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Bloomerang

Summary

Bloomerang is nonprofit software combining donor CRM, fundraising and volunteer tools, with an event module that handles branded registration pages, ticket packages, seating, payments and QR check-in. Its fundraising side, formerly Qgiv, also runs auctions and peer-to-peer campaigns.

From
$40 a monthbilled annually
Open source
No
API
Yes
Best for
Nonprofits running galas, auctions and donor events alongside their donor database

What we checked

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Price on its site
From $40 a monthFrom its pricing page

Bloomerang price and terms

Terms

Free plan or trial
NoNo
Sign up without sales
NoNo

What needs a higher plan

Giving Essentials or Giving+ package
Check-in app
Giving Essentials and Giving+ packages
Works with

For AI agents

API
Yes
Bloomerang's pricing page

Pricing page, captured

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What we checked on Bloomerang

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What the fees come toYes

The fee per ticket

No separate ticketing service fee is published: event registration is billed at the Bloomerang Fundraising card processing rate of 3.95% plus $0.30 per transaction, with no setup, monthly or payout fee.

Visa, Mastercard, Discover | 3.95% + $0.30 | Per transaction.

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What the fees come toYes

Who pays the fees

Fees come out of the organization's proceeds by default, but GiftAssist lets registrants add an amount that covers the processing cost, and new standard forms preselect it for donors.

GiftAssist does not replace processing fees. It is a small, additional donation that donors can add to their transactions so the final amount you…

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What the fees come toYes

Card processing

Bloomerang Payments processes cards in-house for event registration at 3.95% plus $0.30, with AMEX at 4.95% and ACH at 1.95% plus $0.95; outside processors carry a 1.95% platform fee on top.

The pricing in the following table applies to: Fundraising forms Text fundraising Event registration Auctions Peer-to-peer

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What the fees come toPartly

All-in price at checkout

Registrants see the package price the organization set, and fees are not added on top; however, new forms preselect the optional GiftAssist amount, so the first total shown includes a fee contribution a buyer must clear.

New standard and peer-to-peer forms have GiftAssist and Opt-in Donors by default enabled automatically. This means the GiftAssist option is…

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What the fees come toYes

Free events

A free RSVP event is set up as a $0 package, and the published fee schedule charges only a percentage plus fixed amount per processed transaction, with no setup, monthly or minimum merchant fee.

Tip: To set up a free RSVP-only event, create an event and add a package with a cost of $0.

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What the fees come toYes

Plans and subscriptions

Selling tickets requires a paid subscription priced by constituent records, with Bloomerang Fundraising starting at $40 a month billed annually and only sold bundled with Bloomerang CRM from $125 a month.

Starting at: $40 /month, billed annually*

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Donations and tips

Event registration forms carry add-on donations alongside tickets, and GiftAssist asks buyers to add an amount covering processing costs rather than tipping the platform itself.

Offer ticket bundles, promo codes, set registration limits, and add-on donations—all designed to boost registration and make sign-up a breeze.

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What the fees come toPartly

Sales tax on tickets

adds a tax line: taxes apply to store items bundled into a registration total, and packages carry a fair market value field for the non-deductible portion, but no sales tax collection or remittance on tickets is documented.

For registrations, the total includes: Registration costs Donations Store items (including taxes and shipping), if applicable

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Getting paidYes

When you get the money

Money is paid out to the organization's own bank account on a daily schedule by default, changeable to weekly or monthly, and the published schedule lists a $0 payout fee.

Payout Frequency is automatically set to Daily but can be changed to Weekly or Monthly.

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Getting paidPartly

Disputed charges

The published fee schedule sets a $0 fee when a buyer disputes a card charge with their bank, and a $15 fee for each time a buyer disputes an ACH payment with their bank, but the pages do not say who ultimately bears the disputed amount itself.

ACH Chargeback Fee | $15 | Per chargeback instance.

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Getting paidYes

Your buyers’ details

Registrant records flow into the donor database, attendees can be emailed from the event's Attendees area, and the vendor states organizations own and can export their data at any time.

You own your data. We provide easy exports at any time—no proprietary tokens or migration hurdles and no risk of being stranded mid-donor campaign.

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Selling the ticketsYes

Ticket types and discounts

Packages cover tickets, tables and sponsorships with early-bird discounts, multi-package pricing, promo codes, per-event and per-transaction limits, and private packages reachable only by shared URL.

At least one package must be created before your event can become active. You'll create packages for each unique pricing and registration option.…

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Reserved seating

Staff assign guests to tables and seats with a drag-and-drop layout tool, but the documentation describes organizers arranging seating rather than buyers choosing their own seats at checkout.

Easily create and manage your on-site event layout with drag-and-drop tools so every guest gets the right seat without the stress.

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Selling the ticketsYes

Questions at checkout

Custom event fields can be attached to individual packages and attendee details requested per ticket, so questions such as meal choice or shirt size are collected per guest rather than only per order.

If you want to collect a t-shirt size for each participant who selects this package, create a custom field for T-shirt Size. Then, in Custom Event…

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Registration forms and waivers

Drag-and-drop registration forms take custom fields and attendee details per ticket; digital waivers with e-signatures are documented for Bloomerang Volunteer, not for event registration forms.

Customizable drag-and-drop event registration forms

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Waitlist

Shift waitlisting is documented for Bloomerang Volunteer, while the standard event documentation covers ticket limits and sell-outs without describing a waitlist for sold-out event tickets.

