--- title: Localist Reviews meta_title: 'Localist Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 75 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Localist works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 75 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-06-21' parent_category: name: Marketing url: https://www.g2.com/categories/marketing --- # Localist Reviews **Vendor:** Localist **Category:** [Customer-to-Customer (C2C) Community Marketing Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/customer-to-customer-c2c-community-marketing) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 75 ## About Localist Localist Events is the industry leading market solution for a centralized, university-branded, user-friendly event calendar. It is a solution under the Concept3D platform. Localist Events allows for a superior level of customization and seamless integration to an institution's website. Localist Events incorporates the below list of unique features and capabilities, delivering an exceptional experience for colleges and institutions: - Bulk upload of events and audience submitted events to minimize administration time - Matched university branding including but not limited to typography, logo, colors - Event pending queue and approval process - Ability to filter events for location, date, department, theme - Interactive map integration on event pages - Group tagging on events - Event widgets for marketing use - Built in event specific SEO - Administration flexibility - Responsive design - Integrations with other existing calendars - Seamless multi-event registration - Ability to communicate with event registrants via email promotion tools or Bulletin newsletter both pre and post event - Significantly lower ticket processing fees compared to relative competitors allowing for monetization capability - Ticketed events for monetization - Analytics to understand event performance and attendees - Secure handling of sensitive data compliant with SOC 2 - Inclusive and accessible features for all users Concept3D’s Localist Events is the only solution that uniquely aligns with college priorities and can meet the expected goals of each individual institution. The Concept3D team is fully U.S-based and consistently upholds excellent customer service by providing a dedicated Client Success Lead to valued clients. Concept3D is the only provider that offers this high level of client support, where clients can communicate directly with their dedicated teammate via phone or email and receive a thorough response within 24 hours. ## Localist Reviews ### 1. A robust solution for DMOs, Universities, and other orgs with complex calendaring needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erica D. B. | Founder / Sole Proprietor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** Localist's data model and user interface handles complex recurring events beautifully in a way that makes it easier and easier to maintain an up to date calendar the longer we use the tool and make it easy for external stakeholders to submit and edit their own events. We also love that we can make unlimited custom widgets to embed whatever part of our calendar we need on webpages or blogs so we can show only the events pertinent for that topic (for instance, our website is VisitShawnee.com, but for ShawneeExpo.com the widget only displays events off our calendar that are taking place at that venue. It is AMAZING!) Finally, the ability to automatically import events from ICS or RSS feeds has made it a lot easier to integrate with venue partners without requiring a lot of extra work from them. Support is also super helpful! **What do you dislike about Localist?** While there are some analytic reports and "integration" with social, these features are limited and need to be made a bit more robust before they're worth using, at least for our organization. Only being able to post to Twitter but not Facebook or Instagram means it's just easier to use a different scheduling tool where we can do all platforms at once. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a Destination Management Organization, Visit Shawnee seeks to bring people who are not from Shawnee, OK to our community to find their adventures at our unique events and destinations. As a part of this work, we needed an event calendar that let us show the breadth of events taking place in our city any given day in a way that was easy to navigate and query for external users, and efficient to manage for internal users. We needed to be able to display these events on any page of our website as necessary, and allow venue owners and event hosts to submit their own events in a way that was easy for us to approve and get into the calendar. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hi Erica, thank you for such a thoughtful review! I'm so glad to hear that Localist is helping you bring more visitors to Shawnee and showcase the events in your city. As for analytics—you can add your GA4 ID to the platform for more in-depth analytics tracking and report building in Google Analytics. We truly appreciate you sharing your thoughts and experience about Localist! ### 2. Great event management software - lots of options! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melanie W. | U, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** Localist is a very easy service that we use to create, update and a manage events. We have used other services in the past, but I love the look and feel of the localist dashboard, as well as the look and feel from the user's end. I like that it can be customized for each customer. **What do you dislike about Localist?** I really don't have any dislikes --I think it's a very easy to use software that allows other folks to send in content, as well. The only thing I would improve, if anything, is to add a feature so that any size photo can be accepted when adding an event. Our standard 1920 x 1080 is too large, so we have to find unique ways to get around it. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Localist for a couple of different functions. First and foremost, it serves as a calendar of events on our university website, which is great, because other people can submit entries, as well. That is helpful because it offers that submission feature, but nothing is posted until approved by one of the people who are labeled as administrators on our end. The other great feature it is helping with is event management for a large-scale community service event we are planning. We have task sign ups and are allowing users to choose their own time frame and task, which takes away some of the work for the organizers on the back end. That's a plus! **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hi Melanie, thank you so much for your positive feedback! We truly appreciate that you took the time to share how Localist is helping your university and your community manage your events. We have shared your photo size suggestion with our Product team. ### 3. Best Tool for Organization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laura C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** This tool has been a great addition to our office when it comes to organizing several programs that the center hosts throughout the Fall and Spring semesters. We have about 25 staff members who all play a role in the planning process. **What do you dislike about Localist?