--- title: "GiveSmart Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026" description: "Review of GiveSmart Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs." source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/event-management/givesmart-profile/" page_type: "product" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Auction Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/auction/) / GiveSmart Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/event-management/givesmart-profile/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/event-management/givesmart-profile/alternatives/) # GiveSmart Review From $3,000/year Free version 2 plans Wondering if GiveSmart is right for your organization? Our Auction Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview GiveSmart 4.5 [(211)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/event-management/givesmart-profile/reviews/) Pricing Starting at $3,000.00 flat rate per year ### About GiveSmart GiveSmart is the all-in-one fundraising, event, and donor management platform built for purpose-driven organizations ready to do more with less. In a world where nonprofits are stretched thin-juggling disconnected tools, limited resources, and rising expectations- GiveSmart helps you bring on better: - Connect more with donors through engaging auctions, events, and digital campaigns - all in one place. - Manage more with unlimited access to any type of campaign and a connected platform that simplifies operations. - Expect more from a trusted partner empowering thousands of nonprofits and associations to raise billions and deepen donor relationships. Whether you're hosting a gala, launching a giving day, or stewarding donors year-round, GiveSmart is your connected solution for maximizing impact. Bring on better giving. Bring on better outcomes. Bring on GiveSmart. Wondering if GiveSmart is right for your organization? Our Auction Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. ## GiveSmart User Interface ## Popular GiveSmart Alternatives Main Product GiveSmart 4.5 [(211)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/event-management/givesmart-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.35Ease of use - 4.23Value for money - 4.54Customer support - 4.17Functionality Pricing Starting at $3000.00 per year Get Price Alternative Product [Givebutter](https://www.softwareadvice.com/nonprofit/givebutter-profile/) 4.8 [(872)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/nonprofit/givebutter-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.73Ease of use - 4.82Value for money - 4.74Customer support - 4.49Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [DonorPerfect](https://www.softwareadvice.com/nonprofit/donorperfect-profile/) 4.5 [(1482)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/nonprofit/donorperfect-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.34Ease of use - 4.51Value for money - 4.76Customer support - 4.34Functionality Pricing Starting at $119.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Neon CRM](https://www.softwareadvice.com/nonprofit/neoncrm-profile/) 4.3 [(620)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/nonprofit/neoncrm-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.06Ease of use - 4.28Value for money - 4.30Customer support - 4.16Functionality Pricing Starting at $99.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Zeffy](https://www.softwareadvice.com/nonprofit/simplyk-profile/) 4.8 [(497)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/nonprofit/simplyk-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.79Ease of use - 4.95Value for money - 4.86Customer support - 4.57Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [Bloomerang](https://www.softwareadvice.com/nonprofit/bloomerang-profile/) 4.7 [(1287)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/nonprofit/bloomerang-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.56Ease of use - 4.58Value for money - 4.76Customer support - 4.34Functionality Pricing Starting at $125.00 per month Get Price ## GiveSmart Pricing and Plans Starting price: $3,000.00 per year Free Trial Free Version Annual Subscription $3,000.00 flat rate, per year No plan information available Pay-As-You-Go $0.00 usage based No plan information available Confused about pricing? We've got you covered. Get a personalized pricing breakdown tailored to your specific needs—no guesswork, no generic estimates. ## GiveSmart Features - Popular features found in Auction Absentee Bidding Alerts/Notifications Billing & Invoicing Buy Now Option Event Management Inventory Management Live Auction Payment Processing Proxy Bidding Silent Auction Watch List - More features of GiveSmart Activity Dashboard Activity Tracking Attendance Management Attendee Management Auction Management Bid Management Campaign Management Catalog Management Communication Management Confirmations/Reminders Contact Database Contact Management Contribution Tracking Credit Card Processing CRM Customer Data Management Customizable Branding Dashboard Donor Management Electronic Payments Email Management Email Marketing Email Reminders Event Scheduling Event Ticketing Fundraising Management Gamification Membership Management Mobile Access Mobile Alerts Mobile Giving Mobile Ticketing Online Auction Online Bidding Online Giving Online Ticketing Onsite Ticketing Pledge Management Point of Sale (POS) Promotions Management Real-Time Notifications Real-Time Reporting Registration Management