Compare Bonterra Apricot vs. CHARMS

Bonterra Apricot is nonprofit case management software designed to help organizations manage participant services, program data, workflows, reporting, and outcomes in one platform. The platform helps teams centralize data, reduce silos, simplify intake-to-reporting processes, and make more informed decisions. Bonterra Que is built directly into Apricot as a secure, human-led AI assistant that helps staff understand participant history, reduce record-searching time, and prepare for appointments or follow-ups. Que supports participant snapshots, note capture, early intervention signals, data integrity review, and Que Data Studio. Apricot helps organizations increase staff capacity through standardized processes, best-practice templates, streamlined workflows, user-friendly tools, and direct participant-case worker connections. Its impact measurement capabilities help teams quantify program results, report outcomes, and demonstrate community impact to funders and stakeholders. Apricot also helps improve program outcomes through data-driven engagement, dropout reduction, referral management, program optimization, and impact communication. Organizations can choose from Apricot Essentials, Apricot Pro, and Apricot Enterprise depending on their size and complexity. By combining case management, participant data, AI assistance, workflow automation, reporting, analytics, compliance, and impact measurement, Bonterra Apricot helps social good organizations deliver services more effectively.

CHARMS is a secure online case management system that manages all aspects of record-keeping for foster care, adoptions, children residential, supported housing, residential family centers, foster carer recruitment hubs and other care services. SCN is a non-profit organisation and will always be privately owned. It is based on the sociocracy principles, so that all employees and customers are a part of the CHARMS Community and its growth and progress. Everyone - employees and customers, suppliers, and most importantly, CHARMS users - has a say on what CHARMS should do. We want to make sure that educators, social workers and other care providers, as well as support staff, can focus on their work knowing that CHARMS will protect their sensitive information.