HeySummit Reviews: 4.8/5 — Highly Rated

When we decided to launch online summits for our business we explored many overpriced and complicated solutions. Eventually, we landed on HeySummit which has been an amazing platform that has not only helped us increase our lead generation to 10,000+ (per event that we run), but also helped us increase the revenue we earn. That platform has various different features and integrations that enabled us to increase our conversion rate optimization. Not only that, but we've also been able to generate a generous customer LTV because of the amazing user experience we are able to provide our attendees, thanks to HeySummit. Running online Summits has been very fruitful for our business and I don't think there is any platform better than HeySummit

Anytime I dislike something (which is always something minor) or need to request a feature I reach out to their support team and they get it fixed or implemented right away. I have no complaints, and nothing to dislike about HeySummit, to be honest.

Generating leads, affordable event platform, beautiful UI / UX, amazing customer support

After trying to frankenstien together a hybrid virtual/in-person event using multiple different tools and softwares I stumbled upon HeySummit and was blown away. The user experience is fantastic. When it says they have everything you need for an event they literally mean EVERYTHING. The setup is simple and there are a ton of integrations. Everything from the page builder to the actual event layouts make it a fully complete solution. It's also nice that there's an onboarding call and group calls to assist you with anything you need.

Minor detail but you can use stripe or paypal as your payment processor but not both at the same time. You can only select one of the two gateways. It would be nice if the user was given the option.

The biggest problem HeySummit solved was streamlining the event process. For anyone who has planned an event before you know how many components there are to bring it to life. HeySummit has all of them. From landing page builders to affiliate tickets to give aways to the actual event (even in person events). Set up was surpisingly fast and easy.

I purchased HeySummit through AppSumo in 2019 and, unlike many AppSumo deals, HeySummit has never wavered from their support. HeySummit is also continuously improving and it gets better with every improvement. Lastly, they are serious about listening to their customers.

HeySummit can send out a lot of emails to registrants with the default settings, fortunately it is easy to selectively turn off the emails you do not wish to send.

An online summit has a lot of moving parts: registration/ticket sales, upsells, event landing page, speaker management, sponsor management, agenda management, streaming or video management, support and post-event follow up. HeySummit handles all of these aspects of online summit management with ease. The continual improvements to the HeySummit interface make my job a lot easier.

HeySummit is built with all stakeholders of an event in mind; the attendee is put first, but all the other people that need to come together are also considered. This is huge; a software product rarely designs solutions for all of the 'headaches' and 'jobs' that everyone must do in a virtual event.

HeySummit is still a fairly young platform, and while updates are consistent and frequent, there are still 'nice-to-have' features that are warranted. The good news is they are rapidly deploying these features and listening to customer feedback.

Most virtual event solutions are either a) bulky, not intuitive, full of features and bloat but clunky to use b) built only for enterprise customers and therefore running at many thousands of dollars a month c) missing key features i.e. only really being a slightly glorified webinar platform or d) all of the above. HeySummit isn't these things; Hey Summit's real appeal is that it hits a sweetspot of usability, key features but it's been built in a way that puts everyone's experience first. It genuinely is built in a way to simplify the process of putting together, running and marketing an event and helping to save a tonne of time in the process.

Easy to understand and use Comprehensive Summit experience Esthetically pleasing graphic design Almost daily improvements Office Hours for fast and personalized answers

Not much actually... Some integrations are missing... Would love to have the offers, freebies and gievaways linkable (and customizable) to each talk... or not The "Register for all" new toggle is too small ... people are missing it! Tiny details as you see...

Easy place to "have it all together" when organizing events! Hey Summit is user-friendly and esthetically pleasing, fully customizable and offers many options, including evergreen events.

The best part of HeySummit is the way you can pre-record your presentations and yet deliver a genuinely live experience to your audience. You can easily create a lively and engaged event using their dynamic talk pages that give attendees the feeling of moving from one great session to the next.

Some attendees need help figuring out the log-in process. They can register fine but need additional advice, if they are not tech savvy, to get onboarded and logged in the site.

To create a stellar learning experience for thousands of writers: I'm able to design premium training programs, with 20+ speakers, just with a small team -- plus HeySummit's affiliate marketing tools do a great job of encouraging people to share the event with their own audience.

