# Evessio Awards Reviews **Vendor:** Evessio **Category:** [Awards Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/awards-management) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 65 ## About Evessio Awards Evessio is a multi-award-winning company that provides event management software for awards that generates real return on investment. Trusted by some of the biggest brands in the industry, Evessio has established a global reputation as the all-in-one solution for awards management. Evessio's end-to-end solution enables organisers to run awards in one place. All software packages include a fully branded, sophisticated event website and an easy-to-use content management system. Evessio's award-winning onboarding, training and support alongside consistent delivery of innovative technology has resulted in a loyal customer base. Bringing together solutions for the nominations process, secure judging and guest bookings, through to seating planner, Evessio is the obvious choice for a seamless and hassle-free approach that also provides full revenue and interaction data. ## Evessio Awards Reviews ### 1. Effortless Setup and Exceptional User Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julie C. **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2025 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** I love how easy it was to set up Evessio Awards. Even though I've run awards programs for years and used different platforms, this one was incredibly straightforward and required no tech support. Julie, my client success person, made transitioning smooth and effortless. The platform reduced our team's time significantly, allowing us to do everything in-house and giving us more time in our workday to execute the program. The ease of setting up the website on my own, designing different questions for categories, and the seamless judging process stand out as highly valuable features. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** Honestly nothing - but I could always use more detailed reporting! **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evessio Awards reduces team setup time, enabling in-house management without tech reliance, and simplifies website setup and the judging process, saving hours. ### 2. My impressions of Evessio **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul A. | Credit Control Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** As a frequent administrative user of Evessio Awards, I find the platform quite intuitive to use. Being a Finance user, my primary interest is in transactional data and invoices. I like how simple it is to download copies of invoices from transactions. The reporting functionality is nice. I was able to easily put together a report to fulfil my needs without needing to refer to any documentation. The functionality to be able to edit invoice details easily is hugely beneficial to us. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** I dislike the lack of a global search function. As a finance user, it would be hugely beneficial to be able to perform a global search on invoice number, name, email address etc, all Awards without having to go into a specific award. I dislike the current delays in file delivery which is impacting the delivery of data into our accounting system. It would be good to be able to retrieve actual sent emails (currently we can only view the content of the email not the email itself) as we sometime requires these as evidence. Dislike the current bug that occurs when trying to edit invoices but unable to save. Dislike the delay sometimes experienced to receive the authentication code required to login. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Provides a great solution to Awards management **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Paul, thank you for taking the time write a review! Its' great to hear that the transactions and reporting capabilities of Evessio Awards are helping you from a financial management perspective. We also appreciate your feedback on what we might be able to improve on and therefore your feedback on adopting a global search across multiple events has been noted for consideration by our development team for future improvement. With regards to your other points of feedback around bugs and delays, I am following these up with our CTO for you and we will provide an update to your colleague who reported these matters to our support team. Thank you again for taking the time to review your use of Evessio Awards, it's very much appreciated! ### 3. AMAZING - user friendly, simple platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Natasha M. | Marketing and Operations Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2025 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Evessio is a great platform with how user friendly it is. Don't get me wrong, training is required and reference to help documents has been used throughout the process but overall the experience I had using Evessio has been super simple and easy to navigate and understand. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** The only thing I would say is a limitation is the website back end and how you add content - the filing system is a little confusing and it does take a bit of time to find exactly what you're looking for. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Operations Management of entries - we use to be paper based and eventually move to JotForm / Google Forms for our entry process, this caused complications for users as they were unable to save their work or preview the form - with Evessio this eliminates the need to complete the entry then and there (which is a lot of information). **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for writing your review of Evessio Awards, Natasha! It's fantastic to learn how simple you find Evessio to use for managing your awards programme and that you have benefitted from our training sessions and knowledge base whilst getting to grips with the platform. I'm also really pleased to hear that by adopting Evessio, your operations management for entries has been vastly improved and the experience for your entrants is now easier, seamless and flexible! Thanks again for taking the time to share your experience of using Evessio Awards, it's very much appreciated! ### 4. Helping a small business grow **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mila Y. | Operations & Data Systems Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2025 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** We are in our third year using Evessio for our annual awards, and it has significantly streamlined our process. The platform makes it easy to manage everything from nominations to judging and announcements, saves us hours of manual work, limits errors and it just gets easier and better with every year past. It is great how quickly you can have a working awards website with all the necessary functionalities, a great benefit, especially when you don't have experience in running awards and don't necessarily know what you need right from the start. The platform is great at guiding you through the process. One of the best things about the platform is the customer support and the personalised training that is available. The team is truly great. They are always responsive and quick to assist with any queries, however big or small, and they are always committed to finding a solution. Evessio is enabling us to run awards as an addition to our main business, without it becoming a full-time job, saving us time and money, and helping a small business grow. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** There is very little I dislike about the platform. Whenever there is a frustration built up that I can't do something, or that is not working quite like I think it should, I am always met with understanding and calm explanation of how I can actually achieve my goal. It is rear that after speaking to customer service you feel better, rather than frustrated, but with Evession, this is definitely the case. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evessio provided us with an easy-to-use and fast solution of creating a new dimension to our business. We wanted to add awards as part of the event we were created, as we wanted to celebrate and recognise so many deserving people and companies but did not know how to go about it or had the time and resources for a custom build solution. Evessio was what allowed us to achieve our idea, and quickly. Since then, it has saved us hours of manual work, which as a small business where everybody is doing a bit of everything, saving time is absolutely crucial. And with our growing confidence in the platform is also our growing confidence that we can keep supporting the wonderful people in our chosen industry. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you very much for your review of Evessio Awards, Mila! It's wonderful to hear how you have successfully adopted Evessio Awards to streamline your awards processes and efficiently manage your event. All our time-saving tools are clearly brining you great benefit across all elements of the awards process! It's also encouraging to hear how well you have been working with our customer success team in making sure you have covered all the training modules available, and that the team have been supporting you very well over the past few years in finding your way and in recommending the best solutions to any queries you have had. We all look forward to seeing your awards continue to thrive and grow on Evessio! ### 5. Simple, seamless and reliable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** So far, Evessio has proven to be a seamless facilitator for our awards and integrated well into our programme. There is a sense of reassurance and ease knowing the platform will, and has, performed reliably and consistently throughout - rather than as a potential barrier to progress and entry. Moreover, it has afforded the team more time and capacity to focus on other key areas of the programme which is a huge relief. Combined with the Evessio team's responsive and on-hand level of customer support, the switch to Evessio has been a joy. