Bazaarvoice vs. PowerReviews

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Bazaarvoice
Score 8.2 out of 10
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The Bazaarvoice platform provides businesses with the ability to collect and publish authentic feedback from their customers, who can review products and services, ask questions, and post photos and videos of their experiences with products. The vendor says that leveraging user-generated content can increase sales and build brand loyalty. Within the platform, the vendor provides seven core modules: Ratings & Reviews Questions & Answers Sampling…N/A
PowerReviews
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
PowerReviews helps companies gather ratings and reviews from customers, build Q&A content, syndicate reviews across retailers and search engines, and measure results from these endeavors. The company also offers managed services to help businesses improve customer engagement. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Chicago.N/A
Pricing
BazaarvoicePowerReviews
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Offerings
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BazaarvoicePowerReviews
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
BazaarvoicePowerReviews
Considered Both Products
Bazaarvoice
Chose Bazaarvoice
At the time PowerReviews were the only other vendor we evaluated. Bazaarvoice was easier to implement and a thorough understanding of the apparel industry.
Chose Bazaarvoice
Trustpilot and PowerReviews are similar products that provide similar functionalities as Bazaarvoice Conversations. Bazaarvoice Conversations has proven customer support teams and capabilities of an easy to use User Interface that can be used by non-technical staff.
Chose Bazaarvoice
It's the most trusted provider and has the highest standards. It also has a user-friendly platform with all the functionalities we need. The other platforms lacked basic functionality, included reporting, filtering, saving views, and general maintenance. We found many issues …
Chose Bazaarvoice
Both services are a good choice. I don't feel you can go wrong with either option. They would have both fulfilled our need and have very similar offerings. We ended up going with Bazaarvoice Conversations because of their initial cost for setup. The cost at the time for annual …
Chose Bazaarvoice
Bazaarvoice and Power Reviews are pretty much parity products. It is hard to understand which to choose because, from a tech standpoint, do about the same. We have stuck with BV because the account support has always been a great value-add.

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Chose Bazaarvoice
BV and PR prior to the marriage were close competitors, but BV was way more expensive. We are to the point that we should consider a new solution with risks or develop in-house.
PowerReviews
Chose PowerReviews
PowerReviews provided the best balance of price and value. bazaarvoice is popular in the industry but when we compared pricing and features we did not see any compelling reason to spend more. PowerReviews also had the easiest team to work with in the sales process, and that has …
Chose PowerReviews
PowerReviews had the best price-to-value ratio and the most accessible sales team. We wanted an easy-to-integrate, out-of-the-box review solution with less maintenance. When comparing pricing and features, we saw no
Chose PowerReviews
Very similar service. I did not see much differentiation between the two, so most important factors would be price and network of partners.
Chose PowerReviews
It was easier to read customer reviews on PowerReviews than on Bazaarvoice. I was not a part of the approving process for either programs. But in my opinion Bazaarvoice does a better job at filtering with their large variety of options that they can pull in a data sheet for you.
Chose PowerReviews
PowerReviews was the most robust solution at competitive pricing compared to its next closest competitor, Bazaarvoice.
Chose PowerReviews
PowerReviews had a much simpler custom integration process, which was very helpful, as we use a lot of proprietary systems. With Bazaarvoice, it was a complicated process to make any changes to the reviews section without a lot of technical involvement. Additionally, …
Chose PowerReviews
We are currently using BazaarVoice and while the platform is nice, the transition from PR has been very rough. Our account management seems spread too thin, and has outright acknowledged that they misplaced our notes. This has felt sloppy in comparison to PR.
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BazaarvoicePowerReviews
Small Businesses
Growave
Growave
Score 9.4 out of 10
Growave
Growave
Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
PowerReviews
PowerReviews
Score 8.1 out of 10
Bazaarvoice
Bazaarvoice
Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprises
PowerReviews
PowerReviews
Score 8.1 out of 10
Bazaarvoice
Bazaarvoice
Score 8.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
BazaarvoicePowerReviews
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(30 ratings)
8.0
(18 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(8 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BazaarvoicePowerReviews
Likelihood to Recommend
Bazaarvoice
Bazaarvoice is overall a quite strong ratings and reviews platform. If you have a national brand and want to integrate ratings and reviews into your website, Bazaarvoice should be in your consideration set. If you have a small business or a tighter budget, you may find Bazaarvoice too robust or expensive of a platform. If your brand gets a lot of organic product reviews, Bazaarvoice will be a helpful tool to increase brand credibility and search engine rankings. If you need help getting consumers to review your products, Bazaarvoice offers sampling programs. These programs can get very pricy depending on how many SKUs you are looking for reviews on. Bazaarvoice also has a proprietary platform where they collect consumer reviews for many brands, and once you have the Bazaarvoice ratings and reviews platform, you may be able to purchase reviews of your products and have them sync to your website without having to run a sampling program.
