WebCheckout

RATING:

4.4

(55)

About WebCheckout

WebCheckout is a fixed asset management solution designed to help businesses in higher education, broadcast, production and other industries track equipment, schedule staff members, handle inventory items and more. It maintains an audit trail of historical records about customers, bookings or equipment and lets administrators use a centralized dashboard to gain insights into department's activities WebCheckout allows organizations to send reminders, notifications, reservation confirmations and other scheduled messages to staff members or clients using customizable templates. Supervisors can manage personnel's work schedules for shifts based on skill sets and proficiencies and capture data about circulating/non-circulating equipment or rooms within a unified platform. ...

Awards and Recognition

FrontRunner 2021
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WebCheckout Pricing

WebCheckout offers a free trial, after which the software is available across 2 pricing tiers, as outlined below: WebCheckout Lite: $400 per month WebCheckout Pro: Contact WebCheckout for pricing information

Starting price: 

$400.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

WebCheckout dashboard
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WebCheckout Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4

Functionality

4

Most Helpful Reviews for WebCheckout

1 - 5 of 55 Reviews

Anonymous

501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2020

WebCheckout is a solid solution

Our overall experience with web checkout has been wonderful and continues to grow with every progressive upgrade.

PROS

Love the integration and tech support for this software.

CONS

We wish there was a better calendaring system that would show the real-time check-in and check-out appointments by the tech and client

Reason for choosing WebCheckout

When our IT Department decided they could no longer support our equipment check in/out database, we went on a mission to find a replacement database. WebCheckout was the solution that best fits our needs. Integration into our student enrollment system was key and has saved us not just in time and money, but troubleshooting technology for our student support has improved greatly. This is a Student Facing program that works best for us.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your time and thoughtful feedback. We are always on the look out for ways to improve client support and application improvements. Please contact support@webcheckout.net to discuss improving the user experience of allocation reporting. Thank you again for your time and continued support. Holly V. Customer Care

Replied May 2020

Asa

Higher Education, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2020

WebCheckout in Media Education

Our old loan inventory system was being decommissioned, so we had to find something new. Web Checkout filled all our needs and more. It has been an incredible improvement over our previous workflows.

PROS

Web Checkout is highly customizable, easy to use, entirely web based, and integrates with our existing Active Directory, Student Information System, user ID cards, and equipment barcodes. The best functions are the automated email reminders and flexible permission rules.

CONS

Initial setup of the integration was a bit tedious, but once it was setup it makes daily processes a breeze.

Reason for choosing WebCheckout

SpringShare and Ex Libris did not have the functionality we needed.

Reasons for switching to WebCheckout

Voyager was managed by our library network. They upgraded to a new platform that did not offer equipment management options.

Vendor Response

Hi Asa, Thank you for your time and thoughtful feedback. We are committed to providing attentive customer service and appreciate insight into how to make our processes easier. As always, please feel free to reach out to us at support@webcheckout.net with any concerns and feature requests. Thanks again for your time, and we appreciate your continued support. Best, AJ O. Customer Care Team

Replied April 2020

Rifah

Information Technology and Services, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

2

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed March 2020

Helpful but Not User Friendly

PROS

I like that it helps us keep track of our events and checkouts so that we don't lose equipment. Overall, it offers a lot of flexibility especially with being able to write notes on reservations, checkouts, and equipment.

CONS

I wish the dashboard would stick without having to reset it up daily with my preferences. I also wish the dashboard view was more integrated into the main checkout page instead of its own page. I wish this system was more user friendly or they offered tutorial videos. I have a large rotating staff of student workers that I have to train and retrain on the various aspects of Webcheckout. I have had to create my own documentation on how to use it and still come across issues where things don't go right if a student worker misses a step. The system is not intuitive at all and needs to be taught and learned. There needs to be a way to delete equipment for good. I would also like an easy way to track our events vs. just our regular checkouts or scheduled tasks so I could pull reports on it. The set, strike, show isn't cutting it for us.

