MemberVault vs. Oracle Utilities Opower Energy Efficiency Cloud Service

I recommend it for those who are maybe 1-2 employees in their business--in other words, people just starting online with their business. It's priced right, so you can still make money with few sales. Plus, the ongoing support really helps you understand how to navigate the platform. It probably wouldn't be as great for someone who has thousands of people taking a course or someone who can afford a platform like Kajabi, where you can have everything right there. Because it doesn't host everything you need, it is for the frugally minded or smaller clientele biz owner.

Incentivized

Opower is a good tool. I don't have any real problems with it other than the fact that we have to run 4 batch programs to supply them with all the data they need. Any reduction in custom programs is a big win for my company as the cost of ownership is high.

Incentivized

• They have great customer support.
• They are priced in a reasonable way for even small business owners.
• You can display all of your products on one page.
• They have weekly support through Zoom meetings.

Incentivized

• Provides week over week data to customers in an email.
• Provides suggestions to customers to curtail their usage and save money.
• Presents the data in an easy to read format.

Incentivized

• I do wish you could host video right on the platform. You can't now but have to use other video sites.
• I wish you could tailor the domain to reflect back to a page on your website.
• I like the marketplace page but wish you could design it a little bit differently.
• It's hard for people to cancel a subscription on their own.

Incentivized

• We have to run multiple batch programs to generate the extract files for Opower.
• The extract process is a little inefficient.
• We receive communication from multiple parties at Opower when there are issues. If issues came from 1 email address, that would be helpful. This is very nit-picky though.

Incentivized

Support is good. I work with 2 or 3 people at Opower when something goes wrong with our reported data. They respond in a timely manner with meaningful information. The only thing that might be helpful is to have any responses come to use via 1 common email address like support@opower.com so I can easily recognize that there's an Opower problem.

Incentivized

Both Teachable and Kajabi are much higher priced. I feel like the look of Teachable is no better than MemberVault, and so I wouldn't want to pay more for that platform. Kajabi is much more aesthetically pleasing in how it looks and all you can do, but the price is at least 3-4 times more per month. I also wanted a platform that would let me have few people, and they let me start on a free plan initially. The others did not.

Incentivized

I haven't reviewed or used any tools like Opower before. I've only been using the service for a year or so and find it to be straight forward. I don't see any real issues with it and the fact that it's now an Oracle product means that base integrations with the rest of the Utility Suite would be possible in the future.

Incentivized

• Since starting with MemberVault 4 years ago, I went from 0 customers to 850 clients, with about 220 paying customers.
• I've grown my mailing list by about 1000 by using this platform.
• I wish they worked with all email providers because I have to pay more for Zapier. This hurts my sales profit.
• Their plan to grandfather us into the price we originally paid helps me save money each year as I add more products.

Incentivized

• We are able to fulfill our state regulatory requirements fairly easily with the tool.
• The reporting to Opower is automated through batch programs so it doesn't require manual work.
• We sometimes generate and send the data to Opower but they report they didn't get it. This requires manual intervention to send the same file again.

Incentivized