ByDesign Technologies

Pros: ByDesign has provided software solutions for many years and has successfully implemented hundreds of Network Marketing and Party Plan companies. We give the highest marks to ByDesign for always offering the best solutions in their price range to the direct sales industry. The ByDesign team is very easy to work with, very smart and always focused on doing the right thing for their clients.

Cons: Freedom provides a lot of options, which is great for flexibility but does require a small learning curve.

Pros: Rallyware has firsthand knowledge of and experience with ByDesign. They are an industry leader within the MLM software space. Their open architecture makes them easy to integrate with as they continuously improve the features and functionality across their platform. ByDesign’s client focused culture and concierge service is a perfect complement to Rallyware’s approach. They are all about helping their clients to enable their independent salesforce to be more successful. ByDesign’s data provides the information necessary allow Rallyware to deliver the right information to the right person at the right time. The ByDesign team is passionate about helping their clients and partners be successful. They are smart, friendly and easy to work with. Most importantly, they get the job done.

Cons: The only negative is that I do not get to interact with the ByDesign team on a more regular basis. They are a pleasure to work with.

Pros: It does what it is supposed to do. By preventing access to distracting websites, it gives freedom and time to its users.

Cons: I like the features and it's a practical way to gain focus because it's easy to get distracted online and with our devices.

Pros: Incredibly comprehensive feature / function capabilities.

Cons: Difficult to undertand how to utilize capabilities of software without engaging with SMEs within ByDesign organization, who are very busy and often inaccessible. Standard support does not enable us to effectively use platform.

Pros: Strong education program provided to users. Pushing for more progressive functionality. Listens to their clients feedback with future product development.

Cons: Integrating features from any outside provider can be a challenge and this is the same with ByDesign. Yet, they will be diligent in making it happen.

Pros: The software gives us a lot of flexibility to configure it in many different ways. From the way items are displayed in the shopping cart to running different promotions.

Cons: We are a party plan company, and we feel the party plan module needs a fair amount of updating. It should be an intuitive process and currently it is not.

Pros: What I enjoy the most is the significant number of variables that can be enabled, disabled, or configured in various ways to ensure we provide the best product for our global business partners. Each market is unique and having the ability to turn certain features on in one area and not in another is monumental in helping us achieve success.

Cons: Because there are so many features, it is important to make sure and analyze your choices before implementing them. This is why having a test environment available to us has really helped out.

Pros: The staff are great, they are knowledgeable and helpful.

Cons: So many options to use. Positive but overwhelming.

Pros: Software feature, good support team, commission engine/process performance. Able to run commission simulation.

Cons: 1. Missing Integration/configuration instructions on 3rd party (taxjar,...) 2. Master inventory sku (Multi countries) 3. Time zone issues (Multi countries) 4. User right management 5. 1099 efile (electric file output)

Pros: very supportive staffs to support our customization needs

Cons: The browser needs to transform to 100% Chrome to let it be more user friendly

Pros: support is awesome, knowing the people that answer the phone and here in the US and all English speaking as first language

Cons: a learning curve in the beginning. devoted time to learn

Pros: How extensive and customizable to our needs the system is.

Cons: How old I am...makes me a slow learner - lol

Pros: It seems to have a lot of options to customize as needed.

Cons: There is not a lot of opportunity to speak to someone before you commit to discover what you SHOULD be investing in. We now have software that does not offer us the options that we really need.

Pros: The ease of use. Reports to help analyze our data.

Cons: Party could be more robust. Evites also need improvements.

Pros: Easy to configure on the admin side. Deployment and field adoption went smoothly. Rollouts is new features but monthly.

Cons: Delay of the new party module, was supposed to be delivered around July 2019.

Pros: Easy to use and learn. I love this software and the people that support us.

Cons: Too many options, I only use a functions.

Pros: I think the best aspect of Freedom is exactly what the name says. It gives you the freedom to customize and make the final product your own. It is adaptable and integrates very well with our products to give our clients a full suite of tools to build their Direct Selling/Party Plan businesses. The ByDesign team is focused on long-term relationships and it shows.

Cons: There was not really much to not like. When a hurdle approached both teams just put their heads together and we figured out a sustainable solution to the issue and moved on.

Pros: I can’t imagine working without this amazing software. It has become one of the most integral and important tools in my everyday workflow. Freedom's is the cutting edge software my company was looking for. It has empowered our company with the tools to become an industry leader and given us the competitive edge to grow way beyond what we thought possible.

Cons: Sometimes the software offers so many great solutions that I often find myself struggling to choose the one I like best.

Pros: The ByDesign Software for Direct Selling is the most advanced software for our industry I have ever had the pleasure of using. The Software provides not only the state-of-the-art genealogy tracking and commissions calculations, but as well, it offers so many marketing features that really give a new company a leg up on their competitors. What I like most about this software is that it works!

Cons: If I was going to make one change to the software it would be that it has more graphics on the back-office dashboard. More and more clients are sharing that they not only want it to work very well, but it has to look awesome too.

Pros: Fully functional with great features. Solid support staff, especially during the implementation phase. Also a very good value for the money.

Cons: Transition from implementation team to general support. Would have liked to continue with our implementation specialist.

Pros: Freedom has very robust core functionality where you don't have to worry about day to day operations. We had some unique requirements for our business model and we were able to customize it they way we needed. Bydesign also helped us to integrate the software with other vendors we've been using. Interface is intuitive and user friendly.

Cons: You have to use IE for to get full functionality of the back office but they are working on making it compatible with other browsers.

Pros: $76

Cons: I really don't have any cons about Freedom

Pros: Over the 12 years that we have been customers of ByDesign, we have seen many improvements to their base software. They have improved the user interface for both customer service and customers and expanded the offering to better support us as a global business in more than 60 countries around the world. We are able to run commissions weekly and monthly and pay our business partners on time.

Cons: The software was originally designed to take advantage of functionality unique to Internet Explorer. They have been working to make the software completely cross-browser. There are still a few areas in the software that rely on Internet Explorer to function correctly, but it is becoming more cross-browser with each incremental update.