Givebutter
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Fundraising Software For Nonprofits
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Features
71 features across 19 categories
Analytics(4)
Analyze the effectiveness of your email and text campaigns with UTM parameters, message ROI, revenue tracking, and more
Detailed, real-time reports and a library of metrics to choose from
Dynamic comparisons that measure impact over time
Game-changing automation, analytics, and advanced marketing tools to supercharge your productivity, drive deeper insights, and strengthen donor engagement
Auctions(8)
Help bidders find items of interest faster by grouping them into categories with custom names, descriptions, display order, and shareable URLs
Add unlimited items with auction management software that lets you export winning bids, track fulfillment status, and collect payments with ease
Empower bidders to set their maximum bid amount, which triggers automated bidding in customizable increments up to their specified limit
Engage bidders with real-time email and text notifications for auction start and end times, outbid alerts, winning bids, payment requests, and receipts
Add an optional Buy-It-Now price to any auction item, or set fixed prices and total quantity limits for an instant purchase experience
Raise the bar (and your bids!) by adding high-value travel packages to any auction provided by industry-leading Givebutter partners
Elevate your auction with mobile bidding software that makes it a breeze to place bids, get notifications, and check out from any mobile device
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)
Sit back, relax, and automate your event reminders, donation invites, email notifications, and donor receipts
Custom and pre-built workflows for automating tasks
CRM(4)
Create, import, and manage unlimited contacts—complete with customized profiles, comprehensive donor histories, and tailored fields, notes, and tags
Manage all online and offline donations in one place—mark gifts as acknowledged, reassign donations, resend receipts, add manual transactions, and more
Track every transaction and donor activity, create and share reports with ease
Easily organize and export all your donor data with custom filters, table sorting, live search, saved segments, and more
Customization(2)
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
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
Data(4)
Contact verification, address updates, and formatting cleanup
Secure document storage on individual contact profiles
Migrate recurring donors, upload contacts, and import transactions into Givebutter to centralize your nonprofit's data—no costs, no limits
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 beautiful, engaging Canva graphics for your emails and campaign updates without ever leaving Givebutter
Events(1)
Seamless virtual, in-person, and hybrid events and ticket sales management
Finance(1)
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)
Modern silent auctions that are easy and fun for supporters with mobile bidding
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
Easy-to-embed donation buttons for websites
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
Create and customize feature-packed donation forms with 47% conversion rate, 4x the industry average
Streamline the checkout process by using URL parameters to preselect the donation amount, frequency, and fund, or automatically apply a promo code
Use designations to track dollars to specific funds across all campaigns by letting donors choose which initiatives to support or selecting a default fund
Interactive campaign pages that showcase your cause and collect donations
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
Double, triple, or even quadruple your impact with built-in donation matching software that excites donors and spotlights sponsors
Enable supporters to create their own fundraising pages
Collect pledge donations from supporters
Secure sustainable revenue with dynamic, automatic prompts at checkout that encourage donors to turn one-time gifts into recurring donations
Integration(3)
Over 1,000 integrations available natively and via Zapier
Seamlessly sync every donation with your accounting software
Easy-to-embed website widgets for WordPress, Squarespace, and more
Marketing(10)
Drag-and-drop email editor with nonprofit-ready templates
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
Automated or self-serve direct mail launched from your dashboard
Automatically send supporters an email confirmation of their donation or ticket purchase, including a tax-compliant receipt, a personalized message, campaign details, and more
Save time with customizable templates for emails and text messages, or create your own for ongoing thank yous, events, and more
Target any segment of your supporters with personalized, branded outbound email blasts using Givebutter's built-in email marketing platform
Customize, print, and send personalized direct mail to any segment of your donors and easily track your results—all from the same dashboard
Send personalized donor communication via email, text, or direct mail without sacrificing time or brand
Engaging outbound text for verified Givebutter nonprofits
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)
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)
Event check-in, in-person payments, and more from your device
Make mobile giving as easy as snapping a picture with automatically generated QR codes that bring supporters to your donation form in seconds
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)
The first fundraising & CRM platform with Cash App Pay, so you can offer the most ways to give
Accept Donor Advised Fund donations
Secure payment processing with support for multiple payment methods
Accept PayPal donations
Accept in-person donations via tap payment technology
Accept Venmo donations
Personalization(1)
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)
A central place to assign and manage your team's to-do list
Support(4)
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
Free courses and product education
Comprehensive help documentation and resources
Weekly live workshops to help users make the most of the platform's features
Pricing
Free
- ✓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
- ✓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
- ✓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
- ✓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)
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Integrations
9 known integrations