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Welcome to FundRaiser Software

Reach out to your donors personally with FundRaiser

Whether you are sending thank-you letters, appealing for donations, or inviting your donors to attend an upcoming event, your letters should be highly personalized and targetted to the individual. Donor Management software with flexible donor sorting and coding, along with strong word processing and merge functions will help you accomplish this with just a few clicks of the mouse.

If you're ready to:

  • Strengthen critical donor relationships with a complete donor profile at your fingertips,
  • Show your donors you know them by appealing to them with customized, personal letters,
  • Ask with confidence by identifying giving trends and major donors,
  • Increase your volunteer base with online registration, detailed reports, and easy tracking mechanisms,
  • Spend less time on data-entry and more time fundraising with the Donor Portal and its Extensions that do the work for you,and
  • Leverage the relationships between your donors for bigger gifts with relationship tracking, solicitor codes and soft credits...
  • It's time to take action! Evaluate Now to receive a fully-functional 30-day trial of FundRaiser and learn how FundRaiser can help you take your fundraising efforts to the next level of success.

    FundRaiser Select

    A unique donor management package that puts you in control with optional modules to enhance and increase its functionality. Ready to take control of your donor relationship building?
     FundRaiser Professional

    Our all-inclusive, flagship donor management program with unlimited custom fields and donor storage. Ready to experience the power of a professional?
 

Why Fundraising Software?

Many groups devise ways of keeping track of their donors using Access or Excel. See this article for eight ways to know when it’s time to invest in an off-the-shelf fundraising software program: How to know if you've outgrown a program like Microsoft® Access or Excel.

Other organizations may be trying to maintain their donor relations with QuickBooks®. See this article to understand the limitations of accounting software when used to replace donor management software: What Are the Limits of QuickBooks® For Your Donor Management.

Fundraising software (more properly called "donor management software") helps you keep track of your donors and prospective donors and all the information associated with them, including contribution data. It helps you manage your donors by dealing with routine correspondence chores, and helps you manage your fundraising activities with a variety of reports.

Developing relationships with your donors is central to all fundraising efforts. Regular contacts that convey the importance of your mission through stories that touch your donors hearts or incite their passion keep the donations coming in. It takes a human to truly connect with another, but good software simplifies the mechanics of the process so that you can focus on what you do best.

Most organizations find that using a donor management program increases donations and reduces costs, while reducing stress and frustration. Here's how:

  • Organized data maintenance: all donor information (name, address, phone, etc) and giving history, plus notes about a person is in one place, which is easily accessed. In addition, you keep track of which mailings the donor has received, what events she attended, why he gives to your organization, and lots more. Pretty much any data you can think of gathering, you can and should keep in this program.
  • Increase your level of fundraising with less time and aggravation: Whether it's simply automating the printing of thank you letters, tracking the effectiveness of 4 different variations of a mailing, or implementing a new membership program, donor management software will make it possible.
  • Increase your productivity: Reports that track each fundraising activity (appeals letter, newsletter, event, etc) and show you just what works and what doesn't will impress your Board of Directors, and give you the information you need to make improvements. Tracking volunteer efforts, board member visitations to major donors, printing lists of donors and phone numbers for a phonathon . . . the ways a donor management program can help are limited only by your imagination!

Any donor management program should be able to help with each of the following:

So, now that you know what donor management software can do for you, why should you choose a FundRaiser program?

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Which One Do I Need?

The task of finding new fundraising software can be a daunting one; even for seasoned fundraising professionals. The purpose of this page is to help clarify some of the differences between our three programs: FundRaiser Basic, Select, and Professional, and to help you determine which one might be the best fit for your organization.

Keep in mind that there are many resources available to you on this website that will help you with your evaluation process. Our Sales Team can also be very helpful in determining which program will suit your needs best, and FundRaiser Support is always available to help you with your technical questions.

A common misconception about donor management software is that the bigger your donor list is, the bigger the program you will need to manage it. This is not necessarily the case - we have organizations with fewer than 500 donors using FundRaiser Professional, and others with lists of over 20,000 donors who are quite happy with FundRaiser Basic... and everything in between.

There are three main factors that you should consider as you begin evaluating fundraising software:

  1. The ways in which you communicate with your donors. For example: direct mail, email, or personal telephone calls.
  2. The different methods of donations you accept. For example: Pledges, Tributes, Split Gifts, Soft Credits, Memberships, etc.
  3. The information you would like to track about your donors. For example: correspondence, giving patterns, events they have attended, interests, etc.

