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Localist is the only platform that combines event management with marketing automation. With all the tools you need in one place, you will increase attendance for all event types (online and offline, paid and free) and drive your organization’s growth.

Localist

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Coordinator, Academic Operations

I enjoy the ease of use and the ability to login through multiple methods. This is especially useful for students and other visitors trying to connect to our interface.

Digital Project Manager

I like that the platform is very user friendly. We train users around the university to add events and is it extremely helpful to be user friendly.

Senior Training, Support and Outreach Coordinator

From administrators to calendar users, the platform is intuitive to use and offers truly useful features. Our users love the ease of expressing interest in an event and notifications in their inbox.

Brand Manager

Pretty satisfied with it, though there's always room for improvement. Team is responsive and helpful.

Web Technology Marketing Manager

The website integration is awesome. Also love the community that it builds for our users.

It's very user focused, very customizable, and a great solution for Higher Ed where so many different parts of the org have slightly different needs that can be accommodated.

Director of Web Communications

The customer service at Localist is excellent. They are proactive by checking in regularly and when we have an issue or question they address it right away.

Web Designer

It's very easy to get started and set up a basic email. Support is very helpful and great about determining what issues I'm having.

Information Systems Developer

The lack of a writable API is discouraging and makes it difficult to integrate with our other systems.

Assistant director of internal communication

The approval process is quick and easy. The calendar looks good.

Associate Director for Web Services

The submission of events makes it easy for people to submit their events to the college. I also like the concept of the channels to create focused event series.

Web Systems Director

The calendar has little to no spam protection so users can post hundreds of bogus reviews while trying to farm clicks on our platform.

Associate Director, Digital Service

Support team is very responsive and helpful at all times.

CRM & Email Marketing Manager

The functionality works well and the integration with other websites has been great for our use.

Media Relations Specialist

Inability to manage RSS feeds of content in a custom way, but that could just be me.

Marketing & Communications Manager

Some limited visual features to style the feed with code.

Trumba

Overall, I've had a good experience and there are a couple little things that could be refined.

Generally gets the job done, however, a couple of backend tweak would make life easier

The beginning was very nice. Getting rid of the image bank was a great idea. After the initial email creation, it was very easy to put event newsletters together.

Wouldn't be my first choice

Hey Bryan! Thanks for your feedback. I've passed your comments along to our support team as well. 

Developer rarely gets involved.

It looked like a promising product but since the first month of implementation, we ran into a wall with support.  Anything outside of their tight scope of functionality was not supported and would not even be considered.  When things break all you have is an email address to post your issue and then wait. 

Should be so much better

Ouch, I'm sorry to read your review Eric, but your detailed feedback is constructive. I've sent your reviewto a couple of senior people over here at Localist to see what we can do better for you. You'll be hearing from someone soon!

It seems like we started the Localist product with little information. Very learn-by-doing. Over time, it got better, but still have a long way to go. The webinar on Channels was so confusing that it took me months to figure out what they were talking about. Again, lots of learn-by-doing. 

It's OK

Thanks for your feedback Teresa! I've passed your comments onto our Support Team to see what they can do to improve the experience. 

Really love this product - easy to undersand

I love the functionality, and the customizable widgets are a lifesaver.

Great for web widgets

Thanks for the great feedback and a positive review Melissa!

Localist calendar manages our 1,000+ events/year

I've been happy with the ease of use and reliability of the product. 

A Helpful and Organized Tool

Thanks for the review and the feedback Nicholas!

Our Experience with Localist

Our students are our main priority in higher education.  We want to be able to provide a solution to them that is going to be easy to use and something that they can use over and over again.  I think this tool has helped drive our students to find and participate in events that are meaningful to them. 

Localist Has Made Life Easier

Customer service is quick to respond. If Localist would give suggestions for ways to get users engaged, it would be helpful. While we in put all the data, we aren't seeing the return in marketing and attendance.

Event marketing

Thanks Terri! I've passed your review to our support team and they'll be following up with those suggestions. 

I do not communicate with customer support directly, but it seems like it often takes a long time for us to get responses when we do.

Easy to use, wish it was more customizable

We have been using Localist for a while now, using it as a primary destination for our stakeholders to learn about our events. The integration with our event management system is great and the UX is really good. Super user-friendly and clear with labels, flexible to add your own tags/categories, etc.

Great UX - easy and quick to use

Overall experience has been very positive. Wish we had more standing communication with the Localist team to discuss product enhancements and issues. 

Lehigh review

Thanks for your feedback Jennifer - good comments that I've passed along to our support team. 

We have successfully used the Localist solution to centralize and consolidate our various calendars and event posts. What was previously done via many entry points can now be done through one. The vendor assisted us throughout but most of the work had to be done internally for obvious reasons.

