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25 reviewers had the following to say about Sawyer's features:
Helps cut down on the amount of time I spend collecting class tuition and has helped us immensely with tracking attendance.
Pros
I also LOVE the customer facing side. The design is sleek and user friendly.
Cons
It doesn't have all of the bells and whistles some other platforms have and the back end can be a bit clunky and hard to navigate at times but for a small business looking for an affordable solution for registration and class management, this platform is great!
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
This is a company that truly cares about innovating and earning their customers business. I can’t imagine using a different software. Having Sawyer really helped me grow more as a business!
Pros
Sawyer is hands-down the most functional software for activity management.
Cons
I do wish the display widget that clients use to register was more customizable. Membership features aren’t as developed as I need them to be which requires a few special work arounds on my part.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I thought the onboarding with Sawyer was smooth and the team was enthusiastic to support our transition into the software. While the service is pretty great, and our support person has been receptive to our needs, it does not seem that Sawyer is able to make adaptive changes based on the customer's needs. I say this with the assumption that organizations similar to ours (in terms of services offered and size of customer base) have similar- if not the same- needs as ours.
Pros
What I like most about the Sawyer software is that it suits the needs of a robust program like ours in that it provides seamless attendance tracking , easy student and parent information maintenance, as well as accessible finance reporting.
Cons
Lastly, there isn't a comprehensive database feature in which one can view the entire enrollment list at a glance.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It seems like they keep adding functionality that makes it more useful (for instance, party scheduling).
Pros
It's beautiful and it integrates well into my website.
Cons
It doesn't visually aggregate data, and the money part can be hard to see and track.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I really love it, the team has been wonderful and I have recommended the program because it is great and can become better.
Pros
It's beautiful, intuitive for parent to use, modular so it can be used effectively semester after semester.
Cons
Data management and sorting ability in Sawyer instead of having to export data then sorting it.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Registration seems more streamlined and I like the different reports that I can generate for my classes.
Hoping to use the party feature
Pros
Very user friendly, love being able to track every who signsup
Cons
One issue which was resolved was being able to track th deposits.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Some parents have signed up and some haven't which has made my job harder because I have to pick through orders and reports to see who has paid and who hasn't.
This software is incredibly user friendly and has features that make scheduling, registration, and management of programs simple and effective.
Pros
User friendly platform, responsive and helpful tech team, great features for youth program management. I especially like how easy the financial aspects of the platform are - customers can register for a class, do add-ons, and I can do quick charges to a saved card as needed.
Cons
I had a few issues with getting some customers registered due to some software bugs/glitches, but the tech team was communicative and resolved the problem within a week.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Sawyer has somewhat helped track our enrollments and financials, but we continue to have to make changes outside the system.
Pros
Sawyer makes taking attendance much easier, as it tracks enrollment and rosters right within the app.
Cons
For software for managing class and enrollments, I was disappointed to find out that there is no option for making one class a requirement for enrolling in another (ex: if you want to enroll in pointe, you also have to enroll in ballet). When I brought this up with our customer service rep, there was sadly no helpful solution or ideas offered.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
A major improvement- it was very hard to connect clients with their financial information before, because we were using 2 systems, and parent last name is often different from child's name.
Pros
I most like that Sawyer streamlined my class bookings, financials, (some) reports, and managing clients.
Cons
When I want a download of all clients with birthdays and other information that helps me categorize them (birthdays are because our classes are categorized by age, and I also like to categorize them by membership or activities taken), and it's not so easy to figure out who are current members of a particular age who have taken the same activities.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Posting classes and keeping track of enrollment and attendance and monitoring revenue is so easy since we started using the software.
Cons
Features and flexibility of the software have been limited, but since we started using the software, they have been rolling out helpful new features constantly like waitlists, memberships, and parties. Even though features have been a little limiting, I like that they seem to be listening to their clients and adding more all the time.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It’s good in general but there are other platforms that have good components that Sawyer is missing.
Pros
I like the daily class tracking features.
Cons
The party option is still incomplete.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Hi Jaimee,
I am so sorry that you had a less than stellar experience, that is never our intent nor our goal. We continue to evolve our products because of feedback like this so thank you for letting us know how we can improve! We'd love to connect on a few additional insights you may have, so please do not hesitate to reach out.
This made taking attendance and scheduling so much easier for us!
Pros
With its colorful, user-friendly interface, I have had no trouble using it and even find myself excited to!
Cons
At first, I found it difficult to find the schedule for the day, because I had it in monthly-view, but I eventually found the weekly/daily views of the calendar and haven't had any issues since!!!
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
This software allows me to keep track of registrations all in one place and does the attendance for me.
Pros
I love that I can keep track of class attendance and provide parents with an easy to use online method of signing up for classes.
Cons
the layout of the semesters in long list form can be confusing to search through when making adjustments
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Super experience, company has strong leadership and support communicates quickly and clearly. Willing to help me when priority requests made on using special features of the Sawyer Tool. I'd high recommend Sawyer Tools to any organization taking online registration for classes, events, camps, etc.
Pros
Cloud based, handles all sorts of online registration for educational programs; super support to set up and onboard; affordable; terrific support team; growing company --> adding new features to help me with online registration, class management
Cons
no training videos. Training videos on on-boarding, intro features, advanced features and troubleshooting would be helpful
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Sawyer is parent-friendly and makes registering for any activity super easy, which means more registrants!
Cons
Running reports that allow you to look at the exact revenue of a class, camp, or activity can be challenging if people register for more than one class, camp, or activity at the same time because they are all grouped together.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Sawyer gave us the ability to go fully online with registration, attendance and is a great tool as a small business owner to help guide payroll and organize my clients.
Pros
Ease of use on the backend. Easily customize classes, coupons, view live registration in multiple locations on my phone, tablet, or laptop.
Cons
Some less than tech-savvy parents find it hard to navigate to register. Tracking financials could be clearer.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
has created more problems, not solved them
Pros
Admin states once you figure out their treacherous back end that information is easy to input
Cons
confusing back end editing exhausting registration process, too many "clicks" confusing user interface, looks sloppy no ability to have access to the Stripe account for reporting no link tracking unless you have a Google Analytics account rigid application, not intuitive support is difficult to contact, mostly through email only
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Bring educational learning to your child at home!
Pros
During the pandemic, it has allowed us to provide extracurricular activities to her at home.
Cons
I wish the system wouldn’t freeze up but I am not sure it’s a problem with their website or networking issue.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
I like that the confirmation emails they are automatically sent to clients when they sign up.
Pros
I was bogged down with juggling sign ups, keeping class lists current, collecting tuition, tracking financials, sending updates and notices to parents, and so much more.
Cons
I would like to be able to have clients sign up and pay for birthday parties without a lot of back ad forth via emails.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
LOVE [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] and her quick customer service!!!
Pros
AFTER USING ANOTHER REGISTRATION SYSTEM WE KNEW WE NEEDED SOMETHING MORE STREAMLINED AND EASY TO USE.
Cons
Having to set up activities and then add them to the schedule is a bit weird for me.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Sawyer is a great alternative choice to use for classroom management. It's so well put together, and offers many different ways to manage your educational needs.
Cons
I wish that the company would consider possibly going around to schools, and doing presentations about their service.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I'm very happy overall
Pros
I think this is a great product that is easy to change and work with from the backend.
Cons
It's very user friendly, it's easy to work with and it's great to track sales
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
I use it to pull financial reports and they are easy to export to excel.
Cons
Sometimes the daily amounts from the Sawyer reports do not match up with our bank account deposits (at least a couple times a month).
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Occasionally
Likelihood to recommend
