PowerReviews vs. Trustpilot

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
PowerReviews
Score 8.0 out of 10
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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
Trustpilot
Score 6.3 out of 10
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Trustpilot, headquartered in Copenhagen, offers their customer review platform to help businesses gather more online reviews and merge their online profile with feedback from their top customers and bring customer reviews to other high visibility platforms (e.g. Google).N/A
Pricing
PowerReviewsTrustpilot
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PowerReviewsTrustpilot
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
PowerReviewsTrustpilot
Considered Both Products
PowerReviews
Chose PowerReviews
We've stayed with PowerReviews over the years partially due to development priorities, but they offer a very good value for the product. Trustpilot has a good platform as well, but we haven't had a strong enough reason to change.
Chose PowerReviews
PowerReview has the questions and answers as well as syndication network which helps user-generated-content. Trustpilot just provides reviews (at least that's what we used).
Trustpilot

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Top Pros
Top Cons
Best Alternatives
PowerReviewsTrustpilot
Small Businesses
Growave
Growave
Score 9.4 out of 10
Growave
Growave
Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Bazaarvoice
Bazaarvoice
Score 8.2 out of 10
PowerReviews
PowerReviews
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Bazaarvoice
Bazaarvoice
Score 8.2 out of 10
PowerReviews
PowerReviews
Score 8.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
PowerReviewsTrustpilot
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(18 ratings)
2.6
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
PowerReviewsTrustpilot
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Trustpilot
TrustPilot cannot be trusted. They have consistently removed reviews since I started with them. At first I thought it was a one or two off situation. We recently launched an "ask for reviews" initiative and got several positive reviews and TrustPilot removed all of them, without recourse. This hurts us really badly and initiates drawn-out emails with our customers. TrustPilot is wrong about legitimate reviews and has no clean way to resolve that. They hurt our customer relationships more than helped.
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Pros
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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Trustpilot
  • Completing the review for the customer is a simple process which enables us to receive more feedback.
  • The Trustpilot account management team is a true partner working with each department to help with adoption across the company.
  • The Trustpilot development team is a trusted partner with our own internal development team, assisting them with implementation as well as integration with their API.
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Cons
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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Trustpilot
  • Removing inaccurate/faulty reviews. It's hard to talk to people about removing some inaccurate reviews.
  • Product reviews should be visible on search engines too.
  • Review requests email templates are not the best.
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Likelihood to Renew
PowerReviews
No answers on this topic
Trustpilot
It's expensive and customer service is not the best.
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Support Rating
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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Trustpilot
I've rarely had issues and needed support. During the implementation phase we relied on their support heavily and they were very knowledgeable, responsive and helpful. Any questions I've had have been answered promptly by my account manager. They also have a great knowledgebase for self-service support.
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Alternatives Considered
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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Trustpilot
Selected Trustpilot because of superior integration with the website and Google SERPS. Again, my only complaint would be Trustpilot was relatively more expensive than the other technologies.
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Return on Investment
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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Trustpilot
  • We've seen an increase in CTR and CVR while lowering our CPAs using our reviews in our display and social media ads.
  • Integrating the star rating with our Google Ads was automatic and we saw a lift in CTR when the stars were added.
  • We saw an uptick in traffic in from our Trustpilot review page to our website.
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