Growing with FundRaiser is designed to be easy

Explore the many features in FundRaiser Software

The following items are standard features found in all three of our products; for a detailed look at each product, view our FundRaiser Family Comparison Chart or navigate to the individual product pages.

Track detailed Membership information: expiration dates, renewals, membership levels & more.

Membership Management

Easily see detailed giving statistics at a glance, including last gift, total contributions, and more.

Detailed Giving Statistics

Create highly detailed, customized correspondence for mail or email in the built-in Word Processor.

Customizable Letter Templates

Accept online donations and recurring gifts, which seamlessly integrate with your website and FundRaiser.

Seamless Online Donations

Phase 1:

Announcement of the phase-out. This occurred in August 2012. We announced that we will be phasing-out our single and multi user licenses in favor of either the Client/Server license or FundRaiser Hosted. This was due to increasing limitations of the antiquated licenses; customers were reporting very slow speeds when accessing FundRaiser on their network, and our development team was reporting that these licenses were not functioning properly in certain networking environments or on new Operating Systems. This lead us to shift our customers to the Client/Server license or the Hosted platform, both of which are built on cutting-edge technology allowing for optimal performance.

Phase 2:

In this phase, we will discontinue program updates for single and multi user licenses. Beginning in September 2015 (three full years after we announced the mandatory upgrade), all FundRaiser updates and new features will require the Client/Server license or the Hosted platform. We will also phase-out the sale price of the Client/Server license on October 31st - our vendor has mandated this.

Phase 3 (current phase):

Finally, we will discontinue Support for single and multi user licenses. This phase will begin on August 1st, 2016. After August 2016, we will no longer support the single or multi user licenses for FundRaiser. All customers who wish to retain our Support services must upgrade by then.

How will upgrading to Client/Server benefit you?

FundRaiser will be FASTER.

In the Client/Server version, FundRaiser will still be installed locally, on your machine. What's different is the way you see and access your data from your workstations.

When a user runs the program, it does not open the files directly, as it does in the Multi-User platform. Instead, the server opens the files on behalf of the client (the user at the workstation) and provides whatever data from the files that they need. When the user makes changes, their program sends those changes back to the server, which inserts it into the data files for them. This results in significantly less network traffic, and substantial speed differences.

FundRaiser will be MORE SECURE.

Because the workstation is not actually running the entire program over your network, as it does with Multi-User, the Client/Server version results in significant risk reduction in terms of data corruption. Should you experience a server crash or power failure, for example, it has built-in failsafes that will automatically restore the data back to the last complete transaction. This is not true of the Multi-User version.

Additionally, added security measures can be taken on the server to protect the data against intrusion or theft.

FundRaiser can have automatic ONLINE DONATIONS

With the Client/Server license, you can use our Donor Portal for Online Donations to receive and record online donations automatically! The Donor Portal also gives your donors the option of creating an account so they can log-in in the future and donate again, see past giving history, print receipts, reports, etc. And, coming soon, they will also be able to set up and manage recurring donations!

FundRaiser can be accessed REMOTELY.

If you would like to be able to log-in to FundRaiser from home or while you're traveling, you'll need the Client/Server license. With Client/Server, you will be able to use a remote desktop service and a Virtual Private Network to access FundRaiser from anywhere.

Online, Hosted, or Installed Donor Management Software

FundRaiser is designed to fit your needs perfectly; each of our three software packages include a unique set of features and functions designed to support all of your development goals, and they can each be installed in a variety of environments to fit your deployment and access needs, as well:

   FundRaiser Installed: If you wish to install and maintain the software locally on your own equipment, you can purchase the software license and manage the maintenance and networking with the assistance of our unrivaled Customer Support Team.

   FundRaiser Online: For convenient online access and Mac-compatibility, combined with low start-up costs, the online version is the way to go. Lighten the IT load on your organization with automatic software updates and regularly-scheduled automatic backups.

   FundRaiser Hosted: A hybrid of the installed and online options, the hosted version allows you to purchase the software license and pay FundRaiser a low monthly to host it online for you. You get the best of both worlds: you own the software and can take it back offline at any time, but you get the ease of online access, Mac-compatibility, and reduced IT load on your organization.

Growing with FundRaiser is designed to be easy

We believe that using any of our FundRaiser programs will help you raise more money for your organization and streamline your fundraising efforts. This success may cause growth within your organization, and, as your organization grows and your needs evolve, you will start to need more out of your donor management software.

We believe that your fundraising software should grow with you, so we have designed FundRaiser to do just that.

As you begin to need more functionality from your software, you have a few options:

• If you need online access, you can upgrade to our Hosted platform easily, while retaining ownership of your software license.
• If you have FundRaiser Spark, you can upgrade to either FundRaiser Select or FundRaiser Professional with ease; all of your data transfers seamlessly, you receive full credit for your previous purchase, and the interface is familiar so there is a minimal learning curve.
• If you have FundRaiser Select, you can either add modules to Select to enhance its functionality, or you can upgrade to FundRaiser Professional and experience the same familiar interface that you have become comfortable with, while taking advantage of all of Professional's advanced features.
• If you have FundRaiser Professional, well, you've already started at the top, but there are still a couple options: you can add users, add the Donor Portal, or even upgrade to the Hosted version. If you keep your maintenance plan current, you'll also receive all the updates and new features for Professional for free!

The growth path has been designed to make the process easy and fast -- all the FundRaiser programs have the same look and feel, so you'll be right at home immediately. Every bit of your data your data converts seamlessly from one program to the next.

Perhaps the best part of moving up within the FundRaiser Family is that you won't lose any money. Our policy is that every penny you've paid toward purchasing the license for any of the FundRaiser programs counts toward the purchase of any of the programs higher up the ladder. In addition, all of our programs come with a 90-day money back satisfaction guarantee.

So, no matter where you start or where you finish, you can't lose with FundRaiser Software.

 

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