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PowerReviews
Any site with e-commerce should have reviews if possible, to give users the confidence necessary to click "add to cart." PowerReviews is easy to implement and has highly customizable display possibilities. I would recommend them to a mid to large enterprise looking for a scalable solution. Small businesses might be able to use a more stripped down tool.
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Pros
Bazaarvoice
  • Bazaarvoice Curations makes it incredibly easy to pull in content from multiple social media platforms for us to review.
  • Once the content is pulled into the Curations dashboard, our marketing team can very easily scroll through all the images and decide which ones we would like to feature on our site.
  • Curations also makes it very easy to tag any of our products in the images. We are able to do this manually, but Bazaarvoice also offers the option of letting their team tag the products they see in our images.
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PowerReviews
  • PowerReviews does a good job at flagging responses so there isn't anything inappropriate on our website.
  • PowerReviews provides a nice "snapshot" of reviews with an average rating, recommendation percentage, and the main pros and cons. Making it quick and easy for the customer to get overall information.
  • It is easy for customers to leave reviews. There is a good amount of open-ended questions as well as options that customers can choose from. The system is customizable to fit our needs.
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Cons
Bazaarvoice
  • Their login to their portal is awful. They are working on creating a single sign on experience but right now there are different usernames and passwords depending on what dashboard you are attempting to access.
  • They could probably spend more time optimizing the cost of their initialization script. The size of the JavaScript concerns me.
  • They could work on their deployment and preview tools. The time for our staged changes to show on the live site doesn't seem to be as quick as it should be and the preview tools don't take into account the site's CSS files for display.
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PowerReviews
  • If you lack basic coding knowledge (or don't have someone on your team to set this up) it may be a bit of a challenge to get started.
  • The backend has a bit of a learning curve to it, but can be worked through easily with persistence.
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Likelihood to Renew
Bazaarvoice
We are happy with the product and really just need to optimise our deployment of it on an ongoing basis. There is a lot of functionality prebuilt within Bazaarvoice which we want to have on our site, and to recreate this in our platform would take significant effort which is not practical for us.
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PowerReviews
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Usability
Bazaarvoice
I'm sure all processes and program can improve, however Bazaarvoice has reached a very easy usability level and hope this continues as the product improves over time.
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PowerReviews
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Bazaarvoice
The Bazaarvoice team is always available via call, email, or any other platform to provide help, guidance, or to push or ask for the task we set earlier. They are talkative and easy to share information and discuss issues if there are any. Thay may have more out of box solutions for easy implementation, but as a whole, and regarding support I am satisfied.
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PowerReviews
The team over at PowerReviews was always very helpful with us and our customer service team. They responded to any questions we had quickly.
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Implementation Rating
Bazaarvoice
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PowerReviews
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Alternatives Considered
Bazaarvoice
Even though both PowerReviews and Bazaar Voice are capable of fulfilling the aforementioned needs, PowerReviews also provides free trials. PowerReview's style options aren't always user-friendly, but the app is worth checking out if aesthetic concerns aren't top of mind. Bazaar Voice, on the other hand, sounds really professional and is remarkably simple to use.
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PowerReviews
My experience was with simple software like Google My Business, but for some Reviews & Ratings, it was good enough and supplied my demand. Once the Google world is one of the bests environments for initial and small businesses, I think using their tools someway we can sound better. If it's not the case PowerReviews will serve as well.
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Return on Investment
Bazaarvoice
  • This has had a positive impact on the way the company identifies user issues and complaints more easily/readily.
  • The negative impact is that departments seem to put a lot more expectations on our customers than this tool can provide (e.g., replies and follow-up), meaning that we aren't as able to provide additional information when requested.
  • It's uncertain whether responding to reviews adds a lot of value when all is said and done. Reviewers rarely adjust their ratings, even if/when we sufficiently address their concerns or resolve issues.
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PowerReviews
  • Custom components and PowerReviews API can display positive customer feedback from an element.
  • In return for honest reviews and answers to customer questions, we provide genuine and authentic feedback and let customers strain new products.
  • Syndicated reviews help customers see how products work in real life, which increases trust in our website/business and the products and boosts conversions.
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