Flowingly Pros and Cons: Top 5 Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users find Flowingly exceptionally easy to use, appreciating its rapid implementation and intuitive interface. (8 mentions)

Users appreciate the automation capabilities of Flowingly, enhancing process efficiency and collaboration across teams. (7 mentions)

Users praise the responsive customer support of Flowingly, enhancing their experience with timely assistance and guidance. (5 mentions)

Users love the rapid time-to-value with Flowingly, quickly designing and deploying automated workflows in real-time. (4 mentions)

Users value the intuitive process automation in Flowingly, enabling quick mapping and seamless sharing of workflows. (4 mentions)

Users face complexity in licensing, limiting the accessibility of workflows for all employees within the organization. (2 mentions)

Users face cost issues with Flowingly, as licenses complicate workflow accessibility for all employees in the organization. (1 mentions)

Users find the lack of a built-in repository in Flowingly limits seamless document management integration. (1 mentions)

Users find the absence of a built-in document repository in Flowingly limiting for their document management needs. (1 mentions)

Users find the expensive licensing structure of Flowingly makes it challenging to implement accessible workflows for all staff. (1 mentions)

5 Pros or Advantages of Flowingly

1. Ease of Use

Users find Flowingly exceptionally easy to use, appreciating its rapid implementation and intuitive interface.

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Nardia G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Flowingly Keeps Processes Current and Teams Aligned Effortlessly"

What do you like about Flowingly?

By nature, I find it challenging to create and follow process maps. In my experience, the typical static products available on the market tend to be u

Richard A.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Easy to use process mapping and automation tool"

What do you like about Flowingly?

Flowingly is well-designed, particularly on the automation side of things. The software is easy to deploy, and the Flowingly team is very responsive.

2. Automation

Users appreciate the automation capabilities of Flowingly, enhancing process efficiency and collaboration across teams.

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Nardia G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Flowingly Keeps Processes Current and Teams Aligned Effortlessly"

What do you like about Flowingly?

By nature, I find it challenging to create and follow process maps. In my experience, the typical static products available on the market tend to be u

Richard A.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Easy to use process mapping and automation tool"

What do you like about Flowingly?

Flowingly is well-designed, particularly on the automation side of things. The software is easy to deploy, and the Flowingly team is very responsive.

3. Customer Support

Users praise the responsive customer support of Flowingly, enhancing their experience with timely assistance and guidance.

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Richard A.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Easy to use process mapping and automation tool"

What do you like about Flowingly?

Flowingly is well-designed, particularly on the automation side of things. The software is easy to deploy, and the Flowingly team is very responsive.

Louisa G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Outstanding support"

What do you like about Flowingly?

- The Flowingly team, especially Will Dowden and Sean Wallace, has been incredibly responsive. Whether it’s enabling new features or troubleshooting s

4. Features

Users love the rapid time-to-value with Flowingly, quickly designing and deploying automated workflows in real-time.

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Louisa G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Outstanding support"

What do you like about Flowingly?

- The Flowingly team, especially Will Dowden and Sean Wallace, has been incredibly responsive. Whether it’s enabling new features or troubleshooting s

Liam H.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Creates value at supersonic speed"

What do you like about Flowingly?

Flowingly is a super powerful tool to create value fast! Let's face it, the reality of being able to accurately capture a set of requirements prior to

5. Process Automation

Users value the intuitive process automation in Flowingly, enabling quick mapping and seamless sharing of workflows.

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Louisa G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Outstanding support"

What do you like about Flowingly?

- The Flowingly team, especially Will Dowden and Sean Wallace, has been incredibly responsive. Whether it’s enabling new features or troubleshooting s

John G.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Professional, intuitive process mapping software backed-up by an innovative team"

What do you like about Flowingly?

The process mapping is very intuitive and quick to learn. Processes created in Flowingly are very clean looking and easy to share with others. No end-

5 Cons or Disadvantages of Flowingly

1. Complexity

Users face complexity in licensing, limiting the accessibility of workflows for all employees within the organization.

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Louisa G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Outstanding support"

What do you dislike about Flowingly?

One challenge we've encountered with Flowingly is its licensing structure. Since not every employee at our Council has a license, it becomes difficult

Liam H.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Creates value at supersonic speed"

What do you dislike about Flowingly?

