GoToWebinar Pricing Overview

GoGoToWebinar existed before Zoom and created the on-line virtual webinar field. It is financially more viable than Zoom and more business savvy than Zoom. Zoom was initially created for end-users during Covid who needed to reach out at a reasonable price (free was very reasonable), who then insisted we migrate Zoom into the business model, for which it did not fit; thus forcing Zoom to create more business-model aspects and additional pricing. GoTo still has more business models in place with lower pricing than Zoom. We will not give up our GoTo account, but because of popular end-user demand, we have had to add 2 Zoom accounts as well.

Not really anything. GoTo did not take advantage of the Covid end-user need for people to reach out in order to create and compete in the end-user coverage like Zoom did.

GoTo also maintains a video library of any of our videos that we want to upload to it at no additional fee. GoTo provides a toll free number at additional cost in case we need to use one in order to have a meeting in a conference room that doesn't have long distance access.

Easy and effective, user friendly interface which can be learned in an instance. Easy to manage, history of webinars accessible, recording option is a must use!

You lose a little of engagement with Customer if you have a meeting without seeing people in person. You are not feeling emotions, there is no feedback provided while seeing faces and expressions - however we try to have first few meetings in person and then pursue with Webinar meetings.

We are engaged in IT software business and we work mostly with Customers with all country locations. We have meetings, trainings, Customer requirements analysis workshops, development handovers, project meetings, etc. Before GoToWebinar - we did all the stuff above in personal meetings which required a lot of traveling time and cost. According our statistics - last year we did 169 meetings with help of GoToWebinar! (and our company has 56 employees) - which resulted efficiency in terms of costs and most important - time - which we spent on productive work instead of traveling.

I enjoy GoToWebinar and all it's features that allow you to create webinars, email links to participants, share information about the presentation, provide suverys and polls for attendees to respond and provide feedback on the presenation. The program is user friendly and has a large amount of storage space for webinars to be recorded and then shared with people who may have missed the presentation.

The main thing I dislike about GoToWebinar is that it's quite a huge price to pay for a program and sometimes the quality of recordings can be very low if there is not a high quality microphone being used while presenting. This can mean further costs.

GoToWebinar allows you to share recordings of presentations, reach people that may not be in your country, share powerpoints as well as a webcam. It can solve problems of distance, time differences, assist in receiving feedback for a presenter to develop their work.

GoToWebinar is by far the most seamless and intuitive learning interface available currently. We frequently use GTW for hosting and attending learning webinars for our company. It makes learning an across-location offering thereby maximizing scope for participation. The features of participation include an interactive chatbox, Q&A dialogue box, hand-raise options plus the regular presentation screen. Very useful!

We root firmly for GoToWebinar as a must have for organizations who value training their geographiclly dispersed workforce.

We use GoToWebinar to organize and attend Topic-based webinars for cross-location audiences within the company. It's a very cost-effective solution and helps us deliver training right!

It's easy and straightforward to use, it's robust and reliable too. The interaction tools are also very good - surveys, polls, handouts and videos - and useful to engage attendees, It also syncs with our marketing and CRM systems - Marketo and Salesforce - which is fantastic in terms of tracking, tagging and setting up alerts in terms of follow up. The automated emails to send the recording to attendees and non-attendee is also very useful (with different messages to each) and means no manual intervention. Post webinar, recordings are very useful too and the analytics are great - attentiveness and viewing stats - help to review performance and the surveys after the event are great to get immediate and actionable feedback. All this for up to 500 attendees as standard and at a very reasonable price vs competitors make it an excellent platform that I highly recommend.

A small one which is to make the chat window larger and more user friendly, so that it is easier to read whilst your in session and easier to respond.

Customer engagement improvement with content, automated tracking in Marketo and Salesforce, automated follow up emails, surveys and sending a recording to all registrants. The platform also allows us to use the webinars after on-demand as standard too.

I like that I can see a small preview of what I am showing on my screen. I no longer have to guess or have a colleague test that the visual is working, I can see that directly from the presenter panel.

Reporting could be a bit more useful. The new reporting options don't make it clear how I can run registration vs. attendee reports. But it's all there, just takes a few extra steps now.

I am saving time preparing for webinars - now I feel confident that they will run smoothly without multiple tests. Webinars, in general, are also a great lead generation tactic for us.

I like that go to webinar offers multiple packages at reasonable prices and is very convenient for meetings.

It doesn't offer discounts to non-profits which would be helpful.

I love the time saved by using this software - it avoids the extra time it takes to meet in person for shorter conversations and enables presenters to share their screen.

My favorite feature with GoToWebinar is that you can set your slide show and your video side by side both with equal frames. I teach online educational classes and in many of my classes I use slides alongside me speaking. Previously, I've used Zoom for these classes, but they don't have an option to record with my video and my slide show side by side and the same size. Because both aspects are important for optimal learning, I really love that my recorded classes have both in large view. I also like the registration pages and that I can set up my own branding on the registration page, which has it feel very customized and professional. I also love that along with participant registration, I am able to customize the reminder emails that go out prior to the webinar staring. Again, this creates a feeling of professionalism. The reminder emails are also super helpful with so many people living busy lifestyles these days. We all have multiple things going on at any given time, my students included, and I like that they have multiple reminders prior to class starting so that if they missed adding it into their calendar, they are still taken care of! I love the webinar feature in that other student's can't see who else is on the webinar. I have found this feature distracting in other platforms. While chat boxes and seeing each other's faces/videos can help some people connect with other's on the class call, as the facilitator, I find it distracting and detracts from the students paying attention to the class material and integrating it for themselves. That I'm able to make this private, even the chat box, is really helpful for me as the facilitator directing where I want my students focus to be and where I want the energy to be directed.

I would love it if there was an option to turn off the need to sign up for a webinar. While this feature is perfect for some instances, it's a hindrance for others. This has been a rather annoying extra step for both myself as a facilitator using GoToWebinar and as a student attending a class on GoToWebinar. When the classes are reoccurring as part of a longer term program, where we have classes at the same time every week, it feels like an extra and unnecessary step to have to sign up for the class. I love the sign up feature when it's for a single class, but for multiple and repeating classes as part of an ongoing program, it's super annoying. I did call GoToWebinar to ask about this feature and to see if there was an option to turn off this setting and there wasn't. I would love to see an option added to turn on or off the sign up feature for specific webinars so that for regular classes, people can just be sent the webinar url and join in without having to sign up.

The biggest problem I've solved with GoToWebinar is that I'm able to host and teach with my video and my slide show side-by-side on the screen and to record it this way. This has been a feature that I was looking for on other platforms that unfortunately did not have this option. It's important for my students to have both the slides and my video highly visible, especially because different people learn differently. Some people are more visual and need to see the slides with graphics and written sentences to really absorb and integrate what they're learning and some people learn more kinesthetically and auditorily, which is why having the video is so important for them. I like having all styles of learning equally represented so that anyone and their particular learning style can get the most out of the classes. This is a really important feature for me and I'm really happy the the GoToWebinar platform has this option! Would highly recommend for anyone who is desiring this feature!