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Filestage
What is Filestage?
Filestage is a review and approval platform that frees teams from chaotic approval processes, making work more joyful and productive.
From large enterprises to independent agencies, we help teams share, discuss, and approve all their files, all in one place – including documents, images, videos, websites, and audio files.
Today, some of the world’s best brands and agencies get their work approved with Filestage, including AB Inbev, LG, Havas, GroupM, and Emirates.
Who Uses Filestage?
Filestage is for anyone who shares files for feedback and approval. It makes reviews faster and easier for everyone involved – from creatives and project managers to internal stakeholders and clients
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Reviews of Filestage
The best tool on the market
Comments: We are using Filestage for more than 4 years after a deep market research. The platform is continuously improved on user requests.
Pros:
Filestage offers only the features you really need and it is intuitive to use.
Cons:
Due the features are developed for the needs of the users, it is only
Alternatives Considered:
After looking at a dozen apps, Filestage won
Comments: Filestage is great! It helps us to streamline the review process. As an online business with clients all over the US, it helps a ton. I highly recommend Filestage.
Pros:
- Easy to use: Although some of our clients struggle to learn it, overall most love it! We get tons of compliments on it. Not only is it easy for our clients, but it's easy for our team to use as well. - Customer service: Whenever we have a problem, Filestage jumps on it. - Simple UI: Unlike so many apps like Filestage, they do not complicate the UI. It's clean and simple. - They listen!: Filestage listens to feedback. They actually make improvements based on what you say.
Cons:
- Slow speeds: Since we Filestage heavily, we have had slow load times on occasion. But thankfully, it hasn't been a major problem. - Client confusion: Some clients who aren't as tech-savvy struggle. But it's not Filestage's problem honestly. The only bit of feedback from them is making it clearer how to use it and making it more clear where the review or approval button is and when it is pressed.
Useful tool but could be better
Comments: A really useful tool, but has some kinks that need ironing out.
Pros:
I really like that you can easily comment on a video project, graphic, written piece of work and pin point exactly where you need the changes, the user interface is relatively user friendly, however, I probably preferred it before the latest update.
Cons:
The notifications come through to your e-mail inbox quite a long time after comments were made. The latest update, despite making copying comments easier, isn't as straight forward as the old drag and drop interface.
Filestage Response
last year
Hi Thom, thanks for your great feedback! We really appreciate you've taken the time to leave this review. We've shared your feedback with our team and they are looking into it, so you should look out for some exciting news about it very soon! Thanks again, Fotini Athineli, Social Media Manager
LOVE FILESTAGE!!!
Comments: My team switched from frame.io to filestage.io for our review process. We primarily produce nonprofit, corporate, and commercial productions. Filestage was just much more robust for us at the time. I do understand that other platforms have emerged that and I hear frame.io has improved since we left, however, we just felt that it was simple and worked. There were some initial quirks we shared with the Filestage reps, and 1-by-1 we saw them resolved. One of the most recent ones is the template feature for projects which has SPED UP our project creation process A LOT! We thankfully are on a grandfathered plan where we pay much less than the current advertised cost, but even so I always felt it was a little more than I wanted to pay. Regardless, in our opinion, Filestage is the best we've used so far.
Pros:
Support, Ease of use for clients and staff, Adaptability, Flexibility for file types, Options.
Cons:
Cost is my only Con due to the size of budget projects I do, but might be a steal for someone else.
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Our main tool for coordinating assets and client feedback within our team.
Comments: We were one of the first users in 2017/18. Since then it was always improved and more and more benefits were implemented. You're doing a good job at FS. Let's see whats coming next.
Pros:
It is easy to handle after a short learning time. The FS team is always trying to improve the tool.
Cons:
The latest update makes some parts harder to use, but i believe in FS that they will manage the next update.
Filestage Response
last year
Hello Markus, thanks for your great feedback! We're so happy to hear that we've helped you streamline your review and approval process. We're looking forward to collaborating further with you. As always, feel free to reach out to us if there's anything else we can help with. Thanks again, Fotini Athineli, Social Media Manager
