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What is Pendo.io?
Pendo.io is a product engagement platform with features for in-app analytics, surveys and feedback, and guidance.
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- No setup fee
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What is Pendo.io?
Pendo is a product experience platform that helps software product teams deliver products users love. With Pendo, product teams can answer questions like which features are customers using? Which features are they ignoring? Which ones are driving delight and which are causing pain and confusion? From these same insights, users can set up in-app messages, guides and walkthroughs without any coding to help users get the most value from products. By identifying the specific features and workflows that cause users pleasure and pain, the Pendo platform can be used to guide users through the rough spots and drive them to adopt the features that create raving fans.
Pendo.io Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Pendo.io is a product engagement platform with features for in-app analytics, surveys and feedback, and guidance.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of Pendo.io are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Easy to use interface: Users have consistently praised Pendo.io for its easy-to-use and intuitive interface, with many reviewers stating that it allows them to navigate the platform efficiently and complete tasks quickly.
Great customer support: Numerous users have commended Pendo.io's customer support team, describing them as phenomenal, responsive, helpful, and understanding. The positive experiences shared by these users highlight the high quality of support provided by the team.
Valuable analytics capabilities: Many reviewers appreciate the analytics features offered by Pendo.io, noting their simplicity and ease of understanding compared to other tools like Google Analytics. These capabilities allow users to track usage by account and individual user, helping them gain valuable insights into customer behavior.
Confusing User Interface: Many users have expressed frustration with the software's confusing user interface, finding it challenging to navigate and perform tasks efficiently. The lack of intuitive design elements has resulted in a steep learning curve for new users.
Difficulty in Dashboard Management: There is a notable number of complaints regarding the difficulty of arranging dashboards and managing segments within the software. Users have mentioned that the process can be cumbersome and time-consuming, impacting their ability to organize and analyze data effectively.
Lack of Customization Options: Users feel restricted by the limited customization options available in the software. They desire more control over the interface, including the ability to personalize layouts, colors, and other visual elements according to their preferences. The absence of robust customization features has hindered users' ability to tailor the software to meet their specific needs and branding requirements.
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Pendo.io has been helping us with our product management process and user experience implementation. It helps us to deliver the best possible experience for our users, and also helps the userbase engage and be proactive in the product journey. So it is involved in our day-to-day feature implementations and UX designing.
- Helps to create amazing user experience for happier and more productive users.
- Pendo’s retroactive analytics helps us to track user behaviour in the application.
- The Product analytics and insights provided by Pendo help us to maximize interactions followed by leads.
- It needs to add some small shortcuts like selecting a particular URL directly rather than typing it again.
- The Mobile app tries to fit in a lot of data so it becomes a bit complicated to see through that on Mobile.
- Needs more filters in Dashboard.
- The onboarding and guide through the product for first-time users needs to be updated as some stuff in those aren't updated still.
July 20, 2022
Fantastic no-code customer advocacy hub
We mainly use Pendo.io when releasing new features to our customers - Pendo enables us to provide guidance, onboarding walkthroughs and feedback captures. Additionally, we use it to enhance our UX by adding guidance anchors via tooltips throughout the UI.
- Onboarding walkthroughs
- Customer feedback forms
- Information tooltips
- Reporting - there is a lack of customization and granularity that addresses all use cases
- Metrics - it is lacking here if wanting to use as an analytics tool
July 19, 2022
Extremely helpful for our company in so many ways!
We use Pendo in many different ways. We mostly use it to promote new features and track usage for new features and existing features within our software. It's extremely helpful. People nowadays do not read all of their emails. Pendo solves that. It truly helps us connect with our customers in such a profound way.
- Track usage across our platform (new and existing features) - where each customer clicks, how long they stay at certain areas within the software, etc.
- To promote new features.
- To train customers on how to use new features.
- To survey our customers within the software.
- Some of the guide settings are sometimes not as easy to use as we would like them to be.
- Templating is pretty limited.
- I wish it was a more compatible for mobile tools.
July 19, 2022
Pendo
We have upwards of nine enterprises' SaaS products. We use Pendo to track and understand user engagement and activity. We also use the Pendo guides to educate and survey customers using segmentation, so the information is relevant. Before implementing Pendo, we had very limited visibility into how engaged our customers were. Now we have deep insight and can provide targeted education materials with just a few clicks.
- Customer segments.
- Educational guides.
- User activity.
- User workflows.
- General site traffic and length on site.
- Configuration and tagging can require advanced training.
- Help with best practices for naming features - things can get lost if you don't have a naming system/convention.
