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Mark W.

Founder/CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/18/2018

"Small company review"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Panorama?

Reports and the easy of smartlists. Custom reports can be generated quickly using the smartlists. Customer service folks are excellent. Great idea to go with cloud over the horrible Giftworks Anywhere which NEVER worked, although in all fairness, I believe the majority of the problems were at the Citrix end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Panorama?

Expensive. Volunteer module needs work. Our office uses PCs and Macs, GW works well with PCs, not so well with Macs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Panorama:

Fairly robust with the exception of Volunteer module. If you have a large volunteer staff and need reports, tracking, etc, this might not be the solution for you. Donations and pledges work very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Panorama solving and how is that benefiting you?

Donor and donation maintenance and tracking. More accurate information on donors and ability to accurately track and follow up on pledges. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Higher Education

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/31/2018

"Reliable web-based fundraising and donation app!"

4/5

What do you like best about Panorama?

Advanced tools to help users to create and carry out fundraising campaigns; very accessible and easy-to-use interface. Features allow for communication with donors which is always helpful. There are multiple custom-designed templates that users can choose from Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Panorama?

When assistance is required from customer service department of FirstGiving, their response can be very slow. Also, cannot create your own url/have to use first giving's url. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Panorama:

It's very user-friendly and easy to navigate and share with others. Money transfer is also done in a timely fashion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Panorama solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating personal webpage for donors to access to raise funds/donations for various mental health initiatives with the University administration. It is intuitive for both users and donors at the other end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Events Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/29/2018

"Easy to use and helps raise more funds!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Panorama?

Being able to make your auction public and hvae people from all over North AMerica see your event and silent auction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Panorama?

pages can look a little dated compared to competitors but heard big upgrade is coming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Airlines/Aviation

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/3/2018

"Good for large volume of items and bidders"

4/5

What do you like best about Panorama?

If you have a lot of high value items of interest to a wide variety of people, your auction doesn't need to rely on your own closed group. It is easy to piggyback on other auctions because bidders can easily find your stuff too using the search engine and categories. You have a choice to make your auction open to any bidder or closed to your own internal group of bidders like your school or company or nonprofit. Of course you need to be open to having some items used by people you have no connection to, and in the case of vacation homes your donors need to be made aware that user/winner will likely be someone you don't know or are associated with your group in some way, and are they comfortable with that. Makes payments and communications for users easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Panorama?

The cost of this auction site makes it not a good choice for smaller auctions. This is a better site for auctions with high value items that need more bidders to realize their value, or auctions with a higher number of items to make the cost worth it. In that case it is worth more for hosting the auction there because of the way it makes it easy for anyone to bid on your item, as well as utility of loading and closing each item when there are a lot of separate listings. There are less costly auction sites that are easier to use, although you need to promote your own auction link or you won't have bidders. If you have a small auction or lower value items this is probably not the best choice for you. If you have a lot of items and/or high value items this site is a good choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Panorama:

Make sure you understand the different pricing levels and choose the best one for your auction. For payments there is what's charged by the site, and a can also be a separate charge from the payment method used. It adds up, but is worthwhile to simplify payments and take that headache away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Panorama solving and how is that benefiting you?

Bidding site for employee assistance program fundraising which has a very large variety of types of items, from vacation homes, event tickets, jewelery, restaurant gift cards, home baked goods, party/dinner invitations in private homes, and even used coats and electronics from the company's lost and found! Anything that will make a buck or two! Provides easy way to categorize items and gather payments. Used every year and similar items can be reloaded year over year. Employees / bidders can keep their account on the website and use every year. Easy link. Have the choice to open items up for larger audience of anyone on the site using it for any auction, or keep the item for only internal group to bid on so you have a greater chance of easily fulfilling getting the item to the winner without shipping it if it's something that needs to be picked up in person or fulfilled at a later date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Danny C.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/16/2018

"Simple and Effective tool for Fundraising"

5/5

What do you like best about Panorama?

