# RO Innovation Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 RO Innovation Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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RO Innovation

## What is RO Innovation?

Upland RO Innovation is customer reference management software that helps elevate brand awareness and win more deals. Eliminate the chaos of frantic emails or messages when seeking references. Monitor and report on customer reference requests and approval statuses across teams. Proactively address gaps in your reference funnel. Set thresholds to prevent reference burnout. Seamlessly integrate with CRM systems and automatically track reference activity throughout your sales funnel.

## What is RO Innovation used for?

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Overall rating

Based on 19 user reviews

Reviews sentiment

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Starting price

$10

Flat Rate, Per Month

Free trial  
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## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### RO Innovation

4.2 (19)

VS.

[4.7 (453)](https://www.capterra.com/p/245800/Monday-CRM/reviews/)

Starting Price

$10

Flat Rate, Per Month

Starting Price

$12

Per User, Per Month

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

3.9 (19)

Ease Of Use

4.7 (453)

Value For Money

4.0 (18)

Value For Money

4.5 (392)

Customer Service

4.4 (17)

Customer Service

4.6 (375)

## RO Innovation alternatives

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Starting price

$25.00

Per User, Per Month

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Starting price

$61.00

Per User, Per Month

[4.6 (5,720)](https://www.capterra.com/p/147657/monday-com/reviews/)

Starting price

$9.00

Per User, Per Month

[4.5 (719)](https://www.capterra.com/p/153139/Visme/reviews/)

Starting price

$12.25

Per User, Per Month

## Features

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

Activity Dashboard

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Activity Tracking

Track and document all activities across devices, networks, and other systems

Advocate Management

Track and manage advocate communication, engagement, and performance

Campaign Management

Create a collection of marketing actions to complete specific goals and plan and analyze campaign results

Collaboration Tools

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Communication Management

Manage and track all internal and external communication conducted via calls, email, text, or chat

RO Innovation 34 features

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Track and document all activities across devices, networks, and other systems

Track and manage advocate communication, engagement, and performance

Create a collection of marketing actions to complete specific goals and plan and analyze campaign results

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Manage and track all internal and external communication conducted via calls, email, text, or chat

Manage, organize, and store contact information

Centralized repository to store content and assets

Handles digital content throughout its lifecycle, from creation and storage to distribution and archiving

Built-in customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities or integration with a third-party CRM system

Integration with third-party CRM systems

A report showing what actions customers perform

Encourage your customers to promote your company by providing materials, tools, and reward programs

A collection of customer information such as contact details, demographics, previous interactions, etc.

Alter the layout and content of reports

Enables employees to promote their company by supplying them with materials, tools, and reward programs

Tracks metrics that provide insight into how a user interacts with any interface or product

Predefined actions automatically performed on the occurance of specific events

Find & retrieve relevant data or documents

Store, manage and track all forms in a centralized location

Games or game-like elements to track progress and reward accomplishments

Manages incentive programs such as profit sharing, stock awards, and individual bonus plans

Organize and manage the accomplishments and development of employees or performance of applications or systems

A repository of content that has been approved for sharing with current and prospective clients

Receive system updates as soon as any changes are made

Ability of the software to take the manual effort out of the process of requesting and collecting references

Monitor and track how often customer references are used

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Strategize and implement rewards for returning customers, employees and other members

Monitor conversion rates and analyze effectiveness and profitability of marketing efforts

Process of training new hires by providing them with sales tools and knowledge needed to complete the job

Search and filter data across systems to locate required information by entering keywords or certain criteria

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

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Features

3.9 (19)

3.9

Based on 19 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

4.0 (18)

Basic

$10.00

Flat Rate,Per Month

Value for money

4.0 (18)

4.0

Based on 18 reviews

## Integrations

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Account Engagement](https://www.capterra.com/p/134593/Pardot/)[

SugarCRM](https://www.capterra.com/p/231638/SugarCRM/)[

Influitive](https://www.capterra.com/p/136258/AdvocateHub/)[

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## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

4.4 (17)

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

4.4 (17)

4.4

Based on 17 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.2

Based on 19 reviews

Filter by rating

5(7)

4(9)

3(2)

2(1)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

AU

Anonymous User

Lead Functional Consultant

Information Technology and Services

### "Best in class, but needs work."

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

October 31, 2018

Pros

RO Enablement is the best in class reference management platform available. Full featured, flexible, and many, many options. RO has options for not only reference management, but Content (Marketing Asset) sharing, and sales ennoblement tools.

