A HeyOrca alternative for client approvals
HeyOrca is a social media management platform built for agencies. It schedules and publishes, holds your content calendar, runs client approvals, and reports on performance. It has been aimed squarely at agencies for years and it shows.
Read this bit first. PostDecks does not schedule or publish anything. It previews posts and collects client approval, and you keep posting however you post today. If you want scheduling and approval in one tool, PostDecks is not it.
What HeyOrca does better
- It actually schedules and publishes your posts. PostDecks does not.
- It gives you a full content calendar, a social inbox and performance reporting.
- It replaces several tools at once, which is worth real money if you are paying for them separately.
- It has years of agency-specific workflow behind it, and a support team who know that world.
Where PostDecks is the better answer
- You keep the scheduler you already use. Approval stops being a reason to migrate your whole workflow.
- Your client approves without an account, and so do you: the free tool needs no signup at all.
- Pricing is per team, not per client. Taking on a tenth client does not change your bill.
- Your images and captions never leave your browser in the free tool.
What each one costs
HeyOrca
A free tier for one user, then Basic at $59 per calendar per month and Pro at $149 per calendar per month. A calendar is roughly one client, so cost rises with every client you add.
PostDecks
Free with no account. Pro is $8 a month, Agency is $29 a month for five seats.
HeyOrca pricing checked on from their own pricing page. Prices change, so confirm with them before you decide anything on the strength of a number here.
So which one
Buy HeyOrca if
you want one tool to schedule, publish, report and approve, and you are willing to move your workflow into it. HeyOrca does all of that and PostDecks does none of it except the approving.
Use PostDecks if
you already have a scheduler you like and the only broken part is getting a client to sign off. That is the whole problem PostDecks solves, and $59 per client per month is a lot to pay for an approval button.
Questions
- Is PostDecks a replacement for HeyOrca?
- Only if approvals were the reason you were looking at HeyOrca. HeyOrca schedules, publishes and reports; PostDecks does not do any of those. If you need the calendar and the publishing, buy HeyOrca.
- Can I use both?
- You can, but there would be little point: HeyOrca already has approvals built in. PostDecks makes sense alongside a scheduler that does not, or when the approval step is the only part you want to hand a client.
- How does the pricing actually compare?
- HeyOrca is priced per calendar, which is roughly per client, from $59 a month. PostDecks is priced per team. Free with no account. Pro is $8 a month, Agency is $29 a month for five seats. Five clients or fifty, the price is the same.
The free tool needs no account. Try it against a real post and see whether it covers what you need.