The No.1 ScaleFunder Alternative
An all-in-one fundraising platform built for modern advancement teams
Almabase is the trusted platform for advancement teams to fundraise with confidence. With flawless gift processing, seamless CRM integration, and world-class support, it delivers a modern, secure donor experience—minus the headaches.
Chosen by 500+ educational advancement teams
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Why choose Almabase over ScaleFunder
Error-free fundraising with secure payments
Almabase ensures smooth, accurate gift processing—so you never miss a contribution or frustrate a donor.
Custom branding and engagement
Deliver a fully branded donor experience with real-time leaderboards, and challenges that boost participation and inspire action.
Advanced reporting and insights
Track engagement and donor behavior with powerful analytics built for smarter, faster decision-making at your fingertips.
Industry’s best CRM sync that saves time
Seamlessly integrates with your advancement CRM, eliminating manual updates and keeping your data clean.
Reliable support when it counts
Get personalized, 24/7 support via call, email, and chat especially during your most critical moments, at no extra cost.
Built-in compliance and security
Stay fully PCI-compliant and protect donor data with enterprise-grade security across every touchpoint.
Feature
Almabase
ScaleFunder
Highly customizable set-up reflecting your brand
Limited
Instant, secure payments with multiple giving options
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Native, two-way integration with Raiser’s Edge NXT
Automated CRM integration with zero errors
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Detailed custom reporting for accurate gift data insights
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Award-winning 24/7 personalized customer support
Priority support during peak campaigns
Built with security & PCI compliance
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Technical Reliability to power your giving campaigns
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Almabase gave our campaign a smooth start ensuring a seamless transition from our last product, and a design matching our vision. Almabase is a big win for a large university like us.
MacKenzie Michels
Digital Engagement Coordinator, Georgia College and State University
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Almabase's Giving Day solution helped us reach our highest levels of giving ever. Their support was above and beyond industry best-practices!
MacKenzie Michels
Digital Engagement Coordinator, Georgia College and State University
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Our annual day of giving had always been successful, but bringing Almabase as partners for our Giving day made our sucess even more outstanding.
Joe Baker
Director of Advancement, Calvert Hall High School
Through the tireless efforts of the almabase team, I can send gift information straight into Raiser’s Edge gift management portal, in a way that’s tailored to our needs
Tiffany Long
Former Gift Specialist, Advancement Office, Piedmont University
Top educational institutions prefer Almabase to manage their fundraising, event management and alumni management workflows.
A platform that complements your strategy, not limits it
Beyond look and feel.
Designed to raise more
Branding
Set-up as per brand and need
Tell your stories your way, while optimizing the experience to get more results
Custom gamification
Engagement designed to drive instant gifts
Boosts urgency to give with one-click influencer sharing, custom leaderboards, challenges, videos, and other gamification elements configurable to your needs
Configuration
Configurable for peak performance
Design on page experience to enhance campaign discovery and guide donors to causes they support with giving-hubs, search and grouping
For a smooth, flexible donor experience
A modern donation experience
Instant check-out style donation experience that’s consistent across devices.
Multiple giving options
Be it one-time or recurring gifts, or pledges, set payment options to match with the needs of your constituents’
Auto-mode on
Customizable gift receipts, surveys on giving experience, and thank you emails - send it all on auto-pilot
Integrated, multi-channel marketing to 5X engagement rates
Reach constituents in real-time
Promote your campaign across texts and emails, and drive real-time engagement.
Personalize and segment
Build out advanced segments, and raise more from untapped opportunities.
Auto-mode on
Customizable gift receipts, surveys on giving experience, and thank you emails - send it all on auto-pilot
Cleanly capture gift data on your CRM
Automate with flexibility
Configure and choose how gift data moves into your CRM to support your downstream workflows
Update in batches
Update all your gifts in batches based on sync-rules that you set.
Free of errors or duplicates
Capture all data cleanly without creating duplicates or errors in structure
Integrated with your tech stack
Almabase is deeply integrated with advancement CRMs , and supports all major payment processors
Grow with data-driven fundraising
Donor pipelines
Identify your rising star supports
Hear the slightest of murmurs across all your programs across digital, fundraising and event to build a healthy donor pipeline
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Segments
Tap into opportunities with precise segments
Build advanced segments to capture more donors through untapped segments, and timely create personalized reach across channels.
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The full picture
See the full picture on your CRM
Our deeply integrated tools give your teams the big picture view of the donor journey. So you can’t maximize your fundraising impact.
“Giving day solution helped us reach highest levels of giving”
Matthew
Director of Annual Giving in US
“All in one shop for Giving and Alumni Engagement!”
Michelle A.
Director of Annual Giving and Digital Engagement
“Giving day success and growth”
Jeanine P.
Director of Annual Giving
“Great platform for our three-days giving event”
Kelly N.
Director of Annual Giving
“Great do-it-all product”
Alex
Director of Annual Giving in US
“Outstanding! Most responsive customer service and support for any product we’ve ever used!”
Lauren
Alumni Relations Coordinator in US
Built for the unique needs of education advancement
Powerful,
not complex
Compliant
and secure
Award-winning
support
TrueSync with
advancement CRMs
