Filestage Reviews & Insights

Score9.9 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Filestage are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Recommendations

Users frequently recommend using Filestage for collaboration with teammates and vendors. They find it to be a great platform for file review and collaboration, particularly for visual projects such as animation, illustration, in-store signage, and customer emails. Users also suggest practicing using Filestage with internal team members to better understand the notification system and highlight its usefulness as a project management tool for multiple projects with different clients. Furthermore, users recommend taking advantage of the free trial to quickly grasp the benefits of using Filestage for proofing and organizing tasks. Overall, users recommend Filestage as a must-have tool for creative development companies looking to share creative content with clients or within their teams.

Reviews

4 Reviews

Filestage is the key for the team to perform their best

Rating: 10 out of 10

March 29, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Filestage to organize, proof, and get approvals for any type of collateral we are producing. It allows us to create pieces from concept to final press-ready mechanicals. Everyone knows at all times where the project is in the process and knows when it is time for them to move forward with their contribution. Everything is documented, so there is never confusion about how we got to the final piece.

Pros

Compares past and present versions.
Makes commenting easy.
Easy navigation.

Cons

Alerts can be improved.
Would love to have this be an application on my desktop so I don't have to go through my browser every time.

Likelihood to Recommend

I think Filestage is perfect for projects where there is a team involved and several eyes need to be on the project. I don't think it is necessary for small projects where the approval process only goes through one other person. It also keeps everyone on schedule without being annoying.

Bonnie Miguel

Designer in Marketing at Itoya (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Filestage: The Virtual Tabletop Your Team Needs

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 29, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Filestage is the best collaboration tool for your team, especially if you have team members working remotely in different locations. It provides what feels like a virtual tabletop situation for everyone to participate in the proofing process for nearly everything, with easy-to-use commenting features and text editing features as well. As a remote copywriter, this has been an essential software that has simplified the editing process immensely.

Pros

The user experience is beautiful and fairly intuitive.
Filestage allows for easy collaboration on projects.
Filestage sends helpful notifications about projects when changes are requested.

Cons

The mobile version of the site needs a little fine-tuning.
The notification system could be a little better.
I wish you could comment while comparing versions of a document.

Likelihood to Recommend

My team uses Filestage for reviewing copy, and I find submitting documents prepared as a Word document to be the most useful personally. Another team member uploads .PDF documents regularly, and Filestage also allows highlighting text on those. It is also suited for video and audio file review, though our team has yet to experiment with those features.

In some ways, I wish it worked a little bit better with Google Docs, as this is another primary software I use. The main issue here is that it doesn't have the same version comparability, and comment tags don't all show up at once if comments are submitted at different times. It does still integrate so you can keep your work in one space however.

Verified User

Employee in Marketing (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Great, Easy-to-Use Solution for Creative Teams

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 28, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Filestage is used for our Creative Team to manage projects amongst our writers and graphic designers

Pros

Version control
Organization of projects
Collaboration

Cons

Notifications can be buggy
Google Docs implementation - currently if you use a static Google Doc it doesnt allow you to strike or highlight text like it does with PDFs
Perhaps not allowing the person who submits a document to also be the reviewer of it

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited for graphic design work. It is currently not ideal for copywriting, but I think its close.

Rachel Kostival

Creative Director in Marketing at Itoya of America (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

View profile

By far, the Easiest and Most Affordable Proofing Software I've Used in my 12yrs Designing!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 21, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our marketing department uses FileStage as a collaborative proofing platform every day to review design infographics, whitepapers, case studies, social media graphics, newsletters and video. It's also very easy to use with people outside our department and/or organization with a simple email invite. So bringing in new collaborators is a breeze. Filestage gives us a real time platform to proof/review all of our projects in a timely manner, where I control deadlines and reminders. It's made our proofing process very efficient and works wonderfully for a company like ours with offices across the U.S. and Canada.

Pros

Filestage makes it very easy to add new collaborators without any hassle. All you need is their email address and Filestage takes care of the rest.
Managing who can and cannot see a project is very easy with Filestage. You control when a project gets in front of the right people at the right time.
Staying organized is a walk in the park when using Filestage. Adding project folders and projects is easy and intuitive.

Cons

I would like to see a little more control over sending reminders to review a project. Maybe a notification to let the level of urgency for a rush job for tight turnarounds would be helpful.
I would like to have maybe one more level of the folder structure to separate a large group of projects by the user.

Likelihood to Recommend

Filestage is perfect for staging a review with multiple stakeholders from different organizations. You can control who sees your project and when they can see it. Controlling this aspect of the review process is so important because some stakeholders might not understand a work in process and really only need to see something that's close to finished, while other collaborators might need to get in earlier to make art changes, copy changes, etc.

Matthew DeLaRosa

Graphic Designer in Marketing at KUBRA (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

View profile

Loading Reviews List....

By far, the Easiest and Most Affordable Proofing Software I've Used in my 12yrs Designing!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 21, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Filestage makes it very easy to add new collaborators without any hassle. All you need is their email address and Filestage takes care of the rest.
Managing who can and cannot see a project is very easy with Filestage. You control when a project gets in front of the right people at the right time.
Staying organized is a walk in the park when using Filestage. Adding project folders and projects is easy and intuitive.

Cons

I would like to see a little more control over sending reminders to review a project. Maybe a notification to let the level of urgency for a rush job for tight turnarounds would be helpful.
I would like to have maybe one more level of the folder structure to separate a large group of projects by the user.

Likelihood to Recommend

Matthew DeLaRosa

Graphic Designer in Marketing at KUBRA (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

View profile