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# Ideals Virtual Data Room User Reviews

## Reviews summary

- Overall rating: 4.8/5
- Total reviews: 324

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 4.8/5
- Customer support: 4.8/5
- Value for money: 4.6/5
- Functionality: 4.6/5

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 260 reviews (80%)
- 4 stars: 60 reviews (19%)
- 3 stars: 3 reviews (1%)
- 2 stars: 1 reviews (0%)
- 1 star: 0 reviews (0%)

### Most mentioned pros

- The organization of documents, rooms and permissions for due diligence processes made it easy for even those who aren't quite tech savvy.
- The upload experience and keyboard shortcuts were genuinely helpful for daily work.
- Keyboard shortcuts made navigation efficient once you learned them.

### Most mentioned cons

- My data room was locked when the billings team had sent the invoice and this was paid
- The inability to edit questions and answers in the Q&A section.
- The Success Team don't talk to the billings team and they don't talk to the operations.

## Ideals Virtual Data Room customer reviews

Showing reviews 1-25 of 324 (page 1).

### Review for virtual data room

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Bhawna D.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Accounting
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: August 2026
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall, my experience with iDeals Virtual Data Room was positive. It provided a secure and organized way to store, manage, and share sensitive documents. The platform was reliable and easy to use, although some advanced features required a little time to get familiar with.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

What I liked most about iDeals Virtual Data Room was its secure and user-friendly platform for storing, organizing, and sharing sensitive documents. The access controls and easy document management made collaboration convenient while keeping information protected

#### Cons

One downside of iDeals Virtual Data Room is that some advanced features can take time to learn. The platform can also feel a little expensive compared with simpler document-sharing solutions.

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### Purpose-built for multi-counterparty diligence — and the Claude integration is a real differentiator

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Cameron G.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Commercial Real Estate
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: July 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We selected IDEALS to consolidate external due diligence — tenant, lender, and project finance — into one controlled environment where every party accesses current files and we control who sees what. It has delivered on that. Permissioning by group is straightforward, the interface requires almost no training for external users, and the usage analytics help us continuously improve the experience for counterparties. The Claude integration meaningfully cut our diligence response times.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

The permissioning model is the standout. We run diligence with tenants, lenders, and project finance parties simultaneously, and IDEALS let us segment access cleanly by group without maintaining separate rooms. Building and updating group permissions is fast and intuitive — we can adjust what a counterparty sees in minutes rather than rebuilding folder structures. The platform also presents extremely well to external users. For counterparties, the data room is often their first real look at how we operate, and IDEALS gave us a premium, organized first impression that reflected well on our company. Reporting has been more valuable than we expected. Seeing which files each group is actually opening tells us where the questions are before they get asked, so we can tailor materials and get ahead of diligence requests instead of reacting to them. Finally, the Claude integration has been a genuine step change. We can query the room directly and turn around incoming diligence requests in a fraction of the time it used to take.

#### Cons

Being able to filter and assign permissions by tag — rather than working folder by folder — would save real time in a room with many groups and frequent updates.

#### Reasons for choosing Ideals Virtual Data Room

Ease of use was far superior for ideals platform

#### Reasons for switching to Ideals Virtual Data Room

Lack of security and difficult to control permissions.

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### It was good while it lasted

- Overall rating: 2/5
- Reviewer: Tara H.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We were pleased with the platform until they did an "upgrade" which subsequently increased the price. The items they included in the upgrade were not items we would be utilizing but would have to ultimately pay for.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 1/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 2/5

#### Pros

The organization of documents, rooms and permissions for due diligence processes made it easy for even those who aren't quite tech savvy. Our contact was helpful when/if we reached out.

#### Cons

When downloading files the downloaded file included the location number in the beginning of the document title, this was burdensome when needing to duplicate a room. I would have to download the entire room, rename each document and then go through the process of creating a whole new data room. It would have been much easier to be able to simply copy a data room as it was set. Some of the documents had too long file paths when downloading which would create 0MB files, not helpful.

#### Reasons for choosing Ideals Virtual Data Room

We actually moved away from iDeals to use FirmEx in June 2025. We had iDeals since around 2020 until the "upgrade" and price increase occurred.

