This product comparison details capabilities found in EMS Enterprise, EMS Professional, and iMIS 2017.
✓ = included + = optional
| Feature | Description | EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| Contact management | Manage contact, address, and demographic information for individuals, organizations, or groups. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Address verification | Verify addresses at the point of entry. Automatically verify and clean address information. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Duplicate Merge — Standard | Find, merge, and clean duplicate records. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Duplicate Merge — Premium | Review all potential duplicate record pairs. Determine which records to retain, which records to merge into the retained records, and which records to mark as Not Duplicates. | + | + | + |
| Online profile | Allow constituents to manage their profile and transaction history. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Online directory | Allow constituents to access and manage their own profile information and create a searchable online directory based on a variety of criteria and with varying levels of permission-based security. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Company Administrator — Standard | Allow an individual to manage organization or committee rosters and conduct transactions for colleagues, as well as manage their chapter or organization information. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Company Administrator — Premium | Allow an individual to manage chapter rosters and conduct transactions for chapter members. | + | + | + |
| Volunteer management | Recruit, schedule, and track volunteer activity. Manage, assign, and track volunteer hours. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Feature | Description | EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| Membership fees | Manage individual or company memberships and membership fees for multi-tiered, variable-duration, and other complicated membership models. | ✓ with Membership bundle / + with Fundraising bundle | ✓ with Membership bundle / + with Fundraising bundle | ✓ with Membership bundle / + with Fundraising bundle |
| Online membership | Create an online join or renewal page using a configurable template. You can allow your members to join or renew their membership online or through a mobile device. | ✓ with Membership bundle / + with Fundraising bundle | ✓ with Membership bundle / + with Fundraising bundle | ✓ with Membership bundle / + with Fundraising bundle |
| Chapters and committees | Track and manage current and historical chapter and committee membership and participation. | ✓ with Membership bundle / + with Fundraising bundle | ✓ with Membership bundle / + with Fundraising bundle | ✓ with Membership bundle / + with Fundraising bundle |
| Feature | Description | EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| Site Builder | Manage multiple websites and allow chapters or affiliates to manage their own websites. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Page Builder | Build sophisticated web pages with a WYSIWYG editor and configurable out-of-the-box content items, such as menus, lists, charts, user profiles, and more. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Content tagging | Use your organization's specific terms, audiences, and concepts to deliver targeted web content. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Intelligent Query Architect | Create complex queries and export the results in a variety of formats. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Translation | Translate fields, menus, screens, and web pages into different languages. | + | N/A | + |
| Feature | Description | EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| iMIS Marketplace | ASI's global network of authorized iMIS product partners and solution providers develop hundreds of best-of-breed add-on applications and integrations to complement the iMIS EMS platform. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| REST API | iMIS EMS includes a modern REST API optimized for integrating to cloud-based solutions. Our industry-leading API is fully documented. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Authorized iMIS product partners | We partner with select software vendors based on client demand to provide tight integration to popular best-in-show solutions. Product partners receive priority integration support, exclusive access to API resources and production roadmaps, and ASI validation and approval to write back to the iMIS database ("push" capability). | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Feature | Description | EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| Event management | Manage the planning, logistics, communication and registration for events of all types and sizes. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Online events | Create online event pages or microsites to enable your constituents to register and access event details including locations, agenda, registrant directory, X (Twitter) feed, and more. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| Feature | Description | EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| Product sales | Sell physical or digital products with flexible pricing and promotional discounts. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Inventory management | Track inventory, manage backorders, and create relationships between products for cross-selling, up-selling, and suggesting replacements. | ✓ | N/A | ✓ |
| Online store | Sell physical or digital products, automatically calculate shipping and taxes, and display related items for cross-selling or up-selling. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Feature | Description | EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| Order management | Process orders for many types of ads, including display, classified, and digital. | + | N/A | N/A |
| Classified ads | Automate the placement of display and classified ads. | + | N/A | N/A |
| Ad activity management | Summarize ad activity by publication, account, territory, sales rep, time period, and ad type. | + | N/A | N/A |
| Feature | Description | EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| Payments | Easy and secure payment processing through iMIS. | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
| Refunds | Process payment refunds directly from iMIS without needing to access a third-party gateway portal. | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
| Accounts receivable | Manage invoicing, cash receipts, and other financial transactions. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Deferred income | Delay recognition of income to coincide with when income is earned. | + | + | + |
| Automatic payments | Automate recurring (monthly, quarterly, yearly) membership fees and donations. | + | + | + |
| General ledger export | Export a spreadsheet that can be further formatted for import into the general ledger package of your choice. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Feature | Description | EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| Gift processing | Process pledges or gifts of all types, including annual, major, and planned. | ✓ with Fundraising bundle / + with Membership bundle | ✓ with Fundraising bundle / + with Membership bundle | ✓ with Fundraising bundle / + with Membership bundle |
| Online donations | Create an online donation page using a configurable template, allowing your donors to give online or through a mobile device. | ✓ with Fundraising bundle / + with Membership bundle | ✓ with Fundraising bundle / + with Membership bundle | ✓ with Fundraising bundle / + with Membership bundle |
| Moves management | Manage the individual and hands-on approach necessary to cultivate major gifts. | ✓ with Fundraising bundle / + with Membership bundle | ✓ with Fundraising bundle / + with Membership bundle | ✓ with Fundraising bundle / + with Membership bundle |
| Issue tax receipts | Issue tax receipts directly to donors. | ✓ with Fundraising bundle / + with Membership bundle | ✓ with Fundraising bundle / + with Membership bundle | ✓ with Fundraising bundle / + with Membership bundle |
| Tribute donations | Choose to make the donation in honor or memory of someone, and enter a tribute message. | ✓ with Fundraising bundle / + with Membership bundle | ✓ with Fundraising bundle / + with Membership bundle | ✓ with Fundraising bundle / + with Membership bundle |
| Recurring donations | Process recurring donations: monthly, quarterly, or annually. | + | + | + |
| Feature | Description | EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| Email marketing — Standard | Send email communications to individuals or groups. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email marketing — Premium | Design, send, and track targeted email marketing campaigns. | + | + | + |
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| EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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To learn more about Clowder, visit the iMIS Marketplace.
| EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| Feature | Description | EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| Forms — Standard | Use and edit out-of-the-box forms. | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
| Forms — Premium | In addition to the Standard features, create unlimited forms and rules, require a review process for form submissions before they are accepted, and create forms in advanced mode. | + | + | N/A |
| Feature | Description | EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| Process automation — Standard | Use predefined tasks and alerts to automate manual processes. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Process automation — Premium | Create your own unique tasks and alerts to automate manual processes. | + | + | + |
| Feature | Description | EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| Scoring — Standard | Measure, track, and improve engagement with your members, donors, and constituents. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scoring — Premium | Create your own customized scores. | + | + | + |
| Feature | Description | EMS Enterprise | EMS Professional | iMIS 2017 |
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| iMIS Report Writer — Basic | ExpressView reports. | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
| iMIS Report Writer — Premium | ExpressView reports, Advanced reports, and Dashboards. | + | + | N/A |
| Reports | Leverage a library of configurable standard reports or create your own reports. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dashboards | Turn data into insight through real-time measurement of key performance indicators (KPIs) with dynamic dashboards. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
