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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Joomla

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AJoomla! is a free and open source content management system used to publish web content. Included features are page caching, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, a search function, and support for language internationalization.N/A

    Text-Em-All

    Score9.8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Text-Em-All, headquartered in Frisco, delivers personalized, informational, emergency mass text messages and phone calls, whether they’re going to five people or 50,000.

    $0.05

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    Pricing
    JoomlaText-Em-All
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $0
    Credits
    $0.05
    per credit
    Monthly
    $19
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    JoomlaText-Em-All
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Text-Em-All offers a variety of pricing plans to cater to different user needs. The monthly plan starts at $19, with pricing based on group size, making it ideal for consistent senders who reach the same group(s) each month as often as needed. Plans provide access to the full range of Text-Em-All features, to ensure a comprehensive messaging experience. Additionally, the platform offers credits, or pay-as-you-go pricing model, with costs ranging from 5¢ to 9¢ per credit, suitable for users with occasional or high-volume messaging needs. To help potential customers evaluate the service, Text-Em-All offers a free account so users can evaluate and try the service with 25 free credits.
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    Community Pulse
    JoomlaText-Em-All
    Considered Both Products
    The Joomla Project
    No answer on this topic
    Text-Em-All
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    216 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    197 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    213 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    172 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    184 Answers
    Features
    JoomlaText-Em-All
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Joomla! and Text-Em-All
    Feature
    Joomla!
    8.3
    51 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Text-Em-All
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.351 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Joomla! and Text-Em-All
    Feature
    Joomla!
    6.6
    48 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Text-Em-All
    -
    Ratings
    API7.246 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language6.047 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Joomla! and Text-Em-All
    Feature
    Joomla!
    7.7
    54 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Text-Em-All
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor8.353 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness8.551 Ratings00 Ratings
    Admin section8.249 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page templates7.052 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes6.350 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design7.550 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing workflow8.450 Ratings00 Ratings
    Form generator7.446 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Joomla! and Text-Em-All
    Feature
    Joomla!
    7.6
    52 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Text-Em-All
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy7.951 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO support7.650 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk management8.049 Ratings00 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions7.052 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community / comment management7.150 Ratings00 Ratings
    Emergency Notification System
    Comparison of Emergency Notification System features of Joomla! and Text-Em-All
    Feature
    Joomla!
    -
    Ratings
    Text-Em-All
    8.2
    26 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Mass Notification00 Ratings8.924 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Delivery00 Ratings8.423 Ratings
    Customization and Templates00 Ratings8.123 Ratings
    Geo-Targeting00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Multi-Language Support00 Ratings7.89 Ratings
    Emergency Contacts Database00 Ratings8.414 Ratings
    Two-Way Communication00 Ratings7.924 Ratings
    Notification Reporting and Analytics00 Ratings7.826 Ratings
    Integration with External Systems00 Ratings7.917 Ratings
    Mobile Notifications00 Ratings7.620 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    JoomlaText-Em-All
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    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    JoomlaText-Em-All
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (75 ratings)
    9.8
    (215 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    8.8
    (12 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (14 ratings)
    9.2
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    7.8
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.6
    (113 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    9.4
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    JoomlaText-Em-All
    Likelihood to Recommend
    The Joomla Project
    If your developers want to have some fun, Joomla offers the stability and friendliness to do custom coding. Certain marketing initiatives require us to get "cute" with the interface, and Joomla allows for that a bit easier than WordPress (and definitely easier than sites like Squarespace). The security of Joomla is also always a plus.
    Incentivized
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    Text-Em-All
    We have found them to be very good for immediate communication of a brief message to a large number of people at once. Thus, it works perfectly for a neighborhood association. It may not be suitable for longer messages or situations with excessive notifications.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    The Joomla Project
    • Security. Its got many new features in the new Joomla! 4 which make the already good security even better. I like the ability to use my Yubi keys to log in with the new webauth standard, I don't think any other CMS has that built in
    • W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 (with AA compliance)
    • Really good SEO that gets our sites to the top of the search engines again without the need for any extra things
    • Speed, it gets a really good score (100%) in the google lighthouse on our server, can't beat that
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    Text-Em-All
    • Scheduled delivery: works as it should every time and is SUPER convenient.
    • Mass contact upload: I was able to pull a report to excel and it loaded PERFECTLY to ‘Contacts’
    • Feedback: if anyone doesn’t get the message, I will know almost immediately.
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    Cons
    The Joomla Project
    • Because Joomla's user community is smaller than WP, it lacks as many choices from 3rd party developers, meaning it can be a little more difficult to find the right extension for what you need to accomplish
