Givebear vs Bloomerang. Kiosks, fees and funds, side by side.

Compare Bloomerang with Givebear for donor records, online giving, receipts, events, donation kiosks, and campaign operations. See the side-by-side comparison, where Bloomerang still fits, and how to migrate to Givebear without breaking donation links.

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Side by side.

Capability	Givebear	Bloomerang
Deep CRM & Wealth Screening	No	Yes
Hardware Donation Kiosks	Yes	No
Public Donation Portals	Yes	Basic Forms
Automated donor receipts	Yes	Yes
Event Ticketing	Yes	Basic

When Bloomerang is the better fit

Bloomerang fits nonprofits whose main need is donor management: relationship tracking, retention reporting, and wealth screening.

Run your own numbers

The kiosk cost calculator and the platform fee calculator work from your device count and giving volume.

After the gift. Where each one lands.

Bloomerang homepage with a giving summary chart, donation form, and donor recommendations UI — Bloomerang's public homepage, captured August 2026, centered on donor database and retention workflows. View the public source

Givebear transactions: each gift with its donor, fund, amount and source, kiosk or web — The Givebear ledger: kiosk and online gifts in one list, each with its donor and fund.

The full comparison.

Last updated June 2026

Bloomerang is donor management software: its strength is CRM depth, relationship tracking, and wealth screening. Givebear starts from collecting the gift, with hosted donation pages, a lobby donation kiosk, event ticketing, fund routing, and automatic receipts, and its donor CRM fills in from those gifts. Pick Bloomerang if prospect research and donor cultivation are the main job. Pick Givebear if the problem is taking gifts online, in person, and at events without stitching tools together.

Key takeaways

Bloomerang offers wealth screening; Givebear does not.
Givebear sells donation kiosk hardware; Bloomerang does not.
Bloomerang's public giving runs on basic forms and its ticketing is basic, where Givebear has full donation pages and ticketing.
If you keep Bloomerang as the CRM, decide which system holds the master donor record before adding another tool.

Who this is for: Nonprofits comparing donor management and fundraising tools; Development directors and finance leads who answer to a board for every restricted gift and every receipt, weighing Bloomerang against Givebear

Bloomerang is donor management software. In the comparison below, Bloomerang has the edge on deep CRM & wealth screening, and the rest comes down to cost and how in-person giving is handled.

Where Bloomerang is the better choice

Bloomerang offers deep CRM & wealth screening, and Givebear does not. If staff use that every week, leaving Bloomerang means replacing it with another tool or going without.

Where Givebear is different

Givebear fits organizations whose immediate problem is collecting gifts: donation pages, a lobby kiosk, events, campaigns, and receipts, with donor records filled in from that activity.

Compared with Bloomerang, Givebear's kiosk for a lobby or event entrance is a 21.5-inch touchscreen with a built-in Stripe card reader, sold once at $999 to $1,099 (wall mount or battery floor stand) with no per-kiosk software subscription.

What to test before you decide

Score both platforms on CRM depth versus donation workflow depth, public giving page quality, kiosk and event support, receipt automation, and operational simplicity for small teams. Use your last year-end appeal as the test case: set up the same funds and receipt wording in a free Givebear account and check whether it produces the report your board asked for from Bloomerang.

How do you switch from Bloomerang to Givebear?

Clarify whether the organization needs a CRM-first system, a fundraising-first system, or a clean integration path between both.

Givebear imports contacts and past gifts from a CSV, so the Bloomerang export is the first step. Create your funds in Givebear before importing the Bloomerang file, since fund names in it do not create funds on their own. Saved cards move only if Bloomerang and Stripe support a transfer; otherwise recurring donors restart their gift on your new page, so announce the change a few weeks ahead.

Before cutover, list every place a donor can reach Bloomerang: website buttons, email footers, printed QR codes, and event pages. Repoint the ones you control; a printed code that sends donors to Bloomerang keeps working only as long as Bloomerang keeps that page up.

Practical use cases

Choose Givebear if you need hardware donation kiosks, which Bloomerang does not offer.
Stay with Bloomerang if your team depends on deep CRM & wealth screening.
Keep Bloomerang for online giving and add a Givebear kiosk for walk-up gifts, then decide after a season of both.

Common questions

Does Bloomerang support donation kiosks?

No. Bloomerang does not sell a donation kiosk, so walk-up gifts need a separate device and usually land in a separate report. Compared with Bloomerang, Givebear's kiosk for a lobby or event entrance is a 21.5-inch touchscreen with a built-in Stripe card reader, sold once at $999 to $1,099 (wall mount or battery floor stand) with no per-kiosk software subscription.

What is the best Bloomerang alternative?

It depends on what Bloomerang is not doing for you. If you need a walk-up donation kiosk, which Bloomerang lacks, Givebear has it in the same account as online giving. If your team relies on deep CRM & wealth screening, pick an alternative that also has it, or keep Bloomerang for that job.

Can I import my donors from Bloomerang?

Yes. Export contacts and gift history from Bloomerang as a CSV and import both into Givebear. Recurring gifts are separate: saved payment methods transfer only when Bloomerang and Stripe support it, so check that before you set a cutover date.

What does switching from Bloomerang to Givebear cost?

Givebear charges a flat platform fee from 1.9% to 5.9% depending on plan (one rate online, at kiosks, and on memberships), plus Stripe card processing at cost, with no setup fee and no monthly minimum. To compare with Bloomerang, run last year's gifts through both fee schedules and add any per-device or add-on fees each side charges; a Givebear kiosk is optional and only needed for walk-up giving.

Givebear covers donation portal, donation kiosks, campaign pages, event registration, automated receipts, donor records.

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Your funds, set up the way your treasurer reports them
Where a kiosk would go, and what it costs
The reports your board will actually see

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