Crowdstack

Crowdstack

Crowdstack, Inc.
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About

Crowdstack Pro is a hosted (SaaS) community and membership platform designed to help engage, retain and grow audiences. Site owners have complete control of their data. Crowdstack includes content feeds, direct messaging, moderation tools, member management/directory, automated rules, gamification, and permissions by role. There is also a turnkey Premium Member ship service where site owners can earn revenue. Everything needed to run an online community. Easily collaborate and communicate with fans, volunteers, constituents, customers, employees, and influencers. Bring everyone together in a public or private (or mixed) space with forums, blogs, photos, videos,

About

The community framework for small to enterprise communities that is extensible, scalable, and completely free. Regardless of the size of your community, Flarum excels on every level. Building on top of the Flarum core experience with extensions allows you to customize your community to your needs. Permission groups allow easy configuration of permissions and members. Granting access to categories, but also defining global and category-limited actions like moderation, flagging, and much more. Whether you prefer a simple, bbcode/Markdown editor for typing or need a full-fledged WYSIWYG editor for your users, Flarum works with either of those. Increase engagement with your users using notifications in-browser, through email, or various other channels. Installing a WebSocket extension allows snappy interactivity to your community with real-time updates. Flarum is open source so anyone can install it anywhere, even on a shared hosting plan.

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Not Supported
Mac Not Supported
Linux Not Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Not Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Businesses, organizations, creatives, groups and clubs

Audience

Organizations looking for a solution to customize their community to their needs

Support

Phone Support Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

API

Offers API Not Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$49
Plans start at $999 monthly.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Supported

Pricing

Free
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 2.3 / 5
ease 3.3 / 5
features 3.3 / 5
design 3.3 / 5
support 2.3 / 5

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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Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • See below.
  • We completed their 14 day free trial. We liked many aspects of the offering and felt it offered a lot of customization to meet our needs and it was our intention to sign up for their service.
  • Crowdstack is a very easy to use platform. It provides great support to engage with customers and give you a manageable service to track their needs.

Cons

  • See overall.
  • Their pricing model is way too rigid. The Foundation plan for $399/mo offered nearly everything we were looking for. The only problem was that they use a lot of strange terms on their pages...fortunately, they offer a "custom wording" feature that allows you to change some of those words. Unfortunately, that was the only feature we required from the Complete plan, for which our custom pricing was offered at $999/mo. We didn't require any of the other features included with the Complete plan and couldn't justify $600/mo more for that plan just for the custom wording feature. We gave them several chances to offer a more reasonable pricing solution and win our business. Instead, they remained inflexible. Trust me, when a company that is trying to secure long-term subscriptions is this inflexible at the beginning, you don't want to work with them. Imagine months down the road when you have thousands of users and find out you need something from Crowdstack...how inflexible do you think they're going to be then? My recommendation is to find a more flexible community building solution, like Tribe or the many other community building solutions now available.
  • Overall its an outstanding platform customer engagement tool.

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Supported
In Person Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Supported
In Person Supported

Company Information

Crowdstack, Inc.
Founded: 1998
United States
crowdstack.com

Company Information

Flarum
Netherlands
flarum.org

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Categories

Community Supported
Social Networking Supported

Categories

Community Supported

Community Features

Content Management Supported
Content Moderation Supported
Discussions / Forums Supported
Event Management Not Supported
Group Management Supported
Ideation / Crowdsourcing Supported
Member Directory Supported
Membership Management Supported
Social Media Management Supported
Website Management Not Supported
White Label Not Supported

Social Networking Features

Activity / News Feed Supported
Advertising Management Not Supported
Blogs Supported
Data Security Supported
Event Management Not Supported
Group Management Supported
Media Library Not Supported
Privacy Options Supported
Real-time Chat Not Supported
Social Media Integration Supported
Social Media Tagging Supported
User Profiles Supported

Integrations

Discourse Not Supported
Google Analytics Supported
Markdown Not Supported
MyBB Not Supported
NodeBB Not Supported
Simple Machines Forum (SMF) Not Supported
phpBB Not Supported
vBulletin Not Supported
wysiwyg Not Supported

Integrations

Discourse Supported
Google Analytics Not Supported
Markdown Supported
MyBB Supported
NodeBB Supported
Simple Machines Forum (SMF) Supported
phpBB Supported
vBulletin Supported
wysiwyg Supported
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