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### Well featured and easy to use VDR

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Young K.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: August 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

My overall experience with Ideals Virtual Data Room has been excellent. Onboarding and migration were smooth, and the platform is well featured and easy to use.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

We use Ideals VDR for project transactions. I find the platform clean, intuitive and easy to use. It also offered better value for money when compared to its alternatives.

#### Cons

I found Ideals Virtual Data Room clean, well featured and easy to use, so I don't have anything to dislike.

#### Reasons for choosing Ideals Virtual Data Room

Ideals Virtual Data Room was better value for money

#### Reasons for switching to Ideals Virtual Data Room

Ideals Vitual Data Room offers all required features and better value for money

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### Solid VDR for M&A but pricy

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Sandeep S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Biotechnology
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: December 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Used iDeals as our sell-side dataroom for a 1-year M&A process. Overall solid platform that handled the core requirements well. File management and security features worked as expected. The upload experience and keyboard shortcuts were genuinely helpful for daily work. Customer support was a bright spot - always responsive when we needed help. However, the inability to click through from logs to files was a consistent frustration when tracking due diligence activity. The pricing structure also felt inflated, particularly for smaller deployments. Good product, but the value proposition could be stronger.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 2/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

File upload performance was excellent, even with large document sets. Keyboard shortcuts made navigation efficient once you learned them. Customer support was responsive and helpful throughout our year-long M&A process.

#### Cons

Major workflow issue: you can't jump directly from the access log to the actual file that was viewed, which slowed down tracking buyer activity. Pricing felt high for our needs, especially the pricing structure for smaller data amounts

#### Reasons for switching to Ideals Virtual Data Room

seemed more professional, easier to set up security

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### Great user experice, no issues

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Theophile M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Networking
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I never had issues with iDeals, no investor complained I was using iDeals vs another vendor (it is always a risk if you take a less known name) Great user interface, easy to upload files, modify, control what you share

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Ergonomy and user experience is great i've been using iDeals for years now, with different companies

#### Cons

I it stil la pricey solution especially if you need to run a project on a longer period (eg fundraising)

#### Reasons for choosing Ideals Virtual Data Room

There are cheap alternatives that are not VDR but could do the job

#### Reasons for switching to Ideals Virtual Data Room

Firmex was very expensive at that time. otherwise I found about the same service

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### Good but not great

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: David W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Good but not great. Usually the human support team is good and thanks to [sensitive content hidden] for helping out a few times but it took over 4 hours to fix the locked data room issue

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 2/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

It's intuitive, Easy to use, The indexing feature is useful if you are adding documents at different time.

#### Cons

The pricing is confusing and there always seems to be add-ons. The Success Team don't talk to the billings team and they don't talk to the operations. My data room was locked when the billings team had sent the invoice and this was paid

#### Reasons for choosing Ideals Virtual Data Room

I was familiar with ideals and did not require a highly sophisticated VDR

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### VDR usage and comfortability

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Krishna V.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Renewables & Environment
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

using for last 2 yrs. comfortable with usage and access controls Storage capacity as per requirement

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

quick response to queries Usage is easy access controls are comfortable Email notifications where opted are regular

#### Cons

little bit higher on cost. Need to reduce a bit No other issues on Virtual Data Room to be mentioned

#### Reasons for choosing Ideals Virtual Data Room

it didn't suit us. hence Ideals (erstwhile Ethos) was selected

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### Excellent customer service, value and ease of use!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Tara T.
- Industry: Legal Services
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: August 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We recently switched from another VDR provider to Ideals, I can honestly say that the experience was seamless, great customer service, easy to use and the amazing value for your money. This was the BEST decision we have made when it comes to document management and storage. Thank you

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

We recently switched from another VDR provider to Ideals, I can honestly say that the experience was seamless, great customer service, easy to use and the amazing value for your money. This was the BEST decision we have made when it comes to document management and storage. Thank you

#### Cons

Nothing bad to say so far, if I had to think of 1 thing it would be the time difference for communication with their premium services team in Switzerland.

