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Khoros Service
Formerly Spredfast + Lithium

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What is Khoros Service?

Khoros Service offers omnichannel engagement on publicly available channels like social, digital, chat, and voice, as well as owned online communities like Khoros Communities. The solution offers 1-to-1 and 1-to-many engagement with customers and consumers, bringing together automation through bots…

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What is Khoros Service?

Khoros Service offers omnichannel engagement on publicly available channels like social, digital, chat, and voice, as well as owned online communities like Khoros Communities. The solution offers 1-to-1 and 1-to-many engagement with customers and consumers, bringing together automation through…

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Product Details

What is Khoros Service?

Khoros Service offers omnichannel engagement on publicly available channels like social, digital, chat, and voice, as well as owned online communities like Khoros Communities. The solution offers 1-to-1 and 1-to-many engagement with customers and consumers, bringing together automation through bots and human agents.


Customer inquiries and support-related conversations can be routed and prioritized based on a variety of parameters, and the robust agent desktop solution allows agents to efficiently manage conversations, both in real-time and asynchronously. The Agent Assist feature offers in-the-moment content and responses to help agents respond faster and with better results. The bot and automation builder tool allows conversations to be automated using AI and automated workflows. Users can build customized dashboards with built-in analytics, surfacing KPIs that are most meaningful to them.


Key benefits include:


Improves customer experiences while driving agent efficiency

Engages customers in their channel of choice–SMS, messaging, social, chat, in-app, email, voice–providing complete omnichannel coverage. Khoros simplifies agent workflow with a single desktop, unified customer profiles, and AI-powered support, while automated analysis of sentiment and customizable dashboards help optimize team performance and customer satisfaction.


Increases efficiencies through automation

Centralizes automated experiences across systems, applications, and channels in one platform to streamline customer interactions. By harnessing Natural Language Processing (NLP), it can reduce call volume with conversational bots across multiple channels, while IVR redirection and AI orchestration ensure efficient customer service.


Accelerates resolution to delight customers

Creates a hub for customers to connect with experts, learn, and get answers to their questions at any time, in any region. Users can deflect up to 80% of calls and customer inquiries, potentially saving brands millions in annual support costs.


Khoros Service Features

  • Supported: Seamlessly transitions from public to private messaging channels
  • Supported: Configurable proactive web chat rules for welcome messages and chat visibility
  • Supported: Machine learning to automatically filter for sentiment, actionability, and consumer intent
  • Supported: Keeps agents focused with a single, prioritized chat queue with AI-powered responses, knowledge, and step-by-step guides
  • Supported: Equips agents with holistic customer profiles, conversation history, & CRM data

Khoros Service Screenshots

Screenshot of a customer conversation in Agent view. Access past customer conversations and interactions in a single pane of glass.Screenshot of the analytic dashboard used to monitor key metrics across a service organization, such as available agents, time to first response, and agent handle time.Screenshot of Khoros Agent Assist. This feature provides agents with real-time recommendations, reducing the time needed to handle customer inquiries, deliver accurate resolutions, and train new agents.Screenshot of Work Queues under Rules and Routing. This allows admins to build rules around tagging to ensure timely and effective follow-up from agents.

Khoros Service Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesDetection and ingestion for engagements in over 100 languages, and native UI display for users in 31 languages.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Reviewers rate Social Engagement highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of Khoros Service are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

Khoros Service Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)10%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)90%
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Khoros has worked great for us for the last 2 years

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 25, 2017
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Service
3 years of experience
We currently use it to monitor our social media channels to offer support to our users. We are also looking at creating a community with Khoros as the monitoring platform.
  • The Khoros Support team is very helpful and quickly responds to all my needs.
  • The analytics for monitoring team members is very helpful.
  • The dashboards are great for getting a quick take on what is happening within your platforms.
  • It is easy to understand the flow of inbound posts and easy to track conversations you have had with users.
Cons
  • I would like more Instagram integrations. Mostly the ability to DM within the platform.
  • Additional APIs with Pinterest, Youtube, etc. but I haven't found any other platforms that can do this either.
Khoros is great when you want to be able to talk with your customers in real-time and see various threads and conversations easily.