** There is so much to offer with Localist, that the onboarding process for a new team member can be a little intimidating. Also, we've had a few issues where a team member creates an event in Localist and the event completely disappears from the dashboard. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've never really stumbled upon any issues with the system except for having difficulties locating an event that disappeared off the dashboard. That has only happened a couple of times. It hasn't really effected my work flow. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hi Laura, thank you so much for your positive feedback and for taking the time to post this review. We really appreciate it! We have revamped the help site and introduced a continuing education webinar series specifically for our customers. You can direct your new users to the webinars, such as New Localist User 101, and leverage all the great training materials we have available to reduce the amount of 1-1 training you need to provide. You can find the link to the Client Success Webinar Series recordings below. For the event issue you are encountering, please reach out to support@concept3d.com so we can look into that further. ### 4. Localist is a great calendar for any decently sized organization **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** Localist is a robust calendar solution for any organization with many calendar needs. They have a robust admin area that allows you to embed your calendar information on other sites—and they even let you customize the HTML output with Liquid templating. Furthermore, they have a robust API to customize your calendar data further and display it on any platform you wish. We moved from another outdated solution that required several old dependencies to get a calendar feed on our sites. Their API was constantly slow, and we had to implement a caching layer specifically for this old product. After a year or two with Localist, we're happy we switched and have experienced none of these problems. We've been delighted with the product and the transition. **What do you dislike about Localist?** There's no federated monthly calendar view. Other calendars (like Google Calendar, for example) allow you to see events happening over a whole month; whereas, this doesn't exist in Localist. Presumably, this is because there would likely be too many events per day; however, I think it would still be a nice view to display, and people would probably use it. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** They provide a robust calendar solution that lets our many web editors input events into a single, federated system. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you so much for your feedback and taking the time to post this review. We appreciate it! We're excited to hear that the transition to Localist was smooth and that Localist has been such a great fit for your organization. We have shared your feedback with our Product team. ### 5. Great Tool for Posting Events **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marisa W. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** It's really easy to post events to your organization's page. It's a great tool to help organizations ensure they're informing their audience on all of the events. **What do you dislike about Localist?** Honestly, there is nothing that I dislike about Localist. The tool is helpful and easy to use. I would suggest no other things to improve. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Localist helps solve the issue of trying to figure out where to post events for specific organizations. It's a great tool for an organization to have all of their events in one place to market. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hi Marisa, thank you so much for your feedback and for taking the time to post this review. We appreciate it! ### 6. Easy to Edit Events **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** It is easy to edit and create events and is very user-friendly. I am also glad to see accessibility features such as the alt text for photos, as we like to make sure anything associated with our office is accessible. **What do you dislike about Localist?** I do not like the feature that tells you your reach out of 100%. Often there are no websites for events that I am posting, but the reach still shows as less than 100%. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Localist allows us to post our events to advertise to our students, as well as create a widget on our website so that we are able to see all of the events that we are doing in one consolidated place. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback on your experience with Localist! We appreciate your positive comments about the ease of editing and creating events, and especially about the accessibility features. We have shared your feedback about Event Reach with the Product team. ### 7. A good events platform, with some quirks **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** Localist is a great tool for creating a comprehensive events calendar even for very large communities. One of the best uses is the ability to embed an events widget into other web platforms. **What do you dislike about Localist?** Customizing the template(s) is a painful task and there's only so much you can do. For example, depending on your use case, you may end up with events that have meaningless actions and it can be tough to modify the template so users are not misdirected/frustrated. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Localist helps us manage a enterprise-scale event calendar that allows for a decentralized workflow. It also allows us to keep events in a separate platform from our website and integrate it seamlessly. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you so much for your feedback and taking the time to post this review. We appreciate it! Please don't hesitate to reach out to support@concept3d.com to get in touch with your Client Success Manager for assistance with customizing your templates. ### 8. Serves the minimum purpose but does not meet all of the goals. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anna C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** Simple to use, UX friendly, easy to understand, and layout is ok. Customer services is also very helpful. **What do you dislike about Localist?** Cannot customize much of the layout. It lacks the ability for event sumbitters to review their event before submitting. