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The simplest way for candidate to build political campaign websites


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Great

TrustScore 4 out of 5

7 reviews

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I am so impressed with the customer…

I am so impressed with the customer service they offer. I have chatted with them twice and they are quickly available, knowledgeable, explain the answers to my questions in a way that is really understandable to a non-web developer and then they ask permission to edit my site and fix the issue. It's really top notch and not something I've experienced from other web platforms. Highly Recommend!

May 7, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Warning - Not for Republicans

You might not want to use this service if you are a Republican.

I signed up for a trial website account. Nowhere on the PoliEngine site does it suggest that the platform is JUST for Democratic candidates. But checking an outside profile, it's advertised that Poliengine is for 'progressive and grassroots Democrats'. On another site, it's listed as 'a web building, design, and hosting platform for Democratic candidates and issues.' Even on this very TrustPilot profile it's listed as 'The simplest way for grassroots Democrats to create beautiful websites.'

The owner of the service is a partner in a political marketing firm that caters to progressive campaigns and causes.

If PoliEngine a partisan service, that's fine. But it's REALLY shady to run what looks like a non-partisan service where you take EVERYONE's money (Republican and Democrat) and then promote that same service for just Democrats elsewhere. Kind of makes a fool out of half your customers.

My first hint that something was off was that the default link to my site's Donate button was to 'ActBlue.com', a popular Democratic donation platform.

Glad I did research before I switched to the paid version. I'll be going elsewhere.

April 6, 2021
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Reply from Poliengine

Hi Mr. Seals,

Thank you for your feedback. We apologize if there was some misunderstanding, but not a partisan website builder, our software is open to candidates on both the left and the right. If you saw that on websites it was mistaken. Almost all of our candidates are non-partisan, as that is the bulk of the elections in the United States, but we also have candidates from all over the political spectrum. Again, we're sorry if there was any confusion on this.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Okay, but not specialized

Tried PoliEngine out, going to pass. You can edit things in the default site, but you manually have to change every single element to get a page to work. Default buttons don't have links. Pages you would expect aren't there. If you want to change the main template after you start, you can't do it. May as well start from scratch. System doesn't really save any time. Sorry.

March 8, 2021
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Lacking in Finance Tracking Features

If you are a political campaign and plan on doing any fundraising, this is not the product for you. Like others have said, the website creation is easy, but the finance tracking is completely lacking. There are no donor totals, no running totals, no date range exports, and all submissions (donations, comments, endorsements) are lumped onto the same page/export.

April 28, 2020
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

PoliEngine was great

PoliEngine was great! Building a website with them was very intuitive. I could set up my ActBlue and Mailchimp easily, and Bryan helped me every step of the way. I recommend the platform to any candidates who tell me they're running.

June 20, 2019
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