Blackbaud Luminate Online
DFCI Philanthropy uses Blackbaud Luminate Online for our online fundraising efforts, including but not limited to directed and …
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What is Blackbaud Luminate Online?
Luminate Online aims to help non-profits engage more effectively with supporters and raise more money by enabling integrated campaigns for digital, social and mobile channels. According to the vendor, Luminate Online helps non-profits:Better understand online supportersMake the right ask at…
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What is Blackbaud Luminate Online?
Luminate Online aims to help non-profits engage more effectively with supporters and raise more money by enabling integrated campaigns for digital, social and mobile channels. According to the vendor, Luminate Online helps non-profits: Better understand online…
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What is Blackbaud Luminate Online?
Luminate Online aims to help non-profits engage more effectively with supporters and raise more money by enabling integrated campaigns for digital, social and mobile channels.
According to the vendor, Luminate Online helps non-profits:
Passions, preferences and giving history trigger additional campaigns building stewardship through more relevant interactions and opportunities to engage. The company also aims to offer top notch support and numerous free resources. All clients receive a personal Customer Success Manager to offer best practices and resources to succeed.
According to the vendor, Luminate Online helps non-profits:
- Better understand online supporters
- Make the right ask at the right time
- Launch creative fundraising campaigns
Passions, preferences and giving history trigger additional campaigns building stewardship through more relevant interactions and opportunities to engage. The company also aims to offer top notch support and numerous free resources. All clients receive a personal Customer Success Manager to offer best practices and resources to succeed.
Blackbaud Luminate Online Features
- Supported: Dynamic Email Campaigns
- Supported: Online Fundraising with Smart Donation Forms
- Supported: Donation Processing
- Supported: Fundraising Analytics & Reporting
- Supported: Calendar Events
- Supported: eCommerce Capabiltiies
- Supported: Engagement Factors
- Supported: Luminate Advocacy
- Supported: Peer to Peer Fundraising with Luminate TeamRaiser
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Blackbaud Luminate Online Competitors
- Salsa Engage
- Classy
- Bonterra Development + Digital
- Engaging Networks
Blackbaud Luminate Online Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Canada, United States, Some European Countries |
| Supported Languages | English |
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The most common users of Blackbaud Luminate Online are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
Blackbaud Luminate Online Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 30% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 50% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 20% |
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May 29, 2018
Luminate Online - Your Fundraising Hub
Luminate is such a big machine that different departments are using it across our organization. From advocacy to direct response to prevention we all benefit from its vast choices and offerings. It helps us to better serve our supporters and to manage our fundraising events as well as to set parameters to allow supporters to host their own events and use the platform. It is a great platform to host our events, handle registration fees, upsells, discounts, e-commerce, TeamRaiser and team creation within TeamRaiser, and donation forms for TeamRaiser, etc.
One of the main factors is that you can start small and as you grow the platform will grow with your organization.
One of the main factors is that you can start small and as you grow the platform will grow with your organization.
- Team raisers: If your organization has team raisers, Luminate is the one you should be using. The whole arsenal of tools to use arond TeamRaisers is really unmatchable. You can even set the Event Manager Center to grant your event managers to some or all of the management options of the system. You decide the degree of delegation you give to your event managers.
- Email. Do you need to communicate with your supporters? Email will be your tool of choice, do it with the rich text editor or go old school with the plain editor and add your HTML directly. Do A/B testing to pick your best design and measure message performance. Pick your target and see a detailed report of your target audience before sending the email. Once the email is sent, keep track of the results with the information on the panel and the performance report of your email together with a bounce email report, etc.
- Need to recruit volunteers? The survey module will help you create your form for them to fill. What the system may not offer you can achieve with its flexibility and the great support for custom Java scripts.
- Personal events, ticketed events, and the Ecommerce module could use some updating. But they are workable.
- Multi-locale is sometimes a hit and miss but for the most part works pretty well.
Financial, Support, web development, Mision, Prevention, Community Relations, Operations
Web developpers, social media specialist, support specialist,
- Fundraisers
- Prevention & Awareness
- Donations
- Mixed environment between MS Azure and Donation Campaigns
- Development of an in house tool based on Azure and Luminate OpenAPI to automate some tasks that used to take a lot of time for staff to complete
Yes
CornerStone, Flexibility and customization capabilities
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
I will add more up to date parameters on my research. Such as: Scalability, stability, language support, technologies support
- Online training
Yes
some have been resolved and some has been marked as defects and will be corrected or addressed down the road according to their priorities and road map.
May 22, 2018
Luminate - easy online email marketing
Luminate is used mostly among the fundraising and communications teams. It gives us an easy way to email groups of people our newsletters, job alerts, event invitations etc., allowing us to customize the group, reuse lists, update lists etc. At my current organization, we don't use Luminate for donation pages or TeamRaiser yet -- that's coming - but at an older organization we used it all and it was so handy to have a complete picture without having to go into Raiser's Edge. I can't wait to have all of that set up at my current organization too. If you're already a user of Raiser's Edge it makes it all the more seamless to import/export data, email groups, track open and click rates, check on their peer-to-peer or third party fundraising etc.
- Track email open rates, click through rates, donations associated etc.
- Peer to peer fundraising tracking and emails.
- Emailing groups is easy and intuitive - in multiple languages too.
