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    Dokan

    Score9.3 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Dokan offers a front-end multi-vendor marketplace on WordPress, powered by WooCommerce. According to the vendor, the product enables you to build your own Amazon, Shopify, eBay, Magento-like marketplace in just 30 minutes. FEATURES Marketplace with Independent Stores Frontend Dashboard For Each Seller Earn From Each Sale Product Management Reports (Pro Feature) Coupon Management (Pro Feature) Manage Product…N/A

    Podium

    Score7 out of 10
    N/APodium, formerly Repdrive, is a ratings and review management platform from the company of the same name in Provo, Utah.N/A
    Pricing
    DokanPodium
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    DokanPodium
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    DokanPodium
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    weDevs
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    Podium
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    58%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    58%
    Delivers good value for the price
    15 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    64%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    52%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    59%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    Features
    DokanPodium
    Online Storefront
    Comparison of Online Storefront features of Dokan and Podium
    Feature
    Dokan
    6.8
    1 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Podium
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    Ratings
    Product catalog & listings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk product upload7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Branding6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile storefront5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Product variations5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Website integration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual customization6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    CMS7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Shopping Cart
    Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Dokan and Podium
    Feature
    Dokan
    5.0
    1 Ratings
    42% below category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    Checkout user experience5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    eCommerce Marketing
    Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Dokan and Podium
    Feature
    Dokan
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    SEO9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    eCommerce Business Management
    Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Dokan and Podium
    Feature
    Dokan
    7.8
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    Order processing7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Inventory management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Shipping8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom functionality7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.7 out of 10
    Hunter
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Digital Commerce
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DokanPodium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.9
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DokanPodium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    weDevs
    Dokan is a multi-vendor marketplace. It is usually good for small mom-and-pop shops with less than 1000 items.
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    Podium is well suited for several types of businesses. If you are an entrepreneur or small business owner, Podium would be a great way for you to ask that customers leave you a review online sharing their awesome experience. For medium to large businesses, Podium review invites can be automated through the company's customer management system, allowing the use of Podium to be simple and not timely, even with a large customer base. It may not be appropriate for a large company to manually send out individual review invites
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    weDevs
    • Intuitive back-end functions.
    • User-friendly front-end interface.
    • Bug fixes and improvements are done often and regularly.
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    • Maintains conversations indefinitely, so we are able to go back to confirm details from conversations.
    • Provides the ability for our company to have a 'team' messaging platform where we can communicate with one another via single person to a single person, groups where we can add/subtract members of the group... this is invaluable to our organization.
    • Until today(!), we could 'share' or forward a message to one another; oddly, that feature disappeared just today, so I'm hoping it's a glitch!
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    Cons
    weDevs
    • Sign-up procedure could be more explanatory for vendors.
    • Sign-up validations could be improved.
    • Support for multi-currency and multilingual shops needs to be improved.
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    • Account manager communications: I had been asking my Podium account manager for integration with our CRM tool for over 8 months before my account manager fell silent. After another 6 months, I proactively reached out only to find out that the integration had been in Beta for months and 8 other companies had already integrated. It was frustrating that my account manager did not remember a key request and make the Beta available to me the minute that it was open.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    weDevs
    No answers on this topic
    Podium
    Again, Podium has been so wonderful in the year and a half we have been using it, we are able to integrate it with our CRM and use alot of the available features. The most helpful has been getting TONS of reviews on MULTIPLE sites through Podium!
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    weDevs
    Compared to other similar multi-vendor marketplace platforms, Dokan has much more features and easier to use and manage.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Podium
    While giving our clients the ability to leave a review was there, we had much worse results and got fewer reviews through the Podium portal than we did by sending our clients simple email requests, or simply having our service staff ask for a review while still on the clients' job sites.
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    Reliability and Availability
    weDevs
    No answers on this topic
    Podium
    We haven't had any outages or issues whenever we need it over the last few years of use
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    weDevs
    No answers on this topic
    Podium
    It moves quickly and has no issues with delays. Performance is good as it is a web-based tool
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    weDevs
    The support needs to be improved as some of the support representatives do not seem to understand the client's request and keep sending canned responses.
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    I have to send an email to get information. They have a chat system but I end up having to go through my rep for account questions. It was a little frustrating to not have a direct phone number to call with questions. I would like to see a helpline added.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    weDevs
    No answers on this topic
    Podium
    We only had a hard time getting our technicians to remember to send the review invites.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    weDevs
    No answers on this topic
    Podium
    We use Digital Air Strike at our two GM dealerships because it is one of a small list of reputation management companies authorized by GM as part of their SFE program. Digital Air Strike surveys our customers and invites them to write a review about our dealership. It is not as effective or flexible as Podium so we have been using Podium at those dealerships alongside Digital Air Strike. We also recently started a trial use of ReplyPro which is a service that monitors review sites and writes customized responses to positive reviews and suggested responses to negative reviews. I'd like to see Podium add this as part of their service so we can consolidate 3rd party vendors and manage every aspect of online reputation management from one place.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    weDevs
    No answers on this topic
    Podium
    Its easy to scale to different departments as needed. We initially began using it to solve one problem and as new features became available it was easy to scale this and include other departments who could benefit from its tools
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    weDevs
    • Positive impact on small to medium shops.
    • Needs good advertisement and features to get large shops to sign up.
    • Needs more bulk product import and management features.
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    • I am glad there are card readers now, sales team members too often try to just send a request instead of taking payment onsite.
    • It's made capturing messaging leads much easier.
    • It's worth the cost but if it did a few more things it would be worth a lot more to us. Document signatures, surveying after jobs, even geotagging of photos/reviews for SEO
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