Show rating breakdown
Save to My Lists
Claimed
Claimed

Top Rated Donately Alternatives

Donately Reviews & Product Details

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
AN
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Donately?

Fulfills many critical functions that you need from coordinating and sorting mailing lists, to tracking donations, to mail merging and sending out newsletters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Donately?

We have tested many other software programs, and this one was our choice by far. I have no complaints or dislikes at this time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Donately solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed more than an excel sheet to track our donors and to communicate with them. We realized that the excel sheet had limited capacity and began to search for a software that could help us do our fundraising more effectively and efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Donately Overview

What is Donately?

Donately is the simplest way to fundraise online. We designed Donately to be easy so you can raise more money with less effort & continue focusing on making the world a better place. We have absolutely no start up costs, no monthly fees, & no contracts. With Donately, you'll get unlimited campaign & crowdfunding pages, customizable donation forms that can be embedded on your website, automatic donor receipts and much more. We know simple is better. Join us, and see why for yourself.

Donately Details
Languages Supported
English
Show LessShow More
Product Description

Donately brings a decade of non-profit and campaigning experience into a set of online tools for fundraising & donor management that helps an organizations to make big impact with the least amount of time and expenses.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Donately was built by an interactive agency that focuses on non-profit work - so we know what non-profits need. Our focus is simple: By saving you time managing your donations, you can spend more time improving the world around you.

Donately is simple to use, but supremely flexible. In 10 minutes, you can be taking secure donations online with our free hosted campaign pages & embed your donation form into your existing website with a simple copy & paste to take donations without supporters leaving your site. In a few more minutes, you can push your Donately data into your other systems using our full & open API.

And all of that comes with no start-up costs, monthly fees or contracts. We charge simple & transparent transaction fees, which are among the lowest in the market, especially without any of the other costs.

We truly believe online fundraising should be simple.


Seller Details
Seller
Donately
Year Founded
2011
HQ Location
San Diego, CA
Twitter
@donately
1,054 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
3 employees on LinkedIn®

Bryan S.
BS
Overview Provided by:
CTO & CoFounder at Donately

Recent Donately Reviews

Verified User
A
Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Great for small non-profits"
Donately is a fantastic tool to use for small non-profits. It is affordable and helps better manage donations. The web forms are also attractive an...
Edward P.
EP
Edward P.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.0 out of 5
"Donately was a great service for us in the beginning"
I loved that donate.ly did not charge a subscription fee of any sort to use their software. This made it much easier to use them and not feel the i...
Verified User
A
Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Great software for all of your needs and doesn't break the bank!"
Fulfills many critical functions that you need from coordinating and sorting mailing lists, to tracking donations, to mail merging and sending out ...
Security Badge
This seller hasn't added their security information yet. Let them know that you'd like them to add it.
0 people requested security information

Donately Media

Donately Demo - Custom Pages
Donately pages are designed to drive donations from any device. Add your own content, including videos and links, to inform your donors about your cause.
Donately Demo - Donation Forms
Customize your donation forms, and embed them on your own website in a few clicks.
Donately Demo - Donor Profiles
Your donors can enable their own profiles, including managing their recurring donations and peer fundraisers.
Donately Demo - Easy Social Sharing
All donors are presented an option to share your cause on social media after they donate, increasing your reach.
Donately Demo - Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Empower your donors to fundraise on behalf of your organization by enabling peer fundraising & instantly expand your organization's network.
Answer a few questions to help the Donately community
Have you used Donately before?
Yes

28 out of 29 Total Reviews for Donately

4.4 out of 5
The next elements are filters and will change the displayed results once they are selected.
Search reviews
Popular Mentions
The next elements are radio elements and sort the displayed results by the item selected and will update the results displayed.
Hide FiltersMore Filters
The next elements are filters and will change the displayed results once they are selected.
The next elements are filters and will change the displayed results once they are selected.
28 out of 29 Total Reviews for Donately
4.4 out of 5
28 out of 29 Total Reviews for Donately
4.4 out of 5

Overall Review Sentiment for DonatelyQuestion

Time to Implement
<1 day
>12 months
Return on Investment
<6 months
48+ months
Ease of Setup
0 (Difficult)
10 (Easy)
Log In
Want to see more insights from verified reviewers?
Log in to view review sentiment.
G2 reviews are authentic and verified.
Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
AN
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Donately?

Donately is a fantastic tool to use for small non-profits. It is affordable and helps better manage donations. The web forms are also attractive and I like the custom options for email automation and receipts. Donately easily integrated with Stripe and was set-up in no time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Donately?

I was there was more options for sending automated emails after donations and getting notifications to multiple email addresses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Donately:

For an affordable solution, it's hard to beat Donately. Its easy to set-up and collect donations. It's not super fancy and complicated but does good at what it's meant to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Donately solving and how is that benefiting you?

Donately has definitely helped us get the most out of our donations. Donately allowed us to set up an easy and nice looking web form on our site and effectively helps us manage donations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Edward P.
EP
Engagement Director
Non-Profit Organization Management
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Donately?

I loved that donate.ly did not charge a subscription fee of any sort to use their software. This made it much easier to use them and not feel the impact of the transaction fees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Donately?

I did not like their customization tools. Their P2P fundraising service weren't not the best either. And, you had to use open API to connect with Salesforce - not easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Donately solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were able to collect donations through beautiful donation pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hannah H.
HH
Director of Communications
Non-Profit Organization Management
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Donately?

