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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Chatfuel

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AChatfuel headquartered in San Francisco provides their AI chatbot building tool for Facebook Messenger.

    $15

    per month

    Conversica

    Score4 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Conversica provides lead management software for marketing, inside sales and sales groups.

    $1,499

    per installation

    Pricing
    ChatfuelConversica
    Editions & Modules
    Pro
    $15
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Premium
    Contact sales team
    Starter Edition
    $1,499
    per installation
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ChatfuelConversica
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—A Conversica subscription includes an unlimited number of seats for marketers, sales reps and managers. Different editions include different levels of functionality to match your needs. The service is a monthly subscription with an annual commitment.
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    User Ratings
    ChatfuelConversica
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.3
    (95 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    8.9
    (73 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (49 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ChatfuelConversica
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Chatfuel
    Chatfuel is great for a small team looking to easily implement and set up Facebook chatbots for their clients for ease of community management, etc. Chatfuel is not necessarily meant for large scale operations that require complex workflows and chatbot requirements, it is limited to Facebook Messenger and is not 100% intuitive in this regard.
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    Conversica
    Conversica is an excellent tool if you have a large database of potential students, sales leads, or other forms of potential customers/users. It does not replace human interaction, but instead supplements it - allowing your admissions/sales/retention team to spend their time with those individuals that are in most need of assistance - whether that be because they are "hot leads" for a sale, students with a sincere interest, or customers needing assistance beyond the capabilities of an automatic system.
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    Pros
    Chatfuel
    • Easy to use without experience
    • Cost vs. benefit ratio very good
    • Integrations possible through API
    • Conversion funnels can be created
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    Conversica
    • Conversica is great at working low level leads and surfacing those that are in fact interested in your product or service.
    • Conversica is also useful in weeding out leads that are not strong.
    • Since Conversica is sending emails to various prospects, customers and opportunities, it allows sales, account managers, service etc, to focus on other activities, thereby saving time and freeing up resources.
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    Cons
    Chatfuel
    • Setting it up is time-consuming.
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    Conversica
    • The method of standing up campaigns can be a little tedious for administrators because it uses copy/paste of Salesforce Campaign ID instead of just searching for active Salesforce campaigns.
    • Understanding the conversation path options that the AI could take is improving greatly, but can still use some improvements for admin awareness when standing up a new conversation.
    • Understanding what conversation types exist and how they differ from one another is sometimes difficult to self-serv, but the Conversica team is always very good about helping out explaining these.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Chatfuel
    No answers on this topic
    Conversica
    Tool is extremely powerful but comes with a heavy price tag. As long as we close more than 30 deals with year with Conversica's assistance it will be an easy choice to renew. If we don't we will have to figure out if these funds are best spent in other lead generation places.
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    Usability
    Chatfuel
    No answers on this topic
    Conversica
    Standalone, it's very easy to use. It becomes a little more complicated when you're working with it as an integration in Salesforce.
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    Support Rating
    Chatfuel
    I haven't dealt with the support channel, so I cannot provide a full review for this
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    Conversica
    Our account manager and support rep have been extremely helpful in helping us get the system where we wanted it. Given our original use case as a lead qualifier, a lot of the conversations needed to be altered or exceptions created in order to provide the customization we needed. Our AM and support rep were able to accommodate most of our requests and were extremely helpful in working with us on a solution.
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    Implementation Rating
    Chatfuel
    No answers on this topic
    Conversica
    The implementation went smoothly. The only advice I would give for anybody looking to integrate Conversica with Salesforce is to ensure that either you or somebody within your organization has experience with process builder as you'll need to create some processes to force your leads into Salesforce campaigns for the Conversica system to pick them up.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Chatfuel
    Both offer bot service to reply to messages from Facebook. The difference is that Chatfuel gives you the option of being able to create conversion funnels or fixed conversation changes.
    Connecting to our API is free from Chatfuel and integration with other providers has an additional cost.
    AIVO has no option to create conversation flows if not through keywords.
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    Conversica
    I haven't looked into many other conversational ai products - we received a solid recommendation about using this and have been happy with the process and experience. Price was also pretty good, so we didn't feel a need to shop around on that front. If things change I'll do that homework, but we're happy for now
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    Return on Investment
    Chatfuel
    • It helped overall with visitor engagement.
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    Conversica
    • We have found that each conversation type has a different ROI. Some are very hard to report off of, whereas others are easy. this is because some are more built around building awareness of what we offer where they may not purchase it for months down the line.
    • Has helped us to save on salaries. If staff were to try to do the same thing our AI Assistant does, it would take them many hours to be as successful.
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    Screenshot of Dashboard showing an overview of important metrics, like response rates, hot leads and top-performing lead sources