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Supported Operating System(s):
Windows 10About Winautomation
WinAutomation by Softmotive is a data entry automation solution designed for businesses of all sizes. It enables users to automate both desktop and web-based tasks. The product is an on-premise solution and runs on Windows operating system.
WinAutomation features Software Robot Designer, which allows users to create data processes using drag-and-drop and default functions. The solution also offers data handling, which allows users to manipulate and parse the data fields across all databases.
The product also offers Desktop Automation, which allows users to manage and extract data using tabs, menus and windows. It also allows users to automate graphical user interface-related tasks.
WinAutomation fea...
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Supported Operating System(s):
Windows 10Average User Ratings
Overall
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
3.5
Customer support
3.5
Functionality
4.0
Likelihood to Recommend
Not likely
Very likely
April 2019
Skyla from Skylark
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Aviation & Aerospace
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
April 2019
Best Robotic Desktop Automation for small scale windows automation!
Softomotive WinAutomation is well suited for beginners and entry level RPA developers who want to learn Computer Automation.
Pros
- Light weight Robotic Automation - Easy to learn and fast processing - Data Scraping is much faster than other tools in RPA - Pre-built robots make it very simple to use
Cons
- WinAutomation does not provide cloud support for remote accessing the robots - Winautomation enterprise edition also have very less features - DataScraping manually requires an understanding of Regular Expressions - Academy tutorials are not updated with new software release
August 2019
Joel from Scanfree
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
1.0
Customer support
1.0
Functionality
4.0
August 2019
Good product destroyed by poor management and support
Was good until v7 was released, now refuse to do business with them
Pros
Easy to use, very functional, was easy to distribute but read Cons below
Cons
Like others I am so disappointed by the direction WinAutomation has taken. Was a reliable product that would easily allow you to build and compile programs to perform your automation functions - we used it in various different areas. The when v7 was released they completely forgot about their customers and came up with the horrible idea of tokens (additional purchases) for each executable you wanted to compile, and worse they tried their damnedest to hide this from their users - so many of us upgraded to version 7 only to find out that we had been hoodwinked by this new licensing policy. And then they destroyed their user community further by killing their once-active forums where users would share ideas and methodologies - first they shifted it to LinkedIn, which never worked well, and then they realised their error and brought it back to their own domain, but they removed all the historic forum posts when they realised no one was upgrading but were still communicating solutions on the older version of the product - there just was not enough new functionality in v7 and onwards for people to justify their silly licensing decision. AVOID using this product! The company is untrustworthy and has made very poor business decisions to the detriment of a large user community. And just when they were starting to get good, too - such a shame. Other products on the market are just as powerful and less expensive.
Response from Softomotive
Replied August 2019
Dear Joel, We are sorry to hear about your experience. One of our representatives will contact you shortly to find out more about your specific situation and see what we can do to make things right. You are correct that the original support portal was withdrawn because it was based on old technology. It was never our intention to cut our users off and a great deal of care was taken to check all the (old) forum topics one by one so that all useful information could be transferred to the new one. Only information related to very old WinAutomation versions were not transferred because they were less relevant. The replacement support portal (support.softomotive.com) gives users a much better experience by offering a much broader range of features. There are hundreds of useful knowledge base articles, a forums section intended for users to share with the community their feature requests, ask for tips on how to automate their processes, share, download or run automations.
March 2021
Anonymous
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
3.0
Functionality
5.0
March 2021
RPA per tutti
Pros
Facilità di interazione con le piattaforme web e le app
Cons
bisogna avere una certa esperienza in ambito programmazione, nelle prime versioni si poteva generare in compilazione un eseguibile che dopo l'acquisizione da parte di Microsoft è scomparso, sarebbero utili ulteriori sviluppi
April 2018
Hugh from MRMC
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source
Ease-of-use
2.0
Functionality
5.0
April 2018
Was a great product but they got greedy and make you pay for everything that you automate
Prior to the whole "you MUST buy tokens to be able to use the software that you already spent a lot of money on", they had a really good product that did things not found in other types of automation programs. You can compile your scripts/processes to run on other machines ... except now you have to pay for every little thing that you automate OR spend a lot of money to "register" a computer that you want to run unlimited exe's on. Of course, this is after you have already paid a premium price for the software. They don't advertise the costs up front because they want you to buy the software ... once you log into your account you finally get to see the costs for various tokens and functionality. We didn't appreciate the sneaky approach they decided would be a good business model. As horrible as the whole upgrade experience is/was, it is our hope that they drop this business model and get back to what made them great to begin with. They have great software but they have lost our business until they stop crippling it. We are in the process of moving on to a different product.
Pros
It does things that other software packages do not do (like search for an image on a screen that isn't identifiable via other means).
Cons
Steep learning curve. Recent versions now make you pay for everything that you create - making the software absolutely useless in an enterprise environment where you have to pay for the executable that you generate ... except if you discover an error and need to recompile and recreate your executable to fix something (which happens most of the time), you have to PAY AGAIN. I spent years learning and using Winautomation and it was awesome to be able to create solutions on the fly where there weren't any viable alternatives, but their greed has destroyed the flexible nature of what this software did best. The support people know their stuff, but moving the support forum to Linked-In groups has been a miserable switch....searching is problematic ... anything negative at all (even if it is constructive feedback) is deleted by the moderators.... it is like they are doing everything humanly possible to make the software and the company fail. I find this sad because I really like the software and the latest functionality that the newer versions bring. We were tricked into upgrading to Version 7 during a sales WebEx (no mention of the additional costs at all except a brief 1 sec mention of tokens that was not explained). Even though we have paid for the professional version upgrade, we went back to our old version (version 6) as soon as we realized how crippled the latest versions are unless you are willing to hand over large amounts of cash for a small fraction of the functionality the older versions had..
December 2016
RJ from Sessoms and Rogers PA
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Law Practice
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
3.0
Functionality
5.0
December 2016
Automating is a breeze
We used to have 4 people performing redundant excel and database functionalities for 4 hours daily, but because of Winautomation we were able to reduce this task to 1 person 1 hour daily. Also, the software is great with automating batched DOS based functions like renaming thousands of files in a couple of minutes, up/down file via ftp sights, etc.
Pros
Easy to learn and use. So much features and a massive array of programming capabilities
Cons
Before their customer service is great with chat option on their site, they changed that. I sent out a request a week ago and received a response with vague answer. I replied back, no response. I made a new ticket and the response was, we sent you an answer, click here to see our conversation. I responded back 2x, 2 days now no reponse.
Response from Softomotive
Replied December 2016
Dear RJ, All your requests from what we see in our database, do have a response sent within the same business day or the next (at the latest), providing you with solutions and instructions. Upon receiving your email about not getting a response from our Support Team, our Support Manager contacted you directly via email, to clarify the situation and give you more details on the tickets that you have opened. There was no response to that email from your end. We are proud of our Support Team and our timely replies, given the large number of our users. There is no chance that a Support ticket will not get a reply in a short period of time, unless there is a misspelling address issue in the way. Should we had your permission we could share the history of your Support tickets as well as the email you have received from one the Head Support Manager. Thank you for the time you took to write this review.