Flexible Calendar Solution That Can Centralize Your Events

We've used the platform for many years, replacing a very old and broken open source solution. Engagement with the calendar more than doubled, and sustained at double or sometimes triple the traffic. Pretty satisfied with it, though there's always room for improvement. Team is responsive and helpful. 

Excellent robust hosted event calendar solution 

Thanks for the feedback Jeff. We're looking forward to our latest release which will include some new templates we hope you will enjoy!

I'm very familiar with Localist after having used it for a few years so I'm reluctant to change to a different email merge system but I do find it to be user-friendly and easy to introduce people to.

Ray's review of Localist

Thanks Raymond! I passed your feedback on to our support team too.

We looked at many different event software solutions before deciding on Localist. It's a great product, and the customer service is unparalleled. 

Localist is the solution! 

Overall, it is great when compared to a lot of other calendar tools. It needs a few improvements, but at least they are trying!

Almost great

Thanks for your feedback! We're catching up on responding to some Capterra reviews, and we wanted to check-in. I wanted to let you know that we are weeks away from launching an improved front-end on the Localist platform. 

Our goal with this front-end release is to update the design of the customizable layout - without disturbing too much in the existing experience. Maintaining simplicity in the user's experience is critical. We have identified opportunities in key moments of interaction to improve user flows and optimize how content is consumed.

Looking forward to this release and would love to get some feedback from you after that release! If you have any questions and concerns hit us up at https://www.localist.com/contact/

Simple application to use

Our previous website calendar system consisted of our staff manually entering events when the public would email them to us. Even with copy/pasting each field, it would take up some time to process a lot of requests. Now, we can approve or deny events with the click of a button and the public takes the time to format the events themselves. This also allows for required fields so we don't receive events with missing information.

Beautiful, functional, and automated.

Hey Frankie! Thanks for your feedback! We're catching up on responding to some Capterra reviews, and we wanted to check-in. I wanted to let you know that we are weeks away from launching an improved front-end on the Localist platform. 

Our goal with this front-end release is to update the design of the customizable layout - without disturbing too much in the existing experience. Maintaining simplicity in the user's experience is critical. We have identified opportunities in key moments of interaction to improve user flows and optimize how content is consumed.

Looking forward to this release and would love to get some feedback from you after that release! If you have any questions and concerns hit us up at https://www.localist.com/contact/


We wanted a tool that would make it easier for our users to add and manage their own events to a calendar, thus adding to the number events on the calendar at any given time. Localist, with its easy to use interface, has solved that problem. People have found it very easy to use with little to no training necessary. The Localist support team has been wonderful about replying quickly to any questions or help I've needed. 

Easy to use and excellent customer service

Thanks for your feedback, Brandi! What a great review!

We're catching up on responding to some Capterra reviews, and we wanted to check-in. I wanted to let you know that we are weeks away from launching an improved front-end on the Localist platform. 

Our goal with this front-end release is to update the design of the customizable layout - without disturbing too much in the existing experience. Maintaining simplicity in the user's experience is critical. We have identified opportunities in key moments of interaction to improve user flows and optimize how content is consumed.

Looking forward to this release and would love to get some feedback from you after that release! If you have any questions and concerns hit us up at https://www.localist.com/contact/


Localist has been a dream with which to work.  They helped integrate their calendar with the SquareSpace and their support team is always ready to help.  Great product and excellent support.

Love this calendar!

Thanks for your feedback Terry!

 We're catching up on responding to some Capterra reviews, and we wanted to check-in. I wanted to let you know that we are weeks away from launching an improved front-end on the Localist platform. 

Our goal with this front-end release is to update the design of the customizable layout - without disturbing too much in the existing experience. Maintaining simplicity in the user's experience is critical. We have identified opportunities in key moments of interaction to improve user flows and optimize how content is consumed.

Looking forward to this release and would love to get some feedback from you after that release! If you have any questions and concerns hit us up at https://www.localist.com/contact/


Overall I think the customer service is excellent. The UI and functionality needs to be improved. I've been using this software for 5 years and it has not changed much. It's time to improve on the current concept.

Customer service is excellent, but the UI and functionality needs a revamp

Hey Stanley! Thanks for your review. 

We're catching up on responding to some Capterra reviews, and we wanted to check-in. I wanted to let you know that we are weeks away from launching an improved front-end on the Localist platform. 

Our goal with this front-end release is to update the design of the customizable layout - without disturbing too much in the existing experience. Maintaining simplicity in the user's experience is critical. We have identified opportunities in key moments of interaction to improve user flows and optimize how content is consumed.

Looking forward to this release and would love to get some feedback from you after that release! If you have any questions and concerns hit us up at https://www.localist.com/contact/


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