PowerReviews vs. SmileBack

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.

Incentivized

Overall product works well but is no longer price competitive compared to others. It also is not as feature rich as its competitors any more. It was one of the first to market which was great but has not done much improvements since. Would love to see ability to measure project CSAT and other integrations.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Charts and graphs that make it easy for us to share our results internally and also externally when meeting with clients and potential clients.
• SmileBack provides a fun set of metrics that our techs can be proud of -- by measuring customer satisfaction and seeing these surveys (especially those with comments) - it really provides them with satisfaction of a job well done!
• SmileBack makes it easy to search and filter by the client or by tech (agent) or date range.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Honestly, I can't find any room for improvement with SmileBack at this time. For what it is designed to do, it is simple, fast and convenient. Just what we were looking for so our customers can drop us a note and get back to making great beer!

Its a simple product to use but could use enhancements in the reporting sections by adding the same filters that are available on other screens.

Incentivized

The team over at PowerReviews was always very helpful with us and our customer service team. They responded to any questions we had quickly.

Incentivized

Fantastic support--very honest and direct assistance anytime you need it. My only critique would be for them to "eat more of their own dog food." While I'm sure they've reached out in the past, I can't say that I specifically recall many times that they went out of their way to seek my input as their customer. That said, we rarely needed to contact them as the product works great on its own!

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

SmileBack is the simplest and most effective software for customer reviews. Since it is simple, it is more likely that the customer will leave a review. We have a high number of reviews left by customers because it is fast and easy for them to do so. We value our client's responses and like to keep an eye on how we are doing with customer service.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• We send our clients executive summaries monthly - being able to show not just their KPIs but also the health of surveys to the main contact the reason they hired us and the CSAT scores/comments, it is nearly instant ROI each and every single month. Well worth it.