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Convio Luminate (discontinued)

Score6 out of 10

18 Reviews and Ratings

What is Convio Luminate (discontinued)?

Convio Luminate was a nonprofit CRM option acquired by Blackbaud that is currently discontinued, and no longer available.

Categories & Use Cases

LCRM is not for the resource light organization

Pros

  • Acknowledgments
  • Gift Entry

Cons

  • Big Investment
  • It's a sales program with a donation management overlay so it has some troubles around reporting.

Return on Investment

  • Hard to work with
  • Resource intense

Other Software Used

EveryAction

Not a big LCRM fan...

Pros

  • Luminate takes some of the legwork out of setting up NSPS for nonprofit use of salesforce.

Cons

  • In my experience, the Blackbaud team is a nightmare to work with, and customization of Luminate CRM (or basic updates) will cost an arm and a leg.
  • Luminate imperfectly lays over the Salesforce platform, so if you use certain Salesforce functions you can really compromise the integrity of your data.
  • The layout and user experience is pretty subpar. The reporting feature is also not as robust as other databases.

Return on Investment

  • Uncertain; we have not collected data on this. Our Luminate package is quite expensive, though.

Alternatives Considered

DonorPerfect, eTapestry and The Raisers Edge

Other Software Used

Google Analytics, Concrete5, Constant Contact, MailChimp