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** There are some features or levels of metadata which would be helpful for us to have more access and oversight that Evessio does not seem to provide. This namely relates to information on initiated entries, transaction metadata when pulling reports from payment portals such as Stripe and the ability to dynamically adjust product price/basket subtotal based on company size which is a key component of our awards. That being said, each of these queries have been raised with the support team and Evessio has sought to proactively source a solution or workaround where possible which is greatly appreciated. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** From what we can see, Evessio facilitates the user entry process and journey excellently. We have found far fewer customer complaints or issues relating to technical issues within the platform that inhibit entries being completed/initiated, which has allowed the team to focus efforts elsewhere for the programme and be on hand for other general queries about the programme. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for taking the time to share your experience suing Evessio Awards. It is music to our ears to learn that your transition onto Evessio has been seamless and a joy and that managing your awards process on the platform has afforded more time for you and your team to focus on other elements of running your awards programme. We are also appreciative of the feedback around the limitations you have encountered, and whilst our customer success team have been able to offer a workaround for these, we are hoping that a a few of the challenges you mention will enter our development roadmap soon. Thank you again for sharing your experiences in this review - we are all genuinely thrilled to hear that your move to Evessio Awards is proving to be so successful. ### 6. Clean Interface and Effortless Usability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew B. | Committee Member, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2025 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Clean interface, easy to use. Good support **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** I really have no negative feedback. Everything went smooth **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Awards platform for our yearly awards program. Coordination all the submissions and judging ### 7. Easy to use platform - lots of options to make your own **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sophie K. | Operations Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** The ability to make it our own The ease of the judging platform The auto calculations for winners **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** The BOH of the awards setup isn't the most user friendly - it's fine once you are familiar but not as logical as the rest of the platform **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's allowing us to run multiple awards across the business with very little management needed **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Sophie, thank you for sharing your feedback on Evessio Awards! It's really great to hear that the platform is allowing you to effectively and successfully manage your entries and judging processes across your awards portfolio, while allowing you to customise the experience too! Please let me know if you would benefit from any additional support at all with regards to the BOH awards setup - the customer success team are always happy to provide friendly and helpful training and support when you need it! You can contact me directly at gayle@evessio.com should you need my assistance with this. Many thanks again for taking the time to write your review, we all appreciate you sharing your experience! ### 8. Comprehensive awards system has helped save many hours of admin **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Esther T. | Director, Summits and Awards, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** 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. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** 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. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Large administrative burden for an awards process, they've brought it all together in one place (and mostly out of my inbox!) and has made it easier for a team of people to work on them. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Esther, thank you for your review of Evessio Awards and for sharing your experience of working with our platform. It's fantastic to hear that Evessio Awards has made a significant contribution to lessening the administrative burden of running your awards manually, and that you are now benefitting from more streamlined processes and having the ability to managing everything in one place. It's also great to know that our award-winning customer success team are supporting you well and that you find our extensive knowledge base useful in supporting your use of the platform. We look forward to continuing to work with you and your team and to seeing our events thrive on Evessio Awards! ### 9. Awards process now in the 21st century! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anna D. | Marketing & Events Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2025 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** 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. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** 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) **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of tracking applications Ease of monitoring judging progress Improving GDPR **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for your review, Anna. We are really pleased to hear that Evessio Awards has allowed you to modernise your awards management processes and has resulted in a much more efficient way to run your awards! ### 10. Really great user friendly platform with good support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarah O. | Marketing Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** The support staff are always on hand to help and editing the platform is easy. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** Some functionalities are confusing to set up **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping us to set up an Awards and offering people a place to enter, a custom solution but that is also out of the box **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Sarah, thank you so much for writing your review of Evessio Awards! It's brilliant to hear that our customer success team are responsive and helpful in supporting your use of the platform and that you have been able to customise your use of Evessio to suit your awards programme. Please don't hesitate to reach out to me directly at gayle@evessio.com if I can help support you with any of the functionalities you find confusing.....equally, our customer success team will be more than happy to chat to you in more detail about those and assist you in gaining a deeper understanding of any features of the platform that you may wish to know more about. We're all here to help and support you! Thanks again for the lovely review! ### 11. great platform especially for awards **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Damla B. | Senior manager events and partnerships, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Support! They are super quick, helpful and responsive whenever we need anything. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** Not loads, just couple of bits on the backend things that can be improved to save time on the admin work. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** helping us to run our awards entries and show smoothly **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Damla, thank you for taking the time to write your review. It's awesome to hear that our customer success team are delivering great service to you and helping you resolve any queries that you log in a timely manner! I'm also pleased to hear that Evessio Awards works so well in contributing towards the smooth running of your awards entry and event planning processes for your awards show! Great news! Thanks again for sharing your experience of using Evessio Awards! ### 12. Amazing platform and very user friendly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Quarnita J. | Awards Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Easy to navigate through the platform for both user and administrator and very useful from an administrator point of view. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** The platform initially doesn't cater for video uploads **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accepting entries Filtering entrants Judging Identifying winners Getting valuable comments from our judges **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Quarnita, thank you so much for your review of Evessio Awards! It's great to hear that our platform's capabilities and ease of use is helping you improve the way you run your awards, especially for accepting entries and improving the experience for your judges. Evessio Awards does have a few different options for accepting video content in your entry forms, so if you would like to learn more about these, please contact me directly using gayle@evessio.com and I can help you fully understand all of the options available to you. Thank you again for taking the time to leave your review, we appreciate it very much! ### 13. Easy and clear to use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Renata G. | credit controller, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Individual booking information in one screen with link to invoice **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** I don't like the fact that to view booking/invoice I have to go to the relevant event in order to search- would much prefer a global search **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** managing online bookings **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for taking the time write a review for Evessio Awards, Renate! Its' great to hear that the platform's transactions and reporting capabilities are helping you from a financial management perspective. We also appreciate your feedback on what we might be able to improve on and therefore your feedback on adopting a global search across multiple events has been noted for consideration by our development team for future improvement. Thank you again for taking the time to review your use of Evessio Awards, it's very much appreciated! ### 14. Purpose-built software that transformed our awards **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Evessio is a slick, easy-to-use, purpose-built platform that has dramatically improved how we run our awards and resulted in an increase in entries and better experience for both entrants and judges. