Field Agent vs PRISM Mystery Shopping Platform

Field Agent connects brands and retailers with people who gather information while shopping in stores or online. Its app offers audits, surveys, Buy & Trys, ratings and reviews, Eye Spys, scavenger hunts, and mystery shops. Agents reserve and complete a job, submit it for review, and receive cash after approval. Listed retail locations include Walgreens, 7-Eleven, Dollar General, Albertsons, McDonald's, Best Buy, Kroger, Target, Kohl's, Publix, Costco, and CVS. Supported countries include Australia, Canada, Ecuador, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Great Britain, and the United States. Field Agent provides Android, iOS, web, and API access; the API can create jobs, manage templates, launch projects, retrieve results, and optionally use webhooks. The app plan is listed at free. Registration is limited to people aged 18 or older. Field Agent says it encrypts information in transmission and does not sell users' personal information. It may use Plaid to verify bank information and Dwolla to send credit transfers to agents' financial-institution accounts. Denied submissions are not paid.

PRISM Mystery Shopping Platform supports internal and vendor-run programs for measuring brand and customer experience. It handles on-site inspections, crowdsourced microshops, web-based shops, recorded telephone shops, covert video shops, and audio shops. Evaluators can submit shop data through the integrated iSecretShop mobile app or by computer. The maker says its network includes nearly 1,000,000 registered evaluators and field agents, with more than 150 demographic data points, custom demographic fields, and multi-language and currency support. Forms can use varied question logic, while fraud checks look for suspicious patterns and examine image metadata. The dashboard combines mystery shopping with channels such as internal audits, price audits, surveys, polling, and online reputation management. It offers custom views, comparative filters, benchmarking, hierarchical access controls, and unlimited authorized users without per-user fees. Scheduled reports can be sent by API, FTP, sFTP, or email. A Team Action Module can trigger plans when field defects are found. The platform is available on Android, iOS, web, and API. Pricing is on request.