ShortStack Software

We have been using shortstack platform to create promotional competitions for seasonal campaigns which in turn has increased our sales during these times. Overall it’s a great tool and allows businesses like ours to not pay more for pricey developers we can do this ourselves for minimal cost but great results.

Pros

Ease of use, If you have some coding experience and can learn quickly this platform can be easy to implement once you get the hang of it. I could also adapt to suit my needs by adding unique code. Any questions I had were quickly and expertly answered by the support team. The framework of the design was easy to work with and design our own backgrounds and elements for also which made the end result presentation much more professional looking.

Cons

It can take a while to get the hang of the platform particularly if you are using sporadically. It would also be good to have the platform save all your data inputted without deleting if you don’t have monthly subscription - this would work better for us for seasonal campaigns as we only use 2 or 3 months but have to pay for 12 to make sure our data not deleted. The data tools also could be more refined ie it would be good to know which people clicked on which element within the design I don’t think this is possible atm from what I have seen.

Pros

Highly configurable, shortstack allowed us to create a simple form game for our customer.

Cons

for the price, shortstack should offer more animated games

We are doing some contest on facebook

Pros

Is very friendly, a lot of possibility for visual

Cons

nothing for me, except you need a good internet connection.

Pros

Allows me to do all of the different types of contesting that I need to do in one place without having to use several apps, and/or programs.

Cons

UX takes a little getting used to, it could be a bit more intuitive.

Service is great and helpful.

Pros

Easily get engagement from our audience with incentives to participate.

Cons

The publication tool can be a little tedious but nice since it has many way to customize your page and campaign.

Pros

Easy to use with options for a lot of customization

Cons

Changed the policy about the Facebook tabs, now I can't use this function for most of my campaigns.

I used Shortstack multiple times to run contests around email collection and was pleased with the results. It was easy to implement and after a few rough starts, was fairly easy to construct a campaign.

Pros

After creating everything at Shortstack, it was really easy to implement on my side. I implemented a campaign on both Magento and Shopify with absolutely no problem. It worked well the entire time it was live.

Cons

Getting started for the first time was a little complicated/confusing. I wasn't sure what to do and had to restart my project a few times after not being sure what I was doing. After I figured it out though, no problem.

Pros

Easy to start, learn and implement in an hour or less. Intuitive interface with a small learning curve.

Cons

The updates are often excessive leaving the user wondering if they should pause the campaign, and update, or leave alone...

We use ShortStack to engage with our customers

Pros

It was easy to build engaging experiences for our customers

Cons

Little tough to implement some of the more advanced features, but still a great tool.

Pros

I love the many templates to choose from!

Cons

Can seems a little overwhelming at first glance, but give it your full attention just a few minutes and you’ll realize how easy it is.

Overall a great experience and would definitely recommend them.

Pros

The customer service is outstanding all the time.

Cons

The templates could be a little more user friendly.

I’ve had had really good experience with short stack so far, and I don’t know anything about computers or programming or making pages… It is a little overwhelming at first, but after playing around with it for a bit it gets super easy and you can save your templates

Pros

This has a great visual interface making it super easy to do basic coding and create your own landing pages and giveaway pages and ability to export the list if you upgrade

Cons

What I like least about this software is the fact that they do not have a phone support for customer service and I had to email people whenever I have a question, but at least they respond very quickly!

We've used it for a photo submission contest and several form-based contests and have recommended it to several others for easy contest management. It's always proved effective and easy to use.

Pros

Absolutely love the output of data (so easy to read and interpret) and the functionality possible with the contests. It offers so much more than just a form, and I love that it gives me ideas that I would never have thought of myself.

Cons

It is tough to navigate until you get the hang of it. There are a lot of opportunities for customization and design, but it's hard to figure out how to do the customization at first.

So far my experience has been great and I look forward to continue the software

Pros

Loved all of the different options that you had to create an awesome contest and the customer support is outstanding.

Cons

Nothing honestly. I really love everything that shortstack offers

Pros

I like that there are templates provided that you can use and go off of.

Cons

It can be a little difficult to navigate sometimes but customer support helps with that.

We've utilised ShortStack rather than rebuild a whole new basic quiz system, the previous version of which had major trouble when installed as a Facebook app and accessed on mobile. Shortstack circumvents all of that and provides enough flexibility to give a unique look and feel very easily. We've made some templates for our clients and it's easy for them to update themselves.

Pros

There's a high level of flexibility. It allows us to save a lot of development time by not making bespoke forms for every project, but to easily apply CSS styling etc. Thequick publish to Facebook also allows you to avoid a whole world of pain in terms of mobile apps etc.

Cons

The styling panel can be a little confusing in terms of the many different padding option areas etc - there's a lot of duplicate labelling so sometimes it's hard to find a particular field that needs updating.

Over all it has been very good, there's not much that I want to do using ShortStack that it can't do. It's easy to design and deploy and the customer service I have received when I needed it.

Pros

One word "flexible". I enjoy how flexible ShortStack is, how I can easily design the app / contest that I want, how I can deploy it across multiple channels and make it work with our social media channels and website. How we can design something that looks uniquely us and offers the features I am mostly looking for.

Cons

I do run into limitations occasionally with design functionality but not often, for example, recently spoke at ShortStack about running an online charity auction through ShortStack to find out that it's not a feature supported because of the payment handling.

It makes the working process so much easier. It is a great tool if you have different causes and need to create landing pages.

Pros

Easy to handle. No special skills needed. I also especially like the design options.

Cons

Can’t really think of anything negative.
So far I was really satisfied.

it works well when we use it, we do not use it monthly and the monthly service charge is why we will be discontinuing your services

Pros

this is a good product that is easy to use

Cons

the monthly service charge requires us to pay for a service every month when it does not get used monthly

Pros

The software was mostly easy to use, although it took a few tries at first. Support was always super helpful and quick to answer the questions I had. I was super happy with the way the page looked at the end, although I had to have our designer and web manager help a few times to figure out a few bugs.

Overall the page we made was successful and helped us easily collect the info we were hoping for.

Cons

It was not that easy to use if you don't have an idea of basic coding. I'm a marketer and had to get some outside help a few times to have spacing and color on the page the way I wanted. I could fumble through some of it, but had a ton of questions. I wish that it was a bit easier to use.