Rating: 2 stars
Too many hidden costs and barriers to use.
Seems like it might be helpful if it was more honest and accessible.
Rating: 5 stars
Having this plugin on our website, and being SO functional and so seamlessly integrated was a huge part in our successful pivot to online webinars and managing registrations of our “new normal” limited capacity in-person classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Being fairly tech-savvy and with moderate web-developer talents, I was able to completely customize the WordPress plugin to match our brand. I’ve received so many complements from people about our registration system and how easy it was to use. Thank you to Arlo for making such a wonderful plugin. We are VERY happy Arlo customers.
]]>Rating: 4 stars
Using Arlo’s full capabilities as an admin system for a training company made life a lot easier and took a lot of manual admin out of the business. Connecting it to the website was a godsend, now customers are able to book courses without any help, with a payment going straight into our bank account via Stripe and Xero.
The plugin fits into the theme customisations we’ve made quite easily. Implementation was really straightforward and I’ve yet to encounter a synchronisation error.
There are several things that could be improved – I’ve found that the company’s support is ridiculously good and they’re very open to ideas.
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Edit: Improving my rating due to recently improved support and not wanting to hurt a company’s work due to the one bad egg I appear to have dealt with. Technical feature requests remain.
Initially, Arlo seemed promising, however mid-way through development issues with syncing of events started. The Arlo support team took up to 48 hours to return support tickets and essentially blamed me for the issue. The workaround was to launch the site to a staging server, sync Arlo and then copy the database back to local (a solution that I had to formulate).
Development of a custom theme was not as “clean” as described as even the “Custom” Arlo theme (which is aimed at developers who want to write their own CSS) injects javascript for popups and stylesheets which complicates development isn’t mobile-friendly and results in more server calls than necessary.
The controls for displaying events are also in need of improvement, as depending on where you require them to be placed on the template the hard-coded heading structures will result in the incorrect page heading structure.
The integration is also not as seamless as described, the checkout page will redirect the user to Arlo’s own checkout site which could be improved in terms of design. All you can do is change the logo.
The choice to use Arlo was a decision made by my client prior to my development. Regardless my intention and efforts centred around integrating Arlo to the best of my ability.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
As a part-time admin, with limited tech knowledge in a small organisation offering nearly 80 free courses in our funding year, I have been waiting eagerly for something like Arlo. Whilst we have only gone properly “live” with the web integration recently, after a long gestation (delays our end due to limited finance and resources) we are excited to see the time-saving for admin that the plugin is already providing. It is fantastic how quickly you can update course content and dates on the website via the Arlo plugin, and how our end users can easily see up-to-date info – what courses are full, have wait lists etc… All the way through Arlo staff have been patient and helpful. They also seem responsive and are welcome to new suggestions too ??
]]>Rating: 5 stars
The plugin works well for us. We use it for live events and also to send elearning registrations to Moodle, so people can sign up online and begin studying straight away.
The Arlo team has been helpful with CSS, figuring out the Moodle connection and more.
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We have used Arlo with the WordPress plugin for well a over a year and it has made our life much easier. We can control our online store pages quickly and easily (both static and dynamic pages) and find it easy to add new categories of product when we need to without needing to employ a developer to make the change.
Arlo offer effectrive support if we do get stuck and I would recommend the software to others.
Rating: 5 stars
The Arlo plugin has saved us lots of time in updating course information, bookings, etc, and made everything pretty seamless. The Arlo team is very quick in responding to our requests for customisation and they’re willing to investigate and implement any ‘hairy’ features we request. And they’re nice people too!!
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Allows us to easily maintain and keep our public training offerings up to date, no crazy useless bells or whistles, it just does what it needs to do and it does it extremely well.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Good feature set for pulling classes from arlo and works well word press. I would recommend that they made the syncing faster though.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
This plugin lets us enjoy the flexibility and access of WordPress for our main site while using Arlo’s top-class event registration system. We’ve been using Arlo for WordPress for 10 months. Today, the Arlo functions are a vital part of our web presence. Our clients rely on us to provide reliable course registration. Arlo for WordPress gives us that, with Arlo changes appearing quickly in our site. We worked with Arlo support for custom CSS to make the front end changes seamless for our users, and we’re delighted with the results.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
We went live with this plugin and the associated backend/administration console about a month ago and have been very happy with the reliability of the plugin, the ease of installation and setup and the quality of support and responsiveness from Arlo’s tech support team.
Since we went live, the number of customer enquiries via telephone have reduced as our clients are able to find and book their courses much more easily than on our previous bespoke booking system.
I would thoroughly recommend this as a cost effective platform for anyone considering which way to go for event, training, course booking systems.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Arlo is central to the operations of our organisation. Customers can book through a highly branded interface that them with resounding peace of mind. Staff can efficiently support customers through the powerful management interface.
We couldn’t recommend Arlo enough!
]]>Rating: 5 stars
This plugin works well and is very easy to use.
]]>Rating: 1 star
Tried to install but got error – Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘ in /home/sites/new-nexusdialogues.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/arlo-training-and-event-management-system/includes/functions.php on line 11
in support forum I saw others had same problem but no replies so no support for this plug-in, pity as it looked good but waste of time..
Update: I did get it installed but afterwards I learned that pricing is over $100/month on lowest price plan so the negative review is being left for this reason
]]>Rating: 5 stars
I have just developed a new website for the Selwyn Community Education group who use ARLO for all of their courses. The ARLO WordPress plugin was very easy to install and set up; all of the necessary pages for displaying the courses from ARLO were automatically created for me by the plugin and everything was instantly displayed on the page. All I had to do then was tweak the CSS to match it’s appearance to the overall design of the site, which with its use of id’s and classes in a clear hierarchical structure was very easy to do. Even the templates which generate the content and layout of the ARLO pages are fully editable and can be changed to suit your own personal needs.
ARLO were also very helpful in getting the template for the WordPress checkout pages setup and designed and finally taking the new website live was very easy.
Rating: 5 stars
BEST ALL IN ONE SOLUTION FOR TRAINING MANAGEMENT
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This is a totally valuable tool to our business and we could do without it. Even easier now it is pluged in to wordpress.
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I have found ARLO to be a fantastic feature-packed product that works very well. Backed by local support and developers that (if needed) can style it to suit. I would recommend this product to anyone in the market.
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