DonorPerfect Fundraising Review - why 4.7 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Mar 24, 2022

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What is DonorPerfect Fundraising?

DonorPerfect Fundraising Software is a fundraising and donor management software for nonprofits that can help users to achieve successful fundraising results easily. The software can help users to reduce workload and to build a nice relationship with constituents. The solution is available in both on-premise and web-based deployment options to help users find the best match for their organization’s needs.

SofterWare, the company behind DonorPerfect, was founded back in 1981 with a mission to create easy-to-use and easy to learn software for users. The company has served over 10,000 nonprofit, school, childcare, camp and payment processing clients in the last 30 years. The Philadelphia based company has grown to a $25 million+ company from a small entrepreneurial business.

Who is it best for?

DonorPerfect is specifically designed for nonprofits to help them process donations and raise more money easily. Nonprofits of all sizes, animal rights, habitat preservation, museums and theaters, festivals, colleges and schools, private and public foundations, religious organizations, nature conservancies, human services, health care and civic organizations can use this software. Life Crisis Center, Institute for Public Relations and AISH are some of the clients of DonorPerfect Fundraising Software.

Main features and functionalities

DonorPerfect Fundraising Softwareis a fully-featured fundraising solution and comes with features like information management, fundraising efforts, donation processing and reporting and analysis. The information management part offers donor management features with user-defined controls where users can keep various records, membership management feature with ID cards and renewal notices features, volunteers management, alumni and students management import module features. However, the import module is not included with the software.

The fundraising efforts comes with targeted mailings and email, grant tracking for proposal management, tracking reports and other features, contact management, moves management, special events handling, DonorSearch screening, DonorPages Social Network fundraising and e-marketing and tracking features. The donation processing part comes with gift management, pledge processing, matching gifts, multi-currency tracking, check scanning and remote deposit features.

What is the actual cost?

The cost of license starts at $99 per month. ITQlick pricing score is 3 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for DonorPerfect Fundraising. You can also find here pricing information from DonorPerfect Fundraising's website.

Pros

• DonorPerfect Fundraising Software is perfect for nonprofits for all sizes and can be used by healthcare, schools and religious organizations
• DonorPerfect Fundraising Software offers social network fundraising features unlike other similar tools
• The customer support of DonorPerfect Fundraising Software offers lots of training and webinars opportunities for users
• The fundraising and donor management solution offers both on-premise and web-based deployment options
• The fundraising solution offers multi-currency tracking, pledge processing and grant tracking features unlike other similar tools

Cons

• DonorPerfect Fundraising Software’s initial cost is high comparing to other similar fundraising solutions
• DonorPerfect Fundraising Software’s social network fundraising feature is an additional module/service and not included with the software
• The support plans of DonorPerfect Fundraising Software are available at an additional cost
• The 24-hour emergency pager notification feature is only available for USA/Canada clients using Premium support plan
• E-Marketing & tracking features are available as an additional module and is not included in the software

How it stacks up?

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