Apply+ vs Gecko

Apply+ is a web portal for education consultancies, agent networks, and institutions managing student applications, documents, visas, offer letters, and partner commissions. Profiles combine personal, passport, academic, language, and uploaded-document information. An application command centre lists application IDs, universities, intakes, offer and fee status, visa status, and missing documents, with filters for nationality, manager, partner, and destination. Its document vault supports previewing, uploading, downloading, and version tracking. Templates can generate conditional offer letters, SEVP forms, agreements, and certificates from student data. Teams can follow application, deferral, visa, and embassy status, calculate commissions, create agent invoices, and track earned and paid amounts. Ledgers and filtered reports export to Excel or PDF. Separate permissions cover admins, managers, partners, agents, and students. The site says passport and academic data are encrypted at rest and in transit, with edits, uploads, and status changes recorded in an audit log. Pricing is on request.

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.