Arlo vs Genius
Why choose Arlo over Genius? Genius manages bookings. Arlo grows training businesses. It’s that simple.
Genius positions itself as a compact TMS with trainer and customer portals and website integration. It’s well suited to small training businesses that need a single, straightforward system to manage bookings and learner records.
Arlo is built for providers that sell public courses, run cohorts, deliver blended learning, and need strong CRM and finance workflows. Arlo reduces the number of systems you need to run your training business and includes advanced automation and reporting that helps you scale.
Grow revenue
Offer public courses, private sessions, webinars, and create and delivery elearning in one powerful system.
Eliminate double bookings
Get venue, room, resource and trainer availability built-in to your scheduling workflows for complete confidence.
Keep trainers on track
Instructors can manage courses, mark attendance, record grades, and engage with registrants on the go from their mobile device.
Save hours of admin
Automated certificates, presenter requests, application workflows, waitlists and more free you to focus on training.
Real CRM & reporting with Arlo.
Genius stores customers, learners and bookings. Fine for small training businesses that need a single, straightforward system to manage bookings and learner records but if you want a more robust CRM you’ll need an integration.
Arlo provides a full training CRM plus deep reporting so you can tie registrations to revenue, instructor performance and learner outcomes.
Rich insights with Arlo:
- Advanced CRM & segmentation designed for training sales and account management.
- Profit and loss and course-level profitability reporting built-in.
- Pre-built dashboards and ad-hoc reporting for finance, operations and learning outcomes.
- Scheduled exports and automated report delivery for stakeholders.
- Track CPD hours, completions and compliance at learner level.
Website, checkout and payments that suit commercial training businesses.
Genius offers website integration and Stripe payments for online booking.
Arlo offers a marketplace listed WordPress integration, or a complete out of the box website solution designed to help you sell training with ease – options to suit your training business. Arlo’s checkout and e-commerce features are focused on conversion and commercial use: flexible payment options, vouchers, group bookings, partial payments, and deep finance integrations (Stripe, Xero) that support reconciliation and invoicing.
With Arlo you get:
- Arlo out of the box website, or website integration options.
- Vouchers, discount codes, group bookings and payment options.
- Full finance stack integrations for payments, reconciliation and invoicing (Xero, Stripe).
- Automated payment notifications, invoice generation and refund handling.
Deliver blended learning without integrations.
To create elearning with Genius you’ll need to integrate with an LMS. A clunky experience for you, and your learners.
Arlo is designed to run blended programs end-to-end. Arlo’s inbuilt elearning allows you to create elearning or host SCORM and combine self-paced modules with live webinars and classroom sessions to deliver seamless blended learning. One complete solution, without a separate LMS and complex integrations.
Seamless blended learning with Arlo:
- Built-in LMS for hosting modules, quizzes and SCORM content.
- Create multi-session courses that mix in-person, virtual training and self-paced elearning.
- Automate progress tracking, CPD hours and certificates.
- Branded learner portal for elearning, completion history and certificate downloads.
- No stitching together multiple tools to create a blended learner journey.
Fair pricing that reflects your business growth.
Genius has licence-based pricing tiers (Lite, Premium) and promotes no learner-per-user fees; plans start around the lower-mid market and often suit small teams.
Arlo’s pricing is usage-based (licences and registrations) and designed to scale. A lower entry cost for growing teams, transparent billing, and options to add features and services as your business grows.
Better value with Arlo:
- Transparent, predictable, scalable pricing that grows with you.
- Dedicated onboarding and Customer Success for scaling providers.
- Ability to replace multiple point systems with one platform - lowering your overall costs.
Explore the rest of Arlo
Run your training business like a pro with Arlo’s purpose-built training management software
Websites built for training
Get a modern website that’s always up to date, built to convert, and fully customizable.
Realtime CRM & reporting
Track course performance, revenue, and customer activity in real time.
Registrations & payments
Automate every step of the registration process with smart forms, flexible payment options, and integrated invoicing.
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