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Issuers compared with ACCESS Newswire

ACCESS Newswire alternative and Issuer Direct alternative for IR teams

Issuers is an ACCESS Newswire alternative for US small and mid caps that want their IR website, investor CRM and disclosure approvals run by their own team at a published price. You can keep ACCESSWIRE for distribution and your webcast provider for calls, and move the site and the daily IR work into one workspace.
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01 Unbundle

Split the subscription before you compare prices

An ACCESS IR subscription usually pays for three different jobs. Only one of them is a software decision, and it is the one your IR team touches every week.

Ask your account manager for the price of the plan without the website. The difference is the number to put next to Issuers, which replaces the website and adds the investor relations CRM, meeting briefs and approvals you would otherwise run in spreadsheets and email.

02 Comparison

Issuers and ACCESS Newswire side by side

Based on ACCESS Newswire's public filings and product pages at the time of writing. Check their site for the current plans.

Comparison of Issuers and ACCESS Newswire
Topic ACCESS Newswire Issuers
Company Formerly Issuer Direct. Renamed ACCESS Newswire Inc. in January 2025, listed on NYSE American as ACCS. Brands include ACCESSWIRE, Newswire.com and PressRelease.com. Issuers.ai, investor relations software for issuers, sold as a self-service subscription.
What the IR product bundles ACCESS IR, a subscription that combines an IR website, quarterly earnings call webcasts and press release distribution for the earnings date and results. ALL ACCESS adds the PR tools. IR website, investor CRM, meeting briefs, ownership from public filings, data rooms, disclosure workflow and earnings preparation in one workspace.
Pricing Several plans; we found no public price list for ACCESS IR at the time of writing. Ask for the website line separately from wire and webcast. Prices on the page. Public plan $1,499 a month billed yearly ($17,988 a year) or $2,999 month to month.
Press release distribution Core strength. Its own newswire network. Not a newswire. Keep ACCESSWIRE or any wire; the approved release goes live on your IR site at the same moment.
Earnings call webcasts Included in ACCESS IR, with US based operators. Not a webcast host. Link your webcast on the results page; the script and Q&A library sit next to it.
IR website editing Hosted IR website managed with the vendor. Your team edits structured pages directly; every publish runs through IR, CFO and counsel approval.
Investor CRM and ownership Not the focus of the IR subscription. Check their current product pages. CRM with meeting log for Reg FD review, targeting with fit score, ownership changes from 13F, 13D, 13G and Form 4.
Disclosure records Distribution records for releases. Filing calendar, approval chain, material event log and an audit trail kept up to 7 years.
How you start Sales conversation and plan selection. Checkout on the pricing page. The workspace opens right away.

03 Why teams look

A general counsel and a company secretary reviewing an announcement draft at an approval table
Approval, site and record in one place.

Why small caps look for an Issuer Direct or ACCESS Newswire alternative

Many microcaps and small caps came to Issuer Direct for filing and distribution services and ended up with the IR website in the same account. After the 2025 rebrand to ACCESS Newswire and the move to communications subscriptions, the renewal is a good moment to check what each part costs and whether the website still fits how the team works.

The website is where the friction shows. On results morning the release crosses the wire at 7:00 ET, and the investor page should carry the release, the deck and the webcast link a minute later. If that depends on a vendor queue, analysts read last quarter's numbers.

The rest of IR work rarely lives in a communications tool. The investor list sits in a spreadsheet, meeting notes in an inbox and the disclosure calendar in the CFO's head. Issuers puts the site next to those records, so the person who reads the results deck shows up in the CRM before your callback.

04 Cost

What an ACCESS Newswire alternative costs per year

Issuers costs $17,988 a year on the Public plan billed yearly. That covers the hosted IR website on your subdomain, the investor CRM, meeting briefs, data rooms, the disclosure workflow and earnings preparation. There is no setup fee and no charge per page update.

