Neon CRM

When we signed up with Neon in 2018, it seemed to be the answer to our prayers. A donor database and email “blast” whatever all in one. As a nonprofit using Mailchimp to send emails and another donor program to maintain our database, it saved our nonprofit about $100 a month. Although the system was thoroughly confusing (you have to watch video tutorials and html code to understand many of the features), the customer support was good. Around 2022, Neon started to go downhill. Bells and whistles were added that were of no benefit (to our nonprofit) and the system became even more confusing to use. For example, a donor’s email was not automatically added to our email list when the donor made a contribution. Instead, we had to check each donation that came in to determine whether it was a new or existing donor. If it was a new donor, we had to copy their email address and manually add it into our email blast list. This was an enormous time-waster for our org for something that should have been fully automated from the start. Other issues are listed below:

. Pricing continued to increase while the service continued to go downhill. We were paying almost $400 monthly when we cancelled. While doing so, Neon stated that they are designed to “help nonprofits” and could decrease our cost to $270 monthly and they were also adding 10 new technicians to help with the increased customer issues they were having. We declined.

· When we cancelled, Neon stated that “according to our contract” we would owe them for three months (totaling almost $1,200), even though we would not be using their system. This is not stated anywhere in the contract.

· Neon CRM refused to transfer our recurring donor information over to Stripe unless we paid them $450.

· Customer support was impossible to reach, often taking a week to 10 days to respond.

· Exporting reports was cumbersome, confusing and more importantly, not accurate. For instance, our export of “lapsed” donors included over a dozen of contributors who had donated within the previous week, and our export of “New Donors” included people who had donated only one time seven years prior.

· Email address uploads could not be trusted. When we uploaded new email addresses into our email blast list, the number of emails in our mailing list never increased. We are positive the addresses were new emails and not a previous emails that was overwritten. This includes new emails that numbered into the hundreds.

In our opinion, Neon CRM is difficult and frustrating to use without IT experience, and way to costly for the a small to mid-sized nonprofit. We believe that we lost donors due to the inaccurate report system in Neon CRM.

Our non-profit made the switch due to sales pitch promises, but sadly it wreaked absolute havoc on our data. Migration took forever and data was jumbled, in the wrong place, or completely missing. Area codes were wrong. Pitiful customer service. They don't have account reps. You can't just pick up the phone and talk to someone. Our admin sits for hours in the Chat queue only to get kicked out randomly. There are basic functions that it simply doesn't offer. We completely REGRET becoming a customer and are currently looking for alternatives. AVOID this start up, they are too far behind and have a long way to go to catch up.

NeonCRM is used by the CEO, COO, and marketing manager at Revitalize T-Town. We use NeonCRM as a donor database for our nonprofit organization and for a variety of tasks including, but not limited to, recording donor information, recording donations, managing fundraising campaigns, tracking and storing grant information, tracking and storing donor communications, managing our nonprofit website, and accepting online donations through our website.

Multiple departments in our nonprofit use NeonCRM primarily, we use this resource for tracking and taking in donations and for event registrations, as well as tracking memberships. We also pull reports using NeonCRM.

Neon is our database for donors and prospects. We are a small team of 5 and everyone uses it. All correspondence with board members, donors and prospects are captured and stored in their accounts. All tracking of pledges and payments are done via Neon.

NeonCRM is fully integrated in the company. It is the main database used for operations. Not just for tracking donor's gift. A good resource for all contacts being using in our company. Is the go-to source for tracking donations, donors, grants and fundraising efforts.

Neon CRM is primarily our fundraising database. It is a quick and user friendly way to keep track of, classify, analyze, and report on donors, donations, and fundraising campaigns. We also use Neon's online forms for processing donations and collecting other data for our services, e.g. travel information for our international rotation and foreign exchange programs.

My non-profit uses NeonCRM for contact information, for creating events and allowing people to register and pay, and for sending for letters.

We use NeonCRM to track donor engagement, grants, event attendance and relationships. We also use it to segment marketing lists and integrate with email marketing. All staff uses the platform in different capacities. Some users are tracking donors, some grants, and others marketing lists. We use reports to help understand who is most invested monetarily and who is most engaged with programming.

NeonCRM is our organization's core system for member management and collection of membership fees. It is extremely helpful, and integrates seamlessly with our website. We are very pleased to have made this decision.

We use NeonCRM across the whole organization. We use it for donor management, event management and registration, email communication, volunteer tracking, surveys/forms, grant management and reporting.

NeonCRM is used by the foundation - the philanthropic arm of the organization. It is used to manage our constituents' records, gift processing, event registration and fundraising. It handles our online giving and campaign marketing and is an all-in-one fundraising management platform for us.