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    Impact

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AImpact Radius is a partner management platform from the company of the same name in Santa Barbara, California. The platform touts tag management without technical assistance for marketers, tracking of all media channels for multi-channel and mobile marketing, call tracking for inbound calls, and affiliate / partner program management capabilities. Central to the platform is the Partner Manager, with its pay-for-performance affiliate management capabilities.N/A

    Recharge

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AReCharge, the eponymous subscription management software solution from ReCharge Payments headquartered in Santa Monica, is said by the vendor to have helped over 15,000 merchants launch and scale their subscription business. Be it a curated monthly box, recurring necessities or access to exclusive perks, they state ReCharge drives billions of dollars in annual processing for nearly 30 million consumers.N/A
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    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Impact
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    85%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    82%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    77%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    79%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
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    Features
    ImpactRecharge
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Impact and Recharge
    Feature
    Impact
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Recharge
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom reports7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Partner performance analytics7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of Impact and Recharge
    Feature
    Impact
    6.6
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Recharge
    -
    Ratings
    Content management6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content sharing7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Partner collaboration tools7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Partner Lifecycle Management
    Comparison of Partner Lifecycle Management features of Impact and Recharge
    Feature
    Impact
    6.4
    2 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Recharge
    -
    Ratings
    Lead distribution6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Co-op advertising6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Partner discovery and onboarding7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Referral tracking6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journey builder7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    WooCommerce Subscriptions
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Chargebee
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Zuora
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ImpactRecharge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.9
    (21 ratings)
    7.8
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ImpactRecharge
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Impact
    Any publisher looking to monetize their blogs would be a great fit. The size of the publisher probably doesn't matter. They have a wide selection of advertisers and publishers can sign up for free. Advertisers that are looking for great partners for their affiliate programs would be good fits. One of the benefits is that Impact really focuses on recruiting high-quality publishers.
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    Recharge
    If you are using Shopify and have plenty of ecommerce orders a month, Recharge is a no brainer when it comes to setting up and using a subscription service. We can't say enough about how well their team works and implements everything along the way. They also teach us common practice things to set up in the admin for customers to use, and help us with reporting and analysis to get better and grow.
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    Pros
    Impact
    • There are no hidden charges and tracking is instant and automated.
    • As an affiliate, Finding relevant offers and managing the programs is quite easy.
    • It has a great user interface which is quite easy to use and manage.
    • There is nearly zero downtime, which makes it much more efficient and reliable.
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    Recharge
    • Auto trigger subscription orders
    • Buy box widgets on the website
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    Cons
    Impact
    • User interface could be improved a little, as it is a quite difficult task to find the content or links
    • Approval from the advertisers sometimes takes a huge amount of time. If they can somehow reduce the response time, it will be great
    • New affiliates might find the onboarding process a little difficult
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    Recharge
    • We would like to see a bit more design concepts with their product page widget
    • It would also be nice if they had a "Points Program" rather than just a Loyalty Program that worked off of money back
    • Very rarely their admin UI will hang, causing us to log out and try again.
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    Usability
    Impact
    Impact has had a major impact on our business. It is pretty easy to use if you don't have multiple accounts with them, so be sure you keep things streamlined. Otherwise, it can be confusing if you have to bounce between different accounts you've applied to. While they are managed under a single login, they can be difficult to distinguish between when trying to see how successful your campaigns are.
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    Recharge
    In my experience, Recharge is very slow loading, both for our customer facing dashboards and our internal dashboards. We regularly deal with customer complaints, having difficulty using their subscription management dashboard. Working in the Recharge admin dashboard is also slow and clunky. It can be a little bit of a battle to get stuff done and it's not uncommon for analytics dashboards to simply fail to load. All in all, working with Recharge is not an enjoyable experience for me.
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    Support Rating
    Impact
    We've been reaching out requesting support for two months and no one has responded. They completely ghosted us. We've emailed the original sales rep, our account manager, our sales rep and account manager's bosses, and others. Still no response, though I can see the emails have been opened multiple times. I've never experienced worse support.
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    Recharge
    In my experience, Recharge support is... quite poor. They are slow to respond and unhelpful. Even at a different brand I worked at with an Enterprise contract and guaranteed few hour response times, they would regularly take one to three days to get back to me, which is quite a bit longer than the Enterprise support response times. I've had to get into arguments with them multiple times about bugs before they would admit them to be bugs and fix them and their go to support is to usually blame Shopify. There was one time I accidentally sent an email to a different vendor asking about Recharge support, and the other vendor provided a more helpful response than Recharge support.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Impact
    First promoter has been a phenomenal affiliate platform to use. It has everything I need from a reporting perspective. It has everything I need from a payout perspective. It has all the links, tips, and tools I need for promoting products. Overall it is a far better tool to use
    Incentivized
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    Recharge
    We actually surveyed over a dozen potential Shopify subscription apps before we finally decided to settle on Recharge. Recharge is definitely not the cheapest, but they also weren't the most expensive, either. For the all of the features and technology they offer versus what they are charging, we found it to be extremely fair (and now well worth the price).
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    Return on Investment
    Impact
    • By using Impact we were able to increase the number of advertisers on our platform.
    • Delayed payments on the part of advertisers or Impact creates so many execution issues.
    • Multi regional campaigns helped us to increase our presens in the market.
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    Recharge
    • Our subscriptions are 33% up already from our previous system
    • Email automation is working super smoothly
    • Their tools (like Cancelation Prevention) really do help with order churn
    Incentivized
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