ShortStack Reviews: 4.5/5 — Highly Rated

What I like best about this application is that if you want an engaging link in your Instagram bio, then this is the application to have as it creates social contests amongst customers and views of one's page which is good for engagement. The features you can use depend on the kind of contests you wish to launch, this means there is a wide variety of features with the application. Aside from using the link on one's Instagram bio, you can also embed the contest landing page on your website to maiximize visibility and generate more entries this means the link is able to use everywhere including in WhatsApp messages.

What I dislike about this application is that it takes a while to get set up before one can use the link, it requires one to have a lot of tech knowledge in order to use it.

The problem that this application is solving is that of allowing companies, small business owners, and even regular persons the chance to always engage persons on social media.

Customer service is A+, and the range of customization is fantastic!!

No dislikes. This is a great program and if you have questions, they are always ready to help!

Short stack helps our organization get more traffic to our social and websites and also has so many more features we are excited to use!

I love how easy and quick you can set up a very professional looking site that allows you to collect important data and re-market to those who enter. There is a bit of a learning curve on all the widgets, but once you figure them out it makes developing your entry site a snap. ShortStack has allowed us to collect entries, survey questions and encourage social media engagement with our brand, resulting in increased awareness and new consumer acquisition opportunities. The ShortStack field points feature makes it easy to award extra entries. With this feature, you choose which fields entrants will receive extra entries for filling out and how many points those fields are worth. When choosing a winner, these extra entries can be applied to increase the chances of winning for those who earned them. Plus, our Earn Extra Points Giveaway template is an easy way to get started.

I honestly have not had any big issues or dislikes with ShortStack other than maybe it starts to get a bit pricy when you have to move up plan levels to the Brand Plan (once you exceed over 50,000 entries) but you do have the option to pause the account while not in use and you can also download and clear the number of entries in order to downgrade levels.

Gathering soft leads, Brand Awareness, Social Media Engagement (User Generated Content), Re-Marketing Database and opportunity to offer direct purchase promotional offers to help increase sales.

It's easy to use and fairly simply to customize which makes the entire expierence pretty pleasant.

I wish it was a little less expensive as far as a license goes.

We are building our customer database through contesting.

It's incredibly easy to use and integrates seamlessly with mailchimp and websites.

There is a bit of a learning curve and the customizable options could be expanded.

We used Shortstack for internal contests for our Fortune 500 company of around 300 people. It was a great way to streamline raffles, weekly incentive contests and fundraisers.

Ease of use, customer service, lots of customization and options, very affordable

I've only ever received one package of great ShortStack swag from their customer service department, love my green ShortStack t-shirt. Seriously though I can't think of anyting I really dislike.

Better workflow, shorter development time, better integrity, ease of use, creative design. etc.

We are new to the platform but have been so impressed with their quick, customized customer service. Very responsive and so helpful!

There's definitely a learning curve but that's par for the course when you're using something with a high level of capabilities.

lead generation, nice design

I like that I can customize it to fit my brand style guides. That way the users don't realize that they are a actually on a 3rd party site. They think they are still on our homepage.

I don't like that the interface for building the forms. Can be confusing when creating a form from scratch.

We are using it to build forms on site, without having to go to engineering or product teams. That way we can just build the forms ourselves. Saves us time and resources, as sometimes we can get limited to none.

We have benefited greatly from the Photo Contest functionality. It does all the heavy lifting needed in order to pull off all the necessary things for a successful contest.

At the moment there is nothing I can think of.

Being able to utilize their lead gen and contest functionality has enabled us to quickly and efficiently launch marketing initiatives that otherwise we would not be able to accommodate in our budget. Did I mention how user-friendly it's interface is as well as the accompanying knowledgebase that has been built out!

The ease of making monthly photo contests for several FB pages

A little limited on design features - would like to be able to choose more colors and styles

Proper FB contests where I don't have to worry about the guidelines, rules and such.

Almost immediate support Many many functionalities Many templates and tools to use for social media Ease in navigation Easy to understand how it works Very good initial training

Nothing to be honest except that it gets a bit expensive at higher levels of usage

Facebook contest to clients I would need an IT to host

Super easy to set up and very easy to make changes and publish them.

Nothing! Everything has always worked great!

For clients that don't have websites it's very helpful to use. Also for clients that have "form" submissions it's great to be able to track the submissions.

If you run a fast based business with multiple social media/marketing channels, and need to run promotions or special content quickly and without much in the way of technical skills, then give ShortStack a go,

There's nothing significantly problematic which is in the control of ShortStack, the API's offered by social platforms are sometimes a little lacking, but we can normally figure out a way to achieve what we need.

Our current web platform doesn't work well on mobile devices and is quick technical to use (we're fixing that!), but right now, ShortStack lets us build content quickly and easily for mobile targeted marketing.

So many thing I love about the software, it works and has frequent updates.

Not much, love it.............................................................................................................

Running contests and building websites fast.

I like how quick and easy it is to build and even customize a form.

The ONLY thing I dislike is that adding custom CSS isn't as easy as creating a form with the standard builder.