Reason for choosing WebCheckout

the cost, what the systems offered, and mostly the ease of getting our systems integrated with Webcheckout is what I was told were the reasons Webcheckout was chosen.

Vendor Response

Hi Rifah, thanks for your time and feedback. We're pleased to know that WebCheckout aids in keeping track of your equipment. The Dashboard now persists, so once you set it up, the information is readily available for the next time you login. This improvement was made after your request in our 2019 User Training. We also provided SXU with the Task Module to better track event details, a part from regular checkout/reservation information. As we continue to improve and add to WebCheckout's countless features, we understand this can make training an every changing staff difficult to manage. We do update our online documentation, and will continue to host webinars to highlight new features of each release. Additionally, we do offer training services to take the burden of training off of the administrative team. If we can provide any assistance, please do not hesitate to reach out to your account manager. We hope you're well. Jeannie C Customer Care Team

Replied May 2020

Ryan

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2020

Webcheckout review

Having said all of these pros and cons, I will say that webcheckout really listens to their customers. They provide excellent and quick customer service, they are always offering new training opportunities, and they have created a community where people can provide feedback and they will listen and try to implement changes if possible. So even though there are unfortunate parts to this product, I have confidence they will be addressed in the future.

PROS

I have been using webcheckout for our university for the 5 years. We have a very robust equipment checkout program for our campus and webcheckout helps us manage over 1,000 pieces of equipment for around 12,000 students/faculty, and staff. There are some things that webcheckout does really well. I love that it syncs with Active Directory and the reporting they do is also very nice. They just recently opened a patron portal, and the advances they have made there are really nice and are allowing us to make some advances in shift left for our services. The organization is very good and keeping track of fines and late equipment is very easy.

CONS

There are a few things that I would consider minor annoyances for webcheckout. We would really like to find a way for patrons to renew equipment themselves, but this still does not exist and adds a lot of unnecessary man power for a pretty simple task. Also there is no embedded signature system, so if you want students to sign for a checkout you have to pull up a separate program, then upload that file back into webcheckout, and then manually update a signature on file date to let the software know something was uploaded. That is just too manual.

Reason for choosing WebCheckout

familiarity, customer service, and I like the in person checkout interface alot better than other products

Vendor Response

Hi Ryan, Thank you for your time and thoughtful feedback. We are committed to continuously add value to WebCheckout and its suites of modules, and we want to ensure customers feel the same. I hope you will not mind that I will be following up with you directly to get more of your thoughts on the improvements you'd like to see. As always, please feel free to reach out to us at support@webcheckout.net with any WebCheckout concerns and feature requests. Thanks again for your time, and we appreciate your continued support. Best, AJ O. Customer Care Team

Replied April 2020

Frank

Education Management, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2020

Industry Standard, (but...)

I have worked with Webcheckout for over 10 years. It has been the industry standard the whole time, and meets the need for most users. As an admin it takes a "programmer's head" to get used to, but that's just part of the territory. It's so powerful and can do so much, that it's going to be complex, and they do their best to keep it as simple as possible. Phone support is extremely responsive and capable.

PROS

The software does it all...especially now after well over a decade of upgrades and user feedback. The customer service is the best,

CONS

The software in places seems to have no input from designers. New users should expect good amount of training and "getting used to it" through practice. Things like calendar input can seem clunky, and not the same across the board. A streamlined mobile app interface would be nice (maybe it's extra money), and bar-code scanning isn't mac friendly.

Reason for choosing WebCheckout

Webcheckout is the industry standard, used by many schools/colleges/libraries.

Reasons for switching to WebCheckout

Needed more robust and professional software.

Vendor Response

Thank you for your comments and praise for our support team, Frank! Please contact support@webcheckout.net to help work out any issues, including barcode scanning, and to let us know of any application improvements to better your experience with WebCheckout. Holly V. Customer Care

Replied April 2020