Nonprofit Management Software That Connects Your People, Data and Processes
Nonprofit organisations exist to make a difference, not spend their time managing disconnected systems.
VeryConnect brings your people, processes and supporter information together in one connected nonprofit management platform. Reduce administration, gain a clearer understanding of your community and give your team more time to focus on the work that matters.
Our nonprofit software supports charities, foundations, community organisations and membership-based nonprofits, with configurable functionality and a team that works alongside you from implementation onwards.
Why Nonprofit Organisations Need More Than Disconnected Software
Running a nonprofit involves more than maintaining a database. From donations and volunteer coordination to events, communications, membership services and reporting, your team manages activities that often depend on the same people and information.
When these activities sit in separate systems, staff spend more time duplicating data, reconciling records and searching for information. It also becomes harder to understand how supporters are engaging with your organisation.
VeryConnect helps remove this organisational friction.
By connecting your records and everyday processes, our software supports more efficient administration, clearer information and better experiences for the people involved in your work.
Simplify fundraising and volunteer coordination
Keep donations, volunteer information and everyday activities connected. Reduce manual updates and make it easier for your team to coordinate the work behind your mission.
Understand and strengthen supporter relationships
See how people are engaging with your organisation, from event participation to email engagement. Use these insights to build stronger relationships and make communications more relevant.
Create more opportunities for involvement
Give supporters meaningful ways to participate through events, online communities and shared resources. Encourage ongoing engagement and build a community that stays connected to your cause.
“We could not be more delighted with the VeryConnect platform. It is easy to use, looks professional, and we cannot fault the level of customer support. We genuinely feel valued as a customer and know that the VeryConnect team is always there to support us when we need them.”
Peter Salkeld, Chair, Visual Language Professionals
What Is Nonprofit Management Software?
Nonprofit management software is a digital platform that helps charities and other not-for-profit organisations manage supporter relationships, donations, volunteers, memberships, events, communications and administration.
It brings together information and tools that might otherwise be spread across spreadsheets, databases and separate applications. This helps teams maintain accurate records, automate routine processes and coordinate activities more effectively.
More comprehensive nonprofit platforms can also provide branded online communities, engagement insights, configurable workflows and integrations with existing business systems.
What Does Nonprofit Management Software Do?
At its core, nonprofit management software helps organisations manage relationships and activities throughout the supporter journey, from someone’s first interaction through to their continued involvement.
Common functions include:
- Nonprofit CRM and database: Maintain records for donors, volunteers, members, partners and other contacts, including individual and organisational relationships.
- Donations and fundraising: Manage giving history, one-off and recurring donations, campaigns and relevant payment information.
- Volunteer management: Organise volunteer profiles, groups, communications and relevant involvement.
- Membership administration: Support applications, membership categories, subscriptions, renewals and payments where applicable.
- Communications: Send targeted email campaigns, updates and automated messages using connected contact information.
- Events: Manage bookings, ticketing, attendance and event communications.
- Online communities: Give members and supporters access to relevant resources, discussions, opportunities and services.
- Reporting and engagement: Understand participation, operational activity and trends through dashboards and reports.
The right software should do more than offer these features individually. It should connect the information behind them, making the organisation easier to manage and its relationships easier to understand.
Connected Nonprofit Management Software for Your Whole Organisation
A donation, event booking, volunteer activity or member interaction is part of a wider relationship with your organisation. When these interactions are managed independently, valuable information can be lost between teams and systems.
VeryConnect brings your data, administration, communications, fundraising and online community services into one configurable platform. Your team can work from connected information, reduce manual processes and develop a clearer understanding of the people supporting your mission.
Nonprofit CRM and Supporter Database
One connected view of every relationship.
Your database is more valuable when it reflects the complete relationship with each person or organisation, not just their contact details.
VeryConnect’s nonprofit CRM brings together individual and organisational records, supporter categories, donation and payment information, event participation, communications and relevant engagement history.
Custom fields, groups, segmentation and filtering help you organise records around the way your nonprofit operates. Staff can access relevant information without searching through multiple databases or spreadsheets, while configurable permissions help ensure the right people can access the appropriate records.
This connected view helps your team communicate more consistently, coordinate activities and maintain continuity when staff, volunteers or committee members change.
Donations, Fundraising and Payments
Connect giving with the people behind it.
Keeping track of donations, campaigns and supporter information across separate systems creates unnecessary administration.
VeryConnect supports one-off and recurring donations, fundraising campaigns and related payment processes, with giving information linked to supporter records. Your team can review relevant donation history alongside communications and other organisational activity rather than maintaining disconnected records.
Integrations with Stripe, GoCardless and accounting software help simplify financial administration and keep giving information organised.
Volunteer Management
Less coordination. More time for your cause.
