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Greater Giving Overview

What is Greater Giving?

Greater Giving, a Global Payments company, is dedicated to providing technology solutions to the nonprofit community in order to improve their fundraising efforts. Greater Giving offers integrated and stand-alone solutions that include event management software, online registration and donation services, online bidding, on-site payment collection, and credit card processing. Best-in-class customer service is also provided leading up to and for the duration of an event. Since 2002, Greater Giving has processed more than $8B in credit card payments in support of nonprofit causes for thousands of organizations and schools across the United States and Canada. Greater Giving also provides free fundraising education resources throughout the year, including webinars, live seminars, eBooks, guides and blog articles. For more information, visit www.greatergiving.com.

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Product Description

Automate, track and manage your fundraising efforts from one dashboard. Streamline your event planning and fundraising efforts.


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Year Founded
2002
HQ Location
Portland, OR
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"Endless possibilities"
The reports are generated as soon as your transactions are processed.
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"Ease to work with!"
The website is easy to work with and understand.
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"Great company to help us with our fundraising!"
They have great customer service. I like that you can copy a project that occurs every year. Having all the reports is a great feature.
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Greater Giving Demo - Greater Giving Event Software
Manage every aspect of your fundraising with Greater Giving Event Software. From your event dashboard, you can manage guests, sponsors, registrations, table assignements, donations, auction items, auction settings, reporting and more.
Greater Giving Demo - Greater Giving Online Bidding
Greater Giving Online Bidding provides a virtual auction interface for your silent and live auction, live appeal or paddle raise, donations and includes the ability to live stream or pre-record video for guest engagement.
Greater Giving Demo - Go Time Event Manager
Manage your fundraising events easily and seamlessly with Greater Giving's Go Time event manager. Whether gala, golf or luncheon, get guests checked in easily, enter and view donations and bids and use the express check-out to painlessly get your guests closed out and on their way.
Greater Giving Demo - Giving Board
Give your guests the recognition they deserve with Greater Giving's Giving Board. Fuel your live appeal with an engaging progress visual and guest recognition.
Greater Giving Demo - Auction Display Board
Engage your guests visually with the Greater Giving Auction Display Board. Use multiple displays per project with dozens of different setting options to highlight your sponsors, highest bidders, top-selling packages and more.
Greater Giving Demo - Free Fundraising Resources
Greater Giving is dedicated to nonprofit fundraising success and provides hundreds of fundraising resources to help you raise more and stress less. Subscribe to get all our resources delivered to your inbox.
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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

The product is web base so you do not require a server to setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

The web page creation tool is difficult to use. Trying to figure out how to setup the and edit the forms (donation items, reservations) is confusing how to get to these settings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I would take advantage of their tech support staff. They are extremely helpful and the first person that answers is usually the person that resolves your issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Greater Giving solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use the system for our major annual fundraising event. It allows us to take reservations (sell tickets), event website, collection donation items, seating arrangements, event checkin/checkout, sell auction items using a mobile site, send out thank you letters/receipts, paperless system, and accounting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

The entire suite was very friendly and easy to understand. While I was a gala and auction intern, I used the registration tracking feature to ensure all guests were accounted for. I also used the web site design feature that was included in the package to create the registration web page for the gala. And with a little HTML, I was able to make the page even better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

As I was using Greater Giving, I was also looking into other Fundraising suites and noticed that not all of them had a very appealing user interface. Although this is a problem for all of the suites, I wished it looked more polished. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

Greater Giving is a great fundraising suite, and has essentially everything you need in terms of back-end processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Greater Giving solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed to create a website that could register our gala members and record their bids in our auctions. And thankfully, Greater Giving solved both problems. It just makes things a little more easier and a little less stressful knowing that it's all integrated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

Greater Giving allowed my Advancement team to organize, track, and record all incoming auction donations through the event software. From these individual donations, our team was able to utilize Greater Giving to package these items appropriately. Also, Go Time is simply a must for check-in/check out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

Greater Giving has really come a long way! When we first started using the software in 2011, there were many components that we didn't consider user-friendly. Following our event, we reported these issues to customer service and they were taken into consideration. Since then, Greater Giving has become much more reliable. Previously, the check-in/check-out process caused many challenges but now with Go Time, the process is a breeze! It speeds up check-in/check-out which makes our guests happy! No more issues with attendance tracking, table assignments, and receipt printing. Also, no more syncing with the main server!! I still think that removing duplicate names is frustrating. There's no easy way to go about it other than starting from scratch when you create a new event. And I think the reports that the software allows you to print could be more user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Greater Giving solving and how is that benefiting you?

