Classy is possibly best known for its easy-to-use fundraising software for nonprofit organizations that accepts 130+ currencies. Classy’s donation forms are mobile-optimized and the donor data can be easily integrated with Salesforce for an additional fee. However, Classy’s donation form excludes Venmo integration, as well as the ability to embed the form into personal website hosts.

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Givebutter offers an intuitive and powerful online donation form. Givebutter’s donation form is fully customizable to streamline branding but requires no custom coding. Unlike Classy, you can easily embed Givebutter’s online donation form right into your website to boost web traffic. Don’t worry; you can still use Givebutter.com to host your donation form if you want to. This same form can be fully customized to meet your payment processing needs, including Venmo, PayPal, Apple Pay, all major credit cards, offline payments, and more! Givebutter is the only fundraising platform to integrate with Venmo, the leader in mobile payments.

Classy’s fundraising pages include stand-alone donation pages, crowdfunding, and peer-to-peer pages. These fundraising pages have a professional appearance with standard features - fully branded, personalized, and can include teams. However, Classy falls short in its donor experience. Classy’s supporter feeds do not include more personalized messaging capabilities or the ability to embed the donation pages into your website. Plus, if you want to see a demo of Classy’s fundraising pages, you have to request a demo and wait.

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Givebutter’s fundraising campaign pages offer a next-level donor experience. How? Three words: Live. Supporter. Feed. Givebutter's Supporter Feeds are filled with stories, encouraging messages, GIFs, drawings, and images from supporters themselves to rally more donations. The supporter feed mimics the user-experience of social media, so it feels more fun and engaging for supporters. More than 80 percent of users leave messages! Givebutter offers live demos on-demand for ALL fundraising pages so you can see for yourself: donation collection,events, and peer-to-peer. Givebutter, like Classy, is fully optimized for team fundraising. It allows individual members to join customized campaigns, quickly receive credit for the online donations they help bring in, and even send scheduled emails to donors!

Classy offers event ticketing pages for purchasing tickets and making donations. Both options include a simple check-out process. Like Givebutter, Classy’s check-out process consists of the capability to ask supporters to donate on top of each ticket. Unlike Givebutter, Classy’s event pages do not include important convenience plug-ins such as Google Maps and Add to Calendar buttons. It is not clear if you can sell unlimited tickets, including free tickets, or how easy the email reminders and day-of registration ticketing process is.

Givebutter has a start-to-finish event and ticketing process. Events on Givebutter come with all fundraising tools built right in. That way, you have the option of setting a fundraising goal, inviting your team to create personalized online fundraising pages, engaging with your donors and attendees in the Supporter Feed, and more. Best of all, with events on Givebutter, you will maximize dollars raised by incorporating live event features like Text-to-Donate and Scan-to-Give. Attendees can add donations to their ticket purchases, and you can collect donations from those who can't attend.

Learn more about event ticketing on Givebutter and see a live demo here.

Classy offers a united digital fundraising and marketing donor management platform to enhance the donor experience at scale worldwide. Classy’s nonprofit CRM platform includes robust reporting features and is the preferred partner of Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud. However, it may be more robust than smaller organizations, groups, teams, and nonprofit organizations need or can afford in the long-haul to be the right solution.

Givebutter stores every piece of data you collect in a secure central all-in-one donor management dashboard for you to access and utilize for future online fundraising. Givebutter provides a suite of fundraising tools, not on Classy, that are particularly useful for small groups, nonprofits, and teams. For example, you can invite and manage roles for unlimited members and integrate with thousands of third-party apps such as Mailchimp, Venmo, Quickbooks, Google Sheets, and more. Unlike Classy, which charges $5,000+ per year for access to its CRM tools, Givebutter’s CRM platform is completely free forever.

Learn more about Givebutter's free all-in-one platform for long-term online fundraising success.