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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Emplifi

    Score8.9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Emplifi offers a platform that enables brands to manage social marketing, commerce, and care. At the core of this platform is Emplifi Fuel — the outcome and enablement layer that connects all modules across marketing, commerce, and care. Fuel empowers brands to optimize the customer journey, unifying data, automation, and AI-driven insights to ensure every interaction drives meaningful business outcomes. The platform's core capabilities include:…N/A

    Helpshift

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AHelpshift is a help desk software deployed as an in-application SDK to provide users with in-app service.

    $150

    per month issue

    Pricing
    EmplifiHelpshift
    Editions & Modules
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    Starter
    $150.00
    per month Issue
    Enterprise
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    per month Issue
    Growth
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    EmplifiHelpshift
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Flexible Consumption-Based Pricing for Your Changing Needs. Only pay for the number of issues created each month. An issue is a customer problem or inquiry that is directed to an agent or a bot. Customers with greater usage receive a reduced per issue price. All packages come with 1,000 issues per month to get you started.
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    Emplifi Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    76 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    63 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    80 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    51 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    63 Answers
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    Features
    EmplifiHelpshift
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Emplifi and Helpshift
    Feature
    Emplifi
    6.4
    7 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Helpshift
    -
    Ratings
    Boolean keyword searches6.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam6.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis5.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Emplifi and Helpshift
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.3
    8 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Helpshift
    -
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    Content planning and scheduling7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience targeting7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content optimization7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management7.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Emplifi and Helpshift
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.3
    7 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Helpshift
    -
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    Automated routing and prioritization7.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories8.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk actions6.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Emplifi and Helpshift
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Helpshift
    -
    Ratings
    Lead generation8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content marketing7.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Paid media management7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Emplifi and Helpshift
    Feature
    Emplifi
    5.8
    8 Ratings
    36% below category average
    Helpshift
    -
    Ratings
    Twitter6.18 Ratings00 Ratings
    Facebook7.98 Ratings00 Ratings
    LinkedIn4.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Google+8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instagram7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pinterest3.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    YouTube3.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Emplifi and Helpshift
    Feature
    Emplifi
    6.4
    8 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Helpshift
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    Campaign success analytics7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time tracking6.78 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitor analysis5.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Emplifi and Helpshift
    Feature
    Emplifi
    6.7
    8 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Helpshift
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    Role-based user permissions & privileges7.38 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile access6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Emplifi and Helpshift
    Feature
    Emplifi
    -
    Ratings
    Helpshift
    6.4
    4 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings5.54 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings3.64 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings6.43 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings4.53 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.13 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings9.14 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Emplifi and Helpshift
    Feature
    Emplifi
    -
    Ratings
    Helpshift
    5.0
    4 Ratings
    46% below category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings1.04 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings9.13 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Emplifi and Helpshift
    Feature
    Emplifi
    -
    Ratings
    Helpshift
    4.5
    4 Ratings
    56% below category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings5.53 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings2.71 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings2.74 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings4.52 Ratings
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    Score8.1 out of 10
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    EmplifiHelpshift
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (110 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (36 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (43 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    EmplifiHelpshift
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Emplifi Inc
