Certent Equity Management

Certent - Equity Compensation Management

What do you like best? The staff has been so helpful every time we call! The website also has many helps to learn the system. What do you dislike? Certent is working with another vendor of ours to iron out some of the problems we have had - so they always want to find a solution for us! I l love that! Go Certent! What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We have gained a streamlined equity compensation system. Certent has saved us so ...

Great Equity Management Tool

What do you like best? The website is very user friendly and easy to learn. It has helped us shave off countless hours of manual spreadsheets and calculations. What do you dislike? I'm still new to this tool but would like more administrative privileges in the accounting users to create reports and upload the data we need. Recommendations to others considering the product: I would suggest giving it a try. The customer service representatives are very helpful and friendly as ...

Functional but cluttered.

What do you like best? It performs as expected with the management of our equity compensation program. What do you dislike? The user experience is lacking any intuition. Recommendations to others considering the product: None What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? All calculations and reporting functions are accurate and reliable.

Certent has a fairly straight forward system and great support.

What do you like best? For the most part, Certent Equity Compensation Management is straightforward in working with different types of equity awards. Certent Support is also very responsive and and helpful whenever I have a question. What do you dislike? The only downside is that there are a lot of manual processes and overnight feeds with a few glitches, but this could be due to the broker we use and link with Certent. What problems are you solving with the product? What ...

Good tool for Finance Execs

What do you like best? It is easy to see all of the stock option activity for all shareholders in one place. There are also many helpful tutorials and videos which explain the features and functionality of the platform. What do you dislike? Email notifications are very brief and require logging in to see exactly what the alert is for. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Certent does the heavy lifting when it comes to maintaining ...

Certent saves us a large amount of time, after being implemented, but was a long implementation.

What do you like best? It is nice to have the ability to run several different reports and eliminate manual work we were doing in-house before Certent. What do you dislike? There seem to be many other reports and uses of the software available to us that we never knew existed. It is frustrating to have to find out these gaps as we go along in our reporting, and then bring the issue to Certent's attention by asking questions. It would be much better if Certent was more proactive in ...

Good platform

What do you like best? The system is pretty friendly and easy for someone to figure out without a lot a training. What do you dislike? We feel as if we have to put cases in for most actions that we complete in the system. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are solving our option and restricted stock problem with Certent. We have realized that we don't have realized that we don't have to use Excel anymore.

Responsive

What do you like best? I like that the customer support is knowledgeable about our plans What do you dislike? I don't like that I can not see all the participants awards when I look under participant information. I also do not like that there is not a good excel report that list the release and the taxes taken out associated with that release. The report available is not in a usable format. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? ...

Certent User MN

What do you like best? participant portal where users can manage/view their open stock awards What do you dislike? would like reporting to be more user friendly (click and select what fields you want to see vs the drop down menus which are tricky to navigate) What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? n/a

Comprehensive Equity Management

What do you like best? Comprehensive solution, compliance, integration with accounting and equity admin What do you dislike? Custom report capabilities should be expanded What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Provides modeling capabilities for awards