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Channelscaler vs Channeltivity comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 18, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Channelscaler
Ranking in Partner Relationship Management (PRM)
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Channeltivity
Ranking in Partner Relationship Management (PRM)
9th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Partner Relationship Management (PRM) category, the mindshare of Channelscaler is 7.9%, up from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Channeltivity is 3.3%, down from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Partner Relationship Management (PRM) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Channelscaler7.9%
Channeltivity3.3%
Other88.8%
Partner Relationship Management (PRM)
 

Featured Reviews

ShariqueAhssan - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead, Partner Alliances at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
It saves a lot of time when onboarding new users and provides them with resources
I like the content and resource section, where we can publish all sorts of videos, PDFs, PPTs, etc., and send automated notifications or emails to partners or user groups. We can form groups and design our courses or collaterals for them. The platform is simple to use. Everything on the interface is self-explanatory and accessible to any new users. Allbound provides many features from a partner perspective, and we are satisfied with those. It has a repository for all our collaterals and a calendar where we can publish all our upcoming events and webinars. There is also a dashboard that offers a platform to share the most important things happening within the organization or in the industry. We use all these features to build on this partner ecosystem. The solution has excellent integration with other platforms like Salesforce or HubSpot. Every partner needs to be added to Salesforce, and we can onboard them from Salesforce to Allbound with a click. All you need is a company mail ID, and a new partner is onboarded. So it is quite an easy and very fast process. The playbooks are a powerful feature. We can group similar types of collateral. For example, we have a playbook for each of our 3 major product lines. Cybersecurity partners don't need to search everything in the content and resources section. They can jump to the cybersecurity playbook and find all the related collateral. We can also form a playbook for salespeople where they can find all the collaterals related to sales training and sales. We use Allbound's filtering feature for our groups. We have groups for partners, sales, and developers. Any developer content is not accessible to the partner community. We separate the groups and filter them from the company's perspective. We can select collateral from the company section if we want to share it with a particular partner. Publishing the content is a manual process that takes some time, but filtering is quick. We use the channel insights feature, but we're only scratching the surface. We have used it to see how many new users have signed up in the past 50 days or the last time a particular user logged in. It shows us the top 10 content resources or the number of partners onboarded this quarter.
Slava Parshin - PeerSpot reviewer
CRM Tech & Data Manager at a educational organization with 201-500 employees
Straightforward to set up, and stable, but requires more granular control over permissions
We encountered an issue where we had different processes for working with partners based on region. For example, Europe and the United States had different processes, and Channeltivity had technical limitations that prevented us from having separate processes for each region. Therefore, we had to unify the processes across regions in order to implement them in Channeltivity. This was one of the main issues we faced. I believe that granting more granular control over permissions within the system would help to prevent the issue we encountered. Specifically, who should be able to view what within the system should be determined by field-level permissions, such as profile permissions. This is an area where I would like to see improvement.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I find it very easy to use. It has a pretty good UI. I'm relatively new, but I'm able to learn it very quickly. I'm definitely happy with the interface."
"The self-serve deal registration is excellent; companies can register for deals themselves, and the process is managed through our system."
"What is our primary use case? Allbound is a partner relationship management tool. We use Allbound to manage content resources, playbooks, commissions, etc. Our enablement schedule is exclusively posted in Allbound. We're also evaluating Allbound's Marketing Development Fund module. We have around 150 users in multiple locations. How has it helped my organization? Business partners are critical for achieving growth, so a PRM solution is essential. It creates a platform for partners to deal with us and access work. They can register an account, log into Allbound, and get a commission. Partners can see important announcements and look at the playbooks. The number of partners has increased significantly, and partner engagement has improved by 10 to 20 percent. Business partners can filter and customize the profile set for them. We can log their activity to see what they have been using. That's a helpful feature we haven't leveraged much because most of our partners sell a whole suite of products. As we evolve and get more partners who specialize in a particular industry or subsection of our product, we will need to add the option to allow partners to filter the most relevant content. Customizing content isn't too difficult or easy. You need to build a case and send it to the Allbound team. We must schedule a call, and it might take one or two sessions to implement customization. Hypothetically, Allbound enables partners to rebrand white-labeled collaterals, but our company policy doesn't allow it. Allbound's Channel Insights feature gives us actionable intelligence on partner engagement. We use it weekly, and we've implemented some custom modules we developed in-house for the partners. That's all listed in Allbound's Channel Insights section, where we can see the number of partners, usage, and activity in the last 30 days. Using Channel Insights, we realized that a partner wasn't using our labels and wasn't engaged, so we started hosting training sessions to increase engagement. What is most valuable? I like Allbound's ease of use. For example, we have been implementing Allbound's Market Development Funds module. It's intuitive and easy for the partners. If the partners want to see which commissions have been paid, that information is readily accessible."
"The referral functionality has been the most valuable for us, meaning our partners can submit leads to us via Allbound. That is really critical for us because that is how we generate new business. When a partner submits a lead to us via Allbound, it's a really hot lead for us to work on and convert."
"The learning tracks are extremely useful and valuable; they allow us to quickly deliver enablement training, track partners, and issue certificates to those who pass a certification exam."
"The valuable features are the integration with Salesforce and ease of adding assets."
"I like the content and resource section, where we can publish all sorts of videos, PDFs, PPTs, etc., and send automated notifications or emails to partners or user groups. We can form groups and design our courses or collaterals for them."
"The most valuable feature is deal registration. We track, contribute, and monitor our leisure line activity through our deal registration process. This allows us to partner with others, submit register, and co-sell deals easily. We always look for new opportunities to engage with our partners."
"This solution is very easy to use and does not take more than five minutes of playing around before you get a good understanding of how it works."
"The most valuable features are the all-in-one package solution and it was relatively straightforward to connect to Salesforce, our CRM solution."
 