Honestly it's all about the simplicity. They make it super easy to raise funds without too much confusion or 'fat'. You can easily make a nice page that works! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Panorama?

Not a whole lot. Support is 9-5 but that works for us! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Panorama:

Know it's capabilities up front. There are more robust offerings that require way more onboarding and are more complex, but they may be what you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Panorama solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's great for fundraising and simple event management. It helps run an event and is very easy for our end users. That's the biggest thing, that folks aren't overwhelmed when using Firstgiving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Erin B.

Education Programs Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/13/2017

"FirstGiving - Solid Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Platform"

4/5

What do you like best about Panorama?

It's very easy to use and allows a lot of flexibility. Both of those make peer-to-peer fundraising a great source of both fundraising and marketing (our events). The ability to customize your fundraising pages allows our fundraisers the ability to tailor their message and to share their stories/relationship with the organization they are fundraising for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Panorama?

The costs associated with the platform. Although I do think giving donors the option to cover the fee helps greatly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Panorama:

With any software purchase, do your research first. While FirstGiving is great, it is important to make sure that it will do everything you need for your specific organization and event. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Panorama solving and how is that benefiting you?

This platform makes peer to peer fundraising so much easier. We're able to have all of our event information in one spot and are able to pull reports as needed. Before, we were using several platforms to do cover everything that FirstGiving is able to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Julie E.

Corporate Giving Development Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/24/2017

"We made it work, great reporting options"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Panorama?

You can easily tie credit cards to bidder numbers which makes awarding auction items a breeze. The quick sale function is also convenient for raffle tickets/wine pull type purchases. There are several great reports that you can pull with the click of a button that makes wrapping up your auction easy (well easier at least). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Panorama?

You cannot pre-assign bidder numbers. While you have the ability to customize a homepage that you can direct your guests to, the set up of the homepage is a bit clunky and not very intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Tara S.

Meetings Project Manager

Non-Profit Organization Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/2/2017

"How FirstGiving Helped Us"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Panorama?

FirstGiving offered a lot of flexibility. By being able to create a template for our members on the back end and allow them to make their own personal changes gave our team's fundraising pages the personalized touch they needed. Adding photos and videos opened up the opportunity to give those donating a sense of what we were doing and why visually. Huge benefit! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Panorama?

Obviously, as a non-profit, having to covers the fees for having payments/donations processed via FirstGiving is a bummer. However, that's something that every similar platform has and FirstGiving offered a very good rate in comparison to other options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Panorama:

Make sure you do your research! FirstGiving was a huge help to our organization, but it may not be right for your and your non-profit. Just confirm that it fits your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Panorama solving and how is that benefiting you?

With FirstGiving, we are able to have all of our volunteers create a fundraising page all in one spot. We are also able to process a great deal of logistics through the platform. Adding a survey to the initial setup gives us the power to ask them questions about themselves i.e. address, medical needs, t-shirt size, etc. It may seem small, but FirstGiving also allows you to run reports on all that information. Pulling it from one source was a great benefit to our administrative team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Courtney C.

Associate Executive Director

Non-Profit Organization Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2017

"Great for fundraising!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Panorama?

We use FirstGiving to create donation pages. Every donor and fundraiser we have sent to has been able to work with the program very easily and we have brought in new sources of income this year! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Panorama?

Still learning the reports and I wish there was an option to copy and paste. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Emily H.

Executive Director

Non-Profit Organization Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/24/2017

"Bidding for Good review "

0.5/5

What do you like best about Panorama?

The cost was the main reason that we tried the Bidding for Good software for one of our special events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Panorama?

The close out process took a long time for the staff to process, lots of questions and customer service utilized post event. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Panorama:

Only would recommend to others for using this software platform as an auction manager if everyone attending the event is a single (individual) not tied to a team, sponsor and or table. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Panorama solving and how is that benefiting you?

We thought that this would be a cost savings that we would incur using this software but that was not the case with the amount of time spent post event. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.