- Building dashboards can be confusing.
July 19, 2022
Pendo.io, the easy choice
We use it to lead our new users through our dashboard and provide insights, recommendations, and the like. On the analysis side, we use the data from Pendo.io to better understand how our customers are using our product and where they spend the bulk of the time, and using that information we strive to improve our product. It also provides us better indicators of who are the regular users, and who are just overseers that access it for top-level data.
- Instructions
- Leading the customer
- Usage analytics
- Guides and next steps
- Recommendations based on data
- Best practices
July 19, 2022
A must to get to know your customers
We purchased Pendo.io so we could have insight into our customer's usage of our products, get to know them better, what features they use, what they don't use, how often, etc. We also use other aspects of Pendo such as in-app messaging, guides... In-app messaging really helps give our customers updates about our products or even maintenance alerts. Guides are new to us and already helped us with our new e-commerce products, telling customers how to navigate our products has never been easier.
- Usage tracking
- In-app messaging
- Guides
- reports (some easy template reports would be super handing)
- more tips and tricks in Pendo
Pendo is used to solve several different problems. 1. Product usage metrics. Who is using what features, and how often are they using them. 2. In-app messaging. In-app notification for newly released features, planned downtime, reminders, etc. 3. Automated onboarding. We have several onboarding flows that have greatly reduced the amount of live onboarding that our team delivers. 4. In-app help. We've tagged several confusing features and provided additional guidance to users. 5. We've also used Pendo to generate a refer a friend link and automatically copy it to the user's clipboard.
- Great at capturing product usage metrics and allowing the user to tag features/functions at a very detailed (specific) level.
- Allowing users to extend the capabilities of Pendo by inserting HTML/CSS/Javascript.
- Automated onboarding and product walkthroughs/tours.
- Excellent customer support and a solid community when you need help.
- I find the reporting and analytics to be a little light. They could improve custom reporting capabilities.
- Would like to see the capabilities of the Pendo tagging tool built into the platform. (don't launch a separate product). I find the tagging tool does a much better job at selecting the components to be tagged than the platform does.
- Sometimes takes a while to refresh counts when adding a new tag.
As we made a migration from a Java-based administration console to a web-based one, we needed a way to track how our users would interact with the site so that we could instill continuous improvement on the site. We evaluated many companies but chose Pendo.io in the end to serve our needs.
- User tracking
- Dashboards
- Ease of implementation
- Better UI for setup
- More functionality to track different types of user activity
- More customization on what to track
June 02, 2021
Pendo, it solves our usecase
It is used primarily within the Customer Success teams and Sales teams, but our product folks do have access to it as well. It has been used to measure our clients' usage of our tool so it is integrated with the events from our dashboard and displayed within Pendo. We are able to pull usage stats and download them to send to clients so we can best measure that the tool is being utilized.
- Easy to use platform.
- The outputs are simple and easy to figure out
- Could be more detailed in terms of how their sections are defined.
- It seems to measure only "events" and time in the platform, but I'm not sure if those are defined by us or Pendo.
November 28, 2019
Second company I've used Pendo with, and likely won't be the last.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Pendo.io for messaging, onboarding as well as highlighting new features. We use NPS surveys to get continuous feedback from our users. We also use the analytics to keep an eye on how each of our accounts is using our software as well as specific feature usage. The cohort analysis is a new feature that we've been using a lot as we try to improve our onboarding experience with an eye on maintaining engagement over time.
- Analytics are way easier to understand than Google Analytics, which we also use.
- Love being able to add messages on the fly without going through a lengthy dev process.
- New, useful, features are constantly being added.
- Can't do some of the message targeting I've tried - hitting up people who haven't visited in a while (when they finally come in) or targeting based on the number of visits.
- Wish it were easier to figure out where the "aha!" moments are in our product - something I'm sure we can use Pendo.io to do, but it requires a whole lot of digging vs being something out of the box.
- Support! Has not scaled well, and is currently terrible [edit Nov. 2019]
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Pendo.io to deliver Product Release announcements, drive traffic to our KB for self-help resources, and are looking to dive further into the analytical side to understand where our users are spending the majority of their time. This will allow for more targeted information being displayed, as well as continual relationship building by proactively reaching out to those users to see if they need additional guidance, or if we have some areas of our product or knowledge that could be better carved out or explained.
- High-quality analytics.
- Pointed delivery that meets the user's needs of information, without destroying the Customer Experience.
- Dedication to customer success. Anytime I have gone to the Pendo.io team for clarity beyond what shows in their app and docs, they are quick and informative, while updating what they have publicly available.
