If you want to improve your data management, you’ve landed in the right place. We recently hosted a fantastic webinar showcasing SmartIMPORT, our affordable, secure, and user-friendly solution for Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT data imports.
This session, part of Blackbaud’s “Single Source of Truth” series, demonstrates how SmartIMPORT transforms manual data processes into seamless, accurate, and secure operations, providing reliable data for your organisation so you can make better connections with your constituents.
Want to maximise your impact with better data management? Head over to the SmartIMPORT page to book your demo.
So, what’s the big deal about SmartIMPORT?
Our webinar tackled the common headaches of manual data imports and showed how SmartIMPORT can transform your data process. Non-profit organisations often experience:
- Wasted Time & Manual Effort: Are your staff spending hours on repetitive data entry instead of focusing on donor engagement and campaign planning? SmartIMPORT helps you reclaim that time.
- Data Inaccuracy & Errors: Without built-in validation, your database can suffer from errors, duplicates, and fragmented data. SmartIMPORT ensures clean, accurate records you can trust.
- Technical Dependencies: Traditional import tools often have steep learning curves, creating bottlenecks. SmartIMPORT empowers anyone on your team to handle imports.
- Outdated Systems: Legacy plugins can prevent you from accessing superior, future-proof alternatives. SmartIMPORT offers a modern, reliable API-driven architecture.
The SmartIMPORT Solution: Simple, Powerful, Secure
SmartIMPORT is a powerful yet simple import tool developed specifically for Raiser’s Edge NXT. Here are some of the key takeaways from the webinar:
Drag, Drop, & Done: It’s that easy! Connect to your Blackbaud environment and prepare data from various sources like Excel, CSV, SharePoint, or Google Drive. The drag-and-drop interface makes mapping your spreadsheet columns to Raiser’s Edge data fields a breeze.
Enhanced Data Support: SmartIMPORT keeps getting smarter! You can now easily import and update constituent codes, multiple addresses, preferred names, and crucial consent data. This ensures accurate donor segmentation and helps you stay compliant. Plus, import data directly into your custom constituent and gift fields, and attach important notes for crucial context.
Gift and Membership Functionality: Effortlessly import tribute gifts ensuring proper recognition and donor acknowledgment, and streamline the creation and updating of memberships with a dedicated import option.
Part of the SmartSYNC platform: SmartIMPORT is part of the larger SmartSYNC platform which acts as a central hub to manage all your integrations, imports and automations. This platform also offers real-time data syncs, ensuring your data is always current.
Secure and Compliant: We take security seriously. SmartIMPORT is ISO-certified, with regional servers and top-notch security standards to keep your data safe.
Don’t just take our word for it! Clients have seen amazing results – for example, one of our clients (a hospice in north London) which has built eight different regular imports using SmartIMPORT, including integrations with Much Loved and JustGiving.
As Laura Garbari from The Mental Health Foundation shared, “Using SmartIMPORT means we don’t have to do any manipulation to JustGiving reports and can upload them directly onto Raiser’s Edge. This saves the data team a great deal of time and reduces errors.”