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Letting the community know about events. It's benefiting us just to have something to host our events but it doesn't really provide all the capabilities that we need. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hi Anna, thank you for taking the time to write a review and share that you find Localist easy to use and user-friendly. We're sorry to hear that our platform does not meet all your goals—I have shared your comments about customization with our Product team. We appreciate your feedback! ### 9. Using it for calendar postings **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** Ability to link to outside resources easily. Ease of editing. **What do you dislike about Localist?** It can be hard to remember the keywords you need for linking to other information streams. What you see during the posting creation is rather different than how it looks as posted. It would be great if the keyword section could be more personalized and give you specific choices or remember your previous choices. You could also run a preview window alongside the editing window so you can see what it will look like in real time. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Links our events directly to our website. Disseminates our events to a wider audience. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you for your review of Localist! We're glad to hear that our platform helps you post and promote your events to a wider audience. We have shared your feedback about event creation with our Product team. If you have any questions or issues, please reach out to support@concept3d.com to get in touch with your Client Success Manager for assistance. ### 10. Localist is great and we have had a good experience with it overall. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tess R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** I love the format and how easy it is to use. **What do you dislike about Localist?** Localist and the other software system we use do not work well together so some events we have on the calendar have issues with the photos uploading. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is marketing events, letting businesses around the area know when we will have large groups of people in the city, and ticketing events. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hi Tess, thank you so much for your feedback and for taking the time to post this review of Localist. We appreciate it! Please reach out to support@concept3d.com to get in touch with your Client Success Manager for assistance with uploading photos. ### 11. Great additional calendar! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Oona C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** The Localist calendar complements the office-wide calendar and allows me to get a better overview of our own as well as partner office events. **What do you dislike about Localist?** At times I don't have time to keep up with additional calendars so it would be helpful if there was a sinple integration w outlook. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can more easily keep track of multiple offices' events. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hi Oona, thank you so much for taking the time to write this review! We appreciate you sharing your thoughts and experience about Localist. About Outlook integration: you can export an Outlook feed from Localist—for more info please follow the link below: ### 12. Convenient tool for creating connections on campus **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elizabeth C. | Digital Strategist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** The interface is simple to use and gives managers a lot of options for promoting their events across campus. The public-facing event is clean and professional looking which helps attract more people to our events. **What do you dislike about Localist?** There are so many options and steps to take in Localist that we are not taking advantage of because we don't have the time to carefully update every single calendar event with the level of detail provided by Localist. The backend could be streamlined to allow for quick entries or more detailed entries. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Campus calendar and event promotion. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hi Elizabeth, thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback! We're excited to hear that Localist helps your campus community create connections. We would like to invite you to the beta event form. If you're interested, please reach out to support@concept3d.com to get in touch with your Client Success Manager. ### 13. Connecting the community **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stefani M. | Assistant Director, Communications and Programming, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** Localist connects us to the community. I find their features easy to use and store for future use. Do not hesitate to make this your go to app for your resource! **What do you dislike about Localist?** It could use some new features to update and oeganize folders. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping us reach new audiences that we would never connect with. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hi Stefani, we are very glad to hear that Localist is helping connect you to your community. Thank you so much for your positive feedback and for taking the time to post this review! ### 14. Great Master Calendar for the University **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** The creation of multiple landing pages, departments, custom fields, and reports you can generate easily. **What do you dislike about Localist?** The lack of extra Payment Gateways, so you need to utilize Stripe to use the payment register feature. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Localist is allowing the University of Miami to have an easily understood front end and administration end for Event/Venue Managers, and enough classifications and filtering to have each Department set up exactly how they like it. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review. We're glad to hear that Localist is helping the University of Miami manage your events! As for payment gateways, in addition to Stripe, we also accept authorize.net payout accounts, and support for TouchNet will be rolling out in the near future as well. ### 15. New Employee **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rachel R. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** The internal interface for adding events if very clear and well organized. **What do you dislike about Localist?** I think the external interface for people viewing the events could be more interactive. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organizing large-scale campus activity. