Almabase vs Mightycause: Which is a better fit?

Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Camille. I'm the director of Alumni Engagement for Ranney School, and I would give Almabase a five out of five star rating. I haven't used any other alumni-specific software products prior to using Almabase, but I have extensive research and experience using other CRM systems, including Raiser's Edge and Salesforce. Ranney School decided to invest in Almabase software several years ago with the increasing need to engage and reengage with our alumni community. And it's been an initiative that we've continued forward, and the software has helped us tremendously. Almabase was incredibly easy and simple to integrate with our current organization. At first, all we had to do was provide an Excel list of all of our alums, and the partners in the backend at Almabase worked quickly to upload that information. As information is new or needs to be added, it's incredibly simple to do such thing. And what I appreciate the most is Almabase's ability to integrate with other softwares like Raiser's Edge. So our current database with all of our constituent information is easily connected with Almabase, so there isn't duplicating efforts back and forth. My advice to anyone considering Almabase is to definitely give it a look, go through the trial and understand its capabilities. And if you see anything that you wish it did do, definitely mention it to it because the developers are consistently making new changes and they value everyone's feedback. So I definitely think it's a software worth your investment.

Jillian K.: My name is Jillian and I am a volunteer with various dog rescues and nonprofit organizations. And I would rate Mightycause a four out of five. For more information, click below. Before Mightycause we kind of used a grass roots platform that actually no longer exists and it didn't work because first of all, everything was very manual in it, which means that like with Mightycause I can decide when things start and end. But with this platform, I had to manually start it and manually end it. And we had 30, 40, 50, 60 campaigns running at the same time, going in and manually ending those and trying to do it all at the same time was impossible. It also no longer exists, which prompted us to search for a tool like Mightycause. So we chose Mightycause because they allow us to set up teams, which was extremely important and run multiple campaigns at the same time. So a lot of what we do with the dog rescue involves competition and voting and we vote via donation. So we can set up 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 100 campaigns at once and see how they're all performing against each other. And they can also start and end at the exact same time. So we know at 11:59 PM on June 1st, exactly what each amount was for these different campaigns, which was extremely helpful. And it's very easy to use. I'll also say that when I first started, I struggled a little bit with getting started, but I found the support to be great. I talked to someone directly, they emailed back right away. So whenever I do have an issue where I'm confused, I find the support really, really good. I would say that Mightycause, the reason that I would say it's a four out of five is because I think getting started was a little bit difficult. It's not as intuitive as I would like it to be, especially when I'm asking people to set up their own teams or run their own fundraisers. When I do it all myself, now I know how to do it, it's pretty easy. But I think getting started is kind of middle of the road and it's really not as intuitive as it could be. I would recommend that people definitely reach out to support if they're having problems. It can be really frustrating to kind of go over and try to figure out how things are supposed to work, especially when, like I said, things are not as intuitive as they could be. So I would say if you get stuck, don't get frustrated. Just reach out to the support and they'll get back to you relatively quickly. And they're great at solving any open issues.