Givebutter

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Fundraising Software For Nonprofits

How to Replace Givebutter

Overview

Givebutter is an all-in-one fundraising platform that combines donor management, CRM, marketing engagement, and payment processing for nonprofits. It offers 160+ free fundraising features with 0% platform fees when donors enable optional tips, plus a premium Givebutter Plus tier with advanced automation and analytics.

Features

71 features across 19 categories

Analytics(4)

Conversion Tracking

Analyze the effectiveness of your email and text campaigns with UTM parameters, message ROI, revenue tracking, and more

Custom ReportsPremium

Detailed, real-time reports and a library of metrics to choose from

Expanded Data VisualizationsPremium

Dynamic comparisons that measure impact over time

Givebutter Plus AnalyticsPremium

Game-changing automation, analytics, and advanced marketing tools to supercharge your productivity, drive deeper insights, and strengthen donor engagement

Also in: Hugging Face, Notion, Smartsheet

Auctions(8)

Auction Item Categories

Help bidders find items of interest faster by grouping them into categories with custom names, descriptions, display order, and shareable URLs

Auction Management

Add unlimited items with auction management software that lets you export winning bids, track fulfillment status, and collect payments with ease

Automated Bidding

Empower bidders to set their maximum bid amount, which triggers automated bidding in customizable increments up to their specified limit

Bid Notifications

Engage bidders with real-time email and text notifications for auction start and end times, outbid alerts, winning bids, payment requests, and receipts

Buy-It-Now Pricing

Add an optional Buy-It-Now price to any auction item, or set fixed prices and total quantity limits for an instant purchase experience

Luxury Travel Packages

Raise the bar (and your bids!) by adding high-value travel packages to any auction provided by industry-leading Givebutter partners

Mobile Bidding

Elevate your auction with mobile bidding software that makes it a breeze to place bids, get notifications, and check out from any mobile device

QR Codes for Auction Items

Generate free, printable QR codes for silent auction bid sheets that make it easy for donors to scan and bid on the spot at your live auction

Automation(2)

Automated Messaging

Sit back, relax, and automate your event reminders, donation invites, email notifications, and donor receipts

Automated WorkflowsPremium

Custom and pre-built workflows for automating tasks

Also in: monday.com, Notion, Airtable

CRM(4)

Contact Management

Create, import, and manage unlimited contacts—complete with customized profiles, comprehensive donor histories, and tailored fields, notes, and tags

Donation Management

Manage all online and offline donations in one place—mark gifts as acknowledged, reassign donations, resend receipts, add manual transactions, and more

Donor Management & CRM

Track every transaction and donor activity, create and share reports with ease

Donor Segments

Easily organize and export all your donor data with custom filters, table sorting, live search, saved segments, and more

Also in: monday.com, Setmore, HubSpot

Customization(2)

Custom Branding

Customize your forms, pages, and events by adding your logo, selecting your brand colors, and creating easy-to-share links that are unique to each campaign

Custom Domains

Connect your organization's domain or use a free Givebutter domain to send outbound emails to your supporters from an email address they can recognize and trust

Also in: monday.com, Obsidian, Smartsheet

Data(4)

Data HygienePremium

Contact verification, address updates, and formatting cleanup

File UploadsPremium

Secure document storage on individual contact profiles

Importing & Migration

Migrate recurring donors, upload contacts, and import transactions into Givebutter to centralize your nonprofit's data—no costs, no limits

Magic Migration

Make the switch from your old CRM to Givebutter without the stress. We take care of the migration process for you from start to finish

Design(1)

Design with Canva

Design beautiful, engaging Canva graphics for your emails and campaign updates without ever leaving Givebutter

Also in: Squarespace, InVision, WordPress.com

Events(1)

Fundraising Events

Seamless virtual, in-person, and hybrid events and ticket sales management

Finance(1)

Givebutter Wallet

Secure financial home base where nonprofits can store, send, and grow funds with 2.5% APY rewards, daily access, zero monthly fees or minimums

Fundraising(13)

Auctions

Modern silent auctions that are easy and fun for supporters with mobile bidding

Custom Donation Fields

Personalize donation forms with meaningful donation amounts and labels, or add custom fields and questions to collect more details from supporters right in the donation flow

Donate Buttons

Easy-to-embed donation buttons for websites

Donation Dedications

Add a meaningful touch to donors' gifts by enabling them to give in honor or in memory of someone, with an option to notify the recipient via email

Donation Forms

Create and customize feature-packed donation forms with 47% conversion rate, 4x the industry average

Dynamic URL Fields

Streamline the checkout process by using URL parameters to preselect the donation amount, frequency, and fund, or automatically apply a promo code

Fund Designations

Use designations to track dollars to specific funds across all campaigns by letting donors choose which initiatives to support or selecting a default fund

Fundraising Pages

Interactive campaign pages that showcase your cause and collect donations

Giving Hub

Save donors' time by providing them with a centralized hub where they can easily see and engage with all your active campaigns in one place

Matching Donations

Double, triple, or even quadruple your impact with built-in donation matching software that excites donors and spotlights sponsors

Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Enable supporters to create their own fundraising pages

Pledge Donations

Collect pledge donations from supporters

Recurring Gift Upsells

Secure sustainable revenue with dynamic, automatic prompts at checkout that encourage donors to turn one-time gifts into recurring donations

Integration(3)

Integrations

Over 1,000 integrations available natively and via Zapier

QuickBooks Online IntegrationPremium

Seamlessly sync every donation with your accounting software

Widgets

Easy-to-embed website widgets for WordPress, Squarespace, and more

Marketing(10)

