One Brigada reader is looking for a simple way to track donors on an Android device—names, giving history, follow-up notes, reminders, and communication all in one place. If you’re using something that works well, we’d love to hear from you so others can benefit.
One example: DonorPerfect (donorperfect.com)
What it offers: A well-established donor-management CRM built for ministries and faith-based organizations. It supports tracking donations, contacts, campaign history, giving trends, and engages donors with stewardship tools.
What about you?
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What donor-tracking software or app do you recommend for Android users?
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What features do you love?
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What gaps have you run into?
Share your experience and help the Brigada community find good tools that actually work in the real world.
My agency recently started using Donor Elf- I’ve enjoyed the user-friendly features compared to the corporate features previously available to us.
MissionLinked is a great tracking tool for fundraising and not only tracks but let you post and send thank yous from the platform.
https://missionlinked.global/
How about tools for individuals (not orgs) who want to track information about and communication with their support network? Recommendations?
Our org uses DonorPerfect — it’s a good donor management system for an organization, but it’s not going to be suitable for individual donor tracking. Yes, they do have a mobile app that connects to a DonorPerfect installation, but that’s only going to be useful for connecting to data that is already collected and saved in DonorPerfect.
For DonorPerfect, it may or may not work well for faith-based organizations. Nearly all large developers of donation management systems are secular, and the focus of their work is on secular charities. As a result, a blind spot that is nearly universal is that they don’t do well with the traditional missionary support-raising model, where individual workers are doing deputized fund-raising for their own needs, but in the name of the organization, and where what actually turns up in payroll is directly dependent on that fund-raising work. Some systems can be sort-of wrangled into making that kind of tracking available to individuals (often requiring extensive customization work), but the reality is that in secular systems, it is very unusual for recipients of funds to have an connection to individual donors. Secular systems may be good for raising funds for a new hospital wing, the local symphony orchestra or even child sponsorship. But even systems designed for churches don’t work well for missionary support-raising.
One tool that can be useful for this kind of tracking is TntConnect, something that was designed for Cru workers in the US. As the question is posed, TntConnect is ideal, but getting information into it may or may not be feasible. TntConnect is free, but a couple of years ago, they dropped the capacity of allowing users to import data from other sources (although I believe that it’s still possible to enter stuff manually). In the current rendition, TntConnect is designed to work with DonorHub, which has the ability of extracting data from other system (including DonorPerfect), but that’s still an managed organizational tool. For our org, we process donations through DonorPerfect, but then we have DonorHub set where it extracts data from DonorPerfect. The result is a web page hosted at DonorHub, where users can track donation activity. Optionally, they can use TntConnect to allow for local use of data from a computer (Windows only, Mac and Linux require Windows emulation and no support of Android or iOS), and additional personal contact management content.
DonorHub’s web page has a rather extensive list of systems that it can get data from at https://www.tntware.com/donorhub/, as well as a list of several user-facing tools, both TntConnect and several similar tools. Some of the tools may be tied to services in the way that TntConnect is, but some may have stand-alone capacity, and one or two may have support for working from Android or iOS. Hizuko might be most promising for this situation