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# Blackbaud Altru Review

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-   Overview
    
-   User Interface
    
-   Popular Alternatives
    
-   Pricing and Plans
    
-   Features
    
-   Integrations
    
-   User Reviews
    
-   Popular Comparisons
    

## Overview

Blackbaud Altru

4.0

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Pricing

Pricing available upon request

### About Blackbaud Altru

Blackbaud Altru is a cloud-based membership management solution that includes tools to manage ticketing and admissions, cultivate a membership database, convert ticket buyers and visitors, run merchandise, and much more. Designed specifically for cultural organizations to include general admission organizations, museums, zoos, aquariums, gardens, and science centers, Blackbaud Altru provides a 360-degree view of your visitors, members and donors to better identify behaviors and increase revenue.

Blackbaud Altru’s dashboard provides users with a comprehensive overview of their supporters, members and donors and provides data on attendance, membership activity, donations, and more. Users can track activities such as membership renewals, upgraded memberships, dropped memberships, and more using graphical reports. The cloud-based platform facilitates online, mobile, and in-person membership and ticket sales and also allows users to sell merchandise and track inventory.

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## Blackbaud Altru User Interface

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-   4.33Customer support
-   3.78Functionality

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## Blackbaud Altru Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $399.00

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$399.00

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## Blackbaud Altru Features

-   Popular features found in Zoo
    
    Animal Database
    
    Animal Monitoring
    
    Breeding Management
    
    Inventory Management
    
    Medical Records
    
    Ticketing
    
-   More features of Blackbaud Altru
    
    Access Controls/Permissions
    
    Activity Dashboard
    
    Activity Tracking
    
    Alerts/Notifications
    
    Attendance Management
    
    Attendance Tracking
    
    Campaign Management
    
    Committee Management
    
    Communication Management
    
    Contact Database
    
    Contact Management
    
    Contribution Tracking
    
    Credit Card Processing
    
    CRM
    
    Customizable Branding
    
    Customizable Fields
    
    Customizable Forms
    
    Customizable Reports
    
    Customizable Templates
    
    Dashboard
    
    Data Import/Export
    
    Document Storage
    
    Donor Management
    
    Dues Management
    
    Electronic Payments
    
    Email Management
    
    Email Reminders
    
    Event Calendar
    
    Event Management
    
    Event Scheduling
    
    Event Ticketing
    
    Forms Management
    
    For Museums
    
    For Nonprofits
    
    Fundraising Management
    
    Gift Shop POS
    
    Member Database
    
    Membership Management
    
    Membership Renewals
    
    Mobile Access
    
    Online Ticketing
    
    Payment Processing
    
    Point of Sale (POS)
    
    Real-Time Analytics
    
    Real-Time Reporting
    
    Receipt Management
    
    Recurring/Subscription Billing
    
    Registration Management
    
    Reminders
    
    Reporting/Analytics
    
    Reporting & Statistics
    
    Reserved Seating
    
    Sales Reports
    
    Season Tickets
    
    Third-Party Integrations
    
    Ticket Brokering
    
    Ticket Reservations
    
    Volunteer Management
    
    Website Integration
    

## Blackbaud Altru Integrations

Cuseum

Integration rated undefined from -1 review

## Blackbaud Altru User Reviews

## Blackbaud Altru customer ratings

- Overall rating: 4.0/5
- Total reviews: 42

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 16 reviews (38%)
- 4 stars: 17 reviews (40%)
- 3 stars: 6 reviews (14%)
- 2 stars: 1 reviews (2%)
- 1 star: 2 reviews (5%)

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 3.6/5
- Value for money: 3.9/5
- Customer support: 4.3/5
- Functionality: 3.8/5

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### Wide-ranging data management software with improving support/training options.

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2018
- 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: 3/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

Covers every aspect of museum data management, from fundraising to programs to events and more. Excellent customization of data queries to manage data and run reports. Offers many levels of depth, to serve both front-line staff and power users.

#### Cons

Little/no training and support offered until very recently. Limited customization of layout, view options, colors, and categories in constituent records. Sometimes requires many, many clicks to achieve simple goals/record changes/reports.

