Blackbaud Altru 4.0
Category - Art GalleryBlackbaud Altru 4.0 Reviews and Product Details
Not an inventory control software, but equally important, Blackbaud Altru is a cloud-based organization management solution for non-profit organizations, museums, botanical gardens, zoos, science centers and other cultural and entertainment institutions.
Blackbaud Altru offers tools like dynamic engagement capabilities, AI-powered analytics that manage ticketing for programs and events, and keep track of donor databases, memberships, and online and in-person sales.
Since Blackbaud Altru is more of an accounting software than inventory (or exhibition) management, their primary focus is on purposefully built transaction services: automated bank and credit card reconciliation (reduces errors), budget and reports curating (to help with those tedious financial reports), patented expense submission, and view-only licenses.
At the same time, Blackbaud Altru offers transparency in every area of a non-profit organization. They use the Financial Edge NXT cloud accounting system, which allows you to create financial reports for each restricted fund. You can organize and store contracts and donor agreements, track activities, set deadlines for each fund, and access current financial activity without having to publish a report.
You will want your team to work as productively and flawlessly as possible, especially when it comes to finances. With Blackbaud Altru, you can help align your team and reduce confusion by providing access to the same data and reports. Stakeholders can be granted access to system records on each grant, project and program, making it possible to view current financial information. (The Visual Chart Organizer is the tool that creates flexible report presentations that meet outside funder reporting requirements.)
Overall, based on our research, Blackbaud Altru is a highly trusted and recommended software whose clear mission is to protect and grow your organization, despite the many complexities of nonprofit financial management. Besides planning and monitoring budgets and organizing donor profiles, you and your team can audit transactions, manage each individual fund, enforce spending rules and control access and visibility of financial data through advanced security.
Features
- Enterprise-level Security
- Online Invoicing
- Transactional Services
- Budgets and Financial Management
- Ticketing and Membership
- Group Sales and Tours
- Fundraising and Relationship Management
- Grant Management
- Art Gallery Management
- Exhibitions Management
- Client Relationship
- Marketing and Promotion
- Artist Portal
- Tools and Website Integration
- Inventory Management
- Artwork Location Tracking
- Private Exhibition Rooms
- Zoomable Images
- Intuitive Multimedia Content
Blackbaud Altru 4.0 pricing
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Blackbaud Altru 4.0 reviews
What our experts say
Pros:
“Initially, we saved tens of thousands of dollars migrating our POS, CRM, and online ticketing platforms to the single Altru platform,” says a satisfied user. And they are not the only ones who switched to Blackbaud Altru. The reason is quite simple: this software is straightforward and proficient when it comes to admissions event ticketing and budget/funds management.
Another advantage is the ability to keep all administrative aspects of running a non-profit organization in one place. Use Blackbaud Altru to efficiently organize volunteer programs, selling tickets, scheduling tours, keeping track of funding, and more.
Blackbaud Altru conveniently and securely stores all donor, patron and visitor information in the cloud. “We rely on Altru to keep all our sales, donor, and member records together so we can see all the ways our constituents connect with us,” noted another user.
Gallery, museums, zoos and other establishments’ management also note how easy it is to create reports with Blackbaud Altru since all records are stored in one database. Here, it also makes training new staff easier because everyone uses and interacts through the same system, starting with ticket sellers to the fundraising team.
Cons:
Blackbaud Altru is an ideal addition to already existing art gallery software (that organizes exhibitions and manages inventory along with marketing and advertising). While it is efficient for selling event tickets and planning budgets, it is not the best tool choice for email marketing or gift shop sales.
“The financial and revenue setup can be intimidating since there is a general ledger behind all the sales and revenue transactions. A general ledger must be set up, fiscal years created, transactions mapped, payment types created, payment methods created, etc,” as per one user of Blackbaud Altru. While it could be intimidating for someone who does not have a background in accounting, the tech support team is helpful and knowledgeable in assisting in setting up the system and figuring out financial configurations.
It could be something Blackbaud will improve in the future. In the meantime, a few users complained that “sometimes, screens look slightly different on different computers as well, even though they have all been updated. It is amazing how much you can do, but it would be so much easier if the methods used were more concise.”
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Maria Kossman