Givebutter Features & Capabilities

Givebutter

Planning Center

Bloomerang

Givebutter is a cloud-based, all-in-one fundraising platform for student organizations, sports teams, companies, and nonprofits which offers a range of tools for collecting donations online, running social peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns, selling tickets to fundraising events, and more

Access Controls/Permissions

Accounting Integration

ACH Payment Processing

Activity Dashboard

Activity Tracking

Ad hoc Reporting

Alerts/Notifications

Alumni Management

Attendance Management

Auction Management

Bid Management

Billing & Invoicing

Buy Now Option

Campaign Analytics

Campaign Management

Campaign Planning

Campaign Segmentation

Communication Management

Contact Database

Contact Management

Contribution Tracking

Credit Card Processing

Customer Database

Customizable Branding

Customizable Fields

Customizable Forms

Customizable Reports

Customizable Templates

Dashboard

Data Import/Export

Donation Tracking

Donor Management

Dues Management

Electronic Payments

Email Management

Email Marketing

Email Reminders

Email Templates

Email Tracking

Event Management

Event Ticketing

For Nonprofits

Forms Management

Fundraising Management

Gift Matching Management

Goal Setting/Tracking

Image Library

Interaction Tracking

Inventory Management

Live Auction

Member Database

Membership Management

Mobile Access

Mobile Alerts

Mobile Giving

Online Auction

Online Bidding

Online Forms

Online Giving

Payment Processing

Personalization

Pledge Management

Real-Time Analytics

Real-Time Monitoring

Real-Time Notifications

Real-Time Reporting

Receipt Management

Recurring Giving

Recurring/Subscription Billing

Registration Management

Reminders

Reporting & Statistics

Reporting/Analytics

Search/Filter

Silent Auction

Social Media Integration

Summary Reports

Third-Party Integrations

Volunteer Management

Web Forms

Website Integration

OneCause

Bonterra Guided Fundraising

DonorPerfect

Zeffy

Neon CRM

RallyUp

HelloFund

Greater Giving

Bonterra Giving Days

DonorView

Givebutter is simply the best platform for small nonprofits. I have worked in nonprofit organizations for years, ranging from millions, to hundreds, to thousands of donors. I have worked with 3 large, well known donor databases, and Givebutter still comes out on top. I started working for a small organization in 2023 that had absolutely no donor database of any kind. After much research on the biggest donor database platforms, I landed on Givebutter; not only is the platform FREE (yes, FREE), but it does absolutely everything my organization needs. Givebutter allowed me to completely change the way the nonprofit saw fundraising and allowed me to streamline the organization's events in no time. 

Thanks to Givebutter's platform, I was able to increase the overall funds raised at our signature fundraising event by 20%. As a team of one person, that is absolutely game changing!

The Best There Is!

Thank you so much for your amazing review! We’re so glad to hear that you find Givebutter user-friendly and appreciate our customer service. Your kind words truly mean the world to us!

Thanks for being part of our family. We're excited to continue supporting you on your journey. 

Please read above. It has been exceptionally dissapointing. 

Don't use Givebutter! 

Thank you so much for taking the time to share your detailed feedback with us. We truly appreciate your honesty, and we're very sorry to hear that your experience with Givebutter hasn’t been up to your expectations. This is definitely not the experience we want you or any of our users to have, and we sincerely wish we were a better fit for all your needs.

We take this kind of feedback very seriously and always strive to improve. We apologize for the roadblocks you faced. We’re committed to addressing these challenges internally with our team so we can enhance these features in the future.

As for the Stripe Express integration, we’re sorry it caused an unexpected complication for your team. 

We truly hope we can continue to grow in ways that will better serve you and other organizations in the future. 

Great suite of easy to use features - with some caveats

Thank you so much for your thoughtful review! Your kind words about the user interface and graphics mean a lot to us – we strive to make the experience as smooth as possible for admins and donors. 

We appreciate you sharing your concerns about the optional fees and the lack of "soft credit" functionality. Feedback like yours is invaluable as we continue to improve. 

