up in many places. I like adjust the colors to our color codes. I feel like the product gives lots of areas for customization.

GiveSmart Gets the Job Done

Rating: 7 out of 10
September 23, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
3 years of experience
I'd say it's been very average. We can somewhat make it match our look and feel, but if we want to make the sections of the site look professional, we wind up making images in Canva and just putting those into the section. You can't customize the layout of each section much, nor the font, nor the exact size of the text. There are some frustrating limitations.

GiveSmart Review

Rating: 6 out of 10
September 19, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
5 years of experience
We have found that there is limited customization options compared to other platforms we have seen. This is especially true for fundraising form landing pages, where we wish we could have greater ability to customize headers and footers to feel more similar to our website. Therefore, we rarely use these landing pages and embed forms on our website. We wish there were more options with embedding forms and integration with our website.

GiveSmart.

Rating: 7 out of 10
September 19, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
3 years of experience
Reasonably well, I guess. I thought of another issue: when you're logged in as an admin, there's no way to see what donors/guests see. And since an account requires a cell phone, I can't create a dummy account either. I've only got one cell phone. So, I never know for sure what the users are seeing.

GiveSmart Review

Rating: 6 out of 10
September 19, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
2 years of experience
We like the customization options GiveSmart provides. Initially they were not as accessible, and I had to do some research to find it within the pages. It was easy to upload images. I would like to have had more options with customization. For example, make it look more like our website and remove any GiveSmart watermarks on the page.

Non-profit Fundraising Review.

Rating: 7 out of 10
September 19, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
1 year of experience
I am answering this survey from an Accounting perspective, so I don't feel I can adequately answer this.

Website donations and event software integrates with MIP.

Rating: 6 out of 10
September 17, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
6 years of experience
We've customized the website donation form for our organization by adding our logo and asking custom questions (like which program to allocate the donation to if they want to join our mailing list, etc.). This lets donors know about our programs and helps with our reporting and budgeting.

GiveSmart Won't Disappoint!

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 16, 2024
ML
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
3 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn
I have very much been satisfied with how much we have been able to customize our GiveSmart sites. The branding aspects are easy to use and comprehensive enough without having to do any coding. I feel it's greatly benefitted our events, as the site is easily identifiable as our event site and does not look unprofessional or outside of our normal brand.

GiveSmart is Smart!

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 12, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
3 years of experience
Customizing has improved. It helped us brand and keep a consistent message

GiveSmart Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
September 10, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
4 years of experience
The formatting matches our events and the ease of use is great. When donors log in and use the platform, they know it's from our school!

Review

Rating: 6 out of 10
September 10, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
9 years of experience
Yes have been able to customize, allows us to enter items that we are selling

A Great software with Great service.

Rating: 5 out of 10
June 24, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
2 years of experience
It has the right amount of customizability for our organization. We are able to make the customer-facing forms and pages look and feel very much inline with the Genesis Brand. The only two qualms that I have is that the GiveSmart logo appears at the bottom of all the forms that we make, and I haven't yet found a way to remove it. The second is that there is no way to customize the URLs of the activity landing pages.

GiveSmart Review

Rating: 6 out of 10
May 23, 2024
JH
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
1 year of experience
I feel that the customization is lacking. There is a strict layout to the GiveSmart platform. It has it's perks because it is already a functioning page without doing much, but it does not feel like it has our organization's imprint on it as much as I would like, and I have often had issues with uploading images from Canva in an attempt to customize further (size issues, etc.).

Good Software, GREAT service.

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 25, 2024
DB
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
8 years of experience
That was (and still is) one of the factors that helped us decide to use GiveSmart in the first place. Their platform was the most able to give us a customized feel and experience for the best price. There are a few things it won't do, but they pale in comparison to the many ways to customize the platform to what we need in terms of functionality, look, feel, and ease of use for our donors. They are always open to suggestions and constantly try to improve their product in thoughtful and intelligent ways.

Givesmart is Getting Smarter!

Rating: 6 out of 10
March 15, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
2 years of experience
Once again, there is a learning curve - but with each event (have not done any straight fundraising calls) we have been able to customize it a little bit quicker and more easily. There are some structural limitations, but once you know those and know how to work with them, you can customize it. The benefit of customization is that people know they have landed on the correct site/place because they recognize your logo/ colors.

Great service.

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 14, 2024
AB
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
1 year of experience
It is easy to work the back page and make it look like "ours."

A true one stop shop.

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 26, 2024
EN
Vetted Review
Verified User
GiveSmart
2 years of experience
This is not something I have done directly, but when I do view the website where the auction items are held or other types of ticket sales, it looks great. It looks cohesive to our website and is easy to navigate to find and purchase what you are looking for.
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