79 Givebutter Testimonials

“[Givebutter] was so customizable. It really did allow us to make it look like a product of our organization. There's so much, in fact, customization that you can do within Givebutter for any specific event or campaign, my greatest recommendation is give yourself lots of time to go through those settings in Givebutter. Familiarize yourself with all of the different options of what all is possible and what you can do because I feel like this tool could very easily do events of different types. It worked perfectly for us in this case because we really dug into all those settings and options and made it work for us.”

"In this time of virtual events, we need something like Givebutter to make them fun, engaging, and successful. The long list of features of this robust but easy-to-use platform allows us to host an entire virtual event and it's awesome!"

“We actually looked at a lot of different options for where we wanted to host, and Givebutter ended up being by far the best for us. We love the text-to-donate. We saw a lot of people doing team fundraising. It was really great, especially the [supporter] messages down the side. Those are really special and a lot of platforms didn't have that. I would say there's a myriad of functionalities that Givebutter can use, so make sure you're exploring every feature that they offer. If you have any questions, reach out to the support team because we did a couple of times and they were very helpful.”

“The things that really stood out for Givebutter were on the backend of things. It was super simple to set up, the search engine optimization was really good, the ability to embed on our website was something that we found super useful. I guess that, along with the ability to use Venmo, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. Some other platforms, the fees range from 2.9 to about 8% combined with platform and transaction fees. But because 88% of our donors covered the fees by tipping Givebutter, our total fees only ended up being about nine-tenths of a percent.”

“We’ve found Givebutter to be very user friendly. Whenever somebody donates to a particular [team member], that information goes immediately into our donor system and it's all linked. We're saving quite a bit of money in staff time just to be able to make the donations appear in our donor system. I think being able to use the live video aspect on Givebutter was very helpful for us, especially because we had that quick change to a virtual event. I think it was really fun for our [team fundraisers] and our donors to feel like they were all still together, even though we couldn't physically be together. What's great about Givebutter is it’s so easy to use both in person and virtual.”

“Oh, this is what it's going to look like when I donate. This is the picture of the team and how I get to a specific person.”

“The ease of use to create your page, to get it out there, and to share—you do not have to be very tech savvy and can really make [the Givebutter platform] work for you. I'm not what you would call an “IT specialist,” or anything, but I found it very easy to set it up, invite everybody, have the stories, add your photos. You could make it as detailed as you wanted or you could make it as minimal as you wanted.”

“The [Givebutter} platform was very professional. I would say even if you have no idea what you're doing, just jump in. It’s really, really easy to use. If this is going to be your first time and you're trying to figure out, “Do I really want to do this?” The answer is yes. One of the really great parts about the platform is the people behind the platform. I think I sent two emails to ask questions and got answers right away. Then I had follow-up emails later saying, “Hey, just checking in with you to see if there's anything that we can do.” The platform also has all the help that you really need as you're trying to figure out how you want to set up the campaign.”

“I jumped right to Givebutter. I've used it before, I know it's a very stable product, and I can rely on it. And it has great abilities to handle international registrants, international donors, and the kind of flexibility we needed. Choose your technology wisely when it comes down to it, you need something that is reliable and something that is easy and as frictionless as possible—which Givebutter fits the bill for me.”

“We had so much fun on Givebutter. It was the perfect platform for us. What I loved about [the Givebutter platform] is we were all together and we could interact with the audience which is what we were really missing on Instagram. We're all about impact and transparency, so the fact that you could see how much we were raising together really made a difference for us. We were able to interact and people could see how they themselves were moving the needle.”

“Givebutter was a really great platform to house everything in one place. We could see the fundraising. We could have everybody create their teams. Peer-to-peer fundraising was a really big part of this, obviously, which Givebutter does extremely well. On top of that, we were able to leverage the different platforms, so they could post to Facebook. Additionally, another huge part was that Givebutter integrates with Bloomerang which we have all of our clients signed up with as their donor management platform. That made our work a lot easier! Fundraising can be really difficult. Especially in COVID. But, with Givebutter, it makes it so much easier to connect and it's very customizable, which was really helpful for us.”

“The fact that Givebutter allowed you to watch the live stream and click on the donate button and see the feedback in the live feed at the same time—we really liked that interaction. That was a key element that led us to choose Givebutter: the fact that you could have the live stream and people didn't have to leave the platform to give in the moment. I love that Givebutter had different live streaming options.”

“One of my teammates did extensive research into a variety of solutions and he came back with a hearty recommendation for Givebutter. After demoing the platform myself and seeing how well the user and admin experiences worked, I was totally sold. Givebutter was such an important and joyful partner to have in this process. It really made things a lot easier for us.”

“[Givebutter] integrates very well with Bloomerang which is our donor database. That was really important to us to have that integration. It was pretty easy to use. It gave us the functionality of being able to embed the video, and it was very inexpensive. For a nonprofit, that is so important. This in-person event usually costs us around $8,000 and this year it was so minimal. It was wonderful. It was also shocking to me that we only had five people who did not pay the fee. So 95% of our donors paid the processing fee—that was really exciting. That's above and beyond the dollar amount you see on the Givebutter page.”

“[The Givebutter platform] has integration with Venmo, QR codes—there are so many different ways, using the Givebutter platform, to make your campaign as accessible as possible. It has to be the perfect platform, and for us, it has been a wonderful and encouraging experience to work with the team at Givebutter."