Greater Giving vs. Little Green Light

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Greater Giving
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Greater Giving, a Global Payments company, works exclusively with schools and nonprofits across the United States and Canada—offering integrated technologies to help simplify event management; quickly train volunteers; streamline check-in and check-out; and raise more funds. Greater Giving solutions are based on a single cloud-based platform.N/A
Little Green Light
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Little Green Light offers cloud-based donor management software for nonprofits, used to manage donors, track fundraising activities, generate reports, manage events, and create online donation forms. Plans include unlimited users with no contracts, and no set up or cancellation fees.
$45
per month Up to 2,500 constituent records
Pricing
Greater GivingLittle Green Light
Editions & Modules
Event Package
Contact Sales
per year Unlimited Users and Events
Express Package
Contact Sales
per year Unlimited Users and Events
Virtual and In-Person Events Package
Contact Sales
per year Unlimited Users and Events
Tier 1
$45.00
per month Up to 2,500 constituent records
Tier 2
$60.00
per month Up to 5,000 constituent records
Tier 3
$75.00
per month Up to 10,000 constituent records
Tier 4
$90.00
per month Up to 20,000 constituent records
Tier 5
$105.00
per month Up to 30,000 constituent records
Tier 6
$120.00
per month Up to 40,000 constituent records
Tier 7
$135.00
per month Up to 50,000 constituent records
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Greater GivingLittle Green Light
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThe comparison chart helps to understand which package is best for any organization based on the features included.Over 50,000 constituent records? Add $15/mo for each additional 10k tier. Discounts for prepayment: You can prepay for 12 months and get a 10% discount off the monthly price. Discounts also apply to prepayments of 3 months (2.5%) and 6 months (5%).
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Greater GivingLittle Green Light
Features
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Communications and Marketing
Comparison of Communications and Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Greater Giving
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Ratings
Little Green Light
9.0
Ratings
30% above category average
Constituent engagement and marketing00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Reporting and Analytics
Comparison of Reporting and Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Greater Giving
-
Ratings
Little Green Light
9.0
Ratings
33% above category average
Reporting and data visualization00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Security and Platform
Comparison of Security and Platform features of Product A and Product B
Greater Giving
-
Ratings
Little Green Light
9.9
Ratings
36% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
User Ratings
Greater GivingLittle Green Light
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.5
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.9
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Greater GivingLittle Green Light
Likelihood to Recommend
Greater Giving is well suited for an organization that is looking to save money on their event software and need a full service solution. It is not as sophisticated as others on the market, but it will allow you to get everything you need done for a reasonable price. This is meant to be used by nonprofit event professionals.
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I LOVE Little Green Light! I was part of my old org's transition to this database, then I consulted a nonprofit and supported their transition to Little Green Light. Then, I started with my current org 2 years ago and moved us over. It's by far the best donor database I've used.
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Pros
  • Greater Giving is very user-friendly for both staff and volunteers
  • Greater Giving sales and receipt generating features are well received by the guest at our event
  • Greater Giving provides excellent customer support - in particular, their "night of" event support
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  • Donor touch tracking (calls, meetings, etc.)
  • Relationships and stewardship
  • Forms for event and other registrations
  • Financial reporting and gift tracking
  • Great support team! I was initially worried because they don't have a contact number, but they reply to support questions really quickly and are always helpful.
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Cons
  • Love to see more places to log expenses, so you can run a total report of net income.
  • It's often a bit wide for my screen, which I can work around.
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  • I wish it had email formatting rather than integrating with MailChimp, but a small price to pay since it does in fact handle email communications. I've actually found that donors appreciate the "personal" touch versus the more polished, formatted email of MailChimp because they feel like the email went just to them.
  • Wish it had the ability to email year-end statements as easy as it is to print them.
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Likelihood to Renew
No answers on this topic
We have had no issues with LIttle Green Light so I do not see us moving to another software platform at this time. We are all familiar with how to use it and we are a small and mighty team so we don't want to rock the boat too much. LOL
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Usability
Greater Giving is very intuitive. It’s easy to set up in the backend and change as needed. Anytime we couldn’t figure something out on our own, our customer service representative was always available and super helpful!
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Pretty easy to manage
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Support Rating
Online support was one of the worst customer service experiences I've ever had (I would give them a 1). Phone support and implementation support were very nice and knowledgeable.
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LGL support is absolutely unreal. Send a question straight from inside the software and within minutes you will receive a response from someone at the company who will help you. Most of the time, the person responding to my questions is one of the developers or owners of the company. They are kind, patient, and very helpful. The online knowledge base is very comprehensive as well.
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Alternatives Considered
We currently use Eventbrite for our pre-event ticket and sponsorship sales as they have a much more streamlined webpage that is customizable, they allow us to pass on the fees to our purchasers, AND they do not charge an annual fee on top of the processing fees. However, they do not have the ability to let you swipe a credit card in advance - you need a membership to Bidding for Good to do so. We tried using Eventbrite and Bidding for Good for only 1 event before we switched back to Greater Giving. Neither platform allowed you to send out tax receipts and the on-site event management was subpar compared to the ease of Greater Giving.
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Little Green Light blows these other two CRM's out of the water. {Little Green Light has] ease of use, user-friendly prompts, and more pertinent information is captured. Little Green Light is perfect for my small-sized Non-Profit organization.
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Return on Investment
  • Having one system that can manage online donations, ticket purchases, online auction, donor tax letters, etc. has created efficiency for my org.
  • Reports are flawed and lack of data integration with other systems causes me to do a lot of unnecessary manual work.
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  • In two years of using it, we went from $200,000 annually in donor revenue to $500,000. Many factors went into that, but the ease of communications through LGL is definitely one of them.
  • We went from managing communications with ~200 donors to ~400.
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Little Green Light Screenshots

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