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** You can't fully duplicate all content added to the site from the previous year, so this creates extra work for us to copy across and reupload information. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides us with a platform to host our awards and manage the process end to end. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for taking the time to write your review. It's fantastic to hear that Evessio Awards has helped dramatically improve your awards management and resulted in a great experience for both you and your judges. I'm please to share that we have some development planned on our current roadmap to address the gaps in content duplication, specifically around profile related content.....so watch this space for some big improvements coming soon! Thank you again for sharing your Evessio Awards experience, we truly appreciate it! ### 15. Transformational Awards platform! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark S. | Chief Executive Officer & Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** 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. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** 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. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time management for judging, easy online ticket sales and a reliable entries platform. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for your review, Mark! It's great to hear how the platform has helped you grow your entry numbers and also that it has allowed you and your team to become much more efficient in running your numerous awards programmes. We are currently developing our messaging feature which is a fully self serving comms area that will allow you to create and schedule your own mailshots to your users. This will bring some wonderful improvements to this helpful feature so watch this space for the release on that....coming soon! Thank you again for taking the time to review Evessio Awards! ### 16. Great to have everything in one place **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** That everything is all in one place from entries, to being to showcase the shortlist and winners without having to use multiple systems to get the same results. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** It isn't very user-intuitive. You really don't know what you don't know, so not really able to ask the questions to get to the functions that you need. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Everything is all in one place **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for writing your review, we appreciate the time you have taken to share your Evessio Awards experience. It's great to hear that Evessio Awards is allowing you to manage your awards all in one place and that this is helping you to showcase the achievements of your finalists and winners effectively. I would be really interested to learn more about your feedback on the platform's user-intuitiveness. Could I please ask you to contact me directly using my email address, gayle@evessio.com, so that we can arrange a suitable time to have a conversation in more detail and work on a plan to support your continued use Evessio Awards? I look forward to hearing from you and thank you again for taking the time to write your review. ### 17. Evessio has transformed the way our team delivers our annual conference and awards. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2025 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** The awards system and judging features are excellent. Very intuitive, and our volunteers love using the system. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** The load time of pages in both admin portals and front-facing site can be long at times. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are an international awards programme, and the system allows volunteers from across the globe to engage with our programme. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for taking the time to write your review. It's awesome to hear that your volunteers across the globe are enjoying using Evessio Awards and that the entry and judging features are being fully utilised and well received! Thank you for sharing your feedback on load times both in the admin portal and front end. We have been working hard in the background to optimise performance across the platform this year, and two of our most recent releases have included performance improvements to the nominations, judging and guest information areas specifically. I hope that you will be able to see and benefit from these improvements as you continue to run your awards programme this year. Many thanks again for sharing your Evessio experience! ### 18. We would be lost without the technology! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lysette M. | Events Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** 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! **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** The platform has a lot of complex funcitionalities and capabilities which will just require time to understand all of them fully. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evessio Awards has resulted in us provide more time to the Judges for the actual Judging process. Previously as a team we would have to sift through over 300 plus entries manually, check they hadn't exceeded the word count before we shared with the Judges. The software enables us to by pass this stage resulting in just a week instead of three to sift through the submissions before they go over to the Judges. With the number of entries increasing YOY this time saved has been a huge success for us. The platform is also more user friendly for our Judges, they can log on and track their own progress and see it in real time enabling them to manage their own schedules. Previously they would complete online spreadsheets, this way has made it overall more efficient. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for your review, Lysette. We are thrilled that Evessio Awards has genuinely saved you a lot of time and removed the need for cumbersome manual effort when reviewing and judging your awards entries. It's always great to hear how our end-to-end solution provides a cost-effective and efficient way to manage the varied elements of an awards cycle and we have enjoyed working with you on the customisation of some of our features too, to provide that extra bespoke solution! Thanks again for taking the time to share your feedback. ### 19. The one-stop shop for all Awards Ceremony organisers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harry B. | Senior Event Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** 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. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** 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. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** All in one solution for Awards ceremony management; prior to Evessio we were using an old inefficient and dead product to manage online judging; but everything else was performed offline. The front-end of the websites were clunky, old fashioned, and offered a poor user experience. Evessio solves all of those challenges and more. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Harry, thank you for sharing your experience of using Evessio Awards! Your feedback is greatly appreciated by all our team. It's great to hear that you recognise our deep understanding of the awards sector and that our platform is helping you and your team manage your large portfolio of events with ease. We also appreciate you giving feedback on the elements you don't find so smooth - this is how we develop the platform, by listening to our customers. So this is valuable feedback! If you would like us to support to you with any additional training to help with the linking of pages, widgets, and other content types, please reach out and let us know - we will be happy to arrange some training sessions for those who may need the extra support. Thanks again for your review - it's so great to hear that Evessio Awards has solved many challenges, and more, for your business. ### 20. Superb platform with huge amounts of functionality which make it a pleasure to use on a daily basis! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joshua W. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** 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! **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** 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. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides us with an all-in-one platform where we can can manage awards entry process, website content and communications in one place. