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What do you like best about Parchment?

At first i liked the idea of having one location for all transcripts to be requested. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parchment?

The fact that they don't track what you order or guarantee that it will be delivered is a big issue. Students rely heavily on making sure a transcript arrives....and if it doesn't then it could cost them thousands in scholarships lost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

They are supposed to solve the problem of delivering a product (Transcripts) for the customer...but they don't do that as it is not tracked or guaranteed that it actually happened. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Parchment Overview

What is Parchment?

Parchment believes credentials matter in the lifelong journey of a learner. We deliver innovative solutions through the most comprehensive digital credential management platform on the market. K-12, higher education, and professional organizations can connect through a single platform to securely and efficiently send, receive, and engage with credentials of all types. As a scaled partner focused on modernizing the exchange of verifiable academic and professional credentials, the Parchment platform helps millions of learners, 3,000+ districts, 2,000+ university registrar offices, 10 state education agencies, and 7,400+ receivers (including university admissions offices, background check companies, employers, college application services, OPMs, and certification and licensing boards) exchange more than 100 million transcripts, diplomas, certificates and other credentials globally. Founded in 2003, Parchment is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

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Parchment is a platform designed to help schools empower learners to turn credentials into opportunities.


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Parchment
Year Founded
2003
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Scottsdale, AZ
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Andrew C.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
0.0 out of 5
"Not a good company and don't back up or support the purpose of what they do"
At first i liked the idea of having one location for all transcripts to be requested.
Rhonda C.
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Rhonda C.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Overall, Parchment does a pretty good job, but there are ways Parchment could improve."
That I am no longer printing and mailing in house. Easy to use. Lynne, Member Support Representative​​​​​​​, is the absolute Best!
Frank C.
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Frank C.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Essential Credentials Partner in Higher Education"
Parchment offers solutions to support every academic program at your institution. They are easy to work with and provide great customer support.
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Rhonda C.
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Registrar Services Coordinator
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What do you like best about Parchment?

That I am no longer printing and mailing in house. Easy to use. Lynne, Member Support Representative​​​​​​​, is the absolute Best! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parchment?

I don't like that if I upload a roster, but the student has a Hold. 1 year later, the Hold is lifted. I want to be able to update the mailing address of the Diploma before I release the Hold.

We have been noticing Diplomas being printed crooked. I was aware of 5 out of 172 from August 2024 Graduation.

Transcript orders have the green check mark, everything matches the student record, but the order is not fulfilled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Fulfilling Transcript and Diploma orders. It is benefiting me because I do not have to print them and mail each one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Medical Transcriptionist
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What do you like best about Parchment?

Parchment has always provided excellent customer service. Whether it is an issue with an order or a request for an enhancement, the response time and quality of answer has been prompt and thorough.

We have quarterly meetings with our account manager. These meetings allow us to discuss any challenges we are having with Parchment processing. Because our account manager is from a Registrar background, they are able to understand our workflow and provide insights on using Parchment products.

The resources that Parchment provides such as training, articles, webinars and blogs have been very helpful to our office. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parchment?

While it sounds petty, the short amount of inactivity time before being logged off is an annoyance. As someone from a small school with many interruptions, constantly logging in is cumbersome. With that, it would be nice if Parchment allowed an institution a bit more control over the look and feel of the product both for the office and student. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Parchment allows us to quicly service the needs of our students. When once, we were printing and mailing transcripts now the processes can be done electronically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Christine C.
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What do you like best about Parchment?

What matters most to organizations is serving their stakeholders well. Parchment offers end users a convenient and easy way to request needed transcripts. We have embedded the Parchment link in our website. The process on the admin side is seamless as well. Highly recommend the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parchment?

Unfortunately, our records are not digital; not a Parchment issue, but does involve quite a bit of work to manually upload paper docs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

A secure convenient way to send former student their transcripts. Sure beats the mail. We also send transcripts to universities and colleges through Parchment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Records Specialist, Office of the Registrar
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What do you like best about Parchment?

The staff at Parchment is so kind and very responsive. Usually when I have to contact them it is because I have made an error and i need their help to fix it. They are always able to fix the issue with the student and in a timely manner. I tell others often that in my 51 years (ugh LOL) on the planet they are honestly the absolute best at customer service. Without a doubt the absolute best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parchment?

No downsides - it is positive - absolutely postive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Parchment allows our students (current and former) to order their transcripts in a timely manner and accurately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Susan T.
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Director of Guidance
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What do you like best about Parchment?

