--- description: Review of Convene Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice Ireland. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Convene | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice IE --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Productivity Software](/directory/4366/productivity/software) > [Convene](/software/50601/convene) # Convene Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/50601/convene Page: 1 / 7\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/50601/convene?page=2) > Convene is a board management platform designed to streamline the meeting workflow for organizations. It caters to a range of industries, including corporate, non-profit, and government. The platform offers features to enhance productivity and collaboration during board meetings. Users can engage in real-time collaboration, allowing everyone to stay aligned during physical, remote, or hybrid meetings. Convene also optimizes administrative tasks such as building agendas, sending invites, and automating post-meeting follow-ups. The platform provides a single, intuitive app for managing the entire meeting process, including video conferencing and document access. Convene allows users to access action items and documents before meetings. The platform also streamlines sign-off workflows for board documents and enables the creation and assignment of action items. This allows users to monitor progress and generate reports on individual appraisals, board evaluations, and other surveys. With Convene, organizations can improve their board meeting standards, protect confidential data, and increase efficiency in decision-making. > > Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 152 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 152 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Azeus Systems - **Founded**: 1991 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$400.00 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Pricing follows a user-based subscription pricing model. Each Convene user is free to use the same license to log in to whichever device they prefer. Please contact us to request a price quotation. - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 210 more ## Features - Access Controls/Permissions - Action Item Tracking - Activity Dashboard - Activity Tracking - Agenda Management - Alerts/Notifications - Approval Process Control - Archiving & Retention - Assignment Management - Attendance Management - Attendee Management - Audit Trail - Authentication - Automatic Backup - Calendar Management - Calendar Sync - Chat/Messaging - Collaboration Tools - Commenting/Notes - Committee Management ## Integrations (6 total) - Box - Dropbox - Microsoft 365 - Microsoft Exchange - Microsoft SharePoint - OneDrive ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Productivity Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4366/productivity/software) ## Related Categories - [Productivity Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4366/productivity/software) - [Company Secretarial Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4171/company-secretarial/software) - [Collaboration Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4138/collaboration/software) - [Board Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4536/board-management/software) - [Online Meeting Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/852/online-meeting/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Additionally, the live meeting synchronization and annotation features make team collaboration during high-stakes reviews completely seamless, ensuring all stakeholders stay on the same page in real time. > > **Cons**: The product is quite expensive compared to standard video conferencing software, meaning the value really only makes sense if you absolutely require strict enterprise compliance. Additionally, the navigation can feel rigid when managing multi-tiered agendas, and the platform can occasionally experience performance lag or slower rendering times when handling exceptionally heavy PDF files or complex attachment packages. > > Overall, Convene is an exceptional tool for high-level governance and structured meeting management. It successfully solves the problem of securely collaborating on sensitive executive and board documents without risking data leakage. While there is a slight learning curve on the administrative side to configure complex templates and permission tiers, the platform’s high-grade encryption, seamless live page synchronization, and highly responsive 24/7 customer support make it well worth the investment for enterprise compliance. ----- ### "Convene stands as the most efficient product for optimizing meeting experience by making it easy to keep meetings organized." — 5.0/5 > **Pedro M** | *22 July 2026* | Food & Beverages | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Convene has a very sleek user interface that allows us to have a seamless experience when facilitating our board meetings. The agenda building feature has been very useful in helping us to set meeting objectives which allows us to remain aligned and focused only on the relevant topics during our meeting discussions. During board meetings, Convene makes it easy for us to seamlessly carry out polling and also board elections using the in-meeting polling and voting features while still marinating the credibility of the elections and vote counting. There are also collaboration features which allows us to engage each other easily and work together effortlessly as a united team. > > **Cons**: Finding a perfect product for a job can be rare but luckily for us, we have found that perfect product in Convene. Our experience has not had any hiccups and we have not discovered any aspects about it that does not meet our expectations. > > Transitioning to online meetings from our usual physical meetings came with challenges of ensuring we properly organize our meetings and thats why we had to deploy Convene to help us solve these challenges. With Convene, we are are able to effectively plan for our board meeting sessions beforehand by clearly setting the meeting objectives and main agenda so that we can stick to that and avoid focusing on the irrelevant issues that might come about. It also help us to always have a clear overview of our meeting discussions by automatically generating meeting minutes which shows what we discussed during the meeting. ----- ### "User Interface." — 5.0/5 > **Emanuel** | *25 October 2024* | Computer & Network Security | Recommendation rating: 3.0/10 > > **Pros**: It interface is user friendly making it easier to navigate. > > **Cons**: The app sometimes lags during video calls. > > My overall experience has been fantastic. ----- ### "Easy and Effective tool for meeting and user management." — 4.0/5 > **Harsh** | *19 June 2026* | Computer Networking | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: What we like most about convene is how it makes meeting preparation much easier by keeping agendas, documents and discussions very smoothly in one place. > > **Cons**: I think the platform has many features , so it can take some time for new users to become comfortable with everything. also a few section of interface could be simplified > > My Overall experience has been very positive . It has helped us in so many tasks like streamline meeting and also in improving collaboration. Its quite reasonable in pricing. and the support team is very supportive also. ----- ### "The most secure and efficient user management and meetings tool" — 4.0/5 > **Jatin** | *21 July 2026* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: The thing which we like the most about this product is its bulletproof security feature like in this platform we discuss the most sensitive information about our company with the top authorities so it becomes very important for that information to be kept confidential and Convene does it properly. > > **Cons**: I think Convene has limited use cases and also it can feel extremely expensive to the teams with lesser number of employees except this everything seems perfect > > My overall experience with Convene has been very positive like it helped us in improving the collaboration the team as well as it helped us in user management and meetings and its support team is also very supportive like they respond within an hour ----- Page: 1 / 7\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/50601/convene?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/50601/convene) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data