Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT vs DonorSnap: Which is a better fit?

Josh: My name is Josh. I am the founder and CEO, and I give Blackbaud NXT three out of five stars. For more reviews like this click below. Before using Blackbaud, the organization was using spreadsheets to keep track of the data, and this wasn't a very good use of time. They moved to Blackbaud for a robust fundraising platform. The reasons that this software was chosen was because it was the industry leader at the time it was chosen, that it offers a very robust fundraising platform, and that it offers a wide variety of features for the users to follow up with their clients and also to track donations of all different amounts and types. Because of how robust Blackbaud is, it is a harder one to integrate into the business and a harder one to implement, just because of the robust nature and the amount of fields and data that can be transported over to Blackbaud. [inaudible 00:01:04] one else who's in the market for a donation management system, I highly recommend looking at all the different options. Even though Blackbaud might be the premier leader, it's not meant for organizations of all sizes, especially for smaller organizations that can sometimes don't need all the robust features that big organizations do. There have come on the market, since that decision was made, a lot of players that we wish we would have been able to consider at the time. Just looking at price and looking at the feature comparison and where people see their organization growing within the next three years.

Tara: I'm Tara. I'm an executive director for a nonprofit, and I give DonorSnap a five star rating. For more information, click the link below. Before DonorSnap, I used Raiser's Edge, which is like the Cadillac of donor databases. And unfortunately, as expensive as it was, it was just not user-friendly. I never received the support or training that I needed. And being a small nonprofit, I just needed something that worked, did the job, and didn't cost a lot of money. DonorSnap did all those things for me, plus provided fantastic customer support. I chose DonorSnap for my donor database because it was affordable. It provided all the functionality that I needed as a professional fundraiser. Using special reports, I could generate content, thank you letters, live month reports, everything a fundraiser needs to operate efficiently. But also, because they really had personal one-on-one customer support. Whenever I needed it, they were just a phone call or an email away. Plus they have a fantastic database of videos and content to help me through new tasks, and they're always improving. So every year, they roll out some kind of new platform or opportunity that makes my job easier every day. Getting started with DonorSnap was super easy. I simply took the existing data that I had and was given a process and a personal person to walk through the process with me. It was truly very simple. It didn't take more than a couple of days, and they were able to customize the database for my personal needs and my nonprofit's needs. My advice is if you're considering getting DonorSnap, don't wait another minute. Walk, don't run. If you need something affordable, you need something that's going to improve your efficiency as a fundraiser and improve your ability to communicate easily with your donors, this is all you need. Don't look anywhere else.