Salsa CRM Reviews

Since 2003 we have purchased, leased, been granted and explored too many databases to count. Until we finally found our home with SALSA. The team is constantly upgrading and adding features, the customer support is absolutely unparalleled, and their dedication to the end-user is obvious in the features they have and those that they've added over the years we've been with them.

Every software CRM has issues. One of the things that sets SALSA apart from all of the others is their customer service team. They go the extra mile and then they just keep going even further to work with you, fix any issue you're having, suggest new features to the development team based on your needs....they are just the absolute best.

I'm not as fond of their donation processing partner. For example, if a donor wants to increase their giving amount you have to cancel their old donation and they have to go in and create a whole new donation.

Some of their training material leaves a lot out, but the responsiveness of their support team more than makes up for that.

Do it! You won't regret it!

I’ve been with SALSA now for several years. In the beginning I kept trying to make it Network for Good - which I left because they were so non-responsive, but they do have good interfaces and options, and their donation processing is a breeze. But the reality is, that I left NFG because I couldn’t get what I wanted. From my first day with SALSA, though, the team behind the product stood out and they jumped through hoops and turned somersaults to make me happy and get me the training I needed. I even got a call from the President of the company to talk about what I was experiencing and to make sure I was getting what I needed. I can’t imagine any other company with a “the customer comes first” culture that reaches all the way to the top.

No matter what I come up with that I want to do, I find that there’s a way to do it in SALSA (except around the donations!). I would recommend this product to anyone and everyone without reservations!

Salsa CRM is adaptable to our small non-profit. It is configurable to enable us to report on exactly what we need wrt our donors, volunteers and clients. Customer support is quick, responsive, thinks of out of the box solutions based on my actual needs.

User interface is fairly blah and there is SO much functionality it takes a while to dig deep to find it all. Still learning the system after a year.

Try it out. Watch the short intro videos on the functionality. Talk to me about the system!

Ease of reports, capturing volunteer hours, success of various program based on attendance we can track, etc

We switched from the classic Salsa platform to the new Salsa CRM. The training team was very patient as we proceed at our own pace. All training sessions have been very well organized. The interface of the new Salsa has been very easy to work with so far.

I can't think of anything that I dislike right now.

Definitely participate in their training sessions, and watch their training videos

We need a CRM that is intuitive, customizable and easy to use, so that our small staff of volunteers help us manage our donors and supporters.. We also need a system that helps us raise funds. I like that Salsa CRM connects with Salsa Engage where we can create fundraising pages, contact pages, etc that link back to the CRM.

The training and support team are by far the best part. Learning new software can be difficult and Salsa has programs that help you learn everything you need to know and more! They share best practices info and customized solutions for your non profit. They are always willing to help and email support is very fast!

The message composers can be cumbersome in some ways. Not totally user friendly but still works well. Some small issues that the developers are working on like alignment of text and images (text wrapping) and social media buttons.

Good way to consolidate softwares and great software to use if you want help getting familiar with it.

We are consolidating some of our software into Salsa and it's nice to have one place to do it all.

The Salsa team is knowledgeable and friendly. They even remember your name. Clay Rios is very good at his job plus he makes me laugh. I always look forward to speaking with him. But all of the Salsa support team are helpful.

There are afternoon times when you are put on hold. There is better pick up service in the mornings.

I would strongly consider Salsa CRM versus others on the market. The support team is top notch. Salsa contains all the bells and whistles for data management and mining, email blasts, fundraising, etc.

Salsa takes care of all my data management, fundraising, emails, and thank you notes. I probably use a small percentage of its capabilities, but it suits our nonprofit needs.

The Salsa Community and Support team are evidence of the adage, "people are the best asset". The platform is intuitive and simple enough to learn and the support crew answer questions promptly and with kindness -no matter how technically illiterate one might be! I think sometimes platforms can be too technical or intimidatingly detailed, but SALSA simplifies code, donor management, email and online fundraising. They have put together the ingredients that I need as a small to mid-size nonprofit.

