Swell Fundraising Reviews & Product Details

I used it for my year as President of Executive Women International. I like that it allows the creation of many different projects that can be customized such as creating tickets, table sales, peer-to-peer campaigns, and volunteer sign-ups lists. This platform has the ability to perform many tasks that are necessary in fundraising. The dedicated support by the Team at Swell is outstanding! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There were no downsides that I ran into with the 12-15 projects that we did. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Swell's platform is incredibly user-friendly, both on the back end and the front end. If an issue does arise, Swell customer service is very quick to respond and find a solution. Swell wants your fundraiser/ event to succeed and they do all they can to ensure that it does! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No dislikes come to mind. Swell continues to make updates and improvements to the customization and control that we as clients have throughout the process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The platform on the back end is very easy to use. The way the customizable fields are laid out makes it easy to see what needs to be updated. There isn't a lot in terms of figuring out where information needs to be put, which is nice. You are also able to see updates to your campaign status in real-time, which means you don't need to constantly refresh the page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be nice if there were ways to customize the main background or page background on the site. Being able to really brand it to match your organizations branding would be a big bonus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best part about using Swell is that it is EASY. It has an easy platform to build and design your site on your own, it is easy to raise money and track progress for individual pages because there is no log in, account setup time, it is easy to get reports on the back end from an administrative perspective, it is easy to interface with your own donor software, it is easy to manage the transfer of money from Swell to your bank accounts and accounting process -- and on top of it all, its addictive and FUN to watch all of it come together in front of your eyes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Like all software, there are some cases that you want it to be more customized for your specific event/function. I think Swell does a great job of helping think through solutions to what you are trying to do in the format of their software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s super easy to navigate the site. Even if you have no technology background, you can easily donate to a cause, purchase an event ticket, and see what people are saying about the cause/event on social media Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It shows Comp tickets to an event as $0 sell on the event fundraising page. This can cause others who are actually purchasing tickets to question because others are coming for free and they're seeing it right in front of their eyes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Swell is a highly professional company that truly cares about you as an individual client. They want you to succeed! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We wish we could use Swell for all of our events; however we have a silent auction that our board loves, so we have to use another software for that event. If it weren't for that, we'd use Swell exclusively for our events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Swell platform guides me through compiling event assets and leads me step-by-step until I magically have a website and an event process. I love that there's so much event experience behind the scenes as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can something be too custom? My biggest issue was how there were multiple ways in the set up to achieve the same result. So in delegating responsibilities and being democratic with my committee, we made the process of fundraising too complicated. Next time: dictatorship all the way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that the company is local and available to answer any questions. We also love that it is catered to the non profit world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am not sure there are any dislikes. The only thing I can think of is that it would be nice to be able to customize and add several field options to the pages or registration depending on the type of fundraiser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brooke and the rest of the staff are very encouraging and helpful. There has not been an event yet where they didn't reach out to ensure we had all we needed and there have even been times when something came she would show up to help us solve the issue in the middle of the event. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My only wish is that there were a way to sell tickets offline during the event and have the information saved where it could be processed later when wifi becomes better. We have overcome this by using a cell hotspot and made it work in the past Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that with Swell all aspects of fundraising is in one place. Information about the event/fundraiser, a place to purchase/donate and then there is automatic responses that go out to donors to keep them engaged. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Editing the swell pages can be time consuming and don't allow as much creative freedom within their system. We have to do creative design in a different program and then upload that image to swell. Not terrible just an extra step. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.