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Fundraisers that want to save more time, raise more funds, and do more good.
Nonprofits, NGOs, associations, civic sector organizations, mission-based organizations, event management, political and campaigning groups.
I also love that it is web based so I can access it remotely. Overall I am very pleased with the software and feel you get an amazing product for a very reasonable price.
Their billing policies are draconian, the back end is terrible and the front end user experience is so ugly an uncustomizable compared to industry peers.
We've been very, very happy with Bloomerang. This software is light years ahead of what we had, and the fact that it integrates with DonorSearch is amazing.
A downside - Reports are still confusing at times, needing so many steps and not fully understanding how to use the drop downs, or what they mean to pull the report I need.
Great for communicating with supporters and donor management. Good customer service and helpful articles/videos if you run into problems or have questions.
The lack of an event tracking feature. It is also frustrating that all mass communications are embedded as interactions.
It was easy to learn after having used a variety of other databases (Salesforce, Raiser's Edge, Donor Perfect, Apricot). I am happy with the flexibility in reporting.
The automated surveys could be revised. I wish you could edit them because the lapsed one has offended some donors so we have stopped using it.
Excellent event registration and membership management at a price that can't be equaled. Best of all, it works in and with our client's websites.
It was hard to upgrade if too many releases went by since you were supposed to do one at a time. I almost had a database disaster during one of the updates and lost a couple days to recover the data.
CiviCase brings case management into to application and CiviVolunteer helps you keep track of the eager beavers who want to help your cause.
I have had some trouble using the scheduled mailings feature. Once the mailing didn't go out at all.
I loved how expansive the system was. I liked that I could use it as both a record of donors and donations etc. and as a way to process and track payments/money received.
That said, a person who understands the database can bypass the worst of it -- however, we could do this, and the closest competing product priced itself out of our reach by an excessive import fee.
The community is fairly responsive and keeps an active release cycle as well as an extension community which build meaningful extensions to functionality.
It's built on soon-to-be deprecated software, so investing in its deployment might be a little risky.
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.
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