ManyChat vs. Tidio vs. Zoom Virtual Agent

I found that ManyChat is a strong tool when receiving incoming messages, being able to create a tree of potential responses based on options given to the initiator. There is also a huge potential for complex automation (as long as the environment required by Facebook in order to send outgoing messages is maintained).

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Tidio is well suited for businesses who want to chat with their site visitors in real time. The interface is simple and intuitive, and the user experience on the visitor side is great as well. Perfect for installing on a marketing site, proprietary portal, and more. Can set up an after hours bot to help triage requests from clients and prospective clients when you are back in office.

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Zoom Virtual Agent is really suited, as we're learning, for companies that also use their contact center solution, as it's an entire customer experience and support tool all in one. It's very easy to upload and use AI responses that best support your customer, and train the AI on your specific use cases.

• Collect email and phone number easily
• provide 24/7 customer support to your customers
• More than one ways for people to opt into your bot
• great way to provide offers and sales to your subscribers via messenger
• Great to build a relationship with your followers on Instagram

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• Very intuitive interface and management.
• Scalable plans that don't require me to purchase features I don't need.
• Super simple chat bot administration.

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• Generative AI answers from existing documentation
• Providing tools for admins to discover and easily create new intents and workflows
• Customizing the experience by campaign, chatbot, workflow, etc. to facilitate curated experiences for customers

• Honestly, the only thing I don't like about ManyChat is their support. It seems to be almost non existent. However, that concern is negated by having a fantastic user base that helps each other out on Facebook.

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• Unable to ban visitors by site referrer (spam sites)
• Chatbot conditional logic could be a bit simpler/cleaner
• Occasional issues with the desktop app (in browser never gives us trouble though)

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• There's a lot of competition in the CX space right now, but I think Zoom has a good deal going on, with all their other products under the same roof.
• Some of the reporting could use some improvement, but it's still early days.

ManyChat is a great tool, provides loads of features, integrations and just saves you a whole load of time once all set up. If you aren't tech-savvy or used to how digital marketing tools work, it can appear complicated. That's how I felt initially 2 years ago, and after watching tutorials online I had a better understanding of it. This is why I rated it a 7, as it's not a tool that you can just play around with and guess how it works. There's definitely a learning curve with it so I recommend doing the free training and watching video tutorials.

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You can customize the experience for your clients, make it sound as human as possible and provide different paths to find the answers needed

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There is room for improvement but frankly, we haven't had the need to request for support. Everything is pretty easy to setup and there are very useful video explanation guides and walkthroughs on ManyChat's YouTube channel. The only challenge we have had was to integrate it with Zapier, it's a bit tricky because you need to do a setup workaround first, but nothing too complicated.

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I've worked in the past with Chatfuel. However, I decided to switch to ManyChat due to a variety of reasons. Overall, ManyChat offers much more functionality out of the box (e.g., Facebook comments tool), sequence builders are much more intuitive. Also, they provide flexible pay as you go pricing plan, which is perfect for a startup like us.

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ZVA offered a combination of easy administration and cost effective pricing in a manner that other providers currently do not meet

• For the intended application, we experienced a negative ROI due to the inconsistency in the ability to maintain the automation without incoming responses. Since it is a free service that was meant to lead to paid services organically, the inconsistencies prevented the desired outcome.
• We did experience a higher conversion rate with basic incoming messages with questions about services or products due to the ability to have pre-created responses and direction immediately supporting the prospect.

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• Helped us get new deals from site visitors
• Helped us get renewals from current clients

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• Happier end customers that are able to be served faster.
• Serving customers faster.
• Aggregated data collection and reports.