Certain Reviews (128)

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Certain Reviews (128)

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Users consistently praise the product for its excellent customer support and customization options, which help them tailor event management to their specific needs. Many find the platform user-friendly once they overcome the initial learning curve, although some note that it can be complex for beginners. Overall, the responsive support team significantly enhances the user experience.

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Verified User in Medical Devices
AM
Verified User in Medical Devices
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"User since 2018, continued to be very happy with the service and all it has to offer!"
5/5
What do you like best about Certain?

The real time updates on survey's issuing CE/CME credit to attendees is wonderful and extremely helpful to us. Push notificaitons, full schedule, lead retreival badge scanning.. this app is truly our meeting one stop shop. We couldn't have our meeting without it! Very user friendly. Customer support is extremely timely and helpful! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Certain?

Nothing comes to mind on things that I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Zara Arsala of Certain

Thanks for the review, we appreciate you!

Verified User in Higher Education
UH
Verified User in Higher Education
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to use customizable sites; Consistently expanding & offering new services & products"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Certain?

I appreciate being able to customize the user experience based on my clients needs. I also appreciate the new products and updates that are regularly administered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Certain?

We seem to consistently hit glitches/oversights that create errors within our forms. While customer service is strong and problems are typically corrected quickly, coming across these errors as I work urgently to meet deadlines can sometimes be a setback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
AE
Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Robust Event Management Platform - Top Tier Support"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Certain?

I have been in the event management industry for over 12 years and have used many systems over that time. Certain offers a lot of flexibility. Their mobile check-in app is maybe what sets them out the most, in my opinion. This app allows for huge sales teams to get a simple access code (no unique login credentials needed) to get into the check-in and lead tagging features. This allows the team to easily (and I mean easily) download and access the particular event they are working on. Check-in is a breeze and very intuitive. Additionally, they have (from all of my evaluations and testing over the years) the only event platform that has lead tagging capabilities straight from this check-in app. This means that any of my employees can make critical, real-time notes from customer conversations so that we are ready for immediate follow-up after the event. I have been using this tool for the last three years and am creating, editing, and managing events daily. It's incredibly easy to implement across all of our product teams and intuitive API linkage allows us to broadcast our events across our website to localize the experience for our customers. If there is ever a problem, a quick email is responded to within a couple of hours at the latest. If it's urgent - I've gotten a call within 5 minutes. Completely second to none. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Certain?

With all that I love about this service, I will say a dedicated power user is pretty important. The system, as robust as it is, can be very complicated. Particularly if say it's used across a team and someone is only running a couple of shows a year. Relearning where everything is can be a struggle if there isn't that POC for troubleshooting or streamlining. That being said, being the power user does not need to be a full-time job for someone, but know that spending the extra time to set up templates beforehand and make sure that people know exactly all the information to provide when creating an event and it hasn't been difficult on my end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JP
Julie P.
Senior Digital Producer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Certain Event Management is tried and true."
4.5/5
What do you like best about Certain?

Working with long-term established product experts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Certain?

The product roadmap can feel slow at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Zara Arsala of Certain

We appreciate your feedback, thank you!

Sarah P T.
ST
Sarah P T.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Worth every penny"
5/5
What do you like best about Certain?

Certain & Peach kep us on track plus made sure all of our questions were answered! Video recorded meetings are very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Certain?

Our experience was great, we do not see any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Zara Arsala of Certain

Thanks for taking time to submit this review, we appreciate it!

Verified User in Higher Education
AH
Verified User in Higher Education
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Many features and capabilities, but difficult admin experience"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Certain?

There's a lot of customization that we can do with our site, and all the features we could wish for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Certain?

Sometimes fixing an error or updating a site requires a lot of technical skill and coding experience. This makes it difficult as a site admnistrator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Verified User in Computer Software
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great customizable platform!"
4/5
What do you like best about Certain?

How customizable it is! Our organization is unique in how we manage our data and Certain has the ability to be customized to fit out needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Certain?

Certain is a smaller organization than most Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
AH
Verified User in Higher Education
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Tool review"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Certain?

Certain has robust in-form logic, and can be fairly well customized.

The support team and account reps are very responsive and communicative and make a real effort to meet our needs.

The tool implements improvements regularly.

There are many available features which can be utilized in complex arrangements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Certain?

Users often find the tool difficult to navigate and understand. The best-supported features may not meet your needs; it is optimized for large conferences. If you don't use the tool in the most standard way, you may need to do a bunch of kludges to get by. There have been multiple occasions in which tool updates/releases have caused major issues for live registrations, so my org lacks some confidence in the stability of the tool. Past Release Notes are no longer available for review. The tool-recommended method for registration (sessions) offers no pricing granularity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LH
Lauren H.
Manager, Marketing Technology
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Scaling global event management with Certain"
4/5
What do you like best about Certain?

Certain 's platform offers a lot of out-of-the-box, but also provides the flexibility to customize for our regional marketer's unique requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Certain?

You can customize yourself into a corner somewhat easily, which makes support challenging. It would be good to have some checkpoints in place to ensure there isn't an existing solution to meet the same need before creating something custom. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Verified User in Financial Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Certain Review - Extremely Flexible Platform"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Certain?

The Certain platform is extremely flexible and able to meet the needs of our clients - most of whom have specific and varied requirements. The reporting out of the platform is amazing in its versatility, and allows different groups to have different views of the same event with little effort. The support team is usually very quick to address issues or answer questions, and the account management team is awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Certain?

The platform does take a while to learn how to navigate, and its very flexibility lends to users making errors or finding it hard to learn how to do things. I also wish they would have ability to automate emails on a micro level instead of macro. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.