Keep volunteer information organised across teams, committees and locations.
- Maintain volunteer profiles and relevant details.
- Organise volunteers into groups.
- Send targeted communications and updates.
- Manage access with configurable permissions.
Keep everyone informed without relying on separate spreadsheets and contact lists.
Set up groups and permissions to match your organisation’s structure, while keeping staff communications in one place without needing separate lists.
Your team gains a more organised approach to volunteer relationships and fewer administrative barriers to staying connected.
Nonprofit Membership and Subscription Management
Manage memberships alongside your wider mission.
Make joining, renewing and managing membership easier for your team and your supporters.
Manage applications, approval processes, subscriptions and payments, with automated reminders to reduce manual chasing. Members can also update their details and access services through a branded portal.
Nonprofit Communications and Event Management
Reach the right people. Keep every interaction connected.
Send targeted emails, newsletters and automated updates using information from your supporter database.
Manage event registrations, ticketing and attendance in the same platform. Every interaction adds to the supporter record, giving your team a clearer picture of participation.
Supporter Engagement Tracking and Reporting
Understand participation beyond contact records and donations.
Knowing who is on your database or who donated recently does not always tell you how connected people feel to your organisation.
VeryConnect brings together relevant information from communications, event participation, online portal activity and payments. Engagement dashboards and filtering help your team see participation trends and identify people who may benefit from further contact.
For membership and online community programmes, VeryConnect’s engagement tracking can show how activity changes over time, helping you recognise highly involved members and those becoming less active.
Connected reporting also gives teams better visibility over donations, membership activity, events and other operational information. Instead of assembling reports manually from multiple systems, staff can access dashboards and export relevant data for planning and reporting.
Engagement insights help your organisation make better-informed decisions about where to focus its attention and resources.
Branded Supporter Portals and Online Communities
Give your community a reason to stay connected.
Create a branded online space where supporters can access resources, book events, manage their details and connect with others.
Bring your community together with features such as:
- Forums, newsfeeds and messaging
- Resources, blogs and document libraries
- Mentoring and development opportunities
- Job and opportunity boards
- Polls and community discussions
Give people more ways to participate while offering a consistent experience that reflects your organisation.
Built for Real Nonprofit Complexity
A platform that adapts to how your organisation works.
Nonprofits are not simply businesses with customers or contacts. They may have donors, beneficiaries, volunteers, members, trustees, committees, partner organisations and regional groups, each with different relationships and administrative requirements.
VeryConnect is designed to accommodate this complexity rather than assume every organisation should follow the same standard processes.
Configure supporter categories, individual and organisational records, groups, permissions, application forms, approval workflows and relevant communications to suit your structure. Where needed, the platform can also connect with specialist systems already used by your organisation.
Supporting Nonprofits With Complex Requirements
“VeryConnect has developed a custom solution for our industry association that completely covers our needs in the areas of membership management, member communications, and data management for our industry outreach.
Organising our data and increasing its quality first felt like an impossible task but the amazing support we’ve received from the VeryConnect team made it possible. The result is a highly versatile, user-friendly, comprehensive browser-based application that our members and our entire team are already benefitting from. In the beginning, we had very specific requirements (a 25-page concept note!) and a very complex data structure.
VeryConnect not only managed to perceive all these requirements, they also delivered 100% on the promise to accommodate them.”
Anna Kaehne, CIOPORA
A Connected Website and Nonprofit Management Platform
Your website is often the first place someone learns about your work, makes a donation, joins your community or signs up for an event.
When your public website and management platform work together, people can move through these activities more easily and your team can avoid unnecessary manual transfers of information.
Keep Your Existing Website
If your organisation already has a website or a trusted development partner, VeryConnect can integrate with your current setup where supported.
This means you can improve your nonprofit administration and online supporter services without automatically replacing your public website.
Get a New Website Built Alongside Your Nonprofit Management Platform
For organisations planning a broader digital refresh, VeryConnect can also design, build and integrate a new website alongside the platform.
Working with one team across your website and management software can simplify coordination and help provide a more consistent, branded supporter experience.
Your organisation can choose the approach that best suits its requirements.
Technology That Grows With Your Organisation
Every nonprofit has different needs. VeryConnect works with your team to understand your requirements and configure the right features, processes and integrations for your organisation.
From implementation and training to ongoing support, our process helps you get the most from your software as your needs evolve.
1
Understand Your Organisation
We start by learning about your organisational structure, existing systems, administrative processes and objectives. This helps us identify the challenges you want to solve and the information your team needs to work effectively.
2
Configure Around Your Requirements
We work with you to define the functionality, processes, supporter experience and integrations appropriate to your organisation.
This ensures the implementation is built around what you actually need rather than simply introducing more features.
