# Eloquent Archives Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 Eloquent Archives Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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Eloquent Archives

## What is Eloquent Archives?

Mobile friendly digital asset management software built for archivists and records managers. Supports entire life cycle of both electronic and physical records. Powerful digital archives software lets you manage and provide access to multimedia assets, e.g., PDFs, maps and drawings, flip books, audio, images, videos, and email. Cloud or on premise. Simple to file content or perform global searches. Easily manage storage and tracking. Reasonable price; fast implementation.

## What is Eloquent Archives used for?

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Based on 15 user reviews

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Starting price

$300

Per User, Per Month

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### Eloquent Archives

4.6 (15)

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Starting Price

$300

Per User, Per Month

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Ease Of Use

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Value For Money

0.0 (0)

Value For Money

4.3 (9,836)

Customer Service

5.0 (15)

Customer Service

4.2 (9,592)

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User Rating

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User Rating

96%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

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## FAQs about Eloquent Archives

Overview

### Which roles and teams benefit most from Eloquent Archives?

Eloquent Archives is most used by archivists, assistant archivists, and records managers who need to organize collections, manage metadata, and improve retrieval of historical materials. Library directors, division leaders, and archives ministry teams benefit from stronger oversight, standardized archival workflows, and better access to institutional records for staff and researchers.

Answer based on 12 reviews

Overview

### What company size and specific industries is Eloquent Archives built for?

Eloquent Archives is designed for organizations of any size that need a single place to manage paper and electronic records throughout their full lifecycle. It fits businesses and institutions in any industry that handle storage, retrieval, tracking, and timely disposition of records.

Features and Usability

### What are the key features of Eloquent Archives?

Eloquent Archives offers access controls and permissions, archiving and retention, and compliance tracking for records governance. It also includes document classification, workflow management, and full text search for organizing and retrieving files. Additional features include an asset library, document generation, file conversion, file sharing, OCR, and offline access.

Getting Started and Support

### What training and onboarding options does Eloquent Archives offer?

Eloquent Archives provides in person training, live online sessions, webinars, and documentation to help teams get started. In person and live online formats support guided instruction, webinars cover group learning sessions, and documentation gives written reference material for setup and feature review.

## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Access Controls/Permissions

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

Archiving & Retention

Moving and separately storing data that is not actively used or continuous storage of data for compliance purposes

Asset Library

Collection of all assets in the system

Compliance Tracking

Track and report regulatory data to either internal management or external stakeholders

Document Classification

Assign categories, labels, tags, or attributes to documents for organization, search and storage

Document Generation

Custom forms to streamline repetitious aspects of a document

Eloquent Archives 12 features

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

Moving and separately storing data that is not actively used or continuous storage of data for compliance purposes

Collection of all assets in the system

Track and report regulatory data to either internal management or external stakeholders

Assign categories, labels, tags, or attributes to documents for organization, search and storage

Custom forms to streamline repetitious aspects of a document

Convert files to a different format

Public or private sharing of digital files such as documents, audio/video, images, and more

Search for specific words or phrases within a document or database

Ability of websites, web applications, or mobile applications to function without an active internet connection

Ability to recognize printed or written text within digital images or scanned documents

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

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## Pricing

Free Trial

Basic

$300.00

Per User,Per Month

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## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

5.0 (15)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

5.0 (15)

5.0

Based on 15 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.6

Based on 15 reviews

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4(6)

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CH

Chris H.

Sr. Archivist

### "Helping us locate our history!"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

0.0

0.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

May 4, 2016

Our company has been a user of the Eloquent Archives(WebGENCAT) product for over twenty years. The product functionality meets our needs and the help desk is always available and friendly to assist when we contact them.

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DM

Dalene M.

Library Director

### "I chose to implement Eloquent Archives at two different academic institutions."

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

0.0

0.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

April 27, 2016

The software is easy to use, considering the level of complexity of the work involved in managing archives. The customer service is outstanding, and the pricing is fair and reasonable. I recommend this software.

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FL

Felicia L.

Division Director

### "Our experience with this software has been good."

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

0.0

0.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

August 25, 2015

The Eloquent Team provides great customer service and is always responsive to issues.

