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Sawyer

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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 8 - Reviews of Sawyer

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Owner  
E-Learning  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Using New Sawyer Tools"

November 26, 2018

2.0

has created more problems, not solved them

Pros

Admin states once you figure out their treacherous back end that information is easy to input

Cons

confusing back end editing exhausting registration process, too many "clicks" confusing user interface, looks sloppy no ability to have access to the Stripe account for reporting no link tracking unless you have a Google Analytics account rigid application, not intuitive support is difficult to contact, mostly through email only

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PK

Peyton K.  
Owner  
Retail  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Sawyer Tools - Highly Recommended Software for Camps, Afterschool Programs, Youth Sports "

May 12, 2021

3.0

Good to do business with them.

Pros

Ease of Use and Set up. A great tool you just need to think it through and adapt it for your particular use case.

Cons

The software is still young and the Sawyer is on a path of continuous innovation with lots of new features coming out monthly . The Sawyer team's roadmap is on track to meet our needs in the future.

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LS

Lisa S.  
Management  
Sports  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Administrator "

July 28, 2020

4.0

System works. Whenever I run into something that does not fit or work for us, I do get a reply within a day which is super important.

Pros

Many features are super user friendly. Some need to be worked on, but having quick email replies helps so much

Cons

Not being able to call in if I needed to talk with someone right away

Switched from

[Mindbody](https://www.capterra.com/p/40229/MINDBODY/)

Pricing

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Elementary Music Teacher  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Sawyer review "

August 7, 2018

5.0

Has helped my business

Pros

Ease for families to sign up for classes

Cons

No option for families to pay by donation

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LM

Lance M.  
Vice President / Co-Owner  
Fine Art  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "A great class time solution!"

August 7, 2018

5.0

Overall the time savings and the organization has just been awesome. We started integrating Sawyer slowly with our classes, but we are only moving forward with Sawyer now!

Pros

We used to do registrations with pen and paper, and then we would have to scan or manually enter information from those forms. Not to mention generate rosters manually for several classes. Sawyer organizes all of that for us and saves me valuable time!

Cons

There is an extremely small (and unavoidable) learning curve in setting up the classes and form. However, the support we were able to get from the online archives answered our questions quickly and the one question I sent to tech support (at 11pm) was answered the next morning before 9am!

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SR

Shelley R.  
Office Manager  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Helpful System!"

May 4, 2021

4.0

The customer service has been very helpful, and professional.

Pros

Sawyer makes it easy to track registrations, payments, and rosters. The ease of use for the parents is a big plus, too.

Cons

Reports do not always pull the information needed in the most efficient way. Some time must be spent organizing the data once it's pulled into a report.

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PM

Popi M.  
Coach  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Helps me focus on what I do best: Deliver Quality!"

July 23, 2019

4.0

Sawyer has been phenomenal from day 1 when the team contacted me - super professional, responsive and extremely helpful. Great team - great product. Makes my life as a small business owner soooooo much easier!

Pros

Easy to set up Reusable plug & play widgets Access to listings and financials Registration and payment is taken care of

Cons

The product is constantly improving - I would like to see it be more intuitive (it already is great, just needs more ease for self-serve purposes). Overall, really enjoy having this product

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WK

Whitney K.  
Teacher/parent  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Teacher/parent"

September 20, 2022

4.0

Pretty good, more clarity on pages.

Pros

It has the things I need accessible, email for parents, attendance

Cons

The pages get very wordy-sometimes my eye have to sort through stuff to get through to what I want to see

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JP

Jessica P.  
Teacher  
E-Learning  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Sawyer 👍🏽"

April 27, 2021

5.0

Pros

It’s nice to take attendance and message parents easily especially in an emergency. I can easily access students info and see my schedule

Cons

I would love for the calendar to be integrated with google, apple or outlook. It would make planning out my day a lot easier because I tend to forget to login into Sawyer

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AO

Alice O.  
Hair stylist  
Cosmetics  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Easy to use for parents "

October 26, 2022

5.0

I manage all our kids preschool activities there from early drop off classes to late pick up availability

Pros

I love that our Preschool uses swayer. I like seeing how many spots are left in a certain class without having to wait for an email response from a teacher.

