ARInsights ARchitect vs. ReferralCandy

If you have an AR program across the globe and want to track all interactions you have with them, this tool is right for you. As you can imagine the tool is only as good as the data you put in, so you do have to make it part of your work day to input the data. Say a team member leaves and you have to jump in to cover for them, you are able to see all the interactions they have had with analysts

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ReferralCandy is overall a great tool that saves me time and money. Creating a referral program on your own is incredibly difficult and this tool allows for an automated system to send us an option to opt into the referral program. Their customer success team is very helpful and they're quick to get back to us when we have a question. We also love the ban feature when a customer abuses the referral program.

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• The Event Manager function is a great way plan, invite and send agendas to your analyst attendees.
• Projects - although needing more work - is a great way to track progress during an evaluation.
• Premium content is perfect for tracking mentions, sharing reports that are relevant to your constituents and reporting.

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• Integrates nicely with BigCommerce's checkout process
• Easily customizable when it comes to aesthetics
• Simple and clear admin interface

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• We would like to see some project management functions to track RFI, log follow-up actions and assign tasks inside the team.
• I'd be good to see email open state in the analyst interactions tab.
• An easier way to report insights from interactions would be hugely useful.

• I would love to see a multi-tiered referral or reward system so that we can offer certain customer groups unique offers.
• I would love a feature where you can issue a reward to a customer without them "qualifying for it".

Incentivized

As a freelancer I am unlikely to have the budget to use ARchitect on a regular basis I would however look at it seriously if asked by a client or if I was working in an agency with a significant AR practice I would look at it seriously.

Incentivized

It's super easy to use, and anything that I cannot figure out, their team usually helps me within hours of my asking!

In the instances I have had issues its been a little tricky to figure things out, some of the videos are helpful but getting email responses are not great compared to online chat and I have found that the response rates have been more than a day in some instances which is not as responsive as I would like compared to other platforms.I have seen ARInsights have made a number of new hires in the area of account management so I am sure that will have improved the support provided

Incentivized

ReferralCandy went above and beyond when it came to the initial integration of their app with our e-commerce store. They walked us through, step by step, how to install it, and then spent time helping track down a display bug that had popped up, giving us a couple free months for our trouble even!

Incentivized

Prior to using ARchitect, we were using Salesforce. While we did have some customization added, it did not nearly have the robustness that ARchitect provides -- especially since it is designed for AR professionals. We've been using ARchitect for about 8 years and have never looked back. Some examples of vast improvements: 1. Analyst firms/bios. With Salesforce, we needed to maintain all analyst bios -- something that ARchitect does. 2. Analyst coverage. We used to track all analyst coverage by visiting multiple analyst websites and manually pasting into spreadsheets. We now not only get a feed of coverage that can be exported into Excel, but we can also customize reports by topic. 3. Reporting. Salesforce did not provide the same reporting capabilities that ARchitect provides.

Incentivized

• The Event Module has taken days if not weeks out of the prep process for big events.
• ARchitect is a great way to allow communication with peers, without the need for extra emails, ect, because everyone on the team can see what each other is doing and who they are talking to about which topics.

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• ReferralCandy has been positive because it allows customers to refer new customers to discover our brand.
• We'd love to know more about how this affects our customer acquisition cost.

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