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About

COMS is a comprehensive conference management system designed for academic and scientific events. We provide meaningful support to organizers as well as a tool to manage the key requirements of their conference in one place. Users and administrators only need a browser and an Internet connection to use the system. Chat app for participants, ideal for networking during the conference, whether online or on-site. Private chat room for reviewers and admins. Organizers can send notifications and updates. Collect abstracts, extended abstracts, full papers and presentations, including video presemtations. Use available functions to facilitate the distribution of abstracts and papers to the reviewers, based on their specialty topics. Customise the review form, anonymise the submissions, track the progress of the reviews.

About

Event management software that enables conferences to become knowledge producers. Conferences produce new knowledge. However, with so much that goes into managing a conference, one can focus on engaging participants and producing new knowledge only when right tools & enough resources are available. Using our cloud-based, all-in-one event management platform, event organizers can collect abstract submissions & create program schedule, send email campaigns, sell tickets online and build event websites, resulting in huge savings in time, cost & effort.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Companies seeking a Conference Management software

Audience

Academic conferences, nonprofits, symposiums

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

€429 one-time payment
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$1899.00/year
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Reviews/Ratings

Overall 1.0 / 5
ease 2.0 / 5
features 4.0 / 5
design 2.0 / 5
support 4.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It has a lot of functionalities, very complete, but not really delivering what was promised in the beginning

Cons

  • This is our underwhelming experience with Dryfta in our international conference held in Spain this year in March: - Multilingual issues: although it is advertised as multilingual, it didn’t really work as such. The many issues that popped up throughout the conference preparation were fixed little by little to our cost in time, help desk emails and struggles with the unfriendly UX. - Admin pages reloaded everytime you clicked on a button (their developers seem to ignore Ajax technologies) therefore being time consuming and requiring constant page searches. - Inflexibility in many of the supposed functionalities it offers. - Certificates were not modifiable nor custom when we had to send them (it was solved months after the conference finished when we were surprisingly contacted by the help desk). - Problems with size of images to be displayed on the site, very small fonts and limited options to display content. We had to hire a professional developer in order to get a graphically consistent and presentable website. - Very poor mobile version: too big margins, unreadable texts, endless text blocks and lists, distorted pictures. - Issues with the ordering of the authors’ names for the different proposals (authorship being so important in research). - Fixed inflexible fields in the contact sheets, speakers info and so on. - Special character issues (due to latin characters and other types used in linguistic research). - Not being able to include links in the HTML editor due to DRYFTA unadverted decisions to block them. - Only one superadmin user allowed to access the full functionalities of the platform, so we had to share it (consequently not knowing who did each action). - Problems with the generation of reports and very high complexity in their interface. - Some issues on the mandatory anonymity: the double blind review process not fully respected due to unclear user info and options, with other issues coming up on the go such as unwanted info in automated notifications and messages in welcome dashboard. - Not really willing to help with Paypal instant payment notification’s issues during registration and not being able to use the other payment method on the platform because they were incompatible with the conference country. - Missing information and time wasted when creating events for sessions with info already existing in the server that randomly failed to be picked. These issues were reported even with video proofs (help desk didn’t believe us), and were never solved. We had to repeat the same processes again and again, never knowing what was going on. All these issues showed up as the different steps in the organisation of a conference were taken. Some of them were solved… most of them too late, once the conference was already over. Considering that the platform was supposed to have been used already for many other conference teams, we do not understand how all these issues came up in ours. We were not asking for anything unusual but rather for issues all conference organizers must go through during the preparation and celebration stages. It is true that whenever we came across some problem and notified it to the admins, their answers were quick, but they were in many cases unsatisfactory, didn’t meet our deadlines or were even disregarded due to their “impossibility to add our requests to their roadmaps” on time.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

COMS
www.conference-service.com

Company Information

Dryfta
Founded: 2015
United States
dryfta.com

Alternatives

Alternatives

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CATALYST

Omnipress
ConSoft

ConSoft

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ConfWare

ConfWare

Molcomp System
ConfWare

ConfWare

Molcomp System

Categories

Categories

Registration Features

Activity Registration
Attendance Management
Badge Management
Calendar Management
Class Registration
Contact Management
Event Registration
Form Builder
Group Registration
Marketing Management
Online Registration
Onsite Registration
Payment Processing
Refund Automation
Self Check-In
Surveys & Feedback

Event Management Features

Attendee Management
Badge Management
Conferences / Conventions
Exhibit / Vendor Management
Gamification
Room Block Management
Social Media Promotion
Sponsorship Management
Surveys & Feedback
Ticketing
Volunteer Management
Weddings / Parties

Integrations

Zoom Webinars

Integrations

Zoom Webinars
Claim COMS and update features and information
Claim COMS and update features and information
Claim Dryfta and update features and information
Claim Dryfta and update features and information