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Beneora

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Beneora and Givebutter

Givebutter is a broad fundraising platform with an unusual funding model and a wide feature surface, including several donor-data concepts people assume only CRMs have. This page records what Givebutter documents.

How Givebutter describes its audience · reviewed August 4, 2026

Givebutter documents a wide range of fundraising tools offered free thanks to optional tips from donors, spanning campaigns, events, auctions and contact management.

Givebutter — Pricing
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What Givebutter documents

Sourced claims only

Each entry below is what Givebutter states in its own official material, with the page it was read from, the date it was read, and the conditions it applies under. We make no claim about capabilities Givebutter does not mention — absence of documentation is not absence of a feature.

  • Givebutter documents 0% platform fees across campaign types when optional donor tips are enabled, and states that a flat 3% platform fee applies if tips are disabled.

    Scope
    Pricing page. Conditional on the tips setting chosen by the organization.
    Givebutter — PricingReviewed August 4, 2026

  • Givebutter documents standard payment processing fees of 2.9% + 30¢ for cards and 1.9% + 30¢ for ACH, and states donors can be asked to cover them.

    Scope
    Pricing page, processing-fee section. Rates as published on the review date.
    Givebutter — PricingReviewed August 4, 2026

  • Givebutter documents households and relationships, allowing donor relationships and household groups to be recorded for collective acknowledgment while keeping individual data markers intact.

    Scope
    Contact/CRM feature section of the vendor's features page.
    Givebutter — FeaturesReviewed August 4, 2026

  • Givebutter documents soft credits as a feature.

    Scope
    Contact/CRM feature section.
    Givebutter — FeaturesReviewed August 4, 2026

  • Givebutter documents pledges: logging, managing and accepting donation pledges, matching gifts and sponsorship payments with secure payment portal links and customizable installment plans.

    Scope
    Pledges feature section.
    Givebutter — FeaturesReviewed August 4, 2026

  • Givebutter documents a QuickBooks Online integration.

    Scope
    Listed among features; the vendor's link presents it under its Givebutter Plus offering.
    Givebutter — FeaturesReviewed August 4, 2026

  • Givebutter documents payouts with several options and states it does not impose limits or fees on payouts.

    Scope
    Pricing page FAQ, 'How do payouts work?'.
    Givebutter — PricingReviewed August 4, 2026

How Beneora differs

Statements about Beneora, not about them

Every line below describes our own design decisions. None of it asserts a gap in another product.

  1. 01 · Difference 1

    Beneora has no donor-facing tip prompt

    We are subscription-funded, so nothing in our checkout asks the donor to fund the software. That is a business-model choice with a real tradeoff: we cost money where a tip-funded platform can cost nothing.

  2. 02 · Difference 2

    Beneora is narrower on purpose

    No events, no auctions, no broad marketing automation in Release 1. We spend that surface area on the gift-to-deposit and evidence chain instead.

  3. 03 · Difference 3

    Beneora treats reconciliation as a workspace, not a report

    Deposit matching, per-gift fee visibility, an exception queue with suggested causes, and a close batch that locks a period are the objects we build around.

  4. 04 · Difference 4

    Beneora carries restriction through to donor-visible evidence

    Allocation, fulfillment, attached evidence and a stated outcome are modelled records rather than a campaign update.

Choose Givebutter when

  • You want breadth across events, auctions and peer-to-peer today — we do not offer those.
  • A zero-subscription cost structure matters more than avoiding a donor-facing tip prompt.
  • You need a platform in production this quarter.

Beneora limits today

  • Every module outside identity, roles, tenants and organization records is an interactive prototype on illustrative data.
  • We have no live payment processing, so payouts and deposits are modelled rather than moving money.
  • Our pricing is not final; we publish packaging shape and fee principles instead.

Methodology

How this page was written

Last reviewed August 4, 2026.

Sources for this page

Givebutter is a trademark of its owner. We use no vendor logos and quote only official pages. Vendor products change; check the linked pages for current details.

  1. 1Categories are described from published vendor material, public documentation and pricing pages, plus our own operational experience of the workflow.
  2. 2We compare categories of tool rather than scoring products against each other. A category comparison stays true longer than a feature table.
  3. 3We never state that a named vendor lacks a capability. Named-vendor pages quote only what that vendor documents, with a source link and a review date.
  4. 4No quantitative comparison is published unless both numbers come from a citable source under the same definition. We publish no invented percentages.
  5. 5Beneora rows state present status honestly, including modules that are prototypes on illustrative data.
  6. 6Anything we get wrong should be corrected. The correction link on every comparison page reaches the people who wrote it.

Found something inaccurate or out of date? Send a correction — we will fix the page and change the review date.

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