Akia vs. eGain Conversation Hub

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akia
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
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$43
per month
eGain Conversation Hub
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
eGain Conversation Hub unifies and automates customer conversations across channels, featuring comprehensive capabilities for messaging, social, chat, email, cobrowse, video, and phone.N/A
Pricing
AkiaeGain Conversation Hub
Editions & Modules
Basic
$43
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AkiaeGain Conversation Hub
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
AkiaeGain Conversation Hub
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.0
(1 ratings)
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Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
AkiaeGain Conversation Hub
Likelihood to Recommend
Akia
You can customise it to do what you want to do. Put in the work to learn the back and end and build your own guest journey. You are not limited like other competitors to how the guest flow goes, you build your own. Support are great in helping with this and always attentive
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eGain Corporation
Search function Global Synonyms Guided Helps. Documentation does a great job of describing features but lacks the big picture of how things relate to one another. Strong consulting partnership and customer focus. There are areas where they need to improve - Improve compliance & risk management plus Improve customer relations/service.
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Pros
Akia
  • Fully Customisable
  • Great Support
  • There always seems to be a way to get what ytou want done
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eGain Corporation
  • Multiple options to choose channel of your convenience
  • The product capabilities are very good. Easy for integration and deployment
  • Strong consulting partnership
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Cons
Akia
  • Intergrate with PMS payment methods, not only offer their own
  • Look at how it can be used better to manage the daily operation
  • Communicate between staff members in a SLACK like manner
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eGain Corporation
  • Service and support needs to be done better.
  • Compliance and risk management needs to be improved
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Likelihood to Renew
Akia
As great as AKAI is, its only issue is we cant take payments through our PMS - AKIA is reluctant to work with PMS payments as it wants to take payment itself. If this cant be navigated and other opportunities within our PMS appear that can do what AKAI does, it will force us to move in this direction
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eGain Corporation
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Usability
Akia
Once you get past the blanc canvas and begin to build, you learn its capability and become ingrossed. Easy, user friendly once you get your head around the set up
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eGain Corporation
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Support Rating
Akia
Exceptional support. Hopefully they grow enough to have world wide support. Can be problematic being in oposite time zones
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eGain Corporation
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Implementation Rating
Akia
Initially its a blanc canvas, once we got our head around that your good. It does take a fair few onboarding sessions to really learn. With the blanc canvas approached AKAI need to remember new buyers will be overwhelmed by this possibly
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eGain Corporation
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Alternatives Considered
Akia
Much more customisable, does more, team far more ingaging and know what their product can do to build the product to you
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eGain Corporation
While searching for a Customer Experience software, eGain came first in the search and we were pretty satisfied with the product features it has. We liked the support and customer service which made sure all our queries were answered in a very short turnaround time.
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Return on Investment
Akia
  • Huge saving in labour costs
  • As we are not so orientated to physical tasks to get the guest in, our team are more guest focused delivering better service and multi skill
  • Allows the guerst to check themselfs in, submit ID with face recognition and pay bond via all methods making it super efficinet for guest and the team
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eGain Corporation
  • eGain helped in improvising our customer engagements
  • Customer retention was made possible as the tool helps us analyse the painpoints of the customer
  • Social Media Marketing helped to gain a lot of customers with minimal cost incurred.
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