Thank you again for choosing Givebutter and for taking the time to share your experience.

Overall, good experience. Would like to have a different menu layout.

Best Out There

Thank you for your review! We're thrilled that you're enjoying the auction feature! 

We appreciate your feedback. Your insights help us improve, and we're always working to make the platform even better for users like you!

Thanks again for choosing Givebutter, and we’re excited to continue supporting your events! 

We are so pleased with our experience so far with Givebutter and plan to continue utilizing this platform.

Very User friendly!

Thank you for your wonderful feedback! We really appreciate your input, ideas like yours help us make Givebutter even better!

Let’s keep making great things happen together! 

My overall experience with Givebutter has been excellent. The platform is incredibly user-friendly, and its campaign management tools make organizing and tracking donations easy. It’s perfect for teams, allowing for seamless collaboration. While there are a few areas for improvement, like more customization options, the support and features provided have been invaluable for our fundraising efforts. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for an all-in-one solution for donations and events.

User-Friendly Platform with Great Campaign Management Tools

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and for highlighting how Givebutter has positively impacted your campaign management. 

We also really appreciate your input on customization options. Your feedback is so important as we continue to grow and improve. 

Wishing you continued success with your fundraising efforts! We’re cheering you on! 

I love that the platform allows me to sell tickets, fundraise, and manage donors. My donors did not like the prompts to tip and pay fees. I ended up mostly turning those off to avoid complaints. Overall, it's a great platform!

Some food for thought and a happy user

Thank you for your thoughtful review and for sharing your experience with us! We’re so happy to hear that you love Givebutter’s versatility. 

We definitely hear you on the development side of donor management. Your feedback is so valuable, and we're always striving to make improvements—keep an eye on future updates! In the meantime, we'd love to help you out with those thank you letters and ticket sales—feel free to reach out to our support team for any specific guidance or training videos we can share!

Thank you for choosing Givebutter, and we're excited to continue supporting your fundraising goals. Keep spreading that Givebutter love! 

So far I have loved the customer support and service every step of the way. Any concerns are met with answers in a very timely manner and support is always so proactive not reactive. I get regular check ins and the personal touch is unmatched. 

Supporting Community one event at a time! 

Thank you for your amazing review! Your feedback is valuable. We're thrilled that you've had such a positive experience with our customer support and proactive service. Your recommendation and kind words mean a lot to us. Thank you for choosing Givebutter!

I have a highly positive experience with Givebutter. Their support and staff are highly responsive and the appear committed to continuously improving their product. They have an impressive number of features for a "free" system and what minor inconveniences there are I can definitely live with considering how much I'm saving buy using their platform. 

A unique take on donor management and online giving 

Thanks so much for your fantastic review of Givebutter! We're thrilled to hear it's become your go-to platform for donor management and online giving. We understand your concerns about the optional donor contribution and the limitations with recurring donations. We're constantly working on refining our platform, and your feedback is invaluable in that process. Thank you again for choosing Givebutter and for your valuable insights. We're excited to keep making Givebutter even better for amazing organizations like yours!

I do not believe that we will continue services for our event next year however, we'd like to talk about what went wrong to help it from happening to others. 

The program let us down in the middle of our event! 

Thank you for your feedback. We're truly sorry for the issues you encountered during your event. Please know that we are constantly working to improve our platform to prevent such disruptions. To better support you, we have extended our support hours until 12 midnight EST to address any questions or concerns in real-time. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused.

We value your input and would love to discuss what went wrong to ensure it doesn't happen again. Please feel free to reach out to us at support@givebutter.com.

Thank you for giving us the opportunity, and we hope to make things right.

Our organization has had great success with the Givebutter online giving platform. It has given us additional way to raise funds that is easy and effective.  

Great online giving platform 

Thank you for your great review! We appreciate your suggestions for customizing event reports and deleting events from the dashboard and will consider these for future improvements. Thanks for choosing Givebutter and for your kind words!



