Volunteer Impact

RATING:

4.8

(27)

About Volunteer Impact

Volunteer Impact is a volunteer management system that helps small to large non-profit organizations streamline operations related to recruitment, qualification tracking, time recording, schedule creation, report generation, communication, process automation, and volunteer engagement.

Volunteer Impact Pricing

Unlimited administrators (does not affect price) Subscription based on the number of volunteers (not billed for archived volunteers) and if applicable, the number of locations

Starting price: 

$288.00 per year

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

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Volunteer Impact Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

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 Volunteer Impact

1 - 5 of 27 Reviews

Anonymous

501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

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

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2021

Connect your new and existing volunteers with your organisation easily and schedule opportunities.

The system has been easy to setup and use and manage by people with a wide range of technical skills. Volunteer acceptance has been high and feedback positive. It has enabled our organisations to connect through a digital platform and connect with new and existing volunteers in a manner which suits their lifestyle.

PROS

The Volunteer Impact module in the Better impact platform ticks many boxes for core volunteer management. It allows the volunteers to easily login to a portal and manage their schedules and opportunities. Good management of qualifications and expiry dates like child protection and first aid. For event setup there are 3 or 4 different types of schedules that can be setup to handle the vast majority of cases. Volunteers can be auto acepted to the event or reviewed. Wait lists can be created and event items hidden when they reach capacity. The system can also use qualifications to show or hide certain events from people who are or are not qualified for the event item. It also has the functionality to facilitate online training and learning with a simple module based approach. From a volunteer management point of view it has good visibility of the onboarding process of new volunteers and easy customisation of the application forms. Application forms can have custom fields and custom grouping of fields. Custom fields can be free text and dropdowns and other types as well. It comes with the flexibility of having three unique application forms feeding into the system. There is a strong API function to access the volunteer data and integrate this into other systems. Another great feature for new users is the full functionality of the trial for 30 days.

CONS

You really have to drill down really deep to find any challenges with this product. It is steadily evolving balancing the desire for all functionality from end users with maintaining its ease of use. If we are looking at small things the application form does not have depencies between fields for example if dropdown 1 is value A then don't show text field 2. There are a few small enhancements I would like to see in the learning management component but as this is not the core strength it is expected that over time this will be improved as it is used more. This product can be up and running in test environment the same day as configuration and fine tuning over the next few days

Shoaib

Pharmaceuticals, 201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

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

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2022

World's number one volunteer management tool - does everything what others do in a very good price

Our goal was to recruit, screen test, engage and retain our volunteers for an event that we were organising all in one place and Volunteer impact has done an excellent job for us brining excellent value to the business.

PROS

I simply became a fan of Volunteer impact after comparing it with others in the market Volunteer impact by better impact is the best volunteer management platform which comes at a great price that no one in the market can beat. They charge per volunteer which is also great. The mobile app is amazing and we love the scheduling and attendance tracking feature within the platform helped us a lot.

CONS

The focus of the company is only on charities and not-for-profit organisations although it does work for all other organisations, I think the company should diversify its personas to target as some other industries can gain benefits from such an amazing platform.

Reasons for switching to Volunteer Impact

They are very cheeky with pricing, it is different for all other people. Very expensive for what it does, Volunteer impact has a fixed rate and they are honest.

Vendor Response

Thank you Shoaib. We appreciate you taking the time to share your experiences. You are not the only one who has commented about the pricing and pricing policies of other platforms. We believe in pricing transparency and I am glad that this helped as you vetted various systems. We'll put some thought into your suggestion about branching out more into additional market segments.

Replied December 2022

Jen

Non-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

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:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed August 2020

Great for volunteers to log hours.

It has streamlined our volunteer tracking, before this we had a spreadsheet volunteers would fill in by hand and then we would spend time entering the data at the end of the month. Becuase of this, it has also improved accuracy, as logging volunteer hours the same day or day after, staff and volunteers can remember exactly what they did, so the guesswork with amount of time spent on an activity is reduced.

PROS

I love the ease at which I can pull up volunteer's information, and that they can log their own hours. This system saves a few hours every month. That might not sound like a lot, but every bit adds up.

CONS

I struggle to generate reports, there are no many options, it is confusing. I'll go in to make a simple report and get overwhelmed with the options to choose from, and I cannot remember which boxes to check to get just the right data.

Lisa

Health, Wellness and Fitness, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

2

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2024

Volunteer Impact Review

My experience was good, the platform was great, only the cost was why we cancelled our subscription.

PROS

user friendly, meets the needs of volunteer management.

CONS

The cost was rather high for us as a charitable organization. We ended up cancelling our subscription as another platform offered the same thing customized for free.

Waqas

Pharmaceuticals, 201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

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

4

Reviewed January 2023

The product is amazing for the price

It is an excellent choice for charities, not-for-profits or any other businesses to have a VMS that can be highly customisable and offers excellent services.

PROS

1. The pricing is the best as they offer exactly the same product for which you will pay 50x extra than others2. Great customer support3. Easy to use and great UX/UI

CONS

The only one I can think of was it is limited for volunteers, for event category or paid staff there are no options

Reason for choosing Volunteer Impact

Better price and features

Reasons for switching to Volunteer Impact

They offer the same product costing us more than 20000 a year whereas BetterImpact charges under 500