- A few things in events aren't multi-language by default.
- Team Raiser out of the box isn't pretty - best to have redesigned skin.
- US customers tend to get improvements first - but that's typical of anything for us Canadian customers.
- artez and frontstream
We have used Artez/Frontstream for donation pages and peer to peer but it doesn't seem to offer the flexibility and donor experience as well as Luminate Online does. Emailing is limited and user experience for peer to peer is basic. Not as much support or interest in helping to make your organization as successful as it can be.
5
Main users: database admin and digital officer. Additional users: gift processor, admin, direct response officer. We are adding TeamRaiser soon, so then our peer-to-peer person will be using it a lot as well. The main power users are in it almost daily, while the additional users are only in the system maybe a couple of times a week.
Yes
We replaced another third party/peer-to-peer system and our online donation pages with Luminate. It's much better usability for end users and backend internal users, integrates better with Raiser's Edge and other BlackBaud products which we already had, and just made more sense to reduce time, fees, data, and systems overall.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Prior Experience with the Product
Ultimately we did a map to see what our ROI would be on this including implementation fees/set up time etc... and the staff time saved alone made it worth it. Our database, email builder, finance staff, fundraising staff etc, all would be saving hours and hours of work by simplifying the data and the systems used.
I wouldn't change how we did it - I'd just do it earlier! We should have made the move years ago. When I got here I was baffled why we only had certain systems and not everything under one roof. It saves so much more time, money, patience.... And having one view on all of our online data just makes sense.
- Online training
- Self-taught
Fairly intuitive and easy to use in laid out steps. Support is easy to access for any help if you get stuck, but it's only when I need to do more complicated things that I find I need their help. I find the menus and how to find things makes sense, and once you're in a section the sidebar step by step walks you through everything you need to do to complete whatever it is you need to do.
No
Not sure that it's available, but not needed. There is chat support available during business hours, phone number, or my own dedicated rep I can email anytime who answers quickly and gets me the answers i need if need be. Love the chat support especially - easy way to get connected, have a transcript of the discussion, solution, or links to more resources.
Yes
Yes, they gave me a workaround to use until it was solved, which was fairly quick. They gave an update and best solution to work around the bug in the mean time, and helped explain it so I could easily continue my work until the bug was worked out. They were aware of it already when I reported it too so it was nice to know they're on top of things.
We recently were trying to get an email invitation out to a group of donors when we realized our event rsvp button wasn't working all of a sudden - even though it had been working fine in the past. Quickly hopped on chat support, they popped into our event to take a look and discovered the issue was because we had a developer working on a new page wrapper which was the same one being used for events. Even though it was out of their scope, they pointed us in the right direction and we were able to have our developer go in and fix the error they had created and got our email out on time!
August 18, 2014
Luminate Online Rocks
Score 10 out of 10
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Luminate Online is primarily used by the Communications department for PageBuilder, Email Campaigns, Teamraiser, Donation forms, etc. Development department also utilizes it to research donors, thank major donors, tribute pages, and development online appeals. It addresses our online constituents and ensuring that we are communicating with donors, volunteers, clients, and the general public that is interested in MSAA.
- TeamRaiser
- Donation Campaigns
- Emails
- Interests/ Group Categories
- Pagebuilder pages
- Sustainers
- Import/Export
- Merging
- eTapestry,Salesforce.com,PIDI (Public Interest Data Inc)
Luminate Online has more options than eTapestry and easier to use. PIDI does not offer the same options and Salesforce you would need to add on additional apps from the exchange.
5
Communications and Development departments
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Communications Manager and Communications Coordinator support in-house Luminate Online.
- TeamRaiser helps us connect to volunteers
- Email campaigns help us generate additional funds and easy to use for End of Year
- Donation forms are simple to create and manage
- We use Teamraiser to create a virtual volunteer opportunity, and have been improving each year for the last few years.
- We imported an email purchase group and created a separate group and interest for them.
- Events calendar makes it easy to publish events quickly and update our website.
- Not sure, it meets our needs right now!
- Increased donor retention
- Increased communication between MSAA and donors/clients
- Streamlined process for sustainers
- Automated receipt responders increase efficiency
- Professional services company
Yes
I was not a part of the implementation process but it is usually lengthy, at least 4-6 months at other organizations.
- Time
- Layout
- Website wrapper for pages
- Email header consistency
- Online training
- In-person training
- Self-taught
Yes, some things were easy to learn from the FAQ.
Be sure to work with a good implementation partner and ask questions before making any change to the system since it can change the whole thing.
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No
Yes
Yes, it was resolved within a few days!
We were unsure where to upload the information from our email append so we worked with our team from PIDI and Luminate at Blackbaud to help us import to the right fields.
- Donation Forms
- Page Builder
- Email Campaigns
- Teamraiser - to set up
- Import/Export
- Custom Queries/Reports
- PIDI
Difficult and the integration is not seamless. Blackbaud purchased PIDI and did not create an easy way to integrate the two platforms.
- Salesforce
- Quickbooks
- Peachtree
- File import/export
Be sure that all of Blackbaud products integrate with each other.
Not sure, I was not part of that process.
No.
- Bugs are fixed
- Additional capabilities
- Not sure, I am not in charge of the upgrade process.
No
No