Giveffect Overview
What is Giveffect?
Giveffect is a cloud-based nonprofit management software which provides organizations with the tools for managing fundraising, donations, volunteers, members, events, websites, and more. The system is aimed at medium-sized and large registered nonprofit organizations across the US and Canada.
Giveffect allows nonprofits to set up custom-branded online donation pages to process one-off and recurring donations, and track donations made both online and offline by credit card, cash, check, SMS, bitcoin, securities, in-kind items and services, and more. Custom thank you letters and tax receipts are automatically sent for online donations, and can be printed to send to donors through the mail. Donors can also access their information and donor profile through the donor portal. A range of other fundraising and event websites can also be created with Giveffect, for team fundraising, corporate giving, peer-to-peer fundraising, crowdfunding, auctions, and more.
Giveffect’s volunteer management tools cover recruiting, scheduling, hours tracking, and reporting, with online application forms, a virtual kiosk for check-ins, automated confirmation and reminder emails, and analytics dashboards. Members can also be managed and tracked, with the ability to create an unlimited number of custom membership levels with different fees and renewal terms. Other features of Giveffect include email and direct mail marketing, wealth screening and prospect identification, relationship management, and website management.
Giveffect Overview
Pricing
Pricing options
14-day free trial, no credit card required.
Enterprise: from $1299/month
Ultimate: from $2299/month
Ultimate Plus: from $3999/month
All plans are billed annually.
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Giveffect Reviews
Giveffect Reviews
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My overall experience has been great. I have a very lean staff and we all multitask. The software is intuitive.
As a busy executive, I can login anywhere to get information. I wish I had more time to spend with the software. Currently I'm working to set up the data structure to better integrate with Quickbooks.
Impressive from the start
GivEffect has been a tremendous time, energy, and cost savings to us over the past 5 years. I look forward to the new features and functions that they build out over the next 5 as we scale our organization.
Very Disappointed in Customer Service
Since the membership system in Giveffect isn't as robust as we need, it is not the all-in-one solution we expected.
Easy to Use & Fantastic Customer Service
Giveffect has enabled me to attract and retain more volunteers than I ever thought possible.
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Pros
I found Giveffect in an online search when I took the new role of Director for Institutional Advancement at Los Angeles Community College District. In my role, I serve as the Executive Director for the non-profit auxiliary Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges. Giveffect has been a life saver. It is easy to use and I love that the software has email capability, online giving, relationship management tracking and great reports.
Cons
The main downside it that at the basic price level, I don't have access to many of the other great processes. Wealth screening for example. I also wish the Spark Post was integrated a little better. It works well but requires signing into two accounts to manage.
Impressive from the start
GivEffect has been a tremendous time, energy, and cost savings to us over the past 5 years. I look forward to the new features and functions that they build out over the next 5 as we scale our organization.
Pros
We have been with GivEffect from the very beginning in 2015. We took a leap of faith with the platform and have had the opportunity to see it grow over the past 5 years from a simple software to something much more robust that more than fulfills our organizational needs. We are most impressed by the CRM and peer-to-peer fundraising features. With the CRM, there is so much capacity customization, automation, and segmentation. The peer-to-peer fundraising also allows great flexibility and automation all while still aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly.
Cons
The email WYSIWIG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) email editor is lackluster but it's understandable as GivEffect is not an email platform. I anticipate that they will make make the editor more customizable in the future.
Very Disappointed in Customer Service
Since the membership system in Giveffect isn't as robust as we need, it is not the all-in-one solution we expected.
Pros
This software is easy to use, intuitive, and the knowledge base and on boarding are well done. After orientation and with the help of customer support, our team quickly got a handle on our average tasks. The CRM features are very easy to get at a glance overviews of donors & I feel that we have a better handle on our prospecting since switching to this software.
Cons
The data migration progress for us was glitchy in our membership. Their automation was one of the reasons we wanted to switch, however, their automation when it doesn't work correctly can be a nightmare. During migration, their system encountered a glitch that ended up emailing over 700 donors with information about their membership expiring, even when it wasn't. While you're given a 2 week review to make sure your data is correct, it is useless if something like this happens as the database is "live" and will communicate with donors for a glitch like this.
