Compare Brightidea vs PromoPrep

About Brightidea

With over 2 million users worldwide, and $15+ Billion in net benefits recorded to date, Brightidea is the #1 Idea Management Platform on the market. Engage your employees at scale, collaborate on novel solutions, and foster a culture of innovation within your company. Wherever you're at in your innovation journey, our platform & people will help you get to the next level.

About PromoPrep

PromoPrep provides Premium and no-cost Starter software solutions that help teams to better plan, share, communicate, alert, and report on marketing or promotional activities - organizing your calendar in one intuitive platform, designed for marketers just like you.

Say goodbye to massive or multiple spreadsheets, manual performance pulls, disparate email chains, and untracked contributor communications - we've revamped the promotional process in one comprehensive tool.

Store past and upcoming promo details including campaign dates, channels, categories, custom labels, offer types, discount codes, website URLs, and more - all in one searchable location. Integrate with your Website Analytics or eCommerce platform data to inform what's next. Add and communicate with unlimited users from inside the platform, whether internal teams or external partners. Plus gain access to unique functionality, built exclusively for marketing and promotions management:

1. Calendar and list views with clickable promos to access details
2. Toggle to compare one timeframe to another
3. Toggle to overlay country-specific holidays in the calendar
4. In-platform collaboration via PromoBuzz chat, file uploads, and external linking
5. Automated in-platform and email alerts on what's new, changed, or chatted to a user
6. User level preferences and admin controlled permissions
7. Performance analysis via engagement reporting and an optional daily revenue view
8. Upload and download of promo records into CSV format

With PromoPrep your business has everything needed to execute successful marketing messages in one secure tool, accessible on any device. Try Premium to get all the features free for 30 days, or experiment with the no-cost Starter solution - and get prepping!

Features

• API
• Data Export
• Data Import
• Email Integration
• External Integrations
• Multi-User
• Notifications
• Project Management

Features

• API
• Data Export
• Data Import
• Email Integration
• External Integrations
• Multi-User
• Notifications
• Project Management

Summary

• Easily manage and collect employees ideas

• Innovate on the Go & Submit Ideas

• Track the Progress from Idea Submission to Implementation and Business Impact

• Run idea crowdsourcing challenges rapidly and effectively—at scale

• Manage a portfolio of ideas with the Brightidea Innovation Cloud

• Engage all employees with a click of a button

Summary

• Automated alerts when promos are updated, starting, and ending

• One-click comparison to last year's promo for easy planning

• Free 30 day trial of Premium version

• Accessible on any device

• Always available no cost Starter version

• House any marketing or promotional message - including long form content

FAQs

Who are the main user groups of this service?
• • Small teams (sales, marketing, finance, operations, HR, program managers, project managers, and etc)
  • Research and development department
  • Innovation managers/directors/head of innovation
What is this service generally used for?
• • Manage and collect employees ideas
  • Run hackathons, crowdsourcing, shark tank, and other initiatives to generate new ideas
  • Foster a community of innovation
  • Engage with employees to generate new ideas to help improve processes
What platforms does this service support?
• • iOS
  • Android
  • Web
Does this service integrate with any other apps?

• Currently, the service is integrated with Slack. More integrations to come.

Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?

• Team and organization

Does this service offer an API?

• Yes

Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?

• Yes, we offer customer support, and we have a service team and customer success team to help you get started

FAQs

Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?

• Support is provided via customer service chat or email, in-platform tutorials, and website guides. No-cost training for optimal set-up and best practices is also offered.

Does this service offer an API?

• API connection to external data sources available. Additional connections or API connector into platform may be made available as custom development requests.

Does this service integrate with any other apps?

• Integrates with Google Analytics and Shopify.

Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?

• Unlimited users are available to Premium accounts, complete with user level permissions for controlled platform access.

Who are the main user groups of this service?

• Internal Marketing, Executive, Creative, Sales, Merchandising, Brand, eCommerce, Digital Marketing, Event or PR Teams as well as external Marketing Agencies

What are some applications this service is commonly used in tandem with?

• Often used in tandem with marketing campaign management, sales tracking, website content management, and business intelligence tools.

What is this service generally used for?

• Planning, managing, and tracking marketing or promotional activities via calendar or list view.

What platforms does this service support?

• Available in the cloud, PromoPrep is available on all devices and all operating systems.

Vendor Information

Vendor Information

Other

• SMEs
• Agencies
• Enterprises

• Web App

• iOS
• Android

Other

• Agencies
• Enterprises

• Web App