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ChatBeacon vs GoSquared

ChatBeacon
2 Ratings
GoSquared
23 Ratings

ChatBeacon

2 Ratings
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Score 6 out of 100

Based on 2 reviews and ratings

GoSquared

23 Ratings
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Score 8 out of 100

Based on 23 reviews and ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

ChatBeacon

ChatBeacon is a decent choice for on-premises chat support, but the clunky agent UI sparks no joy. If your organization can use a cloud-based solution, there are plenty of other fish in the sea

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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GoSquared

It works best for real time customer relations and monitoring. For historic data use it with another tool. Other than that it is an amazingly easy to use, and to set up tool. Once you start using it, you will never go back.

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Erdoğan Kürtür | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pros

ChatBeacon

  • Easy to install and configure.
  • Easy for customers to use.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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GoSquared

  • Support - These guys are super quick at getting back to you when you need help and always friendly
  • Live stats - GoSquared is addictive, it offers detailed information about visitors to your pages in realtime, you'll be watching the dashboard for hours!
  • Ease of use - From the guided setup to the usability of the dashboard GoSquared is really straightforward

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Dale Williams | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cons

ChatBeacon

  • ChatBeacon is just SightMax with a fresh coat of paint.
  • The entire agent UI is remarkably worse than SightMax.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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GoSquared

  • CloudFlare integration is spotty - stats in Cloudflare (tracks also Javascript off visits) and GoSquared stats are often significantly at odds
  • Notifications don't seem to work very well
  • Dashboard likes to re-set itself even when it was arranged & saved previously
  • Weekly/ Monthly/ Yearly absolute numbers

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Hendrik Morkel | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Likelihood to Renew

ChatBeacon

No score
No answers yet
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GoSquared

GoSquared 7.7
Based on 12 answers
Not only does the GoSquared application work well, the GoSquared team is constantly making improvements. When I first started using GoSquared, they only offered daily reporting -- now they offer the weekly and monthly feature per popular request. I like that they are always updating the look and feel of the website and emails they send to maintain a modern look. GoSquared is easy to implement and easy to use!

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Bailey Bliss | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Usability

ChatBeacon

No score
No answers yet
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GoSquared

GoSquared 7.3
Based on 2 answers
GoSquared makes it easy to get started, providing everything you need to integrate the code into your site and start seeing and analyzing data

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Sharon Hurley Hall | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Support Rating

ChatBeacon

ChatBeacon 8.0
Based on 2 answers
Support is a strong point for ChatBeacon - their support team is small, but you definitely get white-glove service. Zero complaints about ChatBeacon support!

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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GoSquared

GoSquared 8.6
Based on 2 answers
The GoSquared team has always gone above and beyond to create the best analytics platform and provide top notch

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Josh Bartolomucci | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Alternatives Considered

ChatBeacon

Before using SightMax (now ChatBeacon), we used AliveChat, which was an OK SaaS product, but the team operating the service would frequently restart the servers after maintenance and forget to start our instance back up. ChatBeacon(SightMax) as on-prem software eliminated this concern.We've been evaluating ChatBeacon vs. other products lately, and we really like how DeskPro stacks up vs. ChatBeacon - ChatBeacon is purely a chat product, and DeskPro does web chat/phone/email ticketing.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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GoSquared

I have evaluated other products but as GoSquared is presenting Live Data this really is most useful, I don't have much of a requirement to see what a potential customer did yesterday. I need to know what my potential customer sitting on the website right now is looking to purchase, and for this GoSquared works.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment

ChatBeacon

  • Using website chat (often with an agent:customer ratio of up to 1:3 or more ) vs. phone support (with an agent ratio of 1:1) has greatly reduced support costs in every business unit.
  • Providing realtime feedback and links (vs. phone calls) has greatly improved the turnaround on the sales and customer inquiry processes.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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GoSquared

  • GoSquared helps us to react quickly to high volumes of traffic, and allows us to identify very quickly how engaging our content is
  • Using browser specs helps us to ensure our websites are compatible with as many of our customers as possible, rather than relying on generic global stats

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James Billingham | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Screenshots

ChatBeacon

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Pricing Details

ChatBeacon

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

ChatBeacon Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details
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GoSquared

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No

GoSquared Editions & Modules

Edition
GoSquared Free - Access to the Now and Trends realtime web analytics dashboard.$01
GoSquared Analytics - Everything included in free plus premium analytics features.$291
GoSquared Suite - The most popular GoSquared plan, full access to our real time analytics dashboards, intelligent live chat and customer data hub.$792
  1. Per Month [Unlimited Users]
  2. Month [Unlimited Users]
Additional Pricing Details
GoSquared Free, track up to 1000 pageviews a month. GoSquared Analytics, track up to 100k pageviews a month with pricing starting at £29/month. GoSquared Suite, track up to 100k pageviews a month with pricing starting at £79/month.

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