As a nonprofit, we appreciate the options to allow ticket buyers chip in a bit extra to cover the cost of using RallyUp. We have yet to need to pay RallyUp directly!

As a tiny nonprofit, we don't have the staff to implement a complicated silent auction or raffle. WE have used RallyUp for our annual raffle twice now, and find it easy-to-use and effective, for both back-end use and our ticket buyers. There are lots of ways to customize the raffle and getting paid was easy.

Sometimes the back-end interface was a bit confusing. It wasn't obvious how the items you are editing are going to appear on the final screen, so there is a bit of back and forth to get everything just right.

I honestly couldn't say enough good things about this company! They are amazing people and so wonderful and helpful to work with. They actually came to us, because someone that works there used to volunteer at our fundraising event (Kiteboard 4 Cancer). They helped me set everything up, hopped on a meeting with me any time I had questions, they took our feedback seriously and changed some of the UX on the platform to make it easier for our users, they came to the event to help me run the raffle, they taught me how to use features I was confused about, and so much more. I have never felt as supported by a company as I have by RallyUp. If you're considering them for your event management, I would 1000x recommend - especially if you're looking for peer to peer fundraising functionality. That feature alone helped us to raise a ton more money, not to mention all the other awesome features.

Easy to use as an admin and for our constituents Integration of many fundraising features in one place helped us to raise more money Fostered a healthy sense of competition between P2P fundraisers Access to tons of features and extreme customization without having to have any coding knowledge 24/7 customer support for admin + users

UX could be confusing to an older audience at times, some things didn't feel completely intuitive High amount of options + customization = a bit of a learning curve for admins, could be overwhelming to some

After successfully running a few fundraisers they froze our current fundraiser with zero warning and zero explanation, I didn’t find out until users could not purchase tickets and I followed up RallyUp. Nobody is ever available on chat, they then show up in chat, say hello and disconnect immediately. After finally getting onto them via email they advised their legal team had flagged us, they claimed they sent us an email but this is false and after requesting that they re-send the email so we could send them all of our appropriate approvals to fundraise as requested it’s been crickets, no email, no response from customer service, they have now impacted our fundraising amount and deadline and made us look stupid to our donors and we now have to cancel the fundraiser, issue refunds and start over again - such an unnecessary headache just because they lack communication and customer service. This has hurt our charity and wasted a great deal of our time.

We ran a few fundraisers with no issues, the auto-draw for raffles is a handy feature.

Severe lack of communication and customer service.

I used the Chat feature 3 times during initial start-up. I was always provided with very timely and accurate responses. I was impressed.

Creates very professional-looking and easy to use raffle and home pages. Extremely easy to "copy" previous campaign to start a new one (saves a lot of time). Our company just had a significant merger and changed logos / color schemes, so within 1 hour, I was able to update the home page and a campaign (copied from old one), so ease of use (once you get through the options) is VERY EASY!

The "con" would be the fee structure, but I guess RallyUp has to make money. We chose to allow the "extra donation / extra tickets" for users, so that is how RallyUp makes money. I am not real happy about it, because I do think it is cheaper than the alternative of a flat rate. The same feature is used by GoFundMe, but I personally do not contribute extra (and maybe because they do not offer anything in return). I just think it degrades the raffle experience, but we have not found anything else, so we live with it.

The customer and tech troubleshooting services are amazing - turnaround time is usually within 24 hours for small issues and within 1 week for bigger tech issues that need fixing. So if we are stuck etc, we never panic because we know RallyUp has our back and is there to answer questions and fix any issues! RallyUp is also always looking for ways to boost the fundraising efforts of small nonprofits and this in itself is unusual because in our experience, many donation processing providers would raise their platform fees, be unresponsive to smaller clients etc. Not RallyUp - they understand what small nonprofits need.

The Pixel Project is a completely virtual and digital nonprofit so we've always raised funds online. Based on our decade of experience dealing with online donation processing providers (including Razoo/MightyCause and Indiegogo), we can say without reservation that RallyUp is the best one that we've worked with because: 1. They provide every format we could possibly need on 1 platform. And it's easy to set everything up too - it's all designed to be used intuitively. 2. It's super easy to set up your fundraiser. Once it's all set up, it automatically tracks how the fundraising is going and also auto-creates a downloadable database (in Excel) of donor details. 3. It works seamlessly with Stripe so that payments are processed on time and accurately.

Unlike Indiegogo, there is no region-lock for listed treats/goodies/rewards in the crowdfunding format as yet which may cause minor issues for international nonprofits who need to restrict their treats/goodies/rewards to donors in a certain geographical region. However, we have made a request to RallyUp and they have listened to us and put it on their list of features to look into.