Bloomerang is a boon for our nimble nonprofit
June 16, 2017
Bloomerang is a boon for our nimble nonprofit
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Bloomerang
We are a small nonprofit that needed an intuitive donor database. We have only two employees, so there is not a lot of time available for database upkeep. Bloomerang has been a time, money, and sanity saver for us. We love it that it provides a one-stop shop for email correspondence/marketing and online integration with our website.
- Correspondence is saved under constituents' accounts which is so helpful for recordkeeping.
- Data uploads are a breeze! Love this feature. It is pretty foolproof.
- The chat feature is great and the people are so kind and point you in the right direction.
- I wish I could split credit card charges into different funds. As it is right now, you have to ask Bloomerang to unlock the transactions. Which they do willingly. We often times have donors wanting to make one charge for multiple things.
- It seems like 50% of the time when someone from our database makes an online donation, a new constituent account is made. It is easy enough to merge, but I have to be more on the lookout for multiple accounts.
- Would love a fundraiser/auction compatible option. Still have to use another software for this aspect of our development.
I have used two Blackbaud products in the past and found them to be clunky and time-consuming databases. They may be fine for a large nonprofit that can devote resources to entire development departments, but we are a small and nimble organization that favors smooth simplicity.