Juniper Square, the real estate investor portal, "additional features" sucks!!
From admin perspective, Juniper Square sucks!

They want to provide all these "additional features" to the investors by providing all the matrix regarding an asset. Yet, all the workload were added to the Fund Manager side. Basically, the Fund Managers need to do a lot more admin works so Juniper Square can offer additional features/data to the institutional investors and charge them for this feature. That does not make any sense to me.

I recommend anyone who is thinking to use Juniper Square to think twice and make sure they can provide all these data before engaging. There is no turning back and you are actually helping them to build a database for their benefit!
[{"id": "i6ytu36", "text": "What would be a better alternative?", "replies": [{"id": "i6z3xid", "text": "Intralink, investment cafe are better options.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}, {"id": "itpyc3x", "text": "Nth Round, hands down!", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i6z0sbc", "text": "I disagree. Juniper square is great. Has lots of awesome features. I used it at my last job. Don't use it anymore. I think I know what you're saying about adding in the asset metrics for your investors to see, but you can just turn that off until you're ready to roll it out. Just communicate with your investors about what they can expect into see in the portal and you're good.", "replies": [{"id": "i6z4z9j", "text": "Sounds like you don't use it anymore. \n\nJS is now asking a lot of data of the assets. It added a lot of burdens to the Fund Manager from admin perspective and yet Juniper Square is earning profit from the investors by asking the Fund Mannger to provide additional data. This doesn't make sense to me at all. I'm basically contributing data to a firm so it can sell such data to the investors. Juniper Square, if you want us to provide additional data for your program, pay for it.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i9dp86f", "text": "I currently use juniper square and love it. I haven\u2019t tried intralinks or investor cafe before but have used appfolio, syndication pro and ims and they were pure garbage. Close friend of mine has used investnext and said they are an absolute nightmare. I think juniper is constantly working and improving the software on a daily basis which is why i love their software. And their services portion of the business has been extremely helpful and a massive time savings for me. Not quite sure what you mean by the asset data and using your data, but from my experience they are by far the best.", "replies": [{"id": "i9zdogl", "text": "What is your role? If you are the asset manager from the investor side, I am sure you will like the system because it provides you great details of the assets. Purchase price, current equity, LTC, interest rate, etc. Where are all these data coming from? It is from the Fund Manager side - in order to provide such information, the Manager side needs to do a lot of extra work that wasn't needed in the past. Yes, the asset manager should have these data ready available, but is it smart to provide such data to an investor portal? I don't think so.", "replies": [{"id": "i9zrb8o", "text": "I use it as a fund manager and also as an LP.  It does require work, but I\u2019m unsure how would expect a software to read our minds. I use to export all my info out of quick books and would do some manual work on top of that with distributions/creating asset level info. Now i pay juniper square to do it for me because it makes more sense and they manage my sub docs, distributions and are the k1 conduit. What i love most about juniper is the amount of granular information that can be stored. You named some companies above and when i recently did a demo it was all based on simplification which is great if you are raising your first syndication, but i will guarantee that you will struggle once the business becomes more complex. You pay a premium with juniper, but the premium is well worth it considering what you get.", "replies": [{"id": "i9zt40p", "text": "The point of my post is \nJS requires a lot of work from the fund manager, and it stores a lot of sensitive information. \n\nTheir fee structure is charging the manager to store those data, and then they sell the fancy data that the fund manager put together to the LPs and charge them for a fee. From the fund manager perspective, I am not agreeing with the business model, and that's why I post it to bring it to people's awareness. \n\nWhat you are saying are legit, but it is not relevant to the point that I want to make.", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "itpy72k", "text": "Have you explored [https://www.nthround.com/](https://www.nthround.com/) ? They have one of the best customer success teams around, which will do everything for you (making you take the back seat and focus on actual work). Their UI/UX could put the frontrunners to shame as well on any given day.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]