HeyOrca vs. Virola Messenger

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HeyOrca
Score 9.5 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
HeyOrca is a solution that allows an agency’s clients to review and approve upcoming social media content. The vendor aims to help agencies save time by moving away from using spreadsheets and docs to communicate and obtain approvals from their clients. With this solution, no logins or spreadsheets are needed. Agencies can invite clients into a visual stakeholder-friendly view where they can approve and provide feedback without needing to sign up. Agencies can also record every change made to…
$59
per month per calendar
Virola Messenger
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Virola Messenger is a corporate messenger for secure team collaboration. Both self-hosted and cloud Virola servers are available. Main features: private and group chat rooms file transfer and unlimited storage reactions, mentions, replies and discussions continuous voice and video meetings voice meetings recording live avatars issue tracking with task board screen sharing remote…
$22
per month 11 users (minimum)
Pricing
HeyOrcaVirola Messenger
Editions & Modules
Solo
$0
Basic
$59
per month per calendar
Standard
$99.00
per month per calendar
Pro
$149
per month per calendar
Annual Subscription
$1.30
per month per user
Monthly Subscription
$1.56
per month per user
Perpetual License
$31.24
one-time fee per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HeyOrcaVirola Messenger
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPlans start at: $99 USD Per Month. From there, the price scales according to your needs, up to a maximum of $499 USD per month.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
HeyOrcaVirola Messenger
Features
HeyOrcaVirola Messenger
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
HeyOrca
8.3
6 Ratings
3% above category average
Virola Messenger
-
Ratings
Content planning and scheduling10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience targeting7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow management8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
HeyOrca
9.0
5 Ratings
11% above category average
Virola Messenger
-
Ratings
Bulk actions9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
HeyOrca
9.3
6 Ratings
11% above category average
Virola Messenger
-
Ratings
Twitter10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Facebook9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
LinkedIn9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Instagram9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
HeyOrca
8.0
6 Ratings
1% above category average
Virola Messenger
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions & privileges9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile access7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
HeyOrca
-
Ratings
Virola Messenger
7.8
2 Ratings
0% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Search00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
HeyOrca
-
Ratings
Virola Messenger
9.5
2 Ratings
17% above category average
Chat00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
HeyOrca
-
Ratings
Virola Messenger
9.0
2 Ratings
11% above category average
Video files00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Audio files00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
HeyOrcaVirola Messenger
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(6 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HeyOrcaVirola Messenger
Likelihood to Recommend
HeyOrca
HeyOrca is perfect for the social post editing. For example, when I send the content link to my clients, they can easily go in and comment on posts that need editing rather than having to email me changes. Essentially it streamlines client/agency communication. It is perfect for a smaller agency who has less than 20 clients. I think HeyOrca is not for those whose main content is blogs and corresponding social posts. WordPress isn't Integrated, making it inconvenient to manage.
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Provide Support Live Chat
This is fantastic for offices that have employees working from home. It is a much cleaner and easier way to discuss projects or even have informal conversations. However if all employees are working from the same office, the features are limited as conversation, screen sharing, and task management are less valuable.
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Pros
HeyOrca
  • Provides client friendly view that allows clients to easily see what content will look like on their social platforms.
  • Provides a one-stop option for multiple client and platform content to live.
  • Great customer service and extremely responsive help center.
  • Easy to use and learn interface.
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Provide Support Live Chat
  • Secure chatting
  • Chatrooms
  • File transfer/ sharing
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Cons
HeyOrca
  • We had some issues with the timing of posts and posts not going out when they updated their platform recently.
  • Missing out on posting directly to Instagram (we have to use another platform for this).
  • Doesn't support Instagram stories, so we have to denote which ones are for Instagram stories and which ones are for Instagram newsfeed.
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Provide Support Live Chat
  • A cleaner interface.
  • More intuitive for older generations.
  • Customizable notification tones
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Likelihood to Renew
HeyOrca
We decided today that we were renewing our use
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Provide Support Live Chat
No answers on this topic
Usability
HeyOrca
Hey Orca has a lot of really great features, they make the workflow really easy and are extremely available for help with questions. I think there are some minor workflow issues that it could overcome and features it could add on that are available in other apps. It definitely doesn't offer the best analytics and also hasn't offered single image direct publishing like hootsuite does. Yet, it's benefits outweigh those minor inconveniences for our team
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Provide Support Live Chat
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
HeyOrca
Support is really helpful and always giving their best to assist us.
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Provide Support Live Chat
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
HeyOrca
HeyOrca is definitely more for the agency level than Hootsuite. Hootsuite is fairly limited, even at its larger plans. HeyOrca is geared towards agencies, and that is definitely clear in the interface and arrangement. Hootsuite sure seems like more of a consumer product than a B2B product in my opinion.
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Provide Support Live Chat
It's really early to judge Virola's capabilities with other offerings or tools in the marketplace but with the set of features the tool offers at the moment at the negligible price it can surely be counted as a dark horse to make its way through to be one of the best. Provide that it has the ability to support larger teams, it can really be successful in the future.
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Return on Investment
HeyOrca
  • Sustains our clients due to its layout and user-friendliness
  • Doesn't really allow for a lot of SEO work in the platform which doesn't help get clients
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Provide Support Live Chat
  • Kept everyone in the loop
  • Allowed for seamless project discussions from inside and outside the office.
  • Great way to share screens which was very important.
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Virola Messenger Screenshots

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