ManyChat vs. Respond.io

ManyChat is extremely easy to set up on your Facebook business page and Instagram account. Even if you just want to try it out, the free plan is great to get started. If you want to provide a freebie or 24/7 customer support, you can get it done with ManyChat.

Incentivized

The company's sales funnel support is well represented in Respond.io. I like how its workflow is configured with the initial support bot. It filters and provides a summary of the customer's needs, making the advisor's job easier. Calls are something the platform is sorely lacking. I understand they are under development and something we're eagerly awaiting at the company to be able to track more efficiently on a single platform. La atención del embudo de ventas de la compañía está bien representada en Respond.io me gusta como se configura su flujo de trabajo con el BOT de atención inicial, filtra y me entrega resumen de la necesidad del cliente haciendo más fácil el trabajo del asesor. Las llamadas son algo que le hace mucha falta a la plataforma, entiendo que se encuentra en desarrollo y es algo que esperamos con ansias en la compañía para poder hacer un seguimiento más eficiente en una sola plataforma. This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.

Incentivized

• ManyChat has a Facebook comment feature that when your audience comments on a particular post on your Facebook page then send them the information you have promised them. Once set up, is all on autopilot.
• We have the ManyChat plugin on our website to act as a customer service chat feature for those looking for help and engage with us.
• Have some great integrations on the pro account with payment gateways such as Stripe that allows you to charge your clients and receive money.

Incentivized

• Very easy onboarding process for a variety of different communication channels (easy to do yourself)
• Detailed onboard of new clients with a white glove approach enabling a quick setup
• Constantly innovating, updating, and listening to user feedback to provide a growing platform!

Incentivized

• Better one way communication once explicit consent from recipient is acquired.
• Ability to see in one place where any automations are live.
• Alerts or notifications when an automation fails.

Incentivized

• Improve the quality of calls via WhatsApp
• Multimedia files are frequently affected
• Sometimes contact channels do not allow sending or receiving messages using automated templates
• Mejorar la calidad en las llamadas vía Whatsapp
• Archivos multimedia frecuentemente se ven afectados
• En ocasiones los canales de contacto no permiten enviar o recibir mensajes mediante plantillas automatizadas

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.

Incentivized

Respond.io is highly intuitive and user-friendly, making it easy for team members across different departments to adopt and use effectively. The features various tools that allow handling and assigning customers rapidly. The small gap preventing a perfect score relates to limited internal collaboration features, relying solely on mentions and notes.

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.

Incentivized

For the initial purpose of getting ManyChat, none of the alternatives worked either. We ended up creating a mobile app to meet the need. For incoming support automation, using the native features within Facebook has been effective as well as using GoHighLevel and Continual.ly. ManyChat was considerably more effective, but with the price increase and the non-necessity of carrying another subscription for incoming message support, it wasn't a logical choice to keep the service.

Incentivized

They offer similar services; the call service, at least, is the one that has the connection, and in some cases we replace one of them with Respond.io and use the other on hand to complement the functions we have.

• We have a very positive ROI for our business. We have been generating about 10 leads a month. We are currently closing on 10% of those, so 1 new client a month. We are working on ways to improve that conversion percentage.
• We generate around 50 leads a month for a client of ours. Their conversion is about 25% Their average ticket is 1,500.00 which puts them to about 15-20 thousand a month.

Incentivized

• Thanks to Respond.io, the company has seen a 30% increase in sales, considering only new customers, and the flow of sales messages has increased by 60%.
• Support cycles shortened by up to 50%
• Automation of up to 30% in technical support tasks
• Gracias a Respond.io la compañía a tenido incremento de ventas en un 30% considerando solo clientes nuevos , además el flujo de mensajes de ventas aumento en un 60%
• Ciclos de soporte acortados hasta en un 50%
• Automatización hasta en un 30% en tareas de soporte técnico