Captain Up is one of the many gamification vendors listed in Technology Advice’s database. Since we’ve learned so much about the product’s specs, we decided to provide you with a brief review as well as a first-hand look at the user interface. Check out our full Captain Up overview, or see our list of the […]
welcome today we'll be looking at captain up a service that helps companies provide incentives for users to perform certain actions on their web page this review is brought to you by technology advice and the smart advisor tool which lets you compare over 90 gamification companies in under two minutes captain up essentially provides an extra layer of engagement over your existing website or service when you set up the service it provides you with some code to place into your site which then allows captain up to monitor what users do on your web page such as reading articles or watching the videos you have once your site is linked to the captain up platform you can specify rewards in the form of points badges or levels to be awarded to users for completing certain tasks this is pretty customizable but standard actions can include reading 10 articles on your blog or watching five of your youtube videos and the basic idea of captain app is this users receive a certain number of points for coming to your site looking at your content and interacting with your web page and sharing your content over social media these points eventually enable them to progress to new levels and unlock different badges which are generally shown beside their username or profile on the site you can control all these settings and monitor your site's interactions through captain up's admin panel and we have that up right here this is the dashboard which gives you a snapshot of the points users have earned during the last 10 days at the top we can then select the players tab and that'll show us everyone who has signed up on our site to get badges points and go to the next level the settings tab allows you to see the api information for integrating captain up services into your site and it provides the ability to customize the look and feel of your theme you can do that under theme and design and you can also specify the points that people will get for actions like visiting the site tweeting following you on twitter liking you on facebook commenting giving you a plus one on google sending other people to your site or signing up for an email list you can also link your facebook page for increased social interaction the levels tab will let you specify how many levels you want and exactly how many points a user has to accumulate in order to move between the levels you can also rename the levels and pick different images to give it a custom feel badges are one of the key ways that captain up enables you to incentivize your users and the badges tab here is going to let us either create completely new badges or choose from a pretty wide selection of their pre-made ones these include things like more like it which gives you 150 points and is earned for liking five pages on the website and you can also customize these conditions you could change this to tweet and you could specify that you need to tweet three things three pages to earn the badge and finally the help tab is going to give you an overview of captain up services it's going to also help you install it provide you with some widgets and a contact form in case you need to get in touch with them or have any other questions that's the basic interface of captain up which is a pretty simple service but allows you to integrate interaction into your site and so the pros of captain up it's easy to use as you saw it's very intuitive there's lots of documentation about integrating it into your site and also integrating google plus facebook and twitter accounts and you don't have to change your content to use captain up it just layers over your existing site and your existing strategies so if you're just getting started with gamification and you have a smaller budget this is a great option the drawbacks for captain up it doesn't integrate into any major e-commerce platforms and it's pretty basic gamification you're motivating players with badges points and levels so if you're looking for a long-term complex and large scale platform say in an enterprise company this probably isn't it before you make any decisions regarding a gamification vendor however we recommend you go to technologyadvice.com and use the smart advisor tool which will let you compare captain up to over 90 different gamification companies in under two minutes thank you for watching this review of captain up you
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Captain Up is one of the many gamification vendors listed in Technology Advice’s database. Since we’ve learned so much about the product’s specs, we decided to provide you with a brief review as well as a first-hand look at the user interface.
Check out our full Captain Up overview, or see our list of the best gamification software.
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