Classy makes it easy to create reliable and professional looking online fundraising pages.

Beyond the ease of use and wide array of features, Classy's customer service is outstanding. They always go above and beyond to provide value to the non-profit community. Their toolkits, whitepapers and blog posts are available free to all, and the customer and technical support is always available and helpful. All around great service.

The trade-off for simplicity, ease of use and reliability is a more limited array of options and features. The complexity of our events frequently stretches the capabilities of the software's standard features. That said, Classy support can sometimes offer a custom work-around.

At my job, we administer a variety of charitable funds, many of which participate in different types of fundraising activities. Using Classy, we are able to tailor-make fundraising sites utilizing easy-to-use templates that address each of our donor's wants and needs. I often tell donors that their Classy page can serve as a stand-alone website for their efforts, which is wonderful for our grassroots groups who may not have money in their budget for a web designer or to buy a domain name. The customization allows us to add photos, change colors, and many other features, which result in some really gorgeous looking sites. Classy makes it easy to access donation information, which can be easily viewed when you log into the system as an admin and exported to an CSV file. They have an event-specific template which can be used to sell tickets or registrations to an event. Since you can export all the purchaser info, it allows you to go green with your ticketing -- there's no need for purchasers to print out the email confirmation they receive when you have easy access to all buyer info. In addition to the license fee, Classy does take a 1% fee on each online donation received. There is an option for the organization to pay the fee or for the donor to pay the fee. We ask our donors to pay the fee, and there has never been a complaint as fees are much higher on other comparable sites (EventBrite for ticketing, GoFundMe for crowd-funding, etc.).

Overall I love Classy, but there are a few areas it can improve. The user dashboard is not the easiest to navigate through. It lists the names of donors and the amounts, but not what campaign they donated to. So you have to go to through your campaigns to find the donation. For an organization like ours which administers many Classy pages at once, this can be needlessly time-consuming. I love the custom options that each template has, but sometimes there are glitches. For instance, I was unable to upload a background image to a recent campaign page. But a quick email to customer service fixed the issue in a very short amount of time. Classy is constantly upgrading and adjusting features though, so I imagine they will work out some of these kinks in the future.

Great if you are just starting with fundraising for your Org. Basic functionality bad customer service.

Accepts international donation and recurring donations. But these are standard function any platform should offer

Theme - only basic customization allowed . basically a single column form with all the fields. Assume that they clients can't add any code. Does not allow the best practice of using multistep forms Does not acceptBank ACH or paypal You cannot even add a paypal button in the form instead you have to stick in a custom section under the body making it look ugly Cannot integrate tracking and analytics tools like Google Tag manager, optimize or hotjar Account servicing is bad. Our account exec barely responds to messages

Overall, Classy has enabled us to do more with fewer staff members and has increased our donations. We also have seen an overwhelming amount of donors (74%!) cover a portion of fees, so we keep more of our contributions. Customer Service is easy via chat and A++ every time - everyone is so nice and extra helpful! I highly recommend Classy as a fundraising platform.

Classy was SO easy to launch, customize and implement for both our donation page and our fundraising campaigns. Their interface is simple and intuitive, and they are constantly innovating new features and functions. It was also easy for our schools to set up their own campaigns. We have saved a ton of hours using Classy for our platform. We no longer have to manually do tasks that are done automatically like: send donor recognition emails, fraud management, import donor data to our email platform, offer employer matching gifts, in honor of donation gifts...

The cost is a bit prohibitive, but we were able to budget it for it once we compared Classy to other platforms and calculated the time we would save on their platform. Two big issues I have is that I need to download two reports to get all the accounting data for campaigns, and donor-paid fees show up in the fundraising total, which is misleading and has long been a user complaint.