Advanced Email EditorPremium

Drag-and-drop email editor with nonprofit-ready templates

Campaign Updates

Share campaign updates and automatic milestone messages in your supporter feed, emails, and texts using Givebutter's intuitive text editor and built-in Canva integration

Direct MailPremium

Automated or self-serve direct mail launched from your dashboard

Donation Receipts

Automatically send supporters an email confirmation of their donation or ticket purchase, including a tax-compliant receipt, a personalized message, campaign details, and more

Email & SMS Templates

Save time with customizable templates for emails and text messages, or create your own for ongoing thank yous, events, and more

Emails

Target any segment of your supporters with personalized, branded outbound email blasts using Givebutter's built-in email marketing platform

Mailings

Customize, print, and send personalized direct mail to any segment of your donors and easily track your results—all from the same dashboard

Marketing & Engagement

Send personalized donor communication via email, text, or direct mail without sacrificing time or brand

TextingPremium

Engaging outbound text for verified Givebutter nonprofits

WYSIWYG Email Editor

Create eye-catching emails with custom headers, image and video embeds, merge fields, and more via Givebutter's visual email editor and built-in Canva integration

Media(1)

Video

Share videos with supporters by embedding them in your campaign page, emails, and texts or sending dynamic video messages using our native ThankView integration

Mobile(3)

Mobile App

Event check-in, in-person payments, and more from your device

Scan-to-Donate

Make mobile giving as easy as snapping a picture with automatically generated QR codes that bring supporters to your donation form in seconds

Text-to-Donate

Create unique keywords, send and receive unlimited texts, and empower donors to give directly from their phones by texting a simple five-digit shortcode

Payments(6)

Cash App Pay

The first fundraising & CRM platform with Cash App Pay, so you can offer the most ways to give

DAF Donations

Accept Donor Advised Fund donations

Payment Processing

Secure payment processing with support for multiple payment methods

PayPal Integration

Accept PayPal donations

Tap to Pay

Accept in-person donations via tap payment technology

Venmo Integration

Accept Venmo donations

Personalization(1)

Merge Tags

Personalize every message by adding unique donor info such as their name, contact info, largest donation amount, last donation date, and more

Project Management(1)

Task ManagementPremium

A central place to assign and manage your team's to-do list

Social Media(2)

Meta Fundraising Integration

Turn your Facebook posts and Instagram Stories into seamless opportunities for giving

Social Sharing

Spread the word about your fundraiser and amplify campaign updates in one click with optimized sharing tools for email and social media

Support(4)

24/7 Support

Award-winning support team available 24/7 via live chat and email with some of the fastest response times and highest customer satisfaction ratings in the industry

Givebutter Academy

Free courses and product education

Help Center

Comprehensive help documentation and resources

Office Hours

Weekly live workshops to help users make the most of the platform's features

Pricing

Free

Free forever
  • Unlimited donation forms
  • Unlimited fundraising pages
  • Unlimited fundraising events
  • Unlimited auctions
  • Unlimited donor management & CRM
  • Unlimited marketing & engagement
  • Payment processing
  • Mobile app
  • Unlimited integrations
  • 24/7 support
  • Unlimited users
  • Unlimited contacts
  • Unlimited email blasts
  • Unlimited fundraising campaigns

Givebutter Plus - 250 or less contacts

$29/mo or $348/year
  • All Free features
  • Automated workflows
  • Task management
  • Advanced email editor
  • Texting
  • Custom reports
  • Expanded data visualizations
  • Data hygiene
  • QuickBooks Online integration
  • File uploads
  • Direct mail (95¢ per letter)

Givebutter Plus - 1,000 contacts

$79/mo or $948/year
  • All Free features
  • Automated workflows
  • Task management
  • Advanced email editor
  • Texting
  • Custom reports
  • Expanded data visualizations
  • Data hygiene
  • QuickBooks Online integration
  • File uploads
  • Direct mail (95¢ per letter)

Givebutter Plus - 2,500+ contacts

$129/mo or $1,548/year
  • All Free features
  • Automated workflows
  • Task management
  • Advanced email editor
  • Texting
  • Custom reports
  • Expanded data visualizations
  • Data hygiene
  • QuickBooks Online integration
  • File uploads
  • Direct mail (95¢ per letter)

Cost Calculator

Keep Paying Givebutter

Monthly$29/mo
Yearly$348/yr
5-Year Total$1.7k

Build It Yourself

Est. Build Time~8 hrs
Hosting$20/mo
DifficultyEasy

Total Cost Comparison

1 YearSave $108
SaaS
$348
DIY
$240
3 YearsSave $324
SaaS
$1k
DIY
$720
5 YearsSave $540
SaaS
$1.7k
DIY
$1.2k

DIY hosting estimate based on Vercel + Supabase free/pro tiers (~$20/mo). Build time estimated from 71 features at easy complexity.

Build vs Buy

Should you build a Givebutter alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 71 features.

Buy Givebutter

Better Value
Monthly cost$290/mo
3-year total$10,440
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Development cost$60,000
Maintenance$900/mo
3-year total$92,400
Dev time~5 months

Buying Givebutter saves ~$81,960 over 3 years vs building.

Estimates based on 71 features and a BuildScore of 4/5. Actual costs vary.

Integrations

9 known integrations

CanvaCash App PayMetaPayPalQuickBooks OnlineStripeThankViewVenmoZapier