#### Reasons for switching to Ideals Virtual Data Room

inconsistent billing, addition fees, not transparent

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### All you need VDR offering for a good price

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Thomas v.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: August 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We have been using Ideals for many years and we have never felt the need to switch providers, while being offered and asked many times. It delivers what you need a VDR to do without overclaiming or overcharging you for functionality you don't need. It is a no nonsense platform and we have been happy to use it.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Ideals VDR prodives all you need a data room to do, for a good price. It is easy to use and offers many options to make the experience as tailored to your due diligence processes as you want. I have had the need to use the customer service many times and they are always helpful and responsive. I also appreciate the improved layout since the front end update. We have had several account managers and all of them have been very helpful in finding the subscription that fits us most, without selling us things we do not need. Downloadable project archives, next to physical USB drives, are a great addition.

#### Cons

In a few processes we needed more granular data access options withing user groups. Nothing that could not be solved within the platform though. Q&A module setup can be a bit of a hassle, and at first try not very clear.

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### iDeals solution customer feedback

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Rodolphe J.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness
- Company size: 5001-10000 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We used it for several acquisitions to share confidential documents within several persons (external and internal). Very efficient and easy to use solution.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Very secured environment dedicated for acquisitions. Easy to use. Easy to share in a secure way. Verys good and reactive support. Very good customer service manager.

#### Cons

nothing else to say that this is a very good solution

#### Reasons for choosing Ideals Virtual Data Room

Easy to use and implement quickly with less support once in production

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### Satisfied iDeals Client

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Max H.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Luxury Goods & Jewelry
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2024
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Have used iDeals for investor relations, fundraising, M&A, and internal file sharing and it has always gotten the job done

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Easy to upload docs; easy to invite users and set permissions

#### Cons

Only 2 complimentary USBs per billing cycle

#### Reasons for choosing Ideals Virtual Data Room

Satisfied with iDeals ease of use and pricing and didn't want to deal with hassle of switching over

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### Simple and easy to use without compromising on functionality

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Nick G.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

My overall experience has been positive. Ideals offers a complete deal management platform which is easy to use, without compromising on functionality.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Easy to use and navigate. Full range of functionality and file management. Great platform for overall deal management and the email notifications are helpful.

#### Cons

No cons to note. I have never had any issues with the platform and it is fully fit for purpose with no training required.

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### iDeals was an excellent choice as a VDR

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Daniel B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Industrial Automation
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: June 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Very good - would definitely use again for future projects

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Excellent user interface, but best thing was the support desk, always quick to answer and efficient

#### Cons

Would be nice if there was an App to go with it

#### Reasons for choosing Ideals Virtual Data Room

Sales person demonstrated features clearly

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### Project consultants

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Andrea M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2020
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

Overall, iDeals exceeded our expectations! iDeals is our trustful partner already (no doubts we would choose them also in the future) and we strongly recommend iDeals to any potential users. Thank you very much for the excelent mutual cooperation.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The tool is unbelievably comprehensive but still very flexible and user friendly. We appreciated the "intro online-training" - it was really helpful, very practical, we received so many hints in a short time (our "iDeals contact" was able to answer any question very clearly and was supportive during the whole project). We also liked the 24hours support (we used it and it worked to our satisfaction). The tool itself is precisely built to the smallest detail, it has a very clear structure, enormous number of various helpful reports and you can tailor it to your most specific needs. We were fascinated also by the speed of data loading. We value also a very professional and prompt communication and helpful approach of the whole iDeals team.

#### Cons

There was one thing at the end we learned from the whole process - we used a robust structure of folders and files within one dataroom (lots of subfolders and too long file names). This brought us some extra work at the end (when we needed to "archive" the whole database) - we had to "rethink" the structure a little bit to be able to archive it. The most practical way for us was to shorten some file names (that were making the whole "path" too long to be processed). So I would just make a recommendation to any users to be careful when they are building their datarooms not to go to extreme "file paths" like we did:-) But apart of this little extra work for us, we must say that iDeals was very supportive also at this stage and we managed also the final archiving process with no problems.

#### Reasons for choosing Ideals Virtual Data Room

We had no other previous experience with any similar Virtual Data Room provider and we chose iDeals based on very good references from our business partners (lawyers) and also based on the references found on the internet.