Cons

"Allbound could have more localization and customization. The templates work well, and maybe they don't want to target large enterprises by design. The solution is geared toward small and medium-sized enterprises, but they could allow more localization and deeper customization. Allbound is broad, but it could be deeper."
"People are not able to deactivate members themselves. If someone leaves the organization, partners would like to do it themselves, but currently, they have to ask us."
"The user interface for admins could be a little bit better. Something that we appreciate a lot is that Allbound has increased some of the functionality that admins can do. That's good. But in terms of the user interface, there are still some improvements that can be made. Also from the user's perspective, the UI can be improved."
"Some of the integration and some of the content management could be a little bit better. They are working on some of the areas."
"The partner finder on the website is not as good as it could be."
"I would like to see more features for tracking training progress and quizzes. The progress report that Allbound generates isn't very helpful. I want to track how far a user has completed and who has or hasn't restarted. We are using a third-party platform for training purposes, especially enablement purposes. The progress reports and analytics are very powerful, and we'd like to see something along those lines. Allbound has certification, but it's missing some things from a certification point of view that are available in other products."
"We would like to utilize partner automation more, but there is some troubleshooting and programming that needs to happen in the middleware to enable this."
"On the design side, there could be some more updates to make it look a little bit more modern. We right now use the classic dashboard, but we're switching to the minimal dashboard that's available to try and make the UI look a little bit prettier for our partners. In the design area, there could definitely be some improvements that partners would appreciate."
"Channeltivity are a small company and so we waited a long time for basic improvements."
"I believe that granting more granular control over permissions within the system would help to prevent the issue we encountered."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Considering the interface, the price is high, although Allbound offers a lot. Some of my negative opinion here is because we have yet to upgrade to using the tool's best-in-class features due to internal issues. As it stands, I don't personally see the value that supports the cost, but that could change when we turn on the features."
"I know it is much more affordable than going with some of the other services. For example, Salesforce has a partner portal option, but it is much more expensive, so I know Allbound is reasonable in that sense, but I do not know what the reasonability is across the board."
"Allbound has forced other vendors to be a little more competitive with their pricing. For what you get, which is a lot, the pricing of Allbound is fine."
"What we are paying for it is comparable to the market, but the price of PRMs is quite high for the value they deliver."
"Considering everything the product provides, the price is fair. There are cheaper tools, but they don't offer the combination of requirements we have. The pricing model is also very compelling."
"They have different licensing plans. Depending on what you enable or what kind of features you want activated, there might be extra costs."
"This is the highest price that you'll pay, but I am not comparing it with Salesforce, SAP, or Oracle. In the mid-level solutions, Allbound has one of the highest costs, but it also has higher capabilities and flexibility to customize things without developing."
"Allbound's price is a great deal."
"The pricing is slightly above average."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
20%
Computer Software Company
13%
Educational Organization
7%
University
7%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise5
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Allbound?
I like the content and resource section, where we can publish all sorts of videos, PDFs, PPTs, etc., and send automated notifications or emails to partners or user groups. We can form groups and de...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Allbound?
Allbound is reasonably priced, but I haven't compared it with any other solution. I like that Allbound charges a flat rate instead of charging by the number of partners or users, which is the model...
What needs improvement with Allbound?
I would like to see more features for tracking training progress and quizzes. The progress report that Allbound generates isn't very helpful. I want to track how much a user has completed and who h...
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Also Known As

Allbound, Channel Mechanics PRM
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Sample Customers

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