Evessio Awards Reviews & Product Details

We moved to Evessio after managing our awards process manually for a number of years. The difference has been substantial - even with the time needed to set up the sites and categories, we've gained so much back and it's so helpful to have everything in one place, from judges and the judging process to entries, shortlists, agendas, speakers and tickets. They have clearly thought hard about all sorts of use cases, so I'm confident the platform will continue to suit us as our needs grow and evolve. The tech support team are really responsive (and patient!) and the training documents are pretty comprehensive, as was the initial training itself. Overall I'm really impressed with their offering, and a number of our judges and entrants have commented how much smoother the process has been. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Literally the only criticism I have is that it's not the most intuitive system to use. I needed the training offered and have relied on their help library a fair bit. However this is because it has so much functionality, and I can see from navigating that there's a lot I could do in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Once we were set up, the entire process was very straightforward.

No more having to keep track of paper entries or sending anything to judges. Everything was available all in one place and it was so easy to regularly check reports, entries logged/entries submitted/judging progress etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No complaints! (We really only used one feature of the platform for our awards. But any time there was an issue, Evessio had it quickly resolved for us) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Signing up to Evessio has been a game changer for us. We run multiple awards events and had been using an archaic platform to accept entries and had relied on spreadsheets and a lot of manual labour to pull together information for judges.

The results were instant we saw an increase in entries, in no small part down to people being able to amend their entries as they go and also us being able to see who was part way through the process and us then being able to send reminders to complete entries. This increase in entries resulted in longer shortlists and more ticket sales revenues.

But the biggest bonus benefit was efficiency. It is now so easy to compile info for judges as it’s already in the system in an easy to access format. This meant all I had to do was provide judges access to the platform and the entries were there ready for judging.

The team at evessio are the reason we’ve expanded our partnership with them. They are a joy to deal with, know what we want achieve and are so prompt in delivering tasks or answering questions.

I would strongly recommend Evessio to anyone who is running an Awards event to use their platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One development i'd like to see is a user generated email platform so we can create our own reminder emails ourselves rather than having evessio queue it up for us. We can send the messages out but i'd be happy to see it self adminsitered.

But I have no dislikes of Evessio it is a great team and a great platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

By using Evessio Awards it has saved our team weeks of sifting through submissions manually and checking word counts. The software has enabled us to be more efficient in our Awards delivery by taking away the manual checking process.

Our marketing team have benefited from seeing the real 'live time' of entries in baskets and enabling them to market those categories with less entries.

The Judging process is brilliant, we can see how many entries the Judges have scored in live time and this enables us to ensure Judges are staying on track with the agreed scheduled.

We have invested in the Award table plan tool, making our event more sustainable. No longer do we need to print A0 Boards which are outdated before the event, we can update the table plan in live time and send the QR Code via email to all attendees.

The full onboarding process from the team has been excellent, the support team have gone above and beyond to assist us when in need. It was an easy system to implement, we are tight timelines which the team were able to accommodate.

We have worked with the team to create a customisable development for our Awards process, which again will result with time and money saved for the team.

Thank you Evessio for making the process of delivering our Awards more efficient and cost effective, we could never go back! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The platform has a lot of complex funcitionalities and capabilities which will just require time to understand all of them fully. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Organising Award ceremonies is a complex and often misunderstood process. The intricacies of entries, marketing campaigns, judging recruitment and execution, shortlisting, table sales, and guest list management, are each complex in their own right - and there are plenty of dependencies between those elements which technology platforms would struggle to address. Evessio is a rare breed of technology product; a system which fully understands the outcomes of its customers, owns every function in the process tree, and delivers a seamless and easy to manage end-product.

The usability of the back-end is superior to other systems, and the ability to make changes on the fly (even if you are not an HTML wizard) is a huge selling point. Customer service and support is prompt and those responding to queries etc fully understand both their own product and the needs of the business. Support team(s) don't pretend they can resolve unique challenges, instead being fully honest and up front about instances they are unable to address - proposing alternatives and workarounds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Managing multiple products as we do via one system is great, but rolling out mass-updates across all products is a labour-intensive process. Sometimes the linking of pages, widgets, and other content types can be overwhelming or seem confusing. This is mainly due to the complexity of some sites and the huge bredth of possibilities on the platform; as the platform's features and functions grow, so does the challenge of finding stuff without searching forever. Largely the UI is helpful and consistent, which means you can almost always find what you need - but sometimes this falls flat.

Some elements of the system are clunky; formatting in the non-HTML content designer is not intuitive (and you end up needing to use HTML for it to be seamless, which the majority of our project managers are not). The adaptive container boxes/widgets (where elements are resized according to screen size) are extremely useful in some circumstances, and irritating/not suitable in other circumstances; fixing height/width again relies on some hard-changes - our resource is limited here so this relies on support or expansion of said resource. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We've been using the platform for a number of years and find it very intituitve and easy to navigate.

Setting up events websites and registration processes is quick and easy. The reporting is great and you we can create custom reports based on a wide range of metrics which is always helpful.

The Evessio suport team are very helpful and the response time is very quick.

It's also very positive seeing how much development goes into the platform and often new development releases are very helpful or provide some nice quick wins! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing major springs to mind here, but we'd love to see the ability to copy some of the collaborator content when cloning events in the future, as often we will have repeat sponsors or speakers and this would save the need to re-upload their information to the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

System is entirely set up with all functionality. Especially helpful for an inaugural awards where you are learning as you go. The support on offer was top notch and fast. System was easy to use for my entrants who are consumers which was really important. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My entrants were putting up imagery which was large size images, could slow the load time for some pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Evessio was recommended to me by an industry peer and has proven to be a complete, off-the-shelf yet tailored awards organising solution. Having a platform which gives me so many options across branding, entering, monitoring, plus several layers of judging ability is perfect.

Not least as I was looking for a solution that could be implemented very, very quickly following an aquisition. The integration process was seemless, supported and conclusive.

The platform is very user friendly and intuitive even for those with light experience on a form of CMS or web-based SAAS, but then support from the team is never far away - in fact it's never not there. Whilst I would be surprised if the company didn't grow to very large heights, I am able to speak with the senior team at any point and they're always keen to check-in with me, too. Support wise it's more a friendship than a necessity and that's just always good news for any size of business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anything I haven't like has either been ironed-out, or having been explained, actually makes more sense than I was thinking. How can you critique a firm who listens to their clients so intently? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The system is intuitive to use, both as an admin in the back end, and as a customer in the front end. The team at Evessio are consistently focused on developing and evolving their existing product and adding new features, they respond quickly to feedback, and are a great partner in developing solutions to any challnges or requests. We rarely encounter issues with the system and when we do they are dealt with efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only (very small) issue we have is that the entry process is transactional and so there are a few unneccessary steps to completing an entry form than our free to enter awards require. However it doesn seem to impact our entry numbers or user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to have 1 platform combine the entry and judging process has been a realy benefit for us. Evessio is really easy to use from both an admin perspective and for those entering and judging. The onboarding experience from the team was excellent and since then the customer support is second to none in terms of contacting a member of the team and the help section of the website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The email segmentation to those tha thave entered could be improved a bit, but in fairness to Evessio they welcome feedback all the time and regularly make improvements based on that feedback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.