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Raiser’s Edge NXT Integration and Import with BrightVine DataLink
BrightVine DataLink gives nonprofit teams a single platform to manage imports and integrations with Raiser’s Edge NXT.
Connect external systems, reuse mapping and transformation logic, match and validate records, review exceptions, and control what happens before data reaches RENXT.
Unlimited imports • Unlimited API connectors • Unlimited users • Flat rate pricing
Your data is coming from everywhere.
Your team shouldn’t have to rebuild the process every time.
DataLink for RENXT is designed to support both file-based imports and API connector-driven data integrations.
Use it to bring data into RENXT from unlimited external sources, apply reusable data mapping and transformation rules, review issues before they become database problems, and manage recurring processes with greater consistency.
Instead of rebuilding the same logic every time data needs to move, your team can create repeatable processes that are easier to manage, maintain, and scale. As new sources, integrations, and business requirements are added, DataLink helps keep the data entry process for RENXT consistent while reducing manual effort and one-off work.
Unlimited Imports and API connectors
Data mapping for imports and APIs
Reusable logic for cleanup, formatting and data prep
Complex data handling and sequencing
Enhanced Duplicate Matching
Exception handling and cleanup
Control What Happens Before Data Reaches Raiser’s Edge NXT
Standard API Connectors
Field Mapping
Create and reuse mappings that determine exactly where incoming information belongs in RENXT.
Data Transformation
Clean, reformat, standardize, and prepare data as part of the process rather than fixing it afterward.
Enhanced Duplicate Matching
Apply matching logic before records are created and review potential matches when they need attention.
Validation and Exception Review
Identify problems before data reaches RENXT and give your team a structured way to review and resolve exceptions.
Reusable Processes
Build the process once and reuse it, rather than recreating the logic every time data arrives.
Complex Process Management
Coordinate workflows involving records, gifts, relationships, attributes, and other data that need to be processed in the correct order.
Imports + Connectors
Use the same platform for traditional file-based imports and API-based integration
and more...
Predictable Pricing
Your Data Stays In Your Environment
Maintain predictable pricing for growing data needs. DataLink uses a flat annual fee structure for unlimited imports, unlimited connectors, and unlimited users. That means your cost does not increase every time you add a new file process, connect another data source, or expand access to additional team members.
No per-import fees.
No per-record fees.
No per-app fees.
No per-connector fees.
DataLink for RENXT connects systems without relying on a BrightVine Cloud. Your data stays within your Microsoft and Blackbaud environments and is never sent to BrightVine.
That gives your organization more control over where your data resides while still providing your team with a more flexible way to manage imports, connectors, and data movement into RENXT.
Built for Nonprofit Teams
by a Blackbaud Expert
DataLink is designed for people who live in fundraising operations, advancement services, database management, and nonprofit technology every day. Your team should not need to write code every time a file changes, a vendor sends data in a different format, or a new source needs to be connected to RENXT.
DataLink gives users a more structured way to manage mappings, transformations, matching, validation, and exceptions, while still giving technical teams the flexibility to support more advanced data workflows when needed.
Use DataLink yourself
Or let BrightVine manage it for you
Some organizations want their internal teams to run DataLink directly. Others want BrightVine to serve as a second set of hands. BrightVine Managed Services can help configure workflows, manage imports, support connector processes, troubleshoot exceptions, and provide ongoing managed services so your team can focus on fundraising, operations, and strategy.
FAQs:
Q: Can DataLink handle both imports and API integrations?
A: Yes. DataLink for RENXT supports both imports and API connector-based data integration.
Q: How does DataLink match incoming records with existing RENXT constituents?
A: BrightVine provides enhanced duplicate matching that you configure. We allow you to match based on specific fields and using sophisticated matching algorithms.
Q: Can DataLink manage imports that require multiple records or processes to run in sequence?
A: Yes, DataLink was built to manage these requirements and automate workflows.
Q: What happens when incoming data fails validation?
A: Our exception handling area allows you to manage data with exceptions and address them before they enter RENXT.
Q: Can DataLink connect to systems that do not have a prebuilt connector?
A: Yes, you can bring data from any system.
Q: Does BrightVine charge per connector?
A: No. DataLink has a flat annual fee for unlimited imports and connectors.
Q: Where does DataLink process and store our data?
A: DataLink for RENXT connects systems without relying on a BrightVine Cloud. Your data stays within your Microsoft Azure and Blackbaud environments and is never sent to BrightVine.
Q: Who is DataLink for?
A: DataLink is for nonprofit teams using Raiser’s Edge NXT that need a better way to manage external data, recurring imports, connector workflows, transformations, matching, validation, and exceptions.
Q: Can our team manage DataLink ourselves?
A: Yes. Your team can use DataLink directly, or BrightVine Managed Services can help configure and manage imports, connectors, and ongoing data workflows.
" The DataLink has transformed the way we work with Raiser’s Edge NXT. It’s flexible, efficient, and makes managing critical data so much easier.”
– Anne Marie W., Catholic Charities Diocese of Venice
"I love the BrightVine Data Link. It is the best decision we made to manage our data. We are using the templates BrightVine built, but we are also building our own and have been able to tackle long-overdue projects!"
- Adriana Bitoun, United States Naval Academy