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Cobber

cobberhq.com.au

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Spec score 7.5 #16 of 28 in Advocacy Software

What it is

Cobber is a web and API platform for Australian political parties, advocacy groups, and campaigns. It keeps members, donors, volunteers, and signups in searchable supporter records, then connects those records to hosted forms, email and SMS campaigns, donations, memberships, events, tasks, and automations. Automations can send follow-up messages or assign team tasks after a donation, petition signature, volunteer action, or contact. National, State, and Branch divisions support role-based access by area, while new supporters receive federal, state, and local government area tags. Prospects combines AI and deterministic rankings to identify supporters to call and suggest an ask. Membership types sync to Stripe products. The NationBuilder importer recognizes exports but summarizes historical donations rather than importing each transaction and does not create membership records automatically. Cobber is Sydney-hosted and Australian-built; pricing is available on request.

Spec sheet

Purpose
Cobber describes itself as an all-in-one CRM for Australian political parties, advocacy groups and campaigns.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Product
Cobber describes itself as an all-in-one platform for political parties, advocacy groups and campaigns.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
API
Cobber's help centre lists API documentation in its Developer section.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Integrations
Cobber's help pages state that membership types sync to Stripe products for online payment.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Privacy
Cobber's privacy policy says its headquarters are in Australia and describes how it collects, uses, secures and discloses personal information.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Support
Cobber provides a help centre with 40 articles and 250 answers, covering setup, people, email and SMS, fundraising, memberships, events, websites, administration and developer topics.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Headquarters
Brisbane, Queensland, AustraliaRead 28 Sep 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Company
Cobber identifies the company as Cobber Software Pty Ltd and lists Brisbane, Queensland as its location.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Automations
Automations can trigger follow-up emails, SMS messages and team tasks when supporters donate, sign, volunteer or contact the organisation.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Campaign tools
The platform combines hosted pages and forms, email and SMS campaigns, donations, memberships, events, tasks and automations.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Company and location
The site identifies the maker as Cobber Software Pty Ltd and lists Brisbane, Queensland as its location.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Divisions and access
The product supports National, State and Branch structures with role-based permissions that scope what local organisers can see.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Electorate data
Cobber says supporters are automatically tagged with their federal seat, state seat and local government area when they sign up.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Federated permissions
Roles and divisions support national, state and branch structures, with access scoped to a user's assigned area.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Fundraising AI
Prospects uses AI and deterministic rankings to identify supporters to call and suggest why and how much to ask.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Hosting
The site describes Cobber as Australian-built and Sydney-hosted.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Migration limit
The NationBuilder import creates person records and summarizes donor history, but does not import each historical donation or create membership records automatically.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
NationBuilder migration
Its importer can recognise NationBuilder exports automatically, though historical donations are summarised on supporter records rather than imported as individual transactions.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Payments integration
Membership types are synced to Stripe as products for online payment.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Privacy and security
Cobber's privacy policy says it takes reasonable steps to protect personal information and notes that some service providers and infrastructure are located in the United States.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Security support
The help centre lists two-factor authentication, exports and data ownership among its admin and data topics.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Supporter CRM
It keeps members, donors, volunteers and signups in a searchable supporter record.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au
Supporter records
It brings members, donors, volunteers and signups into one searchable supporter record.Read 9 Oct 2026 · cobberhq.com.au

Strong points and limits

Strong points

  • Searchable unified supporter records
  • Email and SMS campaign tools
  • Area-scoped roles and permissions
  • Automatic electorate tagging
  • Petition and action campaign support

Limits

  • Pricing is available only on request
  • NationBuilder history is summarized, not fully imported
  • Membership records are not created automatically
  • Some infrastructure is located in the United States

Who it suits

It suits Australian political, advocacy, and campaign teams coordinating supporters across national, state, and branch structures. API documentation and Stripe synchronization support connected workflows.

Verdict

Cobber combines supporter CRM, fundraising, messaging, organizing, and scoped permissions for Australian campaign structures. Teams migrating from NationBuilder should account for its stated import limitations.

Where Specifiction places it

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