- Usability-driven - Pendo.io realizes not everyone uses the same platforms, and makes the best possible availability of integrations and ability to custom-code an integration through their robust API.
- As they are continuing to grow, and working to get users to the new Visual Design Studio, I think the biggest overhaul is to Guides specific to the What's New portion, and making this available sooner than later in the new Visual Design Studio will make transitioning easy, and make it stickier in orgs.
- Improved workflow in the designers, whether Classic Designer or Visual Design Studio, I don't always want to edit the default components of the item I am creating, but I have to click Apply to escape it.
- A little more clarity around use cases - when I took on my role currently, I was tasked with taking over Pendo.io management. Having used it in my previous role was helpful, but I still had plenty of questions from a backend administration and implementation stance, but I was more directed to hobble along. I've made great strides, and the Pendo.io Slack channels and user community are quite helpful.
May 16, 2019
Pendo changed the way we do product
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Pendo.io in our Product team for tracking usage data, tracking NPS, creating in-app engagement, and managing in-app education. We are able to use the data from Pendo.io to inform product decisions and improve customer experience. We are able to provide contextual answers to common questions to decrease our support volume.
- Pendo.io support is responsive and informed.
- Pendo.io segmentation is top notch. You can break down user groups into random groups, groups based off of product usage, groups based off of permissions, or a combination thereof.
- Pendo.io's targeting of elements is very simple, and their recent update has made it even more streamlined.
- I would love it if Pendo.io would add a dedicated space where you can work on segments. Having to access them through drop-downs in random places throughout the app isn't the best.
- I'd love for them to expand their integrations with other programs that support product managers.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pendo.io is being used currently by our entire company. Account Management and Client Success use it for NPS, and to create reports and systems to indicate leading indicators of churn. They also use Pendo to facilitate new customer onboarding.
We have found that the Product and Dev departments also use Pendo.io to understand how the product as a whole is being used and where we find bottlenecks that can improve customer/user experience. It has completely changed how we operate and make data-driven decisions.
We have found that the Product and Dev departments also use Pendo.io to understand how the product as a whole is being used and where we find bottlenecks that can improve customer/user experience. It has completely changed how we operate and make data-driven decisions.
- Analytics for software usage.
- Indicators of churn.
- Guides and tutorials that are easy to set up.
- Incredible segmentation abilities that allow for customized messaging.
- Pathway and funnel generation takes longer to load than we'd like.
- It's a little difficult to dig into specific data/feature usage per visitor/account.
- Currently, you can set the default visitor table to be viewed in Pendo.io, you have to customize the columns, which we have to do every individual time.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pendo.io is utilized by our company to track our customer usage of our own Software. While Pendo.io is primarily utilized by the Client Success team, the entire company has access to the data and relies on it for information on usage. Depending on the department, we use the Usage information to guide our product decisions, help increase adoption for customers, examine trends for like-minded clients, and identify potential upsell opportunities.
- Identifies Trends in Usage across different customers. This allows us to help make valuable product decisions when adding new features.
- Provides insight into potential upsells for our customers. By giving us in-depth breakdowns of usage, we can identify opportunities to sell additional products based on that usage.
- Deploys an NPS Survey straight through our App, and then tracks the results in Pendo.io. We deploy our own NPS survey within our software and the results feed directly into Pendo. Beyond giving us an accurate look at the success of our platform and customers, Pendo provides a source to store this info for analysis at the Company and Client level.
- The Reporting structure could be simplified. While Pendo.io does have Reporting features, the building of a report can be a little cumbersome and confusing to a first time user. By simplifying or restructuring the reporting process to something more similar to typical CRM reporting structures (say Salesforce, for example), it would make the end user experience much better, and provide the ability to quickly build and access your own reports.
- Search Functionality Improvements: The search bar can be a handy tool to quickly access different pieces of info, however, it seems pretty basic in its build-out and requires semi-specific searches to find what you want. Adding a more flexible search bar that looks across multiple pieces of the platform would really help with the user experience.
- Online Resources/Self Help Resources: This may already be available, and if it is, I apologize! However, I have not seen any of those resources yet (like a quick FAQ or step by step to build a report). It would be nice to have this knowledge-base, and if it does exist, then have it more noticeable/marketable to the end user for access.
