The Volunteer Concierge welcomes each new volunteer, asks for what their role needs and nudges them 2, 5, 9 and 14 days after their last step.
Comparison
Nehemiah vs SignUpGenius
SignUpGenius is a free, familiar way to fill sign-up sheets and collect payments. Nehemiah is for ongoing programs: it onboards new people, tracks paperwork by role and follows up for you.
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At a glance
What’s the difference between Nehemiah and SignUpGenius?
SignUpGenius fills sign-up sheets. Nehemiah runs the volunteer program around them: it onboards new people, asks for the paperwork each role needs, schedules recurring shifts and follows up when someone goes quiet.
| Topic | Nehemiah | SignUpGenius |
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| Best for | Ongoing volunteer programs: onboarding, paperwork by role and recurring shifts | One-off sign-up sheets and collecting payments |
| Account needed to sign up | None. Volunteers use your sign-up form and one-tap email buttons; the portal signs them in with an email link. | None. Participants sign up and pay without an account. |
| Ads | None | On the free plan, where participants may see them. Paid plans remove them from 1, 10 or unlimited sign-ups. |
| Price | Early-access pricing — talk to us | Free with ads. Paid plans from $11.99 a month, or $107.89 a year. |
| Payments | Not offered. Nehemiah doesn’t collect money. | No monthly fee; 5% of money collected plus $0.50 per transaction. |
| Newsletters, urgent alerts and automatic reminders in your organization’s look | On paid plans: 2,500, 10,000 or 20,000 emails a month | |
| Text messages | Not yet. Email works today. Coming soon | On paid plans: 150, 500 or 1,500 texts a month |
| AI | The Volunteer Concierge onboards new volunteers, and Ask Nehemiah sets things up as you describe them. Reply handling is rolling out. | None mentioned on its homepage |
What Nehemiah adds for ongoing programs
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Each role gets its own checklist of documents, agreements and trainings, with reminders 30, 14, 7 and 1 day before anything expires.
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“Every 2nd Tuesday, 9 to 1” is one click. Open spots go to the best-fit volunteers with one-tap Claim this spot links.
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Roles, paperwork, shifts, hours, messages and notes in one place, with saved groups and reports.
Ads
Does SignUpGenius show ads?
Yes, on the free plan. SignUpGenius says free accounts show ads that people signing up may see, and a paid plan removes them from 1, 10 or unlimited sign-ups, depending on the plan. Nehemiah doesn’t show ads.
- Who sees them
- People signing up may see them.
- Who can remove them
- Only the account holder, with a paid plan.
- Ad-free sign-ups
- 1 on Silver, 10 on Gold, unlimited on Platinum.
- In Nehemiah
- No ads, on any page or email.
Pricing
How much does SignUpGenius cost?
SignUpGenius is free with ads. Paid plans are Silver at $11.99, Gold at $29.99 and Platinum at $59.99 a month, or $107.89, $269.89 and $539.89 a year. Collecting payments has no monthly fee and costs 5% of the money collected plus $0.50 per transaction.
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | Emails a month | Texts a month | Ad-free sign-ups |
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| Free | Free | Free | — | — | None (ads shown) |
| Silver | $11.99 | $107.89 | 2,500 | 150 | 1 |
| Gold | $29.99 | $269.89 | 10,000 | 500 | 10 |
| Platinum | $59.99 | $539.89 | 20,000 | 1,500 | Unlimited |
Billed yearly, paid plans work out to $8.99, $22.49 and $44.99 a month. A dash means the price list doesn’t say. Source: SignUpGenius printable price list (PDF, undated)
Nehemiah
Nehemiah is in early access, so there’s no public price list yet: each organization’s price is agreed with us directly.
Fit
When is SignUpGenius the better choice?
When you need a quick sign-up sheet rather than a volunteer program: a one-time event, a potluck, or anything where you collect money on the same page. Nehemiah fits when the same volunteers come back and their roles come with paperwork.
SignUpGenius is the better choice when…
- You need a quick sign-up sheet for a one-time event.
- You collect money on the same page as the sign-up.
- You want to start free and keep things simple.
- Your volunteers already know it. Its homepage cites “more than 70 million people.”
- You need text messages today (on paid plans).
Nehemiah is the better choice when…
- The same volunteers serve every week or every month.
- Roles come with paperwork: background checks, trainings, licenses or agreements.
- New volunteers need a welcome, reminders and a first shift, and nobody has time to chase them.
- You want each volunteer’s hours, paperwork and history in one record.
- You’d rather describe your program than configure it.
You can also use both: SignUpGenius for a one-off event, Nehemiah for the volunteers who come back. See how Nehemiah works for church serve teams and food bank and pantry shifts.
Not in Nehemiah yet
- Collecting payments Nehemiah doesn’t take payments or donations.Not offered
- Text messages Email works today; texting is waiting on carrier registration.Coming soon
- Published prices Pricing is set with each organization during early access.Early access
Switching
Can I move my volunteers from SignUpGenius to Nehemiah?
Yes. Save your volunteer list as a CSV file, import it into Nehemiah, match the columns and merge any duplicates. Then share your Nehemiah sign-up form or QR code, and new sign-ups are welcomed automatically.
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Save your list as a CSV
Any spreadsheet works: names, emails, phone numbers and whatever else you track.
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Import and match columns
Match your columns to Nehemiah’s fields once, then merge any duplicates it finds.
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Set up roles and shifts
Start from a template, or describe your roles, paperwork and schedule to Ask Nehemiah.
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Share your sign-up form
Post the link, embed it on your website or print the QR code. New sign-ups are welcomed automatically.
Volunteers don’t need to create an account in Nehemiah. The import is a CSV file and a column match, and we can look at yours together on a walkthrough: talk to us.
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Tell us how your volunteers sign up today. We’ll show you Nehemiah set up with your own roles, shifts and paperwork.