    - Very well suited to grabbing top-level and more in-depth social performance data, across campaigns and BAU activity. - Not as well suited for moments where you need benchmarking or context of your performance compared with a previous time frame. This can be a bit clunky to go back and forth with as it requires multiple dashboards or consistent manual time-frame changes.
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    Helpshift Inc.
    If you need a good way for players to send in support tickets that propagates in real-time, Helpshift would be a service I'd recommend.
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    Pros
    Emplifi Inc
    • Helps us prioritize requests based on urgency and tone
    • Helps us divide work between several teams
    • Helps us keep an eye on how our posts are being recieved and are performing
    • Helps us stay in contact with customers, and helps us understand particular customers needs
    • Helps us separate the chaff from the wheat
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    Helpshift Inc.
    • Their customer support is very responsive. If they have any problems, they fix them quickly.
    • They are constantly trying to improve and expand their offering, which is beneficial to our growing company.
    • It is very user-friendly and easy to manage. The analytics are pretty good as well.
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    Cons
    Emplifi Inc
    • Would love more robust search parameters for labels. ex. search for tickets labeled 'Availability' AND 'United States' but excluding any that are only one of those labels
    • Ability to break conversations into multiple tickets; so labels can be more accurate if the same person reaches out again after 3 months with a totally different question
    • The social account quick view doesn't always load the follower count for people reaching out to us. it makes it slower to manager messages from high level creators
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    Helpshift Inc.
    • While I am not an engineer; it is known that Helpshift can be a bit of a pain to get it implemented into our applications.
    • There are some issues with the badge when it comes to the notifications of messages that let the user know they have a reply from customer service.
    • The website dashboard that is used to respond to customers has trouble sometimes and is very slow.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Emplifi Inc
    the balance between quality and price si perfectperfect for agency that have many client to manage, because it helps us to save time (we don't have to plan content from every single account, only one click to look at different community and moderate...)it also help the team works: senior can review content direcly from emplifi; labeling DM/comments as done help us to track where a collegue stop and we have to startIt makes the content approval from clients very easy
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    Helpshift Inc.
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    Usability
    Emplifi Inc
    Since the main use of the Live Advisor is on the website that doesn't have e-commerce capabilities, it has been challenging to attach an specific metric to Emplifi's solutions and their usability in our websites. The Live Advisor is helping us to deliver our unique sale proposition in digital channels, which is great, but it is difficult to assign a higher mark in usability due to the limitation just explained.
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    Helpshift Inc.
    Helpshift is really easy to use and set up. We enjoy the automation to automatically route certain issues to different smart folders. There's just a lot of flexibility in the functionality to make things work for our team in the best way. I didn't give it a 10/10 just because we need SMS/Apple Business Chat and Helpshift doesn't yet offer that. They also don't currently support social media channels but they are working on releasing that soon.
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    Support Rating
    Emplifi Inc
    We have a dedicated Customer Success manager, and that is very helpful. Anytime we have questions or need support, they are always there to answer. If thety do not know the solution, they always go around the bend to find one and provide it to us. They are always very kind.
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    Helpshift Inc.
    The few times we've had to contact them, they were courteous and gave us the information we needed swiftly.
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    Online Training
    Emplifi Inc
    The online training was fine but, in the end, the best way to learn any product is by actually using it.
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    Helpshift Inc.
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    Implementation Rating
    Emplifi Inc
    The platform is so easy to understand that no "expensive consulting firm" is necessary to implement it!
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    Helpshift Inc.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Emplifi Inc
    We have used Sprinklr to source UGC content as well, but found the platform to be much more time intensive when searching for the desired images. Additionally, Emplifi's UGC tool has incremental tools the other platforms do not provide, including the ability to share images on digital screens within the property and put carousels on our websites.
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    Helpshift Inc.
    Zendesk is used for customer communication via email and Helpshift is used for chat, they are for the same purpose but with different response times.
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    Return on Investment
    Emplifi Inc
    • reporting - this has massively reduced the time spent on creating reports for social media activities
    • paid ads - has provided detailed analysis of how our ads are performing
    • community - reduced the time taken to respond to social messages, resulting in more leads
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    Helpshift Inc.
    • The ability to properly organize and delegate work to customer service representatives has been a very positive ROI after using Helpshift.
    • The customer service reps are much happier with this system over the previous system of a general company email address and other CS software tools.
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    ScreenShots

    Emplifi Screenshots

    Screenshot of Emplifi Fuel Command CenterScreenshot of Emplifi Fuel ObjectivesScreenshot of Emplifi Unified AnalyticsScreenshot of social listening with AI-Powered Spike Alerts.Screenshot of the integrated social care interface.