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    Overview
    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

    Sparkcentral (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASparkcentral was a social customer care solution and cloud-based customer engagement platform that catered specifically to customer care teams within large enterprises, enabling them to deliver real-time social customer service. Sparkcentral was acquired by Hootsuite in January 2021. The product has since been discontinued.N/A
    Pricing
    GorgiasSparkcentral (discontinued)
    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
    GorgiasSparkcentral (discontinued)
    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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    Features
    GorgiasSparkcentral (discontinued)
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Gorgias and Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    Feature
    Gorgias
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    -
    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 Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    Feature
    Gorgias
    7.6
    4 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    -
    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 Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    Feature
    Gorgias
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Sparkcentral (discontinued)
    -
    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
    GorgiasSparkcentral (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Khoros Service
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Brand Embassy (discontinued)
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    GorgiasSparkcentral (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    GorgiasSparkcentral (discontinued)
    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.
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    Sparkcentral has an extremely dedicated customer service team The platform UX is brilliant Reports are very detailed & easy to export The system is stable more than 98% of the time Queue management is extremely easy They need to work on a mobile app / making the website mobile friendly The ability to add more social media channels is essential
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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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    • The biggest advantage of the Sparkcentral platform is its "inbox zero" philosophy. With this, our customer support requests are queued within the app, and agents need to work down the queue to keep it empty.
    • The app is designed from the ground up for customer care - instead of taking a generic social platform, and sprinkling in some customer care tools. Everything about Sparkcental is designed for helping our customers.
    • Sparkcentral allows us to do much better CRM. We can make customer notes, see recent interactions, determine who helped the customer (and when).
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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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    • In the beginning our team had the option to see what another user was typing as they responded to a post. With the latest update, this was taken away. That feature was key for us to shadow agents remotely who are still in training to provide real time feedback.
    • Our company has a number of different brands that we manage. Having a truly unified queue would be a great addition for us!
    • The bulk resolve should allow the option to select on the posts that you wish to resolve instead of selecting a time frame for bulk resolve. Often we find that marketing posts generate more volume in the evening. However, there are sometimes posts where the customer needs assistance during that time. So, if we were to bulk resolve for a certain number of evening hours we would potentially miss a customer's concern through that option as it is currently. But, if the option was to go through and select on all marketing posts and then bulk resolve you would ensure that you are not missing a post where a customer needs assistance.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Gorgias
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Sparkcentral has never given us a good reason to consider any other option. Aside from all the positive points I mentioned in previous areas of this review, something else that has really impressed us is their customer service (makes sense, they're a customer service company after all!). Any time we have a question or concern, we send them an email and we get a response almost instantly.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    The system meets all my expectations.
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    Support Rating
    Gorgias
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Incredible customer service team that replies back very quickly, follows up on the reported issue till it's resolved in a very timely manner.
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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
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    Discontinued Products
    Sparkcentral does what it has offered to do, where other software made empty promises, Sparkcentral delivers. They also inform us, anytime they are undergoing maintenance or when Twitter or Facebook has an API change, where in previous cases we would have to discover this ourselves.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • Customers appreciate fast responses to the things they post on social media. This tool allows that to happen.
    • The dashboard allows us to keep up with how many are waiting in our queue so we can keep up with how busy we are during the day and manage it.
    • Customer satisfaction has seemed to increase while using this tool.
    • Being able to add notes with the customers address and phone info is awesome as well.
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