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hi Rachel, thank you for taking the time to leave the review and share your experience with Localist! If you have any questions or issues, please don't hesitate to reach out to support@concept3d.com to get in touch with your Client Success Manager. ### 16. Localist review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** I love the styling flexibility and how user-friendly the features are. Being able to add things to a calendar and build your own digest is great. **What do you dislike about Localist?** I've encountered a lot of users getting confused with certain things related to the submission form and event pending approval process. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hosting a public-facing event calendar that can accept event submissions from a large community of users. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > It’s great to hear about your positive experience with the Localist platform and how user-friendly it is. We have shared your feedback about events submission with the Product team. Thank you so much for taking the time to post this review! ### 17. Game changer for promoting events **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Localist?** Localist is very easy to use and provides simple ways to get the most out of promoting events online. **What do you dislike about Localist?** I wish there was a user type between user and event admin, but it isn't a deal breaker at all. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are quickly getting our events on the web and using several users. It allows us to segment where necessary and it's easy to use. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you so much for taking the time to leave this review. We are very glad to hear that you find Localist so easy to use and that it helps you with managing and promoting your events! ### 18. A great all-in-one (almost) event management tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Helen G. | Graphic Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** The interface is easy to use/understand, except for multi-day events. **What do you dislike about Localist?** Multi-Day events that are not Conferences are hard to manage with ticketing. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** We like that the registration is tied to the University calendar and that it autogenerates reminders and post-event surveys. I look at the % of effectiveness but we really don't use the pre-event marketing metrics much. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hi Helen, thank you for taking the time to write this review! We appreciate you sharing your thoughts about Localist, especially how easy to use it is. Please don't hesitate to reach out to support@concept3d.com to get in touch with your Client Success Manager for assistance with managing multi-day events. ### 19. Light Localist User **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** Localist works well for keeping others on campus informed about the events happening on campus. It has been decently easy to use. **What do you dislike about Localist?** Localist is decently easy to use and the main problems are lack of integration with other systems to more easily import things with matching fields. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Localist provides a full campus calendar for our school. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you for taking the time to write this review. If you have any questions about integrations, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support: support@concept3d.com. Thank you for using Localist! ### 20. It works well for events. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** It is great for managing a lot of events and groups. It makes it easy to view and filter events too. **What do you dislike about Localist?** Sometimes there is a little to many features/options. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reaching our customers about events. It's great for a concise way to present all of our events. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you so much for your feedback and for taking the time to post this review. We appreciate it! ### 21. Events made easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deborah B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** We use Localist to promote our on-campus events to students, faculty, staff and the local community. Post-COVID campus life is rebounding and everyone is looking for things to do. **What do you dislike about Localist?** I have not found feature that I dislike. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping us reach a wider audience. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hi Deborah, thank you so much for your feedback and for taking the time to post this review. We appreciate it! ### 22. Easy to use and efficient **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Localist?** Very easy to use and intuitive, also very helpful and effective for the purpose I used it for (advertising events at university) **What do you dislike about Localist?** It was a bit confusing getting logged into Localist to use it, but that may have been due to the way my university uses it. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Localist helped me promote and publish my event to my campus, which helped with our event turnout and overall marketing. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you for sharing your positive experience with Localist! We're thrilled to hear that our platform is easy to use and helped you successfully promote and publish your event on campus. Please don't hesitate to reach out to support@concept3d.com to get in touch with your Client Success Manager for assistance with any login issues. ### 23. One-stop platform for all your events **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shruti B. | Marketing Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Localist?** It's effortless to use, and we can edit events seamlessly. They have an inclusion of customizable features and add-ons. It can also be optimized to match with the branding necessities. **What do you dislike about Localist?** I wouldn't say that I dislike anything. Overall it's a fantastic tool and updates frequently, and they have great customer support, making it easier to deal with. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my opinion, it's a great platform to strengthen the organizational community. Because the events can be seen easily, attendance gets boosted, leading to successful events. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hi Shruti, thank you so much for your feedback and for taking the time to post this review. We appreciate it! ### 24. Clean, straightforward, and just enough bells and whistles **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Craig B. | Assistant Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Localist?** Localist looks clean and modern, makes social sharing easy, and provides basic analytics that regular folks like me can understand. Ability to add labels/tags for filtering and organization. One-time or recurring events are simple to schedule. One-click download to add to my calendar. I do like the social/comments idea of the platform when it is used. **What do you dislike about Localist?