I sometimes get lost trying to change code myself to clean up little details like newsletter structure or donation page columns or text. But the support staff typically resolve these issues quickly. Also, I always have to remind staff to SAVE edits and I think SALSA could implement an auto save feature or something.

I would recommend SALSA particularly to small to mid-size nonprofits looking to manage donor supporters, campaign and email blast, online fundraise and run ticketing. There is great functionality and it fits the energetic grassroots feel.

We are a conservation nonprofit working with local communities to resolve global issues. Wild Forests and Fauna protects and restores globally important forests. We do this by building conservation and entrepreneurial capacity in local partners in order to set up long-term sustainable success. SALSA has helped us to communicate with supporters around the globe, to fundraise online from donors around the globe, to better manage our supporters and donors in a database and to streamline administrative processes to some extent. SALSA is helping us to more effectively and efficiently protect and restore forests.

Before we got started with Salsa, our disability rights group had member and donation data in various spreadsheets, free platforms, and our heads. Now, it's all in one place (a major deal), and we can see more clearly how our members interact with us over time. In addition, Salsa staff has always been very responsive and helpful when we need them.

We don't have any one in the office who is fluent in html code, and that has been our main stumbling block with Salsa. While most of the functions are fine for us, there have been several occasions where we've been at a loss with getting a page to look or work correctly, and we had to get help from Salsa staff or our contract web developers.

Have a clear idea of the functions you want the CRM to perform beforehand and get training, assistance with set up on those items from the start.

Tracking donations and member actions. Improving our email campaigns. Bringing Salsa tools to the table when doing coalition work.

What I like best about Salsa CRM is it's easy to use. Our organization was able to save thousands of dollars by switching to Salsa CRM without losing any features we currently had and gaining some we didn't.

My biggest complaint about the software has been the way a good chunk of our old database was converted into Salsa. It left is with some challenges. The other thing I dislike would have to be having to use open office for our documents. It would be nice if Salsa was compatible with Microsoft Office and I'm not crazy about the way we have to do our receipting. We've had to change that process completely which is something I wasn't expecting when we signed up. That's not as much of a dislike as a hiccup.

It could save you alot of money potentially. Make sure you ask all the right questions in order to make sure you get everything you need.

By switching to Salsa CRM, we've been able to fully integrate our P2P Fundraising and our online fundraising with our database. With a staff of 3, this is a huge time saver. We've also been able to take advantage of features like honour/memorial giving and event management that we were unable to do before because of the added cost.

We were using spreadsheets and Salsa put all of our donors into one place and allowed us to easily communicate with them through Engage. We now have history on our donors and can easily track their participation with our organization. The best part was online event management, it freed up staff from taking reservations and answering questions. The process is all online and easy for our guests to utilize.

The word processor took some getting used to, but once we learned how to it worked fine. Individual letter editing saved lots of time.

The ongoing support is excellent. Any question or issues that I had were handled efficiently; the over the phone support is invaluable.

Improved donor management, event management and e-mail messaging that is all tracked together.

Getting reports from queries is easy and allows me to drill down and filter so that I am getting exactly what I need for a project. The best part about Salsa is your staff that helps me get what I need. I have worked with Clay, from Pittsburgh many times and he is polite, knowledgeable, efficient and ALWAYS provides excellent customer service, teaches me short cuts and is extremely thorough and does not end our session unless I am satisfied that I received everything I requested.

I did not receive training when I assumed my position so I need to spend time getting familiar with Salsa. Unfortunately, my duties and responsibilities prevent me from taking the necessary training modules to become adept at using Salsa. I long for in-person/on site training for our staff!

We are able to segment and target donors for appeals which has resulted in a greater financial return.

