1. Home
  2. Nonprofit CRM Software
  3. Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud Reviews
  4. User Review of Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud
No concerns about reliability and scale ever again
August 04, 2021

No concerns about reliability and scale ever again

Terry L Cole | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud

We first obtained NPSP for our development tracking when spreadsheets were no longer working well. We quickly expanded it to our outbound marketing for newsletter tracking and our volunteer program management. That was in the first year. We then expanded it a year later to track our client program delivery. A year later we were tracking client outcomes as well. Now it's simply an integral part of how we operate.
  • Adaptable
  • Scales up
  • Reliable
  • Broad
  • Customizable
  • Not an easy lift right out of the box unless you completely rule out customization
  • Not "free to own" even if the grant is free because you'll need about 0.25 FTE to maintain it
  • Constantly being updated which is cool but many items are "forced" and you must respond
  • Lots and lots of customization are required to equal many canned solutions available for any one particular feature set (but none of them can cover the breadth and flexibility of SF)
  • Reliability
  • Scalebility
  • Customization
  • Breadth
  • Best practices from big orgs to small
  • Great amplification of limited staff and capabilities of our small staff
  • Volunteer management over the years has been great
  • Program management came with almost no added cost or customization
I looked at many but they were all specific. I've looked at specific donation-only tools like Blackbaud. I've looked at volunteer-specific tools like GivePUlse. I've looked a just using spreadsheets. None scaled or could connect between programs like SF can.

Do you think Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud's feature set?

Yes

Did Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud again?

Yes

If you only want to track donations, I'd go with something simpler. If you want to track donations and programs and connections between them, there may be nothing better. If you have no technical abilities and no budget, restricted yourself solely to what it does as described exactly in the manual. If you can't devote about 0.25FTE to the constant maintenance and upgrades, don't go with it.