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Josh, thank you for taking the time to write your review and for sharing your longstanding experience of using Evessio Awards! We are super-pleased to hear how easy and intuitive you find the platform and that our support team have a proven track record of providing a great service. We recognise the importance of being able to clone (copy) profile-based content and as such, this is on our roadmap and we hope to be introducing the ability to have shared profile libraries very soon - hopefully this is good news for you! Thanks again for sharing your experiences, we really appreciate it! ### 21. Ready made solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deirdre M. | Founder + CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** 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. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** My entrants were putting up imagery which was large size images, could slow the load time for some pages. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saved me creating a solution in house that would have taken developers away from our day to day development work. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for your review, Deirdre. It's great to hear that Evessio has worked well for your inaugural awards and that the platform has provided a great solution for you. The team here are thrilled to hear your feedback on the training and support you have benefitted from and that Evessio Awards has proven to be easy to use for you and your entrants. We all look forward to seeing the success of your awards continue on Evessio and to supporting you in their future growth. ### 22. A complete solution for awards organisation... **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rob W. | Director & Co-Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** 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. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** 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? **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evessio is enabling me to run awards without the heavy cost of custom-built sites that need continial maintenence. I can focus on my brand, my entrants and my judges - not on technology. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for your review of Evessio Awards, Rob. We are thrilled to hear how our platform has provided you with the perfect solution for running your awards and that our onboarding and support has been a great experience for you and your team. We are also encouraged to hear how much you enjoy working with the platform and that it is allowing you to free up more time to focus on your brand and to devote more time to your stakeholders. We really do enjoy working with you and your team and are so pleased that you feel we are providing unwavering support and service and building a long lasting partnership as your software supplier. Thank you again for taking the time to write a review, we really appreciate it. ### 23. Innovative and reliable awards software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** 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. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** 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. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evessio is our chosen system for entry management, table management and now onsite seating management too, Evessio also hosts our awards websites.It provides an attractive and customisable front end website and enough flexibility in the back end for us to tailor to our specific usage requirements. The pricing offers good value for the product they offer and we value the entreprenurial feel of the business with constant product updates and launches to continually enhance their offering. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for your review of Evessio Awards. All of the team are really pleased to hear your feedback on the support you receive from them and that you find the platform easy and intuitive. It's also great that you recognise all the developments we have been making to our software and that they are contributing to your success in using the platform for running your awards. Excellent to hear that our dynamic seating plan solution is working out well for you too! Thank you also for your feedback regards the number of steps required in a transaction. It's worth noting that some of these steps are optional and our team will be pleased to have a chat about that with you at a time to suit, with a view to seeing if the setup can be adjusted to make things more seamless. Thank you again for taking the time to write your review, we do appreciate it. ### 24. Evessio is a fantastic platform that is easy to use and has really helped our award shows! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kieran M. | Senior Marketing Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** 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. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** 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. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Combining the entry and judging processes on one platform. This benefits us as it takes the burden of moving all entries from one platform and ensuring all the entry information is secure. The payment feature has also benefitted us as we no longer have to have our finance team process invoices for everyone. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Many thanks for your fantastic review, Kieran! We love to hear how our customers benefit from moving their entries & judging processes onto Evessio and it's brilliant to know that you are reaping the rewards of using our platform. We are also pleased that your onboarding was a positive experience and that our support team are always on hand when you need them. Our mailshots feature is a priority for development this year ....so watch this space as there are many great enhancements coming really soon! Thanks again for taking the time to write your review, it's great to hear how much you are enjoying using Evessio Awards! ### 25. A brilliant platform which is straight-forward and effective! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kunal K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Evessio awards is a very straight forward system to use and one which is easy to navigate and quick. When setting up events and checking products everything is clear and concise when navigating and on many occasions is easy to find the resolution for any issues which may arise. There are some good how to videos and help documents. The support team are very knowlegable and helpful and always respond well within their SLA's. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** I feel there a few things which could be improved upon but I feel like dislike is a strong word and not something which I feel towards Evessio Awards. I believe the help documents could be simplified and certainly explained in a more clear and concise manner, sometimes the language is technical or does not provide reasons as to why a process happens as it does and that information would be beneficial for understanding the system better. The area where I have most frustrations are setting up products, even though all of the information is correct the date validation often fails and there is no straight-forward reason to this and often you have to play around and select multiple different options before it will save and that should never be the case. If it is an Event Attendance product then the dates should be Event Attedance open and close, I should not have to select Event Close to save a product then at different times the product date selection must match the product category. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evessio Awards is solving the management of multiple events, including awards, working lunches and more. It is benefitting us by having a continual record of events, the simplicity of copying and amending events for the following year. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Many thanks for taking the time to review Evessio Awards, Kunal. It is so good to hear that you find the platform so easy to use and that it helps you manage your large portfolio of events efficiently. Our training and help materials are designed to offer a variety of supporting documentation and content so it's great that you are benefitting from that too. Thank you for the feedback on the language used in our help guides - this is valuable to us, as it will help us to continuously evolve them so that they are useful in explaining things clearly. Likewise, thank you for the feedback on product date setup - I have passed this to our team and we will take it onboard. Many thanks again for the time you have taken to write and submit your review. ### 26. Brilliant customer service and support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antoinette M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Evessio Awards is easy to use from both an admin and user perspective. It provides a great one-stop-shop where our brands can manage their awards and conferences. Evessio's customer support is outstanding. The team recently helped with a incredibly quick turnaround integration that has had successful results. As part of my role, I use Evessio daily and would highly recommend this for any business, large or small, that would like to make managing awards, conferences and ticketing simplier. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** Some of our events would benefit from allowing submitters to access judges' feedback in their admin area post-event. Currently, admins can access this, which means we can provide the feedback but it would be a good enhancement. Evessio make it very easy to add user feedback and requests to their roadmap, so if there are areas like judge feedback, that we think could work better for our team we can communicate that simply on the platform. There is also transparency as to what they are working on which is very helpful. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evessio Awards allows us to smoothly run marketing, award submitions, judging, event attendance, conferences and ticketing on one platform. This allivates the need to have multiple platforms taking on different parts of the process, which saves time and is ultimately better for our budget. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Hi Antoinette Thank you for giving Evessio Awards this great review! We are really pleased to hear how easy you find it to use Evessio as an admin and that it's easy for your customers too! It' also great that you are really leveraging the benefits of having everything in one place to manage your events and that your processes are running smoothly as a result. We always strive to give the very best customer support to you, so it's super to hear you are experiencing this from our award-winning team. With regards to your comments on submitters being able to access their feedback from judges, we'd love to talk to you a bit more about this as we do have some bespoke solutions available that we could develop for you. Our Operations Director will pick up with you directly. Thanks again for taking the time to share your feedback, we really appreciate it. ### 27. Intuitive & efficient approach to managing Awards! Outstanding platform & a game-changer for events! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oliver James P. | Head of International, Marketplace Portfolio, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** We've used Evessio since it's original inception and have never looked back! As an event platform it has a truly wide-ranging array of features and functionality making everything from the original entry submission process through to the judging and final guest booking transaction easy. It has helped streamline our internal processes and enhanced the customer experience leading to an increase in revenue across our awards portfolio. The platform itself has a really user-friendly interface making it is easy to navigate between various events and their independent functions and the high level of customisation and scalability options mean it more than meets our organisation’s unique needs (and if there is ever a bespoke element or new option you want to explore then the customer service team are always available and on hand to offer outstanding support and service). **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** Not so much a dislike ... more of a positive problem to have! ... as it's doubled the size of our portfolio! By taking away the manual and time-consuming process of collecting nominations, sorting and managing submissions, and co-ordinating judging panels... it really does give you more time to add to your portfolio and maximize your team's output! **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Often working with a global judging and evaluation panel it is always difficult to ensure we provide an easy to access and fair judging process, particularly when dealing with multiple judges, diverse judging criteria, and confidential evaluations but Evessio allows us to manage and monitor this in an efficient way. The Evessio awards platform allows us to effortlessly track and report progress, gauge our improvement against targets and ensure we hit deadlines across the user journey from the start of the award entry through to its conclusion. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for your fantastic review, Oliver! It's always great to hear that Evessio Awards contributes positively to revenue growth, streamlining processes and is super-easy for your team and all other stakeholders to use. The fact that your awards portfolio has doubled since using Evessio is a fantastic testament to its power and we are really thrilled to hear that you have achieved such success in using the platform. Long may this continue! Thank you again for taking the time to share details of your success with Evessio Awards, we really appreciate it. ### 28. Leading awards platform and amazing support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam P. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** This platform has made a huge difference in managing our awards program. Managing submissions, handling judging, and selling tickets for the ceremony are all integrated seamlessly with Evessio Using the platform is very intuitive and the functionality makes it easy to manage and navigate the entry process. The team behind Evessio are always responsive and ready to assist my team whenever needed. I can highly recommend Evessio to anyone looking to streamline their awards management process. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** A small nitpick would be to provide more customization options for the submission flow. Some users like everything on one page, while others prefer a single question or section at a time. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evessio has helped us streamline entry processes, centralize all the information for my team, and improve communication with companies that have entered and judges. A significant improvement has been made to the judging process, which has resulted in a greater level of engagement. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Adam, thank you for your review of Evessio Awards! We are thrilled to hear that our platform has made such a great impact on managing your awards and streamlining everything in one place. We strive to make the platform intuitive so it's also great to hear that your team and your entrants are benefitting from its ease of use. Our improvements to the judging functionality have been well received so we are pleased you find this has allowed you to gain higher engagement from your judging panel. Thanks again for taking the time to write a review for us! ### 29. Outstanding fit for purpose platform supported by a friendly team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Benjamin R. | Volunteer & Networks Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Excellent time-sparing process automation Easy to learn drag and drop configuration for design, build and changes Highly responsive support team For award plan management, highly evolved, fit for purpose feature set out of the box **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** No real downsides experienced following 4 years of use. The small team, relative to the big tech platforms, means that the new features pipeline is resource constrained, but the flipside of that is that they are highly responsive and appreciative of feedback, and some of ours has influenced the roadmap within the time we have been using it. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evession consoldiates and to a significant extent automates what could otherwise be a complex and error-prone array of inputs, steps and stages involved in running a food awards programme. It also provides user-friendly drag and drop functionality for quickly building functional, attractive front-end web pages for nominators / clients / public, comparable to platforms like Wix and Squarespace, but with a focused feature set for award programmes. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for taking the time to review Evessio Awards, Benjamin. We are really pleased to hear that Evessio has demonstrated excellent time saving an automation of processes for your awards and thank you for sharing that the user friendly nature of Evessio's platform is working well for you and helps you manage everything you need. As we continue to develop our roadmap, your ideas have been most welcome and it's very encouraging to know that our support team have been so responsive to anything you have asked. Thanks again for taking the time to write your review, we really appreciate it. ### 30. Evolving with Evessio **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cressida L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** They are extremely responsive and supportive to both issues with the user experience and ideas for progress **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** It does take a long time to load - which we understand is something to do with the volume of information our awards supply - but still, it does meana lot of waiting! **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease and speed of nominator entry, of judges judging sessions, of back end navigation **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thanks so much for your review, Cressida. We are really thrilled to hear that using Evessio Awards has helped you streamline and improve your processes for entries and judging in your awards. Thank you also for sharing your feedback on the load times, which I have shared with our development team and which we hope we will be able to work on optimising for you. ### 31. Managing multiple events through Evessio system **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarah B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Once you get used to the system it is easy to use and you have good control over multiple elements of running an event. I like the fact that we can use the same system for running differnet types of event as we run exhibitons, awards and conferences. There is good reporting of finacials and the visaibilty on the basket process is useful for our sales teams. The team are incredibly helpful and quick to respond when you need some help. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** The email templates function is limited and causes some probelmsfor us on events. Changes to to system and suggestions from users can take a while to be addressed although changes have been made to this now so I am hoping things wil speed up a bit. Ulitmately a bespoke website that is custom built for your company/event would be ideal as you can get it to do exactly what you want but if budget doesn't allow then this system ticks a lot of the boxes and doesn't cost the earth **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Awards entries, exhibitor management, sponsor management, judges manmagement, invoicing, guestlist management **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for your review, Sarah. We are really pleased to hear that Evessio not only helps you run your awards efficiently, but your conferences and exhibitions too. It's good to know that the ease of reporting and visibility of the user journey is an effective way for your sales team to manage engagement in your events. We always strive to take on board customer feedback to help us continuously develop the platform and have duly noted that the email templates is an area we could focus on to make future improvements. Thank you for this valuable feedback. ### 32. Outstanding service, beyond expectations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** The user-friendly interface and ease of navigation, which lessens the strain with daily talks. Support network and customer service is second to none. As an organisaton we are proud to use the product **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** Nothing - for me easy and simple to use. As mentioned the customer service is excellent no problem too big. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problems to report - I am very happy. Continue to make the updates and innovations when you can. Happy overall. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thanks for taking the time to leave your review, Mark - we really appreciate it. It's great to hear how happy you are using Evessio and that it is making a real difference to you in running your awards. We look forward to continuing to innovate the platform and sharing all the new improvements we are making as they are released. ### 33. Media and events company who are successfully using Evessio to run a large number of diverse events **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julie J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** We find the platform easy to use and have been able to combine our award events, ticket sales and marketing platforms in to one product. We are now able to run our full suite of award events from start to finish on one platform. The Evessio support are always prompt in answering any queries and resolving any issues we have. We have a very good relationship with our account manager and management team who are always willing to listen to our requirements and assist with solutions where possible. They continue to improve and enhance the system to assist their customers. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** The mailshot functionality is not as flexable as we would like, and the scheduling function not suitable for our events team. Our web designers currently find the system slightly restrictive and would like the underlying frame work updated. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Evessio Awards platform allows us to smoothly run our diverse awards events with the flexibility of having multiple online judging rounds. This has enabled us to reduce the admin process and expand our portfolio of events. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Julie, thank you for your review! We are really pleased that Evessio has helped you move your large portfolio of events onto one platform and that you can now manage everything in one place, from start to finish! It's also great for us to know that our award-winning support team are always on hand to help troubleshoot anything and support you promptly with anything you need help with. We have some development coming soon to improve filtering and flexibility of our mailshot feature, which we hope will provide additional value and help you with more targeted communications from the platform. Watch this space...! Finally, thank you for the feedback from your design team on the platform's framework, which we will take on board for consideration as we continue to innovate. ### 34. Easy to setup **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aleksandra B. | Event Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** - we use it for our whole portfolio of events, 4x a year for the whole proccess - easy to setup webistes and branding, quick replies from customer support - easy way to set up and access awards not only for me as admin, but also for judges/nominees **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** - a lot of copy paste, could use a spreadsheet to input details like categories/criteria **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** All aspects of awards can be solved through evessio. Webiste with judges, entry portal, tikceting platfrom for awards, juging portal for judges while using branidng all throught. No need to outsource anything else unless you are looking for a sepate event app. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Hi Aleksandra, Many thanks for taking the time to write a review about Evessio Awards and for sharing how easy it is to set up your event websites on the platform. It's great to hear that you are really benefitting from Evessio's end-to-end solution and that you can manage all aspects of your awards programmes in one place that's easy for all stakeholders to use. Thank you for sharing your feedback on the option of having an upload ability which we will consider as we continue to shape our roadmap of development for the platform. Thanks again for a lovely review - great to hear that you love using Evessio Awards! ### 35. Highly recommended awards platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan H. | Head of Marketing, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** We switched to Evessio two years ago for our biggest annual awards and we haven't looked back since. The team quickly set up the entries platform, whilst ensuring it followed our brand guidelines and supported Entry and ticket revenue have increased year on year and we can partly attribute this to Evessio, due to the powerful insights available. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** It's difficult to identify any major dislikes, as Evessio continuously releases new updates and you're able to raise development ideas within the platform. If I was to make two suggestions it would be more flexibility with the labeling of sections on the front end and the option to send separate automatic emails for entries and tickets when they're both live. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** An end-to-end system enabling us to manage entries, shortlisting, judging and tickets all in one place. All team members can easily be trained and we're able to receive insights into users behaviour. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for your review, Dan. We are really pleased to hear that you are seeing continued success and growth in your awards since adopting Evessio and that you are gaining valuable insights from our powerful reporting tools. It's also great to know that our regular releases are being positively met and that our training and support team are helping you and your team to continuously build knowledge and skills. We have some development coming soon to enhance our mailshot feature which we hope will benefit you in filtering audiences for communications in the future. Watch this space... ### 36. Fantastic software with a excellent support team! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Georgia B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Evessio is the most user friendly award platform I have used, it is easy to navigate throughout the platform as both an entrant or a judge. The support team is also fantastic and are quick to respond to any qeruies. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** There are a couple of additional features I would like to see implemented across Evessio, for example, the opportunity to mark 'vested interest' as a judge. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evessio have already solved the multiple judging round idea, and this was implemented last year. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Hi Georgia, Thank you for leaving this lovely review for us, we really appreciate your feedback and are delighted to hear that Evessio is the most user-friendly platform you have experienced and that our team are responsive to your needs. We have had great feedback on our judging rounds feature so it's great to hear you are benefitting from that too. With regards to judges being able to declare a "vested interest" whilst judging, this is something that is on our roadmap so we look forward to sharing news of that coming soon....watch this space! Thanks again for taking the time to review Evessio Awards! ### 37. An excellent, value for money awards platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2023 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** We discovered Evessio in 2022 when looking to create our first awards event. Our goal was to create an awards event, but not get hung up on creating our own technology, or indeed having any complex technology behind it. Evessio gave us an out of the box solution that allowed us to spin up an awards event very quickly, and with lots of supports along the way. The account management and customer service teams are top-notch – we get swift responses to our inquiries, and they handle any problems effectively and swiftly. Evessio are a great partner to work with. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** We found the interface takes some getting used to but once you have familiarised yourself with it and spent some time using it, that disappeares and everything is quite intuitive. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evessio is a one stop shop platform for everything awards. By buying the platform we could spin up our awards event almost overnight and avoid any tech requirements ourselves. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for your review, Andrew! We are thrilled that your inaugural awards program on Evessio was a success and that our team have helped you with their award-winning service! It’s also fantastic to hear that you have found benefit in getting to market very quickly and we look forward to seeing your next awards cycle set up soon! ### 38. Excellent Customer Service and Intuitive Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fiona L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** The Evessio platform is simple to navigate and easy to use. If there is ever anything that you can't immediately solve or see a solution to there is always a self-help guide or a quick email to their support team who respond quickly and are always willing to help. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** Nothing - it does absolutely everything that we need it to. It's simple to use and delivers just what we need to run the Event Technology Awards. I wouldn't change anything about it. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Evessio runs the Event Technology Awards for us seamlessly - from the initial entries to the judging phases and creating the shortlists - Evessio is a huge help to us and we wouldn't be able to run the event as effectively without them. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thanks so much for your review, Fiona. Much appreciated! It's fantastic to hear that you find Evessio's awards platform simple and easy to use and that our customer success team's support and our varied help documentation is well received. We are delighted that our software successfully supports your smooth and effective running of The Event Technology Awards! ### 39. A seamless experience with extraordinary support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** It's user friendly, it's got unique features that make awards adminstration so straightforward and it's judging capabilities mean that everything can be done in one place. The system really works with you, to support and enhance the experience and the support behind the scenes and training provided is incredible! An all around positive experience! **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** Honestly, the only challenge comes from the slightly rigid email broadcast tool within the system though I am told that changes to this are in the pipeline. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's made administrating our awards to simple, from driving nominations to judging and shortlisting. It makes the process seamless and frees our team to focus on other actions. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Many thanks for taking the time to leave us a review, David. We are really pleased to hear how user friendly you find everything and that the platform has made running your awards straightforward, with everything available to you in one place. It's also great to hear that our customer success team are servicing you well with their award winning training and support! We do have some improvements coming soon on our messaging feature so keep an eye out for those, which will add even more value and ease to your awards administration processes and communications. Thanks again for sharing your positive experience with Evessio Awards! ### 40. Great platform with a great supportive team! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zoe P. | Events Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** The platform is completely customisable and simple to replicate and clone year on year for our annual awards! It is clear to use and the documents and resources to be able to navigate through the site creation are extremely helpful. The team behind evessio are so helpful and supportive too and no challenge to is too big or small of them. The judging feature is a highlight for me and it means i can take a step back and allow the judges to complete the judging easily and effectively.There are so many different design options when creating the front end of our awards website, allowing us to create a professional and eye catching website for our customers. The back end has so many helpful features too such as the mailing system to be able to directly email certain groups all through the system. To be able to do so much through one platform is just brilliant. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** It takes a couple of go's to get used to navigating around the platform but once youve played around a couple of times and followed the helpful user guides it is really easy to use. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is an all in one system which means we can carry out nominations, judging and table booking all in one place. Also the fact we can create completely customisable branded pages as we need is vital. The user experience for awards nominees and judges is always seamless as the system is easy to navigate on all sides. The fact there are multiple payment options too makes it quick and easy for customers to make a transaction. The data and reporting features are very helpful too and being able to set targets and see benchmarks throughout is brilliant. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review, Zoe. We are really pleased that you are enjoying and benefitting from all of Evessio’s great features and functionality and that our award-winning team are delivering great service and support to you. ### 41. Excellent **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fiona W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2023 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Evessio was recommended to us back in 2015 and we haven't looked back since! We used their platform to launch our annual Awards ceremony in 2015 and our annual Conference in 2017 – both of which are still going strong thanks to all their help. Both the account management and support team are fantastic – any queries we have are answered very promptly and any issues resolved quickly. Having used the platform for nearly ten years I find it very straight forward to use – creating new websites is quick and easy which means I can create these myself without having to rely upon the team (although I am sure they would be twice as fast as I am!). The websites themselves look fantastic and from a user perspective, the websites are easy to navigate and to use. Because of this, we don't have to worry about fielding emails from customers unable to use the site and can concentrate on the more important stuff. Highly recommend! **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** N/A – only good things to say at this stage! **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps automate time-consuming processes. Useful reporting and data. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for your feedback, Fiona. We are honoured to have played such a significant part in the success of your awards over the years and it’s great to hear that Evessio is contributing to your business growth and success. We are delighted that you are so well-versed in using the platform and that its continued evolution makes life easy for your and your entrants! ### 42. A very powerful platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ian W. | Company Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Support team is excellent. Great table booking and guest admin funtionallity **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** The user interface can be a bit escoteric and ambiguous **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Streamlines the event managemtn process by centralising all the awards admin and entry processing functios in one solution **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Ian, thank you for taking the time to review Evessio Awards. I'm really pleased to hear that the support team are providing their top notch service to help you manage your awards and that you are benefitting from being able to streamline and centralise your processes. Please continue to reach out to our support team if you need some extra guidance and assistance with the user interface....we are here to help! ### 43. Great! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucas C. | Senior Marketing Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** I've been using Evessio for a year and a half now, and I can't say enough good things about their platform and their amazing support team. One of the things that really stood out to me during my time working with Evessio was their exceptional support - whenever I ran into a problem or had a question about how to implement something into my website, their support team was quick to help me out. Paul, in particular, has been fantastic to work with. He's incredibly knowledgeable and always goes the extra mile to make sure I have a solution. It's evident that Evessio genuinely cares about its customers as they have always been there for me when I needed! **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** The only downside is not being able to see the changes as you go - you need to make the changes and save to be able to see how it looks live. A "drag and drop" option would be nice! **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** Delegate registration is smooth! **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Lucas, it’s fantastic to hear that you are enjoying using Evessio and that our team are delivering their award-winning service to you, and going above and beyond! Thank you for your positive review and for your feedback on previewing & saving changes on the websites – we will certainly consider this as we continue to shape our ongoing development priorities. ### 44. Evessio system is very flexible and has enabled to do everything we need **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** We have multiple Awards over the course of the year for different products run by different teams. The Evessio customer service and training has been amazing, providing additional training as needed to ensure the onboarding and creation of new sites is quick. