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    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…N/A

    Donorbox

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ADonorbox is a recurring donation platform from the organization of the same name in Virginia, that aims to provide nonprofits with a better donation checkout process, and help nonprofits connect with their donors and volunteers more closely with a donor management system.N/A
    Pricing
    Bonterra SalsaDonorbox
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    1.5% Donorbox fee +
    0.8% + (capped at $5)
    ACH bank payments
    1.5% Donorbox fee +
    2.9% + 30¢
    Stripe's credit card fee
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Bonterra SalsaDonorbox
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Bonterra SalsaDonorbox
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    Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
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    DonorPerfect
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Ellucian CRM Advance
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    User Ratings
    Bonterra SalsaDonorbox
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bonterra SalsaDonorbox
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bonterra
    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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    Donorbox
    We were looking for a platform that could manage recurring donations and Donorbox was a perfect fit
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    Pros
    Bonterra
    • 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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    Donorbox
    • recurring donations
    • generating reports
    • notifying when donation is recieved
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    Cons
    Bonterra
    • 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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    Donorbox
    • I wish addresses were shared
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bonterra
    It suits all of our needs.
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    Donorbox
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Bonterra
    You do not have to be a tech-savvy person to be able to use the CRM. Reporting is easy to do.
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    Donorbox
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Bonterra
    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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    Donorbox
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Bonterra
    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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    Donorbox
    Donorbox's fees are less and creates options for recurring payments that other platforms don't allow
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    Return on Investment
    Bonterra
    • Has helped increase our donor retention as we are able to track all communications with donors ensuring that they remain connected.
    • The improved emailing (with fewer bounce rate) has helped increase our website and donation page visibility.
    • We've sold more tickets to our fundraising events with an improved event management system.
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    Donorbox
    • Allowed us to easily collect dollars
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    ScreenShots

    Bonterra Salsa Screenshots

    Screenshot of the development dashboard.Screenshot of a donor detail report showing donation history.Screenshot of donor cultivation for major giftsScreenshot of mail merge and direct mail fundraisingScreenshot of a donor profile with unlimited custom fields