Certent Equity Management vs. Coinbase

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Certent Equity Management
Score 7.2 out of 10
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Certent Equity Compensation Management, now part of Insightsoftware since the January 21 acquisition, helps companies stay compliant in the administration of equity awards and grants.N/A
Coinbase
Score 7.6 out of 10
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Coinbase is a digital currency exchange (Coinbase Pro) and crypto-oriented software solution suite for businesses, including hosted checkout pages, payment buttons, invoicing, and multiple ecommerce integrations (Coinbase Commerce), a turnkey solution for brokerages, exchanges, and fintechs enabling them to offer customers crypto (Coinbase Prime), crypto asset custody (Coinbase Custody), and a wallet to self-store crypto (Coinbase Wallet).
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Pricing
Certent Equity ManagementCoinbase
Editions & Modules
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$100K-$1M
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$10-50K
$0.35
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<$10K
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Certent Equity ManagementCoinbase
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Certent Equity ManagementCoinbase
User Ratings
Certent Equity ManagementCoinbase
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(3 ratings)
8.4
(28 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
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Support Rating
-
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6.4
(2 ratings)
Online Training
6.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Certent Equity ManagementCoinbase
Likelihood to Recommend
Insightsoftware, Inc
Certent Equity Management is well suited in the following ways: 1. [The] software provides seamless integration to internal software. 2. [It provides] detailed reports of market equity management. 3. [The] software prepares financial equity footnotes for 10k reporting very well. 4. It helps with award modification [as] needed. 5. I enjoy doing capitalization tables.
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Coinbase
I think Coinbase is extremely suitable for people who are just starting to get into crypto-related activities. Based on how easy it is to use along with the brand recognition I think it offers beginners a better sense of security. Just like all trading platforms, it is extremely easy to get carried away as you only have to confirm your purchase twice and it goes through. It would not be very suitable for those who have little self-control.
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Pros
Insightsoftware, Inc
  • Expense calculations – the whole accounting for equity awards is pretty technical and not real easy to follow. It does a good job of calculating GAAP expense for each award.
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Coinbase
  • Coinbase has a really nice looking design which offers for a better user experience.
  • Coinbase is extremely easy to use.
  • Coinbase does a great job delivering company news/changes to its users.
  • Coinbase offers frequent updates which makes you feel more secure using their services.
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Cons
Insightsoftware, Inc
  • There are no features that are hard to use or that I would like to see improved.
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Coinbase
  • Just like other apps(venmo, cashapp, PayPal) it keeps all your trade portfolio under coin based. Not transferable
  • Even though, they give you a starting balance of $10. They do wants you to put at least $10 of your money
  • The training video are simple. Learn about US dollar coin, USD, and bitcoin. But it doesn't teach you how to be a savvy trader. That will take additional education
  • You can't add small cryptocurrency like BAR to your portfolio. It certain amount to trade with.
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Likelihood to Renew
Insightsoftware, Inc
I personally like the Equity Edge software better. The reporting is better and the software easier to use. The reason we didn’t continue to work with them is we didn’t want to use E-Trade as captive broker.
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Coinbase
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Usability
Insightsoftware, Inc
Pretty easy to go through and learn on your own.
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Coinbase
Great UI, Great tools for education learning with freebies, eqsy onboard, site and app are pretty good. Good API documentation. The opposite is high fees and slow support when needed. Overall it is good for its simple use and balance between beginners and professional traders making it a great choice and this is why it is one of the most famous site out there.
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Reliability and Availability
Insightsoftware, Inc
I can only remember a couple of times when cannot access the system.
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Coinbase
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Insightsoftware, Inc
We do not access support directly. We go through Plan Mosaic.
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Coinbase
I haven't needed to contact support for Coinbase yet—it's probably because it is super easy to use and very intuitive. If I were to use the support, it would probably be better than these other companies because most of the other ones come from foreign markets or aren't as big as Coinbase.
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Online Training
Insightsoftware, Inc
We had a 2 hour introduction to the software over a Webex meeting by Plan Mosaic, and a user guide. Plan Mosaic is a reseller.
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Coinbase
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Implementation Rating
Insightsoftware, Inc
A lot of decisions had been made already when I joined. I thought it was a fairly smooth process. You just need to make sure that you do a good job of auditing all the awards that are transferred from system to system. We did a reverse stock split that caused challenges with rounding of shares.
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Coinbase
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Alternatives Considered
Insightsoftware, Inc
As an organization, we have evaluated various Equity management and accounting software before shortlisting and testing these software and finally selecting 1 software. It has a user-friendly interface that helps and encourages employee participation. Moreover, it has simple and easy-to-understand grants and reporting, which are illustrated by easy-to-understand examples.
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Coinbase
Coinbase is just better overall, with access to investments that can be traded for USD. As well as the crypto that can gain interest, Coinbase is amazing at educating the user along with providing real-time data, that allows the user to make the best decision they can when making this kind of risky investment. Coinbase takes the risk out of Crypto.
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Return on Investment
Insightsoftware, Inc
  • It helps with taxation compliance, which could be a major issue.
  • [The] uploaded template helps with large amounts of data [that needs] uploading in grants and helps keep a lean team in management and operations.
  • [The] availability of different types of reports makes transactional activity easy.
  • Accounting, reporting, and disclosures become easy.
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Coinbase
  • It's saved time from figuring out how to buy and sell cryptocurrencies
  • It makes monitoring market prices and fluctuations in the value of crypto holdings very easy and simple. Which also saves time.
  • We don't do as high of volume so the lower transaction costs even though there is a slight premium saves us a lot of money in contrast to many of the exchanges that can charge 4-5+% transaction costs.
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