Alkami vs. Crowded

If you are looking for a high-quality online banking product and you don’t want/need to customize it too much, Alkami is a great choice- it has a lot out of the box and the people are great. If you need a lot of customization, and you don’t have the internal resources to help you do that, Alkami may be a challenge to satisfy your needs.

Incentivized

Crowded is very well suited for fraternities, or any non-profit community groups really, that have a centralized fund and rely on members purchasing equipment and materials individually. Any company that requires reimbursements and has to manage dues from numerous members should take advantage of this free application, as it provides a really easy way to manage the finances of an organization

• Mobile-first design is great on both iOS and Android.
• Broad array of retail banking capabilities.
• A large array of integrated partner products to enhance the core functionality of the base product.
• SDK and API-centric architecture are helping to design for the future of banking applications.

Incentivized

• Good customer service.
• Easy-to-use, free software.
• Useful features.
• A sufficient product for its target market.

• SDK and APIs are not fully mature - while they are functional and have a bright future, the support infrastructure is not fully developed.
• Custom development can take a long time.
• They may be focused on sales over support given their recent public offering.

Incentivized

• Collaborating more with fraternities to sponsor events.
• Making payments to nationals even easier.

We were using GreekBill before to manage our funds and dues, and it was very outdated and unhelpful. Crowded was much more simple, easy to use, and had way more functions.

• Enabled a solid mobile first.
• Ember experience.
• Allowed flexibility via the SDK.
• Allowed us to focus on the business needs over the technology infrastructure.

Incentivized

• It has allowed us to keep track of all our finances and not lose track of funds.
• It has allowed us to lower dues because of this increased accountability and organization.
• No more reimbursement forms and Venmo payments!