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Chiletta
Health, Wellness and Fitness, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2022
Easy to use and manage.
We had to find an online solution when the pandemic canceled our in-person walk in 2020. Donately was a great solution and allowed us to facilitate our first virtual walk, which we hosted simultaneously around the country.
PROSSetting up a Peer-to-Peer fundraiser takes just 2 minutes and is easy to navigate. We are able to set up campaigns for each of our regions so they can measure how they are doing as a team. Love that you have the option to upgrade/downgrade your subscription, as we only need the software for part of the year.
CONSIt would be nice if there was a place for people to sign up to participate (like in a fundraiser walk) without creating their own fundraiser. It's been difficult to keep up with people who give and want to be a part of it but don't necessarily want to manage their own fundraiser. Also, for campaigns, it's great that we can create more than one, but there should be an option to feed up to the larger company tracker. Lastly, some of the reporting could be more detailed, and the amount raised should be easy to capture from one view to another.
Reason for choosing Donately
Features, cost, and subscription upgrade/downgrade option
Savannah
Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2016
Great Software for Non Profits
This site allows us to easily collect donations for our non-profit organization. We are in the process of exclusively using this site to collect donations in conjunction with Stripe because it is so much better than any other site we have ever used. One con is that donation form codes have to be completely updated on our website, rather than just updating them through Donately and having them automatically update on our site.
PROSExtremely easy for our customers to use! Great customer service!
CONSNot the best at allowing us to view all donors and donations at once. Sometimes the filtering is really slow. Form codes cannot automatically update on our website and have to be completely replaced after making a change to the form. You can only link one bank account to where the donations to go.
Nick
Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed July 2022
Middle of the Road Functionality
Overall Donately suits its purpose, but it is wanting for some additionally functionality to make it a more robust system.
PROSThe advantage of Donately is the simplicity of form builder! While the software is easy to use, it also contains almost all the essential functionality you could want form a donation form. Forms integrate easily into webpages without much hassle. Campaign management usually works well.
CONSThe donor reporting and management system is insufficient for most purposes. Integrations are not as robust as they could be for the product. Support can be slow moving.
Jenny
Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2019
We recommend Donately
We use Donately for our donation form on our website and for fundraising campaigns. We have always found it the product very easy to use and functional, and the customer service fantastic.
PROSThe customer service is very fast, helpful, and friendly. The basic product is easy to use and has a lot of options that are useful for us. As a small non-profit organization, I appreciate the number of options that we do have using the basic service.
CONSI do wish we had more options for developing the look and feel of campaign landing pages.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your kind words and honest feedback, Jenny! We're working hard to improve all aspects of the platform, and will take your suggestions into account.
Replied January 2020
Shawn
Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2022
Donor Management
Donately makes it easy for us to import our transactions into QuickBooks and manage payments received.
PROSDonately allows our organization to track donors and helps us during the year end process for receipts.
CONSThere are no features that I feel are missing or could be improved.
Maeve
Sports, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
2
Reviewed July 2022
Crowdfunding review
Not very good, but this is also due to external factors
PROSCheap, easy to set up with many payment options. Monthly and single donation options was the deciding factor in choosing this platform
CONSDifficult to get donations, not enough support
Reason for choosing Donately
Better options and variations on what we could set up
Joe
Education Management, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2020
Donately Review
I have enjoyed using the software and each time I have asked for help, I have received the response promptly.
PROSBeing able to see the recurring donations and the dates dates of effectiveness
CONSThe fact that there is no app for the phone.
Vendor Response
Joe - Thank you for the kind words! We appreciate the feedback. While all of our assets are fully mobile responsive, we do understand the benefit of a dedicated app. For now, we hope that our mobile-friendly dashboard, donation pages, and donation forms make for a great experience regardless of device.
Replied March 2020
Jonathon
Verified reviewer
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2018
Easy way for rookies to handle the donations
It was easy to set up for our team, even for a rookie like myself. I had it easily set up and we started receiving donations almost immediately. The graphs and visuals really helped us to see how we were doing and to see where most of our money was coming from.
CONSAs convenient as this is, for us it still does not replace traditional fundraising, a lot of people in our community prefer good old cash donations so this program was not necessarily as useful to us as we had hoped.
Will
Information Technology and Services, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2016
The quickest way to accept donations using Stripe
Donate.ly lets you accept one-time and recurring donations using an easy to configure platform. Fees are a very reasonable 3-4% depending on your use-case. It's quick to customise a secure page which you can embed on your website. It only supports USD at the moment but look forward to international currencies becoming available.
PROSIt's quick to customise a secure page which you can embed on your website.
CONSIt only supports USD at the moment but look forward to international currencies becoming available.
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
2
Reviewed February 2019
Does the job of a donation page very well
They are great for setting up a donation page for your nonprofit that only charges a percentage fee.
CONSI would like if they had a bit more functionality for white labeling and inserting into the website. The only way we were able to figure out how to insert the donation form into our wix website was by using a module that imported an html page. This worked fine but still had donately's branding so we had to put a white block over the top of the module to make it truly white labeled. All over it does the job though.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback!
Replied January 2020
Bob
Health, Wellness and Fitness, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2022
Great product for NPO Peer to Peer fundraising use.
Donately allowed USARC to quickly stand up a peer to peer fundraising campaign when our old platform was retired.
PROSease of setting up account, campaigns and peer to peer fundraisers.
CONSWe wish there was greater ability to control features, like to turn off the Donate button on the events' landing page.
Reason for choosing Donately
On examination it was the fastest, simplest solution for our needs, with responsive support.
