MobileCause's basics package offers the ability to customize fields and personalized confirmation pages, but it is not clear if the basics package offers customized branding, custom donations amounts, and custom URLs.

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Givebutter offers a robust online donation form. Givebutter’s donation form is fully customizable to streamline branding but requires no custom coding. You can easily embed Givebutter’s online donation form right into your website host to boost web traffic. Or, if you want, you can still use Givebutter.com to host your donation form. This same form can be fully customized to meet your payment processing needs and is the only fundraising platform to integrate with Venmo.

MobileCause, as its name suggests, is a platform that primarily emphasizes mobile fundraising. They offer a robust text-to-donate feature, not unlike Givebutter. MobileCause also offers some of the same features as Givebutter, such as live streaming capabilities (through their event platform), and optional goals & timelines. However, the Basics package does not offer peer-to-peer fundraising. You are not able to fully tap into your network (besides social media) for fundraising help without paying an extra fee.

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Givebutter offers fundraising pages that place a much higher focus on the supporters of a fundraising campaign, creating a living, breathing campaign experience full of stories and creative messages of support. Givebutter is fully optimized for team and group fundraising and allows for individual members to join campaigns, customize their pages, and easily receive credit for donations they help bring in.

MobileCause offers event ticketing pages that also serves as the central hub of the campaign. The page includes all the necessary information including a livestream of your event. Like Givebutter, MobileCause’s check-out process consists of the capability to ask supporters to donate on top of each ticket. Unlike Givebutter, MobileCause event pages do not appear to include essential convenience plug-ins such as Google Maps and Add to Calendar buttons. Although they offer branded e-tickets/PDF tickets, it is not clear if you can sell unlimited ticket types, offer promo codes, or private events.

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Givebutter offers a start-to-finish event and ticketing process. Events on Givebutter come with all the fundraising tools you might need built right in. These include 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, attendees can add donations to their ticket purchases, and you can collect donations from non-attendees.

MobileCause, simply put, does not offer a robust platform for long-term fundraising success in their Basics Package. Although they offer account and campaign reports, it appears they don’t offer the necessary detail in these reports that is beneficial for long-term fundraising success.

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Givebutter stores every piece of data you collect in a secure central dashboard for you to access and utilize for future fundraisers. Givebutter provides a suite of tools, not on MobileCause, that are particularly useful for groups, nonprofits, and teams. For example, you can invite and manage roles for unlimited members, receive paper checks in the mail (as well as bank or debit transfers), and integrate with thousands of third-party apps such as Mailchimp, Quickbooks, Google Sheets, and more.