Localist Reviews - Page 2

I like the overall usability of the software. It makes calendar submissions easier to digest and organize for the university.

I don't like the fact that we can't alter some of the templates and/or functionality on our own.

Thanks for the feedback Tanya. We're releasing some new templates soon. Looking forward to your feedback after that release.

Easy to use Allows for user generated content with our review and approval Excellent user experience

There is nothing that we don't like about the software

Thanks for such a glowing review Michael!

The calendar has a nice look and has a lot of features integrated into it. It has been stable and reliable throughout the time we've used it.

Support has been generally terrible. Anything outside of the basic functionality is simply not supported and they have been unwilling to implement ANY requests that we've made. On several occasions the answers provided by support have been blatantly wrong and only through our own channels have we been able to fix problems that the vendor created. Their API is read-only so making any types of changes require using the GUI which is a nightmare when trying to manage hundreds of events and users. The calendar has little to no spam protection so users can post hundreds of bogus reviews while trying to farm clicks on our platform. Again, support had no solution for this and did not offer to help remove these.

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!

Ease of use. Departments on campus can enter their event information. You can customize the fields.

Nothing to dislike. Everything is great.

Thanks for the positive review Lisa!

This tool is almost great. Setting everything up is cumbersome, but intuitive. The interface is pretty modern and clean.

Not the best in terms of accessibility. Event images have no place to add custom alt text and simply get assigned the events title as the alt text. No landmarks used. Headings are all over the place etc. There are some features that they really need to add such as administrators being able to view the calendar from another users account (assume their identity), view edit history on a group or channel, schedule out sponsored events etc.

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/

Very easy application to use to manage calendar events and give access to internal/external users

wish there were more options to maximize the ability to do new, different things

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/

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.

Sometimes we find some buys within the software. Another thing is that sometimes there are items that we can't customize to our university.

Thanks for your positive review Kristen!

The ease of use and empowerment of users to submit events

I would like the ability to undo or pull back imported events via bulk upload

Thanks for your feedback Richard!

Easy to navigate and user friendly. Great service time response

Don't have any con. I haven't run into any issues

Thanks for your feedback and review Nicole!

The ability to add widgets to various digital properties

Some of the admin UI in unintuitive. We also found an issue with users being able to create their own avatar, in some cases the avatar could be offensive and there is no way to easily "report" that to the calendar admins.

Thanks for your positive and detailed review Rick!

It's robust from an administrative perspective, and the UI is welcoming and easy to use.

The lack of a writable API is discouraging and makes it difficult to integrate with our other systems. Additionally certain administrative features such as event publishing could be streamlined - searching for relevant events for our department is unnecessarily challenging.

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

Very easy to navigate for both the consumer and administrator.

Integrating an RSS feed from another site. We haven't seemed to figure this out yet.

Thanks for your feedback Danielle. Sharing this review with the support team and someone will be following up with you.

Easy to use, a lot of options, different settings.

That it does not flag multiple event entry.

Thanks for your feedback Jacqueline!

- Support team is very responsive and helpful at all times. - Documentation for the front and backend has always been well done. - Localist provides nearly all the features we need as a university to use as a community driven calendaring tool.

- The API, while rich and well constructed, limits our ability to easily pull events that span multiple days in a simple way. We have to merge each instance of the event into a single one on our end.

Thanks for your feedback Jason. I'm passing your feedback on to our support team to see if there is an opportunity to improve your experience.

The widget and API options are great features.

Some comprises were needed when desired user interface could not be implemented. To be fair, we were asking for the world.

Thanks for such a candid review Rod!

Being able to house all departments and divisions of our University into this single calendar platform has been a great tool to be able to utilize across our campuses. I definitely enjoy seeing faculty, staff, students, prospective students and parents all being able to log-in to our Localist calendar to see everything our campus has to offer in one place.

Some of the widget customizers don't mesh well with our University's web platform, but that's more of an issue on our side than Localist.

Thanks for such a detailed review Katlyn!

I love the ease of use. Working with the Localist support team makes changes feel very doable and easy.

I would like to be able to do more things myself in the software, without the help of the support team.

Thanks for your feedback and positive review Erin!

The wealth of information the software allows you to provide.

This might be due to user error but I find my ability to input certain tags and keywords restricted.

Hey Kara! Thanks for the positive review. We're catching up on some past reviews. I'm hoping you got your tag and keyword issues resolved, but if you haven't, please get in touch, and we will work it out for you! https://www.localist.com/contact/

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. It is easy to train someone to use the software.

I like the overall experience so do not have any cons for the software at this time.

Thanks for such a positive review, Michelle!

My university needed a streamlined way to hold all of our events and be able to share them out. This system allows us to do that, and every department uses it now.

I wish there was a way to view all of the events in a month on a calendar format, rather than a list.

Thanks for your feedback and positive review Giada!

I like this product because it allowed us to customize it for our organization's intent.

Sometimes the cache takes a really long time to update so you can't see the difference you made to featured items automatically.

Thanks for your review!

Localist is easy to use and flows well.

Better tracking needed, so you can follow approval process.

Thanks for your review Joe!

The approval of events is pretty easy and it's nice to have all the info involved - when and who submitted it.

Mostly I don't like the new setup. I don't like having to program in the header, body, footer. It makes me feel like I have to do that every time. They should have had videos from the start, but didn't. So nothing was really clear with the new site.

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