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Issuers compared with B2i Technologies

B2i alternative and B2i Technologies competitors for IR teams

Issuers is a B2i alternative for US small and micro caps that want more than a filings feed: a hosted IR website plus the investor CRM, ownership changes and disclosure approvals that sit behind it, at a price on the page. B2i sells IR data modules and WordPress websites; Issuers sells the IR workspace with the website included.
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01 What you are paying for

A data feed for your site or the whole IR job

The two products overlap on the website and nowhere else. Lay out what each yearly invoice covers before you compare prices.

If the website is the only IR tool you need, the cheaper feed is the sensible buy. The gap matters when investor follow ups live in an inbox, ownership checks mean reading 13F filings by hand and release approvals run over email. That work is what the investor relations CRM and the disclosure management software inside Issuers cover.

02 Comparison

Issuers and B2i side by side

Based on B2i's public website and press releases at the time of writing. Check their site for the current offer.

Comparison of Issuers and B2i
Topic B2i Issuers
Company B2i Technologies, a private IR website provider with a Dallas, Texas dateline, founded in 2000 and describing itself as the first SaaS for investor relations. Issuers.ai, investor relations software for issuers, sold as a self-service subscription.
What you buy IR data modules and custom IR websites. Essentials modules drop SEC filings, press releases, stock data and email alerts into your own site; full service adds design and hosting. The IR workspace. Hosted IR website plus investor CRM, meeting briefs, ownership from public filings, data rooms, disclosure workflow and earnings preparation.
Published price IR Website Essentials at $3,600 a year on its pricing page. Full service corporate and IR websites are quoted. Public plan $1,499 a month billed yearly ($17,988 a year) or $2,999 month to month, IR website included.
Technology WordPress sites, a WordPress plugin or a display ready API for the data modules, and IROffice for content edits. Hosted structured pages on ir.yourcompany.com, no CMS or plugins to maintain.
Who edits the site Your team or B2i staff through IROffice, without developers. Your team publishes after the IR, CFO and counsel approval chain signs off, with every change logged.
Investor CRM and ownership Not part of the website offer on its public pages. CRM with a meeting log for Reg FD review, targeting with a fit score, ownership changes from 13F, 13D, 13G and Form 4.
Disclosure approvals Not described on its public pages. Releases, 8-K items and site pages share one approval workflow and audit trail.
Migration Moves content, data and design off platforms such as Q4 or Equisolve. Imports releases, filings archive and documents; you point the subdomain and add 301 redirects.
How you start Sales contact or a 15 minute walkthrough booked online. Checkout on the pricing page. The workspace opens right away.

03 Who looks

Why small caps compare B2i alternatives

B2i has been in IR websites since 2000 and its Essentials price is one of the few public numbers in this market. Companies usually look around for one of three reasons, and none of them is that the feed stops working.

The first is WordPress itself. A plugin based IR section lives inside the corporate site, so theme updates, plugin conflicts and hosting outages on the marketing site also hit the investor pages. Some CFOs want the IR site on its own subdomain, run by a vendor that is responsible for it end to end.

The second is an uplisting. A company moving from OTCQX to the Nasdaq Capital Market starts non deal roadshows and conference meetings, and suddenly needs a record of who it met, what was said and which funds bought after the meeting.

The third is a raise. Once a data room, an investor list and a disclosure log are needed, the website budget gets weighed against the whole IR stack.

A small cap finance team discussing investor relations tools around a laptop
The site is one part of the IR week.

04 Cost

What a B2i alternative costs per year

Issuers costs $17,988 a year on the Public plan billed yearly, or $2,999 month to month. That is about five times the B2i Essentials list price, so the comparison only makes sense against what you spend on the rest of IR.

Add up the yearly cost of your WordPress hosting and maintenance, any CRM seats used for investor contacts, ownership reports from a surveillance firm and the hours your team spends compiling them. If that total is close to or above the Public plan, one workspace is cheaper. If it is near zero because the website is your whole IR program, stay with the feed. All plans are on the investor relations software pricing page.

05 Switching

Moving off a WordPress IR section in four weeks

  1. 1

    Inventory

    List every live investor URL, the plugin shortcodes on each page and the email alert subscriber export.

  2. 2

    Export

    Pull releases, decks, annual reports, governance documents and event archives out of WordPress.

  3. 3

    Approve

    Load the archive into the Issuers IR site and run the page tree through IR, CFO and counsel review.

  4. 4

    Go live

    Point ir.yourcompany.com, add 301 redirects from the old investor paths and submit the new sitemap.

Hosting, the subdomain and analytics are covered on the IR website hosting page. Keep the old investor paths redirecting for at least a year so analyst bookmarks and search results keep working.

06 Honest view

When B2i is the better choice

Stay with B2i if

  • your corporate site runs on WordPress and you only need filings, releases, a stock chart and alerts on it;
  • the IR budget is a few thousand dollars a year and investor meetings are rare;
  • you want a custom designed IR site that matches the corporate brand page for page.

Choose Issuers if

  • you have uplisted or plan a raise and meet funds every quarter;
  • you want the IR site off the corporate CMS, on its own subdomain, with release time publishing;
  • investor contacts, ownership changes and approvals should sit next to the site, at a known yearly price.

Shortlisting more vendors? The investor relations website providers page compares the main options on one checklist, and the Equisolve alternative and ACCESS Newswire alternative pages cover the managed site vendors.

B2i and IROffice are names of their owner, used here only to identify the product compared. Information about B2i reflects its public website and press releases at the time of writing and may have changed.

Questions

Questions issuers ask before choosing over B2i

What is a good alternative to B2i?
For a US small or micro cap that wants the IR website, investor contacts, ownership changes and disclosure approvals in one place, Issuers is a B2i alternative at $1,499 a month billed yearly on the Public plan. If you only need SEC filings, press releases and a stock chart inside your existing WordPress site, B2i Essentials at $3,600 a year is cheaper and does that job well.
How much does B2i cost?
B2i lists IR Website Essentials at $3,600 per year on its pricing page, covering SEC filings, press releases, stock information and email notifications through an API or WordPress plugin. Full service corporate and IR website projects are quoted separately. Check the B2i pricing page for the current figure before you budget.
Is B2i a WordPress IR website provider?
Yes. B2i builds investor websites in WordPress and pairs them with IROffice, its portal for content updates, plus a WordPress plugin and an API for the data modules. That suits companies that already run WordPress. Issuers hosts the IR site itself, so there is no CMS, theme or plugin for your team to patch.
Can we keep B2i data modules and use Issuers for the rest?
Yes. Some teams keep a filings and stock feed on the corporate site and use Issuers for the investor CRM, meeting briefs, ownership tracking and approvals on the Growth plan, which starts at $499 a month billed yearly. The hosted IR website itself comes with the Public plan.
How long does it take to move an IR website off B2i?
Plan about four weeks between two results dates: one week for the contract and URL inventory, one to export releases and documents, one to load and approve the new pages and one to point the ir subdomain, add 301 redirects and submit the sitemap. Avoid switching in the two weeks before earnings.

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Related tools in the same workspace

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