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** Whenever we've need to do any changes to the template to give us additional design tweaks it's been done quickly **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have all our Awards products using the same platform as well for our many Conferences. The teams can share knowledge and help each other. We have a quarterly co-oridnation meeting which Evessio attend. We can therefore ensure new functionality is understood and implemented in a consistent way without the need to create multiple templates and everyone going in different directions. Support from staff in other teams to give advise is also a great benefit for the business. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for sharing your positive experiences in your review, Mark! We appreciate the time you have taken to share your insights. It's great to hear that the platform is working well and providing one place for running your events seamlessly across all your brands. We value your feedback on the training and support our team provide to all your teams and that our involvement in your quarterly meetings is valuable. Thanks again for taking the time to review Evessio Awards and we look forward to continuing to support your success! ### 45. Makes running awards events easy! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emma T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** The team is incredibly helpful. The events are easy to set up, and the system is straightforward easy to use for all. The front end is quick to change, and the entry process for those submitting is easy too. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** There's not a lot I dislike about Evessio. I think the only thing I've ever had an issue with is sending emails to those registered on the system, as the filters haven't been the best in the past, so it was hard to send an email to people that were only coming to one part of an event. I haven't used this function recently though, so it may not even be an issue anymore! **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted to launch a brand new awards event in the company, and to make sure it looked professional while also being easy to use on both the front and back end of the system. The Evessio Awards platform solved these problems as it allows people to enter our awards seamlessly and uniformly. It also allows me to see how many entries we have quickly, in which categories, who has started but not finished and how much revenue we have made from the entries. I can also enroll judges worldwide, as they can simply log in and score the entries wherever they are. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for sharing your feedback, Emma. It’s great to hear that you are finding Evessio easy to use and that our award-winning team are providing helpful assistance. We are also really thrilled that the platform has helped you in seamlessly launching your new awards program and in managing an international judging panel with ease! We have some development coming soon to improve our mailshot filters which will help you in better managing your communications from the platform. ### 46. Fantastic functionality, and great service! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hannah B. | Managing Director, Commercial and Events, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Judges LOVE the platform - so much so that a huge number of our judges have brought their own businesses onto the platform **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** There isn't really anything i dislike about the product. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** efficiency and secure data collection and processing **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for taking the time to review Evessio Awards, Hannah! We really appreciate your feedback and are very pleased to find out how much your judges love our platform! ### 47. A first class awards management tool! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rubie R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Usability! The platform is designed for all functions within an events team, and is used as the central place for the entire team to manage awards. The tool allows us to collaborate efficiently. Evessio’s customer services is also outstanding – they have an extremely helpful team who will go out there way to assist with queries and issues quickly. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** Setting up bespoke or multiple confirmation emails can be a ‘clunky’ process. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** The entire team working and managing awards in 1 central place which is key across a large portfolio of events; from website creation, collating data and submissions, judging entries, managing table bookings/payment, guest information. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review, Rubie! We are so pleased to hear that Evessio is helping you to improve collaboration and efficiency across your large portfolio of events and that our customer success team are living up to their award winning support service! It's wonderful to hear how having everything in one place is benefitting you and your team. We have some development coming soon on improving our mailshot feature which will undoubtedly assist you with better audience filtering and a smoother process for your comms. Our new AI feature, landing this week, will hopefully provide some tools you can use to write email content too! Watch this space for more details on these exciting enhancements! ### 48. Excellent from all angles **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Evessio Awards websites are intuitive for both users and administrators, and structurally flexible, so you can make them look great too. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** I honestly can't fault them – with a brilliantly responsive support team, any issues tend to be resolved in no time at all. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** For the entrant, Evessio Awards are allowing us to simplify their experience, which I've no doubt is helping us to increase entry numbers – and therefore engagement – year on year, even in awards we have run for nearly 20 years. For us, the standard reporting functions are hugely important, and the bespoke reporting capabilities mean we can analyse entries and entrants much more effectively and productively. We probably have a non-standard approach to our final judging, and significant improvements in the Evessio judging functionality in recent years have prompted a number of our judges to congratulate us on how good it is to work with. The flexibility that comes with judging rounds is particularly useful for us. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > We are delighted to hear that your well established awards are continuing to grow year-on-year as a result of using Evessio! It's also fantastic to hear how you are making good use of our enhanced judging features and that our custom reporting is working well for you. Thank you for taking the time to leave your review. ### 49. Helpful company with a flexible product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** They are flexible and responsive, the customer service is great. When I'm not sure of something I can email their support line and I get an email back with help often within a few hours. If something is going to take longer to resolve, they keep me updated. I also like that the product itself is flexible and adaptable, and I've been able to adapt it to fit what we need to do, even it it's not quite what the product was built for. **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** Their email notifications could be more sophisticated, this isn't a contact management system, but I've still been able to make it work for me, and then I use my own CMS email system for more complicated things. **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** We run several academic symposiums a year, and one in particular has an application process to attend. We were able to use Evessio's Award management tools, alongside their Event registration/website platform, to manage a significant increase in applications, requiring more people to assist in judging them. Their judging rounds were very useful, as we could set different parameters for each round, but also restrict what parts our judges could see to be able to do blind reviewing of applicants. Following selection, each participant became a "speaker" and was able to populate their own profile for the event. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you for your review! It's great to hear that Evessio is flexibly meeting your needs and that our team are delivering unwavering support. We have some development coming soon to improve our mailshot feature, so please look out for this enhancement which we hope will add further value to your use of the platform. ### 50. Straight forward and comprehensive platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Selene L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Evessio Awards?** Everything you need to run awards - website, entries, judging, table booking etc. Brilliant customer support **What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?** It seems complex at first, but once you've learned to use all the sections it's quite easy to use **What problems is Evessio Awards solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used a different platform before, but judging was not included. Using the judging feature on Evessio has made it a lot easier. **Official Response from Gayle Mackail:** > Thank you very much for your review, Selene. It's always wonderful to hear how Evessio Awards can provide the perfect all in one solution for entries, judging, table bookings and all the reporting needed to run an awards program end-to-end. It's great to hear you are benefitting from this and that our support team are providing their usual excellent service! I'm also glad you now find managing everything on the platform easy, following the training and support we provide to get you up and running. 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