Karpura vs PWI Charity CRM

Karpura is a management system for nonprofit, community, and religious organizations, with tools for fundraising, volunteers, events, and email campaigns. Fundraising campaigns can set goals, offer suggested or flexible donation amounts, handle tribute gifts, and provide reporting. Volunteer tools cover program creation, online registration, communications, and profiles with availability and skills. Event features include event pages, time slots, ticket types, registration, donations during registration, and attendance tracking. Email campaigns support customizable templates, personalized messages, targeted lists, and scheduled sending, and Karpura says they work with providers including Gmail and SendGrid. Its API offers programmatic access to data and configurations, including querying and writing data. Payments use the organization’s chosen gateway; Karpura says it does not store payment card information. The Free package is free and allows up to two admin users and 100 emails per day, but excludes online payments. Silver is $99 a month, Gold is $199 a month, and Platinum is $399 a month. Karpura is based in Rochester, New York, and serves organizations around the world.

PWI Charity CRM is a web-based contact system for nonprofits managing supporters, prospective donors, leads, fundraising, and outreach. Profiles can store several emails, addresses, phone numbers, custom fields, giving history, communication preferences, and engagement levels. The CRM records gifts from online donations, crowdfunding, GroupGive, manual entry, and other channels. It also records non-cash contributions such as goods, services, property, and vehicles with fair-market values. Tags and segments organize contacts for targeted communication and donor analysis. Users can generate and send tax-deductible receipts, produce donor reports, import contacts from spreadsheets or other CRMs, and export data for mail merges or reporting. Listed capabilities include campaign management, recurring donations, automated receipts, donor segmentation, donation keywords, and standard reporting. The free plan costs nothing, requires no credit card, and is described as free forever. Paid pricing is listed from $25 a month. PWI says it uses reasonable confidentiality measures but cannot guarantee complete security. Terms grant PWI and PWI Foundation a perpetual, transferable, sublicensable worldwide license to submitted CRM content for related marketing and promotional activities, while nonprofits retain ownership.