Sarah O.
SO
Sarah O.
Marketing Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Really great user friendly platform with good support"
5/5
What do you like best about Evessio Awards?

The support staff are always on hand to help and editing the platform is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?

Some functionalities are confusing to set up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gayle Mackail of Evessio Awards

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!

Damla B.
DB
Damla B.
Senior manager events and partnerships
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"great platform especially for awards"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Evessio Awards?

Support! They are super quick, helpful and responsive whenever we need anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gayle Mackail of Evessio Awards

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!

Quarnita J.
QJ
Quarnita J.
Awards Lead
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Amazing platform and very user friendly"
4.5/5
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Evessio Awards?

The platform initially doesn't cater for video uploads Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gayle Mackail of Evessio Awards

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!

Renata G.
RG
Renata G.
credit controller
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy and clear to use"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Evessio Awards?

Individual booking information in one screen with link to invoice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gayle Mackail of Evessio Awards

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!

Verified User in Online Media
AO
Verified User in Online Media
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Purpose-built software that transformed our awards"
4.5/5
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gayle Mackail of Evessio Awards

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!

Mark S.
MS
Mark S.
Chief Executive Officer & Owner
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Transformational Awards platform!"
5/5
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gayle Mackail of Evessio Awards

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!

Verified User in Online Media
UO
Verified User in Online Media
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great to have everything in one place"
2.5/5
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gayle Mackail of Evessio Awards

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.

Verified User in Education Management
AE
Verified User in Education Management
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Evessio has transformed the way our team delivers our annual conference and awards."
5/5
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gayle Mackail of Evessio Awards

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!

LM
Lysette M.
Events Manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"We would be lost without the technology!"
5/5
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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gayle Mackail of Evessio Awards

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.

Harry B.
HB
Harry B.
Senior Event Manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"The one-stop shop for all Awards Ceremony organisers"
5/5
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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Gayle Mackail of Evessio Awards

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.