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What is the price of CiviCRM?
CiviCRM is open source, so the software itself is free to download. So depending on your skills and availability of hosting it could be free.
In practice, hosting costs (a bit of) money. It will ...
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Standalone CiviCRM? (no CMS)
No, CiviCRM must be installed within one of these CMS platforms: Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla, or Backdrop. But this doesn't mean you need to use that CMS for your organization's main website — you ...
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Your Organization Profile for CiviCRM - Survey - To help us make an educated decision
We have around 14 million contacts & 35 million contributions. I believe our budget is less than $100 million per year but it's in the ballpark
I think we've used CiviCRM for over 10 years. We ...
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How do I set up CiviCRM?
CiviCRM needs to be hosted on a webserver that meets the proper hosting specs. See http://book.civicrm.org/user/getting-prepared/hosting/
Technically you could host it on your own computer, this ...
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Does CiviCRM have servers in Canada?
CiviCRM is unlike other online CRMs in that you can host it yourself, rather than rely on the corporation that writes the software to host it. So you can host it wherever you like. This is a major ...
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What is the largest number of customer records that civicrm supports?
See this question: Number of contacts vs. hosting space required
Here is a thorough answer to that question: https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/a/3289/105.
The short version: there is no formal limit ...
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What is the price of CiviCRM?
CiviCRM licence: $0
For the rest: how long is a piece of string?
How much it cost depends a lot of the specifics of your organisation, if you have the time to install and configure, if you need ...
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is there a maximum number of memberships?
CiviCRM is a free, open source software package. You can download it for free, and you can do what you like with it.
The number of contacts or memberships supported is not limited by licensing or ...
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How secure is CiviCRM?
CiviCRM does not do anything special to either keep your data secure or insecure. It stores data in a MySQL database like lots of other applications.
The security is more in the way you configure ...
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Is CiviCRM a viable choice? 4 Questions
We have a site for students and schools/providers. it is all run off Relationships and Activities and I think some of how we approached this could assist your project.
I would make each Class a ...
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Reality check: Can CiviCRM be implemented by a nondeveloper with limited time?
Good question.
In broad terms I'd agree with the answer from William, with some reservations. To answer your question: "Can CiviCRM be implemented by a nondeveloper with limited time?" I would say ...
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Is CiviCRM a 'master database' / 'master system'?
Yes, CiviCRM would be a great match for what you're describing. CiviCRM is a central 'master' information hub that has quite a bit of reach out of the box:
membership data (What Is CiviMember? and ...
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Is CiviCRM for us?
first of all: I think you would be able to run CiviCRM without too much IT expertise or huge (subjective term though) consultancy costs. I would recommend you to contact a local CiviCRM partner and ...
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What of these CiviCRM features comes 'out of the box'?
I'd caution that 'standard' is a slippery word. Since CiviCRM is of the 'community' style of open source, there's no 'pro' version with extra features, so Ramesh has the right answer to that question.
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What of these CiviCRM features comes 'out of the box'?
The demo has the following extensions enabled by default, which are not part of CiviCRM core:
CiviVolunteer (features under the "Volunteer" menu)
CiviRules (Administer > CiviRules; this is a rather ...
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Is CiviCRM resource intensive?
It's tempting to discard this question as being too vague to give an accurate answer to, but capacity planning is a real and difficult challenge.
Is CiviCRM resource intensive? That depends what you ...
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How secure is CiviCRM?
CiviCRM is a web-based tool and has no desktop component. It is thus as secure the server which hosts it, be that a local one or a remote one.
There are occasionally security flaws found in the ...
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CiviCRM for animal rescue charity
Look into CiviCase for planning and tracking each animal's adoption appointments, vet visits, groomings, etc.
CiviEvent has integrated location/venue components that might be useful in organizing ...
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How much time it will take to build CiviCRM from scratch by single person?
All of it? Probably 10 years.
(that's a serious answer - I know, as a member of the core team, I built a lot of it myself)
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Using CiviGrant as the applicant/recipient
That's totally possible - I have one medium size org that uses Grants exclusively for this purpose. We're using some simple Word Replacements -> in civicrm/admin/options/wordreplacements?reset=1 to ...
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How to migrate Raisers edge data to CiviCRM?
It is INCREDIBLY difficult to migrate data from Raiser's Edge. You will definitely want to use an ETL tool, as suggested in another answer.
I have made my documentation available here. I also ...
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CiviCRM + Drupal + Office 365 Integration
The usual way of email integration is a bit different.
CiviCRM can read a POP/IMAP account, this can be the full account or a subfolder in it.
Then you have your own mailreader, be it outlook, ...
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What is the largest number of customer records that civicrm supports?
There's a difference between how many records a database can hold and how many users need to access the system simultaneously on a regular basis. For the latter it's a much harder question because it ...
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I have a list of requirements I am looking to fill -- Can CiviCRM do these?
CiviCRM can do all the things you described above, with two caveats:
Some of the requests you're making around primary contact and one account managing multiple members work in CiviCRM with any CMS - ...
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member login; view & pay pledges
CiviPledges can be set up so that
- a logged in contact can see their upcoming Pledges on their dashboard
- a contribution page can be set up as a self-service payments page
I set one up on the ...
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The Cost of Civi
Thanks for your question and welcome to CiviCRM!
CiviCRM is open source software. This means that you don't have to pay a license fee to use it. So in theory you can use it for free.
However, ...
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We don't use the listed content managers. Can I still use CiviCRM for contacts?
What you can do is set up a new subdomain https://secure.yourdomainname.org -
Then run a very minimal Drupal (or Wordpress) + CiviCRM on that secure.yourdomainname.org - this will provide you with all ...
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Can you use civicrm for inbound marketing instead of HubSpot?
You can create webforms with CiviCRM to capture the data you're requesting. With the CiviRules extension, you can easily send automated email on a schedule like you describe. In fact, CiviRules was ...
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When switching to CiviCRM from another system, what do I need to consider?
Migrating Existing Data
Migrating data (and processes) from a previously used (CRM) system is not a routine task. It will probably involve discussions, how existing workflows can be represented in ...
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Presales / Functionality Question
from a quick read I would expect you to be able to get most of the way, if not the whole way, but using Activities (or possibly Cases) to store the data for referals, and use Drupal Webforms to ...
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