I worked for a Catholic K-12 school in south Texas and our annual Gala is the signature fundraiser. In a small town, you compete with larger organizations for attendance at your event. I may be biased but I do believe our silent, live, and elite auctions were the best, hands down, and that's what attracted our large turnout every year, especially the key players. Now that could be because we had dynamic auction committees who dedicated countless hours to obtaining sought-after, in-demand, tantalizing products, activities, trips, etc. but I also have to give credit to GG's event software that made their jobs much easier! Greater Giving made the entire event run smoother, sped up wait times, and helped us put together attractive packages. Also, having a GG rep on site during the event was a lifesaver! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

Greater Giving offers a variety of features that make uploading/ tracking and logging simple. Our gala's silent auction goes towards numerous different accounts - so setting up the auction items per account is very useful.

As far as mobile bidding goes- several of our participants liked the push notifications and gamification of the bidding process.

The reports are easy to export - once you figure out which report to pull. Exporting receipts is also very simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

Mobile bidding proved to be a challenge due to a variety of factors: wi fi connection, lack of smart phones, individuals not flowing through the space to view items, challenges in removing/ canceling a bid, pushing back the closetime, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

Allow yourself / staff plenty of time to upload packages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Greater Giving solving and how is that benefiting you?

The mobile bidding program is best suited for an organization / event that has smartphone savvy, a great wifi connection, and organized auction packages.

For our organization, we will continue to use Greater Giving but without the mobile bidding feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

Go Time and Mobile Bidding are both so easy to use and very user-friendly. We barely had to train our check-in volunteers, and very few guests needed help with MB. Also, it's nice to have everything online so I can work from anywhere -- I cleaned up our supporter database while watching TV at home. :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

- I wish class would carry over when converting Items to Packages. I know the issue is that some packages have more than one item, but it would be super easy to default to one of the classes and then change it if need be. We have mostly single-item packages, so it felt like a waste of time to have to go back and add the class to packages.

- When indicating which packages you want in catalogs, you can only do a list (1, 2, 3, 4...) instead of a range (1-4).

- I like the variety of reports available on default, and I mostly get what I need. But it would be nice to have some sort of functionality that more easily allows you to create your own reports and that more easily exports to Excel. Often if you export to XLS, it still looks like a PDF, and it's not very useful in an Excel. For example, you'll get extra lines between entries so if you want to manipulate or sort the data in any way, first you have to delete the lines or otherwise set up the spreadsheet differently.

- We found a bug in the system that allowed someone to place a higher bid after another bidder had already selected Buy It Now. I already notified the support team.

- Sprint users were not able to receive texts during Mobile Bidding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Greater Giving solving and how is that benefiting you?

More organized, nice to have everything for the auction in one place. Multiple staff are able to work in the database at the same time. We don't have to worry about taking the database off the server and backing it up a million times and all that stuff we did with the PC version. Smoother and easier for registration. Much easier for volunteers to check people in and help guests. Fewer mistakes in bidding since it's electronic and not paper-based. Mobile bidding did not increase our income, but we had fewer people this year than last, so we're working on analyzing the data to control for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

Greater Giving makes fundraising for non-profits simple, easy, and efficient. I highly recommend this software to any non-profit that is looking to effectively grow and professionally manage donor and event information in a user friendly, polished manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

I honestly cannot identify anything about the software that I disliked. It was easy to learn and extremely helpful when organizing sophisticated fundraising events that did not allow room for much error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Greater Giving solving and how is that benefiting you?

The benefits of Greater Giving are endless. It allows you to systematically organize data critical to the effective management of non-profit donor relations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

Everything is very user friendly and easy to use. Support team is awesome to work with every time I have a problem or question Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

I don't like that I have to rebuild the website every year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

Definitely make the switch! Greater Giving is the best! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Greater Giving solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has made running our event way easier! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

GG is helpful for running Auction events, but could use refining. Not the most intuitive software packages out there. The website form management is nice as well as GO Time (check in, check out and store front). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

Reports, Bulk Seating assignments, Exports and Imports are clunky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

All in all GG is a good product. Enhancements in Reports, Import, Export and bulk seating would be very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Greater Giving solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing silent and live auctions efficiently. Calculating sales tax and printing/emailing receipts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

Variety of reporting mechanisms, provides nice print-outs and data analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

Could have a newer, modern interface/site. When working in multiple tabs, sometimes it glitches and makes you start the task over. When working it multiple projects, it thinks it should be in one and so exits the other, causing delays. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Greater Giving solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tracking, info, donor management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

i liked the service's back end data organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

At the time, i did not like their mobile fundraising services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

More education on the new mobile giving services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Greater Giving solving and how is that benefiting you?

How to increase revenue in our auction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.