Not a dislike but something to be aware of is the simplicity and flexibility. Business users can be empowered to build their own workflow to cater for

2. Cost Issues

Users face cost issues with Flowingly, as licenses complicate workflow accessibility for all employees in the organization.

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Louisa G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Outstanding support"

What do you dislike about Flowingly?

One challenge we've encountered with Flowingly is its licensing structure. Since not every employee at our Council has a license, it becomes difficult

3. Data Management

Users find the lack of a built-in repository in Flowingly limits seamless document management integration.

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John G.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Professional, intuitive process mapping software backed-up by an innovative team"

What do you dislike about Flowingly?

Flowingly doesn't have a built in repository instead allows linking of documents with other document management systems.

4. Document Management

Users find the absence of a built-in document repository in Flowingly limiting for their document management needs.

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John G.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5.0/5

"Professional, intuitive process mapping software backed-up by an innovative team"

What do you dislike about Flowingly?

Flowingly doesn't have a built in repository instead allows linking of documents with other document management systems.

5. Expensive

Users find the expensive licensing structure of Flowingly makes it challenging to implement accessible workflows for all staff.

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Louisa G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Outstanding support"

What do you dislike about Flowingly?

One challenge we've encountered with Flowingly is its licensing structure. Since not every employee at our Council has a license, it becomes difficult

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Verified User in Government Administration

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/11/2023

"Excellent support team"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Flowingly?

Intuitive design and Excellent support team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flowingly?

I have not yet seen anything I dislike about Flowingly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Whitu W.

System Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/29/2022

"Flowinly is easy-to-use and has made our business more effective"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Flowingly?

Flowingly has straightforward tools that can simply intelligently automate any workflow. It is intuitive, and users with low-level computer literacy can benefit from it. The staff that use our workflows are quick to learn and pick up Flowingly. There is quick progress from the map to the workflow. The support team is readily available and responsive to our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flowingly?

We primarily use Flowingly to onboard and offboard staff; this requires the input of many team members. We get to notify staff quickly and delegate roles as necessary. The primary issue I run into with Flowingly is being able to change workflows after you have already started them. Right now, we can comment on most changes that need to be done. Even though there are still some changes that require more than a comment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alyssa D.

Legal Director

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/24/2022

"Instrumental tool in our processes"

5/5

What do you like best about Flowingly?

The tool is simple and effective. It is user-friendly, easy to use and has been an immense help in enhancing efficiencies across the business. Our stakeholders are happy and people are held accountable for their actions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flowingly?

The challenging thing about the tool is the exporting of data as there is limited flexibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jemma D.

Business Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/4/2022

"Easy to use tool for a small team to get up and running."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Flowingly?

The app is intuitive and provides a good user experience, particularly for a casual user with low computer literacy.

Once you are up and running flows can go from a map to live very quickly.

Our stakeholders love watching us make instant improvements to their processes.

The product team is open and responsive to feedback and their support has been excellent, could not ask for better, particularly for a small player, their support far exceeds anything else in market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flowingly?

We are waiting on an upgrade to allow better Power BI and O365 connectivity.

The lack of conditional logic on forms means we have had to engage an external forms provider and link to Flowingly via complex API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are using Flowingly to manage our community requests (e.g. new bin, report a pothole, change of address), it is allowing us to put SLAs on these requests, and to have live reporting on bottlenecks. Instant auto-generated customer communications are alleviating admin load on our business. In some processes, staff have provided feedback that they are saving 60 minutes per flow.

The in-app approvals mean we can move away from signing and scanning pdfs for internal forms and staff can see where their request is in the process without having to call and ask someone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sean Wallace of Flowingly

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Thank you for your feedback Jemma. Staff saving 60 minutes per workflow is amazing!

It's great to hear how much you love our support and responsiveness to feedback. We work hard on this.

Your comment on conditional logic is exactly the kind of thing that helps us develop the platform. This has been passed on to our Product team.

Thanks again,

Sean

Michael L.

Health & Safety Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/4/2022

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4.5/5

What do you like best about Flowingly?

Intuitive set up, data capture availability.

A workflow is a great way to get teams together to talk through issues and present a path to resolution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flowingly?

The inability to link different workflows without the step "Begin workflow x" Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Data sharing to improve communication and efficiency across various work platforms and between departments.

