Congress Plus Advocacy 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Congress Plus Advocacy

4.8

(16)

Pricing

Starting at $138.00 per month

About Congress Plus Advocacy

Congress Plus Advocacy is a cloud-based political advocacy platform that assists political organizations of all sizes with legislation tracking and campaign management. Its key features include messaging, commenting, social engagement, forms management and advocate management.

The application comes with a module that enables advocates to send emails, faxes or letters to the legislators and dispatch pre-crafted letters to local media organizations. Teams can use the phone call functionality to call legislators manually or via patch-through calling. The solution lets advocates sign petitions and post comments on regulatory forms. Users can send targeted messages to legislators based on factors such as vote position, bill co-sponsorships, committee lists and more.

Congress Plus Advocacy includes a directory, which provides advocates' information on legislators. It enables managers to connect with advocates via email and text messages and collect information about their relationship with legislators.

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Congress Plus Advocacy Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $138.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$138.00

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Congress Plus Advocacy Features

Popular features found in Advocacy
Advocate Management
Campaign Management
Customer Advocacy
Engagement Tracking
Nonprofit Advocacy
Rewards Management
More features of Congress Plus Advocacy
A/B Testing
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Attendance Management
Calendar Management
Campaign Analytics
Campaign Segmentation
Communication Management
Contact Database
Contact Management
Content Library
Content Management
CRM
Customer Segmentation
Customizable Branding
Customizable Fields
Customizable Forms
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Data Import/Export
Donor Management
Email Alerts
Email Distribution
Email Management
Email Marketing
Email Templates
Event Management
Event Scheduling
Event Triggered Actions
Filtering
Forms Management
For Nonprofits
Grant Management
Member Database
Membership Management
Mobile Access
Multi-Campaign
Pre-Approved Content Library
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Reporting
Real-Time Updates
Registration Management
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Search/Filter
Social Media Integration
Social Media Monitoring
Social Promotion
Surveys & Feedback
Template Management
Third-Party Integrations
Widgets

Congress Plus Advocacy Integrations

Twitter/X

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DonorPerfect

NationBuilder

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iMIS

Congress Plus Advocacy User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

88%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.9

Customer support

5.0

Functionality

4.6

Sienna G.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

11-50 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Reviewed July 2021

Best in the business

The customer service is best in the business. The team is immediately responsive to requests for assistance, and makes themselves readily available for the occasional training. Overall, working with the Congress Plus Advocacy software and company at large has been great, and I would recommend the software to any organization considering it!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Congress Plus Advocacy has made my work so much more efficient. The software is user friendly and intuitive, which makes it simple to train new staff. There are endless customization tools which makes the software nimble and adaptable to our organizations need. There are also regular updates being made to the software, and in the case that there is a feature we'd like, the team is always willing to build out software capacity where they're able.

Cons:

The interface is simple, which might not appeal to others. For our purposes, it's perfect!

Brittany B.

Verified reviewer

Public Policy

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed June 2019

Excellent Advocacy Platform

Congress Plus allows us to spend more time focusing on our advocacy campaigns than worrying about the logistics behind getting our messaging out. The support team at The Soft Edge has been beyond helpful, answering any questions, always available for tutorials, and adding features that we request to future updates. Having a team that listens to your concerns, and grows from them, is so beneficial.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Congress Plus is able to handle all aspects of our advocacy program needs, in one place. We have a scorecard, manage constituents, and create and send actions, all in one platform.

Cons:

Some features were not included, however, the Soft Edge has been great about listening to our needs and adding new features when possible. Sometimes the platform is clunky, or customers have trouble completing actions compared to other platforms, though, seeing as the information needed to successfully contact legislators, we feel that priority outweighs this.

Reasons for choosing Congress Plus Advocacy

Mainly due to the price and the scorecard feature available with Congress Plus.

Reasons for switching to Congress Plus Advocacy

For a variety of factors: cost, more mobile friendly platform, as well as feature upgrades.

Katy W.

Used other for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2017

Does the job

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Does the job fine. It's easy enough to set up and is easy enough for the user. Great customer support, in my experience.

Cons:

Looks a little crude. It is challenging to collect multiple actions from one computer at an on-site event. The cookies remember the individuals and you have to reset the browser, which is not user-friendly.

Vendor Response

Thank you for the feedback! The advocacy platform has an event mode that clears the user's information after each submission that is ideal for on-site events. In response to your feedback, we made this mode much more obvious in the dashboard.

Replied May 2019

Ryan R.

Verified reviewer

Government Relations

11-50 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2022

Lots of bang for the Buck

I was looking for a good platform for a client with a small budget. Voter Voice and Quorum were not an option. I evaluated a couple of other platforms, but Congress Plus came out on top. It had a lot of versatility, was easy to use, and their customer service was excellent. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a good, easy to use platform without a bunch of unneeded frills.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Very easy to set up and use. It was also easy to track which of our members were contacting which legislators. It could be set up so that an entire membership could contact the members of a specific committee regardless of whether or not those members lived in those legislators districts.

Cons:

I really can't say anything bad about this platform.

Reasons for choosing Congress Plus Advocacy

Congress Plus provided a lot of bang for the buck.

