CourseStorm

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Simple, Powerful Class Registration & Marketing Software

About CourseStorm

CourseStorm is a streamlined, cloud-based class registration system that offers a single platform from which to manage online course registration, marketing, and payment processing. Incorporating built-in email marketing —including automated class recommendations, abandoned carts, and low enrollment emails— CourseStorm aims to deliver a powerful yet simple class registration solution to save you time while growing your program.

CourseStorm equips users with the tools to manage individual and group registrations easily online, including class rosters, waitlists, class communication tools, and customizable registration forms. CourseStorm also allows users to manage promotion codes, create payment plans and track memberships.

And of course, CourseStorm's web-based software is mobile friendly, so your students can find and register for your classes from any device with no app required.


Key benefits of CourseStorm

Integrated Payment Processing

• CourseStorm includes built-in payment processing, enabling users to accept online payments simply and securely.
• CourseStorm is fully PCI compliant, ensuring all credit card information is received and encrypted securely.

Communication Tools

• CourseStorm facilitates effective email marketing, allowing users to send students course news, updates, and reminders quickly and effectively.
• CourseStorm’s automated email tools include abandoned cart, low enrollment, and class cancellation alerts.
• Best of all, CourseStorm’s automated recommendation engine can send customized emails to each student with class suggestions just for them, increasing class registrations with no extra work for you!

Other Features

• Users can generate custom registration forms, providing users with the tools to adjust the information on registration forms conveniently.
• CourseStorm's friends and family feature allows registrants to register multiple people at once.
• CourseStorm is mobile-friendly, affording students the flexibility to find and register for classes on the move.
• We grow together with pay-as-you-go pricing and no monthly fees or lock-in contracts.
• CourseStorm can be integrated with other systems using our REST API or Zapier integrations.
• Integrate CourseStorm with your website using our website display widget, calendar feed widget, or WordPress plugin.


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CourseStorm Software - Let your students register from anywhere and on any device --no app required.
CourseStorm Software - Beautifully integrate your CourseStorm catalog into your existing website with customizable widgets and plugins.
CourseStorm Software - Simple tools for online class registration to get the job done quickly, saving time and money.
CourseStorm Software - View or export rosters, registration history, waiting lists, and send emails to an entire class at once.
CourseStorm Software - Built-in payment processing lets you start taking credit card payments in minutes. (And we take care of everything!)
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CourseStorm Software - Let your students register from anywhere and on any device --no app required.
CourseStorm Software - Beautifully integrate your CourseStorm catalog into your existing website with customizable widgets and plugins.
CourseStorm Software - Simple tools for online class registration to get the job done quickly, saving time and money.
CourseStorm Software - View or export rosters, registration history, waiting lists, and send emails to an entire class at once.
CourseStorm Software - Built-in payment processing lets you start taking credit card payments in minutes. (And we take care of everything!)

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Reviews

Overall rating

4.5 /5
(36)
Value for Money
4.5/5
Features
4.1/5
Ease of Use
4.6/5
Customer Support
4.7/5

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Teresa
Teresa
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  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Excellent Registration Software

Reviewed on 2019/09/25

I found this software online accidentally at 4 am in January of 2018, and it had me hooked me...

I found this software online accidentally at 4 am in January of 2018, and it had me hooked me within minutes. The more I read about it, the more I loved it. CourseStorm gets our classes noticed with an option to add inviting pictures. The customized payment plans have been exceptionally smooth when registering and collecting payments.

Pros

* Ease of initial setup when I first found this software.
* Classes are set up for registration in minutes.
* Classes are duplicated for even quicker reposting.
* Cost is well worth the product value; fees withheld without an invoice.
* Fast and friendly responses whenever I reach out to customer support.
* Customer Reps stay in touch to ask if I am satisfied.
* Customized mass emails to all class registrants.
* Payment process allows for reversals, if necessary, up until class date; this avoids deposit and refund.
* Custom Payment Plans permitted for each class individually.

Cons

* No name badge template. Possibility of using Excel roster to create.
* Classes default listing is Alphabetical vs. Chronological.
* Probably other concerns but no time to find them while the product is working so well.

Alternatives Considered

Cvent Event Management and Eventbrite

Reasons for Switching to CourseStorm

Ease of setup and the smooth flow of registrations.

Response from CourseStorm

Thank you for the review! Our customer support reps appreciate the compliment, and we plan to keep up that level of support as long as you're with us.

I also appreciate the feedback you provided for us, and if there is anything else that you feel could benefit from improvement, let us know!

Maria
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Program Manager

Reviewed on 2024/06/13

always an excellent experience with CourseStorm. The customer service team is awesome and very...

always an excellent experience with CourseStorm. The customer service team is awesome and very quick with their response when having technical issues.

Pros

I love everything about CourseStorm. It is an excellent product.

