--- 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: '2026-07-12' 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. ## 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/localist-review-4408580?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-13+04%3A51%3A06+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e901c8c2-b316-4ef2-9f93-72c89df4ef64&secure%5Btoken%5D=20547b70df653a8d59e143d728f7dbf85adedef09ce572677cebe363917e6e8a&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 (918 reviews)