The most helpful feature of Virtuous is the clarity offered by their gift import process. It allows you to see a snapshot of the donor record you're adding a new gift to in order to cross-check previous gift data without having to navigate to a new window. I also like that mailing is intergrated so notes are automatically added to a donor's profile every time they receive an email and if they open it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There are quiet a few features about Virtuous that have proven unhelpful or nonintuitive to the needs of our organization. The grants tracking feature is too separate from individual records and cannot be organized in an easy to use way over a simple excel spreadsheet. The mail and email creation wizard is archaic, relying on users to know HTML fluently for more customization than just basic structures. Virtuous's integration with RaiseDonors is underdeveloped, commonly leaving valuable data behind in RD upon gift imports. The relationships and contacts system is underdeveloped causing duplicate names to be a requirement in order to have correct contacts for organizations and foundations that also give on personal levels. The Dashboards system is restricted to using the Virtuous system a certain way - it doesn't provide flexibility for using the Campaigns structure in a way that suits the organization. The annual review was non-transparent and created confusion upon our first renewal and accidental renewal of features that provided no helpful insight to our fundraising strategies: DonorSearch Wealth Reporting and Social Insights. Overall, the cons outweigh the pros with Virtuous and though we have tried to utilize features that do help our fundraising strategies, such as automations, they also come with flaws that prevent their potential from being seen. Finally, through the many issues we've run into with Virtuous, tech support gives us base level assistance before being passed off to higher level support structures with long wait times, often not coming to a solution in any timely manner to use the system as needed. We have found our own systems with excel spreasheets have proven more reliable than many features offered through the Virtuous system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
