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…
$1,500
per year
Bonterra Salsa
Score6 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Bonterra Salsa is a donor and constituent management system that helps
nonprofits build donor profiles, track every interaction, cultivate major
gifts, and report on all development activities. The platform includes mobile-ready digital marketing tools for email, social, and online
donation forms.
Additional features
include donor cultivation, donation processing of all gift types, direct mail,
built in word processing, mail merge,
powerful query tool, event/auction…
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Pricing
Bloomerang CRM
Bonterra Salsa
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 CRM
Bonterra Salsa
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
Optional
Optional
Additional Details
All 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)
Director of Communications and Development at The Crisis Center of Johnson County (Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees)
Chose Bloomerang CRM
We left DonorPerfect for Bloomerang. I had come from an organization that used Raisers Edge and there was no way I was going to stay with DP. RE is great for larger organizations with staff dedicated to the database, but we were a much smaller organization and needed to have …
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Transmedia Storytelling Specialist at Illumination Foundation (Individual & Family Services, 51-200 employees)
Chose Bloomerang CRM
We love Bloomerang's flexibility to add fields and its focus on retention. Compared to what we previously used (Raiser's Edge), it easy to use. We decided to go with Bloomerang because although it gives you so much flexibility, it also ensures your data is organized. Their …
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Vice President of Development and Chief Development Officer | Non Profit Development at Southeastern Michigan Adminstrative Services Group and Legal Aid and Defender Association (Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees)
Chose Bloomerang CRM
While I enjoy all of the features with Raisers Edge, we had a much smaller donor database than would have been economically feasible for that product.
Ultimately, Bloomerang had all of the features we needed at a great price. The final determining factor with purchasing …
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Executive Director in Professional Services at The PMD Foundation (Nonprofit Organization Management, 11-50 employees)
Chose Bonterra Salsa
It boiled down to Bloomerang and Salsa CRM. The only winning factor that Bloomerang had over Salsa was that it was cheaper, as in free, but would only for a short period of time as we have increased our donor base. Salsa CRM is actually very cost effective for our nonprofit.
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Verified User
Chose Bonterra Salsa
We chose Salsa CRM prior to Bloomerang coming into existence. We chose Salsa CRM over the two products (eTapestry wasn't part of Blackbaud at the time) due to costs, ease of use, and fitting into the needs we had within our own agency. We are happy with our choice and aren't …
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Key User Insights
Would buy again
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Delivers good value for the price
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Happy with the feature set
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Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Implementation went as expected
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Features
Bloomerang CRM
Bonterra Salsa
Communications and Marketing
Comparison of Communications and Marketing features of Bloomerang CRM and Bonterra Salsa
Feature
Bloomerang CRM
9.7
2 Ratings
36% above category average
Bonterra Salsa
-
Ratings
Constituent engagement and marketing
9.22 Ratings
00 Ratings
Social listening
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Digital advocacy enablement
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Reporting and Analytics
Comparison of Reporting and Analytics features of Bloomerang CRM and Bonterra Salsa
Feature
Bloomerang CRM
5.2
2 Ratings
21% below category average
Bonterra Salsa
-
Ratings
Reporting and data visualization
8.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Wealth screening
2.32 Ratings
00 Ratings
Fundraising and Events
Comparison of Fundraising and Events features of Bloomerang CRM and Bonterra Salsa
Feature
Bloomerang CRM
7.0
1 Ratings
14% above category average
Bonterra Salsa
-
Ratings
Online donation options
7.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Security and Platform
Comparison of Security and Platform features of Bloomerang CRM and Bonterra Salsa
If you are a small organization just getting started, Bloomerang can be a good fit. It is simple and straightforward for development staff who maybe aren’t super savvy with data management or analysis in spreadsheets. In the sales demo they will try to upsell a lot of extras that are ultimately not necessary unless your stuff is very unfamiliar with database software. The base price of the software is something like $300 per year, as long as you mix all of the training and phone support add-ons they initially present you with.
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Well suited for sending mass emails or emails to certain groups, sending automated emails, collecting donations, and peer-to-peer communication. They have a good support team. I'm still figuring out how to best manage supporters, it's not as intuitive as I would like. I used to just manage all donor information on Google Sheets, and I still prefer Google Sheets.
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Reporting: Once I understood the logic behind Bloomerang's reporting tools, I could not believe I'd ever worked a different way. Some of our funders request very complicated reports and getting the relevant data out of Bloomerang is SO much easier than it was with our previous CRM tools.
Website integration: I love the tracking functionality that Bloomerang offers, as well as how easy it is to integrate event ticket, volunteer, and other forms into our existing website.
Intuitive design: I've introduced total novices to Bloomerang and been very impressed with how quickly they've been able to figure out all the top level navigation as well as deeper functionality.
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User-Friendly. As a user, it is an intuitive product. When you are working, it is easy to navigate.
Fundraising Pages: Salsa Engage allows you to easily and quickly make fundraising pages that can be pushed out to your community of donors.
CRM: Easy to manage the constituents. When someone signs up for our fundraising pages, the software captures the demographics and either matches up to the existing donor or creates a new constituent.
Salsa CRM listens to their customers and works well with the user base. Most ideas are listened to and can see that requests are pushed out in updates.
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When we started with Salsa, not every option was available online, some were desktop specific. As it has been some time since I worked with Salsa these have probably been resolved.
The ability to communicate between Salsa CRM and other Salsa software options. Sometimes the crossover was not as efficient as was needed.
Tagging and setting up rules for particular donors was somewhat confusing - meaning, therefore, that the amount of training needed to implement the software was somewhat intensive.
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#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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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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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.
Their tech support is very good and I am very pleased with it. They speak in non-techie lingo for my non-techie staff just as easily as they speak techie to me (a techie). I appreciate their quick turn around in time to answer our questions and the follow up to make sure their answer(s) helped.
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We left DonorPerfect for Bloomerang. I had come from an organization that used Raisers Edge and there was no way I was going to stay with DP. RE is great for larger organizations with staff dedicated to the database, but we were a much smaller organization and needed to have something we could all use easily. We demoed Salsa and Neon and liked them both, but Bloomerang had better integration features and seemed to be the most user-friendly.
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I have reviewed Salsa Engage and perhaps after our transition has taken place it might be a viable option versus using Constant Contact for internal and external correspondence.
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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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