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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
Twitter
@greatergiving
4,370 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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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 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 use of recurring donations has been effective in getting board members to donate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

The user interface is not particularly friendly, no ability to change credit card information for a donor online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Online giving, recurring donations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

Greater Giving is incredibly easy to use and very thorough in making sure you have everything from beginning to end of your event. From an amazing support staff, ease of use database, and extensive reports, you can't go wrong with greater giving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

There really isn't anything that I dislike about greater giving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Greater Giving allows us to keep track of all of our auction items, sponsorships, and ticket sales, as well as being our software for check-in, check-out and processing credit cards after the event. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

The ease of setting the the information for the events - registrations, gifts, tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

The export is not great and needs to be manipulated to be in a good format for importing into Raiser's Edge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Greater flexibility with how our events are set up and the kind of events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

The live phone auction feature is an amazing feature that makes doing an auction much more enjoyable for guests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

The system can be a bit clunky to work with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

It is a great program if you are looking to host a gala with an auction component. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Hosting auctions at events Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lindsay C.
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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

I liked that this software managed registration, that the credit card swipers were free, that it was easy to duplicate events, and that it saved the contact information for contributors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

I found the customer service to be lacking. I would get different responses from different people on what we could/could not do. Also, the fees are significantly higher than that of Event Brite, who now is in charge of our events. I didn't think that the website design was professional looking - it was very bland and did not incorporate our brand into it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am solving our need to manage our events effectively. I have realized that there are a lot of different event softwares out there and it is hard to find one that met all of our needs. Greater Giving met all of the needs - with the major exceptions of customer service, cost, and web layout. Event Brite seems to be a much better fit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

Being able to distinguish the donation by the package type Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

Too much information displayed on the home page Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

Check out Classy.org instead! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Campaign management becomes easier through this online donation platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

Greater Giving's customer service is excellent - they were helpful every time I reached them by email or phone and were always able to provide me with the information I needed. They also have extensive videos available on their website to give tutorials and info to best use Greater Giving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

There are so many different reporting options, that it took some time to find the report that matched exactly what I was looking for. When this would happen, I would contact customer service giving them my report criteria and they always assisted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

If you are using Greater Giving for the first time, watching the tutorial videos is incredibly helpful. The last thing you want during a large-scale event is to have software issue and need to troubleshoot because you are trying to navigate the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Both times I have used Greater Giving were for larger (350-500 people) fundraising events and it helped track revenue, attendance, and it was able to generate receipts for those who purchased items and/or made donations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Emilie H.
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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

The organization website and GoTime software are very efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

I don't like how complicated the system is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Donation tracking and event management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

The ease of payment capture and the mobile bidding functionality was the biggest time saver for us. Our bank was massively over-staffed because we were so accustomed to being slammed with paper receipts and bid sheets, but for the first time our staff was able to enjoy portions of the auction ceremony. The donors and bidders had so much fun using their phones to try and outbid their friends. This was our first foray into the world of mobile bidding and payment, and I can't believe how smoothly everything went. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

It was difficult navigating the interface and search parameters to pull the exact lists we needed for sending out thank you letters and receipt letters after the event. We had to do a lot of cross-referencing with our donor database. I also found the thank you letter templates and editing interface to be extremely frustrating and we ended up printing a large amount of our thank you letters through our donor database instead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

If you are looking for a way to streamline your fundraiser process and donor/gift database, Greater Giving is an excellent resource with phenomenal data capture and event management tools. Their support team is A+++ and is always gracious and more than helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are trying to streamline our auction fundraiser as much as possible. It is by far our biggest fundraiser of the entire year and we bring in a large portion of our individual and corporate donations through this event. In the past, the auction has always been a flurry of papers and receipts and thank you letters and phone calls from donors with questions after the fact. In using Greater Giving, we have been able to streamline so much, we have saved hours and hours of time, and everything is tracked and stored in one place (no more hunting down stray receipts or trying to figure out who wrote an amount incorrectly.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Greater Giving?

One stop shop for managing your fundraising database, from donors, to sponsors, to event attendees. Loved that I was able to go in update a sponsors information and click right over to update an event attendees information. Easy to manage event registrations (which can sometimes be a pain). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Greater Giving?

Often times it can be slow when there is a high volume of people using the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Greater Giving:

Ensure that you have specific people who's primary role is to assist staff with training and usage of greater giving. Greater givings support team is wonderful, but having a point person at the organization I was at previously was key. We could reach out to her with all initial troubleshooting questions we had, and if it was a bigger problem, we would call greater giving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Searching for a streamline way to manage a database with both large scale donors and small donors, as well has managing event registrations for large, upscale events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.