On the page: Bloomerang Volunteer card, Scheduling feature list

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Selling the ticketsYes

Sell on your own website

An Event Registration widget drops a customizable Get Tickets button on the organization's own site, and clicking it opens the registration modal in place rather than sending buyers away.

Clicking the embedded button will open a registration modal right on your site.

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Selling the ticketsPartly

Website builders

embed only: widgets are pasted as custom HTML and work on WordPress.org and Squarespace with Ajax disabled, while Wix, GoDaddy, Google Sites and WordPress.com are named as hosts that do not work.

Your website editor must accept custom HTML for a widget to work properly. There are a few website hosting services that don't play well with…

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Selling the ticketsYes

Add-ons

Packages themselves can be used for merchandise alongside tickets, and auction events offer a virtual storefront whose store items are added into the registration total with taxes and shipping.

They can be used for tickets, tables, sponsorship, merchandise, and more.

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Selling the ticketsPartly

Recurring events

An annual event is reused by cloning the finished event rather than scheduling a series, and the vendor presents cloning as the route for events repeated year to year.

You can also clone your events. This is especially useful if you have an annual event that you want to reuse from year to year.

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Selling the ticketsPartly

Refunds and transfers by buyers

With Ticket Management on, purchasers email tickets to guests, edit guest details and revoke or resend tickets themselves, but refunds are issued by staff from the Transactions area.

From here, the ticket purchaser can view the QR codes, add and edit guest information and custom fields for all tickets, and email tickets to guests

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At the doorPartly

Check-in app

The Bloomerang Fundraising app and a browser camera both scan QR tickets to check attendees in, but QR check-in for standard events requires the Giving Essentials or Giving+ package and no offline mode is documented.

Please note: QR Check-In for standard events is only available with the Giving Essentials or Giving+ package.

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At the doorYes

Door sales

The Virtual Terminal records cash and check registrations at the door, and Tap to Pay in the mobile app takes card payments, which carry the same published processing rates.

Using the Virtual Terminal, you can enter offline cash and check donations and event registrations on your Bloomerang Fundraising form.

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At the doorPartly

Apple Wallet

Auction registrants get a ticket email with a link to add the ticket to Apple Wallet; for standard events the documentation describes a QR code in the email and a printable PDF instead.

After they register, attendees will receive a ticket email that includes the QR code and links to add the digital ticket to their Apple Wallet or…

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Google Wallet

The same auction ticket email links to Google Wallet, while the standard event article documents only emailed QR codes and PDF tickets rather than wallet passes.

On the page: What QR Codes Look Like for Attendees, first paragraph

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Finding buyersYes

Email to buyers

Attendees can be emailed from the event's Attendees area, and the CRM side adds an email builder, automated journeys and segmentation that reach past event registrants.

Attendees – Review a list of your registered attendees and send email communication to them from this area.

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Finding buyersYes

Ad tracking

Meta Pixel, Meta Conversions API, Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager are connected from the Integrations area, and tracking can be scoped to all standard event forms or named forms.

On the Integrations landing page, you can activate integrations with Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics 4, Meta Conversions API, and Meta Pixel.

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Finding buyersYes

Promoter links

Peer-to-peer campaigns give supporters individual and team registration and fundraising pages with sharing tools and thermometers; peer-to-peer transactions carry an extra 1% on top of processing.

Individual & team registration & fundraising pages

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What it connects to and where it is soldPartly

Works with

Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Klaviyo, Salesforce, QuickBooks Online, Zapier and several donor CRMs connect, but the vendor states service integrations come with the Giving Essentials and Giving+ packages.

All service integrations are included as part of our Giving Essentials and Giving+ packages.

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What it connects to and where it is soldYes

API

Bloomerang publishes an open REST API with a private key plus a public-key Bloomerang.js for forms, and Bloomerang Fundraising issues per-form API tokens under Data Tools.

Bloomerang has two ways to get data into the system using an API. They are: Bloomerang REST API (private key) Bloomerang.js (public key)

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What it connects to and where it is soldYes

United States

Forms can receive donations from anywhere, and donations are processed in United States dollars (USD).

On the page: Create Online Giving Forms, opening paragraphs

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What it connects to and where it is soldYes

Canada

CRM forms use Canadian dollars only when the organization is set to Canada with a Canadian Stripe or Authorize.net account, and no pound processing is documented.

Forms can receive donations from anywhere, and donations are processed in United States dollars (USD). If you select Canada in your organization…

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Starting and getting helpNo

Free to start

There is no free way to sell tickets: the fundraising product that runs event registration starts at $40 a month billed annually and must be bought bundled with the CRM.

*Must be purchased as part of bundle with Bloomerang CRM

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Starting and getting helpNo

Sign up without a sales call

Every pricing call to action routes to a demo or a quote built around the organization's record count, so a buyer cannot sign up and start selling the same day.

Share a few details and our team will put together Giving Platform pricing that fits your goals.

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Starting and getting helpPartly

Contract

Pricing is annual and record-based, and the vendor promises data export at any time with no lock-in, but no page states a minimum term, exclusivity or how to leave between events.

One intelligent platform. Unlimited users. Annual pricing built for your nonprofit.

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Starting and getting helpYes

Support on event day

The vendor says support staff are reachable by phone, email or live chat, publishes 888-855-9595 and a fundraising support address, but states no hours or after-hours cover for event night.

Our dedicated support staff is always available via phone, email, or live chat to help you maximize success.

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