Hearsay, now part of Yext vs. Smartsupp

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Hearsay, now part of Yext
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
After the August 2024 acquisition, Hearsay Systems joined Yext, combining Yext's digital presence management with Hearsay's compliant customer engagement tools.N/A
Smartsupp
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
Czech company Smartsupp offers a live chat tool with a free version. The paid versions include visitor tracking and recording, and agent performance statistics.
$24
per month
Pricing
Hearsay, now part of YextSmartsupp
Editions & Modules
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Free
$0
per month Live chat, WhatsApp, Messenger
Solo
$24
per month Multichannel + Unlimited conversations
Plus
$35
per month Automated workflows
Expert
$117
per month Premium support
Ultimate
$280
per month Individual limits
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Hearsay, now part of YextSmartsupp
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
More Pricing Information
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Features
Hearsay, now part of YextSmartsupp
Chat Analytics and Reports
Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Product A and Product B
Hearsay, now part of Yext
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Ratings
Smartsupp
8.2
7 Ratings
6% below category average
Chat history and transcripts00 Ratings8.27 Ratings
Chat reporting00 Ratings8.57 Ratings
Chat and web analytics00 Ratings7.97 Ratings
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User Ratings
Hearsay, now part of YextSmartsupp
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.9
(7 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.1
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Hearsay, now part of YextSmartsupp
Likelihood to Recommend
Yext
Apart from a few limitations, Hearsay Social is an excellent tool for managing your social media posts in one place. Its user-friendly interface allows you to analyze, track, schedule, and automate social media posts. This is a must in today's age. It saves a lot of stress and handwork and makes you efficient as it gives you tools to analyze the results of your posts in terms of reach, viewership, etc. Thereby helping you to formulate your social media strategy.
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Smartsupp
Smartsupp is good for every ecommerce with need to answer questions of clients and comunicate with them. A lot of convesations can be automated, so I need less people to do the same work
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Pros
Yext
  • Single dashboard of all your social media channels
  • Automation of posts
  • Scheduled posting as per design
  • Great for analytics & customer Interactions
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Smartsupp
  • Ability for multi-platform login between Android, Apple IOS, and Windows
  • Much less buggy than our previous Chat provider
  • Ability to see Live and Offline visitors
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Cons
Yext
  • Lacks ability for significant flexibility and customization
  • Mobile app sometimes does not save the posts that are edited
  • It does allow you to tag or hashtag any post.
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Smartsupp
  • I wish we would be able to check ip adresses so we can link the chats so companies before they fill out a contact form
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Usability
Yext
If you wish to reduce stress of managing multiple social media handles from a single place, you can use Hearsay Social. Hearsay Social helps you analyze, automate, schedule posts and even give ideas for posts. Rather than multitasking, one would obliviously choose a single place to track your posts. It also fares greatly as compared to its competitors. It has a great interface. Very easy and simple to use.
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Smartsupp
Customer response has been much better.In the past, the conversion rate for our services has been very low, probably due to poor UI/UX.But considering that we were still getting a certain number of conversions, we believe that the demand from users was very strong.With the addition of the chat function, we now have a point of contact with customers who had not converted.
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Support Rating
Yext
1. Simple to Use. 2. User Friendly Interface 3. Great Features 4. Very Few Limitations. 5. Automates my Tasks
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Smartsupp
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Yext
Facebook Business Manager is also good however it has some limitations like it's very difficult to remove an ad account, we cannot schedule shared posts and the user interface is a bit complicated and not user-friendly. I like the user interface of Hearsay Social. I find it very simple and easy to use. Also, it has all the features that you might require in Social Media Management tool.
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Smartsupp
All the features found in other programs in Smartsupp are brought together. In addition, the price offer is attractive, and the multitude of selection of options and possible add-ons is very large and tailored to different thresholds, so everyone should choose an offer perfectly suited to their needs. I haven't had the need to use support, so it's hard for me to judge, but the very fact that I haven't had to do so probably speaks well for it.
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Return on Investment
Yext
  • It has helped us save time in maintaining our social media handles
  • It gave us a lot of intelligent insights on our posts, thereby helping improve our marketing strategy to perform better every time
  • It helped us design our posts better based on inputs & design ideas based on our past posts
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Smartsupp
  • It has a very positive impact. I need less workers to do the same job.
  • A lot of communication can be automated - especially answers for simple questions.
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