# Bloomerang Volunteer Reviews **Vendor:** Bloomerang Giving Platform **Category:** [Volunteer Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/volunteer-management) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 38 ## About Bloomerang Volunteer Bloomerang Volunteer is purpose-built to help you recruit, retain, and recognize the volunteers who power your mission—all while staying seamlessly connected to your broader fundraising strategy. As part of the Bloomerang Giving Platform, this intuitive solution brings volunteer engagement and donor cultivation into one unified system, helping you uncover new opportunities to build lasting relationships. From streamlined signups and automated scheduling to real-time communication and impact reporting, Bloomerang Volunteer reduces administrative overhead while elevating the volunteer experience. Whether you're rallying supporters for a big event or building a year-round program, you’ll have the tools to deepen connection, grow participation, and inspire generosity across every type of supporter. Your mission deserves more than incremental progress. Unlock an unstoppable support engine with Bloomerang’s revolutionary Giving Platform, turning every action into deeper donor connections and a compounding cycle of growth. Raise more, retain more, and reach further than ever before. ## Bloomerang Volunteer Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **centralized management** capabilities of Bloomerang Volunteer for seamless scheduling and data synchronization. (1 reviews) - Users value the **enhanced data synchronization** with Bloomerang CRM, improving scheduling and managing shifts effectively. (1 reviews) - Users value the **ease of use** of Bloomerang Volunteer, appreciating enhanced scheduling and synchronization features. (1 reviews) - Users value the **integration with Salesforce** , enhancing connectivity and streamlining volunteer management processes. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users struggle with **excessive notifications** that hinder customization and disrupt the overall user experience in Bloomerang Volunteer. (1 reviews) - Users express frustration over **missing essential features** in Bloomerang Volunteer, impacting usability and overall experience. (1 reviews) - Users express frustration over **missing essential features** in Bloomerang Volunteer, complicating volunteer management and usability. (1 reviews) - Users find Bloomerang Volunteer **not intuitive** , leading to confusion and frustration during usage and setup processes. (1 reviews) - Users express frustration over **poor customer support** , experiencing delays and untrained staff even when seeking assistance. (1 reviews) - Registration Issues (1 reviews) - Software Bugs (1 reviews) ## Bloomerang Volunteer Reviews ### 1. Intuitive Scheduling with Bloomerang CRM Integration That Saves Serious Time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Scott T. | Co-Founder & Chief Experience Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2026 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** I like the scheduling tool the most, especially its integration with Bloomerang CRM. It’s intuitive to use, makes setting up new volunteer opportunities simple, and has been consistently reliable across both desktop and mobile. The platform makes tracking and communicating with volunteers far easier than relying on the CRM alone. The time it saves is absolutely worth the investment and has helped expand our team’s overall capacity and efficiency. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** The reports section can be a bit challenging to pull a report that provides the exact information we are looking for. It takes us a fair amount of trial and error running reports to get what we want. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us solve team capacity issues, volunteer scheduling, and communication. Having all of our volunteer information in one place is especially important, because it makes it easy to track signed waivers, training, and identify who our top volunteers are. **Official Response from Marissa Johnson:** > Thank you for the fantastic review, Scott. We're so glad to hear that the scheduling tool and its integration with Bloomerang CRM have been intuitive and effective for your team's volunteer management! It's great to know that centralizing your volunteer information in one place has been especially valuable. If you need any further assistance with reporting, don't hesitate to reach out to support@bloomerang.com for help, and happy fundraising! ### 2. Easy Volunteer Management with Room for Improvement **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marian M. | Advisor and CompetitionSupport at Washington DECA, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 11, 2026 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** I find Bloomerang Volunteer easy to use and appreciate how straightforward it is to publish opportunities to potential volunteers. I can create detailed opportunity descriptions and forms that effectively secure volunteer information. The ability to easily share the link has led to more volunteers signing up and sharing with their networks, which is great for increasing my reach. It also provides easy access for volunteers to see what opportunities are available, fitting their skills and time availability. Additionally, Bloomerang Volunteer is helpful in recruiting, managing, and thanking the many volunteers we secure for various events throughout the school year. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** I would like more options in the forms. Things like drop-down menus, likert scales, etc. It was a learning curve that I am still navigating. I wish we could add icons. It took awhile to learn that adding icons was the reason my work would not save, and that was frustrating. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bloomerang Volunteer makes it easy for volunteers to access opportunities and sign up, aligning their skills and time. Its straightforward interface allows me to create detailed opportunities, boosting volunteer sign-ups and sharing. It helps us recruit, manage, and appreciate volunteers effectively. **Official Response from Marissa Johnson:** > Marian, it's great to hear that Bloomerang Volunteer has made it easy to publish opportunities and help volunteers align their skills and availability—thank you for sharing! We know there can be a learning curve along the way, and our Help Center, group trainings, and webinars are all great resources to help you get more comfortable with the platform as you go. If you need any further assistance or would like to share more feedback, don't hesitate to reach out to support@bloomerang.com for help. Thanks for being part of the Bloomerang community! ### 3. The app doesn't show all the opportunities available. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben G. | Office Administrator, Non-Profit Organization Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** It enhanced data synchronization with Bloomerang CRM, a new Central Schedule feature to manage scheduling issues across an organization, and improved recurring shifts functionality **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** The volunteer management missing essential features **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Efficiently manage volunteer shifts and schedules based on availability and skillset, minimizing conflicts **Official Response from Marissa Johnson:** > Hi Ben, thanks for sharing your review with us! We're so glad to hear you are enjoying Bloomerang Volunteer for streamlining operations and keeping track of volunteer shifts & contact details. We are constantly upgrading our platform and app, so if you are interested in sharing more feedback on specific volunteer management features, you are welcome to submit or upvote a suggestion on the Bloomerang Features Portal. If you have any further questions or concerns, please reach out to success@bloomerang.com. Happy fundraising! ### 4. Flexible Commitment That Fits Busy Schedules **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2025 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** It’s a short term commitment which fits around work and family schedules **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** Project or role aren’t always clearly definew **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** No long term commitment **Official Response from Marissa Johnson:** > Thank you for sharing your experience with Bloomerang Volunteer! We’re glad to hear that the flexibility and short-term commitment options work well with busy schedules. Making volunteering more accessible is a key goal of the platform. We also appreciate your feedback about project and role clarity. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to contact support@bloomerang.com or visit our Help Center. Thank you for taking the time to leave a review and for being part of the Bloomerang community! ### 5. Look Elsewhere: Confusing and missing the most basic features **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2024 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** That it (sort of) integrates with Salesforce **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** There are so many missing features. For example, you can't even set the time zone for your organization, you have to manually change it every time you create an opportunity (unless you happen to live on the western coast of Mexico). The sign up process for a volunteer is cumbersome and confusing. The notifications have a mind of their own, good luck customizing them. The app is unintuitive and confuses (red means go, green means stop?) It forces you to jump through so many unnecessary (and frustrating) hoops for what should be a slightly-more-complicated sign up form. I should not need a computer science degree to check people in and count how many hours they were here. But, at least most of the Bloomerang staff are also not trained on the software so even when you pay for phone support it might be days before you hear back. We were sold on a system that does not exist. This is not at all what we expected or were promised. I regret making the transition to this software and hope we can make it through until we can justify the transition to another platform. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrating volunteer data into Salesforce. **Official Response from Marissa Johnson:** > Thank you for taking the time to leave a review and share your feedback. We regularly look for ways we can improve our services to make fundraising and volunteer management easier for our users, and your feedback is an important part of that. We have shared your feedback with our team for future consideration, and would appreciate the opportunity to discuss your program with you further to see how we can help you optimize the experience. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to success@bloomerang.com. ### 6. The experience with Bloomerang Volunteer has been modest at best. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marc P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2024 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** Bloomerang Volunteer provides a lot of opportunities for integration between the volunteer teams and the development teams. Some of the functionalities were easy to use. We did not utilize the system as often as it could have been. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** The implementation plan and the ability to talk to folks about what our services needed for our teams and how it could be molded together was super tough. The customer success teams did not feel like they were wanting to work around what we needed and instead was more worried about selling the product. We did not utilize the software and I fully believe that there is a lot of work that still needs to be done in order to make the product better and easier for organizations to use. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** The product did and has helped to make group volunteer organizations easier to work with and gather information through. **Official Response from Sara Salako:** > Thank you for sharing your experience with us, Marc. We are always striving for ways to make fundraising and volunteer management easier for our users. If you have additional feedback, we welcome you to send it to success@bloomerang.com. ### 7. I used Bloomerang Volunteer to coordinate volunteers for my organization's art festival. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tori H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** The modern feel, and the ability to send automated emails. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** It took us a while to learn the "language" of the software, so to speak. Building out roles and shifts, and running reports, did not feel intuitive at first. Certainly a learning curve but we are looking forward to using it again next year with the knowledge we've gained. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping us host the volunteers for our major annual art festival that attracts thousands of attendees. It is solving the problem of having readily available contact information and means of communicating with our volunteers leading up to the event. **Official Response from Sara Salako:** > Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, Tori! We're thrilled to hear Bloomerang Volunteer has supported your event communication and automated processes. Happy fundraising! ### 8. A great program with a little growing to do **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarah Charley J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2024 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** I love that Bloomerang Volunteer is connected to my Bloomerang CRM and is able to track my volunteer staff as constituents. I also love that it gives my volunteers the ability to book their own shifts, eliminating the time suck of scheduling. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** The user experience is still a little clunky. It's not quite as intuitive or slick as Bloomerang Door is and I'd love for it to be updated to be slightly less confusing on both the organization and the volunteer user side. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving time on schuduling and tracking volunteer hours! **Official Response from Sara Salako:** > Thank you for sharing, Sarah! We're so glad you're part of the Bloomerang community and have been able to streamline the volunteer shift process. We're always looking for ways to enhance the experience for our users, so I've passed your feedback on to our product team for a future possible update. ### 9. Bloomerang Volunteer helps me so much with my volunteer coordinator position! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kristen G. | Volunteer Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2024 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** I love the user interface and the customer support. It's quite easy to use and therefore, to train. Some kinks, but the customer support team is always there to help me and I love that they are constantly looking to improve, per customer requests. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** Would like a more simplified schedule that shows all volunteers in the building. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** They are looking to fulfill what volunteer managers are looking for in their product, if they don't already have it. **Official Response from Sara Salako:** > Thank you for sharing your experience, Kristen! We are thrilled to hear Bloomerang Volunteer has been a helpful tool for your team and are excited to see the great things you'll accomplish with your volunteers. Thank you for helping create a world inspired by giving! ### 10. We have found Bloomerang Volunteer to be incredibly beneficial to our organization! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jen B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** It's been most helpful in scheduling volunteers for a variety of shifts. We have boosted out volunteer pool simply by having a platform for volunteer to view all opportunities available and ease of sign-up. The communications tools are incredibly helpful in getting reminders and emails/texts out to volunteers. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** We've been having some trouble with the app. I've noticed that the app doesn't allow for saved passwords and we have an older population of volunteers where tech doesn't come as naturally. So often people are complaining of having to update their password multiple times. Mostly this is user error, but if the app saved passwords or kept people logged in, that would help. Some of the email communication tools haven't be available, but I know are coming. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to promote a wide variety of volunteer opportunities to our community in a way that is really visually appealing and easy to use. This has boosted out pool of volunteers as well as volunteer hours. **Official Response from Sara Salako:** > Thank you for sharing your experience, Jen! We are thrilled to hear Bloomerang Volunteer has helped increase your number of volunteers and contributed hours and that the communication options are supporting that. Thank you for the feedback on saved passwords; I've passed this on to our product team for a possible update in the future. ### 11. Couldn't Be Happier **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul S. | Executive Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** What I love most about Bloomerang Volunteer is how intuitive and easy it is for our volunteers, for our team, and for our folks who work on the back end. I have used other ones including free ones (that we have quickly outgrown) and even one that has been talked about as the best of the paid ones. Bloomerang is less than that paid one and it's unbelievably better. Plus, the support has been beyond good. Super responsive and solution oriented, we have had a tremendous experience. Our volunteers love it too. We get lots of compliments about how easy the process is. We love how Bloomerang has added to our organization! **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** You might think that the pricing is a negative but I have to be honest, it's totally worth it if you rely on volunteers for your organization. You can pay less but you absolutely get what you pay for. You can also pay more and have a product that isn't easy for your volunteers, your staff, and your admins. Plus, you get tremendous support! If you are used to using free volunteer plaforms, you will get sticker shock. Take into account all that you get and the tools that you will have to communicate with and manage your volunteers. Absolutely worth it. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our biggest needs were to be able to manage multiple events each week, be able to report on the volunteers and their hours, and give our volunteers an easy to navigate experience with a login that will allow them to track and manage their contribution to the organization. Bloomerang solves all these issues for us and for our volunteers. **Official Response from Sara Salako:** > Paul - thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us! We are thrilled to hear that Bloomerang Volunteer has helped your events run smoothly and was easy to implement! We're so glad you're part of the Bloomerang community. ### 12. How Bloomerang Volunteer Gave Me Back Valuable Time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lindsey H. | Community Engagement Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** The best part of Bloomerang Volunteer is how much time I save creating shifts and answering calls about sign-ups. We are able to have a self-scheduled volunteer website. I have saved hours in my everyday tasks. This has allowed me to spend that valuable time growing our volunteer programming and focusing on donations. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** It would be helpful if admins could edit volunteer profile information if it is incorrect. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Bloomerang Volunteer, our liability waiver and confidentiality waiver are built into the volunteer registrations. Being able to have waivers and emergency contacts of 8,000+ volunteers easily searchable is a game-changer. Being able to report our volunteer numbers quickly is helpful to grant writing and impact reports to our donors. **Official Response from Sara Salako:** > Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Lindsey. We're thrilled to hear Bloomerang Volunteer has helped streamline scheduling and keep waivers easily organized. We're so glad you're part of the Bloomerang community! ### 13. Good Platform, small updates could be made **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alicia M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** It's one place to keep things related to our volunteers including hours, personal information, background checks and more. It's nice to be able to go to one place vs the several folders I had before. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** It can be slightly confusing in the wording when signing up to shifts. People that are new to it typically get confused on they have only signed up to an "Opportunity" and not a shift. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** The platform allows me to keep all of my volunteer information in one place, make a schedule easily, add hours as needed, run reports for grant purposes and more. It's allowing me to streamline my volunteer managment much easier than I was able to before. **Official Response from Sara Salako:** > Thank you for taking the time to leave a review, Alicia. We're so glad to hear Bloomerang Volunteer has helped your organization easily schedule and streamline processes. Thank you for the feedback on the terminology; I've sent that over to our product team for a future possible update. ### 14. Happy but could use a few minor improvements **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2024 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** The design in appealing, and it's relatively easy to use for volunteers. Customer support is also great. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** Doesn't offer a calendar view of opportunities, and the shift/role relationship can be a little unweidly to understand when you are new to it. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling and keeping track of volunteer hours. **Official Response from Sara Salako:** > Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us! We are so glad your team has kept track of your volunteer scheduling more effectively and our Support team has helped in the process. Happy volunteering! ### 15. My InitLive review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rosella B. | Ms, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2019 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** I like that the interface is anything but difficult to peruse, the hues are brilliant and neighborly, it's natural you can basically work out how to utilize it - however on the off chance that you need assistance the instructional exercises are incredible, you can modify the product to what your occasion requires, and there's a live visit meaning you can ask InitLive bolster an inquiry and they hit you up excessively fast. The client support is useful and inviting and no inquiry is a dumb one. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** Amazing software but at the same time it's irritating that you can't agree to accept moves in the application itself and need to utilize a work area. **Recommendations to others considering Bloomerang Volunteer:** Take each preparation they offer. Their group is additionally effectively making changes to improve their item. In the event that you are searching for a vigorous framework that is easy to execute, this is it. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since using the software, we have understood the likelihood of having our entire organization on one wavelength with a quite simple to work application that can likewise send message pop-ups, move updates, and check our staff in. That is really incredible for one bit of programming. It saves time to enroll more volunteers and help with the genuine occasion sorting out too. ### 16. Reviewing Init Live for our Festivals **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bill R. | President & Managing Partner, Marketing and Advertising, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** Our volunteer coordination is a fairly large undertaking - with thousands of volunteers in our data base, 8 different charities we partner with, and 6 different festivals in 4 different cities. We only recently started using Init Live as part of our volunteer organization - and the early reviews have been very positive. Our head volunteer coordinator has been ecstatic with how easy it is to use, how it keeps the entire team organized, and how it has reduced issues and stress during the events. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** So far we have not encountered anything you would call negative. The biggest challenge is getting volunteers to use it for the first time and become comfortable with the system - and that is really just the time commitment of walking them through the first time they use it. After that, they seem to really like it and have no problems. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Volunteer coordination is key to having our festivals run well - which in turn has a huge impact on attendees and exhibitors. With the added efficiency volunteers are better able to be in place when and where we need them - which makes for a smoother event overall. ### 17. InitLive saves me so much work! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Caroline T. | Knowledge Management Projects , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** I'm a Volunteer Programme Manager and am happy to say that I've had the privilege of supporting InitLive almost from the get-go with this product. I've used many others in my career but none match up to what InitLive can do - and most importantly - take away in terms of the tedious admin work that goes into the back-end of systems in volunteer program set up. The interface is easy to read, the colours are bright and friendly, it's intuitive (you can pretty much work out how to use it - but if you need help the tutorials are great), you can customize the software to what your event requires, and there's a live chat meaning you can ask InitLive support a question and they get back to you super quick. The customer support is helpful and friendly and no question is a stupid one! **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** Can't think of anything! I might have had an answer a year ago but my feedback has been taken into consideration and the new update solves those problems! **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** You can get on with planning the event knowing that you don't have to invest a ton of time in the administration work for a volunteer program - InitLive takes care of so much. **Official Response:** > Caroline, we've so enjoyed working with you and are always excited to show you new features that we've released as a result of your input. We can't thank you enough! ### 18. For all your Volunteering/Staffing Needs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kristi K. | Event Coordinator, Events Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** We found InitLive a few years ago and it MASSIVELY assisted in our staff-wide efforts to fill positions within our annual large conventions, as we staff them with our International employees. Prior to finding them, we had been using something that was not cutting it in the SLIGHTEST, so it was a real godsend to find InitLive. We appreciate their customer service first and foremost. They are ALWAYS on it to help us and our girl Avery specifically is a dream, truly. We also like any and all "select all" feature, as well as copying roles and shifts. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** It gets a bit tricky with an import if you have quite a few staff or shifts to input, and sometimes the imports don't always go as planned (hiccups along the way). We also managed to crash their server once - that was fun! :) It's also annoying that you cannot sign up for shifts in the app itself and have to use a desktop. **Recommendations to others considering Bloomerang Volunteer:** I would definitely recommend InitLive, from the standpoint of what it can do for your business AND from the level of customer support you receive. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have realized the possibility of having our whole company on one wavelength with a pretty easy to operate app that can also send push notifications, shift reminders, and check our staff in. That's pretty great for one piece of software. **Official Response:** > Hi Kristi, I wanted to take the time to reply to your review personally and thank you. The Keller Williams team is the real dream. What a wonderful group to work with. We are so happy to make an impact on your events and always welcome your ideas to improve InitLive as well. Best, Avery ### 19. InitLive **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaitlin B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** The interface for the app was my favorite part as it was so easy to use. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** Inability for individual instructions per person **Recommendations to others considering Bloomerang Volunteer:** If you need to have a streamlined process for getting your staff checked in for various events, this is a wonderful app for that. Try it out! **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** This has helped to streamline our check-in process for commencement. We have various groups of people that need to check-in at various locations and this helped us to have everything in one place without all of the paper lists everywhere. Additionally, it was a great way for us to see areas of weakness based on who checked in where. I loved having everything at the palm of my hand. I cannot stress enough how much I appreciated the fact that it was an app and not these pages upon pages of spreadsheets. If I needed to find someone, it was a simple search. Their contact information was readily accessible. The only thing that I would love to have as an addition is that each person can have individualized instructions. While some of our groups have general instructions, most of them have specific instructions to their location, and I was unable to get that specific. That aside, I highly recommend! **Official Response:** > Hi Kaitlin, thanks for taking the time to review InitLive. It's been a pleasure to work with you and the team at Duke University. We're glad that the app has improved your onsite operations at commencement. ### 20. Fantastic tool for saving time and getting organized! