Enthuse vs Kindest Events

Enthuse provides digital donation, fundraising, and event-registration technology under a cause's brand. Its fundraising pages support appeals, in-memory giving, individual and team pages, and real-time campaign data. Donations can be regular or one-off, with marketing opt-in communications and automatic Gift Aid capture and processing. Fundraising & Events adds registration and ticketing, fundraising-page creation, leaderboards, and customised emails. Participants can connect Strava and share training updates with supporters. Listed CRM integrations include Access CRM, Beacon, ChampCloud, Donorfy, MS Dynamics 365, Raiser’s Edge, and Salesforce; an API lets larger charities bring donation, fundraising, and event-payment data into other systems. Enthuse offers web and API access. Plans include Mass Participation at free, Fundraising at £24.99 a month, and Fundraising & Events, Donations, and Event Registration at £39.99 a month each. Additional listed fees include payment provider, Gift Aid, and ticketing charges; prices are exclusive of VAT where applicable, and cards issued outside the UK incur an additional 1% foreign card fee. Enthuse says it is UK hosted and GDPR compliant and offers dedicated customer support.

Kindest Events is event ticketing software for nonprofits, covering registration, donations, donor data and check-in in one platform. Organizations can create branded event pages with images, schedules, details and included items. Ticket types support descriptions, prices, fair market values and capacity limits; exclusive or invite-only options can be hidden. Attendee tools include bid, table and seat assignments, information collection, and list imports and exports. At check-in, staff can search by name, email or ticket code, edit attendee details and see live counts. The Totalizer displays incoming donations and donor names live on all plans. Winning bids can be shown at live auctions, but not online auctions. Kindest lists integrations including Salesforce, Mailchimp, Google Analytics, Bloomerang and Stripe. It supports in-person events on Android, iOS and web. Kickstart is free with a 5% platform fee, waived for the first $50K of the first year; Growth costs $1,800 per year and has a 3.75% platform fee. Stripe also charges 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction.