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CHEQ Essentials Description

CHEQ Essentials, formerly ClickCease, helps you to avoid wasteful spending in Google Ads and Facebook Ads. Make sure that your advertising budget only goes to real visitors.

CHEQ Essentials is a top-rated software for click fraud and adfraud protection and detection. It helps advertisers and brands save money on their PPC campaigns by blocking fake clicks.

The solution includes 24/7 campaign monitoring and automated real-time IP block and fake audience exclusion. On-site session recording, custom detection rules and detailed reports are also included.

CHEQ Essentials, the leading ad-protection software in the world, is trusted by over 10K advertising agencies to protect their marketing campaigns.

Pricing

Pricing Starts At:
$149.00/month/user
Pricing Information:
7-Day Free Trial
Core - Starting from $149/month
Advanced - Starting from $249/month
Free Trial:
Yes

Integrations

API:
Yes, CHEQ Essentials has an API

Reviews - 73 Verified Reviews

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Company Details

Company:
CHEQ
Year Founded:
2016
Headquarters:
Israel
Website:
essentials.cheq.ai/
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Product Details

Platforms
SaaS
iPhone
iPad
Android
Type of Training
Documentation
Live Online
Webinars
Customer Support
Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

CHEQ Essentials Features and Options

Click Fraud Software

Account Alerts
Activity Monitoring
IP Address Monitoring
IP Blocking
Keyword Tracking
Refund Management
Risk Assessment
Time on Site Tracking

PPC Software

A/B Testing
Account Alerts
Analytics / ROI Tracking
Bid Management
Budget Management
Campaign Management
Conversion Tracking
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  • Name: Bryan M.
    Job Title: Owner
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: Administrator
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Awesome Product

    Date: Dec 31 2020

    Summary: Our experience has been great. I was pleased that someone found a solution to this problem! Every week I get reports shoeing me how much money was saved by blocking bots or our competition from clicking on our ads.

    Positive: We pay good money for our Google ads and Click Cease keeps bad actors from draining our budget by clicking on our ads and costing us money.

    Negative: I haven't found any negative to this service. It's very user friendly and we get reports weekly on what our competition is doing as well as how many bad clicks were stopped.

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    CHEQ Essentials Company Response
    Date: Mar 25 2021
    Thank you so much for this amazing feedback, Bryan! We are so happy to hear that you are enjoying your experience :)
  • Name: Anton P.
    Job Title: Home inspection
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Great protection

    Date: Dec 31 2020

    Summary: I have used ClickCease products for more than a year and really appreciate the efficiency and value for my business. This is an essential protection that must be used by any business in the highly competitive market. Highly recommend.

    Positive: Easy to use, reasonable prices, efficient and fast support team, really works, simple and attractive interface.

    Negative: There is no way to block all malicious clicks, but this is impossible for any type of protection software.

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    CHEQ Essentials Company Response
    Date: Mar 25 2021
    Thank you so much for this lovely review, Anton! It is our pleasure to be of help :)
  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Marketing
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: Administrator
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    ClickCease works wonders

    Date: Dec 31 2020

    Summary: Good support and robust software service. Everyone at our company is happy to increase sales and lower the cost per customer.

    Positive: Our company has saved thousands of dollars since we started using ClickCease to optimize our digital pay-per-click campaigns.

    Negative: Nothing. This pay-per-click software service works great.

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    CHEQ Essentials Company Response
    Date: Mar 25 2021
    We are so happy to hear that we could help you with your click fraud issue! Thank you for the kind words :)
  • Name: Alejandro P.
    Job Title: CTO
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Great Tool

    Date: Dec 31 2020

    Summary: It's definitely a great tool to prevent fraud on your PPC accounts. Hopefully Bing will allow them to block IPs soon.

    Positive: ClickCease is an easy to use, super friendly app. It does what it promise, catch the bad guys wasting your PPC money.

    Negative: There is no direct connection with Bing Ads to block IPs, you need to add IPs manually to Bing.

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    CHEQ Essentials Company Response
    Date: Mar 25 2021
    Hi Alejandro! We are really happy to hear that you are seeing value from our software :)
  • Name: Angel A.
    Job Title: Consultant
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Must have if you do PPC

    Date: Dec 31 2020

    Summary: Great experience overall, I have used this to block many IPs with suspected fraud and have saved valuable ad budget.

    Positive: I love the dashboard and how clear the information is presented. You can be on top of your PPC clicks activity and act quickly thanks to email alerts of suspicious activity.

    Negative: No automatic ip blocking on the basic plan, you have to manually go to google ads and block flagged IPs.

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    CHEQ Essentials Company Response
    Date: Mar 25 2021
    Hi Angel! We're happy to hear that you're enjoying our dashboard features :)
  • Name: Himesh S.
    Job Title: Data analyst
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Anti Click fraud

    Date: Jul 21 2020

    Summary: It an excellent bots blocker. Overall I use ClickCease for my business website to prevent any click fraud and also it detect bot who trying to click on Google ads. Alert and auto blocker for if it found any bots.

    Positive: It easily prevents any Google Ads click fraud on your website. It gives conversation tracking. It tells pageview impressions and keyword tracking. Easy to deploy on the website and gives you auto click fraud blocking.

    Negative: Overall it's an outstanding tool that prevents the website from click fraud.

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    CHEQ Essentials Company Response
    Date: Mar 25 2021
    Hey Himesh! We're glad that you are enjoying your experience! :) It's our pleasure to help anytime.
  • Name: Mohd T.
    Job Title: Full Stack Developer
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Saves Money and Time.

