Raklet vs Mightycause: Which is a better fit?

Dave: Hi, I'm Dave. I'm the founder and principal at Watermark Business Partners, and I'm using Raklet to put together a community for my clients and partners. I give these guys five stars, because the functionality is really, really strong for such a cost-effective and reasonable entry-level platform. I'm excited to get this in place and really impressed and encouraged by what I've seen so far. So as far as other alternatives, I think the one piece that I'm using elsewhere is the learning and online course digital content component. So for that right now, I am looking at Easy Course. Also, I use sessions for my online meetings and bookings, webinars, all that kind of stuff. So I think there's an opportunity here to maybe bring some of these tools together into one place, but for me right now, from a directories and community component, I think Raklet's a really good, easy to implement, robustly solutioned starting point, and I like what I see. So for me, I chose Raklet because I'm new to this. I've never built something like this before. I'm not someone with a tech background. I come from a big corporate, a former banker who is new at the entrepreneurship thing and is even worse at technology. So as a newbie, I couldn't justify a big investment, but at the same time, I didn't want to go with something half-baked to the market. So I thought their pricing approach and value proposition was really reasonable. I don't mind commission payment on payment processing. I think that's fair. But some of the other bigger guys out there, like Brilliant Directories is another example that I considered, some of them are quite expensive, and I need to get comfortable before I can justify that investment. And right now with Raklet, I think it's a great place to start and really, really reasonable. I'm not fully. I haven't deployed the tool yet, but from an onboarding perspective, they do have fairly strong community supports and resources available online, so I've been impressed by that. Some maybe take a little bit of digging to find online, but that's, I think, often the case with just put anything. There's more than I probably expected and perhaps more meaningful, the tool is sufficiently easy to use, that I haven't found myself looking for help very often in the first place, which is really the key. So my number one recommendation for others considering Raklet would just be to really go through all the learning material first, and I think the onboarding process will be a lot smoother. There's a lot of great content there, and I found that even though I was able to figure things out for myself as I went, I think it would have gone a lot faster if I had taken the time to look at their resources, because they're really impressive and shouldn't be taken for granted.

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.