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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Gorgias

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AGorgias is a Conversational AI platform for ecommerce used to drive sales and resolves support inquiries. Built for Shopify but featuring integrations for WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, and PrestaShop.

    $60

    per month Up to 350 mothly tickets

    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
    GorgiasPodium
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $10
    per month 50 monthly tickets
    Basic
    $50
    per month 300 monthly tickets
    Pro
    $300
    per month 2,000 monthly tickets
    Advanced
    $750
    per month 5,000 monthly tickets
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    Custom ticket volume
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GorgiasPodium
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing. Additional cost for automated ticket handling.—
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    Community Pulse
    GorgiasPodium
    Considered Both Products
    Gorgias
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    Podium
    No answer on this topic
    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
    No answers on this topic
    59%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    Features
    GorgiasPodium
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Gorgias and Podium
    Feature
    Gorgias
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory7.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications9.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response9.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Gorgias and Podium
    Feature
    Gorgias
    7.6
    4 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base7.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base7.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Gorgias and Podium
    Feature
    Gorgias
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal8.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    GorgiasPodium
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    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Affinity CRM
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Hunter
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GorgiasPodium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    6.9
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GorgiasPodium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Gorgias
    Gorgias is one of the easiest platforms I've used, as it was easy to navigate. You can customize your views so you can easily track them. The shared views are also specific and convenient. The search button is also one thing I like, as it easily shows what you're looking for with just keywords, email addresses, or any information.
    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
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    Pros
    Gorgias
    • Tagging- the tagging system was a great way to stay organized.
    • Rules- when you have 49 inboxes implementing rules on when to fire a macro or auto tag is necessary and Gorgias’ UI was easy to understand and execute.
    • Integrations- I had to integrate with dozens of inboxes many times using aliases and most of the time Gorgias was able to help.
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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
    Gorgias
    • Rules are powerful, but clunky, showing them to others can put them off as it looks "easy to break" because of their messy nature.
    • Pricing seems to be increasing due to the inclusion of more advanced AI that currently does not provide value.
    • Macros could really use contextual support, or a hotkey system to make it easier to pick highly used ones that aren't in the top 3.
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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.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Gorgias
    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
    Gorgias
    Gorgias is still by far most the most complete customer service tool to handle multiple responses and channels at a single umbrella without the needs of opening multiple tabs and sometimes will even make us missed some messages what supposed to be taken care of at a timely manner
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    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
    Gorgias
    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
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    Performance
    Gorgias
    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
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    Support Rating
    Gorgias
    No answers on this topic
    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.
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    Implementation Rating
    Gorgias
    No answers on this topic
    Podium
    We only had a hard time getting our technicians to remember to send the review invites.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Gorgias
    We selected Gorgias from Zendesk based on its Shopify integration. Given how many stores we were managing the team needed to quickly find all of a customer's information in an email. We preferred it to Zendesk. However, now that I use intercom I have many more features such as surveys, topics, extensive reporting, auto tags, and series I prefer intercom for my work now
    Incentivized
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    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.
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    Scalability
    Gorgias
    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
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    Return on Investment
    Gorgias
    • Drastically reduced our response time from 2 business days, to 2 hours on average.
    • Made it easier to sync data for damaged item, allowing us to better understand damages.
    • Allowed us to easily see that statistics of what kind of issues we are seeing from our customers.
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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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