PartnerStack vs. Sprout Social

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
PartnerStack
Score 7.7 out of 10
N/A
PartnerStack is a partnerships platform and network built for SaaS, designed to deliver predictable revenue and accelerate growth for software businesses and their partners. The vendor states companies like Apollo, Webflow and Monday.com use PartnerStack to manage and scale their partner programs, automating partner onboarding, training, payments and more to drive their partners' success. They further state that in the past year alone, partners in the PartnerStack Network have generated…N/A
Sprout Social
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Sprout Social provides social media management, marketing, customer care, data and intelligence, and employee advocacy solutions for brands and agencies, including Ticketmaster, Chipotle, Grubhub, Subaru, and Zendesk. Sprout’s platform is used to simplify social publishing, engagement, reviews, analytics and listening for customers. Sprout also provides customer success and technical support, to deliver consistent value to all users. Any organization, regardless of size or industry, receives…
$249
per month per user
Pricing
PartnerStackSprout Social
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Essentials
$79 per seat/per month annual / $99 per seat/per month monthly
Standard
$199 annual / $249 monthly
per user/per month
Professional
$299 annual / $399 monthly
per user/per month
Advanced
$399 annual / $499 monthly
per user/per month
Free Trial
Free
for 30 days
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PartnerStackSprout Social
Free Trial
YesYes
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
PartnerStackSprout Social
Features
PartnerStackSprout Social
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
PartnerStack
-
Ratings
Sprout Social
7.4
111 Ratings
3% below category average
Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings7.178 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings7.193 Ratings
Sentiment analysis00 Ratings7.375 Ratings
Broad channel coverage00 Ratings8.187 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
PartnerStack
-
Ratings
Sprout Social
8.3
139 Ratings
3% above category average
Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings9.2139 Ratings
Audience targeting00 Ratings7.4106 Ratings
Content optimization00 Ratings8.2122 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings8.4121 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
PartnerStack
-
Ratings
Sprout Social
8.1
126 Ratings
0% above category average
Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings7.881 Ratings
Customer interaction histories00 Ratings8.1111 Ratings
Bulk actions00 Ratings8.2110 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
PartnerStack
-
Ratings
Sprout Social
7.2
93 Ratings
7% below category average
Lead generation00 Ratings7.167 Ratings
Content marketing00 Ratings8.289 Ratings
Paid media management00 Ratings6.23 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings7.24 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
PartnerStack
-
Ratings
Sprout Social
8.5
138 Ratings
2% above category average
Twitter00 Ratings8.9122 Ratings
Facebook00 Ratings8.8137 Ratings
LinkedIn00 Ratings8.8125 Ratings
Google+00 Ratings7.846 Ratings
Instagram00 Ratings8.7127 Ratings
Pinterest00 Ratings8.346 Ratings
YouTube00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
PartnerStack
-
Ratings
Sprout Social
8.3
140 Ratings
7% above category average
Campaign success analytics00 Ratings8.7132 Ratings
Real-time tracking00 Ratings8.2128 Ratings
Competitor analysis00 Ratings8.1116 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
PartnerStack
-
Ratings
Sprout Social
8.0
132 Ratings
1% above category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings8.5126 Ratings
Mobile access00 Ratings7.5119 Ratings
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User Ratings
PartnerStackSprout Social
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(18 ratings)
8.4
(176 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.5
(65 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.6
(103 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(8 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
4.7
(38 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(11 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(27 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
PartnerStackSprout Social
Likelihood to Recommend
PartnerStack, Inc
creating co-branded gateway pages with your branding to collect leads from channels or referrers without having them leave your current website. managing all element of the referral programme, including authorising new partners, tracking connections, and emailing referrals. integrating with already-existing programmes like GitLab, Salesforce, and MailChimp to provide a smooth user experience. PartnerStack has the essential components needed for any Partner Program and can be integrated with your current infrastructure. With the help of the platform PartnerStack, we can create and oversee your whole relationship strategy. Manage our partners and rewards in one location by using the PartnerStack platform. build specialised partner experiences Use competitions, leaderboards, and gamification to inspire our teammates. give partners customised marketing materials (like swag) and incorporate tracking of their usage with PartnerStack
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Sprout Social
Sprout Social is a great tool, but it comes with a high per-seat price. In my opinion, this tool is great for a well-established brand, but for any start-up or multi-person agency, the cost can add up quickly and make or break your decision to use it. The reason for the lower recommendation score is a recent and ongoing issue I am facing with getting out of our current agreement. In our experience, Sprout Social makes it impossible to do, and the way they get you to agree to a year-long contract is a little shady. No contract is renewed after a year; just a simple email asking if you want to make any changes. In my experience, if you are not fully aware of what you agreed to a year ago, they will get ya, and you will be in the position we are in now. After experiencing this, I see that it is common among Sprout Social users looking for a more cost-effective option. Big bummer considering the monthly price users are paying.
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Pros
PartnerStack, Inc
  • This is the best tool so far which helps me to manage the business relations, through this software I have got more power to control my various channels.
  • it is my everyday need to manage the tasks that are associated with my partners who own a particular platform like my Omni channels. It is handling everything in appropriate way.
  • Now I feel more confident in analyzing the on-boarding working of my partners and I am not at all worried about the payouts and compliance. This tool has helped me to better engage with them.
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Sprout Social
  • Social Scheduling: Sprout Social makes it easier than any platform I've used to schedule posts with each, and to batch-schedule the same post to run on multiple dates. The scheduling platform is intuitive and easy to understand.
  • Social Reporting: With just a few clicks of the button, you can easily export reports that are easy for both social media experts and complete novices to understand. I like how you can get a report within 60 seconds or so if needed.
