Item: Give Lively
Rating: 2
Author: Katelyn Hamil

Overall Satisfaction with Give Lively

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Give Lively hosts our landing page for donations.

Pros and Cons

Pros

It’s an effective form for donations
Integrates well with our payment processor stripe

Cons

The reporting functionality leaves something to be desired. In my opinion, it's hard to find and confusing to understand what timeframe you’re looking at.
It’d be nice to be able to customize export fields before download. There’s a lot of extra info provided to sift through.

Return on Investment

It’s our current donation platform which is a huge benefit to have an online presence that doesn’t involve QR codes and Venmo accounts
Expands constituents ability to give in other ways beyond cash or check donations

Usability

I feel this product is much less user friendly than others I’ve used in its place. I feel I spend too much time searching the overly complicated navigation menus and dealing with export cleanup.

I think Little Green Light will be a better alternative. We are currently building the online form so that our donation landing page can link directly with LGL and we’re hoping to cut Give Lively as the middleman platform out of our tech stack.

Key Insights

Do you think Give Lively delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Give Lively's feature set?

Did Give Lively live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Give Lively go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Give Lively again?

Other Software Used

Little Green Light, Mailchimp, Wix

Likelihood to Recommend

If you’re not using another service or CRM to manage online forms, then you’ll need something like Give Lively. However, there are so many products with robust feature lineups that can be used to centralize work efforts that a singularly faceted product falls flat.

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Consider other products unless looking only for a Online Donation Form