We often need to collect information and webhook it into our platform. We use ShortStack to create these form.

We use ShortStack for all of our contests. It makes it easy for us to collect entries from forms on our website and from Facebook posts. We also like being able to schedule visibility so that the forms are not visible after a certain timeframe.

It would be great if ShortStack integrated with more social media platforms. We would really like to collect likes and comments from other platforms such as Instagram and Twitter.

By using ShortStack we are are able to better administer our contests. Using web forms gets complicated and tricky. ShortStack is easy and compiles our entries in a easy to use way.

The ability to easily capture information from campaign participants.

Campaign participants are unable to submit files such as PDFs or Docs via entry forms.

Great solution to build campaign hosting websites without having to code.

Ability to create customised and creative campaigns. The ability to do everything myself!

There is not much to dislike. I've managed to implement everything myself

It's an amazing opportunity to capture real qualified leads with a natural opt in option which in turn leads to branding opportunities and communication in the future

After 6 years of using custom built tools that were expensive and needed a lot of maintenance we decided to switch to Shortstack. So easy to use, affordable and have never had any issues!awes

Nothing - I think it’s a great tool and have never had any issues

Social media giveaways and short forms on web

With ShortStack, the best part is the flexibility and ease of use. Customizing takes a little more tech savvy, but it is overall very easy to use.

The only problem we have run into is when ShortStack changes or removes a template that we are using, it seems to break our landing page.

We are growing our facebook audience with sweepstakes and giveaways. Our 4th of July photo contest increased our engagement by 10x!

Being able to use the templates that ShortStack has already prepared for use, saves us a bunch of time. Being able to just drop images and text in the places dedicated for them is such a simple process.

I wish there was an easier way to get to the entries, rather than going thru a few steps to do so.

Our giveaways, whether it be thru social media or email, ShortStack has helped our company get things done, and in the correct matter. The amount of time we save by using ShortStack helps our bottom line.

The ease of being able to create a campaign quickly and easily for my clients

Can only now put buttons onto Facebook pages that have 2000 + likes

collecting information for clients, being able to run quick and easy competition for clients

When I have a problem, they respond at the support desk very quickly and thoroughly.

I wish it were a little cheaper, but given the support service they provide I guess that's not possible.

They have allowed me to publish a number of apps that constitute very popular tabs for Facebook pages, and to run a number of lead generating contests.

I love how easy it is to build great looking landing pages for our clients. Our web designers can use code to customize a look, but those of us with no coding knowledge can also easily create a nice looking page that get results. With the forms, we are able to seamlessly generate leads for our clients, collect emails through contests and make changes on the go without missing a beat.

There's not a whole lot I don't like, but if I had one complaint, it would be that we can't have more than two users without paying a premium.

Shortstack has given us a an easy way to develop a mobile website for a specific campaign without have to code one on our clients website. This saves us so much time, and it's super easy to make changes and updates as we go. It's also been a great tool for email capture and lead generation.

This product is great for giving you the tools to produce what you want, without a need for extensive CSS or programming knowledge. It is extremely user friendly, and the support team is very helpful and responsive. The widget based platform allows you to more easily visualize what is happening, allowing you to think of what else is possible for future ideas.

Although the new template design tools are a major step forward in terms of being user friendly, it can still be difficult to identify what exactly you are changing. It would be very helpful if there was a pop up help icon that gave a brief description and example screenshot of the section the option controls.

Shortstack is allowing us to quickly create and run campaigns with little to no involvement from anyone with actual development experience. This saves both time and money in regards to the potential cost of hiring a developer.

I love the tech support they provide when I am working on a contest. You don't have to be a technical person to be able to use the software. They are super helpful whenever I have questions and have always been able to provide solutions to any issues I have had. The contests look beautiful and professional as well.

I would like to have more templates available for different themes/holidays.

We are getting more engagement with ShortStack through contests. We have gained more subscribers to our email newsletter which has resulted in more sales. We are also building our brand utilizing a year long contest with ShortStack to celebrate our 10 year anniversary.

Love the ability to keep our customers happy with fun contests, sweepstakes and quizzes. Easy to use and versatile!

We've had to downgrade from the All You Can Eat, and we're missing a few great features, but we're getting by!

We keep our newsletter subscription lists growing through ShortStack, and we keep our fans loyal. Plus, we acquire some great insights about what our fans like and dislike through polls and quizzes.

Love short stack. I frequently use it to build contest pages and I’ve never had an issue.

I would Like the interface to be more user friendly. Or, provide more assistance for new users.

ShortStack makes it easy for me to communicate info with clients and customers.

The support team is great and normally gets back to very quickly if you have questions or need help. Plus they have many online tutorials including video.

I really can't think of anything I dislike about it.

We are providing the application for our client's needs for sweepstakes and contest promotions. So we can offer our clients a quick and inexpensive solution to get them up and running quickly with their promotoin.

It's interface is easy to navigate, there are easy tools and options to use in platform for designing. I especially like the analytics and measurement.

There isn't a lot of innovation. There should be more opportunities to use outside of just Facebook.

They provide the opportunity to gather insights and user data.