The Australian field divides in two. Everflame does both sides.
The fundraising platforms on one side and the compliance and fund-accounting systems on the other. Set against both, this is what Everflame does — drawn at the level of category rather than scored brand by brand, since products change their features while the shape of the two sides holds.
| What it does | Everflame | Fundraising platforms | Compliance & accounting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Branded donor campaign pages and donation forms | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
| Peer-to-peer fundraising through supporters' own pages | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
| A live thermometer with goals that rise as thresholds are reached, built in | ✓ | ~ | ✕ |
| All-or-nothing and multi-year pledges collected by the platform | ✓ | ~ | ✕ |
| A designed thank-you card sent automatically with the receipt | ✓ | ~ | ~ |
| A full mobile app for both giving and administration | ✓ | ~ | ~ |
| DGR tax-deductible receipts | ✓ | ~ | ✓ |
| Deductible and non-deductible split, with the fundraising-event rules encoded | ✓ | ✕ | ~ |
| Gift funds ring-fenced as a native ledger | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Ancillary-fund distribution checks and minimum-distribution tracking | ✓ | ✕ | ~ |
| ACNC Annual Information Statement and ATO reporting inputs assembled | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ |
| A versioned, maintained Australian compliance encoding | ✓ | ✕ | ~ |
| Several endorsed entities under one body, ring-fenced and consolidated | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Fundraising and compliance in one product, no second system to reconcile | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| The multi-entity structure in an affordable platform, not an enterprise suite | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| A free donor front end and no cut of the gift | ✓ | ~ | ✕ |
“No cut of the gift” means Everflame’s platform fee is 0% of the donation. Card processing (~1.7% + 30c per transaction) is paid to the payment processor — never to Everflame — and donors can opt in to cover it.
The two sides today
The fundraising platforms — GiveNow, Raisely, Chuffed, Funraisin, and international tools such as Donorbox — do the donor-facing side well and leave the deeper compliance, the donor record and the reporting to a second system. The compliance and fund-accounting systems — enterprise suites such as Blackbaud Financial Edge and Sage Intacct, and donor-management houses such as DonorPerfect — hold the compliance and the multi-entity accounting but are not fundraising platforms and are priced for large institutions.
The seam Everflame closes
A charity of any complexity runs one tool from each side and reconciles between them by hand, or pays for an enterprise stack — the multi-entity body that good practice recommends served worst of all. Everflame is the one product that does both sides, building the Australian compliance and the multi-entity structure into the giving itself, at a price a small charity can meet and with a donor experience as capable as the tools that do nothing else.
One product, both sides, no reconciling.
The compliance earns it the institutions; the giving experience earns it the donors. The union is the thing nothing else in the Australian market puts in one place.