One Call Now, an OnSolve solution vs. SchoolMessenger

One Call Now is a great program that is easy to use and provides trusted results. It helps small business like ours reduce man power when trying to send out important notifications. Traditionally, before One Call Now, we would need to send out email notifications only, and we did not have the man power to make phone calls, or the technology to send out text notifications. One Call Now allows us to do all of the above in one step.

Incentivized

This is great for schools who want a bulk package of services at a competitive cost. Older website designs limit functionality and have a very square design. SchoolMessenger has more modern templates with newer capabilities which is better for visitors of the site. The functionality is great for parents who are accessing the site on the go, which happens more often than you know.

Incentivized

• Easy interface
• Fast results and notifications
• Variety of means to communicate a message
• Excellent reports that detail who was reached and who was not reached

Incentivized

• It is widely used.

• When typing a voice message, it is not always repeated well. You need to created spaces for pauses in speech, or the reading of initials that are names such as TCDN.
• The different choices for voice could be improved upon, some are too similar.

Incentivized

• There's nothing I dislike. This program is very straight forward to use.
• It just works well.

Incentivized

SchoolMessenger serves our main purpose of sending out emergency notifications and notices to parents. It is great to cut down on the paper use and the ability to attach documents to our notes. We have used this to send home notifications from our Parent-Teacher Organization. Parents have thanked us for sending a back ups due to papers being misplaced and knowing that they have a backup through email.

Incentivized

Overall, this is a good, effective, and cost-efficient product. It is missing some key functionality we had with a previous program which limits my total score, but I still think a lot of school districts can get a lot out of SchoolMessenger. The features and functions they do include work well.

Incentivized

The support is fantastic. I have never had such complete support from a technology service. Every issue has been resolved while I was on the phone. I never had to wait for a callback or an advanced support tech. Their people are very well trained in their product and how to meet their customer's needs.

Incentivized

We have not used any other products before One Call Now .

Incentivized

Easier to use and more cost effective than shoutpoint

Incentivized

• Families enjoy being able to receive notifications on their phones via text
• Our small company has caught up with the times or modern notifications
• As a non-profit, the pricing has allowed us to continue providing this service to our families.

Incentivized

• Lost the confidence of families that we were protecting their data.
• Refused to refund our funds after they released confidential information.
• Required extensive resources to find another product.