    • Along the same vein, most of the best 3rd-party software for Joomla! is paid
    • Simple features such as Add to Menu and Cache cleaners should be adopted as part of the Joomla! core, though they are available as extensions
    • Joomla! could use a simpler and easier URL rewriting process
    Incentivized
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    Text-Em-All
    • My initial concern was regarding the "opt out" feature. I work with the senior population, and many of whom are not that tech-savvy. I have a couple of residents who had unintentionally opted out of messages thinking it was an individual message they were skipping. I would suggest that there be a clarifying question when a user chooses to opt out; it should default to opting out of a single message and survey the user to see if they would like to opt out of receiving additional messages. My residents were wondering why they were missing information and why I hadn't informed them of important dates and events.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    The Joomla Project
    I gave it a rating of 10 because I just love how Joomla! works, how it is set up and how it handles many users. Also it is very fast, and there is no overload on the MySQL database or servers ever.
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    Text-Em-All
    Text-Em-All is a great way to get messages to our associates versus posting on a memo board and hoping they see it. Very efficient. I would recommend this great tool to companies big or small as a form of business related communications. The only thing I would change is the ability to use more characters in the messages. And it would be a plus if you can translate to different languages in the app.
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    Usability
    The Joomla Project
    Joomla! 3.x is easily installed either manually or via a script provided by your host. It contains most of the tools needed to begin creating websites right from the start. Those features that it doesn't have are easily installed via links and buttons from the thousands of extensions available in the community
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    Text-Em-All
    It's fantastic. In general, it's a 10. But I give it a 7 because of the way I know it can improve. I save my workers' names in lists...and I have only the first and last name fields to classify them. I grade my workers based on their experiences and based on their jobs; so I use the last name field to group them. This could be easier by you adding another field.
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    Reliability and Availability
    The Joomla Project
    No answers on this topic
    Text-Em-All
    The availability of the text em all is amazing specially when we needed the most to spread out the word on an event that was happening.
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    Performance
    The Joomla Project
    Today's Modern Joomla performs very well and is robust and durable. The pages load faster than they ever did in the past and Modern Joomla's integration into other software or systems has become seamless. Modern Joomla sites will last long and will stay running forever.
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    Text-Em-All
    I love the performance it provided us. Also, want to clarify that the time it takes to send out a mass text is amazing
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    Support Rating
    The Joomla Project
    Between the core Joomla developers who are excellent at answering questions and providing support, you have a whole community of developers who work with Joomla and are happy to help fellow developers out answering questions and supporting the Joomla project. Out of the many communities I am involved in for open-source software, Joomla's community is by far the best.
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    Text-Em-All
    There have been few times over the last 18 years that I have had to make changes to our billing or deal with particular tech questions and I have never had any issues with their response time or ability to be helpful once the issues were communicated
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    The Joomla Project
    It is good if you know Joomla! if not it can get a bit confusing
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    Text-Em-All
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    The Joomla Project
    Joomla has gone through tremendous growing pains. It is now better than ever. But before, when it was going from 1.5-2.5, the templates and plugins would break over and over again. If you don't understand what Joomla was trying to do back then, you might have a bad attitude toward it. Today, those pains are over and things don't break like they used to during that time period.
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    Text-Em-All
    This was the best way we were able to reach out to everyone we wanted to, being that there were some not tech-sabi elderly people. This was a better way for them to be able to get the information they needed.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    The Joomla Project
    We tested other platforms like WordPress, Magento and some local CMS. 
    But Joomla offered us better resources for generating content.
    Joomla is a CMS suitable for many types of projects, especially if you have several people editing content at the same time.
    It allows you to maintain visual standardization and offers many options for working with images.
    With its ability to control access to different articles, categories or even different components, it is a great tool, even if they are managed by different people.
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    Text-Em-All
    Our last provider was costly for what we needed. We need the ability to text, and that's it. The sense was challenging to navigate; I had to sign a one-year contract and pay thousands upfront. Text-em-all has been the best thing.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    The Joomla Project
    No answers on this topic
    Text-Em-All
    Seems like a fair price for the product
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    The Joomla Project
    No answers on this topic
    Text-Em-All
    We have never had a problem being able to use Text em all when we needed it
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    Return on Investment
    The Joomla Project
    • Joomla has reduced our costs of rolling out a new website because it uses less developer time and can be rolled out by individual users as needed.
    • Joomla has a lot of extensions and add-ons that make it easy to create and implement advanced solutions quickly.
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    Text-Em-All
    • We definitely have a higher response rate when we contact applicants via text message; it seems to be the thing people check more often than email now.
    • It saves us a lot of time wasted before with "phone tag" when employees are unable to immediately to take a call.
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    ScreenShots

    Text-Em-All Screenshots

    Screenshot of broadcast creation.Screenshot of the interface to add contacts.Screenshot of where to broadcast results.Screenshot of broadcast details.Screenshot of the contact management interface.Screenshot of two-way conversations.