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Chiletta

Health, Wellness and Fitness, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

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.

PROS

Setting 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.

CONS

It 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

Review Source: Capterra

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.

PROS

Extremely easy for our customers to use! Great customer service!

CONS

Not 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

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

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.

PROS

The 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.

CONS

The 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

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

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.

PROS

The 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.

CONS

I 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

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

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.

PROS

Donately allows our organization to track donors and helps us during the year end process for receipts.

CONS

There are no features that I feel are missing or could be improved.

Maeve

Sports, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

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

PROS

Cheap, easy to set up with many payment options. Monthly and single donation options was the deciding factor in choosing this platform

CONS

Difficult 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

Review Source: Capterra

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.

PROS

Being able to see the recurring donations and the dates dates of effectiveness

CONS

The 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

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Jonathon

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2018

Easy way for rookies to handle the donations

PROS

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.

CONS

As 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

Review Source: Capterra

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.

PROS

It's quick to customise a secure page which you can embed on your website.

CONS

It 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

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

2

Reviewed February 2019

Does the job of a donation page very well

PROS

They are great for setting up a donation page for your nonprofit that only charges a percentage fee.

CONS

I 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

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

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.

PROS

ease of setting up account, campaigns and peer to peer fundraisers.

CONS

We 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

Review Source: Capterra

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.

PROS

Great value for money, awesome support.

CONS

Great 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

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

2

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2020

It's fine

PROS

It takes the money. It maintains decent records. It hasn't been hacked.

CONS

The 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

Review Source: Capterra

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! ;)

PROS

Simplicity 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

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed August 2022

Donately Review

PROS

It is easy for Donor's to contribute on the platform

CONS

Reporting 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

Review Source: Capterra

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.

PROS

UI and ease of back end admin

CONS

Entry pricing is steep.

Junnie

Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra

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

PROS

Easy to use

CONS

N/A

holly

Consumer Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra

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

PROS

Easy to use

CONS

People don't bean recognize it

Brian

Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

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.

PROS

Price and ability to customize the donor form are the most compelling features of this software so far.

CONS

Customer 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

Review Source: Capterra

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.

PROS

It's just easy and we don't really need to think about if our money will get to us. Cheaper than paypal, too.

CONS

Nothing, we only use for the basics

Ken

Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2020

Excellent, Easy Donation Functionality

PROS

Really easy set-up and the customer service is wonderful

CONS

You 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

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2020

Some kinks, but otherwise an effective tool

PROS

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.

CONS

Our 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

Review Source: Capterra

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

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

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

PROS

Ease of use and I was able to track daily what donations had been received

CONS

I 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

Review Source: Capterra

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.

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