-
Consolidate your spreadsheets and begin using a CRM built for nonprofits
-
Increase your impact and achieve your operational goals
-
Grow your skills and leverage complex features within Spark
-
Sign up in minutes, cancel anytime
-
Flexible, feature rich and powerful
-
Simple pricing without hidden fees

What is Spark?
-
Not a replacement for the full download version of CiviCRM
-
Not a replacement for CiviCRM support provided by the community
-
Not open to complex customizations unique to your organization
If you know that you need more today, consider downloading CiviCRM or working with an expert partner for your implementation.
Why Use Spark?
Web-based, scalable and secure, Spark allows you to quickly start with CiviCRM and to grow your capabilities without the overhead of installing, configuring and managing the software itself.
Spark is ideally suited for organizations that want:
-
Full control over their data
-
Flexiblity, simplicity and security.
-
Privacy first. No compromises.
-
Integrate into your website
-
Simple, clear pricing without any contracts
-
Support for multilingual instances of Spark
-
Share access to your data with as many users as you’d like
-
Easy data imports and exports
-
Help upgrading to full version of CiviCRM (when you’re ready)
-
Free and paid support options
-
Easily take and manage payments online
What can Spark do?
Case Management
Plan, customize, track and engage your client or constituent interactions easily with CiviCase. Build complex workflows in Spark in order that you and your staff members can manage sequential actions within your organization and benefit from automatic task and follow-up activities.
Contact Management
CiviCRM Spark is, first and foremost, a tool to support your constituent relationship management (CRM) processes. The core component of Spark is contact management, allowing you to associate all types of data and interactions to each specific contact.
Contribution Pages
Managing contributions in CiviCRM Spark is incredibly flexible! Create as many contribution forms as you want, customize them with different fields, establish set amounts for contributions, ask for recurring support, and lots more.
Memberships
Manage your members with CiviMember, a comprehensive component that enables you to leverage flexible price sets, membership rules, and automated communications to engage your membership.
Event Management
Event management in CiviCRM Spark is both powerful and flexible, allowing you to create complex event registrations, pricings and automated communications. Capture event participant information via configurable profiles and capture all event touch points in each contact’s activity stream.
Bulk Mailings
For pro subscribers, Spark ships with CiviMail, a powerful mailing component that supports both rich HTML and text only emails. Because CiviMail is a part of your CRM, you can send highly targeted and personalized emails.
Spark Video Demos
Advanced Reporting & Data Display


