I have used 17Hats for about ten years
I have used 17Hats for about ten years. When I first started using it, the website was pretty rough and the features were pretty limited. It has definitely gotten better, but there are still some parts of the website that likely haven't been updated in many, many years. The most frustrating of these is their editor for contracts and questionnaires. We create around 100 contracts per year. We also often update our questionnaires a few times per year. This should be a simple process, but because of 17Hats' editor is ancient, the process is far from simple. There are constant issues where I will tell it to select one sentence, but it will think I am trying to select a different one. The only solution to fix it is to close and reopen it. The undo feature barely works. I will try to go back 1-2 commands, and instead it will remove the previous 10. It often formats text in very awkward ways. Also, when I try to edit a questionnaire, the window is barely large enough to see more than 4 lines of text and there is no way to expand it. I have contacted their support over and over asking them to fix these issues, and they often will say "well, there's nothing we can really do" or "I heard the developers were working on it". It's been years since I started reporting these issues, and as far as I can tell nothing has been updated.
17Hats has many other weird, quirky features that make little sense to me, but when I contact their support they just tell me they get 2700 feature requests per year so they probably won't be able to address the issue. I have only seen minor changes made over the past five years, and none of them have addressed the issues I've brought up with them.
I am basically locked in because all of our data is stored in their system, and it would not be worth it to try to save everything. I basically just gave up on hoping that the editor will be fixed because it's clear they just don't care.







