GovSpend

All these people do is waste your time and money while they do nothing good but ask so much from you and milk you till you run dry.

Though the company is growing, strangely enough there is a lack of opportunities for the general employee population. Sales leadership specifically motivates through threats and scare tactics owning to a complete lack of knowledge of selling SaaS. The result is a very low morale work environment where reps lack mentorship, organizational support and personal or professional growth.

Love how their tool works. It gives us access to government purchase orders and purchasing history from competitors. The information is neatly laid out and easy to understand. We had a few concerns during the first weeks of using the system but good thing their customer support was always ready to answer our questions. Seeing the data has been a game-changer for us. Excellent ROI, highly recommended!

The data being sold to you is old and outdated. We purchased the GovSpend App under the impression that the data would be accurate and up to date, it was not. The purchase order data was just only information you can already find on search engines. Even when looking at the data, they weren't opportunities my company could win. The sales person told me I had to call and talk to the purchasing officers. Well, we tried that for a few weeks. No purchasing officers wanted to talk to us so they chance of getting any business out of it was nil. For our company, this seemed more and more like vaporware. They keep telling us that we are the ones at fault and made it seem like this was the only time this had ever happened to a customer.

On top of that, the whole process is quite offputting. They made us sign a 3 year contract, divided by six payments. After spending 5000 and realizing this was nothing we could earn a penny on, we asked to cancel. They reacted by demanding the remaining balance of $10,000. After telling them we wouldn't pay it, they sent the remaining balance to collections.

GovSpend locks you into a long contract without establishing any mechanism for you to exit the contract- but here is the secret, let them take you to court if they want because you can't force someone to pay something when you aren't providing the service promised.

I looked online and asked colleagues. There is not a single case of GovSpend taking anyone to court for not paying this cancellation fee but there are thousands of companies who have not paid them according to the collections company.

Rather you'll find that this company has had a number of lawsuits against their CEO, business practices, customer complaints, changed names at least 10 times as far as I can trace. Unfortunately, you have to spend 10 minutes digging online to find all this out. I wish I had done that before signing up.