I love all the features and capabilities of Salsa

The tech support is really lacking. It takes a LONG time to get an response and the fact that you have to go back and forth over email 1 question at a time means a simple questions or issue can take DAYS to resolve. The system is really complicated and even though they do have some videos to get you started the quality is not great and they barely scratch the surface on how to best use all the features.

I suggest watching some of the tutorial video first so you can see if the system makes sense to you and have a better idea of the questions you will need to ask your sales rep.

Member management, we are replacing an antiquated not user friendly system with a much more user friendly and flexible system. We non longer need to have our IT team pull member information for us our team can pull up the information they need quickly and easily.

The email and form platforms available in Salsa Engage. The Salsa Engage training was great and very helpful!

That Salsa CRM doesn't 'talk' with Salsa Engage, and there wasn't the same level of training available with the CRM platform as their was with Engage.

Great database for managing constituents, however, because it doesn't talk back to Engage you have to make sure if you adjust a donation, you do it in both platforms.

Keeping track of constituents, their donations and contact information. We have a much more organized organization than prior to using the Salsa Platform.

I love the new platform. We previously had Salsa classic and it was great, but this is much more user-friendly. I also love that it's integrated into the fundraising software. The cost savings is going to be great and it's a better product.

There are some features it doesn't yet have on the fundraising side. We can't get an email notification whenever someone donates like we could with Network for Good. I've also noticed some features from Salsa classic aren't quite up and running, but I'm confident these will be fixed in the future.

I love this and think it will make your life easier. Be patient during implementation (it takes a while).

Our data entry on the fundraising side is going to be a lot less time consuming, freeing up our fundraising coordinator to do more fundraising.

The diverse features available and they are always updating to stay current with trends! I am grateful for the constant updates and the variety of options available.

The implementation was a bit rocky but customer service worked with us a lot and we got through it! We were moving from google drive and several other platforms for ticket sales, emails, etc. so we didn't have any experience with this. It eventually all worked out and the Salsa team really stepped up to accommodate our needs.

Our experience with salsa has been great overall! The biggest challenge was the transition process. We were moving from google drive and several other platforms for ticket sales, emails, etc. so we didn't have any experience with this. It eventually all worked out and the Salsa team really stepped up to accommodate our needs.

We are managing our database and fundraising. It has been amazing to streamline the two! We used to use several platforms for all of our needs and we found that it was nearly impossible to maintain accurate records that way, the inconsistency was inevitable. Salsa has really helped us solve that issue by creating a system (with a reasonable price tag) that talks to one another. For example, a ticket sale online will go directly into a record!

Salsa CRM is straightforward and easy to use and how it can be used only grows as my understanding of the system grows. I like the ability to easily tie in fundraising abilities, donor management, and reports. Using one app for all of our needs as a non-profit saves me a lot of time and stress.

At no fault of the system it can take some time to learn how to best utilize Salsa CRM for our needs. I've also had some issues using the documents portion of the site. It feels a little clunky sometimes uploading and saving and linking documents to send letters to constituents. Especially needing to use OpenOffice specifically instead of some built in templates.

We are able to keep track of our donors and run reports on our donors easily. As a growing non-profit it has been essential to start from the ground up with software that can help keep information about our organization clear and organized.

There are a lot of aspects of Salsa CRM that I enjoy. It is easy to use, and the reporting is very robust. The custom fields are great and plug into letters where they are supposed to. I also like the membership which does a good job of helping us keep track of our memberships.

There are a couple of small items, but nothing too big. In a past CRM (which for the most part was NOT good), we had the capability to create a query/report and then schedule it update and email out to different people on a regular basis. Salsa doesn't allow you to do that, so reports I run weekly I have to be run manually. Not a huge deal though.

Take advantage of the free trial.

Being able to keep track of our donors and have detailed information about them.

Salsa has an easy to use template system for drafting email blasts. Uploading a specific template I can use again and again allow me to focus on the content of my message rather than the coding for the appearance of the email. This function allows me to waste no time in alerting followers of important developments in my area of work.