  • Customer Service/Help: Whenever I've had a question, both my Sprout Social rep and the Help Center have been extremely easy to contact and quick to reply. Problems are solved very fast and it's made easy to understand.
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Cons
PartnerStack, Inc
  • They don't provide any html or iframe script which most of the similar websites provide which I can easily add into my website
  • They have very few programs into their network when compared to other similar networks. It would be great if they could add more programs into their network.
  • Wish it had a filter for the marketplace? There are programs which pays per lead where as some pays per sale. And some pays % and some pays $.
  • About a month ago my account was suspended and I contacted them about it and was told that due to some violations of their "Terms of Service", it was suspended. And I tried contacting them but after that email they just ignored my email. No reply after even 5 - 6 emails so I stopped emails also. Few days ago I received mail from them saying my account was mistakenly suspended in a effort to remove fraudulent activity from their network & now I have started working again with them. After I got access to my account again, all of the programs I had joined were removed from my account and now I have to apply to every program once again. It would be great if they could do something from their end and join me to all those programs from their end easily rather then me applying to everyone once again.
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Sprout Social
  • I would like for Personal Instagram Accounts to be able to integrate with Sprout Social's Employee Advocacy platform. You are able to connect personally accounts to Sprout Social itself, which is great, but for employee re-sharing internal stories, this is not possible unless it is with a Business Instagram account.
  • I would like for the left hand tool bar to be more user friendly. There are so many tools and settings that are available, and I would like for it to be simplified in a way that makes it less cluttered.
  • An improvement can be made with the Sprout Social Mobile App. The user friendliness of the app does not allow as much autonomy as the regular webpage.
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Likelihood to Renew
PartnerStack, Inc
Because it delivers what they promise.
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Sprout Social
Sprout Social is the best platform out there for social-media management, and now that I have all my clients using Sprout Social, it would be sort of silly for me to walk away format at this juncture. The only cloud on the horizon would be if Salesforce bought it (as has been rumored) and put it inside its walled garden.
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Usability
PartnerStack, Inc
Usability is the best part about PartnerStack. It's simply great!
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Sprout Social
Sprout Social is straightforward to use - built for anyone regardless of tech experience to be able to navigate. It integrates pretty seamlessly to the native platforms and brings a lot of things together to make a seamlessly experience for seasoned social media managers.
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Reliability and Availability
PartnerStack, Inc
No answers on this topic
Sprout Social
Uptime was OK, but given the fact that we are in Europe, there were some specific problems: They tended to take the system down for maintenance during the night in the US, which was during our workday. This was definitely problematic and hard to explain to our clients.
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Performance
PartnerStack, Inc
No answers on this topic
Sprout Social
It is quick to post, however you have to refresh the page every time you add a new scheduled item.
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Support Rating
PartnerStack, Inc
No answers on this topic
Sprout Social
The chat and online resources are great. The managers are too. They go through account reps pretty fast. Also, not a lot of onboarding once a product or service is sold. The ticket request system is terrible, they have too many people switching off roles, they take a long time to get back to you and don't plan on anything being fixed over a weekend - even if you have a problem. Their customer service via tickets is the worst.
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Online Training
PartnerStack, Inc
No answers on this topic
Sprout Social
Their training is good, but the promotion of it is even better. I don't need or have the time for training, but I was always happy to know it was there. They did a great job sending updates out and making me aware when there was a new feature that I may want training for. As for the training I never used it, so I can't comment on that
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Implementation Rating
PartnerStack, Inc
No answers on this topic
Sprout Social
Make sure you do it all the way. Do not break it into phases. Pour yourself a coffee, start it in the morning and you'll be done before you finish that coffee.
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Alternatives Considered
PartnerStack, Inc
PartnerStack provides a faster interface and seems to be less confusing to use. In turn, this saves us time, especially if we just need to get a quick snapshot of the programs we're a part of and their overall health. Reporting is good for the metrics we need, but I would love more advanced reporting at some point and to see where we send the most traffic from - social, website, etc.
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Sprout Social
Takes the best of all of these and puts them in one place. I am yet to find a feature that these have that are not on Sprout Social, while there are many missing features on these platforms that come with Sprout Social as standard.
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Return on Investment
PartnerStack, Inc
  • We have had the option to keep up with our snap rates and have brought in a lot of cash by this setup.
  • Accomplices like PartnerStack in view of the straightforwardness with which they can get their installments and the straightforwardness with which they can follow the progress of their references.
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Sprout Social
  • One positive impact has been a huge time saver for our team. Where we once had multiple systems and delays from producing content to approval to publishing, now everything is seamless.
  • Another positive impact is streamlining the onboarding process for new team members. Sprout Social is user-friendly and intuitive, making it easy to study even for someone completely new to social media.
  • One negative impact has been the time it takes to wade through irrelevant social listening posts. The filtering is not effective enough to eliminate the noise.
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ScreenShots

PartnerStack Screenshots

Screenshot of a view of the PartnerStack dashboard; from here, users manage can all partner programs and see their impact.

Sprout Social Screenshots

Screenshot of Sprout’s social media publishing tools, used to schedule and post messages to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn simultaneously from a single Compose window.