Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
AM
Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Luminate online for collecting donations"
4/5
What do you like best about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

Easy to create new donation forms and copy old ones. The responsive layouts are a great functionality that work well with our website to create a good user experience . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

Fixing problems seems to take a while and involve several layers of people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
UN
Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great for housing email drafts and stacks well with other softwares"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

Luminate, specifically Convio, has done a great job updating its product visually. Easy to edit/update front end website for events/campaigns.

Great that you can create a bunch of email templates and save them for later/right time of year.

Such a great tool to showcase fundraising! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

While I love that you can fill it up with email templates and categories. It isn't the most user-friendly for creating an actual email template. Many times the user of the back-end is an event manager that needs to communicate or make consistent back-end updates. It can be a bit time consuming! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lindsay R.
LR
Lindsay R.
Vice President & Co-Founder
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Luminate Online is user friendly"
3/5
What do you like best about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

Luminate is easy to use and is great for our friend-raising events, email hosting, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

I don't dislike anything so far that I've encountered using Luminate Online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
AH
Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Challenging to learn but gets the job done "
4.5/5
What do you like best about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

I like the email platform the best, especially that you can create a bank of emails and save them as drafts that you can modify. We run email campaigns that we schedule out ahead of time and the turnover is easy year over year when we can go back to old drafts, make copies and modify using new branding, dates, etc. It would be nice to be able to modify multiple messages at once if that feature doesn't already exist. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

The donation entry system is complicated and confusing, possibly just because the relationship between Luminate and our other constituent services can be complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Muhammad U.
MU
Muhammad U.
Tradings
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Its more than my expectations. "
4.5/5
What do you like best about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

I liked its Fundraising Features more satisfied and have not more trouble in searching inviting for fund raising in. It enhanced the capacity ,capacity of all staff related to marketing ,communication, web searching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

there are a improvement corner always empty i dint think so many dislikes in this feature but improvement always needed in any software that helps a product to compete in market and a supporting staff should be always there Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
AN
Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Challenges increased as BB stopped upgrading and maintaining Luminate Online product"
3/5
What do you like best about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

Consolidation of critical onlineFR functions, under Luminate Online umbrella. Chat support/case assignment system so much better now. Also, integration with BB database of record is a well oiled system. would require resources and time if ever migrated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

huge issue is that default products are not mobile responsive out of the box. forces customers to go third party developer for building it on top of LO. complicates any user issue after that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
AN
Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Use this product everyday- love it "
4.5/5
What do you like best about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

Very versatile- website editing and donor database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

Often difficult to not make duplicate accounts- merge feature is not user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sherry K.
SK
Sherry K.
Grants Writer
Non-Profit Organization Management
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Luminate Online a hidden gem"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

I love the analytics, such as rating clients by engagement factors. I also love the seamless integration of email and donation forms and the website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

Query and reporting are not as comprehensive as I would prefer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RP
Rebecca P.
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"used daily "
3.5/5
What do you like best about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

nice looking interface, fairly user friendly after some basic training. great report capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

sometimes the mass-email function can be a little difficult to manage... so many steps to complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Philanthropy
AP
Verified User in Philanthropy
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Almost Seamless Word Pasting - time efficient and user intuitive "
4/5
What do you like best about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

The product required minimal manipulation in html after copying and pasting word doc text (or email text) into the luminate system. Great way to organize multiple campaigns and distribution lists. Easy to added additional recipients to a campaign or a specific email. Emails can be sent to additional distribution lists based on set criteria within the crm function of the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Luminate Online?

From time to time when copying and pasting material into the email template not all formatting would transfer over - including text color, font, and font size. Typically an email would require 1-2 additional proof edits to fix the formatting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.