Advocacy pages become active immediately - namely before I issue my call to action email. An option for simultaneous posting would be great.

Salsa is an easy to use, effective method to community with groups quickly and to promote advocacy of your organizations issues!

Using Salsa to create email blasts and promulgate action letters has been very effective during the legislative session. The ability to send an email instructing an individual to reach out to their representative then have a call to action button imbedded in the email has lead to massive responses in support and in opposition to legislative bills.

The software is very intuitive which makes navigating easier. Most questions can be answered by using the online help, but if a phone call is necessary the staff is very accommodating.

The overall type is very small. This might be something I'm doing or not doing but I often get different donation amounts depending on how I pull the data, I would like to be able to add fields to a set query. There may be a way and I just don't know about it.

Ease of gathering data and reporting.

I like the ease of use of the product and the friendliness of the staff the best. We've used the software for many years and continue to be satisfied with it.

Wish it would interface with mip. Not really a big dislike but something that would shorten the processes we have internally.

Demo the software and find other nonprofits who are using it and ask them lots of questions.

Don't just consider your immediate needs but consider what your CRM needs will be in 5-10 years from now. Make sure your CRM can grow with you.

We are better able to run queries and reports to get the desired results instead of fighting with the CRM's reporting mechanism like we had to do before we used Salsa CRM.

Salsa CRM has been outstanding. We feel it is easy to use and has so many features for managing constituents. The dashboards are easily customized, and the platform itself is intuitive. The training that was provided was and continues to be essential for success.

The platform is very robust and could be confusing for some people. However, I think that the training that is provided addresses this. Like new platform there is a learning curve.

We love using Salsa CRM. We use it combined with Salsa Engage but as a stand alone it is a great platform for constituent management.

The reporting and dashboards are a dream come true. As an executive director I like having the stats and reports at my fingertips.

Salsa has a great support staff to help pull some of the complicated reports regarding donations and our supporters. Their email and event abilities help manage our outreach effectively. Its display is colorful and more easily absorbed when trying to get acquainted with the software.

Some of the information gets cluttered, especially when trying to group individuals. Lots of steps involved in sending an email out to a specific group. Also easily cleaning up errors in individual supporters profiles are time consuming and tedious.

Some benefits of using Salsa is that it has helped organize our data and eliminated outdated excel worksheets for our data. And we are able to engage more often and more effectively with our supporters.

I like that there are a ton of categories in one person so you can get a really thorough picture of one of your constituents. Once you get a hang of it, it can be relatively easy to keep everything together. I like that it keeps emails, actions, events, donations, and more all in one place.

Unfortunately, a lot. I don't love that you can't categorize events, that you can't search for people or events without being EXACT in your words, or that the front end sometimes looks unprofessional to someone visiting a site. There are also just a lot of bugs - maybe that's every CRM, but it's really frustrating. I don't like that editing emails can be REALLY time consuming, and often the finished product looks really ugly. you also need to learn coding to send emails, which you shouldn't have to do, but editing emails without coding is hard. It would also be great if it connected to Facebook events.

We are a nonprofit trying to keep track of our constituents and also take action by organizing people to reach out to legislative officials, and we can do those things with Salsa.

Salsa Engage is an easy-to-use platform for our event registrations, petitions, email blasts, etc. With very little training my coworkers and I are able to set up and send emails and I set up my first petition the other day - it was very easy and has gotten a lot of activity!

We had very little training and since this is a new product, we have found a lot of glitches that we have had to work around until they are fixed. It has been frustrating, but their support is getting quicker at responding to our requests. This is a new product, so the support people I speak to don't have much experience with it, so there is very little that they can fix right away. I am hopeful that this will get better, and the bugs will be worked out, as the product becomes more developed.

We have been able to see a lot of great stats about our supporters. We also have cleaner looking emails and forms, and that is helping our members and supporters more easily take action and make donations.

