Kathy Powers
GBEverything a nonprofit needs! I used Engaging Networks in 2018 when I worked for Ocean Conservancy. The tool was easy to use, provided everything we needed and they were always releasing new products. Support was always responsive and helpful. As a previous client, I'd definitely recommend it for any nonprofit that needs excellent fundraising and advocacy tools.
Mathew Harkins’s
GBBest combination of features and support I use Engaging Networks everyday on behalf of nonprofit clients. I've used many such platforms and EN is the easiest to use, the most intuitive, the most open to user feedback and recommendations, and the easiest to talk to directly. No platform is perfect, but I believe EN has the best combination of features and support and I recommend EN regularly.
Jennifer
GBThank you Thank you for helping the WJC in any way have the best forms and emails.
Brandon Fuller Raise the Roots
GBGreat for large and small organizations I've been an Engaging Networks client and a consultant serving dozens of other Engaging Networks clients for ten years. Overall, my clients and I enjoy the combination of simplicity and customization that Engaging Networks offers. For smaller organizations, it's easy to create templated versions of emails or pages and then duplicate them when needed. For larger organization, there is an endless number of ways to test, enhance, and personalize content. In fact, many of the smaller organizations we've worked with have found the testing and conditional content capabilities easy enough for a small team to manage. Engaging Networks has a responsive Support team and their account managers take feedback and turn it into platform enhancements. The release schedule for new tools is frequent, so there's always a new innovation to explore.
AH
GBThere are some things that Engaging… There are some things that Engaging Networks does well - their tools are robust and, once set up correctly, you can achieve really impressive things. Testing is built in and you can personalise and chain together different parts of the tool (email, donations and advocacy) to create a really smooth, seamless user experience. That said, I have used EN for years in a few different roles, and even I can't deny there's a steep learning curve. While support is friendly and responsive, it feels as though there's a whole language you need to understand in order to understand the tools correctly (for instance, there's a difference between a question and a field, and opt ins are shown separately in some interfaces but in others they're simply a type of question – that's a lot of cognitive load!) Reporting is fairly limited and the data export function is rigid at best (I remain perplexed to this day that you can't simply export all entries to one data capture form straightforwardly). A Zapier integration would be gamechanging, but having suggested this in a previous role, I was told this wasn't on the list (though I'm not sure if this has changed!) The UX of the backend has improved a lot over recent years, but having tried to upskill colleagues, there's still a lot of trial and error involved in mastering it. I think perhaps this is down to the tool trying to do too many things at once. Overall, the unique features of EN and those features' application to your non-profit's requirements remain compelling. But prepare for a lot of learning and time after set up learning the intracices of the interface and architecture. Try Engaging Networks and you'll be impressed by some of what it does, but some of the painpoints are real – though not necessarily dealbreakers – and that means that you end up with an average experience overall.