We do it · Managed integrations

SmartSYNC

We connect Raiser's Edge NXT to the apps your team already uses, then keep watch, with daily monitoring, error resolution and specialist field mapping. You get clean, current data in Raiser's Edge NXT. We handle everything in between.

  • ISO 27001 & 9001 certified
  • 80+ connectors
  • Trusted by 100s of organisations worldwide
The platform

What is SmartSYNC

SmartSYNC is the platform behind every connector we build, from SmartMAILCHIMP and SmartDOTDIGITAL to the Xero, Stripe and Eventbrite connectors alongside them. Each one is a tested, built-for-you integration: two-way where it matters, working through Raiser's Edge NXT tiles and quick tags, already split across the data flows other clients like you have needed, and working the way you need it from day one, with no technical knowledge required on your side.

Want Mailchimp connected? Buy SmartMAILCHIMP. We configure it around you, and we look after it from there.

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Built-for-you connectors
SmartMAILCHIMP, SmartDOTDIGITAL and 80+ others, each one two-way where it matters, running multiple data flows, built from what we have learned configuring them for other clients.

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Custom flows for developers
Building your own product on Raiser's Edge NXT? Use SmartSYNC's custom flow builder, or let us build it, so your team can concentrate on the interface while we make sure the data lands correctly.

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AI chatbot ready, MCP for any connector
Blackbaud read and write actions, Xero, DotDigital or any of our 80+ connectors are available as tools for your AI chatbot.

SmartSYNC or SmartIMPORT

SmartIMPORT lives on the same platform, and it is a genuinely capable way to build and run your own imports directly from files, webhooks and other sources. To pull data from any of our 80+ connected apps through SmartIMPORT, though, you will need that app's add-on, and you will map, tag and maintain the connection yourself. As an example you might want to split a single Enthuse payment into a gift and an event attendee import, before the standard SmartIMPORT processing takes over. You would need to configure the addon to do this and then map the two imports. A SmartSYNC connector like SmartENTHUSE already does this, is the tested, built-for-you version of that same connection: already split into the flows and fields other clients have needed, two-way where it matters, and ours to look after from day one.

How it works

Consultancy first, then we keep it running

Every deployment starts with people, not software. We configure standard connectors to your Raiser's Edge NXT environment, so data lands the way your database is actually set up.

Step 1
Consultation

We map your systems, your Raiser's Edge NXT configuration and your data rules with you, before anything is built.

Step 2
Configuration

Our specialists configure the connectors to your environment: field mappings, gift splits, consent handling and matching rules.

Step 3
Go live, together

We test with your real data structures, review the results with your team and switch on when you are happy.

Step 4
Watched daily

Daily monitoring and error resolution from then on. When an app changes its API, that is our problem to fix, not yours.

What we connect

The apps your organisation already runs

80+ connectors, each one built because a real organisation needed it. A few of the families:

E-commerce and payments

External transactions reconciled into Raiser's Edge NXT, so your database stays the single source of truth for income.

Shopify · WooCommerce · Stripe · PayPal · Square

Fundraising platforms

Every externally raised donation, fundraising page and registration lands on the constituent record.

JustGiving · Enthuse · Fundraise Up · Evergiving

Marketing and communications

Audiences kept current, and engagement synced back to the record. True two-way sync available for Mailchimp and DotDigital.

Mailchimp · DotDigital · Campaign Monitor

Events and ticketing

Registrations, ticketing and attendance flow into Events and Participants automatically.

Eventbrite · Cvent · Zoom

Education and community

School management systems, alumni networks and volunteer platforms, in step with your database.

iSAMS · Hivebrite · Aluminati

Finance and operations

Fundraising revenue synced to the ledgers your finance team already runs, including Financial Edge NXT.

Financial Edge NXT · Xero · QuickBooks

Data quality

Address validation, email verification and record hygiene, improving the data you already hold.

Loqate · ZeroBounce · Google Address Validation

Productivity tools

Everyday workplace utilities that remove admin friction without displacing anything your database does natively.

Gmail · Outlook · Calendly · Google Sheets

Working alongside other CRMs

Where other departments run a different CRM, we keep Raiser's Edge NXT the fundraising system of record.

Salesforce · Microsoft Dynamics · HubSpot

who you are working with

Raiser's Edge NXT specialists, on a platform that connects anything

SmartSYNC is an integration platform in the mould of Power Automate or Zapier. The difference is what it does with your data: it works with Raiser's Edge NXT the way a database administrator would, not a generic add, edit or delete. It checks for duplicates, formats and transforms data, and splits an address, a relationship or a gift into the right fields rather than dropping it in as one block. A single constituent update, done properly, can take eighty or more API calls, work most tools skip in favour of pushing data across as is.

The difference is also who sets it up: specialists with more than twenty years of Blackbaud experience, across Raiser's Edge NXT, Blackbaud CRM, Financial Edge NXT and Education Management.

80+
Connectors in the library

Publicly documented on our live connector inventory, each built because a real organisation needed it

20+
Years working with Blackbaud products

As a Blackbaud Partner Network member throughout

5
Blackbaud connector families

The deepest first-class Blackbaud coverage of any system family on the platform

Tell us what you need connected

Bring us the apps your organisation runs. If a connector exists, we will configure it to your environment. If it does not exist yet, we will build it, the same way the whole library was built. And if you would rather build and run your own imports, SmartIMPORT puts that in your hands.