Bloomerang CRM vs. Bonterra EveryAction

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bloomerang CRM
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Bloomerang CRM helps nonprofits to raise more by turning donor data into deeper relationships. With a complete 360º view of every supporter, the solution helps identify top prospects, personalize outreach, and retain more donors. Engagement and Generosity Scores, real-time dashboards, and mobile access help users to see who’s ready to give and when to reach out—supporting fundraising with confidence. From first-time donors to lifelong champions, every interaction is an opportunity…
$40
per month (billed annually)
Bonterra EveryAction
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Bonterra EveryAction enables nonprofits to increase efficiency, optimize supporter and prospect interactions, and raise more money by providing expansive fundraising, digital, and organizing tools on a unified CRM.N/A
Pricing
Bloomerang CRMBonterra EveryAction
Editions & Modules
Bloomerang Fundraising
$40
per month (billed annually)
Bloomerang Volunteer
$119
per month (billed annually)
Bloomerang CRM
$125
per month (billed annually)
The Giving Platform
Contact Sales
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bloomerang CRMBonterra EveryAction
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsAll Plans include: Unlimited users, free email & chat support, free access to Bloomerang Academy, unlimited standard online giving pages & forms, donor engagement scoring, wealth screening, sustainability scorecard, email marketing, nightly address verification & deceased suppression updates, and 1 scholarship to Fundraising Standard (40 pts toward CFRE certification, $599 value)
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Community Pulse
Bloomerang CRMBonterra EveryAction
Features
Bloomerang CRMBonterra EveryAction
Communications and Marketing
Comparison of Communications and Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Bloomerang CRM
9.7
Ratings
37% above category average
Bonterra EveryAction
-
Ratings
Constituent engagement and marketing9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Social listening10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Digital advocacy enablement10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting and Analytics
Comparison of Reporting and Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Bloomerang CRM
5.3
Ratings
19% below category average
Bonterra EveryAction
-
Ratings
Reporting and data visualization8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Wealth screening2.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Fundraising and Events
Comparison of Fundraising and Events features of Product A and Product B
Bloomerang CRM
7.0
Ratings
14% above category average
Bonterra EveryAction
-
Ratings
Online donation options7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Security and Platform
Comparison of Security and Platform features of Product A and Product B
Bloomerang CRM
8.8
Ratings
25% above category average
Bonterra EveryAction
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile access8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrations10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Bloomerang CRMBonterra EveryAction
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
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7.7
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
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1.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(0 ratings)
3.5
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
1.9
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(0 ratings)
7.1
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
5.7
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Bloomerang CRMBonterra EveryAction
Likelihood to Recommend
I can't speak to Bloomerang's functionality for a very large organization, but for a small-to-midsize non-profit, I don't know what else you'd need! Need to register volunteers, or sell tickets, or generate e- or print communications, or pull donor data? Bloomerang does it. Bloomerang is my third CRM tool in my current organization and it is vastly superior in almost every way to the others that came before.
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Bonterra EveryAction is a good CRM to use if your company has institutional fundraisers, grants, and individual fundraising, as it is suited to manage the processes that go along with all of those. I've heard that SalesForce has more functionality than Bonterra EveryAction, but I think that Bonterra EveryAction has plenty to learn and is extremely useful.
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Pros
  • Website integration for online donations is awesome! It makes it so much easier to raise money online. We've tripled the amount of money we raise online, mainly because of this and the ability to send emails through the system.
  • Emails are tracked directly in a donor's record, so we can see instantly their engagement with our content.
  • Integration with DonorSearch is awesome and seems to be improving often.
  • They listen to their customers' needs. If enough customers request a feature, they'll get it for us. We feel like the development of this software is always happening and it's a partnership, rather than a transaction.
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  • Some people find the Create A List tool more intuitive than other record-querying equivalents, which can make it easier for digital organizers to target and segment bulk emails, broadcast texts, door-knocking sheets, etc.
  • The ability to add custom fields on both Contact and Contribution records allows for some flexibility in making the system adapt to your organizing model
  • There aren't a lot of other tools out there that make phone banking quite as accessible
  • EveryAction's Email Series/Automations allow for some pretty sophisticated things to run mostly on their own, from welcome and reactivation series, to drip campaigns
  • For the most technical EveryAction users, the ability to customize online form appearance and functionality using callback functions allows for pretty intricate customization of submitter experiences (e.g. redirecting form submitters to different destinations based on how they filled out the form)
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Cons
  • Some of the searches did not bring up the expected results. It would be good to see the logic be a little more "fuzzy".
  • More pre-set reports would be helpful for small organizations who do not understand the logic behind how to get the results they are seeking.
  • An ability to just page through donor records would be nice. Sometimes you just want to browse the data to get inspired.
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  • Tech support resolutions and turnaround time (when going through basic channels).
  • Continuity of the software—We recently lost a feature we had enjoyed for the first several months and were told that it is "not currently possible" with our version of VAN—even though we had it.
  • I wish you could see ALL bulk uploads at ALL times, not just the last 100 batches or lines.
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Likelihood to Renew
#1 - I am very happy with the product and support so far.
