Dryfta Review

PROS: I've listed the best things about Dryfta and how we made use of it for our large academic conference: (1) easy to set up; (2) creates a professional-looking website; (3) easy management of budget; (4) setting up pricing is a breeze; and (5) hassle-free scheduling and programming. Everything can be done using this software! Their amazing customer support team is a bonus!

CONS: Printing badges using the software is a bit tricky. It would also take time to learn using the program since it may require a bit of knowledge about HTML and CSS.

PROS: This is an amazing platform for planning and implementing events! Robust and customizable system. Commendable customer service!

CONS: Creating a more visually-appealing website is a bit challenging because it needs the user to have a bit of knowledge about HTML and CSS. I hope there's an easy way to build the webpage.

PROS: Dryfta is a robust system with a wide range of functions! Aside from that, it also has an impressive customer support team which made our user experience a lot more enjoyable.

CONS: For us, the panel submission is a little complex for new users.

PROS: This program is your best friend when it comes to events management. It is user-friendly. It offers a wide range of functions that allows you to do a lot of tasks -- from in-app communication to events website development. We also enjoy using the app because it makes everything convenient. We also just recently tried the bading feature! All great. They also have a super accommodating customer service team!

CONS: Although amazing as it is, Dryfta can still improve its reporting systems and emailing process. They could add an auto-response feature.

PROS: This the perfect tool for managing and organizing academic conferences. It also has a function that can be used in judging!

CONS: The system could be a bit overwhelming because of its many functions. However, I feel like documentation can still be improved. Amazing program nonetheless.

PROS: It has everything you need for organizing and managing a conference or any big events. I also like that it has its own app which makes it even more convenient to use.

CONS: The web builder is not that flexible. I wish there are more ways to customize the website to make its appearance fit the feel of the event. Setting up the payment method is a little confusing, too.

PROS: We can do loads of things with Dryfta for a very affordable price -- from communicating with speakers to rating them; from building an event website to selling tickets; from creating a program to printing it for distribution; from managing attendees to distributing handouts. It's pretty amazing! It's so far the best event management tool that we ever had the pleasure of using. Plus, they have a very helpful support team.

CONS: The report generation feature can still be improved by making it more customizable. The blog feature could also be more robust.

PROS: Has a lot of functionalities and tools, it meets most of our needs

CONS: - Multilingual issues: although it is advertised as multilingual, it didn’t really work as such. The many issues that popped up throughout the conference preparation were fixed little by little to our cost in time, help desk emails and struggles with the unfriendly UX. - Admin pages reloaded everytime you clicked on a button (their developers seem to ignore Ajax technologies) therefore being time consuming and requiring constant page searches.  - Inflexibility in many of the supposed functionalities it offers.  - Certificates were not modifiable nor custom when we had to send them (it was solved months after the conference finished when we were surprisingly contacted by the help desk). - Problems with size of images to be displayed on the site, very small fonts and limited options to display content. We had to hire a professional developer in order to get a graphically consistent and presentable website. - Very poor mobile version: too big margins, unreadable texts, endless text blocks and lists, distorted pictures.  - Issues with the ordering of the authors’ names for the different proposals (authorship being so important in research). - Fixed inflexible fields in the contact sheets, speakers info and so on. - Special character issues (due to latin characters and other types used in linguistic research).  - Not being able to include links in the HTML editor due to DRYFTA unadverted decisions to block them.  - Only one superadmin user allowed to access the full functionalities of the platform, so we had to share it (consequently not knowing who did each action). - Problems with the generation of reports and very high complexity in their interface. - Some issues on the mandatory anonymity: the double blind review process not fully respected due to unclear user info and options, with other issues coming up on the go such as unwanted info in automated notifications and messages in welcome dashboard. - Not really willing to help with Paypal instant payment notification’s issues during registration and not being able to use the other payment method on the platform because they were incompatible with the conference country. - Missing information and time wasted when creating events for sessions with info already existing in the server that randomly failed to be picked. These issues were reported even with video proofs (help desk didn’t believe us), and were never solved. We had to repeat the same processes again and again, never knowing what was going on.