Reporting/Analytics Reporting & Statistics Reverse Bidding Seating Map Shipping Management Social Media Integration Social Promotion Sponsorship Management Summary Reports Ticketing Ticket Reservations Visitor Registration Website Management ## GiveSmart User Reviews ## GiveSmart customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Total reviews: 211 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 127 reviews (60%) - 4 stars: 67 reviews (32%) - 3 stars: 10 reviews (5%) - 2 stars: 3 reviews (1%) - 1 star: 4 reviews (2%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.4/5 - Value for money: 4.2/5 - Customer support: 4.5/5 - Functionality: 4.2/5 --- ### GiveSmart is Among the Best - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Terry S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall our experience was good. I'd like it to be great and hope we get there this year. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Every online platform has its pros and cons and things that work really great and things that need improvement. I would say that GiveSmart is among the best and it's working out any kinks that it still has. I would definitely recommend it to others and believe that most of our problems were user issues. #### Cons I think they could provide more training with the annual subscription. We had to purchase additional training in order to really utilize the tools. #### Reasons for switching to GiveSmart OneCause was more expensive and less user friendly. --- ### We recommend GiveSmart for your next event - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Maggie B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We have been using GiveSmart for over 10 years. We like having the historical data for all of our events in one place with one software. It is easy to create an event and add auction items. The report functions are intuitive and helpful. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros GiveSmart is very intuitive to use and learn. The customer service support is always willing to help and is very responsive if I ever have questions. Our revenue has increased each year we have had this software. #### Cons The price for the same service seems to go up considerably each year, and we consistently get less in return. GiveSmart used to send staff to events, and that has not happened in many years (since the pandemic). We wish GiveSmart integrated better with our CRM, Etapestry. #### Reasons for choosing GiveSmart GiveSmart was the first product we were introduced to, and we have not been convinced that there is another better product out there - to warrant switching and losing all of our historic data. --- ### Great for Events - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros This makes it easy to fundraise for special events like golf tournaments or galas. #### Cons There are some functionalities that cannot be changed- like being notified if a general donation (not ticket) is made and tabs/website layout. --- ### Reliable fundraising platform that gives our donors a positive experience. - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Meredith P. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It does let us run our fundraising events in an efficient way. People can participate whether they are in-person at the event or not which helps us raise more funds. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros In the end it is possible to make a good landing site and webpages to help facilitate fundraising. The UI looks clean and modern and is reasonably easy to use for people coming to donate, bid on auction items or buy raffle tickets. #### Cons The backend of the site is sometimes hard to understand. We only use the platform a handful of times a year and it often feels like we have to relearn each time we go in to set up a new event. --- ### Unhappy to leave GiveSmart - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ken S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. GiveSmart is a good CRM, and I believe it would have been a good product for online fundraising if we had been willing to upgrade to additional features, such as processing monthly donations. The real challenge came with my age and status as a part-time worker focused on foundation grant writing. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I liked GiveSmart CRM for the ease of entering and tracking gifts, providing gift receipt letters to donors, and creating lists to contact donors. #### Cons My challenge with GiveSmart was my own inability to use it effectively in soliciting online donations. This was based on challenges within our organization and my lack of experience with online fundraising. #### Reasons for switching to GiveSmart Blackbaud was far too expensive and difficult to use. --- ### Overall, GiveSmart Events is Great! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Christina S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. GiveSmart Events is very easy to use and change things around as needed. It seems fairly simple from the standpoint of event attendee, as well. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros We can do everything in one place for events. I like how I can see attendee details and know what they purchased. I like that we can make changes to table seating easily. #### Cons I don't like how we can't better distinguish between a company buying tickets from a person. If Jane Doe is the main contact for Company A, her name shows up instead of the company. This gets tricky when that contact isn't planning on attending the event. The invoicing also just shows Jane Doe's name and not Company A, which does not work for most businesses. #### Reasons for switching to GiveSmart We were told they could streamline events, and they could not. We would have had to use multiple systems to do what GiveSmart does. --- ### Couldn't be happier - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jose B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Best software we've used for our fundraising events. Year after year we're breaking records and our main event is more professional than ever. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Everything is slick and intuitive. What used to take a team of people and a lot of effort is now a one man job and frees up the rest of the team for more valuable relationship building. We're extremely happy with GiveSmart. #### Cons The maliability of certain design elements could be a bit less stringent, allowing for more freedom of customization. #### Reasons for choosing GiveSmart Customer service, predictable results, ease of access, user friendly platform --- ### GiveSmart is the way to Go for Online Auctions - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Vicki L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Excellent! We only use the software for our online auction and it has been a tremendous asset. We have a lot of repeat donors, so we can keep their same spot in the auction list and just change out the new image and description. One of the easiest parts is the way the system closes out at the end of the auction and provides us with separate sheets for each bidder listing all the items they "won" and also automatically processing their card payments if they have one on file. We did all of this by hand before using GiveSmart and it is more than worth the price for the reasons above and the records it maintains on past auctions. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros We only use the software for our online auction and it has been a tremendous asset. We have a lot of repeat donors, so we can keep their same spot in the auction list and just change out the new image and description. One of the easiest parts is the way the system closes out at the end of the auction and provides us with separate sheets for each bidder listing all the items they "won" and also automatically processing their card payments if they have one on file. We did all of this by hand before using GiveSmart and it is more than worth the price for the reasons above and the records it maintains on past auctions. #### Cons No cons. The only thing better would be if it was free, but I understand why that is not possible. :-) --- ### Its amazing and worth the investment! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Bree B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall, I have had a very positive experience with GiveSmart, particularly in a multi-school environment. The platform's flexibility allows each school to manage its own campaigns while ensuring a consistent system across the organization, which is a significant advantage. It is a powerful tool that supports a wide range of fundraising efforts, from smaller programs to large-scale galas. Although there are some considerations regarding cost and complexity, the ability to scale and adapt across multiple teams makes it a valuable resource for event-based fundraising. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros GiveSmart is a strong all-in-one platform for fundraising events, especially auctions, galas, and other large-scale events. One of its biggest strengths is the flexibility it offers, particularly for our school system. The ability to assign “campaign admins” to each school allows individual teams to run their own programs, auctions, and events independently while still operating within one centralized platform. The mobile bidding and overall guest experience are excellent and easy to use, which helps drive family engagement and revenue. From the admin side, having ticketing, payments, donor data, and communications all in one place makes my job so much easier! #### Cons Cost is the biggest factor. While the platform is user-friendly for participants, the backend can feel a bit complex at times, particularly when setting up more customized campaigns, auctions and events. There can also be a learning curve for new users, especially at the individual school level. --- ### GiveSmart Events Fails Repeatedly - Overall rating: 1/5 - Reviewer: Patricia A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered The overall experience has been overwhelmingly negative. We've been with them for almost two years and I'm happy the contract will finally end in September. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 1/5 #### Pros GiveSmart Fundraise works fine for basic campaign forms. That portion of the platform, though overpriced for what it offers, is easy to set up. #### Cons GiveSmart Events is a hot mess. The system constantly has "glitches". We weren't able to sell tickets to our gala for 10 days. The support team kept insisting it was a user-based error. Reader, it was not. And the seating management often comes with an error that doesn't allow that feature to work for hours at a time. That was explained as a "temporary glitch". They take no accountability for their poor product. 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