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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

    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACTERA offered a cloud storage gateway and NAS appliance the Edge X Series. The product line has been discontinued.N/A
    Pricing
    ChatfuelCTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Pro
    $15
    per month
    Free
    Free
    Premium
    Contact sales team
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ChatfuelCTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    ChatfuelCTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ChatfuelCTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    This is all about the selling you a "Device" and prices vary greatly between resellers. The devices work well, but the pure cloud solutions need a lot of work.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Standard File Backup
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    Cons
    Chatfuel
    • Setting it up is time-consuming.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • SQL Backups just don't work reliably. For us, we lost all of our SQL data backed up through the CTERA Application process. Although the logs indicated a success, that was really not the case. This came close to putting us out of business. Luckily I had taken a genuine SQL backup to a folder. Unfortunately it was a month old. We had to pick-up the pieces from there.
    • Don't use it for file sync and share. There are better products out there i.e. anchorworks.com
    • Support sucks. Good luck with response time and answers that are inconsistent between team members. For example I had to rebuild a VM from scratch. When I re-installed the CTERA client It obviously thought I was adding another device. When I inquired to tech support, one member said "copy the old Data folder" (I still had the old VHD. That did not work). The other directed me to the correct spot to just change the associated folder. The turn-around time was over 24 hours for this simple fix.
    • Documentation, plenty of fodder but no real tech there.
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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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    Discontinued Products
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Unfortunately CTERA does not stack up well if you want a pure cloud BDR. I have use iDrive and Asigra. iDrive has similar support and SQL backup issues. Asigra can vary widely in support and price, but the software is solid.
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    Return on Investment
    Chatfuel
    • It helped overall with visitor engagement.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • NONE, it about put us out of business
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