Blackbaud Education Management Solutions Pricing

“Not sure there are cost savings as the system is quite expensive.”

“The integration they purport to support has not been fully proven at our location, and for what we are charged, whatever that cost is, it better be an excellent product worthy of the price.”

“Blackbaud solutions are expensive, but make the task of operating a school worth it.”

“The biggest positive ROI this year was that we were able to refresh our public (front-end) website for a fraction of the cost of an outside vendor.”

“Plus, $50/student for a school with 900 students is a huge cost. … In the onBoard enrollment contracts, we need a way for parents to indicate their payment method (without paying $50/student for Smart Tuition.) If parents wish to pay by EFT, we need to be able to...”

“There is a huge difference between schools that charge tuitions of $10k a year, and those charging $40K or more.”

“While it is a far inferior product - on most fronts - at ~$7000/year, it is relatively affordable. … At roughly $54000/year, I would have a hard time saying there is a positive real $ ROI.”

“Any school with a commitment to leveraging the synergies that the adoption of emerging technology provides will obtain value from the ON products and should explore it further.

The ON... … Cost savings is not apparent at this point.”

“For simple, small institutions, the solution will serve basic needs and be a workable SIS for a reasonably low cost.”

“Online forms have good basic functions, however, additional formatting control and ability to include/merge more data from student records would greatly add value.”

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As we use the product and get more familiar with it, it is becoming a more used tool and we are looking to eliminate services out of Blackbaud to save cost.”