Very simple to use, and it interfaces with our SIS seemlessly. We use Harmony, and I never have any issues getting my transcripts to upload. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parchment?

NA. I have been a school counselor for almost 20 years. There is nothing more simple than Parchment. It saves me loads of time, and is super user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Parchment keeps us from having to mail things to colleges and provides us with an electronic record of when we have sent materials. It is so simple to tell someone and show them when we sent their credential and when it was received. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Frank C.
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What do you like best about Parchment?

Parchment offers solutions to support every academic program at your institution. They are easy to work with and provide great customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parchment?

I do not have anything to list here. Parchment has been an incredible partner to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Local transcript printing and digital transcripts and enrollment verification fulfillment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Parchment?

We have been a partner with Parchment for almost two decades. We started using them to assist with our transcript services and have been pleased with their services to the institution, staff, and, most importantly, our students. Using their platforms has been easy over the years and continues to improve with innovations as Parchment embodies the philosophy of continual improvements and innovation. Our students also prefer and enjoy the single sign-on through their campus to access their credentials. However, the most significant impact is the 'wallet-style' approach to credentialing, where students can access their credentials from all institutions (Parchment schools) without having to log into each institution. This is incredibly useful for alumni and transfer students. Finally, their customer support, or rather customer care, is top-notch! The account managers are responsive, proactive, and supportive in hearing and relaying the needs of the member organizations. Parchment has been open in their approach to innovation and does well to listen to their partner schools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parchment?

New features and upgrades can present challenges for institution implementation. However, as long as there is coordination and awareness, any implementation or integration challenges are quickly resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Parchment for credentialling management and distribution. They helped us resolve a workload challenge and have allowed us to focus on other aspects of student record management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LW
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What do you like best about Parchment?

The ease of the product and when changes are needed, they respond in an adequate amount of time. As far as the Diploma service, I love that our students are able to get a digital diploma for their use for electronic submissions. The look of our diplomas are very professional and classy looking with Parchment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parchment?

Not so much a dislike but we do experience slow responses on the website when we're uploading documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Decreased time in ordering, packeting and mailing diplomas. These used to be in-house before my tenure and when I arrived, we immediately moved this process to Parchment. This has cut down our time to get diplomas mailed, staff workload decreased and a much more professional face to our diplomas. Transcript ordering used to be handled in-house with the hassle of walking payment to our business office for each order so making the change to Parchment allowed all of these transactions to be done online with no involvement of our business office. This also has saved us on product needs for in house printing such as official paper, toner, maintanence, overtime work time pay. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lori P.
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What do you like best about Parchment?

Parchment is such a time saver with transcripts and education verifications. It is easy to use, and I am very happy with the service I receive. It was very easy to implement. I use it daily for processing transcript requests. Whenever I have had an issue or question, the customer support has been excellent, but I have had very few issues with using Parchment. I really like receiving confirmation emails of transcripts being sent, this has proven very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parchment?

The only downside is the cost and increasing prices for my school district. I continue to requisition for this service at my school because of the time benefits for me.

One other issue is that not all colleges or universities retrieve student transcripts in a timely manner. After processing a transcript request, I still receive feedback from students that the college doesn't have their transcript. To deal with this situation, I screenshot the "history" showing the transcript being processed. Although, not difficult, I wish I did not have to prove transcripts were sent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It saves time with processing of education credential requests. I know that the correct credentials are uploaded and the process is simple and easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ML
College Counselor
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What do you like best about Parchment?

Once our students have created their Parchment accounts it makes it easy for us to go and request transcripts, test scores, and letters of recommendation be sent to colleges. Also, uploading the test scores and letters of recommendation is relatively easy. We can go in and see when the documents were sent to a college/university, employer, etc and most importantly when they were downloaded since it always seems to be our fault when documents don't get there in 10 minutes. We have a history that also saves us because again we can say well College A downloaded on this day so it's there it just may not be uploaded into there system. Parchment is quick to respond if we have an issue. I don't use Parchment everyday but our Registrar is in the system on a daily basis, sometimes multiple times during the day. Since Parchment has expanded the documents we can add to the system that helps. Before we had to find other ways to send test scores and letters of recommendation. Now it's in Parchment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Parchment?

I haven't encountered anything that isn't helpful. Sometimes I do have difficulty finding a student who I know has created an account in the "History" section but if that's the only issue I have, I'm happy. I just go about it in another way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

They've solved ours by expanding the documents we can upload. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.