Cons

The initial sign up took a little longer then I thought

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KC

Kristen C.  
Summer Camp Owner  
Arts and Crafts  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Sawyer Tools is a great business tool"

May 4, 2021

5.0

I absolutely love this platform and it has made my life so much easier.

Pros

It is specifically tailored to the child care industry that I am in.

Cons

When you cancel orders, names of children still show up on the roster.

Reason for choosing Sawyer

They approached me and after looking at how user friendly, attractive the platform was, the ease of it plugging into my website, and the ability to edit order and create camps, I was hooked

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LB

Lacey B.  
Director,  
Arts and Crafts  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Great Service and User friendly interface"

August 13, 2018

5.0

Pros

I find the interface of Sawyer to be aesthetically pleasing, simple, and user friendly. Posting classes and keeping track of enrollment and attendance and monitoring revenue is so easy since we started using the software. Customer Service has been prompt, friendly, and helpful.

Cons

Features and flexibility of the software have been limited, but since we started using the software, they have been rolling out helpful new features constantly like waitlists, memberships, and parties. Even though features have been a little limiting, I like that they seem to be listening to their clients and adding more all the time.

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RC

Roberta C.  
Owner  
Arts and Crafts  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Hi Sawyer"

February 1, 2022

5.0

Staff is helpful, system is manageable. I like it.

Pros

Once you get the hang of inputting and updating classes, it's a quick process.

Cons

I don't like that HiSawyer keeps sending out information about other classes/programs to parents who forgot to remove themselves from the company's emails.

Reason for choosing Sawyer

Price.

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EB

Emily B.  
Marketing associate, teaching artist  
Arts and Crafts  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "We love sawyer"

July 25, 2019

5.0

It’s been very positive and has really helped our organization.

Pros

It’s so easy to use as an admin and a parent. Payment is easy, and we get great information stored in an easy to access format.

Cons

As an admin, I would love for the dimensions of the graphics needed for our listings to be included in an obvious way. As a parent, I was unable to edit a listing I registered for where I misspelled something .

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Erin M.  
Art teacher  
Arts and Crafts  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Big improvement "

April 27, 2021

5.0

Pros

This software is a marked improvement from previous software used for class registration and communication. As an instructor, I really liked how easy it was to see if my class was full and message students.

Cons

The calendar view was a little clunky. I wanted there to be a way to see my classes more quickly than going through the calendar

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CM

Cheryl M.  
Owner  
Education Management  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Good with potential to get better"

July 21, 2019

4.0

Every time I have a question it is answered but the answer is usually, "we are working on that function - stay tuned!".

Pros

I thought it was beautiful to use and look at and loved the design. I enjoyed the initial on boarding experience.

Cons

The software caters to companies that run camps and week long events for kids but it doesn't have options to view rosters and add kids in that way which has caused a lot of confusion and work for me this season.

Switched from

[Squarespace](https://www.capterra.com/p/143461/Squarespace/)

Squarespace did not offer sibling discounts and ways to store student/ family and rosters.

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FJ

Freny J.  
Owner/ instructor  
E-Learning  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Thank you Sawyer!!"

March 12, 2021

5.0

Sawyer helps me to get visibility! I have been able to get new customers through Sawyer.

Pros

The product is self explanatory and easy to use. It was linked to my website right away, without any major issues. The FAQ's are very helpful. The financials section helps me get a good precise review of the month. A lot is taken care of by using the software, like send email reminders and links for classes, payment etc.

Cons

I noticed that, when I added a few more weeks to an existing semester, a few random classes were displayed as cancelled. This happened immediately after I added the weeks. Nobody had made any changes or cancellations. I figure that it was a glitch in the software. I had to go in and restore all those classes.

