OpenText (formerly known as Hightail) is a cloud-based platform that allows users to share and manage files. It also has content approval, feedback features, and more. In this article, we cover user reviews and pricing. Ready to try OpenText? Contact their support team for more information.
What OpenText Does Well
Users who gave OpenText a positive review said that they like that it enables them to send large files easily and quickly. Most users also commended the software’s very intuitive user interface.
“In my position, I have very large files that I share with customers and they will not send through Outlook unless I divide them into separate emails. With Hightail, I can send large files to a client, they can easily download them and have access to the content in a few seconds. The steps are relatively easy and there is no loss of content in the transfer of the message. It is a clean and efficient way to send vast amounts of information without a pause in delivery.”
—Bonnie Darby
What OpenText Does Not Do Well
Users who gave OpenText a negative review complained that the platform is undependable since it doesn’t work properly at times. They added that OpenText’s support team is not helpful and doesn’t provide quick responses to address their users’ needs.
One user who gave OpenText a negative review on Capterra commented that he finds its platform unreliable and overcomplicated. He also mentioned that OpenText still continued to charge his card for his subscription, even after having received his account cancelation confirmation from its support team.
OpenText Pricing
OpenText has a free plan and two paid subscription options: Pro ($15/month) and Business (customized pricing). The main differences between the plans are the amount of storage space and file size send limit. Their Lite and Pro plans are mainly for file sharing, while their Business plan has additional collaboration and project management capabilities.
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Pro plan users who subscribe annually get a 20% discount off their invoice.
Ready to try out OpenText? Contact their support team for more information.
OpenText Features
Check out the list below of some of OpenText’s features:
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OpenText FAQ
Can users upgrade their existing accounts?
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Can users customize OpenText’s Business plan’s inclusions according to their needs?
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Popular Integrations
Here is a list of some of OpenText’s popular integrations:
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Isaac Kabuba
Hightail makes it easy for all of our employees to share large assets beyond our network. Any user, technically inclined or otherwise, can quickly and easily upload files and share them with contacts right from their browser. No client software, no credential or permissions issues, no protocol problems, just drag and drop.
workflow features, so they add some complexity to the interface without adding value for our team. Hightail is blocked by some corporate clients.
Nothing.
Mark Rutere
Hightail is my go-to platform for quickly and easily sharing photo, video, and PowerPoint files with external clients and partners. You can drag files from your desktop, or upload them from various other platforms. You can quickly add email address, subject line and optional message, and you’re on your way. Or, if you need data encryption, there are extra steps you can take to ensure your files are secure.
The cost of the business upgrade… we paid for it for a while, but didn’t see enough benefit for our team’s uses to justify the additional fee. Since we aren’t sending huge files regularly, the standard version works for us pretty well.
Pricing only
Jessica Wolff
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We use this all the time to send large graphics files between freelancers. It’s a great program and very easy to use.
Nothing really about the program, but i would love it if there was an incentive for businesses to subscribe. Would love to convince my company to sign up for a membership.
We use this software on our desktops at my company. The software has regular, continuous updates and the original versions we downloaded on our desktops are incompatible after updating. We just end up using the website, which is fine, but I would like to be able to use it directly from the program and not the internet.
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Alexander Polansky, GISP
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First of all I want to say that it is very useful software to send large files. The previous edition of Hightail was not as flexible and intuitive as new updated, which allow drug and drop files directly from folder. I would say that is the best software today to share large files.
As I mention before the previous edition of Hightail was not as flexible and intuitive as new one… This is really good!
The software and service work pretty well. No concern. I would recommend this soft to use.
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Erica Ostrom
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The ease of use when using the website, adding files and sending them to multiple parties that don’t necessarily need a hightail login to access the materials being sent.
The size of the files allowed to send could be larger. There are times that we’ve needed to send board decks on PowerPoint for board meetings with pictures and graphics that were too big to send.
I would have liked to know that tracking the files was not an option as far as who had received/used the links sent to them. It would have been beneficial to determine who was actually using what we were sending out.
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