Keep the wire and webcast lines in your budget, because Issuers does not replace them. A group with several listed or bond issuing entities needs Enterprise at $47,988 a year billed yearly, which adds a site per entity, SSO and a 99.9 percent SLA. All plans are on the investor relations software pricing page.

05 Switching

Moving the IR site off ACCESS Newswire in four weeks

  1. Week 1

    Read the subscription

    Find the renewal date, the notice period and whether the website line can be cancelled while the wire stays.

  2. Week 2

    Export and import

    Pull every release, results deck, annual report, governance document and the full list of current URLs, then load them into the Issuers IR site.

  3. Week 3

    Approve the new site

    Set the page tree, run the site through IR, CFO and counsel review, and connect your webcast links on the results pages.

  4. Week 4

    Switch and redirect

    Point ir.yourcompany.com to Issuers between results dates, add 301 redirects for changed URLs and end the old website line.

The details of the hosted site, the subdomain setup and the analytics are on the IR website hosting page. Releases and 8-K items run through the disclosure management software with the same approval chain.

06 Honest view

When ACCESS Newswire is the better choice

Stay with ACCESS Newswire if

  • you want distribution, operator assisted earnings webcasts and the website on one invoice from one vendor;
  • you issue a lot of PR as well as IR news and use the media tools in ALL ACCESS;
  • the website rarely changes and nobody on the team needs to edit it.

Choose Issuers if

  • your IR team is one to three people and wants to publish results pages without a ticket;
  • you need the investor list, meeting log and ownership changes next to the site;
  • you want a known yearly price and to start from checkout instead of a proposal.

Comparing several vendors? The investor relations website providers page puts Q4, Notified, Equisolve, ACCESS Newswire and B2i on one checklist, and the Notified alternative page covers the GlobeNewswire bundle.

ACCESS Newswire, ACCESSWIRE and Issuer Direct are names of their owners, used here only to identify the products compared. Information about ACCESS Newswire reflects its public filings and positioning at the time of writing and may have changed.

Questions

Questions issuers ask before switching from ACCESS Newswire

What is a good alternative to ACCESS Newswire?
For investor relations work, Issuers is an alternative for US small and mid caps that want the IR website, investor CRM and disclosure approvals in one workspace at a published price, $1,499 a month billed yearly on the Public plan. For press release distribution alone, the alternatives are other wires such as Business Wire, GlobeNewswire or PR Newswire, and many issuers keep ACCESSWIRE for that job.
Is Issuer Direct now ACCESS Newswire?
Yes. Issuer Direct Corporation changed its name to ACCESS Newswire Inc. in January 2025 and trades on NYSE American under the ticker ACCS. The rebrand brought ACCESSWIRE, Newswire.com and PressRelease.com under one name and moved customers toward fixed fee communications subscriptions. Issuers searching for an Issuer Direct alternative are looking at the same company today.
Can we keep ACCESS Newswire for press releases and move only the IR website?
Usually yes, but read the contract first. Wire distribution and the IR website are separate services technically, so Issuers runs the site and approvals while ACCESSWIRE keeps distributing your releases. If your plan bundles the website, webcasts and distribution into one subscription, ask whether the website can be removed at renewal and what the plan costs without it.
How much does an ACCESS Newswire alternative cost?
Issuers costs $17,988 a year on the Public plan billed yearly, or $2,999 month to month, and that includes the hosted IR website, investor CRM, meeting briefs, data rooms and disclosure workflow. Wire distribution and webcasts are not included, so add what you pay for those. Enterprise, at $3,999 a month billed yearly, adds several entities, SSO and custom approval chains.
How long does it take to switch IR website providers?
Two to four weeks is typical for a small cap site. Most of the time goes into exporting the release archive, results decks and governance documents and mapping old URLs to new ones. The switch itself is one CNAME record on ir.yourcompany.com, with the TLS certificate issued automatically. Schedule the cut over between results dates, never in the week before an earnings release.

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