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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Akia

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $43

    per month

    Text Request

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AText Request is a business texting platform built to ignite customer engagement. It is a plug-and-play messaging solutions to everyday communication problems that enables businesses to connect to customers anytime, anywhere. Text Request is designed to scale from one person handling a few conversations, to thousands of employees sending millions of messages, to custom solutions built on its API.

    $59

    per month

    Pricing
    AkiaText Request
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $43
    per month
    Basic
    $59
    per month
    Starter
    $139
    per month
    Corporate
    $279
    per month
    Enterprise
    $549
    per month
    High Volume Tier 1
    $850
    per month
    High Volume Tier 2
    $1,400
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AkiaText Request
    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
    AkiaText Request
    Considered Both Products
    Akia
    No answer on this topic
    Text Request
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
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    User Ratings
    AkiaText Request
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.3
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AkiaText Request
    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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    Text Request
    Text Request is appropriate for all kinds of scenarios! I really have NOT found a situation where Text Request was not suitable to use to try and reach a patient. We have used TR to contact a patient that we have received a referral from their Primary Doctor and we need to schedule an evaluation, we have used TR for insurance and Billing, we have used TR for contacting patients that missed a visit and to reschedule.
    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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    Text Request
    • text clients quickly and efficiently
    • Allow all team members to communicate with all clients and keep the conversation going
    • Templates to easily send regular texts
    • Customer service is better than excellent!
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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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    Text Request
    • I think so far the only improvement I could suggest would be to be able to "un-send" a text within like 30 secs in case you send something out incorrectly.
    • Maybe adding more emojis
    • When sending a file make the size of the pic they see bigger
    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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    Text Request
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Text Request
    Text Request is very user friendly. I started using the Text Request platform on Day 1 without any specific instructions and I was able to figure it out very easily!
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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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    Text Request
    I have never used the support
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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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    Text Request
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Text Request
    I use Hatch for my service businesses because they integrate with our CRM tool and Text Request does not. I am NOT a fan - their support is not even half as good as TR but they fill a need that our company has. I like the technology, customer service and ease of use that Text Request gives to us - I just want them to integrate with my CRM! If so, I'd leave Hatch in a heartbeat!
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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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    Text Request
    • That is not something we see from an office standpoint. This is something that our Headquarters would keep track of.
    • What I can say is that the amount of patients being scheduled after implementing TR has been in an upward trend.
    • Also patients that missed their appointments are more likely to reschedule when being able to do so with just a text message
    Incentivized
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