The honest comparison
Salesforce is the platform most teams are quoted before they find us — sometimes as ten free nonprofit licenses, sometimes as a Sales Cloud proposal. The software is capable. The system around it — implementation, per-seat licensing, ongoing administration — is where the real bill lives. Every figure below is public and sourced.
Year one, side by side
A 15-person nonprofit with about 10,000 constituents, weighing Salesforce against Simply360. Same core jobs — constituents, programs, forms, payments, reports, websites — very different bill.
Ten licenses are free for eligible nonprofits, then Nonprofit Cloud Enterprise lists at $60 per user per month — about $3,600 a year for five more seats. Partner implementations are documented at $30,000–$80,000 for mid-size nonprofits, ongoing administration at $2,000–$6,000 a month or a $55,000–$85,000 admin salary, and the public website is a separate project.
About $2,388 a year on the $199 band with unlimited users, an implementation package from $9,500 (Standard) to $24,000 (Complete), administration included because schema changes are a settings screen, and your first published website included in the plan.
Where the money goes
None of these numbers are ours — they are the documented market, linked in the sources below.
Nonprofit Cloud is free for ten users, then $60–$100 per user per month depending on edition. Commercial Sales Cloud lists from $25 (starter) to $175 (Enterprise) and $350 (Unlimited) per user per month, billed annually. Every hire and every volunteer login moves the number.
Certified partners bill $150–$300 an hour. Documented builds run $15,000–$40,000 for small organizations, $30,000–$80,000 for mid-size, and $60,000–$100,000+ for complex multi-program deployments with data migration.
Keeping a Salesforce org tuned is a job: $2,000–$6,000 a month in managed services, or a $55,000–$85,000 salary for an in-house administrator. It recurs every year the system lives.
Forms, donation pages, and the website itself are separate products or projects in the big-CRM world. With Simply360, your first published website and its public forms are included in every paid band.
The structural difference
This is not a discount — the product is priced differently on purpose.
Plans are sized by the constituents you manage, never by seats — because inviting a board member, a volunteer, or your bookkeeper should not be a budget decision.
Simply360 implementations run from $2,500 (guided onboarding) through $9,500 (Standard) and $24,000 (Complete) to $45,000 (enterprise platform replacement) — typically less than half the cost of a comparable big-CRM build, live in weeks.
Adding a program, a field, or a form is configuration your own team does. There is no certified-administrator layer between you and your database.
Every band, package, and rule is published. You can model year one — and year five — without a discovery call.
The same economics follow the vertical products built on Salesforce — the arts, association, legal, events, and recreation platforms sold in its ecosystem inherit its licensing and implementation model. The Simply app family covers those verticals with this same flat pricing.
Honest answers
A team with a dedicated Salesforce administrator, a consulting budget, and complex multi-system integrations gets real power from that platform — if that is you and it is working, keep it. If you are being quoted a second mortgage just to get started, talk to us first.
Sources: Salesforce nonprofit pricing · Salesforce Sales Cloud pricing · GrantPipe: the real cost of Salesforce for nonprofits · GrantPipe: nonprofit CRM pricing guide · Clear Concise Consulting: implementation costs · Clientell: consultant rates
Figures are as published at the linked sources in July 2026 — pricing changes, so check the sources for current numbers. Every price on our side is on the pricing page.
Salesforce and all other third-party product names on this page are trademarks of their respective owners, named only for factual comparison. Simply360 is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by them.
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