Givebutter has been a great experience overall, the user-friendly platform has literally been smooth like butter.  :-)

A+ Platform, Highly Recommend

Thank you so much for your fantastic feedback! It’s great to know that our platform is helping streamline your fundraising efforts!

Regarding the transfer setup, we actually offer automatic payouts once the requirements are met. To learn more and get everything set up, feel free to reach out to our support team—we’re available 24/7 and always happy to assist! 

Thanks again for choosing Givebutter, and for the smooth-as-butter review! 

Our experience has been very positive. Our membership secretary was ready to resign when we were struggling with our former membership data base.  Now she is staying on the board and in her position.

Why we use Givebutter

Wow, thank you so much for taking the time to write such a wonderful review! Your kind words mean the world to us! Thanks again for choosing Givebutter and for sharing your positive experience.

Givebutter Needs to Be Better at Tying Together Physical Events and the Digital World

Thank you so much for your thoughtful review! 😊 Your feedback on the "Event" function is invaluable, and we're committed to improving it. We hope to make Givebutter even better for you and all our users. Thank you for your continued support! 💛

We're very pleased with the dashboard and layout of Givebutter. It integrated very well with our website. Thanks to Givebutter we'll continue growing our donor database.

Director of Development 

Thanks a ton for your awesome feedback! Hearing that Givebutter has been “smooth as butter” for you is music to our ears! 

We appreciate your note about organizing ticket sales—that’s super helpful for us to know. Thanks for being part of the Givebutter family—we can’t wait to see how your donor database continues to grow! 

Wonderful. Despite the small bumps and lack of total functionality, I really appreciate the opportunity it gives to small organizations with extremely limited budgets.

Great platform, but with some minor rough edges.

Thank you so much for your thoughtful feedback! We're so glad to hear that Givebutter has provided your nonprofit with a platform to grow without the stress of an annual fee!

We truly appreciate your insights on the areas for improvement. Your input helps us understand how we can better serve organizations like yours, and we’ll be sure to share your suggestions with our team.

Thank you for choosing Givebutter—your support means the world to us! 


10/10 for experience! The personalized customer experience with Givebutter is unmatched. We felt so supported during our onboarding and first campaign with Givebutter, and we were also so impressed with the Knowledge Base that Givebutter has built. While the system itself is so easy to use, our organization had a few really specific wants/questions - if we couldn't find an answer right in the platform and in the features, the answer was almost ALWAYS in the knowledge base (which again, we were very impressed by - our needs were so particular!). In the off chance that we couldn't find the answer on our own, the Givebutter team was just a quick email away.

The user end experience was also fantastic for our donors. Giving was made very clear and simple, and donors could get all of their campaign related questions answered right there on our campaign page.

I'd also like to highly praise the product roadmap that Givebutter has made available to customers. This was one of our main "selling" points when it came to switching giving platforms. Givebutter gives their customers a [significant] voice when it comes to product development and features, and they give customers direct visibility into their plans and roadmap. Gone are the days of the "thanks for your feedback, we'll let our product team know" black holes! Major props to Givebutter for creating not only a great product, but also a great experience.

Givebutter is the way to go!

Wow, what an incredible review! We're so happy to hear that Givebutter has been such a positive experience for you.

Your feedback about the formatting options is valuable, and we'll definitely take it into consideration for future updates. Our goal is to provide exceptional support throughout your fundraising journey.

Thank you for choosing Givebutter and for sharing your feedback. We're excited to continue supporting your organization and helping you achieve your fundraising goals.

We are mostly pleased with Givebutter. It's been a stressful experience making this transition and doing all the data work, only to discover that the above mentioned items were not as they were sold to us. We're making it work and enjoying the rest of the Givebutter experience. We really appreciate the free basic plan and the excellent customer service. 

The good is great and the bad is really a pain 

Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us! We truly appreciate your honesty regarding the challenges you've faced. We’re sorry to hear about the extra work they’ve caused. Your insights about the reporting features and the integration with Quickbooks are valuable, and we’ll make sure to pass this feedback along to our team as we work towards improving these areas.