Cons

nothing, we are very content with CourseStorm.

Response from CourseStorm

Thank you for taking the time to share your review, Maria! We're thrilled that you're having a great experience with CourseStorm's platform and our support team. We have features in progress and more development on the way to continue providing simple, intuitive solutions for the needs that programs like yours face each day. We're committed to making your work easier so you can spend more time on what matters -- reaching your students! Please don't hesitate to reach out to us with questions or feedback any time. We're here to help!

Marge
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  • Industry: Music
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10

Not for music schools

Reviewed on 2022/12/06

We use the software for our soft launch in the summer semester of our school. We used it for 3-6...

We use the software for our soft launch in the summer semester of our school. We used it for 3-6 months, And then switch to something different. It was a huge choice, as it took a good amount of time and effort to get the coursestorm platform actually set up. But in the end, we are so much happier with what we have now.This software would be great if you had Just a few events. If you're offering 5-8 classes that run for a full semester, then this is pretty easy and convenient. If you're running a larger entity, with several different teachers offering several different classes, it's just going to get way too out of hand and unmanageable.

Pros

Online sign upDigital collection of payments and information

Cons

The overall cost of this was much more expensive than the software we ended up switching to. Especially if you start having to do refunds!There is absolutely no ability to control your brand, aside from having your logo on the page.You could do what the software does with a Google form and a Venmo link, and save yourself the 7% plus credit card fees plus whatever usage cost they have. In fact, if I had a Google form, I would have had significantly more control over the info I was getting and how it was being categorized. It would have been so much easier to have just done it in house.

Response from CourseStorm

Hi Marge! Becky with CourseStorm's Customer Success Team here. Thank you so much for taking the time to share this feedback with us. We aim to meet as many needs as possible, but we understand that some needs may fall beyond our scope. I also understand there was some confusion regarding our pricing structure. Details about our pricing breakdown can be found on our updated pricing page at https://www.coursestorm.com/pricing.

I'm happy to hear that you had positive experiences with our Support team during your time with us in the summer of 2022. We understand that your program had specific payment needs that our platform wasn't able to address at the time. I'm excited to share that we have a financial system upgrade in beta now, with new options for reporting, refund handling, payment types, etc. We have more features coming soon, to further enhance CourseStorm's flexibility. We appreciated working with your program and we're happy to hear you've found a solution that fits your needs.

Kim
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  • Industry: Maritime
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

General Review

Reviewed on 2022/07/21

So happy with CourseStorm. From the onboarding to the support after, they are responsive, friendly...

So happy with CourseStorm. From the onboarding to the support after, they are responsive, friendly and willing to go the extra mile.

Pros

I like how user friendly it is for the customer. Also, I am very please with the customer service and their willingness to work directly with us to help make it even better.

Cons

There are some short comings on the back end of the software but CourseStorm is working directly with us to make it even more user friendly. We have a complex registration process and they are doing everything they can to make to program even better.

Alternatives Considered

Regpack

Reasons for Choosing CourseStorm

Our old system was not automated and everything was process by good old fashioned data entry.

Reasons for Switching to CourseStorm

The customer service was far superior and they are willing to help us make sure we get everything we need from the program

Response from CourseStorm

Thank you for this feedback, Kim! We greatly appreciate your program's collaborative approach in providing us with thorough and helpful feedback throughout your onboarding, launch, and beyond. We're excited about the upcoming improvements to our financial system to further streamline the administrative side of things for you and all of our customers!

Katherine
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Elective Course Registration

Reviewed on 2023/03/21

Pros

The CourseStorm site was very easy to set up and any questions I had were immediately helped by the support team. They were even able to help me with some situations unique to our purposes. We had 100s of students use the site with no issue.

Cons

Currently, you have to write a cost for a course on the course description, but you can write FREE. People are also able to sign up other people and this feature can't be turned off.

Response from CourseStorm

Hi Katherine! Thanks so much for your review and comments. Our team loves finding solutions to unique use cases, and we're thrilled that your organization is having a great experience with our software and our team so far.

Thank you also for the feedback regarding the pricing field requirements and the "Add a Student" feature. I will make sure your comments are shared with our product team. Please let us know if you have any other feature requests or feedback by reaching out to our Support Team any time.

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CourseStorm FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for CourseStorm.

CourseStorm offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$2.49/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Our pricing model is designed to help your program grow. CourseStorm charges a small percentage of each transaction and ask the registrant to pay $1.99 per registration. Your program pays 4% for each transaction.* That’s just one of the reasons why we’re so passionate about helping programs reach their potential. * Standard payment processing fee applies.

CourseStorm has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

CourseStorm supports the following languages:

English

CourseStorm supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

CourseStorm integrates with the following applications:

ChatGPT, Google Calendar, Little Green Light, PatronManager CRM, Spektrix, WordPress, Zapier

CourseStorm offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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