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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Akia

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $43

    per month

    Podium

    Score7 out of 10
    N/APodium, formerly Repdrive, is a ratings and review management platform from the company of the same name in Provo, Utah.N/A
    Pricing
    AkiaPodium
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $43
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AkiaPodium
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AkiaPodium
    Considered Both Products
    Akia
    No answer on this topic
    Podium
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    58%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    58%
    Delivers good value for the price
    15 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    64%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    52%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    59%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
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    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    AkiaPodium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.9
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AkiaPodium
    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
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    Podium is well suited for several types of businesses. If you are an entrepreneur or small business owner, Podium would be a great way for you to ask that customers leave you a review online sharing their awesome experience. For medium to large businesses, Podium review invites can be automated through the company's customer management system, allowing the use of Podium to be simple and not timely, even with a large customer base. It may not be appropriate for a large company to manually send out individual review invites
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Akia
    • Fully Customisable
    • Great Support
    • There always seems to be a way to get what ytou want done
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    • Maintains conversations indefinitely, so we are able to go back to confirm details from conversations.
    • Provides the ability for our company to have a 'team' messaging platform where we can communicate with one another via single person to a single person, groups where we can add/subtract members of the group... this is invaluable to our organization.
    • Until today(!), we could 'share' or forward a message to one another; oddly, that feature disappeared just today, so I'm hoping it's a glitch!
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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
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    • Account manager communications: I had been asking my Podium account manager for integration with our CRM tool for over 8 months before my account manager fell silent. After another 6 months, I proactively reached out only to find out that the integration had been in Beta for months and 8 other companies had already integrated. It was frustrating that my account manager did not remember a key request and make the Beta available to me the minute that it was open.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    Again, Podium has been so wonderful in the year and a half we have been using it, we are able to integrate it with our CRM and use alot of the available features. The most helpful has been getting TONS of reviews on MULTIPLE sites through Podium!
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    While giving our clients the ability to leave a review was there, we had much worse results and got fewer reviews through the Podium portal than we did by sending our clients simple email requests, or simply having our service staff ask for a review while still on the clients' job sites.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Akia
    No answers on this topic
    Podium
    We haven't had any outages or issues whenever we need it over the last few years of use
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Akia
    No answers on this topic
    Podium
    It moves quickly and has no issues with delays. Performance is good as it is a web-based tool
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    I have to send an email to get information. They have a chat system but I end up having to go through my rep for account questions. It was a little frustrating to not have a direct phone number to call with questions. I would like to see a helpline added.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    We only had a hard time getting our technicians to remember to send the review invites.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    We use Digital Air Strike at our two GM dealerships because it is one of a small list of reputation management companies authorized by GM as part of their SFE program. Digital Air Strike surveys our customers and invites them to write a review about our dealership. It is not as effective or flexible as Podium so we have been using Podium at those dealerships alongside Digital Air Strike. We also recently started a trial use of ReplyPro which is a service that monitors review sites and writes customized responses to positive reviews and suggested responses to negative reviews. I'd like to see Podium add this as part of their service so we can consolidate 3rd party vendors and manage every aspect of online reputation management from one place.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Akia
    No answers on this topic
    Podium
    Its easy to scale to different departments as needed. We initially began using it to solve one problem and as new features became available it was easy to scale this and include other departments who could benefit from its tools
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    • I am glad there are card readers now, sales team members too often try to just send a request instead of taking payment onsite.
    • It's made capturing messaging leads much easier.
    • It's worth the cost but if it did a few more things it would be worth a lot more to us. Document signatures, surveying after jobs, even geotagging of photos/reviews for SEO
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