Comparison

Transact eAccounts vs Laker Launchpad

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Transact eAccounts

Manage your campus accounts on the go. View balances, track transactions, and add funds easily. At participating institutions, use your digital ID for access and payments.

Highlights
  • View account balances
  • Track recent transactions
  • Add money to accounts
  • Digital ID in Apple Wallet
  • Report lost/found cards
  • Multi-factor authentication
Features
Currently charting
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For users at participating campuses and institutions, eAccounts mobile makes it easy to view account balances, add money and track recent transactions. At select campuses, users can now add their ID card to Wallet to access places like your residence hall, the library, and events; or pay for laundry, snacks, and dinners using their iPhone and Apple Watch. Key Features & Benefits: • View account balances • Track recent transactions • Add money to accounts using Apple Pay or a previously-saved payment method • Add your ID card to Apple Wallet (select campuses) • Barcode (select campuses) • Report cards lost or found • Multi Factor Authentication • App Shortcuts • Change PIN Requirements: • Campus or institution must subscribe to eAccounts service • Campus or institution must enable mobile features to provide access to users • Wi-Fi or cellular data plan for Internet access Contact your campus ID card office to check availability.

About

Laker Launchpad

Discover campus events and activities to get involved. Filter by organization or interests, and add events to your personal calendar to ensure you don't miss out on campus happenings.

Highlights
  • Discover campus events
  • Filter by organization
  • Filter by activity tags
  • Add events to calendar
  • Increase student engagement
Features
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Use the Mercyhurst University Events app to find out what events are happening and find out how you can get involved on campus!  • Sort by campus organizations hosting events • Find events tagged with your favorite activities • Add events to your calendar so you don’t miss out! Powered by Presence. Presence provides a web and mobile platform to universities and colleges to help increase student engagement, assess involvement, allocate funding efficiently, and improve retention through simplifying and digitizing processes, collecting, structuring, and analyzing involvement data, and provides tools to help reach and engage more students.

Screenshots

Transact eAccounts4 screens
Laker Launchpad3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Transact eAccounts at 49K against Laker Launchpad's 1. Transact eAccounts also leads on chart position (#127 vs unranked). Laker Launchpad's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Laker Launchpad holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Transact eAccounts has 49K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Transact eAccounts versus Laker Launchpad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTransact eAccountsLaker Launchpad
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (49K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings49K — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#127 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTransact Campus, LLCCheck I'm Here, LLC

Customer experience

Transact eAccounts

All ratings48,559 ratings
Positive96.5%
Neutral1.3%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews125 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral8.8%
Negative51.2%

Laker Launchpad

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Transact eAccounts

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Cannot add card to wallet
  • Login/authentication issues
  • Incorrect balance display
  • Grayed out main screen after login
  • Inability to find/select school

Requested features

3 requests
  • Allow for two accounts under the same institution
  • Add option to edit payments within the app
  • Improve wallet integration

Laker Launchpad

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Transact eAccounts

No in-app purchases

None

Laker Launchpad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Transact eAccounts free?
Transact eAccounts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Laker Launchpad free?
Laker Launchpad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Transact eAccounts or Laker Launchpad?
Laker Launchpad is rated higher. Transact eAccounts averages 4.8 out of 5 from 49K ratings, while Laker Launchpad averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Transact eAccounts or Laker Launchpad have ads?
Neither Transact eAccounts nor Laker Launchpad shows ads.

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