Reason for choosing Sawyer

N/A

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DP

Dana P.  
Dance and Acting Instructor  
Performing Arts  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Easy to use"

February 4, 2022

5.0

Pros

Really easy to use and click attendance for participants. I also like that I can also send messages to the whole class via this app.

Cons

I actually have no cons to this site. All was smooth sailing on my side.

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Ewa H.  
Founder  
Recreational Facilities and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Perfect for a playroom"

August 10, 2018

5.0

It’s the perfect scheduling software for a playroom that offers a variety of children’s activities and programs.

Pros

Finally a scheduling software for children’s events! It’s so much easier than using softwares designed for salons or exercise studios.

Cons

Some things are tricky to find and setting certain things up correctly takes some getting used to.

Review Source

JK

Jamie K.  
Owner  
Entertainment  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "As a company owner, I have found the software to be incredibly helpful with scheduling my classes! "

July 5, 2017

5.0

A great looking and organized way for our clients to sign up for classes on our website!

Pros

I really like how the way the software looks on my website and its functionality. Customer service has also been incredible and has taken all of our suggestions and tried to implement as much as possible to make everything easier for us to use and for our customers.

Cons

I wish there were a few more options on how to display classes as semester versus drop in. Also some clients have found it frustrating to sign up for a class- honestly i think this is pure laziness on the customer end and not wanting to have to "sign up" for sawyer tools in order to sign up for our class but if there was a way around not having to do this it would make it much easier for us to have drop ins pay at class. generally they don't want to go through the whole signing up process because it looks more difficult then just inputting payment.

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KD

K.C. D.  
Owner  
Arts and Crafts  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Great Experience "

July 18, 2019

5.0

My experience overall has been great. I have not had any issues that I haven’t been able to solve within a matter of hours. My costumers have never had any trouble using Sawyer as well. I’m so happy to have such a reliable system.

Pros

I love that it is so easy for not only myself to use, but for my customers as well. It is simple and straightforward.

Cons

I wish it was a little bit easier to use on my phone

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TS

Tal S.  
Camp owner  
Sports  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "I love it! My business wasn’t the same"

July 17, 2020

5.0

I think Sawyer is a great software it makes my life as a camp owner much easier and took a lot of my headache of Registration and organizing the camp into one place. I don’t know how I had my business before that 😃.

Pros

Its easy it’s friendly, great design. The price for what you get is good and the support team is always there for me😍

Cons

All great , i dont know why it took me years to hear about it

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JD

Jesse D.  
CEO  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Love it"

May 6, 2021

5.0

Pros

This is a bit too extensive of a review process. I love the ease of use and ease of training.

Cons

Our ideal offerings don’t always fit within the built system. It is usually an easy fix.

Review Source

rS

robert S.  
Teacher / Tutor  
Education Management  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Sawyer As A Tool for Education"

July 16, 2020

4.0

Sawyer has been a tool to allow parents to see the various opportunities for educating their children.

Pros

Sawyer allows me to access my classes with ease. I have the capability to describe the classes that I offer, as well as communicate with the parents that sign their children up for the class.

Cons

The software can be quite slow at times.

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FM

Fonda M.  
Artistic Director  
Performing Arts  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Exhaling With Sawyer Tools"

May 4, 2021

5.0

Sawyer Tools has allowed the people in my business to finally exhale. Our admin team is now able to do the work that my business partner and I used to have to do all by ourselves.

Pros

Sawyer Tools is, for the most part, user friendly making it pretty easy to navigate.

Cons

I am confused as to why we have to set up an activity AND a camp or semester. This always feels like an extra step. In my opinion, it could all just happen together in one easy step.

Alternatives considered

[Google Docs](https://www.capterra.com/p/160756/Google-Docs/)

Reason for choosing Sawyer

Sawyer Tools was recommended by another company.

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