Reasons for switching to Donately
Constant churn in product interface, data loss, eventually shut down by company and retired. Did not want to use the company's other pricier options.
Gordon
Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed November 2016
Great support, and a pricing model that works for us
We were drawn to Donate.ly because we are rebuilding our online donation and for the volume of expected donations it made a lot of sense. Our backend CRM is salesforce and so we needed to use Zapier to create opportunities and contact records. Bryan Shanaver was quite helpful in getting that set up for us. I want to give features and functionality a 4 but no doubt it will get there with a more advanced recurrent donation logging and foreign currency, a 5 would be non-cash gifts. Make no mistake though it is great value for money, so as they grow I am sure it will be well made. I would recommend it for small to midsize non-profits at its current form.
PROSGreat value for money, awesome support.
CONSGreat if we can do multi-currency as we are a global org. Also if it can note down it is Xth recurrent donation somehow it can make our backend record keeping better.
Matthew
Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2020
It's fine
It takes the money. It maintains decent records. It hasn't been hacked.
CONSThe fees are a little higher than some comparable products and we use them when we can.
Vendor Response
Hi, Matthew. Thank you for taking the time to leave us this review. We take pride in our product and are disappointed that we haven't met all your needs. I will be reaching out directly to see what we can do to improve your experience with Donately.
Replied March 2020
Jake
Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2016
Simplicity Is Key
When choosing between the different donation portals services out there, Donately is our pick for the following: 1. The giving form you are able to embed on your website has a very clean and simply visual design while many other competitors look clunky. 2a. The percentage fees are the lowest and therefore best you can find on the market. 2b. There is no monthly fee, so you are only charged when you get an actual donation. 3. Donately has a catchy name! ;)
PROSSimplicity Visual Design
CONS- There needs to be a way to designate to certain campaigns on the giving portal - the donation receipts are really ugly and poorly throughout. They need actual customization. - there needs to be a fundraising progress widget you can customize from donately and embedd in your website.
Ben
Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2022
Donately Review
It is easy for Donor's to contribute on the platform
CONSReporting is difficult to discern certain info, such as the fee breakdown when integrated with Stripe. We've had to rely on external reporting because Donately's is not accurate on fee allocation, specifically.
Andy
Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2016
Top level platform!
The customer support has been fantastic, always offering a solution any setback I face. As an admin, the back end dashboard is easy to use and free of distraction.
PROSUI and ease of back end admin
CONSEntry pricing is steep.
Junnie
Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2016
Excellent Service
I think your services you offer is very good for businesses especially non profits, and profit businesses I really enjoy the simple ways to utilize your service
PROSEasy to use
CONSN/A
holly
Consumer Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2016
Great! Customer service
This is so much better than other services out there! Super easy to use! Great customer service. Very helpful staff
PROSEasy to use
CONSPeople don't bean recognize it
Brian
Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2022
Too new to know
Like the product...not helpful in getting it online and functional.
PROSPrice and ability to customize the donor form are the most compelling features of this software so far.
CONSCustomer support is minimal...VERY disappointing.
Reasons for switching to Donately
Minimal flexibility and too expensive
patrick
Non-Profit Organization Management, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2017
Annual Donations
Very easy and minimal amount of work to do on our end. Like the summary downloads we can call when we want to review all donations.
PROSIt's just easy and we don't really need to think about if our money will get to us. Cheaper than paypal, too.
CONSNothing, we only use for the basics
Ken
Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2020
Excellent, Easy Donation Functionality
Really easy set-up and the customer service is wonderful
CONSYou have to have a payment processor like Stripe to connect to, so there is additional set-up beyond just Donately.
Vendor Response
Thank you for your kind words, Ken!
Replied January 2020
Elena
Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees
Used monthly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2020
Some kinks, but otherwise an effective tool
I love the ability to have recurring gifts and the process of setting up a campaign is easy. The fact that I can easily link this via Constant Contact, Wordpress, and other applications that we use is also much appreciated.
CONSOur Office Manager has difficulty figuring out someone's actual donation (TO US; after subtracting out Donately fees and other associated costs); We have donors who use both Donately and checks and I don't like that the campaigns only factor in progress toward our goal with what has been received by Donately...feels like we should be able to manually input funds raised toward the overall campaign goal. The formatting for the campaign photo is a nightmare.
Vendor Response
Hi, Elena. Thank you for this review of Donately! We're glad to see that you've found our fundraising tools useful and that you've made the most of the many integrations we offer! We also appreciate you letting us know where we have room to improve. I will reach out to you directly, as you are able to earmark both live donations AND manually entered checks towards a campaign, which will give you an accurate count to your goals.
Replied March 2020
Vann
Used free trial
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2016
Donately has been a real plus for our nonprofit!
Rwanda Children, the nonprofit I serve, has been using Donately for almost two years. Like all nonprofits, we are always on the lookout for ways to stretch or donor's dollars... and Donately has helped us accomplish that. First and foremost, Donately initiated a reduction in their fees charged to nonprofits. This shows me I'm dealing with good-hearted folks! Secondly, they consistently deliver quality service to us by taking great care of our donors. And when our donors have encountered problems (and these have been few and far between) Donately's customer support has been outsanding. Rwanda Children is benefited by our partnership with Donately, and we look forward to that partnership continuing!
Vanessa
Non-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2022
Run, Walk & Roll 2022
Donately helped us to track donations and made it easier for people to donate to our cause
PROSEase of use and I was able to track daily what donations had been received
CONSI thought the software was good, just a few minor adjustments we will add next time
Holly
Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2016
Very Satisfied
We are very pleased with the Robly service and are happy with our move from Constant Contact. It is easy to use and we feel as though the value for the money is superb.