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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)
8th
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 January 2026, in the Partner Relationship Management (PRM) category, the mindshare of Channelscaler is 7.2%, up from 7.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Channeltivity is 3.4%, up from 3.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Partner Relationship Management (PRM) Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Channelscaler7.2%
Channeltivity3.4%
Other89.4%
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

"What is important to us are our partners and clients. The user experience for those partners and clients, that they're able to quickly use it, is what I like about it. It's very simple to use."
"Deal registrations are huge for us because since we've been using Allbound, we are able to keep much better track of those."
"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 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 valuable features are the integration with Salesforce and ease of adding assets."
"The deal registration portion of the portal has been very valuable. It connects directly with our Salesforce, so it is super easy."
"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."
"Content management is most valuable because it's the one that I use the most and the one I'm pleased about."
"The most valuable features are the all-in-one package solution and it was relatively straightforward to connect to Salesforce, our CRM solution."
"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."
 

Cons

"My advice to them is to make the co-branding piece easier. Allbound does make it easy not only for the administrator program, but also for partners, to interact. So if they can make the co-branding piece a little more robust, that would help."
"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."
"The partner finder on the website is not as good as it could be."
"They could add an LMS component to the platform where we would have courses through Allbound and a record of whether partners pass or don't pass. The quiz feature would come in more handy at that point."
"I wish Channel Insights had more intelligence where it not only provides data and stats but also offers more analysis and an extra layer of intelligence on the data that it has."
"Some of the integration and some of the content management could be a little bit better. They are working on some of the areas."
"I'm not a fan of Allbound's UI for administrators. For example, there are some issues with the report-building tool, and when I'm building a report, it's not always clear what the outcome will be. There are a lot of radio buttons, rather than filtering or being able to select from a list. It's an accordion layout, so I click on one option, and it expands to reveal a radio button selection, which means I can't always choose everything I want. Checkboxes or selecting multiple options from a list is an improvement. Additionally, the report output looks very dated, so the interface needs some love."
"They could provide a bit more user and technical training to our team. If I were able to really control the workflows in Allbound, with more of the expertise that they have, I could configure it to be a bit more responsive to our needs."
"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

"They have different licensing plans. Depending on what you enable or what kind of features you want activated, there might be extra costs."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"What we are paying for it is comparable to the market, but the price of PRMs is quite high for the value they deliver."
"Allbound's pricing is comparable."
"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."
"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
19%
Computer Software Company
14%
Educational Organization
7%
University
6%
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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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