Evessio Awards Reviews & Product Details

What I like most is the support we get from them when we need it, plus the ease of use. The back end is really easy and I love it. Whenever I'm stuck with any issue, like logo sizes or table bookings, they are super quick and helpful. Creating a new website and adding content is super easy. When I need support I send an email and they get back to me in less than a day. I also like that they added an archive feature so we can reuse profiles from old events, which is amazing. I'm so used to using it very efficiently for anything we need. We use it with Stripe for taking payments for nominations and table bookings. We've always used them and will continue to do so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Great platform that ticks all our business needs. It's straightforward for our team to build as well as our customers to use. I’m also really impressed with the customer service we receive, along with the steady stream of new features being added to support our constantly evolving needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This may be a feature I just haven't unlocked yet (so apologies if it's sitting there and I just haven't found it) but I'd love to be able to compare different events. I can currently compare the same event year on year which is really helpful, but would be useful to compare across different events Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We run over 50 events on the Evessio platform, with more than 20 of them being awards events that include dinner tickets. The rest are ticketed conferences. We’ve been using Evessio for more than six years, and with over 100 admin users across our different event teams, the platform makes it much easier to manage and promote our events. It also helps ensure every team can access the customer information they need.

The Evessio support team is always prompt when answering queries and resolving any issues we raise. We also have a very good relationship with our account manager and the wider management team. They’re consistently willing to listen to our requirements, help find solutions where possible, and continue improving and enhancing the system to better support their customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We would benefit from a two-stage award entry process that allows us to create an initial shortlist of entrants first, and then asks only those shortlisted entrants to submit more detailed information related to their entry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Evessio Awards platform is a fantastic end-to-end event management tool that gives us complete control over the awards process from start to finish.

The customer service is exceptional, and the platform is constantly evolving in response to the needs of the events industry. The ability to have full control over every element of our website, create fully customisable pages, manage the judging portal and entry system, and handle booking options is priceless.

One of the biggest benefits is how much time it saves us. Making a simple update can literally take seconds, rather than having to wait for an external team or supplier to make changes for us. Having that level of control and flexibility makes a huge difference when managing busy awards programmes.

A recent update has also integrated Evessio with our CRM and accounting systems, which is already saving us many hours of double-keying invoices and reducing the potential for errors.

Overall, Evessio has made our awards management process much more efficient, flexible and streamlined. It’s a platform that genuinely understands the needs of the events industry, and the team behind it is fantastic to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly, I struggle to identify anything I dislike about Evessio. Like any platform, there are always things that could be developed or improved, but what I really value is how responsive the team is to feedback.

If there is something that would improve our processes, we can submit feedback directly. Other Evessio users can then ‘thumbs up’ suggestions they would also find useful, helping to move popular ideas further up the development pathway.

It makes you feel like you genuinely have a voice in how the platform develops, rather than simply being told what features are available.

The support from the Evessio team is also excellent. Nothing feels like too much trouble, and there is genuinely never a silly question. They are approachable, responsive and always willing to help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've run the Event Technology Awards on Evessio for the best part of a decade. This year was the first time I properly sat down and went through what the platform can actually do. The docs, the knowledge base, the release notes I'd skimmed and filed for later, the settings I'd never opened. It changed how we ran the whole programme.

The entry data comes out clean and structured, so I could analyse every submission against our category criteria and find entrants whose story fitted categories they hadn't considered. Cloning meant I could move those entries across without asking anyone to write a single extra word. That one piece of work brought in another 30 to 40 entries. We finished on 247, up from 165 last year.

The thing I'd underline though is how little support it needed. Not one entrant emailed me asking how to enter. Two voucher code queries all season and both were caused by how I'd set them up. Same on the judging side. No confusion, no hand holding. When you're building an exhibition at the same time, not losing half your day to Zoom calls about a form is worth as much as any feature on the list.

And the team behind it. Gayle, Fran and Gary have been on hand throughout, and honestly the service is as much of the reason this year worked as the software is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Two things, and one of them is half my own fault.

The platform improves faster than I keep up with. Release notes land, I think I'll look at that when entries open, and then I don't. A prompt that told me what had changed since I last ran my awards, rather than a changelog I have to remember to go and read, would have saved me years of not using features that were already sat there.

The second is the front end. The templates are fine and there are graphics options now, but getting the site looking exactly how I wanted it took Gary building it out with the widgets rather than me picking a theme and going. The flexibility is there, which is the part that matters. It's just not a five minute job if you're fussy about design.

While I'm here, a feature request. The cross-category analysis I did by hand this year should be something the platform surfaces on its own. The data's all in there and you've already got AI in the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the professional looking websites that are produced by Evessio and the ease of setting up a new event. The support teams and help desk are fantastic in assisting when I have a query. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven’t found any major downsides with Evessio. The one tweak I’d like is a notification when award guest names have been changed after they’ve been uploaded, rather than having to go back in and check myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's really easy to use, it creates nice looking websites with the great backend. Judges find it easy to use, as do the entrants. All round smooth process, with good reporting tools too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't really have anything bad to say about the platform. Any issues I had previously have been sorted through their ongoing development of the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It makes the entry process easier as the organiser and I like being able to track different metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do find the system can be clunky at times, especially when first building the evessio. For example, when cloning events it doesn’t copy everything across fully, and you end up having to amend a lot of things manually. With email templates, it doesn’t add headers for all of them, so you have to go in individually. I also find assigning judges to be a long process, which could be improved by allowing you to add judges into panels and then assign the whole panel, or at least have the option to do this. I’d also like to be able to easily pull a judging report to see how much has been completed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s easy to use, and the features make it straightforward to complete tasks smoothly and efficiently. The support resources and help guides are also excellent, and genuinely useful whenever I need a bit of direction.

The training I’ve received from Peter has been second to none. His ability to guide me through the system has been vital. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find the nominations process quite clunky and time-consuming, especially when there’s a surge of nominations coming through. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like Evessio Awards; it’s a great all-in-one option. I especially like that I can do almost everything in one place, which makes it really convenient to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I sometimes find that the platform isn’t very user-friendly. It can take a good amount of time to learn the system, and when you run into errors, they can be difficult to track down and find a solution for the unique problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.