-Super professional way to deliver events -Easy to bring together speakers and have them curate their attendee-facing collateral -Way, way exceeds other ways of doing events (e.g. using Zoom webinar, with other resources provided in Google Drive or Docs or via a webpage I'd have to build myself) -Easy for attendees to access content -Easy for me to offer both free and paid tickets, and to restrict content to certain ticket levels

-Would love more customizable landing page -Would love for it to be clearer what standard emails are going out to attendees / speakers That said, they are *super* open to feedback and one feature I requested was added within 3 days!

How to deliver a comprehensive, professional virtual event without building a lot of tech stuff from scratch. I'm a solopreneur so I don't have the bandwidth to build a whole website for my event.

The interface is pretty intuitive and the help section answered all my questions. I love the ease of setup and the ability to communicate with my speakers and participants directly through the platform.

Like with any tool, there's a learning curve, and it took me a minute to figure out how to navigate. I did have some questions and a few missteps, but testing helped.

Online summits have a lot of moving parts, and manually keeping track of all the information and communication involved is a challenge. That's all handled right inside this platform and that's a game changer.

Simple interface, good functionality and good backend

I need more functionality for sponsors and exhibitors

Raising risk awareness globally at minimal cost and in the most effective way

Maybe a bit of my story will be useful. I am an author and teacher and when Covid struck, I moved all of my in-person training programs online. I became obsessed with finding the best platform to deliver my classes and work with students online in the most powerful and effective ways. And, during this time, my wife was attending a number of online conferences. Through her and is many emails I was receiving from various professional organizations, I kept hearing the term "Virtual Summits". I became intensely curious and out of my research, it was very clear that a virtual summit was an incredibly powerful way to deliver great content to a much wider audience than one can reach alone, as you have a built-in marketing machine from the cooperative efforts of the "speakers" at your event promoting the summit to their audiences. So, I started to look for a Virtual Summit Platform to produce my first event. I discovered that there are many platforms! I had certain requirements both in technical aspects and in budget. Some of the platforms were either too confusing to use, did not have all the technical capabilities I wanted and some were just crazy expensive and geared more toward big corporations. I wanted a platform that had great flexibility in how I could deliver the actual speaker sessions, (live, pre-recorded as live, etc) in email capabilities, in having sponsors and in the design of the Summit site. I also needed to know that the experience for the attendees would be seamless and that they would enjoy the speaker sessions when they attended. Also, I wanted a platform where I could sell different kinds of tickets for the events and connect the ticketing to my Stripe account and easily sell "total access" type tickets for the replays after the actual event has ended. In other words, have the event continue to live online as an "evergreen" event and gain ongoing promotion for my online courses, for the products of the other speakers and for the sponsors. So, after much testing and creating "test summits" on as many platforms as I could manage to get my hands on, it became absolutely clear to me that the only one that fulfilled everything I was looking for was HeySummit. That's when I purchased my subscription to the HeySummit platform and I am currently in the planning stages for my first two events. One more very big key for me! The founder of the company and the support team and the development team! I had the opportunity to talk with the founder of HeySummit and he was so generous to share with me the vision of the company and where it is headed and its commitment to excellence with the HeySummit platform. And I have found all of his words to be true with the way I see the platform growing and improving even in just the time I have been a subscriber. And the support team! They are incredibly responsive and thoughtful and really care about my questions and technical needs! This is huge for me and it has been a great confirmation that I chose the best possible platform for my events. I can count on them! And the development team too! So responsive and excellent. Here is a simple but profoundly important example. I must be able to post links for my speakers so that attendees can find their products and services after the event, and HeySummit has many ways to do this. In almost every way to include links inside HeySummit, when the person clicks the link, a new browser window will open. But I discovered just one place, inside the "speaker bio" that gave me the ability to hyperlink some text, but when it gets clicked on, it takes the person out of the summit site. So I emailed the support team and asked if they could change this so that when the hyperlinked text was clicked on, it would open a new browser window and the person would still have the Summit site open. Very quickly, the support team replied and told me they would give my note to the development team and then, very quickly, the development team added this as a new feature. GREAT! And when I went back and checked my hyperlinks on the bios, they all worked and they opened a new browser window so that I never left the summit. WOW! I know this may seem like. small detail but it is HUGE to me, that I can count on the team at HeySUmmit to be so responsive and to care so much for all of the small details that ultimately help me produce a successful virtual summit.

