Birdeye vs. Help.com

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Birdeye
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Birdeye is a reputation management and digital customer experience platform for local brands and multi-location businesses. Birdeye’s AI-powered platform is used by brands to engage with customers, drive loyalty, and excel in local markets.
$299
per month
Help.com
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Help.com is a cloud-base live chat solution. The vendor says its in-depth reporting gives businesses an inside look at what is driving their customer experience. This solution includes custom on-boarding and training as well as a custom built chat box widget that is designed around the user’s brand.
$80
per simultaneous active user
Pricing
BirdeyeHelp.com
Editions & Modules
Standard
$299.00
per month
Professional
$399.00
per month
Premium
Custom Pricing
Help.com Chat
$80 per month
per simultaneous active user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BirdeyeHelp.com
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsHelp.com Chat comes with unlimited logins and scales with your business.
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BirdeyeHelp.com
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User Ratings
BirdeyeHelp.com
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
(166 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.4
(78 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.9
(69 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BirdeyeHelp.com
Likelihood to Recommend
Birdeye
For businesses that have customers or clients or patients with several different locations, Birdeye is essential to help with the reviews and messages received through Google and other platforms. For businesses with only 1 single location, Birdeye could still be useful but wouldn't be as essential as it would be for other businesses.
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Help.com
Help.com is well suited for companies with sales and support departments who have the employee size to manage and respond to visitors chatting. I think a less appropriate scenario would be a company that does not have the employee size to manage the inbound chats as it makes it less valuable if you cannot interact quickly.
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Pros
Birdeye
  • Their customer service is always very helpful and ready to give you the personal attention that you require.
  • They connect many different sources and funnel them straight to you so you can easily capitalize on multiple platforms and information streams.
  • They are constantly innovating and improving their systems with real-time feedback from their customers.
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Help.com
  • User interface is clean and easy to navigate
  • Helpful support
  • Accurately captures information from the person you are chatting with
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Cons
Birdeye
  • The sentiment feature is just okay. It requires custom adjustments and time to understand where it is working well and where it is not in order to get the most out of it, while other features require very little user input.
  • Social listening needs work. I often receive notifications for unrelated terms because of their similarity in spelling to my organization's name, so I don't use this feature.
  • Birdeye could have more built-in features to create digital content from the reviews.
  • Birdeye could also have additional reputation tools to strengthen GMB listings and to combat negative press. Review listings and rich snippets in search are great, but having a tool that measures and helps to improve overall brand health/search results would be amazing. My CEO isn’t looking at what is going right. He looks at what is going wrong. We may have thousands of positive reviews on Google, but the bad article with false information is still showing up on page one of search results. That makes for an unhappy CEO.
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Help.com
  • Download chat transcripts easier
  • More pre-set responses
  • Canned responses
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Likelihood to Renew
Birdeye
I think it is a good tool overall, there are some hiccups but what program doesn't have them. I think we should be notified of more things, specifically broken integrations. There have been instances where I don't notice for MONTHS a client it's having requests sent out because they are organically still getting reviews.
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Help.com
No answers on this topic
Usability
Birdeye
I think it is very easy to figure out very quickly by just playing around in the dashboard. If you have a question you can reach out to our contacts and they do a very good job of figuring out if or what is the problem and getting back to us fast.
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Help.com
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Birdeye
Support is really responsive for the most part. I don't feel like they explain it the best for people who aren't as tech-savvy. I have recently had trouble with a more difficult integration and it is hard to pinpoint who I need to reach out to.
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Help.com
Help.com is easy to use, easy to train new employees to use, very helpful to clients and prospects, helps us generate revenue, resolve customer issues, and maintain a happy customer base. Being available at the convenience of your clients and prospects is necessary and Help.com helps make this possible without a struggle.
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Implementation Rating
Birdeye
Let Birdeye do what they do
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Help.com
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Birdeye
Our choice of reputation management platform came down to two contenders, Birdeye and Listen360. Ultimately we chose Birdeye because of their ethical review gathering process. Listen360 had review-gating built in as part of their process, which is against Google's terms of service. We wanted to be very careful to gather reviews in an ethical way, and Birdeye was better for our needs.
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Help.com

Help.com stacks up against competitors with their pricing, interface, features and support. I have used similar products in the past but Help.com is by far the best solution. I highly encourage you to use Help.com for your business and see for yourself why they are the best option for you.

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Return on Investment
Birdeye
  • SEO has increased due to online rep increasing
  • Review count has come up significantly due to having a platform that helps
  • The system puts reviews and where they are coming from into perspective to try and obtain more in other ways
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Help.com
  • Positive with inbound sales prospects
  • Positive with current client sales
  • Positive with customer support SLA
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ScreenShots

Birdeye Screenshots

Screenshot of Birdeye’s local business listing management tool, used to show up everywhere customers search for improved SEO and a better rank.Screenshot of a visualization of the customer experience. This helps to understand the performance of every customer interaction and touch point with actionable reports.Screenshot of Birdeye Insights AI, part of the BirdAI platform, which uses generative AI to analyze reviews, surveys, and listings data, providing actionable recommendations for business growth.Screenshot of Birdeye’s AI-powered review generation, management, and reporting platform.Screenshot of Birdeye Social, which is designed from the ground up for multi-location businesses. Generate social posts, monitor engagement, and track performance from a single dashboard.

Help.com Screenshots

Screenshot of Agent InterfaceScreenshot of Reporting DashboardScreenshot of Real-Time Monitoring