It’s great to know that you’re finding ways to make it work, and we’re here to support you every step of the way. 

Wishing you all the best as you continue your journey with Givebutter!

Overall, my experience with Givebutter has been positive. It is quite comprehensive as a basic CRM. The support is top notch, and the platform is free to use, if you have their "tip" system enabled on donations (we do). Their support and product development teams are very responsive to input and suggestions for new features. For a medium-large organization, however, the software might to be used in conjunction with other software and tools in order to perform all the tasks needed.

Great software, top notch support, highly recommend for small nonprofits!

Thank you for your detailed review! Your appreciation for our customer support team warms our hearts!

We also appreciate your constructive feedback regarding the additional features and capabilities that would benefit more extensive organizations. Your insights are incredibly valuable to us, and we’ll take them into consideration for future improvements.

Thanks for choosing Givebutter—it means the world to us! 

The onboarding experience was good. You can figure out how to make it work for you in most circumstances. I think it has a lot of potential to grow and expand its functionality. I appreciate the roadmap and feedback model the company employs.

Good straightforward product, nuance still needed

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us! Your feedback about form creation and user types is incredibly valuable, and we understand how important it is to have customizable options for your fundraising needs. 

We're actively working on enhancements, and your insights will certainly help us improve! We’re so glad to have you on board and appreciate your support as we grow and evolve. 

Couldn't be happier...and can't wait for more.

Thank you so much for your amazing feedback!

Your feedback is super helpful, and we love that you’re utilizing our roadmap to share your wishes! We’re excited for you to explore even more app integrations in the future!

We can't wait to see all the great things you’ll achieve with Givebutter! Keep up the fantastic work! 

Givebutter is very user friendly, but when we have needed support, the Givebutter customer service/technical support people are always very helpful and available.

Excellent CMS!

Thank you so much for your glowing review! t's fantastic to hear that the platform's integrations with QuickBooks and others have made your experience smooth. 

Here's to many more successful years ahead! 

Givebutter has made it easier to keep track of all our online donations in one place. The transfer funds feature is so easy, and the funds hit the account within a day or two. 

Great Product

We really appreciate your kind words! It's fantastic to hear that Givebutter makes managing your donations so easy. Thanks for choosing us! 

Givebutter has made a huge difference or our nonprofit's events and fundraising campaigns capabilities. It has streamlined our efforts, made everything so easy for us and for our donors, and saved our staff so much time. 

So easy to use, streamlined our campaigns and events

This review is music to our ears! We’re so excited to hear that Givebutter has been a total game-changer for your nonprofit. We’re so happy you love all the features and that Givebutter was the perfect choice. Thanks for being an awesome support!


Overall, Givebutter is a robust platform that we highly recommend for its innovative features and ease of use. With a few tweaks in CRM integration, it could be the perfect solution for any nonprofit looking to amplify their fundraising efforts.

Review by Friends in Deed

Thank you for your detailed review! We're thrilled to hear that Givebutter has been a game-changer for Friends in Deed, especially with its peer-to-peer and online silent auction functions. Your feedback on CRM integration is valuable, and we'll consider it for future improvements. We're glad you chose Givebutter for its competitive pricing and robust features, and we look forward to continuing to support your mission to help people in need. 

Givebutter screenshot: Collect one-time and recurring donations via Venmo, Apple/Google Pay, PayPal, and more using a fully-customizable payments form.

Givebutter screenshot: Use the Givebutter platform to sell tickets for fundraising events, with features like text-to-donate and donation upsells built-in

Givebutter screenshot: Create customized web pages for fundraising campaigns, including peer-to-peer, team fundraising, and individual crowdfunding pages.

Givebutter screenshot: From the Givebutter dashboard, users can get an overview of all campaigns, donations, and integrate with thousands of third-party apps like Mailchimp, Bloomerang, Salesforce, and more

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