For someone that is not very "tech-y" like me, this made my job easy. It is extremely user friendly and donor friendly as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Donately?

It is a bummer that donat.ly doesn't have paypal integration yet. If they did, there would be nothing better! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Donately:

DO IT! I did a ton of research before I final made the choice to use this platform and honestly there is nothing better on the market if you are running a small business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Donately solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work for a small nonprofit and we struggled to find a donation platform that would work for our size and not cost an arm and a leg- thank goodness we found this! I realized by having a streamline platform, I am able to have more effective communication with donors and up to the minute reports financially. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
AN
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Donately?

Donate.ly provides the basic functionality of an online giving platform without all the set-up and monthly fees that you see with many other platforms. They offer a flexible payment plan of 1%, 2%, or 3% taken from donations (which can be lowered with a one-time fee). This fits our organization's online giving goals and keeps our costs down. Also, their partnership with Stripe ensures that we have low credit card fees and can accept international credit cards. Their support team is very good at getting back to us when we have questions and providing hands-on support when we need to troubleshoot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Donately?

Donate.ly is definitely still in development mode. There isn't a lot of built-in functionality or customization, which means we've had to use our developer to augment some of the form codes to get the branding and functionality on point. The integration with Salesforce is not a seamless process, but is a connection via zapier and takes some technical oversight to get this working just right (especially if you have a complex Salesforce database). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Donately:

Adopt Donate.ly if you want a system that flexible (but takes some backend work). If you're trying to cobble together systems to lower your cost instead of paying a lot for an all-in one solution, then Donate.ly is a good match. Our cobbling together has given us a multiple check system, which is great to understanding if part of the system isn't working. In this same vein, if one aspect of our system (Donate.ly --> Salesforce --> Marketing Cloud) isn't working it doesn't mean the whole system falls apart. Usually, we are able to isolate it and troubleshoot without losing full functionality. However, again, this does take some more backend work than other systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Donately solving and how is that benefiting you?

After coming off of a very costly platform, we are pleased to keep our costs down with Donate.ly (even though it might take some more backend work than the other platform). We also appreciate that Donate.ly has plans for expansion and upgrades in the future and look forward to seeing that happen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace
CA
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Donately?

I like how simple it is in nature. There are only a couple pages of actions. The forms are very simple to embed. It gets the job done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Donately?

The pages, navigations and affordances are not the most intuitive. I feel that this might have been designed by developers or for developers versus your typical end user- which very well might be the customer base.I feel that more of the trendy dashboard style UI, would cater better towards users.

It took a while to realize what all features were available.

I wish you could delete campaigns.

I wish the code for the campaign pages was further extendable. It seems a bit limited to what is excepted when saving custom code. Full freedom here would help a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Donately solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ability to consolidate and simplify funding via a payment solution. We have been able to raise more funds and have a clearer view of that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ed A.
EA
Tennis Official/Referee
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Donately?

What I like best about it is that especially for our members who aren't tech savvy there platform is simple and straightforward. We can create customizable donation forms. These forms can be embedded on websites and other digital properties to start maximizing online donations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Donately?

This is really a criticism but some specialization seems to be lacking in an attempt to make it user-friendly for many users, but this is a very small issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Donately:

Very worth the investment to anyone that needs to but doesn't like or even want to fundraise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Donately solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has allowed us to diversify in our fundraising efforts and gotten more people in our organization involved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tim L.
TL
Technology Director
Education Management
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Donately?

It looks good on my website and is easy for our donors to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Donately?

I would like the product to allow our donors to stop their recurring donations at a specified time in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Donately:

Great product, great support, easy to use and totally hands off after setup. It integrates fine with any web platform and will look as though it's specific to the website, unlike some other third-party options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Donately solving and how is that benefiting you?

A streamlined option to allow online donations through out website. Funds are transferred quickly and totally hands-free after a donation has been made. The benefit it time and energy saved! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jason L.
JL
Director of Mobilization
Non-Profit Organization Management
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Donately?

Team is extremely responsive to questions and requests for features. CTO Bryan helped me set up a Zapier integration so that we can integrate more effectively with our CRM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Donately?

I'm not a developer, so I had a couple of challenges with the styling of our donation form once it was embedded. But, again, CTO Bryan was a huge help and made sure I got it all working right. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Donately solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're a startup nonprofit that challenges counterproductive ideas about charity in an effort to accelerate social change. We're working to build our revenue stream through recurring monthly donations. Donate.ly has been a great tool for us and it integrates much better with our CRM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Donna M.
DM
Executive Outreach Mission Field Officer
Fund-Raising
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Donately?

This type of communication is what myself and members in my group can get out and aboyt too all of our Friends & Fans Thanks!

Fundraising is what we do! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Donately?

I hot that much on complaining; if its no need or no use; Im ok with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Donately:

Its a neat start' not complicated at all" somthing pretty simple, just what i like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Donately solving and how is that benefiting you?

It may not be what everone wants or need, but somewhere' someone is going too appreciated it' sooner or later.

I can use it for myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Savannah H.
SH
Project Manager and Editor
Non-Profit Organization Management
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
More Options
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Donately?

The simple interface and how easy it is to maneuver around the site once you're familiar with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Donately?

You have to click around a lot to do simple things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Donately:

One of Apple's core rules is that you shouldn't have to click more than once or twice to get where you want to go. Maybe try making things more user-friendly from the get go. It can be kind of overwhelming for people who haven't used it before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Donately solving and how is that benefiting you?

Organizing donations and having a clean overview. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.