A structured approach to compliance (bookkeeping, safety) and maintaining standards.

The benefit of the system is that it encourages people to come together and discuss issues on which several people are stakeholders. Each stakeholder has the opportunity to explain what they need, why they need it and when they need it. This leads to better communication and better understanding of the needs of other areas of the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sean Wallace of Flowingly

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Hi Michael,

Great to hear that you're improving communication and compliance with Flowingly.

Thanks for the feedback about linking the processes. This is currently on our roadmap and feedback like this bumps it up the priority list.

Sean

Kristen S.

Senior Rates Officer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/11/2021

"Making a difference with Flowingly - one afternoon at a time"

5/5

What do you like best about Flowingly?

Flowingly has made our work lives easier. Flowingly allows for easy tracking of our workload, guarantees nothing gets misplaced or overlooked, is easy to learn how to use and it's proving to be more efficient than the processes we were using before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flowingly?

The main thing I dislike is that for Flowingly to work best, you need everyone to have a license. Being a Council, I'd prefer to use "public forms". While public forms are available through Flowingly there are significant limitations on public forms that you don't run into with forms between licensed people. I am currently using one public form. I understand there will be enhancements in future upgrades that will make those forms more versatile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Flowingly has made going paperless easier. We tried to do it using just emails and found that emails were often getting lost or accidentally deleted because of the large volume of emails in the mailboxes of the approvers. There is no chance of that happening with the work living in Flowingly now. Workflows can't get accidentally deleted from Flowingly and we have set automatic reminders so that even if someone has forgotten to do step, Flowingly will send a reminder. An unexpected benefit is that because it's so easy to use, the approvers are doing the approvals immediately instead of saving them up to do later. We have also started storing all relevant documentation to the Flow only in Flowingly. Before Flowingly, we stored all documents in SharePoint. However, we found we were running out of space as our Sharepoint libraries are limited to 5,000 records. We are noting the Flow numbers in our other IT system as a reference and we make sure to put the account number as part of the Flow for future reference. I have also structured our work Flows to show the procedure for doing the process. Looking at the Flow Map for any Work Flow allows for a quick overview of the process. Going into each step provides additional information. We have inserted instructional videos of no more than 5 minutes into some of the steps to provide additional support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jonny D.

National Fleet and Systems Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/8/2021

"very good, view flowingly as WIP and look forward to continued improvements"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Flowingly?

Visual workflow creation makes it an easy experience for all levels in the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flowingly?

Exporting data is challenging, and there are no flexible fields within a flow. This makes some flows such as HR onboarding almost impossible to mobilise Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Flowingly:

It is a visual flow design system that means you do not have to be an expert in products as Microsoft power automat, we use SSO with greatly improves our security management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Photos, this does not work via the app or via public forms. We also struggle with time stamping steps and would be great if that was a custom variable within a flow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David R.

General Manager Compliance & Risk

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/9/2022

"Elimination of wasted time across the entire business - less stress - improved productivity"

5/5

What do you like best about Flowingly?

Flowingly drives all persons involved in a process to 'understand' the importance of completing their part in a timely and accurate manner. Additionally, people only get a flowingly task when all details are in place for the next step to be completed - no chasing people to do their job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flowingly?

Nothing - the consensus across the organization is 'wow, this makes life so much easier and more efficient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/2/2022

"Great tool and great team behind it"

5/5

What do you like best about Flowingly?

Super simple interface. Requires no technical ability, which is great to put the power in the hands of the business units, rather than relying on IT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flowingly?

Quite tricky to integrate with other tools. That requires a bit more technical knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sean Wallace of Flowingly

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Thanks for the review and valuable feedback. Simplicity is one of our core values so it's great to hear that's shining through.

I've passed your comments about integration on to the team. We have a number of integration improvements in the works right now to make these both simpler to use and more powerful.

Thanks again,

Sean

Tash R.

Business Automation Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/4/2021

"Great Product and Team!"

5/5

What do you like best about Flowingly?

Flowingly is a tool that is very easy to learn but allows you to create complex processes and reduce business risks whilst creating deep process analysis. The Flowingly Team is very supportive and has provided training to admins and workflow users that was professional and informative and are very engaged post-release which is a pleasant interaction! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Flowingly?

No dislikes. There are items that are to be future developed around timing tasks but definitely not a dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.