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CrowdHandler Overview

What is CrowdHandler?

CrowdHandler's SAAS platform allows you to provision online waiting rooms to protect your websites and applications from peak-load traffic; protecting sales, promoting fairness and keeping your customers happy. Trusted by top live entertainment and sports brands, fortune 500 companies, government departments, leisure destinations and SMEs. Provisioned via JavaScript, Google Tag Manager, DNS routing, Cloudflare and CloudFront CDNs or custom integrations using our open API. Monthly, flexible pricing, with no long-term commitment and a free tier. Sign up online today, using a credit card, and get up and running in about 15 minutes.

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Product Description

CrowdHandler protects your website during periods of heavy traffic, preventing your servers from becoming overwhelmed and allowing your customers to continue processing transactions with confidence.


Seller Details
Year Founded
2002
HQ Location
Birmingham, England
Twitter
@Crowdhandler
269 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
4 employees on LinkedIn®

Jake G.
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Recent CrowdHandler Reviews

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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The best tool for your website and excellent support"
The support team and the ease of implementing the tool is so easy and so efficient.
Hannah B.
HB
Hannah B.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Great support from CrowdHandler"
The ease of setting up a queue to protect our website during busy traffic spikes. Plus knowing the queue will adapt to support the volume of custom...
Emmanuel C.
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Emmanuel C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Cost-Effective and Reliable: CrowdHandler Optimized Our Website Traffic Seamlessly"
What I like best about CrowdHandler is how easy it is to deploy while being incredibly effective. It took minimal setup time, and the results in ma...
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CrowdHandler Demo - Dashboard
Control your traffic flow, and quickly review how many users are waiting, how many are active and how your application is performing.
CrowdHandler Demo - Waiting Room
Waiting room templates can be customized using the control panel. A typical waiting room shows the users position in the queue, a progress bar, and an estimate of wait time. You can send messages to your users whilst they wait.
CrowdHandler Demo - Priority Access
Set up priority lanes for valued customers, using single-use codes or multi-use vouchers.
CrowdHandler Demo - Integration Options
A range of integration and implementation options including JavaScript, DNS, Cloudflare and custom API-based integrations
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Verified User in Higher Education
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What do you like best about CrowdHandler?

We liked how simple and easy it was to use Crowdhandler. Their support was quick to respond and answer all our questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CrowdHandler?

We wish the reporting system would remember session statistics like browsers and computers used by the users. This would give us a better demographic report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CrowdHandler solving and how is that benefiting you?

Crowdhandler was able to handle the oncoming traffic to help prevent our servers from crashing. We could then give the users a seamless experience for purchasing tickets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Performing Arts
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What do you like best about CrowdHandler?

CrowdHandler has some great features to help remove some of the stress associated with a high demand on sale. Autotune is particularly useful! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CrowdHandler?

I wouldn't change anything; it's everything you need to help you handle a stressful booking period. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CrowdHandler solving and how is that benefiting you?

Crowdhandler gives us greater control over our onsales and allows us to self serve more effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jamie R.
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What do you like best about CrowdHandler?

We've used hundreds of different softwares over the years. And you rarely come across support staff like these guys. Their replies were fast, concise, answered every question, and solved any integration issue we came across. It made the whole onboarding a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CrowdHandler?

Our only issue with the system would be the basic look of the non-custom templates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CrowdHandler:

While CrowdHandler might not be the best-looking Waiting Room - they make up for it in their supportability and pricing structure. With a much lower barrier to entry, and at no point did we ever feel like they were trying to push a sale or upgrade. I'd highly recommend giving them a try! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CrowdHandler solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had issues with sudden bursts of traffic taking our eCommerce stores offline. Launches or Viral hits would cripple our systems, significantly affecting the ability to profit from the popularity. Using their waiting room software fixed everything, we let people onto our site in a controlled manner and made more sales than ever. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Sports
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What do you like best about CrowdHandler?

Easy to implement. Great customer service for your backend questions, and great customer interface on the front end. Easy solution to site traffic problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CrowdHandler?

HTML coding experience is required to customize waiting room templates. Many of the best features require a subscription which is fairly expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CrowdHandler solving and how is that benefiting you?

Product releases are smoother and easier for both customers and our sales staff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Events Services
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What do you like best about CrowdHandler?

We operate a ticketing platform that generally doesn't see huge spikes in traffic. We got last minute notice of an event going on sale the following day, with a huge demand for tickets. To err on the side of caution, a virtual waiting room was the best option, to ensure that we didn't overload our infrastructure and cause issues for users. After reviewing other platforms -- most of which had a very lengthy process for setup, including a mandatory sales call -- we found CrowdHandler. We were able to get an account set up in a couple of minutes and integrate changes into our website shortly after to begin testing.

We had some outstanding questions after completing setup and we were able to schedule a 7am call with Jake (2 hours before the on-sale time). Jake was great help and coming from a ticketing background was able to relate to the challenges faced. Jake provided good advice and answered any questions that we had before going live.

Since this on-sale, we left CrowdHandler operating on our site, based on a slow request threshold. This has already paid dividends. In the past week the unexpected announcement of a lineup for an event triggered a huge spike in demand, which we were able to handle comfortably with CrowdHandler. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CrowdHandler?

We haven't experienced any negatives so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CrowdHandler solving and how is that benefiting you?

CrowdHandler has enabled us to protect our infrastructure from huge and unexpected surges in demand. This allows us to keep our ticketing site running stably, while managing customer expectations as they try to create a transaction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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What do you like best about CrowdHandler?

As an online election platform, we expected a huge spike in users for a 24 hour period, crowdhandler allowed us to protect our infrastructure, without confusion for our users. Having the ability to place users in a virtual waiting room allowed us to manage the use of our service effectively, without worrying that the spike would affect our day to day users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CrowdHandler?

There isn't anything to dislike, we needed this service, and they delivered when required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CrowdHandler solving and how is that benefiting you?

Looking after our infrastructure to ensure that a fair use of our service was taking place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.