Open Loyalty vs. Referral Factory

The scenario where Open Loyalty is better suited is with a customer that has one and only one e-commerce site or equivalent. Many customers think it would be easy to customize Open Loyalty for multiple companies, using only one installation. This is difficult to Open Loyalty since different companies will have different rules, levels of rewards, etc, and that's not easily configured on Open Loyalty. So, the price of OpenLoyalty for third-world countries is a little steep, making its acquisition possible only to large companies.

Incentivized

As a digital marketing manager of multiple clients, one of the biggest challenge is to build brand awareness and acquire new customers with good lifetime value; Referral Factory is a perfect tool to leverage current client base to generate new clients and adds loyalty to the current clientele. However when the services are personalized to each client and each client have different requirements than Referral system is least appropriate.

Incentivized

• Has a powerful API that makes it easy to integrate points, actions and rewards on any software
• Has a lot of experience in the loyalty realm, so every nuance and the special case is already thought of
• Allows for the implementation of loyalty programs for a number of scenarios: for consumers, employees, students, etc
• Has a well-proven solution for any POS solution out there!

Incentivized

• Referral Factory offers good templates for the landing pages that can be easily adjusted
• Campaigns are based on spreading links among friends and followers - it has good leads stats in the end
• Integrations with Pipedrive, HubSpot and Zapier help to track the campaigns
• Interface is easy to understand

• Many customers expect Open Loyalty to have an e-commerce interface. Maybe they could build a barebones interface to satisfy the rare customer that still doesn't have a CRM o ERP or equivalent in place

Incentivized

• The UI needs some improvement to really smooth out the workflows. Overall it's not bad, but could always be better.
• There isn't good documentation on how to configure and use the solution. It's like they assumed they built to be obvious enough to where anyone can figure it out, but for things that have more nuances, users could really benefit from some tooltips and/or documentation.
• Pricing is pretty high, it would be nice to have a lower tier so businesses with a small income stream can start to benefit from referral programs.

Incentivized

Referral Factory's overall usability is great. The interface was really easy to learn and use and there are also helpful video tutorials if you have any questions along the way while building your new campaign. The process of sharing the referral link is also really easy and Referral Factory provides multiple methods of sharing the link which is a nice feature as well.

Incentivized

We have been very grateful for the ongoing support from the Referral Factory team who have gone above and beyond not only to help us get set up but have provided great insight into how to optimise our campaign

Open Loyalty is way more powerful than Tango Card. Zoho CRM doesn't really stack up against OL, since it's too generic. The area where we think Open Loyalty would beat other products is scalability and customization. Open Loyalty has been tried on really large customers and the database never felt sluggish nor the web interface or the web services.

Incentivized

Referral Factory simplicity and ease of use is what makes them a strong contender, and it is now our go-to for referral campaigns within our company. With their software we no longer need to allocate developer hours to setup our campaigns leaving them free to work on the company websites.

• My company implements OpenLoyalty, but we've seen a positive ROI for our customers, since everybody and their uncles are implementing loyalty / rewards programs in LATAM

Incentivized

• Referral Factory has a great impact on acquiring new customers. Referral marketing acts like an online word-of-mouth so referred customers tend to have a higher conversion rate.
• Referral Factory also helps increase brand awareness of your company as it incentivizes current customers to share their positive experiences with their network.

Incentivized