Bloomerang vs Bonterra Development + Digital: Which is a better fit?

Jennry R.: Hi, my name is Jenny. I'm director of Donor Relations. I would give Bloomerang a five out of five, and for more reviews like this, click below. Before we adopted Bloomerang, we were using a software that did not show a timeline. It was very difficult in donor relations to not be able to see what our giving history and interactions were with a donor year over year. It was not user-friendly for creating reports. It was just hard to pull information about individuals. We decided to go with Bloomerang because it does show a very clear timeline very easily. It's a very user-friendly system. People don't need a lot of training in order to know how to use it and it is much easier to do reports and much easier to see the relationships that exists among our constituents. We adopted Bloomerang seven years ago. It's honestly a little bit hard to remember what it was like to get started. I do remember that we adopted it right after we were completing an auction. Bloomerang really made it pretty easy for us. I don't remember that it was a particularly difficult process to be onboarded with Bloomerang. Then we were just good to go as soon as the new fiscal year started. We shifted over entirely to Bloomerang. Anybody who's thinking about Bloomerang, I would encourage you to call some of the Bloomerang references and just really talk to people about the experiences that they've had. I would also encourage you, if you're going to purchase Bloomerang, to go ahead and pay for the phone support. The technical support at Bloomerang is absolutely what I love the most about Bloomerang. They are nice, they are helpful, and they will stay with me as long as I need them to help me figure out whatever situation I have that I need their help with. This could be in creating reports or cleaning up individuals, how to send a particular kind of communication. They are super, super helpful. So for that, that is why I give Bloomerang a five out of five, just being able to call and speak to somebody who can help me solve my problems.

Speaker 1: My name is Aaron. I'm the development director at an organization called Sisu Youth Services. We are a relatively small nonprofit that serves young people experiencing homelessness in Oklahoma City, and I give Bonterra five out of five stars. Before we used Bonterra, we used a combination of spreadsheets and an online fundraising tool called Network for Good. We chose Bonterra because it has a huge suite of tools that were better able to serve our growing organization, and we liked that it was one tool that had everything that we needed from online fundraising to a really powerful CRM, to grants management and moves management for my major donors. Bonterra requires some focus set up, but it was easy and I had support from their staff as well as tons of resources in their resource library and help center that made set up and getting started really easy. For someone else considering Bonterra, I would ask yourself, do you need a single solution that has really powerful data tools? Then I think Bonterra is right for you. If you're an organization that is growing into the grants management space or into major giving, and you need something a little bit more grown up than your organization has been using, then I think Bonterra is for you, and those are my recommendations.