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### Great Solution for Fundraising Shops

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Stephanie W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Fund-Raising
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2024
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

I think it's a solid Blackbaud product that allows fundraisers to get the job done, but is a little behind the times.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I think Blackbaud Altru is a very powerful database, and I love that it has a component to integrate memberships/ticketing information with fundraising donations.

#### Cons

There is a really high learning curve with this product, there are also many quirks to the system that don't allow for global changing.

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### Altru by Blackbaud Review

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Museums and Institutions
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2019
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

I know a good amount how to deal with things on Altru, but if something comes up that you don't know, it's not always self-explanatory how to get done what you need to get done. Sometimes you have click on quite a series of things that you would never things to click on to make something happen. That being said, it doesn't seem to glitch often, which is nice. Again, having all the needed resources right there in one software is a helpful.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 2/5
- Customer support: 2/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

I love the amount that you can do on Altru and that it can all be done in one place. Whether it's keeping our volunteers organized, scheduling tours, selling event tickets, etc., it can all be done right there in Altru.

#### Cons

There are multiple ways you can do everything. Rather than having one concise way to do each action, you have to search to find many not simple ways to do everything. Sometimes, screens look slightly different on different computers as well, even though they've all been updated. It's amazing how much you can do, but it would be so much easier if the methods used were more concise.

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### Program Manager

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Sheena L.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: October 2024
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Checking the budgets for each cost center

#### Cons

Sometimes, I get lost in different areas

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### An improvement over our previous system, but still needs some fine tuning

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2018
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

We now have the ability to get a true look at all the ways our constituents are interacting with our organization. Prior to implementation, our organization was very siloed, with each department using separate databases.

#### Cons

The product has a long way to go with the web forms and email functionality. It would be great to have usable metrics for online behavior.

---

### Definitely not a great took for volunteer management

- Overall rating: 2/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2018
- 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: 1/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 1/5

#### Pros

From what I can see, this software looks like it could be a great tool for some applications. As I mean it is great for the money if you are looking to have a tool to maintain unlimited accounts, but that is really the only true good aspect of it.

#### Cons

I have head to use the software for volunteer management at several locations, and to be honest besides from keeping track of personal information the volunteer side is terrible. They trying to force you to buy they're really expensive side a volunteer management, but there are better programs out there for much cheaper. To give you an example, to run a report you literally have to go through 8 to 10 steps and hope it is what you're looking for. It is really not user friendly

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### Altru

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Museums and Institutions
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: January 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Not a bad product. Please add a point of sake tool for gift shops!! Hey

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Easy to use database for non-profits. Great tool for data analysis.

#### Cons

I would like to see a built in capacity for point of sale. I currently have to use two services when I could just use one.

---

### Altru helps us keep appointments and track payments

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Jasmin P.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Museums and Institutions
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: November 2017
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

It helps us keep everything straight. We are able to track multiple payment types for many different activities.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 1/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

Altru has a wonderful feature of copying appointments and holding them for you to reschedule. I love how there is a database of clients and you can easily search for them. Once selected it will automatically fill in all of the information.

#### Cons

It is not very user friendly for new users. If a mistake is made there isn't a way to undo it. Sometimes there are issues with payments when entered and you have to go in and delete the payment type and write it in yourself. I also don't like how when you check in a group it automatically submits their payment (box is checked automatically). If you don't remember to uncheck it there is no way to undo it.

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### Fully integrated our POS, CRM, facility management to our accounting.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Bill S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: September 2017
- 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: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Intuitive design. Our team loves it. We are still learning which is great. The capacity of the system is rich.

#### Cons

Some integration with on-line banking is not yet working well. Sometime the processing seems slow but this could be our internet.

---

### Altru - software review

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: October 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Use at a nonprofit to take sales and keep track of events

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

Altru is direct and straight to the point. It has a places to include a lot of information which can be good for creating thorough profiles.

#### Cons

When pulling results, it only pulls primary information and if the information is not loaded correctly, it can be a problem.

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