Because our office was spread across our state, I really liked how helpful this was in connecting all of our employees in a timely manner.

I wish it were more affordable. It was too expensive for our budget. I also wish the representatives were more responsive. It took us at least one day to hear back when the system was acting glitchy.

This program is for established nonprofits. Especially with the pricing, I would only recommend this for a large organization.

We ended up not using Salsa CRM as our go-to program because of the price. We were looking for an affordable, management website.

Our small non-profit has made the leap from a more old-fashioned donor management system to Salsa's much more advanced CRM. I like how responsive Salsa has been in teaching us what we need to know, and how quick they are with suggestions and feedback.

Because this software is totally new to our team, there has been a steep learning curve. It has taken us a while to learn the system, but that seems to be based more on our own time restraints in not being able to fully use Salsa to its utmost capabilities.

Salsa has helped us get up to speed technology-wise and made our team more efficient.

We had a horrible experience with this software. I can't say anything positive about this software.

The initial conversion process took far longer than they had advertised, over 6 months. After the install we spent countless hours on the phone with their customer support. After two years of suffering we switched to a new software. We had to use workarounds every time just to simply print out acknowledgment letters.

This product did not work for our organization.

We used it as our donor management software.

I really like how DonorPro makes querying very easy and if you are ever in need of assistance or run into problems with anything the help desk is just one phone call away. I consider myself to be a pretty advanced user and I still run into problems that they are able to help me with right away, with almost no waiting period!

Sometimes I feel as though you have to hit numerous save buttons on the different nodes to really save a record and that can feel a little bit tedious.

It might seem too advanced or complicated to use at first but once you take advantage of the training provided and really start using it you will come to love it and not have any problems.

We can now better segment out lists and group different donors more accurately. Also, our web giving has improved as a result of our online donation form.

Reasonably priced when compared with the competition.

Locked in to a 3 year contract, which was signed by someone who left our organization before we were up and running on Salsa CRM/Engage. We are a small nonprofit with part time all-volunteer staff. Salsa offers very little in the way of on-boarding support other than uploading data. From there, you teach yourself using online tutorials. We never got it to work, and Salsa is strong-arming us to pay thousands of dollars to get out of the contract.

It might be great for donor management, CRM, and fundraising for an organization with the time and manpower to teach themselves to use the product. Unfortunately, that does not describe our organization.

I'm still learning but looking forward to having more intuitive information about our constituents available. Need tools to move donors up the chain for larger gifts. Hoping we can track both incoming and outgoing grants as well.

Can back click!!

The training is a pain - having to watch all those videos, esp if the content isn't applicable.

Trying to become more efficient and effective. We have a tiny staff and need to maximize outreach to the best donors, not just everyone.

I like the ease of entering donor data and donations. The format is simple in design yet advanced for more diverse applications.

I have had some challenges building queries. Even when using templates and tutorials I have had challenges. We are very fortunate to have a staff member who understands everything about queries and we have been working on creating a variety of saved queries that should meet our need moving forward.

We have a more robust database thanks to Donor Pro. Our challenge will be to train others to use the system and access the data on their own. Also, the need to acquire new data from all stakeholders throughout the Agency will be a work in progress.

I particularly liked the Advanced Query Wizard. I use it a lot. It's design makes it simple to create queries in three comprehensible steps. Your available fields, output fields, and filter selections are all on the same screen minimizing the act of going in and out of screens to get your results.

There is not a whole lot of things i dislike about DonorPro CRM. There are times that it runs slowly. It meets my needs and has been a viable tool in my day to day.activities.

There is a lot of reporting in the world of Public Transportation. DonorPro allows us to manage the client data demographics for reporting. These demographics allow us to determine the areas of need for services.