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Events Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** I like that I can have all of my volunteers in one place, not on multiple spreadsheets! I like that they can sign up for their own shifts which saves me a bunch of time and emails! The response times for support are fantastic, they do take suggestions seriously which is helpful! Everyone I've dealt with has been very friendly and offered up suggestions to help me with work arounds to the way I had previously done things! **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** I'm still sorting out scheduling to make things work for me. We have multiple events in multiple cities so I"m also working on sorting volunteers to notify for each specific town/event rather than sending notifications to my entire staff list for 3 different cities. It's been a bit of a learning curve to move from the spreadsheets to the software but I learn something new each time! **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do this volunteer organizing alongside a full time field job and managing a part time family in the busiest season for all of us! We have a bunch of volunteers in different cities so trying to keep that all on track with my work/personal life gets a little frantic. The INITLive software allows me to be portable (I can use any system!) and frees up time to recruit more volunteers and help with the actual event organizing as well. If I can help the others they can then focus on the more important tasks of their jobs. **Official Response:** > We're so happy to hear InitLive is saving you time and making your days less frantic. Be sure to continue to reach out to your Customer Success Rep if you'd like any tips on managing those volunteers in different regions. We might have some tricks up our sleeves! :) ### 21. InitLive has allowed us to save countless hours and dollars **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael O. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** The fact that you volunteers can pick and choose their roles, shifts and schedule allows us to concentrate on producing an amazing event. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** The setup time can be lengthy if your event has a lot of roles and shifts but once your event is setup it can be duplicated in following editions. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** By using InitLive, our staffing costs have gone done. The work of the volunteer coordinator takes less time and can be easily be done remotely. ### 22. First time using it with our convention **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** They system is aesthetically pleasing to the eye, most of it is intuitive to figure out and set up. It's great overall for managing volunteers. Their are also very enthusiastic to listen to your needs and are working to implement some suggestions our team has made, which is great! **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** Perhaps we didn't understand some of the system but we had to go back and redo calendar items one at a time (1000s of shifts). We're lucky that the Initlive team did most of it for us but not doing something simple to make shifts appear the way you'd like and having to go in one by one to fix it is not only tedious but time consuming. Please take advantage of the training and walk through to avoid this. The mobile app didn't work as we expected but we forgot to schedule a training on that specifically, which we'll do with the system this year. **Recommendations to others considering Bloomerang Volunteer:** Take every training they offer. Their team is also actively making changes to improve their product. My review may become irrelevant due to those changes. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Database management, internal notes, having one place to manage volunteers. **Official Response:** > Hi there, thank you so much for this thoughtful review. We absolutely love this type of input and are excited to ensure we continue to build the system to meet the needs of customers like you! Thanks again. ### 23. Great to work with **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark V. | Manager, Emergency Preparedness, Hospital & Health Care, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** After my initial reach out to Avery she was with me every step of the way. If she was out of the office, I got a reply from a colleague, all in a very timely manner. We implemented InItLive for a unique solution and it worked great! I was extremely impressed with the level of customer service. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** There wasn't much to dislike. There were a few limitations to the program that could be enhanced (and after talking to them, I'm sure they will be) but many of those enhancements were because we used the tool for something different than its original purpose. However, increasing capabilities to of the roles tool to enhance individual access would be one dislike. **Recommendations to others considering Bloomerang Volunteer:** Lean on the InItLive Team, they will be there to help you **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used InItLive to manage a complex go-live with staff and contractors working outside their normal hours and roles. This gave us a centralized look at a 3 week schedule that was constantly shifting. **Official Response:** > Mark, you and the team at Spectrum Health were great to work with. You really hit the ground running and made the tool work for you. Thanks for such a thoughtful review. ### 24. In It Live has helped us streamline our volunteer procees **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Crista M. | Executive Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** We love that shift supervisors can communicate with their team members before, during and after the event. They can also rate volunteers' performance and make suggestions as to where their assets would be best deployed. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** Because we don't allow unscreened applicants to self-select shifts, the workflow is a little bit clunky, but we have developed a communication system that works for us. Would be nice if roles stayed on the staff profiles when imported from the organization list to an event list. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are finding it easier to recruit and retain new volunteers, especially younger people who, like it or not, prefer to do everything online or through an app. **Official Response:** > Hi Crista, thanks so much for your review. We've loved working with you and the team at FolkWest and appreciate your input and feature requests. ### 25. Simple Design & Big Impact **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Annette B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** The simple design of the admin portal and the user-facing app made it easy for our team to adopt this scheduling tool for our annual convention. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** The schedule setup was intense, but once we got it in, with amazing help from Avery and team, it went very smooth when making changes. **Recommendations to others considering Bloomerang Volunteer:** If you are looking for a robust system that is simple to execute, this is it. The support made the setup easier, and once we were set, making changes was a breeze. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We aligned our team's schedule and activities to run our annual convention, which created a seamless and amazing Guest Experience for our attendees. **Official Response:** > Hi Annette, we are so glad that your first event with InitLive went off without a hitch! Can't wait to work with you again and again. Thank you for your review! ### 26. Intuitive, User Friendly & Convenient System, Back by Excellent Customer Support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucas H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** InitLive offers a clean, straightforward design that is user friendly for all. Individuals signing up for the event can do so in 4 simple steps, in less than 15 minutes. Administrator's can easily customize several of the setting in the back end to create the ideal experience for their organization. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** InitLive is not supported by Internet Explorer, which some Government employees etc. are required to use at work. **Recommendations to others considering Bloomerang Volunteer:** Reach out to them, discuss your needs. You'll be blown away by their knowledge of various industries and their customer care dept. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our volunteers can easily sign up for our event in 4 quick steps. As our valued volunteers are already giving us so much of their time, it is important that make the sign up process efficient and straight forward. Benefits for the administrator(s) are the communication features and information filtering options. **Official Response:** > Hi Lucas, we're so glad the switch to InitLive has been a seamless one for you. You and the Harvest Jazz & Blues Fest team have been a pleasure to work with and we can't wait to continue the partnership! Thanks again. ### 27. Initlive helped on the spot **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Katrina S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** I enjoyed handheld phone application. It was easy for me to communicate with my 300 plus volunteers when help was needed and where. I had a headset with the other organizers to communicate with them quicker **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** The calendar scheduling view - the inability to edit what the schedule looks like in a calendar view. And notifications from the app seem to be a little laggy. It is hard to tell who gets updates on phone, or email. **Recommendations to others considering Bloomerang Volunteer:** Have a full test run before using it for a large event. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability to communicate with 300 plus volunteers during a live event. The benefits I have realized are assisting with the back end of scheduling. The ability for more than one team member to see edits live and an easy way for staff to communicate with supervisors. **Official Response:** > Hi Katrina, thanks for your review. We love this kind of input - we truly do listen and it helps us improve. We're so glad that the app helped with event day operations and look forward to working with you on your next event. Thanks again! ### 28. Ultimate tool to manage your volunteers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael O. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** The best feature for us is the online registration form and schedule picker. We save a lot of time by not having to gather the information from volunteers and then having to enter it. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** With a lot of volunteers it can be hard to track when a volunteer registers or removes themselves from a shift. I would recommend having a notification feature. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** InitLive allows us to save a lot of time and money. It also allows us to have everything centralized in one place without the need of multiple spreadsheets. **Official Response:** > Hi Michael! We've just implemented a bell notification feature in our new interface that will provide you with some of the notifications you're looking for. We always love your feedback. Keep it coming - it helps us continue to get better and better! ### 29. InitLive = Life Saver! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** InitLive's mobile app is amazing on-site at an event. It is great for corralling late volunteers and being in constant communication with any changes (or surprise snacks). **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** I wish InitLive had enhanced reporting and a mass upload/edit capability for shifts, and our staff wishes they could pick up shifts from their cell phone. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** InitLive gives us true transparency into where our staff/volunteers are when they're on-site. We can instantly have our 300+ employees cell numbers on hand, and are able to send out push notifications for last-minute needs (like chair drops!) Adoption of the app is high because we can put relevant documents and lots of information the volunteers want to have at their fingertips! ### 30. Music for All/Bands of America **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Music | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** Very user friendly for both building on the backend and for users who want to sign up. The app is very easy to understand and useful for on-site management **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** I can't think of anything major that we disliked or didn't allow us to use the app to its fullest extent! **Recommendations to others considering Bloomerang Volunteer:** If you are looking for a system that has a user friendly app, InItLive is great! **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use InItLive to both schedule volunteers for one of our larger events, and to communicate with them on-site. The biggest benefit/solution has been the ability to message all volunteers at once through the app instead of needing to export email addresses. **Official Response:** > Thank you for your review. We love working with Music for All/Bands of America and can't wait for your next event. ### 31. Very good experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sports | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** easy sign up for volunteers visual look of the system ability to pull various reports **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** the lack of cut and paste or duplication of program elements across multiple days Ability to break up the list of volunteers into multiple days, etc. **Recommendations to others considering Bloomerang Volunteer:** Once the system is set up, it is very easy to use. You just have to get used to using the system.The volunteer communication piece is a great feature and easy to use. There are several different reports you can run. This allows us to track and analyze data way easier then any other system we've used. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Volunteer assignments for events ### 32. Customer Service is Key at InitLive **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Events Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** Our requests are met with quick responses and solutions. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** I forget where things are located and have to dig around a bit to find what I am looking for. **Recommendations to others considering Bloomerang Volunteer:** The product is good and is always improving. The customer service is fantastic! **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We do conferences with about 50 volunteers scheduled throughout several days. InitLive has made our schedule management so much easier! Being able to send out a group notification without having to create a group text for every conference is fantastic! **Official Response:** > Hi there, we're so glad to hear that you've had great customer service from the team and that your experience using InitLive has been a great one! Thanks for your thoughtful review. ### 33. It Works! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Events Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** The best thing about InItLive is the ability to allow volunteers to manage themselves. We used this sytem for the first time in 2017. The ease of moving all the information from the 2017 setup into the 2018 event was remarkable. The more we use the system, the more we love it. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** We dislike that we are unable to use the system year round. The cost is prohibitive. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We manage a three-day music festival with over 1,000 volunteers. InItLive allows us to plan ahead and make sure that all the important volunteer roles are covered for the week-end. **Official Response:** > Thank you for your review. We're glad to hear you had a great experience in 2017 and are finding this year's setup even easier. Feel free to reach back out regarding our year-round community licenses. We're happy to discuss pricing with you to ensure we find a solution that meets your needs and budget. Thanks again! ### 34. Great product for online mobile volunteer management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laura B. | Director of events, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** Online checkin via mobile device is the best we have found **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** how reports look formatting for distributing paper sign up is complicated **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Volunteer management ### 35. InitLive Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** I like that I can see everything on the InitLive app and that I don't need to print out the master schedule. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** That not all volunteers and/or staff can communicate via the InitLive app. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to put together our staff plan for our biannual conferences online. In the past in putting together the staff plan, I took weeks to master as you had to make sure staff and volunteers weren't double booked. The InitLive app/website does this for you. So it cuts down on a lot of unnecessary time creating a staff plan yourself. **Official Response:** > Hi there, thanks for your review. We're so glad to hear that InitLive has saved you time during the scheduling process. We'd love to learn more about your communication needs - please feel free to discuss this feature request with your Customer Success Rep. Thanks again! ### 36. Love the application. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** I think that the set up is pretty easy and I love the reports. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** Not much to dislike as it is meeting our needs for the use of the application. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use this application to manage our volunteers at our largest users conference. **Official Response:** > Thank you for leaving a review! We're happy to hear that InitLive is meeting your needs for you user conference. ### 37. Extremely happy all around **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Events Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** Customer service is excellent and simplicity of site is wonderful! **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** I wish there was a sort option on the staff page to filter by certain categories. (But I do believe they said they are working on this option for an update). **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Site has helped with efficiency overall due to the simplicity of using it. **Official Response:** > So glad you've had a positive experience with us so far! We are absolutely looking at sorting on the Staff List. In the meantime, we hope you're enjoying and making use of the filtering capabilities. Thanks again! ### 38. Reliable volunteer app, so our volunteers are accountable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Bloomerang Volunteer?** Easy Volunteer Check In will be the best. **What do you dislike about Bloomerang Volunteer?** the csv export, could be better., it includes a header for each category, and I can't choose. **Recommendations to others considering Bloomerang Volunteer:** Give yourself time to learn the ins and outs of the program. **What problems is Bloomerang Volunteer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Volunteers who sign in and don't show up for shifts, emergency connections in case we need every staff member to know what to do. **Official Response:** > Hi there, thank you for your review! 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