eTapestry satisfies small shop fundraising
September 28, 2022
eTapestry satisfies small shop fundraising
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Blackbaud eTapestry
We use Blackbaud eTapestry CRM to track all fund development interactions in a charitable organization. This includes financial journal entries and related communications for all donations, pledges, sponsorships, planned gifts, and grants. We also use Blackbaud eTapestry to link our website donation, volunteer and event forms to the database. We use the query feature to search for information, manage event guest lists, create reports, and create mass emails or letters and receipts. We can track grant status as well. It has been less useful for moves management of prospects than we would like. Outlook integration is useful.
Pros
- Easy search capabilities
- Improved DIY web forms easy to use
- Great standard reports and easy DIY queries
- Easy to handle pledges, upgrade, and reporting to donors on these
Cons
- Moves Management integration is not useful. Needs better prospects tracking
- Would like a better way to track cultivation visits, tours, and stewardship. Hard to customize event tracking lists
- Should declutter journal by keeping financial and contact details separate
- User defined fields are great, but should have the ability to permanently delete unused fields
- Complex compound queries are not always supported by the system
- Donor CRM and donation tracking & receipts
- Communications via website and email integration
- Queries and reports
- Time saved through useful integrations, auto processing and scheduling
- Standard reports for basic information along with custom reports allows us to get useful data and KPIs
- Relied on website and communication tools to successfully pivot to online events during pandemic and continue to use skills and tools learned
- DonorPerfect, Sumac and by Silent Partner
Blackbaud eTapestry is a fully cloud based system, unlike Sumac, which means it can handle continuous multi-users in real time while remaining synchronous. Everything can be stored within the system, including documents that one needs such as granting or gift agreements. Easier to customize than DonorPerfect and better with Outlook.
Do you think Blackbaud eTapestry delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Blackbaud eTapestry's feature set?
Yes
Did Blackbaud eTapestry live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Blackbaud eTapestry go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Blackbaud eTapestry again?
Yes
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