The ways both deep and wide to understand and segment our audience

Would like more back-end flexibility for web pages

We used to use Constant Contact and iContact, and those didn't offer much more than "create a list, send it, and see aggregate information on results." Now we are able to target and, importantly, create a picture of our donors and subscribers to better connect with them.

I'm still learning about all the tools available through Salsa CRM. I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of what this CRM can do! In addition to the capabilities, they have great people who are quick to respond to any questions and I love that they are building a community among users. So far this is my favorite CRM that I have worked with!

I feel that a lot of the training and online help articles are very basic. I'd like to learn more about how to better utilize the tools within Salsa CRM to segment and better understand our constituents.

Maintaining accurate records. The reports within Salsa CRM are very helpful when it comes to reconciling our monthly donations with our Finance department.

The interface is fairly user-friendly and everything is pretty easy to find.

So much. There are a lot of quirks that make working in Salsa incredibly difficult, especially when you first start out. Not to mention that the support email is incredibly unhelpful.

We are a medium sized non profit that was looking for an easy to use platform.

The ease of use and intuitive functionality are very helpful for someone who is a novice to CRM software.

The internal word processor needs improvement. Has problems with formatting and is not very useful when editing or creating new documents.

Absolutely recommend this product! Great, affordable solution for non-profits and community organizations!

Donor and Constituent Management and Outreach.

This is a great software to cultivate new relationships and connect with existing ones.

I like how easy Salsa was to learn to use. For both a seasoned techie or someone afraid of tech it is easy to understand and use quickly.

I don't like that it does not directly integrate with my fund accounting software. This has to do with our fund accounting software company's unwillinginess to offer an open API and their insistence on charging a large fee to others to use their API. Not Salsa's fault.

Ask other users of the product to discuss their experience with implementing it.

When we moved to DonorPro, now SalsaCRM, we saved time and money. It is easier to segment files and enter moves management information than with our previous CRM tool.

The Advanced Query function is easy to use. The help desk is amazing. They really work to make this the best product they can.

Limitations in donation search and the amount of information that we can add to donations. The limitations on the global update feature- what it does is amazing, but there are so many other things I wish it could do!

For the price point, it's one of the most intuitive programs out there, the community around it is vibrant, and the support system is superb.

Donor and Prospect research is the biggest one.

I'm not particularly a 'technie,' so software is a challenge for me. What makes Salsa stand out is their great customer support. I would like to give a particular shout out to Llona Globa .

It's a bit annoying that the creator of this survey wants to force me to enter a negative comment.

Managing our relationship with our non-profit donors and supporters.

I like that Salsa covers -- reasonably well -- features that we would otherwise have to use several un-integrated products for -- email blasts, donation portal, write-your-legislators, event registration and management, etc.

At times, Salsa underperforms various module competitors -- it's not as user-friendly, for example, or as pretty as MailChimp for email blasts. It's not as powerful as Salsaforce for donation management. And so on.

Having an all-in-one tool outweighs the annoyances of Salsa sometimes not being as user-friendly as we'd like.

The screen to screen flow is very user friendly. I enjoy the features that are available.

There are always features that you wish you had, but let’s be honest. It gives me what I need to maintain my client database.

Managing my day to day activites and reaching my clients while minimizing those who would normally “slip through the cracks”.

The service after teh sale is off the charts. The system is powerful and as your team advances in usage they are there with webinars AND reliable and very patient, help desk support.

nothing to dislike excpet they do not clean windows!

unequivocally

relationship managment pivots off the data base and the functionality to store remind and retrieve

I felt that the software was one of the more user-friendly and intuitive donor management softwares I have encountered. Although most donor management software requires training to fully understand and know how to use all of the software's features, I felt that I was able to grasp basic and more advanced actions when using DonorPro to easily record constituent data and giving behaviors, as well as to input and pull gift batches for my organization's records. I particularly liked how relationships can be managed and linked - the current CRM that I'm using does not easily allow/display these relationships, so that it is much harder to discern when constituents have a relationship and can cause issues when trying to solicit donors or process their gifts.

