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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LivePerson Conversational Cloud

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe LivePerson Conversational Cloud is a contact center solution used to create personalized, connected customer experiences across voice and messaging. The solution balances human agents, intelligent automations, and Conversational AI, across voice and messaging.N/A

    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
    LivePerson Conversational CloudPodium
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LivePerson Conversational CloudPodium
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    LivePerson Conversational CloudPodium
    Considered Both Products
    LivePerson
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    Podium
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    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
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    59%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    Features
    LivePerson Conversational CloudPodium
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of LivePerson Conversational Cloud and Podium
    Feature
    LivePerson Conversational Cloud
    6.9
    1 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    Agent dashboard8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Validate callers8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Outbound response8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Warm transfer7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call scripts6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call tracking8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multichannel integration5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM software integration5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of LivePerson Conversational Cloud and Podium
    Feature
    LivePerson Conversational Cloud
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    Quality management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Call analytics8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Historical reporting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live reporting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer surveys8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Enterprises
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LivePerson Conversational CloudPodium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (78 ratings)
    6.9
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 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
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LivePerson Conversational CloudPodium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    LivePerson
    Liveperson LiveEngage is good for larger deployments with lots of agents, and where the rollout plan is broad with respect to the visitors who you will be targeting. It allows you to manipulate more of the data for reporting than many other platforms. The premium cost and some drawbacks with configuring smaller groups might make it lose some appeal for smaller companies or deployments.
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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
    LivePerson
    • Integrates very well with Salesforce, our CRM software. As we disposition calls, the notes automatically generate on my customer's accounts, saving me valuable steps in documentation.
    • Call metrics gathered in Tenfold are used for measuring productivity across all of the sales team. Reporting is done through Salesforce, once again speaking volumes of the integration capabilities.
    • The clarity and consistency of quality of calls are outstanding! Very little delay, static or feedback.
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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
    LivePerson
    • There is no ability to customize the popup. It is stuck in one place (bottom right) and can't be moved. Just adding something as simple as being able to move it up and down would make a world of a difference. I don't know how many times the popup got in the way of other information I was trying to look at.
    • It would, of course, be a much better product if the popup were it's own app that could be docked anywhere on the screen. Tying the popup to Chrome really keeps this software from being the best it could be.
    • There are no skins, color options, customize options, or anything like that for the popup window. There is nothing you can do to affect how it looks, what information is on it, and where it is docked. Solve those three issues, and you have an amazing tool that is flexible and personable.
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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
    LivePerson
    LivePerson has been a great tool for our company and everything is customized. We can customize everything from the canned responses, operator surveys, and customer surveys. We receive a lot of positive information from our customers; and to be able to provide technical support of the website as well as status information for already placed orders is awesome
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    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!
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    Usability
    LivePerson
    No answers on this topic
    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
    LivePerson
    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
    LivePerson
    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
    LivePerson
    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
    LivePerson
    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
    LivePerson
    I find the ease of use of Tenfold to be advantageous to all other platforms. It also appears that as future needs change, Tenfold will allow me to continue to structure my workday around Tenfold but use it in different ways that would scale to any changes in my process.
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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
    LivePerson
    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
    LivePerson
    • This has definitely helped me monitor my own call volumes and helped me learn the best times to connect.
    • Tenfold has also saved me significant time using the 'click-to-dial' feature.
    • I still remain frustrated that some of the integration with Salesforce isn't as seamless as it could (or imi should) be; however overall it's still a valuable addition to my business tools.
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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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