Miranda H.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed June 2023

User-friendly and a great addition to our advocacy day

The fly-in manager saved so much time and headache in keeping the event organized. It provides a professional, user-friendly experience for our volunteers and keeps track of exactly the information we need. We have not yet used it to its full capability and look forward to continuing to utilize it as we grow this program.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This product is very easy to use, for both back-end users and our volunteers. It greatly simplified our advocacy day by allowing us to make real-time changes in one central location, rather than across dozens of spreadsheets. The ability to quickly and easily communicate with volunteers was fantastic, and the volunteers liked the ease of accessing their schedules and updates on their devices. Customer support is responsive and helpful. For Calls To Action, it provides a seamless, easy way to connect advocates to their legislators.

Cons:

The only feature it lacked on the fly-in manager was the ability to, after assigning volunteers to groups for our advocacy day, then assign the groups to the meetings; HOWEVER, SoftEdge has now implemented that feature and it will be very useful for our next fly-in.

Reasons for choosing Congress Plus Advocacy

The features it provides, at the very reasonable cost, was unmatched. Some of the other products we considered required so much more work on the back-end, with little payout. This product works FOR us.

Ember F.

Verified reviewer

Government Relations

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed December 2020

Full Suite Advocacy & Government Relations Software and Platform

The depth of the platform and tracking and integration across the multiple features of the platform is unmatched. Customer service is highly available, goes above and beyond to innovate needed solutions for users and understands the nature of the work being done - that clients rely on these tools and their availability to them and their advocates 24/7.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The web-based interface that houses grassroots data and communications center, public-facing online action center and congressional (legislator and staff) data and digital communications all in one place. With limited staff members and capacity to cover all elements of advocacy and government relations the Congress Plus platform essentially provides the benefit of an additional Advocacy & GR staffer. Tracking of advocate actions and advocacy and GR activity is unmatched across the industry.

Cons:

Impressive platform overall. Areas for possible improvement could be building on current robust reporting to include ability to pull multiple reports views together and building on existing email builder tool to expand email design features such as increased bullet and table options, full dashes, etc.

Reasons for choosing Congress Plus Advocacy

When doing periodic reviews of other existing and emerging platforms continue to find that no one platform is as robust across the advocacy grassroots & government relations and mobilizing & tracking elements as Congress Plus. Congress Plus continues to innovate new features to reflect modern advocacy work.

Jonathan P.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2019

Great Experience with Congress Plus

I am extremely impressed by the customer service the Congress Plus staff provides. Whether it has been providing training for new staff, helping with timely needs pertaining to our Capitol Hill lobby days or responding to an individual concern, the staff is friendly, helpful and prompt in their support. The work of staff makes sure our use of the software yields maximum impact.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

In a variety of ways, the Congress Plus software allows our work to be more efficient, effective and impactful. It has allowed us to monitor how many of our communications are reaching individual lawmakers, follow-up with users in a targeted manner to urge them to take more action and more. The software has also been magnificent in helping us manage our citizen lobby days, both in terms of reaching out to congressional offices and scheduling meetings, and organizing our advocates for their meetings.

Cons:

No software is perfect, and we sometimes find circumstantial instances where the software does not meet a specific need. That being said, the Congress Plus staff is always willing to consider our thoughts and work with us for solutions.

Randy T.

Verified reviewer

Civic & Social Organization

Self-Employed

Used other for less than 2 years

Reviewed January 2021

The Soft Edge is the must have tool for advocacy.

I took my time choosing advocacy action software due to our limited resources as a non-profit, our needs and our abilities. In short, The Soft Edge provides everything that other platforms charge 3x as much for. If you are a growing organization this is the platform for you. Additionally, with the expansion features, larger more established organizations will not see limits with the Soft Edge. This is an exemplary service and product.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

For anyone who wants to turn street action into organized street power that can then influence institutions and policy, the Soft Edge is the tool you need. At one protest using the text-advocacy action feature, we were able to empower people who wanted change at that moment to message policy makers as the protest was happening. The Soft Edge's text-advocacy action feature resulted in nearly 13,000 emails being sent to elected officials across our state and we also enrolled 1500 new advocates into our list-serve. Without the Soft Edge, this simply would not happen.

Cons:

Any advocacy action software has a learning curve. However, the Soft Edge has what I would call second to none customer support which reduces this learning curve dramatically.

Reasons for choosing Congress Plus Advocacy

We simply did not see any reason not to choose Congress Plus. We are getting everything we need to effectively engage people on the street and online, paired with affordable pricing and world class customer support.

Marci M.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed July 2023

Helping Us to Meet Our Goals

We have a limited number of employees, yet monitoring legislation and alerting our members is critical to our mission. Congress Plus Advocacy made the work that we do so much easier--I only wish we had found it sooner!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It made a burdensome task easy--keeping updated legislative records, knowing who took an action, making it easy to for people to take actions.

Cons:

We haven't found any fault with this product.

Reasons for choosing Congress Plus Advocacy

Support, pricing, functionality.

John G.

Verified reviewer

Government Relations

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed May 2019

Must have advocacy tool for NGOs and organizations that work in government relations.

There's no way we could reach decision makers the way we do with effective advocacy strategies without Congress Plus. From 11th hour lobbying asks to Hill visits to congressional communications and action items, Congress Plus is unrivaled.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It seamlessly connects to all of our digital platforms, action systems and databases. It's updated regularly and the customer service is truly outstanding and responsive.

Cons:

It can be a little glitchy sometimes and there are custom solutions needed sometimes for systems integration but the customer support is fantastic and always helps us solve any issues.

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