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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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4,370 Twitter followers
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98 employees on LinkedIn®

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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 Media

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 GreaterGiving event software has a plethora of useful features in one place. You can sell tickets, import buyers, set them up to bid in an auction, assign seating, manage your auction, process credit cards, and more, all in one place. There are multiple options for how to run your auction, and so many helpful reports available all in one place. For the last 4 years, we have also added their mobile bidding software to our package, which has helped to further streamline our gala fundraiser, eliminating the need to run around and grab auction sheets for 100+ items, and then hastily enter the information before guests want to leave. Eliminating this step has actually freed us up to create other fundraising opportunities during our event! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

The system is not as intuitive to use as I wish it were, and sometimes it can be a barrier when bringing in new team members to help with an event. That said, the support team is wonderful, so when I get stuck, help is just a phone call away. Additionally, there have been times when I wish the system would work in a certain way, and it just doesn't. (Example: I would like the fundraising thermometer to include certain items, and it simply will not.) My only other complaint, and it is minor, is that the payment pages look a little dated when compared to other online fundraising platforms, but I have seen improvements in this area recently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

If you are looking for an event management system that can handle many facets of an event in one place, I highly recommend considering Greater Giving. While the learning curve is a steep one, it's better than having to access multiple systems to run a large event. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

GreaterGiving allows us to manage all events in one place, rather than having to deal with multiple software systems. Allowing us to sell tickets, collect donations, and manage our auction in one place really helps to streamline our events. Additionally, the number of reports available allows us to always find the information that we are looking for. I have looked at other event management systems, but it seems that they are always lacking some piece included with GreaterGiving. For example, they may help you manage your auction, but not include ticket sales. Or include ticket sales, but not the option to assign seating in a way that can easily be sent to a caterer. GreaterGiving allows us to manage everything for our event in one place, and carry data over from year to year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

Greater giving is easy to use from both the admin/backend and the customer facing side. Even my less than tech savvy colleagues and donors are able to use this platform with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

There are so many feature sometimes it's hard tk remember where they all live! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With the switch to virtual events in 2020 this platform allowed us to do that with ease. We ran auctions and held our galas completely online thanks to this platform. With the return to hybrid events in 2021 and beyond, this platform allows us to do both! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

I love that all of my event elements are available 24/7 at the click of a mouse in real-time regardless of where I am. With the pivoting of Covid 19 in the event industry, the greater giving platform has allowed us to move our auction online in a very user friendly format.

We also use Raisers Edge for our organization. GG offers reports which are easily uploaded into RE Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

There is only one element that I am missing with greater giving and my golf tournament. If tee times were an option, it would be the icing on the cake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Online Auction

Registration is a lot easier. The platform allows guests to pick their menu, add guests, update guest profiles, etc

Sponsorship is online

Item Donation and Volunteer opportunities are all online Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

Not only is it a comprehensive program, the service that Greater Giving provides is the best bar none. They are always available to assist. The facets of Greater Giving are numerous.Each time I use the program I learn more and more of the capabilities of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

Sometimes I can’t find where I am supposed to go to do something. Sometimes the help assistance on line (videos, articles) helps, but I know I can get expert assistance by talking to someone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

There are so many facets of Greater Giving. You will have everything at your fingertips! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

All our accounting for each event is in one place. The program sends out receipts automatically and has numerous reports for whatever needs we have concerning our events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

The people are Greater Giving are simply the best. Everyone is very friendly and eager to help you out. They know their product very well and in the rare occurrence they don't know an answer, they figure out how to get an answer. They are very quick to respond and I truly love their commitment to customer service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

The back end of the events needs a lot of work. It simply isn't the most intuitive and some complications can occur pretty easily, either overwriting old settings or leading you to think you did something properly and when you get to a different aspect of the auction you realize everything needs to be reworked. However, that challenge is remedied by the excellent customer help that I mentioned earlier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

Greater Giving is a good option if you like to make things your own and really make a memorable experience. You can also use them for a more generic cookie cutter template, but I think the flexibility is a great strength of their platform compared to others. They have also recently redone their graphical treatments and they look very nice. Their staff was very easy to work with, very understanding, and very flexible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We did our school's annual auction, which was traditionally entirely in-person, completely virtual in April 2020, and Greater Giving allowed us to make that event happen. We simply would not have been able to raise money for our school in such a big way without that platform. We had planned on using Greater Giving for the in person event, but once we went entirely virtual, that really provided us the benefit we needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Greater giving event services helped with our virtual gala and made transitioning from in person to online easy! They helped with volunteers, auction, and made for a smooth event Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about Greater Giving?

I loved how friendly and knowledgeable greater giving staff were! They made the event a breeze! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

The pricing was a little high but most certainly worth it. I'd definitely Get them again if I had the chance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

Definitely worth the price! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Having additional support when doing a mid to large scale event is always helpful, especially when they come with knowledge of the industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

I love how user friendly this platform is. I love how organized it keeps us and how easy it is to run an auction with Greater Giving. We went from a very old database system with paper bid sheets that were entered by hand to mobile bidding. It has been great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

I dislike the lack of customization with the auction website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

If you are looking for the complete package in auction software then I would look into Greater Giving. They have been great to work with and they make running an auction event so much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It sped up our checkout process by a ton. It solved so many organization issues we used to have. Also, with mobile bidding, it enabled us to reach a wider audience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

Their support team is quick, knowledgable and courteous. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

You cannot rotate a photo once it's been uploaded. So if a donor or a volunteer did not take the photo of the auction item the way GG required it, it showed up sideways in the system. And you didn't know it would be sideways until upload (even if it looks right side up in your phone). So that created some additional set up time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

I was apprehensive about using a new system for our event as it's our largest fundraiser. But the ease of set up and the level of support provided was way above expectations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Adding a level of engagement outside of an in-person event. This allows our whole audience to view and bid on items rather than just those in attendance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

Greater Giving is user friendly and a HUGE asset for us when running events. We've been users for years and have come to appreciate the ease of the platform more and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

I can't think of anything I don't like. Maybe the online website creation could be streamlined and made simpler? Other than that I have no complaints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The complexity of running a large event is made easy with Greater Giving. From online payments to table allocation, the platform is easy to navigate. I love the variety of reports I can run too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

I often call when I can't recall how to do something in GG. The customer service folks are incredibly helpful. They are patient, kind, resourceful and professional each and every time I call in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

Not one thing. They are great! I can't think of anything that I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

It's worth every penny we pay annually to work with GG. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We rely on using GG as a contact database, an on-line auction, creating a project, supporter database, supporters. It helps so much to have all the functionality we have with GG. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.