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Issuers compared with Equisolve

Equisolve alternative and Equisolve competitors for IR teams

Issuers is an Equisolve alternative for US small and mid caps whose IR team wants to publish results pages itself and run investor contacts, ownership and disclosure approvals next to the site, at a price listed on the page. Equisolve sells a managed website; Issuers sells the IR workspace with the website included.
A CFO reading through an IR website renewal proposal on a tablet at a kitchen counter early in the morning

01 The real choice

A managed website or an IR workspace with a website

Equisolve and Issuers solve different problems. Pick by who does the work on results morning, not by feature count.

A managed service is a real advantage when nobody inside the company has time to touch the site. It becomes a bottleneck when the IR lead wants the page live the same minute as the wire and the investor follow up captured in the investor relations CRM instead of an inbox.

02 Comparison

Issuers and Equisolve side by side

Based on Equisolve's public website and third party listings at the time of writing. Check their site for the current offer.

Comparison of Issuers and Equisolve
Topic Equisolve Issuers
Company Specialist web agency and platform for public companies and fund sponsors, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Builds IR websites, integrated corporate and IR websites, ETF websites and newsrooms. Issuers.ai, investor relations software for issuers, sold as a self-service subscription.
Core product The website itself. Design, build, hosting, analytics, accessibility work and webcasting around it. The IR workspace. Hosted IR website plus investor CRM, meeting briefs, ownership from public filings, data rooms, disclosure workflow and earnings preparation.
Pricing No public price list. Quoted through sales; G2 lists no pricing either at the time of writing. Prices on the page. Public plan $1,499 a month billed yearly ($17,988 a year) or $2,999 month to month.
Who edits the site Equisolve client services, with unlimited content updates included and 24/7 support from a US based team. Your team edits structured pages directly; every publish runs through IR, CFO and counsel approval and is logged.
Corporate website Can build the corporate site and the IR site as one integrated project. IR site only, on ir.yourcompany.com. Your corporate site stays with whoever runs it now.
ETF and fund sites Dedicated ETF website platform with data and compliance features. Not built for ETF product pages. Funds use Issuers for investor contacts, data rooms and reporting.
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.
Security Lists ISO 27001, ISO 27018 and SOC 2 Type 2 on its site. Encryption, SSO on Enterprise, role based access and an audit trail kept up to 7 years. Details on the security page.
How you start Sales conversation, proposal and build project. Checkout on the pricing page. The workspace opens right away.

03 Why teams look

Finance and investor relations teams working in glass walled meeting rooms along an office corridor
The site is one part of the IR week.

Why IR teams look at Equisolve competitors at renewal

Equisolve has a strong reputation for design and service, and plenty of large caps use it. Small caps tend to shop around for a different reason: the website is the only IR tool they pay for, while the rest of the job runs in spreadsheets. The renewal is when the CFO asks whether the same budget could cover more of the work.

The second reason is price visibility. A quoted build plus a yearly service fee is hard to compare with anything else, especially for a company that moved from OTCQX to Nasdaq and is buying its first proper IR site. A published plan makes the budget conversation with the board short.

The third is control. Some teams like sending updates to a client services desk. Others, often a one person IR function sitting next to the CFO, would rather click publish after the approval chain signs off and see the change in seconds.

04 Cost

What an Equisolve 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, ownership changes from public filings, data rooms, the disclosure workflow and earnings preparation. There is no setup fee and no charge per page update.

To compare fairly, ask Equisolve for three numbers: the one time design and build fee, the yearly hosting and support fee, and any webcasting or accessibility add ons. Then add what you spend today on the CRM, ownership reports and approval tools the website does not cover. A group with several listed entities needs Enterprise at $47,988 a year billed yearly. All plans are on the investor relations software pricing page.

05 Switching

Moving an IR site off Equisolve between two results dates

  1. Week 1

    Check the contract and the build

    Note the renewal and notice dates, and whether the IR pages are a separate section or part of one integrated corporate site.

  2. Week 2

    Export everything

    Pull releases, results decks, annual reports, governance documents, the stock information setup and the full list of live URLs.

  3. Week 3

    Build and approve

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

  4. Week 4

    Point the subdomain

    Change the CNAME on ir.yourcompany.com, add 301 redirects for every old URL and update the corporate site navigation.

Hosting, the subdomain and analytics are covered on the IR website hosting page. Releases and 8-K items go through the disclosure management software with the same approval chain as the site.

06 Honest view

When Equisolve is the better choice

Stay with Equisolve if

  • you want one agency to design and run the corporate site and the IR site as a single build;
  • you run ETF product pages or need a newsroom built around your brand;
  • nobody inside the company should touch the site and you value a 24/7 desk that makes every change.

Choose Issuers if

  • your IR team is one to three people and wants to publish results pages at release time without a ticket;
  • you need investor contacts, meeting notes and ownership changes in the same place as the site;
  • you want a known yearly price and to start from checkout instead of a proposal.

Shortlisting more than two vendors? The investor relations website providers page compares Q4, Notified, Equisolve, ACCESS Newswire and B2i on one checklist, and the Q4 alternative page covers the large suite option.

Equisolve is a name of its owner, used here only to identify the product compared. Information about Equisolve reflects its public website and third party listings at the time of writing and may have changed.

Questions

Questions issuers ask before switching from Equisolve

What is a good alternative to Equisolve?
For a US small or mid cap that wants its IR team to own the site and the daily IR work, Issuers is an Equisolve alternative at a published price, $1,499 a month billed yearly on the Public plan, with the IR website, investor CRM and disclosure approvals in one workspace. If you want another agency to design and maintain a custom site, the other web specialists are B2i and the website teams at Q4 and Notified.
Who are Equisolve competitors?
Equisolve competes with Q4 Inc and Notified, which sell IR websites inside larger IR suites, with B2i, another IR website specialist, and with ACCESS Newswire, which bundles a site with wire distribution. Issuers competes on a different line: it pairs the hosted IR site with the CRM, ownership data and approval workflow, so a small team runs everything from one place.
How much does an Equisolve IR website cost?
Equisolve does not publish prices, and G2 shows no pricing for its IR websites, so the cost comes from a sales quote based on the build and the service level. Ask for the yearly hosting and support fee separately from any one time design fee. For comparison, Issuers costs $17,988 a year on the Public plan billed yearly, with no setup fee.
Can we move only the IR website off Equisolve and keep the corporate site?
Yes, if the IR section can live on its own subdomain such as ir.yourcompany.com. Issuers hosts the IR site there and your corporate site keeps its current vendor. If Equisolve built both as one integrated site, plan the split with your web team: the corporate navigation links to the new subdomain and old IR URLs get 301 redirects.
How do we switch IR website providers without losing search rankings?
Keep every old IR URL working. Export the full URL list before the switch, map each release, filing and results page to its new address and add 301 redirects on the day you change the DNS record. Submit the new sitemap to Google Search Console the same day. Rankings for the company name and ticker usually hold when redirects are complete.

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