I felt that the interface was outdated and that it could be updated to not only be more visually pleasing, but to also provide more shortcuts and intuitive icons so that actions were easier to complete.

I have worked with one or two other similar database softwares and would have to say that this ranks as the most user friendly I have encountered. I cannot attest to it on a very in-depth level of use of all its features, but for my more basic needs of creating and managing donor and gift information, I have been satisfied.

We are constantly looking for new ways to solicit donors and to make it as easy as possible for our staff to have donor information on hand in doing so. We are also constantly striving to make sure all of our constituents' information that we capture is correct and kept as up to date as possible, reducing our own internal margin of error and keeping any errors involving our solicitations to a minimum. We have realized that accurately captured information and constant upkeep of our database is one of the biggest ways to be as successful as possible in fostering and furthering our relationships with our donors.

The customer service has been amazing, far exceeding my expectations. When I have a question or problem, their help desk has been quick the respond with thorough answers--often including screencast video and helpful links.

I understand that Salsa CRM is still in transition from Donor Pro, so there have been some hiccups along the way. The inability to create call scripts directly in the program have been a drawback, but the other issues I expect to resolve themselves over time.

Salsa CRM has enabled us to build better queries, automate our donor receipts/communication, and track more of our contacts over time.

Variety of info can be stored and retrieved, powerful reporting features, technical support is the best in the business

Online donations cumbersome to locate, volunteer module is very weak and needs vast improvement

Smart choice but consider the growing pains as they complete the merger with DonorPro and are still implementing many new things.

We now get much more comprehensive information via reports and groupings and can also accept online donations without going through PayPal.

It fit our budget and does what we need it to do. We can consolidate services (database, CRM, email, donations, etc.) and that was helpful. Uses Paypal, too!

Limited customization, not really great for surveys, you need to be pretty web savvy to change anything.

It's very bare bones, but it is an economical choice.

Accessing our data, having a user-friendly interface, allowing multiple users to be on at the same time accessing info and running reports.

That we have all our information in one place

would like to see more training and best practice type of webinars that include how information translates between Engage and CRM

thorough understanding of integration

Finally everything in one place. No more excel spreadsheets! Reporting and analysis of donor engagement much easier to access and analyze

Very user friendly, a tech newbie could easily navigate the system. Wonderful customer service, helped us learn how to build out the system exactly how we needed it - could add our own information and get it done efficiently!

Better mobile platform. It's functional now, but I hope for something more robust in the future.

Better donor tracking, more efficient build out of fields that we need, ease of creating and pulling reports and IDing trends.

Salsa is a full-service CRM that allows organizations to manage advocacy, fundraising, and marketing all in one place.

While the service is pretty straightforward their reporting is a little frustrating. It would be best to work with someone very experienced with Salsa to get those initial reports built.

Ask them about improvements to reporting.

Deduping of constituent records and not creating new ones. Improvements in email benchmarks.

The staff and support at DonorPro are top notch. Our implementation specialist, Gina was really a dream to deal with. We've had to call a lot as we get comfortable with DonorPro and have not had a bad experience yet.

The application is pretty straightforward to use. It is very different then out old one so we're working through that but I don't think it's that hard to learn given all the features it has.

The application itself can be a little slow to respond at times. Nothing earth shattering but it can take 3-5.

You must have a reliable internet connection. There is no offline mode.

We're sending out letters, making online donations better and using donor pro to help us with events. We are also working with volunteer management. Pretty exciting stuff we had a harder time with before.

The product provides lots of customization ability, great client support, integration with donor communications/social media, and public policy advocacy, in an easy-to-use, affordable platform.

There's nothing I really don't like, but they are a newer software company so they are still adding lots of features you would expect, or they are in the pipeline.

We just started using a few months ago. It solved our problem of integrating donor data with communications and accepting online gifts that automatically go into our database..