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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bonterra EveryAction

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ABonterra 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

    Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce for Nonprofits, the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud, is a nonprofit constituent relationship management platform from Salesforce, which supports constituent engagement, fundraising, and grants. Nonprofit editions contain Salesforce Lightning Edition along with the former Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) combined.

    $36

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Bonterra EveryActionSalesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Editions & Modules
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    Sales Cloud - EE
    $36
    per month per user
    Sales + Service Cloud - EE
    $48
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Nonprofit Cloud - EE
    $60
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Nonprofit Cloud - UE
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    Bonterra EveryActionSalesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    140 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    72 Answers
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    71 Answers
    75%
    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Bonterra EveryActionSalesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (150 ratings)
    8.4
    (29 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    1.1
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    3.5
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.1
    (145 ratings)
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    Performance
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.9
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.1
    (143 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Bonterra EveryActionSalesforce Nonprofit Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bonterra
    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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    Salesforce
    If you only want to track donations, I'd go with something simpler. If you want to track donations and programs and connections between them, there may be nothing better. If you have no technical abilities and no budget, restricted yourself solely to what it does as described exactly in the manual. If you can't devote about 0.25FTE to the constant maintenance and upgrades, don't go with it.
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    Pros
    Bonterra
    • One stop shop for creating newsletters, sending them out to mailing lists, and tracking analytics (including donations).
    • Grants management (we are able to track funds received, reports due, and all points of contact associated with a given donor organization).
    • Contact records (the new contact record feature makes it easy to find past donation history, demographic information, survey responses, communication preferences, etc. for a given contact. We are also able to import information from our donor prospect software into the contact record so everything is in one place).
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    Salesforce
    • NPSP is designed to help with donor management.
    • There are free add-ons for volunteer management.
    • There is a new Program Management Module to better manage program participation and attendance.
    • Campaigns help organize and report on marketing efforts though we use a third-party solution to send out marketing materials.
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    Cons
    Bonterra
    • Although Targeted Emails features is nice, I faced a lot of challenges with the formatting and editing text as a new user.
    • With forms, it would be great to have options to create as signing-up (categories are editable instead of set)
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    Salesforce
    • Learning curve - very powerful, but takes time to learn
    • Batch processing - takes time and advanced skills to reach efficiency for data entry and certain operations which you want to do in batch
    • Mass email is extremely limited - must choose a third party tool which adds complexity and cost to the system
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bonterra
    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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    Salesforce
    There is really no other tool to compare and especially since Salesforce for Nonprofits is free!!
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    Usability
    Bonterra
    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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    Salesforce
    I think Salesforce has so much functionality that it makes it difficult in terms of overall usability. Once you can figure it out, it's a 10/10, it's just getting there. If you're willing to do the work to figure it out then you're golden. For what it's worth, I don't know if you're going to find something with this level of functionality that's easier to figure out
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    Reliability and Availability
    Bonterra
    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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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Bonterra
    Will not go higher than 8 because of how often I end up locked out
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Bonterra
    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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    Salesforce
    I have never had bad conversations with any support people with Salesforce but we also have not used them very much. I put it a little less because we are struggling to switch to lightning (some of our custom features do not migrate well) and it feels like the help and support for a little organization is not incredibly helpful unless we want to spend a lot of money.
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    Online Training
    Bonterra
    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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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Bonterra
    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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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Bonterra
    Nation Builder—I would say this is a very pared-down version of VAN that requires extensions and outside software to do about 80% of what VAN can do natively. NB does have a better geocoding system that can geocode a location with just the address and does not require coordinates.
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    Salesforce
    As a cloud native organization with no previous Microsoft infrastructure, Salesforce was a more logical and effective option for us. The suite of products was also far more comprehensive and required less customization. We were able to adopt a "configure not code" approach to our development of systems to support our mission that lowered the cost of upgrades.
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    Scalability
    Bonterra
    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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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Bonterra
    • Communicating with your audiences at a regular pace is a good thing, and Bonterra Development + Digital makes that easy enough to do. We see lower-than-normal open rates for our industry (per one study I read), but our overall reach is better than had we nothing. It's hard to give the credit for that to Bonterra Development + Digital.
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    Salesforce
    • Salesforce has allowed us to easily track donor communications in one area, which I believe has improved our donor communication overall.
    • Salesforce for Nonprofits has made it easier on my org to track and pull donation-related information and has reduced the amount of time we need to do these regular tasks.
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    ScreenShots

    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.

    Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of Case ManagementScreenshot of Contact RecordScreenshot of Home DashboardScreenshot of Management ModuleScreenshot of Marketing Cloud for Nonprofits