Take payments through Spark
At its heart, CiviCRM Spark is a ‘constituent relationship management’ (CRM) system. What sets it apart from other systems its ability to take payments via range of payment processors without any additional costs, save for those associated with the payment processor. That’s right… no additional percentage points or per fee transactions when taking payments through Spark.
Take payments online via credit card, ACH, SEPA, or transfer. Simple, flexible and powerful.
-
Enable one or multiple payment processors in your instance of Spark
-
Use one or multiple processors on each contribution page, event registration page, etc.
-
Support for recurring payments and advanced features
We include and recommend some of the best processors in the business…
Clear, simple pricing
-
30 day money back guarantee. No questions asked.
-
Cancel any time. No contracts or penalties. Ever.
-
No price increases. Not gonna happen.
Starter
-
Community support
-
Unlimited users
-
Up to 5,000 contacts
-
Most CiviCRM components
-
CiviMail
-
Mosaico HTML emails
$15
Per Month
Essentials
-
Everything in Starter
-
Up to 10,000 emails
-
CiviMail
-
Mosaico HTML emails
-
Limited extensions
$30
Per Month
Pro
-
Everything in Essentials
-
Extensions included
-
Up to 10,000 contacts
-
Up to 50,000 emails
$50
Per Month
Extensions Included
Starter
-
GDPR
-
SEPA
-
Stripe, TSYS, iATS, PayPal
-
UKGiftAid
-
CDNTaxReceipts
-
CiviCampaign
-
APIKey
Essentials
-
All Starter Extensions
-
Mosaico
-
Twilio
Pro
-
All Essential Extensions
-
CiviDiscount
-
Contact Layout
-
CiviRules
All instancies of Spark include the following extensions as utilities:
-
Firewall
-
PaymentsShared
-
The Island Theme
-
EasyCopy
-
ExcelExport
-
NoOverWrite
-
Ducttape
-
Logviewer
-
Sparkpost
-
Sweetalert
-
SymbioTIC
-
CiviTutorial
Looking for support?
Community Support
Professional Support
Recommended Providers
Common Questions
Yes, absolutely! Spark does not lock you into any one particular website platform. You’re free to use your current website, develop a new one, or not use one at all!
Yes, absolutely! In fact, we hope that you do. Does that seem strange? Well, we’re just being honest. Spark is a great starting point into the larger CiviCRM ecosystem and a great introduction into CiviCRM the software. But, it’s not as feature rich as the full download version of CiviCRM.
Our objective in offering Spark, in fact, is to allow organizations access to CiviCRM’s basic functionality at an extremely low cost. After having mastered it, we encourage organizations to adopt the full version of CiviCRM and really begin to flex their CRM muscles!
And, of course, your data is your data. You are free to export it at any time. Likewise, we can assist you if you do opt to upgrade to the full version of CiviCRM.
Spark is a great starting point for many organizations new to a CRM system. And, what’s more is that Spark provides aneasy transition to the full version of CiviCRM. So, what makes Spark less than the full version?
- Spark includes up to 5,000 contacts and 10,000 emails sent per month. With CiviCRM (the full download), you have unlimited contacts and email capabilities.
- Spark does not provide you a website CMS. You’ll need to manage that on your own. The download version of CiviCRM integrates with BackDrop, Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress.
- Spark does not support any and all CiviCRM extensions. With the full download version, you can install, use and develop whatever extensions you want.
- Spark does not include any paid support from CiviCRM LLC. But, then neither does the full download version.
Right now Spark supports many of the most common languages used in CiviCRM including English, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish, Catalan, Czech, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and more. To view the full list, check out the language drop down on the Spark sign up page.
No, Spark does not include access to a website content management system such as WordPress, Joomla! or Drupal. While that can limit its capabilities, it also allows you to use any website platform you want.
You’ll need to review your own specific organizational needs to determine if you require website integration. If you do, we recommend testing Spark’s funcationality first to ensure that CiviCRM meets your needs, then moving on to the full download version of CiviCRM. Remember, you have a 30 day money back guarantee, so you’re welcome to kick the tires on Spark without much financial risk.
It’s simple. When you subscribe to Spark you’ll be charged the first monthly payment of either $9.50 or $14.50. If you cancel before your next payment, we’ll refund your first payment no questions asked.
Actually, that’s not technically true. We may ask why you are cancelling just to get a better idea of why Spark didn’t work for you, but there are no requirements for you to cancel (hence why we say “no questions asked”). Rest assured that you are free to cancel any time. We won’t lay any guilt trips on you, try to upsell you, or otherwise prohibit you from cancelling Spark.
That’s a great question, and we couldn’t agree more! The full download version of CiviCRM provides you all of the features and flexbility of CiviCRM. It’s free to download and use and always will be.
Having said that, Spark allows you to use many of the most popular features of CiviCRM without any technical administration. If you’ve never used a CRM before or are not comfortable installing CiviCRM on your own, the Spark may be a great starting point for you.
Close to home
Spark instances can currently be located in either North America or Europe depending entirely on your preference. All email communications through Spark are processed within the European Union.
CiviCRM adheres to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

Spark is backed by CiviCRM LLC, the entity that develops and maintains the open source software CiviCRM. CiviCRM LLC is a California-based LLC that is focused on delivering the very best opensource CRM to nonprofits around the world. We aspire to make a meaningful difference in the world for those with which we’re lucky to work. We value and promote:
-
Openness & Transparency – Engage in a clear, authentic and respectful manner and encourage participation.
-
Happy, engaged users – Provide elegant, compelling, user-focused solutions that exceed user needs.
-
Social responsibility – Enable others to do good and to have meaningful impact on our world.