Salsa Engage vs Aplos

DonorPerfect

Donorbox

Bloomerang

DonorPerfect helps nonprofits of every size streamline fundraising and centralize donor data in one flexible, all-in-one platform.
A CRM that empowers teams to collaborate, stay organized, and make data-driven decisions from anywhere, so your mission keeps moving forward.

Donorbox is an embeddable, localized donation form / plugin for websites, designed to encourage recurring donations with fast, multi-step checkout

Bloomerang’s fundraising software and donor database helps nonprofits acquire, engage, and retain donors.

Executive Director

This is a clunky, outdated, awful product with little customer support.

Director of Development

There is a lot of struggle with getting things to load and display properly.

Salsa Engage is a cloud-based fundraising solution designed to assist nonprofit organizations of all sizes with donor engagement, cultivation, and communication

A/B Testing

Ad hoc Reporting

Advocate Management

Alumni Management

Attendance Management

Campaign Management

Contribution Tracking

Customer Advocacy

Customizable Branding

Customizable Fields

Customizable Forms

Customizable Reports

Dashboard

Donation Tracking

Donor Discovery

Donor Management

Email Marketing

Email Reminders

Engagement Tracking

Event Management

Event Triggered Actions

Forms Management

For Nonprofits

Fundraising Management

Gift Matching Management

Grant Management

Member Database

Membership Management

Mobile Giving

Nonprofit Advocacy

Online Forms

Online Giving

Payment Processing

Pledge Management

Recurring Giving

Recurring/Subscription Billing

Registration Management

Reporting & Statistics

Social Media Integration

Volunteer Management

Widgets

Salsa Engage

Web-based

Neon CRM

Little Green Light

Basic

There is one console to handle email flows, texting, forms, events, petitions, and peer to peer fundraising.

Receptionist 

It is a wonderful place to gather all the information about donors, and also to gather information about how much money we make when we have sales in the different departments.

Thank you receipting from online gifts gave us some good flexibility.

Client Success Manager

It was easy to pull information out of the system.

Development and Communications Coordinator

All needed data is of access to you and can be downloaded as a report with lessor more details.

It was not intuitive and it didn't do essential things needed to make it more useful such as plug in well with wordpress.

It had a lot of great features for advocacy and fundraising.

It was easy to use and relatively intuitive.

Executive Assistant 

I’ve had 2 other softwares for donor management and salsa is by far the best.

Development Manager

I love the snapshot and dashboard features when you first look at an account or overall fundraising data.

Founding Director

I am not the most creative and I would like to custom build forms and events from templates.

There should be a template photo or icon library available for customers to use.

Development Director 

they do a good job investing in updating the system to bring more functions to it.

Communication Specialist

It feels like something out of the early 2000s and not something we use in 2020.

they listen to feedback on how to make the system better and investing money into developing it.

Director of Advancement

Negative - we switched to Kindful and are thrilled

Pricing

Email

Customer Support

User Interface

Report Generation

Ease of Use

Non-Profit Use

Transition and Switching

Online Purchase

Small Business

Large Enterprises

Mid-size Business

Bonterra

Givebutter

Givebutter combines all-in-one fundraising software, 0% fees, and built-in rewards—so you can raise more, pay less, and multiply your impact with 2.5% APY on every dollar you raise.

Volunteer

The person who followed up indicated that my phone apparently has spam blockers and was not able to connect via phone and never tried to reach out via the way the chat indicated (email) until 6 days later.   How their customer service gets high ratings is beyond me.   When we originally implemented the system we had the same long lag in response time and they indicated they've had unusually high call volumes...if that were the case a year ago and still the case today I would STRONGLY suggest hiring more support persons.

Financial Manager

It's impossible to reach their customer service.  

Director of Communications and Events

So easy and intuitive to use and they have free customer service

Aplos provides the robust accounting framework necessary to track restricted vs unrestricted funds and generate comprehensive, auditor-friendly reports. Our features are crafted to aid budgeting, automate complex allocations, and provide real-time insights into your financial health.

Access Controls/Permissions

Accounting

Accounting Integration

Accounts Payable

Accounts Receivable

ACH Payment Processing

Activity Dashboard

Activity Tracking

Alerts/Notifications

Asset Tracking

Audit Trail

Bank Reconciliation

Billing & Invoicing

Budgeting/Forecasting

Built-in Accounting

Cash Flow Management

Cash Management

Chart of Accounts

Check Printing

Child Check-in

Client Portal

Collaboration Tools

Committee Management

Communication Management

Contact Database

Contact Management

Credit Card Processing

Customer Database

Customizable Templates

Data Import/Export

Document Storage

Donation Management

Dues Management

Electronic Payments

Email Management

Email Templates

Event Scheduling

Event Ticketing

Expense Tracking

Fee Management

File Sharing

Financial Analysis

Financial Management

Financial Reporting

Fixed Asset Management

For Religious Organizations

For Schools

For Small Businesses

Fund Accounting

Fund Management

General Ledger

Income & Balance Sheet

Invoice Creation

Invoice Management

Invoice Processing

K-12

Member Communication

Member Directory

Member Portal

Mobile Access

Multi-Currency

Multi-Location

Multiple Projects

Payroll Management

Personalization

Profit/Loss Statement

Project Accounting

Project Costing

Real-Time Analytics

Real-Time Data

Real-Time Reporting

Receipt Management

Reminders

Remote Access/Control

Some reviewers find Aplos affordable and appreciate the free trial, which lets them assess its value. Users say it offers good value for specific organizations, but some reviewers feel recent price increases and unclear pricing reduce its overall value.

Value for money

By industry, Aplos reviewers are most commonly professionals in religious institutions (47%). The most frequent use case for Aplos cited by reviewers is accounting (43% of reviewers).

Aplos

Windows

QuickBooks Online

QuickBooks Enterprise

Realm

ShelbyNext Membership

ShelbyNext Financials

Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT

Sage Intacct

ChurchTrac

Lite

Core

Advanced

Strategic Development Coordinator

The search functionality within registries is excellent, and I really appreciate being able to click on a transaction and open up multiple new tabs under the same registry.

We can manage multiple different accounts under one host account, filter by different funds, and access operations.

Some functions have caused manual input where we once had automation and we have to lgo in and out of the merger products to get work done.

You can maintain a database of all your donors and create household links.

Founder and Director

They did, however, in the 3-4 years we used Aplos, like many CRMs, I imagine, switch from live human chat support to AI chat support, and email human support.