Alternative to Snap-Raise
Snap-Raise and Givebutter can both help teams raise money - but which is more effective?
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✔ Beautiful, donor-centric pages
✔ Add GIFs, drawings, images to donations
✔ Trackable team fundraising
✔ Personalized pages with video support
✔ Trackable team fundraising
✔ Personalized pages with video support
Snap-Raise is best known for sports team crowdfunding, and their pages are mostly well-equipped for doing so. They offer team fundraising and the ability to personalize pages. However, where Snap-Raise really falls short is in their donor experience.
Givebutter offers fundraising pages that place a much greater 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.
Learn more about Givebutter's fundraising pages and see a live demo here.
Snap-Raise is primarily a crowdfunding platform, but it's worth noting that the company still lacks basic donation functionality across its site.
Givebutter offers a simple yet powerful donation form for collecting donations, dues, and other payments, which you can embed right your website as a donate button/form or host on Givebutter.com. This same form powers payments all across the Givebutter platform, and can be fully customized to meet your payment processing needs.
Did you know? Givebutter is the only fundraising platform to integrate with Venmo, the leader in mobile payments.
Learn more about collecting donations on Givebutter and see a live demo of a donation form here.
✔ Sell unlimited paid and free tickets
✔ Ask for optional donations on top of each ticket
✔ Collect donations from people who can't attend
✔ Add fundraising features like a goal bar, supporter feed, team fundraising, and much more
Snap-Raise does not support selling tickets or adding event details to fundraising pages, so here is a sad puppy :(
Givebutter makes it dead-simple to sell tickets to events while maximizing dollars raised through a combination of encouraging attendees to add donations to their ticket purchases, and allowing you to still collect donations from people who can't attend. Additionally, events on Givebutter come with every fundraising feature built-in, so you have the option to set a fundraising goal, invite your team to create personalized fundraising pages, engage with donors and attendees in the supporter feed, and more.
Learn more about events on Givebutter and see a live demo of an event page here.
✔ Track and manage donors, attendees, members, and fundraisers over time
✔ Withdraw funds at any point during your campaigns via check or bank (takes 5-7 business days)
✔ Invite unlimited users with distinct roles and permissions
𝗫 Wait weeks for a check to arrive in the mail
✔ Invite unlimited users with distinct roles and permissions
Snap-Raise is not built for long-term fundraising success. Every time you start a Snap-Raise campaign you are starting from scratch, whereas on Givebutter every piece of data you collect is stored in a secure central dashboard for you to access and utilize for future fundraisers.
Givebutter provides a suite of tools not on Snap-Raise that are particularly useful for groups, nonprofits, teams, and small nonprofits. On Givebutter you can invite and manage roles for unlimited members, receive paper checks in the mail (as well as bank or debit transfers), integrate with thousands of third-party apps such as Mailchimp, and more.
Learn more about Givebutter's free all-in-one platform for long-term fundraising success.
+ 30¢ / transaction
+ $0 / month
✔ Over 95% of donors cover fees
✔ Fees are transparent to donors
✔ Per-transaction fees under 5%
✔ Average campaign keeps 99.5%
(Not a joke)
𝗫 No donors cover fees
𝗫 Fees are not transparent
𝗫 Per transaction fees over 25%
𝗫 Average campaign keeps 70% or less
We don't know how to put this lightly... so we won't. Snap-Raise's fees are absurd. Plain and simple. Their pricing is not listed online, but you can check out this link for hundreds of comments complaining about their complete lack of transparency and outrageously large fees.
Givebutter, on the other hand, takes some of the lowest fees in the industry and makes them completely transparent. Givebutter offers fixed transaction fees lower than 5%, which over 95% of donors voluntarily cover, resulting in an average overall fee to fundraisers of just 0.5% - the lowest in the industry.
You might be wondering how this is possible, which is a very valid question. Essentially, Snap-Raise invests a lot in its sales & training program, and makes up for this cost by charging you more. Givebutter takes a more passive approach, which helps us save significantly in cost, and charge you less. That said, Givebutter's support is still available to you 24/7 and typically responds in less than an hour (24 hours max). See for yourself and send us a message!
Givebutter is a self-service platform - it's completely free to sign up, get set up, and start fundraising – all in a matter of minutes. Read our getting started guides here!
Please note that for the purposes of this comparison we used the pricing for Givebutter's Fundraise product, since it is the closest in relevance to Snap-Raise's full offering.
