AdmissionPros vs Gecko
AdmissionPros
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Gecko
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| Figure | AdmissionPros | Gecko |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 0 |
| Spec score · CRM for Higher Education Software | 7.6 (#3) | 7.5 (#6) |
| Spec score · Admissions Software | 7.6 (#7) | 7.6 (#10) |
| Headquarters | Cary, North Carolina, United States | Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Integrations | Listed integrations include Common Application, Coalition Application, CFNC, CAS applications, Banner, PeopleSoft, Jenzabar, and campus document systems such as ImageNow and OnBase. | Gecko’s own materials describe integrations with Slate, Salesforce, Ellucian, Microsoft Dynamics 365, HubSpot, Unibuddy and Recruit CRM, as well as webhooks and SFTP. |
| Privacy | The privacy notice says applicant data processed through the platform is handled as a service provider or processor under the institution’s privacy notices and agreement. | Gecko Labs Ltd identifies itself as a company registered in England and Wales and says its privacy policy is designed around the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018. |
| Product | AdmissionPros is a customizable higher education admissions CRM for managing prospect, applicant, and administrative information. | Gecko describes its product as a student engagement CRM that brings together student conversations, data, and touchpoints. |
| Security | Its privacy notice says safeguards include encryption in transit and at rest, access controls, multi-factor authentication for administrative access, periodic security testing, and an incident response program. | Gecko reported renewing ISO 27001:2022 certification, completing an annual SOC 2 Type 2 audit and penetration testing, and updating its VPAT against WCAG 2.2 AA. |
In their own words
AdmissionPros
AdmissionPros is a customizable web-based admissions CRM for public and private higher education and educational businesses. It manages prospect, applicant, and administrative information from recruitment through online applications, review, and admissions decisions. Institutions can send targeted email, text, and print communications and track delivery, open, bounce, and click rates. Modules cover scholarships, campus tours, events and travel, communication tracks, call campaigns, analytics, data imports, document management, and review and recommendation portals. Event tools manage invitees, RSVPs, attendees, and messages; prospects and applicants can view tour availability and schedule visits. Listed connections include The Common Application, Coalition Application, Banner, PeopleSoft, Jenzabar, TouchNet, PayPal, Tableau, payment providers, analytics systems, and campus single sign-on services such as LDAP, SAML, Shibboleth, DUO, and OneLogin. AdmissionPros says it customizes workflows and vendor integrations. Pricing is on request, with no upfront design, development, or implementation fees; the contract begins when the solution goes live. Servers run on Oracle Cloud and AWS.
Gecko
Gecko is a student engagement CRM for higher education, bringing student conversations, data, and touchpoints together. Its platform includes chat, texting, email, calling, events, contact management, forms, workflows, student portals, AI, and reporting. A shared inbox brings email, text, chat, and social messages together, with tools to assign conversations, add internal notes, and use canned responses. Workflows can use event or scheduled triggers, conditional paths, and connections to external systems through webhooks and APIs. The AI chatbot provides automated support across web, social, and SMS, with complex queries handed to human agents. Other AI capabilities include sentiment analysis, automatic tagging, summaries, and support for over 50 languages. Reporting includes customizable reports, event metrics, communication tracking, and scheduled delivery and exports. Gecko identifies Slate, Salesforce, and Ellucian as systems it works alongside; its Salesforce integration supports two-way API data exchange. Its audience includes admissions, student services, international recruitment, career services, graduate admissions, community colleges, and online education teams. Pricing is on request, and Gecko offers a free 30-minute demo, not described as a product trial.