3
Support Data Migration and Onboarding
Moving to a new platform often involves years of contact information, donation or membership records and established ways of working. VeryConnect supports data migration, implementation and training to help your team adopt the new system confidently.
4
Continue Improving After Launch
Our involvement does not end when your platform goes live. We provide ongoing support and work with organisations as their requirements evolve. Customer feedback also contributes to platform development and improvements.
This combination of technology and partnership helps ensure your software continues to support your organisation over time.
The right nonprofit management platform should make your organisation’s work easier today and continue adapting as your needs evolve.
Who Is VeryConnect Nonprofit Management Software For?
VeryConnect supports nonprofit organisations with different communities, income models and administrative requirements.
Membership-Based Nonprofits
Connect membership applications, subscriptions, payments and renewals with communications, events and member engagement. Support both the administrative and community aspects of your organisation.
Charities and Foundations
Bring donor and supporter records, fundraising, communications, events and relevant community programmes together. Improve visibility across relationships and give staff more time to focus on delivering your mission.
Community and Volunteer-Led Organisations
Manage contact groups, volunteer information, communications, events and online resources through connected processes. Support community participation without relying on separate lists and systems.
Regional and Multi-Branch Organisations
Support different groups, committees, locations and organisational relationships with configurable records, permissions and processes while maintaining more consistent information.
Educational and Professional Nonprofits
Provide online resources, professional development, mentoring, events and community services while maintaining accurate records and connected communications.
Faith-Based and Community Organisations
Maintain relevant contact groups, coordinate events and communications, and create online spaces where people can access resources and participate in community activities.
Is VeryConnect the Right Nonprofit Management Software for You?
VeryConnect is designed for nonprofits that need more than a basic contact database or donation tool. It is particularly suited to organisations looking to connect their operations, improve engagement and reduce administration.
VeryConnect may be a good fit if your organisation:
- Manages different groups of donors, volunteers, members or supporters.
- Uses separate systems for fundraising, events, communications or membership.
- Needs better insight into supporter participation and engagement.
- Wants to automate routine tasks and reduce manual administration.
- Has complex structures, committees, branches or approval processes.
- Requires configurable workflows or integrations with existing systems.
- Wants a branded online community or supporter portal.
- Values reliable support and a long-term software partner.
Nonprofit Software Integrations
Your nonprofit may already rely on payment providers, accounting software, communication tools and a public website. Introducing a new management platform should not mean replacing systems that are working well without a reason.
VeryConnect can connect with supported tools to reduce duplicate work and keep relevant information flowing between systems.
Payments and Accounting
Stripe, GoCardless, Xero and QuickBooks.
Support online and recurring payments, accounting processes and relevant financial administration.
Communications and Productivity
Outlook, Mailchimp, Google Calendar and Twilio.
Connect relevant communications, scheduling and operational activities.
Websites and Learning
WordPress, Squarespace and learning management systems such as Moodle.
Connect supporter journeys, online services and relevant learning activities.
CRM and Other Business Systems
Microsoft Dynamics 365, Blackbaud CRM – Raiser’s Edge and other supported platforms.
Support integrations with your existing systems where appropriate.
UK Nonprofit Management Software With International Capability
VeryConnect is a UK-based membership software provider headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland. Since 2013, we have worked with membership and community organisations in the UK and internationally, helping them manage relationships, reduce administration and strengthen engagement.
For UK nonprofits, relevant considerations can include Direct Debit payments, invoicing, supporter data protection, reporting and integration with familiar accounting and communication systems.
VeryConnect provides tools to support UK GDPR-related obligations, secure access to information and configurable administrative processes.
For international organisations, the platform can also support multiple currencies, languages and available regional hosting arrangements. Specific security, hosting, integration and data protection requirements can be reviewed with our team during evaluation.
Nonprofit Management Software Pricing
Flexible Software. Pricing That Reflects Your Needs.
Every nonprofit has different requirements, from managing supporter records and donations to more complex fundraising, memberships, events and integrations.
VeryConnect offers different levels of functionality to suit your organisation’s needs and budget.
Explore our pricing plans, starting costs and what’s included to see which solution could be right for you.
VeryConnect in Action: Real Nonprofit Success Stories
Australian Anthropological Society: Reducing Complexity and Improving Organisational Continuity
The Australian Anthropological Society previously managed memberships, conferences, abstract submissions and payments across separate systems, creating administrative complexity and difficult staff handovers.
VeryConnect brought these processes together alongside the society’s website and communications, simplifying day-to-day management and improving continuity for staff and volunteer committees.
The partnership has continued beyond launch, with additional conference functionality developed to support the society’s evolving needs.