** In our particular application, there just isn't very much traffic. The idea of a dedicated event calendar can feel like too much when everyone already uses their own CRM or email lists to communicate about events. More flexible integrations would be a nice feature, like if Localist could pull in events automatically from third-party CRMs. Customizeable reminder messages and follow-up messaging would also add value. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** I need an easy-to-use way to communicate with a broader audience than I usually have access to within my small department. Localist gives me a public, external, linkable place to refer the public. Note that, in my situation, using my website for this purpose is not an option. Localist is also the default/only event calendar for getting content posted front and center on our precious homepage real estate. It **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hi Craig, thank you so much for your feedback and for taking the time to post this review. We appreciate it! ### 25. Its Fine **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michaela N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Localist?** It's easy to use and downloads event information from Eventbrite **What do you dislike about Localist?** I think it could be stylized a bit better **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** I guess it allows for advertisement ### 26. I absolutely LOVE using Localist for an entire Division! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karissa T. | A, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Localist?** I love how easy it is to delete future events and edit current ones. I oversee an entire division at a college with include 10 different departments. So changes always need to be made. And it's always easy! **What do you dislike about Localist?** There's nothing I dislike! I really do love using Localist! I only with that when people submit events, it was timestamped so we know who's request was first. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving over programming! We are a small college and often times everyone wants to do everything for students. Localist helps to keep staff engaged in the information they share for their events. It almost forces them to determine an event's impact. Which is amazing! **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hello Karissa, thank you for your excellent review! I'm excited to hear that Localist has made it easy for you to create and manage events. Thank you for using Localist! ### 27. Ready to use and robust calendar **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hillary M. | Web coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Localist?** I like how easy it is to navigate through calendar entries and find things that you need. **What do you dislike about Localist?** . Sometimes entering information into the field can be a little bit confusing. Especially if you have a lot of different places and a lot of different topics to deal with. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are utilizing local list to present the events we have at our College and use the rsvp function for people to respond to our events. I like that we can build a widget to display the calendar on our sites without having to manually enter content regarding upcoming events. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you for taking the time to write this review. We are very glad to hear that you find Localist easy to use. As a reminder, you have unlimited free support, so you don't need to figure things out on your own. I encourage you to reach out to our support: support@localist.com—they will be happy to help you! ### 28. Localist at University of Missouri **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin B. | D, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Localist?** Localist provides excellent technical support and integrations for our campus events calendar. **What do you dislike about Localist?** I would like more flexibility for user interface template designs. **Recommendations to others considering Localist:** As with other SaaS purchases, make sure it meets your organization's security requirements. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our campus had calendars and events created in local websites and systems that did not allow us to fully leverage the ability to market these events using modern tools and technologies. Localist has allowed us to create a single events calendar that feeds website calendars from a central location, saving us development and support costs. **Official Response from Mykel Nahorniak:** > Dear Kevin, thank you for taking the time to write this review! We truly appreciate you sharing your thoughts and experience about Localist. ### 29. All In One Event Management! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Events Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Localist?** Stunning tools to plan, manage and promote events that boosts community growth 10x. **What do you dislike about Localist?** They do not promote much what they deserve in the market. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building and growing a community is not an easy task. Localist helps solve this problem by its most efficient platform with its capacity to do engaging events **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hi there—thank you so much for your feedback and taking the time to post this review. We appreciate it! ### 30. My review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Localist?** Localist allows users to submit their own events. **What do you dislike about Localist?** When an event is denied, the user does not have a clear prosses to make the recommended changes. **Recommendations to others considering Localist:** Roll out that new update yall have been talking about. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using widgets that are connected with localist is very helpful **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hello—Thank you so much for your feedback and for taking the time to post this review. We would love to help you with your issue—please email us at support@localist.com. ### 31. Use for work **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sydni P. | Fellow, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Localist?** I like that I am able to edit submissions. **What do you dislike about Localist?** Sometimes when I thought I approved a submission it did not go through, and it was not apparent that it did. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use this pretty infrequently but it is nice for different departments to be able to send in their events and I don't have to do anything. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Dear Sydni, thank you for taking the time to leave the review and share your experience with Localist. ### 32. Would definitely recommend **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Localist?** Very straightforward and easy to use. Customization allows us to make the Localist calendar blend well with thw rest of our website **What do you dislike about Localist?** I wish there was flexibility in the way (visually and via filter) that events were presented on the consumer facing side of the site. **Recommendations to others considering Localist:** Localist takes the headache out of managing a community events calendar. Organizations can submit events on their own and Localist is always working to update features for Admins. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** More affordable and faster than having a custom calendar with the same capabilities built **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you so much for your positive feedback and for taking the time to post this review! ### 33. Excellent Platform with a very helpful Team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** cody w. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Localist?** I love how user-friendly the platform is. It makes it very simple for me to add, submit, and categorize all of our community events. The event goal reach is very helpful to ensure that all events reach the maximum amount of people. The team was able to design our platform to match our website perfectly, so there is a seamless transition from our website to the event platform. **What do you dislike about Localist?** The functionality behind different channels can be very confusing. We use this feature to have different calendars for different types of events such as sports, business, seasonal, etc. setting up the channels to make sure that certain events are located where they are supposed to be was a challenge. This feature would also occasionally break here and there and the events wouldn't pull through properly. One day it would work fine, and another day it would seem like we didn't have any events. Eventually, everything was fixed. but I think this feature could be improved to be more user friendly. **Recommendations to others considering Localist:** Take advantage of their customer service. They do a great job of providing resources **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** We always try to show off events in our town to any visitors coming to our area. The feed coming into our site is able to be displayed on any page that we want, allowing the events to be seen all over our website. Here at Visit Rapid City, we don't put on events ourselves. We simply promote them. Localist provides an easy and efficient way for us to showcase all of the amazing events we have here in Rapid City. ### 34. One Place for Events **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicholas M. | CRM and Email Marketing Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Localist?** It is a really nice and up-to-date online resource for a master calendar of events. It has a lot of great features that are very intuitive and user-friendly. They offer great add-ons to really enhance the product. They offer some really easy customizable options so you're site can be branded up to standards. it is very clickable and easy to track and build schedules and things of that nature. i really like that aspect about it. it's something that really helps you stay organized and engaged. **What do you dislike about Localist?** Some of the interfaces seem a little clunky and disorganized. Sometimes the admin side of things can be a little troublesome to navigate and use a bunch. it works, but sometimes it seems it takes a little while to get where i need to and use a bunch of clicks to get there. I would like if there was a better opportunity to build email templates and newsletters within localist and than automate messages through there. We do a lot of manual work to take information out of localist and put it in a separate system to build out a newsletter. I think there could also be a better way to integrate social media into the platform. **Recommendations to others considering Localist:** Make a better native newsletter feature that can be branded. we had to build out custom integrations to feed information from localist into a separate, branded HTML template. It took more work to do that than what i think should be available with an in-house solution where you could brand and build a template within localist without having to outsource it. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use it to manage a widespread community and all of their events, there are over 25 events across campus each day from numerous different organizations that cover so many different affinity groups. Localist has really done a nice job of allowing outlets for all these groups to promote their events and find new members. they've done a nice job pivoting to provide a lot of options for online events during the COVID pandemic. ### 35. Localist at Aims **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Localist?** I like how everything is organized. And you can see all events. **What do you dislike about Localist?** That some events have been added in there twice somehow, and I have edited them to reflect one time and date, and sometimes the next time I go in, they're in there twice again. I don't understand how this happens. And need more information on how events transfer from Presence. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** All events being in one place and directing people to that one place. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you for taking the time to leave this review! We would love to help you with your duplicate events issue—please email us at support@localist.com so our CX team can investigate. ### 36. Localist is a great choice for event handling! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Localist?** I like how you can embed widgets and have access to create new widgets if needed. Channels are also a really neat feature. **What do you dislike about Localist?** I'm not too fond of the lack of custom properties you can use when pulling in data from other sources like EMS. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping us keep events in one place. There are benefits when people can submit events themselves. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you so much for your feedback and for taking the time to post this review. We appreciate it! ### 37. Would I use Localist? **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Localist?** Many events can be added consecutively without logging in and out, and you can easily see the events created. **What do you dislike about Localist?** Topic selections are too limited, as are departments and event types. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't solve any problems with Localist. I'm not sure what benefits I should realize, either. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you for taking the time to leave your review. It sounds like you are not able to add topics, event types, or departments because your permission level does not allow it. Please contact your Platform Admin about it. You can find more information about permission levels in our Knowledge Base here: https://support.localist.com/permissions/ ### 38. Localist Campus Calendar **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evan T. | Director of Digital Strategy, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Localist?** Localist is an amazing calendar solution for higher education. I love all the options you can tag events from department, to location, to events. Feeding the filtered events into departmental sites is so great. **What do you dislike about Localist?** There is not much I dislike about localist. I think an enhance could be super customizable event landing pages. Also a touchnet payment integration would be great as well as a tightened integration with Engage by campus labs. **Recommendations to others considering Localist:** My recommendation for higher education institutions is to have a full time calendar admin. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to roll out an enterprise wide calendar across the institution. It has allowed us to really leverage spreading the word about events via websites. ### 39. Easy to use and impactful **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Localist?** Ability to distribute across multiple sites with one click **What do you dislike about Localist?** The administrative approval process does not include a email notification **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Streamlining event approval and distribution and gaining consistency on how events are presented **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We appreciate your continued support! ### 40. Very robust! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Localist?** Localist is a very robust calendar tool! **What do you dislike about Localist?** At times the interface can be confusing or complicated to navigate. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're using Localist to engage a wide range of people from our organization. ### 41. A great LEAN business solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Localist?** Localist has dramatically reduced the time and steps involved in advertising our seminars and events. It is a one-stop shop and the ability to target audiences and include keywords makes it an effective way for our campus population to filter and/or subscribe to events they care about so they are always "in the know". **What do you dislike about Localist?** The copying events functionality is a little bit clunky. I would like some added functionality for creating seminars within a weekly/monthly repeating series that have a different title/speaker/date each time but with all other factors remaining constant. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had to create our own promotion mailing lists prior to using Localist and it was very hard to target audiences effectively. We also had to post the same event on multiple websites with different content management systems. Now we just link it all to Localist. ### 42. Great calendar solution for WordPress integration. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Richard L. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Localist?** The ease of styling and integrating events into WordPress posts as feeds. It is very simple to set up and get a branded feel to localist as well as get the events displaying on partner websites without having to navigate directly to an event post. **What do you dislike about Localist?** I don't really have anything I dislike about the platform as we looked at multiple solutions and this system included everything we needed. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using localist to provide a centralized calendar that other units are able to push events to and also display events on their own websites. ### 43. Efficient & Helpful! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Relations and Communications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Localist?** The way suggested dates and times pop up, it makes entering info so much quicker! **What do you dislike about Localist?** I feel like there are a lot of options I don’t use under the other tabs, they may be efficient for others though **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting the word out about library events and news. Adding events to the library’s homepage. ### 44. The backend is very user friendly and offers a wide variety of fields. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Localist?** It matched nicely with our website and made it easy to promote events **What do you dislike about Localist?** Some of the front-end functionality is hard for a user. We miss the calendar on the side. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bulk adding events has helped us save a lot of time **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you for taking the time to write this review. If you have any questions about the new theme, don't hesitate to reach out to our support: support@localist.com. Thank you for using Localist! ### 45. Great Enterprise Calendar Solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Localist?** Localist is a great solution for centralizing organizational events. We bring events from other source systems into the solution to give us a holistic view of our events. We defined specific event types and implemented several calendar views to control which events are visible to our audiences. Our userbase is very happy with the tool and our marketing team enjoys the additional functionalities offered in the solution, such as a featured event carousel. Most visual aspects of the system can also be customized to match organizational branding requirements so the calendar system almost looks as if it was developed in house. **What do you dislike about Localist?** Localist is a premier product so you can expect the price to reflect this. Our implementation also could have gone a bit more smoothly. At the time of our implementation, they offered a payment solution for event registration. However, this would have caused an issue in our environment as it only worked with Stripe. **Recommendations to others considering Localist:** If you have a need to centralize your organizational events or are struggling with event communication and engagement, Localist might be a solution worth considering. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prior to using Localist, our organization didn't have a centralized solution for hosting events and we had several internal groups that had no mechanism for publishing their events. Event-related communications were inconsistent and often ineffective. Since implementing the solution, we've seen a large increase in the amount of events viewable by our userbase and a jump in user satisfaction. ### 46. A very comprehensive events system hampered by poor APIs **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tim B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Localist?