sharestacks.com

What It Is

Sharestacks is an add-on suite for SharePoint Online and OnPremise intranet portals, positioned around the idea of “supercharge your intranet.” Based on the product pages, it is not a general-purpose development framework, but rather a set of enterprise intranet enhancement tools built around Office 365 / SharePoint. It helps companies add business modules such as visual portals, leave management, ticketing, and data expansion to their existing SharePoint portals.

Core Capabilities

Its Complete Stack bundles multiple modules together. BRAND turns a SharePoint portal into a modern, responsive collaboration hub, with features such as an employee directory, news, events, image carousel, colleague birthdays, important links, and document sharing. LEAVE is designed for leave workflows, supporting custom forms, employee submissions across devices, approver acceptance or rejection, and report generation. HELP is a service ticketing module that lets users submit and handle requests, create custom fields, assign technicians, send reminders, communicate through a message center, upload photos, and view completed and open tickets through dashboards. THRESHOLD is used to work around SharePoint list limitations by storing data in a database, while also supporting reports, automatic backups, and multi-list scheduling.

Pricing and Deployment

Public pricing mainly targets small teams with up to 99 users: Complete Stack costs $15 per user per year; BRAND has a one-time fee of $4,995; LEAVE costs $5 per user per year; HELP and THRESHOLD cost $5 per user, with monthly or annual billing available. For 100+ users, pricing generally requires a phone inquiry. The pages repeatedly state “Requires Office 365,” and the title mentions Online and OnPremise, but they do not clearly explain whether the product itself can be self-hosted.

Pros and Cons

The main advantage is that its use cases closely match common SharePoint intranet needs. It allows companies to handle approvals, tickets, and content aggregation within their existing portal entry point, reducing the cost of switching between systems for users. Modular purchasing is also relatively flexible. The drawbacks are that the public materials are mostly marketing and pricing oriented, with limited information about APIs/SDKs, permissions, security, data architecture, implementation process, or documentation quality. Pricing transparency is also limited for mid-sized and large customers.

Who It’s For and Access from China

It is best suited for SMBs or department-level intranet projects already using Office 365 / SharePoint, especially teams that need to quickly add lightweight OA, service desk, and portal presentation capabilities. Access from China cannot be determined from the available text. If a company already uses the international version of Office 365, network access, payment, and compliance still need to be evaluated separately. Alternatives may include native SharePoint capabilities, Microsoft Lists, Power Automate, Jira Service Management, Freshservice, or China-based OA/ticketing systems such as DingTalk, WeCom, Weaver, and Seeyon.