British Cardiovascular Society: Supporting Complex Membership Structures
The British Cardiovascular Society needed a platform capable of managing the requirements of its own membership and a network of affiliated organisations. Its previous system struggled with different membership structures, inefficient processes and inconsistent experiences.
VeryConnect worked collaboratively with the society to implement a configurable membership platform and connected websites, supporting the distinct requirements of individual affiliates while maintaining a consistent overall experience.
Automated membership processes, improved reporting and connected systems helped reduce administrative work and gave teams better access to the information needed to manage membership activity.
The platform has continued developing alongside the society’s requirements.
“VeryConnect has transformed the way we work. Both our employees and members benefit from a system that does so much for them and makes everything more efficient, leading to a much better experience overall.”
Charlotte Goodwill, CEO, Institute of Telecommunications Professionals
See How VeryConnect Could Work for Your Organisation
Whether you want to reduce administration, connect your supporter information, strengthen engagement or improve the way your systems work together, we would be happy to discuss your goals. Enter your details below to get a free 30-minute personalised demo. We will learn about your organisation, explain how VeryConnect could support its requirements and help you understand whether it is the right fit.
Frequently asked questions
About VeryConnect
Who Is VeryConnect Nonprofit Management Software Best Suited To?
VeryConnect is particularly well suited to nonprofits that manage multiple relationships, activities and systems. This includes charities, foundations, membership-based organisations and community groups requiring a connected CRM, administrative processes, engagement tools and ongoing support. Organisations needing only a simple donation form or contact list may prefer a lighter specialist tool.
How Is VeryConnect Different From Other Nonprofit Software?
VeryConnect connects supporter records with relevant payments, communications, events, membership administration and community activity. It combines configurable processes, branded online experiences, engagement insights and collaborative implementation, with support that continues beyond launch. Its strengths are particularly relevant when different organisational activities need to work together.
Can VeryConnect Manage Donors, Volunteers and Members Together?
Yes. VeryConnect supports different contact groups within a connected database, including individual and organisational records. Custom fields, groups and permissions help you organise information around the way your nonprofit operates. The exact workflows depend on the functionality included in your platform.
Can VeryConnect Integrate With Our Existing Systems?
Yes. VeryConnect supports integrations with tools including Stripe, GoCardless, Xero, QuickBooks, Outlook, Mailchimp, WordPress and other supported platforms. Specific integration requirements are assessed during the solution discovery process.
How Much Does VeryConnect Nonprofit Management Software Cost?
Pricing depends on the functionality, configuration and implementation requirements. VeryConnect Lite starts from £3,000 per year plus a one-time setup fee for straightforward membership needs, while Pro and OS provide options for more advanced requirements. Our team can recommend the appropriate solution after discussing your organisation.
Can VeryConnect Build a Website for Our Nonprofit?
Yes. VeryConnect can integrate its platform with an existing website where supported, or design and build a new website alongside the software. Website projects are optional and scoped separately.
What Happens During Implementation?
VeryConnect begins by understanding your requirements and existing systems. We then agree the appropriate configuration and implementation scope, support data migration and provide onboarding and training. Ongoing support continues after launch.
About Nonprofit Management Software
What Is Nonprofit Management Software?
Nonprofit management software is a platform that helps charities and other not-for-profit organisations manage contacts, donations, volunteers, memberships, events, communications and reporting. Its purpose is to make administration more efficient and support stronger relationships with the people involved in the organisation.
What Is the Difference Between a Nonprofit CRM and Nonprofit Management Software?
A nonprofit CRM focuses mainly on managing information about donors, volunteers, members and other contacts. Nonprofit management software may include CRM functionality alongside fundraising, events, payments, memberships, communications, online communities and other operational tools.
What Features Should Nonprofit Management Software Include?
Common features include contact management, donations, volunteer information, event management, communications, reporting and payment tools. Depending on the organisation, membership administration, online communities, configurable workflows and integrations may also be important. The best combination depends on the nonprofit's objectives and activities.
How Can Nonprofit Software Reduce Administration?
Connected nonprofit software reduces the need to re-enter information across separate systems. Online forms, automated communications, linked payments and shared reporting can also help teams spend less time on repetitive work and manual reconciliation.
How Does Nonprofit Software Help Improve Supporter Engagement?
By connecting communications, events, relevant giving information and online activity, nonprofit software can provide a more complete understanding of how people interact with an organisation. Teams can use this information to personalise outreach, identify changes in participation and create more relevant opportunities to stay involved.
How Do You Choose the Right Nonprofit Management Software?
Start with the processes and relationships your organisation needs to manage. Identify gaps in existing systems, assess essential features and integrations, and compare providers on implementation, data migration, support, security and costs. A tailored demonstration can help establish whether a platform fits your requirements in practice.