** It includes basically all you’d need from a user standpoint. Registration, room booking, social features - it’s got it all. **What do you dislike about Localist?** There are strange limitations to the API in regards to recurring events. The IDs for events also changed without proper notice causing a rework of a third party implementation. **Recommendations to others considering Localist:** If you don’t need to handle custom recurrences in a completely rebuilt front end interface I can wholeheartedly endorse Localist. It does have issues with IDs when pulling all the data out for recurring events. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Localist gave our clients a fairly nicely designed events system with registration and social integration out of the box that was easily skinnable to their branding. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Hi Tim—thank you for your review! I can see how the issue with IDs can be frustrating. At the same time, I'm very happy to hear that outside of that, you are wholeheartedly endorsing Localist as a complete event management and marketing solution! We are always looking to make usability improvements to make our product more intuitive. I hope your clients will continue using our platform, and if you have any other issues, our support team will be happy to help: support@localist.com. ### 47. Localist -- a mostly productive experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Localist?** The setup is pretty simple to use. The product looks good to users. The syndication capacity is excellent. **What do you dislike about Localist?** If I'm working on compiling a listing of calendar items and have to correct one, I feel like there are many steps to get back to that day's listing. I've lost track of how many extra clicks go into tagging events, but it feels like a lot. A couple of parts (such as with virtual events) can be a little tricky for new users. **Recommendations to others considering Localist:** Overall, it's a really good system for powering a calendar for a college or other community institution. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's worked really well for an events calendar that many people can contribute to and that results in an attractive campus-wide calendar. Especially with so much virtual, it's a helpful solution to keep us all connected. ### 48. Localist is great! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Haleigh S. | Marketing Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Localist?** I like the functionality and the ease of use. **What do you dislike about Localist?** The front end home page doesn't do everything we would like it to do after the redesign. **Recommendations to others considering Localist:** I would recommend localist, it is very user friendly and gives you everything you would need to promote your events. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sharing events with our community, and allowing community members to submit their own events. ### 49. Great for students! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Liz H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Localist?** I love how easy it is to learn how to use **What do you dislike about Localist?** I wish there were more trainings for throughout the time I’m using it — like on new features and stuff **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a student, I didn’t really have an experience with our platform prior to the localist! ### 50. We use Localist as a secondary calendar - with help from RSS **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Localist?** I like the clean, easy to read format of the listings and ability to add an image. **What do you dislike about Localist?** For our purposes, I don't understand the "I'm Interested" button. We want people to register, or skip over it. **What problems is Localist solving and how is that benefiting you?** Localist lets our events be created in our own calendar, that is an app with more features, such as a waitlist. We set up an RSS feed for the events to get sent over to our institutional calendar on Localist, and the extra work is minimal. **Official Response from Kasia Whiteis:** > Thank you for taking your time to share your feedback. The "I'm interested" button is a way to gauge interest in the event and to provide a ballpark idea of attendance numbers. However, it if you prefer not to have this button, there is a way to remove it from the page: you can hide it from all events using CSS (you can find more about how to use CSS here: https://support.localist.com/colors-fonts-css/), or you can turn it off on a per-event basis by navigating to the event’s edit form > scroll to the Recent Activity section > uncheck Allow User Interest > Save Changes. ## Localist Discussions - [How much does Localist cost?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-much-does-localist-cost) - 1 comment - [View Localist pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/localist/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-03+23%3A08%3A53+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=6a5c9cd6-6e93-4772-9f89-610812692fdd&secure%5Btoken%5D=5d05060a261c65b6db415c8af20fbaf2b3bb4c13b53eb3afae73871ea3f42d2d&format=llm_user) ## Localist Features **Registration** - Event creation - User registration process - Payment processing **Marketing and Communications** - Social media promotion - Event website creation - Email customization - Contact list management **Administration** - User Permissions - Branding - Dashboards - Integrations **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation **Marketing and Communications** - Event website creation - Email automation - Email customization - Contact list management - Social media promotion - Lead generation and retrieval **Attendee Engagement** - Social media integrations - Attendee networking - Attendee surveys-attendee engagement **Community Management** - Group Tools - Community Hub - Communication - Member Analytics **Agentic AI - Event Registration & Ticketing** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration **Registration** - Event creation - User registration process **Event Management** - Event Creation - Attendee Management - Event Promotion - Event Analytics **Agentic AI - Sales Planning** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation **Agentic AI - Event Marketing** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Localist Alternatives - [Eventbrite](https://www.g2.com/products/eventbrite/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (909 reviews) - [Cvent Event Marketing & Management](https://www.g2.com/products/cvent-event-marketing-management/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (2,082 reviews) - [RingCentral Events](https://www.g2.com/products/ringcentral-events/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (915 reviews)