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### Data room review

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Daniel V.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

very good

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I am familiar with the software and find it very easy to use from an admin and user standpoint

#### Cons

I wish the DR hierarchy could provide the option of both numerical and letters. I try to match buyer requests list and sometimes this is difficult because iDeals only have numbers

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### Michael Davey iDeals Review

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Michael D.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: July 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The ease of uploading and organizing the documents and users

#### Cons

Sometimes I think the permission sets get a bit confusing and could be more clear

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### Satisfied with the product

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Agnė P.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Investment Banking
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2021
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Easy to use, contains all essential functions. Any disadvantages that one might think of are rather insignificant

#### Cons

In Q&A, it is not very convenient that for collaborating groups to be able to see each other's questions, one should add the other on cc'. While having many people on both groups, it's nearly impossible to explain and remind all of them to do that

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### Best bang for the buck VDR!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Naasik I.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Investment Banking
- Company size: 5001-10000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: April 2020
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

iDeals is definitely one of my go-to products now! Great overall product, very intuitive and unbeatable pricing!

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Having used 10+ other VDR providers, I can say iDeals has my favorite UI / UX and ease of use. The price point is unbeatable by a mile so for budget conscious clients. For a typical middle market / lower-middle market M&A deal, the feature sets are more than adequate. I like the easy drag and drop functionality and I must say iDeals is the only vendor who allows drag and drop from email client function. Easy permissioning and user invites.

#### Cons

I have not faced this issue myself but I am told by other colleagues they have had some security concerns about the platform. The customer support is also not as robust but frankly I did not need to use them as the product is very intuitive!

#### Reasons for choosing Ideals Virtual Data Room

Bang for the buck!

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### Essential instrument

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Cristiano P.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Easy use and well known in the m&a market

#### Cons

Nothing in particular to underljne

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### Ideals Solution - Review

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Twinkle R.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2020
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I have using data room more than 2 years and so far I have not faced difficulty. Also I would really like to appreciate the co-ordinator from Ideals Solution- [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN], he has been really proactive and helpful and has always given as the best comparitive quotation. Also there were times when I had given him very short timeline to arrange for data room access and he has never disappointed us on that. On software I would like to say that it is user friendly you dont really need a training before using the software

#### Cons

One drawback I would want to say that many a times user is not notified if any document is upload on the data room

#### Vendor response

Dear Twinkle, Thanks a lot for your feedback! The notifications for documents uploading can be configured in "My notifications" menu in the VDR settings. Please contact our support team in case you will need any assistance with this. Kind regards, Alexandra O'Brien Customer Success Manager iDeals Solutions Group

Replied September 2020

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### Simple and effective

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Vinod Kumar B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Pharmaceuticals
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used other for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We used iDeals virtual data room to host few documents for review by our consultants. The reviews were done without the need for a travel or meeting, yet the documents were shared in a secure and simple way than sending them through an emails.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The ease of use is unparalleled. It take less than 20 minutes to set up the virtual data-room and roll-out go-live. Security features are as expected. Users can be restricted from printing, downloading or viewing documents. Downloaded files are encrypted and watermarked. Q&A can be monitored through the tool. Allows visual customization such as adding your own logo.

#### Cons

Nothing specific. Allowing for pop-up message at the time of login to remind about confidentiality would've been nice.

#### Reasons for choosing Ideals Virtual Data Room

Ease of use and time taken for go-live.

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### Best choice for M&A

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Christian W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

We like to use it and can recommend i to any M&A-consultant.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Customer support und easy set up. Furthermore it's easy to use and mostly self-explaining. Pricing is reasonable for our SME clients and there's no hidden fees.

#### Cons

There's nothing to be stated, what we don't like.

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### Ideals data room

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Laurence S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: May 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I have had a very positive experience with ideals

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Ideals is a Secure and easy to use product

#### Cons

Some of the functions took a while to find

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### Great service for secure file management

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Adam S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: May 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Positive! The sales team was great at communicating.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Easy to use and get stakeholders access. We all could use this easily.

#### Cons

A bit expensive for our needs. Not high sotrage limit

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