Cons

Does not live up to the sales pitch in many areas. The User interface is dated (even the new Responsive design). Reporting is clunky. Total lack of modern "Dashboard" views.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

Product Marketing

Computer Software

### "Great tool and easy to use"

3.0

Overall Rating

3.0

3.0

Ease of Use

2.0

2.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

3.0

3.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

March 5, 2018

New training methods. basing your company off of data rather than value can definitely give your staff the tools they need to close the door on deals quickly.

Pros

very straight forward product with a very intuitive data structure. Very easy to read and I would recommend this tool to anyone!

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Tanner L.

Product Marketing Analyst

Computer Software

### "Quick to get up to speed and great UI"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

7/10

March 1, 2018

Pros

Great time saving through one single system with all the information needed for our valuable reference information. Easy to use UI and integrations.

Cons

Lots of options within the system can lead to a little bit of difficulty in getting the most out of the integrations.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

North American Reference Specialist

Human Resources

### "ROInnovation is a great database for our advocate clients"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

February 20, 2018

Pros

Quick searches even though we have a ton of accounts listed Great number of separation fields Reporting is robust for our needs

Cons

Best of breed usually costs more Getting other aspects of the business on-board and trained on the application is sometimes difficult.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

BP

Becca P.

Product Marketing Manager

Information Technology and Services

### "I've found the software to be easy to use, and it was a great user experience overall! "

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

7/10

February 7, 2018

We didn't have the integrations we needed in order to streamline our internal programs and ensure our data was up to date. Once we get the necessary integrations in place, we'll be able to take advantage of all the features and capabilities of the software.

Pros

It was wonderful to have one place that held all our reference information, and it was easy to access and find the information that we needed within a few minutes, rather than hours! It helped my team save valuable time by having one system with all the information we needed, and it greatly enabled our program overall.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Amy P.

Global Customer Programs

Computer & Network Security

### "RO Innovation is an excellent customer advocacy tool that I use daily"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

February 7, 2018

Finding reference customers

Pros

Ease of use and for both the advocacy team and sales team. Easy to find out who the contact person is an what they have done. Great for tracking

Cons

Not as easy to build custom requests on the fly. But the engineering team is awesome and will help build your request and meet your needs

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AU

Anonymous User

Senior Manager, Customer Advocacy

### "we are a new implementation in the beginning phases."

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

7/10

February 7, 2018

we are still early in the implementation, but it is worlds better than their competitor.

Pros

\- UI is pleasing to the business user. - Integration with salesforce - reporting function makes it easy to understand gaps

Cons

\- some functions aren't intuitive, when you go to "create a request", if you scroll down the page, and hit the + button, nothing happens. When in fact, the "create a request" pops up, but you can't see if because it is at the top of the page.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

MD

Matt D.

PR Specialist/Customer Reference Manager

Computer Hardware

### "Helps define our customer reference program"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

4.0

4.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

February 7, 2018

Enables us to keep track of customer references and leverage them the best way possible. We can track the usage too.

Pros

The ability to customize and how well it aligns with our program. We like the ability to integrate into Salesforce.com.

Cons

The system looks dated. It can be a bit clunky at times because there are too many options. We need to figure out better ways to increase overall usage of the program and tool

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Gina M.

Customer Engagement Manager

Computer Software

### "Easy to Manage "

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

February 7, 2018

Reporting to see who is using the tool as this is a requirement for our sales team to submit nominations. Ease of use and the ability to put restrictions on a nomination for usage.

Pros

The tool has provide our sales team an easy to use tool when searching for references while giving them the visibility into not only product information but down to specific features that we use.

Cons

Only thing that I would like to see is a renewal feature included with active, rejected, etc. This is better option that selecting rejected and having a reason of renewal.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

CQ

Chuck Q.

Director of Customer Marketing

### "RO Innovation puts the entire company rolodex of customer advocates into the hands of every employee"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

February 7, 2018

Pros

I've used 3 different customer reference management platforms over the past 12 years and RO Innovation has proven to be the most impactful one for getting customer advocates into the sales teams hands. As an administrator, the simplicity of the platform allows the reference team to focus on curating new advocates vs. administrative tasks. The integration into Salesforce is a key part of the platform for sales users, giving them access to RO Innovation via a tool they already use daily. With a large sales team, this self service aspect is key. Overall, the responsiveness of RO Innovation employees is incredible and they are a valued partner. They also give back to the customer reference community by hosting a can't miss annual thought leadership conference.

Cons

As my companies product lines evolve, I find myself tweaking the RO Innovation instance to include new dashboards, filter functionality and hosting training sessions. RO Innovation is not "a set it and forget it" platform. It has many capabilities and one has to be thoughtful of how RO Innovation can adapt to support new needs from your business.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

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