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Novi AMS is particularly well suited for associations using QuickBooks.
StarChapter works directly with local chapter leaders, national associations, association management companies (AMC), and other membership-based organizations.
The staff is also great, the take concerns seriously which I really appreciate and try to provide a fix if possible. Sending invoices is also super easy to do and quick which I love.
Anytime you change systems it is frustrating. They have less features than our previous AMS, but sometimes less is more.
I love Novi AMS and the excellent and outstanding service I receive from one of the best teams in the country.
The only complaint I would have is the initial cost, but over time It will pay for its self. You pay the first year upfront and a hefty onboarding fee.
The overall experience has been great, from the design implementation and development of the integration was great.
Sometimes I find the report criteria confusing, but it is probably just above my understanding level.
There are several training opportunities, including an extremely comprehensive online help tool to help staff learn the system. Novi support staff are very responsive and helpful.
The eCommerce has been difficult for us to work with, but our needs are out of the norm.
The features I like best about StarChapter are: ease of administration, swiftness of launch, good value for your money. It's great for smaller associations.
Email deliverability is very bad. Email formatting is difficult to use versus Constant Contact.
The platform is great to use and the setup was fantastic. The team is always there to help with questions.
The options for website customization are quite limited, and the design options are very basic. Some functions also do not work well which can be aggravating.
Customer service is pretty helpful. There is still room for growth for them and I hope they will add features in the future.
I have a long list of complaints about this platform.
It was affordable, easy to use, the initial set-up was simple (StarChapter is a HUGE help and does a great deal of the work), and we've found their support team to be very responsive and helpful.
I didn't find anything that is missing from this software.
Shamilah U.: I'm Shamilah, I'm the Director of Member Services. I rate Novi AMS a five. For more reviews like this, please click below. We use Novi to manage our membership and also for invoicing purposes, for events, for website material management. We utilize Novi for all of that as well as to communicate with our membership and prospective members as well. One of the main things I love about Novi AMS, I truly love the customer service as this is a new software for our company and really seeing how hands on the customer service representatives are with making sure that we fully understand the capabilities that Novi AMS has and how to use it to the best of our ability, but also making sure we're maximizing our usage of Novi. Truly love it, and it's very user friendly, very beginner friendly. It's very easy to use, it really does make our day-to-day so much easier. One of the things that Novi AMS can improve on, even though it is a really great software, is truly how to pull reports based on various company needs and really organizing those reports and making sure that they're easy to access, easy to customize.
Mary G.: Hi, my name's Mary, I am a director of social media. And I am giving a two star rating for StarChapter today. For more ratings, see below. So I use StarChapter right now for email messaging to our members and to manage our chapter website as well. And we also use it a little bit for managing event registration as well. So the one really nice thing about StarChapter is having everything all in one place. There's one centralized source to have all of your membership, marketing, communications, website, everything at the touch of a finger. The pain points that I'm finding with star chapter is primarily related to ease of use. The system is not intuitive and not designed with the user in mind. There's a lot of training that needs to happen for anyone using the system that's a newbie. And my other pain point is it's not very customizable, especially for email marketing. It does not have any of the drag and drop features. It doesn't have any of the cool tech to make an email really splash or really look cool to the end receiver. It's very basic and just not, I guess, not as elevated as I would like to see.
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