    Date: Feb 04 2021

    Summary: Overall, With ClickCease, the ability to customize threshold and automatic detection and block saves a lot of money and time. Also, you can block traffic coming from the VPN.

    Positive: -It is easy to use and navigate, and the dashboard is well organized.
    -It is excellent to view reports and the best solution to save money on your PPC advertisements.
    -It is effortless to set up and get running and squeezing a little more performance from your account.

    Negative: -Sometimes, the analysis shown is a little wrong.
    -You can only track two keywords, which is very less.
    -They should provide more insights into the block customers.

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    CHEQ Essentials Company Response
    Date: Mar 24 2021
    Hi Mohd! We appreciate your feedback and we're always looking for ways to improve our software! We will keep this in mind :)
  • Name: Sean G.
    Job Title: Ad Specialist
    Length of product use: Less than 6 months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User, Administrator
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Works as Advirtised

    Edited: Jan 21 2021

    Summary: Works as expected- very effective. If you suspect bots are clicking on you ads this is the platform for you.

    Positive: has blocked hundreds of bots from clicking our ads on multiple domains, also alerts us to competitors and allows ip blocking.

    Negative: Nothing, platform has performed as expected, 100% satisfied.

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    CHEQ Essentials Company Response
    Date: Mar 24 2021
    Hi Sean! This is amazing! Bots do indeed loads of damage to advertisers all over the world. Glad you're seeing value from our software. It is our pleasure to help :)
  • Name: Paul H.
    Job Title: Chairman
    Length of product use: Less than 6 months
    Used How Often?: Monthly
    Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Seems to Work

    Date: Jan 16 2021

    Summary: I’m impressed with the technology. Wish the reporting was more robust, and independently verified by an outside company.

    Positive: Based on their own reporting, ClickCease seems to be blocking quite a few clicks. It’s incredibly easy to set up, and runs automatically without any work on my end.

    Negative: I may just not know how to find the information, but there doesn’t seem to be a way to determine what campaign the clicks they’re blocking are coming from. If it’s for my display ads, the service wouldn’t pay for itself, because those have such a low CPC.

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    CHEQ Essentials Company Response
    Date: Mar 24 2021
    Hi Paul! We appreciate your feedback and we're always looking for ways to improve our software! We will keep this in mind :)
  • Name: Michelle S.
    Job Title: Marketing
    Length of product use: Less than 6 months
    Used How Often?: Monthly
    Role: User, Administrator, Deployment
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Google Tries to Detect Spam, but Not Too Hard

    Date: Jan 11 2021

    Summary: Definitely, worth the $75 dollars for our 30K monthly spend levels. For our industry, that could be just 3 clicks. It gives me peace of mind that we're keeping an eye on Google.

    Positive: Customer service has been amazing - support webinar or chat. They are very helpful in explaining everything although the layout is already very user-friendly.

    Negative: It's hard to believe the "savings" because that calculation is based on so many assumptions, but the question is are we at least saving $75?

    Don't expect to retroactively get anything back from Bing or Google. Clickcease is honest about this upfront, but I have yet to see anything come of submitting these reports.

    ClickCease does nothing automatically for Bing, where spam is much worse, but spend is much less. This is a limitation on Bing's part. Hopefully, Bing opens this up soon to get more value. They have Facebook in the works, which we don't need, but would be valuable for others.

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    CHEQ Essentials Company Response
    Date: Mar 25 2021
    Hi Michelle! Thank you so much for this lovely feedback! We are continuously looking at ways to improve and your review will be remembered :)
  • Name: Dave Y.
    Job Title: Paid Search Specialist
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User, Administrator
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Very Helpful

    Date: Jan 04 2021

    Summary: Works great but Bing is very limited. The setup is easy, the dashboard is user friendly and their support is VERY responsive.

    Positive: If you need help with anything, their Responsiveness is very fast. You can message them on the website or email them and they get right back to you almost instantly.

    The dashboard is very helpful.

    Negative: Not as integrated with Bing/Microsoft ads. Bing does not allow them to automatically block IP addresses and Bing cannot block newly formatted IP addresses.

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    CHEQ Essentials Company Response
    Date: Mar 25 2021
    So happy to hear that you are enjoying our dashboard! It is our pleasure to be of help :)
  • Name: Dipsankar M.
    Job Title: Google ads Manager
    Length of product use: Less than 6 months
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: Administrator
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    ClickCease Improve My Leads

    Date: Jan 04 2021

    Summary: It's pretty good software, Easy to use for everyone. You can knock the support team any time always ready to help.

    Positive: ClickCease improved my Leads and Fraud clicks they remove the fake clicks from my Google ads. Nice Support team.

    Negative: There is no option to Stop Auto-Renewal we have to contact the support team every time.

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    CHEQ Essentials Company Response
    Date: Mar 25 2021
    Hi Dipsankar! Glad that you are seeing value from our software :) We continuously work on improving our services for our customers and will keep this in mind.
  • Name: Bryan O.
    Job Title: VP
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Big savings

    Date: Dec 31 2020

    Summary: Great product and cost effective. The peace of mind we get knowing our ad spend is being monitored for fraud is priceless.

    Positive: ClickCease saves our clients hundreds of dollars a month. It gives us peace of mind. I also like that we are notified when there is new competition in our category.

    Negative: I can’t think of anything specific. The product is a very useful tool.

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    CHEQ Essentials Company Response
    Date: Mar 25 2021
    Hey Bryan! Thank you very much for writing this awesome review! We're glad that you are enjoying your experience :)