MonkeyPod

RATING:

4.7

(60)

About MonkeyPod

MonkeyPod helps nonprofits get down to business. Accounting, donor management, grants management, CRM, email marketing, online fundraising, and more — all in one simple, integrated platform. Consider it your nonprofit-in-a-box. OPERATIONS People can do amazing things when they apply their creativity, empathy, and passion. But not if they’re stuck doing repetitive tasks and frustrating busywork. Reclaim your time with MonkeyPod. Empower your team with the information that they need to do their jobs. Everyone who needs access, gets it — add unlimited users with no information gatekeepers required. Control access and visibility to sensitive information with fine-grained user permissions. Make informed decisions with accurate, real-time reports and data. Let technology d...

Awards and Recognition

FrontRunner 2023
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MonkeyPod Pricing

MonkeyPod Community Edition: $29/month or $295/year - available to organizations with annual budgets under $150k. MonkeyPod Pro: $179/month or $1,800/year - includes all the core MonkeyPod functionality plus Pro level support, guided onboarding, and a personalized data migration plan. MonkeyPod Enterprise: $289/month or $2,900/year - includes API access, the highest levels of support, and full data migration services, all included. For more information: monkeypod.io/pricing

Starting price: 

$167.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

Leverage a fully customizable & easy-to-use CRM. Manage unlimited CRM entities, create & track custom data fields, & get a holistic view of all your constituents' information - sales, donations, emails, volunteer hours, etc. - all in a single place.
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MonkeyPod Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for MonkeyPod

1 - 5 of 60 Reviews

User Profile

Misti

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management, 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:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed October 2022

Interested in the CRM, got so much more!

PROS

The software itself is multifaceted and meets many of the needs we have as a small nonprofit. We are continuing to expand our use and growing our capabilities! I love that it integrates with other platforms and meets our needs for CRM, fundraising, accounting, and email marketing!

CONS

Anything on my wish list has gone to the team for considering!

Reason for choosing MonkeyPod

Good people, good price, features we needed

Reasons for switching to MonkeyPod

Needed a better solution, with ability to sort, track, and contact our database

Vendor Response

Thank you, Misti!

Replied October 2022

Kat

Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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

4

Reviewed October 2023

Most Affordable & Worthwhile Nonprofit Management Tool!

Overall, we've already seen amazing benefits with using MonkeyPod, including, but not limited to: streamlined workflow (pipelines, etc.), up-to-date data relative to our organization's processes, access to an overview of people & how they're involved in our organization & how they've engaged with us (roles, interactions, and history), and ease of access to a central "database" that our organization's staff need to access data, and much more!

PROS

What I like most about MonkeyPod is that they are accommodating & understanding of nonprofits, the work they do, and the features that best support their work. Because of that, they provide affordable solutions and have been extremely receptive to user feedback where they've adapted and added features! Some features we appreciate tremendously is the bcc customized for the organization where you can use the custom bcc email to send to your organization's MonkeyPod database that will log an interaction and create/update that person's record accordingly. Another feature we love is the ability to household & connect records, use an advanced search to create & save "lists" of records based on custom attributes, tags (unlimited reasons for how helpful this feature is!), and so much more! Since we've been using the platform, we've been reaching out for assistance & they've implemented solutions and/or addressed our concerns in the most professional & timely way possible! We love how engaged & involved they are in their clients' relationship with them!

CONS

There are features we'd still like to see added and enhanced, such as custom API integrations, however, because of their willingness to accommodate clients' needs by implementing features and/or providing alternate solutions... we are willing to wait for those features or find internal workarounds due to all the features currently available that maximize our efforts & provide impactful solutions for all our other needs!

Reason for choosing MonkeyPod

Most affordable, unlimited users, amount of features, customizability, and addresses almost all of our needs (fundraising, marketing, CRM, etc.)

Vendor Response

Thanks so much! Appreciate the kind words.

Replied October 2023

Jonathan

Publishing, 2-10 employees

Used monthly 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:

2

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed March 2023

MonkeyPod Review

Not bad. Not fantastic either.

PROS

I really enjoyed how MonkeyPod was NPO centric, which made tagging income and expenses very easy and accessible unlike software like Quickbooks were "donations" have to be categorized as "sales".

CONS

Honestly, it just feels too early in development for my taste. Customer support doesn't seem to ever have a consistent answer for problems, promises aren't fulfilled, critical features like webhooks and native form integration just don't work for fiscal sponsor clients. It is really frustrating to talk to a representative and be promised something only to be emailed later and told that you have to make do because you're a fiscal sponsor client so you don't matter.

Reason for choosing MonkeyPod

It was included for free with our fiscal sponsorship.

Shoshi

Non-Profit Organization Management, 1 employee

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:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2023

Small but mighty system

My organization previously had many different excel spreadsheets, and as we grew it became more challenging to keep track of all of our information appropriately. We wanted one system that could be used for member and donor management, that includes event processing, fundraising, budgeting, and email marketing, and monkeypod is that system. It connects directly to our bank account (in a read only capacity) to make sure that our budget stays on track, and you can make notes to yourself within the system and add reminders about follow up tasks. You can keep track of custom characteristics, like who won't attend programs, but really likes getting emails, or who is not looking to date but wants to come to classes.

PROS

I love that I am able to keep track of members and donors in one place, and when anyone pays for anything, it automatically goes into the system. Expenses can be tagged so that you can see exactly how much has come in versus gone out for a specific event/item/project. I also love that Monkeypod works to grow its options and partnerships with other useful companies to make life easier.

CONS

It would be helpful to have a phone option for customer support, instead of having to send 47 emails to work through a situation. I also sometimes find it challenging when sending emails to have different email lists of almost but not quite exactly the same people and have to recreate them often when our people don't rsvp through the proper pages.

Reason for choosing MonkeyPod

We are a small but mighty organization with a budget devoted to helping our members. We did not want a huge monthly spend, so Monkeypod is a great start for us.

Reasons for switching to MonkeyPod

It got more and more challenging to keep track of our members on a global scale. We wanted a product that could also take donations directly, which is an option through a Stripe integration, and then donations and fees can be tagged to the member, donor, and/or event so that nothing gets lost and you know who has paid for what.

Sara

Performing Arts, 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:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed December 2021

MonkeyPod is the easiest financial platform a non accountant can master

Overall MonkeyPod is the easiest financial program I have used. The CRM management is useful and comprehensive. Thank you letters are easy to create using the Fundraising Reports from MonkeyPod and Word.

PROS

Monkey Pod is very simple to use and even if you are not a professionally trained accountant you can run financial reports with ease and compare each year to the prior year at the touch of a button. You can scan your invoices and save them in MonkeyPod with the check number and payee so all your information is in one spot if you need to refer back to it. The support is incredible, questions are answered the same day and the support team works with you until the problem is solved. They donʻt send you a link to watch a video and figure it out on your own like so many other companies do, they talk to you and suggest solutions and follow up with you to make sure itʻs resolved.

CONS

We are a performing arts venue so a ticketing module that includes a season ticket and flexpass option as well as single tickets would make my life complete. Overall, building an email campaign is a really easy but you do have to delete the suggested template pieces before you can build a new campaign. The best thing to do is make your own templates and save them, but for each new template you make you will have to delete a bunch of suggestions.

Reasons for switching to MonkeyPod

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