If you aren't sure that you even need donor management software at this point, you may want to start with a discussion of the primary functions of donor management software, and what each of the FundRaiser programs can do in those areas.

Keep in mind, we are the FundRaiser Family. FundRaiser Software makes it easy to upgrade from one level to another. You never lose any time or money when you do, so there's no harm in starting small now.

Here are some links to pages that will help you with the process of determining where to start your evaluation:

Finally, talk to us. We encourage you to speak with Sales and Support about your requirements and goals for your organization before making any purchase decisions.

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Comparison Chart

FundRaiser Family Comparison Chart

Features/Products

Basic

Feature

Recommended Max Donors
50,000
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited Gifts Per Donor

Printed Correspondence
Batch Printing of Thank-You Letters
Print Labels and Envelopes
Target Mailings
Simple Reports
Donation Report
Deposit Report
Built-In Reports
Three

15-48

49
Print End-Of-Year Letters
Integrated Word Processor
Partial Circle
Import Feature
Partial Circle
Segment Donors
Partial circle
Two Codes per Donor

Unlimited Donor Codes

Unlimited Donor Codes
Segment Donations
Partial circle
One Code per Gift
Five Codes Per Gift
Seven Codes Per Gift
Code Management
Partial circle
International Features
Partial circle
Export Capability
Partial circle
Customization
Partial circle
Duplicate Checking
Partial circle
Canadian User Features
Partial circle
Backup System
Partial circle
Not Automatic


Alternate Addresses
Not available
Unlimited
Unlimited
Project Management
No circle

Multi-User Capability
Contact Management
Email Correspondence
In-Kind Donations


Bulk Mail Features
Password Protected Access



Recurring Donations
Partial circle

User-Defined Spare Fields

Partial circle
Three
Event Tracking
Partial circle
Pledge Tracking
Partial circle
Optional feature
Volunteer Management
Partial circle
Optional feature
Membership Management
Partial circle
Optional feature
Tributes Management
Partial circle
Optional feature
QuickBooks Integration
Partial circle
Third-party Integration

Third-party Integration
Wintix Integration
Partial circle
Third-party Integration

Third-party Integration
Online Donations
Partial circle
Optional; Requires Credit Card Processor

Requires Credit Card Processor
Star Donor Integration
Partial circle
Third-party Integration

Third-party Integration
Premiums Management
Partial circle
Optional feature
Phonathon Management
Partial circle
Optional feature
Donor Portal
Partial circle
Optional feature
Partial circle
Optional feature
Online Volunteer Sign-Up
Partial circle
Optional feature
Partial circle
Optional feature
Complete Campaign Management

Soft Credits
Split Donations
Relationship Tracking
Rapid Gift Entry
Unlimited User Defined Spare Fields
Matrix Report

Pricing

 Basic Select Professional
Single-User Version
$149-$179
$1200+
$3500+
Optional Modules
N/A
$300-$500
Included
Multi-User (up to five)
N/A
$500
$1000
Client/Server (add'l users)
N/A

Case Studies

Is donor management software right for you? Will it solve the particular problems facing your organization? The following case studies cover a wide variety of organizations and fundraising activities, and show how many of the features of FundRaiser work in real life situations.

If you are already a FundRaiser user, we hope you'll find inspiration and tips in these stories of other users.

Core Donor Management Activities

General Donor Management

 
Reports

Using Codes

Tickler System

Multi-User

FundRaiser Modules

Campaign Management Module

Donor Portal

Membership Module

Pledge Module

Premiums Module

QuickBooks Integration Module

Tributes Module

Volunteer Management Module

Wintix Integration Module

Other

Alternate Addresses

Data Conversion

Training

FundRaiser Program

Upgrading from Basic to Select

FundRaiser Select

FundRaiser Professional

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People Are Talking!

"We used the trial version you provided to TREMENDOUS success, and raised $7000 needed to buy new chairs for our community theater." – Troy R, Actors Inc, Ames IA
 

Canadian Users

Canadian Flag

Capital Campaign?

House of Money

Grow Your Ministry

Priest and bible

School FundRaiser?

Classroom

Make patrons donors!

Theatre seats

Organize Volunteers

Lady with Bullhorn

Build Memberships

Youth in a circle

Integrate Quickbooks

Quick Books Logo

Manage Phonathons

Phone