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    iMIS

    Score4.2 out of 10
    N/AiMIS EMS is an Engagement Management System (EMS) – fusing database management and web publishing into a single system – to drive operational efficiencies, revenue growth, and continuous performance improvement. Harnessing the power of Microsoft Azure’s cloud platform, iMIS EMS is purpose-built to meet the most important challenge facing associations and non-profits – Engagement.N/A

    StarChapter

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AStarChapter is an AMS from the company of the same name in Maryland, featuring a configurable website with ecommerce, role based permissions and access, and finally member management with dues tracking and collection, and event registration.N/A
    Pricing
    iMISStarChapter
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    iMISStarChapter
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    iMISStarChapter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (6 ratings)
    7.0
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    Support Rating
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    User Testimonials
    iMISStarChapter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Advanced Solutions International, Inc.
    iMIS Engagement Management System is well suited for associations or other non-profits that operate without a lot of bells and whistles. So far in my experience if you want to do more sophisticated operations, marketing in my specific role, then iMIS Engagement Management System may not be the best AMS. It does the basics well but the more high-powered you want to get then the more it's going to cost by having your vendor of choice to work to enhance or upgrade what you have.
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    StarChapter
    Once you understand how to use the system, it is pretty useful. But it has some definite areas where it could be brought up to speed with other modern tools. It is basic and could be better.
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    Pros
    Advanced Solutions International, Inc.
    • One-stop-shop. I love that we have one system that will track our income, manage membership, email contacts, manage our website and pull reports.
    • Response time on support tickets. Whenever I have a problem using iMIS, I can either log into their support site to submit a help ticket or send it directly from my email account. Someone normally responds to me within the hour and then I will get a solution within the day no matter the time of day I submit the ticket.
    • Easy to use widgets. I love using widgets to pull a page together. They have slideshow widgets that use on a daily basis. There are also forum widgets and widgets to pull an already created query to a page you choose to display this information on.
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    StarChapter
    • The blast communications are clear and easy to read.
    • Reporting- the reports within StarChapter are very helpful and easy to use.
    • The tools for tracking attendee information are super easy to use.
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    Cons
    Advanced Solutions International, Inc.
    • System Performance: iMIS has always seemed to have had performance issues....sluggish specifically. Though some of that may be in part to some of our customizations, but we don’t think so.
    • Integrations with 3rd Party Products: we would like to see more integrations with 3rd party apps.
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    StarChapter
    • Website's back-end could be more updated with templates that are editable like wordpress
    • Back-end email generator could function like a Constant Contact or MailChimp with features to make emails nicer and more modern looking
    • More customizable fields that could be added to any form
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    Support Rating
    Advanced Solutions International, Inc.
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    StarChapter
    They create these long chains of responses. So for everything you write in they repeat what you wrote and then respond to it. It gets very confusing trying to figure out where the conversation is sometimes especially on a long trail of back and forth.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Advanced Solutions International, Inc.
    I think both are great tools. They both have their strengths and weaknesses. I really like the CMS component that comes with iMIS. It is important for an organization to be able to quickly build websites to engage their members. iMIS provides tools to do this out of the box.
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    StarChapter
    I have not yet used other products similar to StarChapter.
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    Return on Investment
    Advanced Solutions International, Inc.
    • iMIS had a neutral impact on my non-profit organization's overall business objectives. Both the finance and department teams just worked around the limitations that iMIS had.
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    StarChapter
    • It helps us to track revenues.
    • It helps us to track attendees’ information.
    • It is a great tool for sending email blasts.
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    Screenshot of iMIS Contact DashboardScreenshot of iMIS Membership DashboardScreenshot of iMIS Fundraising DashboardScreenshot of iMIS Commerce DashboardScreenshot of iMIS Events Dashboard