Competing Ideas

Other software for nonprofit organizations appears to be selfishly designed more to make more money for the software company than to actually solve your problems and meet your needs. This approach goes against everything we believe in.

Well-designed software requires less training and less support. The following table illustrates how our philosophy differs from our competitors:

Easy-Ware Competitors

Software To Help You and Save You Money

Software To Make The Software Vendor Rich

No 'modules' - you get access to everything if you want it - all for one price

Their basic package is limited - forcing you to buy more features/modules (which require more training and more support fees)

Low purchase cost - unlimited records, unlimited users - all functionality included

High purchase cost - especially for multiple users / extra features & modules & a decent amount of data

Little or no training required - depending on your level of expertise - training usually carried out online

Long, costly training (often off-site) which places you at risk when turnover occurs

Low annual support costs - based only on the number of users

High annual support costs - based on what modules you own and features you've purchased

Free upgrades with your annual support agreement - with new enhancements that you'll want to use - little to no additional training required with new features

Forced, costly upgrades - often with completely new user interface designs requiring a whole new round of training

Ease of use software design

  • Fully-integrated functionality - few forms - consistent user interface design principles

  • Requires less initial training and less ongoing support

  • No additional training required with new features

Selfish software design

  • Complex and unintuitive design

  • Features and modules look different, are not completely integrated - all requiring more training (time and fees)

  • Modules are designed more to facilitate extra fees than ease of use

Dozens of reports ship with the product yet we offer an incredibly simple Custom Report tool which allows you to create your own reports and we work with you during training to set up the reports you care most about.

Hundreds of reports - many of which you won't ever use yet they will charge you to teach you which reports you need and those which you don't (increasing your training time and fees)

One stop shop - all functionality in one system - eliminates the need for other programs - and prevents duplicate data

Focused mostly on Fundraising and Development - requiring the use of other software programs to meet other department needs - leading to duplicate data

Privately held company with extremely low overhead costs

Public companies with significant overhead costs

Users feel empowered by Easy-Ware

Users can feel trapped by their software vendor