Truly, there is nothing that I dislike. If there was, I would still be testing other platforms.

Simply, HeySummit is giving me the ability to produce the most effective and beautiful and technically excellent virtual summit.

The platform simply works and works well we have only tested it as plans for our major Summit were all shelved due to COVID but we know when we are ready our partner platform will be Hey Summit. The systems and tool are all well designed and well thought through by people who have actually run amazing Summits in the past.

Nothing it's all amazing - I have nothing to say bad about this platform

There are no issues that were not solved we have nothing but praise we cant wait till the world if back to normal

1. plugs into my current tech stack for a turn key solution (ie, GoToWebinar, Zoom, Payment Processing, Video streaming) 2. modern and simple experience to navigate as a host and or attendee 3. the product roadmap is open to the public, highly innovative, and continue to push great enhancements

1. the bank transfers took awhile to understand and in the end we still saw unexpected fees which made us wish we increased our ticket price 2. reporting and analytics need more development; although they have a good amount of data, it's spread across multiple reports that live in different places s would like to see them combined into one data set.

HeySummit is an online event 'container' that gives you the fundamentals of hosting an event and enabling you to build out within your existing tech stack or purchase complimentary applications to get exactly what you need. You're not stuck in their one world; you have an open API network to plug into anything really. This helps us significantly reduce costs (#CheapAsChips), self-serve without the need for support or an Account manager, and provides a unified, seamless experiences from consideration to attendance.

Makes it very easy to add a landing page of an online summit and ticketing

Could be improved in terms of update pacing

Making my own online summit

Support is amazing and the product does what it's meant to do.

A few features need improving (eg the discussion forum), but they are always working on these things.

Conductring an online conference event is made easy(ier) with this product.

It's a very comprehensive platform that has a ton of features for putting on virtual summits. It also can be useful for hosting webinars too. Support is responsive via live chat. I've suggested a few features and they have actually said "That's a great idea" and implemented them within a week. Awesome service.

No major issues. On occasion I've found some missing functionality that would be helpful - but - then they've said "That's a great idea" and either implemented it in a week, or added it to their roadmap.

HeySummit helps us manage, host, and stream virtual summits and webinars with >10k registrants per event. Doing events of this size can be a lot to manage. Other virtual summit and webinar platforms either: 1) don't have the functionality for hosting a virtual summit with multiple sessions in a day with a simple interface for registrants; or 2) are unnecesarily complicated and expensive. HeySummit is an easy-to-use, cost-effective platform that has tons of functionality. We found it was so effective of a platform that we ditched Zoom Webinars entirely and now host all of our webinars on HeySummit.

I love how easy it is to customize my event site so it looks distinct and professional. Having a built-in dashboard so speakers can manage their own session details makes setup more streamlined. Plus the robust analytics are very helpful - I especially appreciate being able to track how each attendee found out about the event.

I wish there were more of a way to incorporate exhibitors and sponsors. So far, there's no exhibit area in HeySummit. I've heard how some people created workarounds by scheduling sponsor "talks," but it's not quite the same thing as having a dedicated place for attendees to engage with sponsors/exhibitors.

I used HeySummit to produce my virtual summit last year. Everything ran smoothly, and attendees were pleased. Another part I appreciate is how great the support team is about providing updates and events where we can learn more about not only the software, but also how to produce better online events.

Ease of use Integration with multiple webinar platforms like Bigmarker, Zoom and video platforms like Vimeo and YouTube as well as custom links Ability to create good looking registration landing pages quickly

Some more options for gamification/offers would be nice. Also, ability to have vendor/sponsor showcases

Organizing a hybrid virtual summit (partly pre-recorded and partly live) We used HeySummit and its integration with Bigmarker to achieve our goals

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Hey Summit was nice to have everything needed for an event on one platform from speakers to attendeees. Fairly easy to get set up once you figure it out. The learning curve was not terribly steep.

If you are not careful in the email selection settings your attendees could get innodated with emails and get frustrated. If your speakers are all on different days it might be useful, but when they are back to back, the emails' sequence is too much.

Coordinating an event, marketing the event and then holding the event. We did our first Hey Summit event as a live training event and fundraiser.