Khoros-- Bottom line, it makes your team able to help more customers quickly and efficiently

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 21, 2015
PB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Service
3 years of experience
Khoros is our primary engagement platform for social customer interaction, team and individual metric reporting, and issue trending. At this time we are the only department using the tool, however we handle social customer care issues across the entire enterprise, including residential and business class customers. Khoros enables us to monitor what are not considered traditional care properties, such as regional Twitter handles, and ensure other departments can focus on their strategies, while the online care team handles any customer-impacting issues.
  • At-a-glance volume and engagement metrics help us manage our business in real time, and through tagging, can give us insight into issue drivers/locations.
  • Offers a seamless handoff between agents on open cases-- Khoros threads customer interactions, including public and private posts, into an easy to follow conversation, making it easy for the next agent to pick up where the previous left off.
  • Custom close and "snooze" types allow us, from a reporting standpoint, to focus on different types of resolution types (ex. in house vs. an escalation) as well as reasons why customers might abandon before resolution.
Cons
  • Khoros has been very responsive to our suggestions and needs. Many of the features we've asked for have been implemented via the new analytics tab. Even when we have the occasional hiccup with the system, Khoros's support team is quick to assist and provide a level of transparency that is greatly appreciated.
We've found Khoros to be effective in a high-volume environment where only a percentage of posts are actionable. Khoros has a robust routing and tagging system that allows you to, on the fly, if needed, create work queues specific to any spikes in traffic that may impact our agents' ability to focus on customer-impacting issues. Because this is highly customizable, this could be used to direct posts to particular departments, or individual users. It's hard to think of a socially-active industry that would not find this incredibly useful.

It is an excellent platform for Social Media Engagement

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 01, 2016
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Service
1 year of experience
Khoros is being used to increase the social media community. It is also being used for looking/searching for a particular section of users. It is being used to reach out to potential customers and serve existing customers in a better way to increase social media community users. The platform seems to be extremely robust and is capable of handling a large amount of content that comes in real-time.
  • It shows all the significant information as it has a facility for term search which automatically provides the weighted feedback for the selected phrases.
  • It helps in identifying the top/popular influencers along with their sector. Analysis for frequent words allows us to follow or assess the most popular topics/trends which have emerged in social media.
  • It has an awesome real-time dashboard that is capable of providing information on social media communities as graphs, quotes, sentiments, and mentions.
  • Since the product is seamlessly integrated with Salesforce, it lets you see if the cases actually originate from product fans or not.
Cons
  • Having customization is a little difficult as not much documentation is available for it.
  • The cost for the product increases as per what all features are included in the pricing plan.
  • I would like to see integration happening with tools such as ScreenShare as well.
The Social Dynamx feature in Khoros only provides the details that someone is accessing through a mobile device but it doesn’t specify whether it is a phone or a tablet.

Long time Khoros user, happy with the product

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 17, 2023
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Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Service
6 years of experience
Our team uses Khoros Care to manage and respond to incoming customer engagements through social media. We deal in customer recovery, and customer retention, as well as building brand love and fostering brand relationships through engagement on social media, using Khoros.
  • Streamlined functionality
  • Increase response time and abilities
  • Organizing engagements and data
Cons
  • Minor UX glitches
  • minimize click amount to perform functions
  • greater analytics tools and capabilities
Khoros is great for handling a large volume of engagements and streamlining response capabilities across all platforms, especially for social media teams.

Long time user of Khoros Care (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium).

Rating: 5 out of 10
July 18, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Khoros Service
9 years of experience
My organization uses Khoros to engage with our customers for both brand love and customer care through all of our social channels. It solves the problem of manually looking for mentions about the brand, and instead ingests them all into one location (with the exception of recently launched Threads and some others) for easier access to these conversations. Our company currently uses this for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. We also use it to engage on TikTok, but in a very limited capacity as the tool can only ingest comments on owned content.
  • Ability to build a "customer profile" with all of their social channels to track the relationship and conversations with that single user in one place.
Cons
  • Machine learning/AI capabilities to streamline monotonous steps where it could instead learn as you moderate and engage with users on the tool.
Customer profile capabilities are a great way to continue to monitor a single user across all platforms. The Manage view leaves a lot to be desired as the experience is very click-intensive and doesn't allow for bulk actions on items. This can make the process of working from a "zero queue" quite time-consuming. Supervisor view should either not be dropped for this very reason, or Manage should be able to perform bulk actions.
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