#2 - With significant data migration costs, I wouldn't even consider another option for at least 3 years no matter how much better it might be.
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We will never us EA, nor recommend them to another org, simply based on their failed promises to deliver training, on-boarding and then charging our account during our free 3 month period, then after cancelling the contract their legal department tried to force us to sign a cancellation agreement that barred us from writing reviews, making comments, etc!
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Usability
Data and settings are very customizable to fit the needs of our organization. We are able to not only keep track of donations, but also other interactions we may have with a constituent. Support is extremely helpful when issues arise.
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It's just so easy--there isn't a lot of techy lingo or graphics, so a regular person can log in and have a sense of what does what. There might be a few terms you need to learn, but everything is in common English so you can almost always find what you're looking for.
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Reliability and Availability
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The only issue I have had with availability is when I don't have my work phone with me, which prevents me from providing a multi-factor authentication code to access the portal. Other than that, I have not had an issue with availability or outages.
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Performance
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Will not go higher than 8 because of how often I end up locked out
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Support Rating
Any time i had a problem or question it has been easy to find an answer or tutorial. When I cannot find an answer, it is easy to email or live chat with support and they resolve my problems very quickly.
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I feel like product support and training should go hand in hand. Having to pay $5k to learn how to use a database is absolutely ridiculous and should be offered with the cost of your database, as it is with every other database I've ever used in the last 10 years of my career. With that being said, once I took the training, I found that the support was much more available. Having training and support behind a paywall is bad business in my opinion
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Online Training
No answers on this topic
They went through all the features and explained in easy-to-digest details what features the system had. They were also responsive to questions we had. We were able to check in with the support team after training and received prompt followups that helped supplement the training after we had real-world experience using the system.
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Implementation Rating
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It natively integrated with NGP Van extremely well. it also integrated very well with our zoom platform and our use of the Mobilize platform. The bulk upload feature allowed us to move large amounts of initial data into the platform easily. The removal of duplicates was also a fairly easy task.
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Alternatives Considered
Salesforce is infinitely customizable, but Bloomerang is pretty straightforward and works out of the box. It is simple enough that folks who are not familiar with the robust features of something like Salesforce can hit the ground running. Even as it is simple it is powerful as far as showing visuals that can help fundraising staff more clearly understand where the organization is and what donors they can next target for upcoming campaigns.
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I liked Action Network in that it was very user friendly. However, it didn't have the magnitude of features that EveryAction provides. But I appreciated the level of basic knowledge needed to use this to its extent of services. I kind of miss how easy it was to navigate and create when writing a newsletter. EveryAction has the special features that I need to update such as the domain.
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Scalability
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It just works whenever we need it. We'd grown our list and scaled up substantially since buying the product and have had no issues.
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Return on Investment
  • Because my organization has been using Bloomerang for only one year, we haven't yet studied what impact it has had on our ROI. We have, however, noted that we are able to more efficiently and more rapidly communicate with constituents now than we were able to before we had Bloomerang. We can quickly and efficiently generate acknowledgements and tax receipts - and do so - better than we ever did before.
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  • We are able to make informed fundraising decisions. We can easily see what campaigns were successful so that we know where to invest our time. We expect to see improved fundraising performance.
  • Saving time on data collection: Having automated reports on donations and grant funds raised is a huge time saver. Rather than spending hours once a quarter pulling information out of a bulky Excel sheet, we can simply refresh the reports we've set up and visualize the data anytime.
  • Saved money on other softwares since Bonterra EveryAction is a one stop shop: We've been able to cancel the subscription to our email marketing company since we send all our campaigns through the software. We are also able to send surveys and to host our donation page.
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ScreenShots

Bloomerang CRM Screenshots

Screenshot of a constituent profile. These provide deeper insights and help to strengthen donor relationships. They are designed to keep all key details accessible.Screenshot of amounts raised. Bloomerang CRM will keep fundraising success available at a glance.Screenshot of a donor retention wheel. This creates a visual representation of donor retention rates.Screenshot of a giving summary. Bloomerang's Giving Summary displays a donor's giving history, supporting data-driven decisions.Screenshot of tasks, designed to streamline to-dos.Screenshot of Bloomerang's Generosity Score, used to identify the most promising donors.

Bonterra EveryAction Screenshots

Screenshot of donor segmentation and targeting by evaluating donors' past behavior, which highlights best opportunities to improve retention, increase donor value, and raise more money.Screenshot of a single, unified platform to support all kinds of campaigns by sending newsletters, creating action alerts, crafting fundraising appeals, and building automated workflows with a modern, targeted email tool boasting deliverability rates.Screenshot of multi-channel workflow automations.Screenshot of a picture of an individual record. These feature customization options used to tailor the page and highlight important information.Screenshot of a Bonterra form. 33% of forms have at least one pre-filled file due to a previous action taken across our network, boosting overall conversion rates.