Our other issue is the membership module is quite basic and does not meet our needs. During our trial, we asked our sales rep about membership tiers to address the issue and she believed it was an easy fix. When we got to our transition in June, we questioned work arounds with our client success team. For 5 months, we have been chasing them down for answers. Their client success team and a separate feedback team keep promising that product team is working on a fix and deadlines pass with no communication and no fix. They have actively ghosted us on the issue now and it is appalling. They were promoted as incredibly responsive and were until we encountered a problem and now it just feels like we are being strung along for the duration of our 1st year contract. While software problems are to be expected the lack of customer service is awful and our biggest issue with this system.
Easy to Use & Fantastic Customer Service
Giveffect has enabled me to attract and retain more volunteers than I ever thought possible.
Pros
I started used Giveffect with the start of a new job and was basically on my own to "get up to speed" and use the software optimally. It is really intuitive in its design and after viewing the relevant training videos, I was able to apply it's use to my daily workflow. For the first time, the branch I was working for was able to have volunteers sign up online, check in and out on an iPad, and have their hours tracked in real time. Anytime I needed a little help, the customer service team was available through the "Chat" feature and incredibly responsive and patient.
Cons
Honestly, I have suggested several changes or additions and often they implement the change with their next update. They are very open to suggestions and adopt them! Amazing!
We love using Giveffect
Pros
Creating online events is a breeze and looks great! With our old software, we had to pay per online event and the process is antiquated. With Giveffect we can have an idea and create a page for it in no time at all!
Cons
Cutsomizing emails and landing pages is not very user friendly.
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Giveffect Pricing
Giveffect Pricing
14-day free trial, no credit card required.
Enterprise: from $1299/month
Ultimate: from $2299/month
Ultimate Plus: from $3999/month
All plans are billed annually.
14-day free trial, no credit card required.
Enterprise: from $1299/month
Ultimate: from $2299/month
Ultimate Plus: from $3999/month
All plans are billed annually.
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Giveffect Features
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Additional information for Giveffect
Additional information for Giveffect
Key features of Giveffect
- Automated recurring renewals
- Automated volunteer confirmations & reminders
- Branded fundraising & event pages
- Branded online donation pages
- Budget management
- Credit card processing
- Custom reports
- Customizable website templates
- Data entry automation
- Donation button
- Expense tracking
- Fundraising management
- Mail merge
- Marketing & communications
- Member & fees tracking
- Membership management
- Nonprofit management
- Offline gift tracking
- One-off & recurring donations
- Online application forms
- Online giving system
- Permissions management
- Pledge tracking
- Prospect identification & tracking
- Real-time reporting & analytics
- Relationship database
- SMS text-to-give
- Shift scheduling
- Volunteer campaign analytics
- Volunteer recruiting
- Wealth screening
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Giveffect FAQs
Giveffect FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Giveffect.
Q. What type of pricing plans does Giveffect offer?
Giveffect offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: US$1 299,00/month
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available
14-day free trial, no credit card required. Enterprise: from $1299/month Ultimate: from $2299/month Ultimate Plus: from $3999/month All plans are billed annually.
Q. What are the main features of Giveffect?
Giveffect offers the following features:
- Automated recurring renewals
- Automated volunteer confirmations & reminders
- Branded fundraising & event pages
- Branded online donation pages
- Budget management
- Credit card processing
- Custom reports
- Customizable website templates
- Data entry automation
- Donation button
- Expense tracking
- Fundraising management
- Mail merge
- Marketing & communications
- Member & fees tracking
- Membership management
- Nonprofit management
- Offline gift tracking
- One-off & recurring donations
- Online application forms
- Online giving system
- Permissions management
- Pledge tracking
- Prospect identification & tracking
- Real-time reporting & analytics
- Relationship database
- SMS text-to-give
- Shift scheduling
- Volunteer campaign analytics
- Volunteer recruiting
- Wealth screening
Q. Who are the typical users of Giveffect?
Giveffect has the following typical customers:
Non Profit
Q. What languages does Giveffect support?
Giveffect supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Giveffect support mobile devices?
Giveffect supports the following devices:
iPhone, iPad
Q. What other apps does Giveffect integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Giveffect has
Q. What level of support does Giveffect offer?
Giveffect offers the following support options:
Online Support, FAQs
My overall experience has been great. I have a very lean staff and we all multitask. The software is intuitive.
As a busy executive, I can login anywhere to get information. I wish I had more time to spend with the software. Currently I'm working to set up the data structure to better integrate with Quickbooks.