Review source

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PA

Paulo A.

Archives Ministry

### "I am impressed with all the available functions we can do with the Archives System."

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

0.0

0.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

May 6, 2015

We started our implementation two years ago and every time I need something, tech support is there for us; also all the videos and webcast help us to understand more the concepts and tools we need to keep our data organized. We are not archivist, we are just helping our church; but we are really pleased with all the help we got from Customer Services and Tech Support; they really helped us to get started on the right foot during our planning and implementation.

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Response from Vendor

May 6, 2015

Paulo, Thank you for your comments, particularly about the difficulty in learning to use it. We struggle with the issue and always come to the conclusion that we would have to remove some of the advanced features and make it simply a fill-in-the-blanks web form. Our engineers tell us that fighter pilots have the same complaints. Why are there jets so much harder than a private plane? I am glad you stuck with it and used the free coaching from our Help Desk. You are creating a database the users will really love ¿ easy navigation up and down the hierarchy of descriptive records; consistent vocabulary for names and subjects. All the best, merv@eloquent-systems.com

LD

Lori D.

### "Everything I wanted"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

0.0

0.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

May 5, 2015

I use Eloquent Archives daily, and although the learning curve was steep, once I'd learned how to use it effectively it has proven itself to be everything I wanted and needed in an archiving software. Above all, however, is how responsive the support has been. Every issue has been resolved quickly and with great care. Thank you!

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SG

Stanley G.

Assistant Archivist/Officer in Charge

### "WebGencat Review: Fairly Good"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

0.0

0.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

May 4, 2015

PROS: The product has lots of capabilities and once configured to suit your needs can adequately service them. CONS: The links between description fields can be difficult to navigate and at times the systems seems lost in itself. Perhaps different screen designs for different actions would be useful for the user to follow the linkages and the processing of the system. At times the system seems cumbersome and not as user-friendly as possible. Simplifying the steps will help in this regard.

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Response from Vendor

May 4, 2015

Stanley, It appears that a few training sessions would be helpful. We do just-in-time coaching sessions where the trainer guides you as you enter your own data. In order to accommodate the hierarchy required for ISAD(G) standards the linkages between levels is necessary. It reduces the quantity of repetitive data and the need for global changes. It also makes it easy to maintain consistent terminology. Let us know if you would like to book some free training sessions. You probably did not use up all free time that is available with the service. Merv@eloquent-systems.com

JM

Jennifer M.

Archivist

### "A great tool for finding aids development and public access"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

0.0

0.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

May 1, 2015

Archival management systems do have a level of complexity that comes with need for clearly organizing and describing hierarchical relationships, and the ease of the public user interface is important too. Eloquent Archives is relatively easy, and the support staff has always been there to quickly and effortlessly resolve any difficulties. The user interface works well, and Eloquent has also made modest changes in order to suit our institutional needs for options, instructions, and graphics. This system is especially great for smaller institutions with limited funding for IT resources, and I liked not having to install, troubleshoot, or configure anything.

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GP

Genevieve P.

Archivist

### "Great Archival Database"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

0.0

0.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

April 30, 2015

Eloquent's Archival Database is very easy to use and very user friendly. It is great for employees, interns, and volunteers not versed in DACS (Describing Archives a Content Standard) as all the features and descriptions are built in.

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DB

Dolores B.

### "We're still setting up our data and learning how to use the software."

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

0.0

0.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

April 29, 2015

It's a steep learning curve, but we hope the effort will be justified by the superior functionality of the system.

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Response from Vendor

June 18, 2015

Hi Dolores, We are very pleased that you recognize the "superior functionality" of the software, and that there is a learning curve related to it. You do have unlimited access to the Eloquent Help Desk at no cost, so take advantage of it when you can. Also, there may be more custom tailoring we can do for you to streamline it to your operation. Thanks for your review.

VL

Viola L.

Assistant Archivist

### "Excellent customer support"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

0.0

0.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

0/10

April 24, 2015

The support we received when we transitioned from another product was second to none.

Review source

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Response from Vendor

December 22, 2015

Hope your alumni enjoy the wealth of history you have online for them to see. You have done a great job. It take a while to fully utilize all the power in the system.

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