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

phpFox is a powerful social network platform for niche communities. Whether you want to build a social website for your business, organization, startup or just your common interest group, phpFox can help with lots of its built-in features. We have spent a great deal of time to work on performance improvements to ensure that the software is an Efficient Investment for your Growing Business. Whether your audience access your community on a desktop computer, a tablet or a mobile phone, your social content can adapt perfectly to any screen size. Customize your look and feel is just a breeze. No coding required! Our theme management system allows you to easily add, remove or edit any website part. Try it yourself today with 14-Day free trial,

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

Audience

Businesses, organizations, creatives, groups and clubs

Audience

Companies or individuals that want to create a niche social network that offers a wide range of social features such as live streaming, chat, story.. and more.

Support

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

Support

Phone Support Not 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

$74/month
Flexible Price, starting from only $74
You can go with Perpetual or Pay-as-you-go

Perpetual license
+Pro: $639/ one time
+Ultimate: $1699/ one time

Subscribe to Pay-as-you-go subscription
+Pro Subscription: $74 /month
+Ultimate Subscription: $294/ month
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial 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 1.0 / 5
ease 1.7 / 5
features 2.0 / 5
design 2.3 / 5
support 1.0 / 5

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.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • Design. There literally are no other pros. The site lags forever and you can not even talk to support on the phone.
  • Nothing but issues from the beginning... all they do is apologize and tell you to send them the feedback which they queue while charging you for support and never do anything... They have no major update or vision... It's probably one person working on the code....
  • It looks nice....but only looks.......... .

Cons

  • Slow slow slow, lagged. I hated the fact they don't come in for support until 9:30 PM EST so if your site is down and you are in the USA, you're just completely left to hang. My site is down for 15 hours now and they tell me 24-48 hour response time. BEWARE!!!!!
  • Stay away from this bunch if thieves and crooks unable to fix any issues or lying about everything they do or sell. They have no business acumen and no work ethic, they actually despise their western clients.. And there is nothing you can do but post bad reviews since they are so far away from any kind of liability.
  • Two big problems that make this script or platform VERY expensive; - support: after you have bought it, you have a few months support. You ask something, it taes several days for the answer, that mostly is not an answer to what you asked. You lose a lot of time and after a few months they stop support, unless you pay further support. - customization: if you want to personlaize the script /platform you have no other choice than asking it to the people of phpfox. This can become very expensive. BUT, the biggest problem is the fact that EACH time that they launch an upgrade, you have to ask them again to do that customization and of course, this will not be for free. We bought this platform a few months ago and there have already been 3 upgrades. Money, money money! Looking on Google other people also have problems with Phpfox

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Supported
In Person Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

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

Company Information

phpFox
Founded: 2008
United States
www.phpfox.com

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Categories

Community Supported
Social Networking Supported

Categories

Community Supported
Live Streaming Supported
Social Networking 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

Community Features

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

Social Networking Features

Activity / News Feed Supported
Advertising Management Supported
Blogs Supported
Data Security Supported
Event Management Supported
Group Management Supported
Media Library Supported
Privacy Options Supported
Real-time Chat Supported
Social Media Integration Supported
Social Media Tagging Supported
User Profiles Supported

Live Streaming Features

Access Control Supported
Audience Analytics Not Supported
Audience Engagement Supported
Browser-based Supported
Customizable Branding Supported
Encoding Supported
Event Scheduling Not Supported
Live Streaming Production Supported
Moderation Not Supported
Monetization Tools Not Supported
Multi-Screen / Split-Screen Not Supported
Multiple Camera Feeds Not Supported
Multistreaming Not Supported
Session Recording Supported
Social Media Integration Supported
Streaming Platform Integration Supported

Integrations

ArrowChat Not Supported
Facebook Not Supported
Google Analytics Supported
Hostiso Not Supported

Integrations

ArrowChat Supported
Facebook Supported
Google Analytics Not Supported
Hostiso Supported
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