April 08, 2019
A Well Deserved 5 Stars!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pendo.io has been an absolutely amazing application for our company. We have been able to use this for a catch-all of activities that we have been wanting to execute but didn't know how to. In-app tours for first-time users of our platform, support, notifications and product feedback, user analytics, NPS, product validation and the list goes on. Pendo.io has really served as a great asset in understanding and communicating with our users directly within our application. Pendo.io is predominantly used by our Customer success team but also by our product team and marketing teams. Besides Customer Success and Product teams, the reporting from Pendo.io has proven to be of value to our marketing and finance teams as well.
- In-app messaging (guided tours, alerts, notices, etc)
- Feature usage and user activity within applications
- App usage reporting
- Integration with Zendesk guides
- Simplifying the presentation of paths users take within the application
- Organization of guides (suggest adding folder or folder like structuring to make it easier to manage large numbers of guides)
April 05, 2019
Powerful Cross-Functional Solution For Usage Insights
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
At Affinio, Pendo.io is being leveraged across departments, spanning Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Product.
My team (sales) uses it to glean insights into user behavior and adoption -- specifically during trials. My CS team uses it to monitor and spur customer adoption.
Before Pendo, my team was completely in the dark on usage data for prospects on trial. That information needed to be pulled and analyzed by our operations team, resulting in bottleneck delays. Now, my team is empowered, data-driven, and able to meet unmet needs -- this increases both win rates and deal velocity, as my team can help guide users to 'ah-ha' moments much more quickly and assuredly.
My team (sales) uses it to glean insights into user behavior and adoption -- specifically during trials. My CS team uses it to monitor and spur customer adoption.
Before Pendo, my team was completely in the dark on usage data for prospects on trial. That information needed to be pulled and analyzed by our operations team, resulting in bottleneck delays. Now, my team is empowered, data-driven, and able to meet unmet needs -- this increases both win rates and deal velocity, as my team can help guide users to 'ah-ha' moments much more quickly and assuredly.
- Ease-of-use: Pendo's interface is intuitive and incredibly easy to use once it's set up.
- Seamless sync up with Salesforce/CRM.
- Flexibility and granularity -- myriad ways to build dashboards, analytics, etc.
- Share-ability: ability to create, share, and replicate/duplicate dashboards. This would allow my team to standardize their dashboard views.
March 18, 2019
Love the tool!
Fantastic software that assists our team with key data to track customer interaction and movement across the platform. On the client success side, it helps us identify how we can better help our customers.
- Helps us track the usage of our platform.
- Lets us know when clients are on our site so we can provide enough support members at those key hours.
- Shows where the customers are on the platform.
- Email alerts for specified parameters.
March 12, 2019
Incredible for in-app NPS
We utilize Pendo.io to accomplish in-app NPS and track product usage. It's been incredibly enlightening to see what users get frustrated with, and what they like, in order to compile trends and a plan of attack into our user-base.
- Detailed insights into product usage.
- Seeing which customers are frustrated.
- Onboarding walkthroughs.
- More robust reporting.
- Additional marketing functionality.
- Chat support.
February 28, 2019
A solid platform and a great addition
Namely has been using Pendo.io for a few years to alert clients of any and all new product launches. We just recently started using the platform to send payment reminders.
- It's simple and to the point.
- I like the fact that you actually have to click on the pop-up to get to the next page.
- The analytics gleaned from the site are stellar!
- Hopefully, in the future, there will be more templates available for a wider variety of users (i.e. across different departments).
February 15, 2019
Pendo is an invaluable product for the product organization
Pendo is currently used by several teams at Solutionreach, Product, Product Marketing, User Experience and Research, Customer Knowledge Base, and Customer Success. While each department has several different use cases for Pendo, we're actively working towards improving our customer experience and their successes while using Solutionreach. Pendo allows these benefits through better on-boarding, better access to a knowledge base, and intuitive walk-throughs to guide them through tricky pieces of the platform. As well as data from all aspects of the product and using that data to inform product decisions.
- Pendo has a very intuitive and in-depth UI with good digestible data.
- Pendo NPS and the data we can gather from the NPS responses, has been invaluable in helping with the customer/user experience.
- Pendo guide/walkthrough customization allows the team to get what we need out of it, across all teams.
- Pendo guides/walkthroughs could be more customizable and easier to customize.
- Pendo clickthrough tracking on guides could be added upon for more data points.
- Pendo could have a better UI around cohort/segment creation and management.
February 15, 2019
Deep visibility into customer behavior
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Customer Support and Product Management use Pendo.io. The company NPS survey is delivered using Pendo.io. We are able to get deep visibility into how our customers actually use our platform. We are able to locate under-utilized features and pages.
The NPS tool is simple to implement and has returned 25%+/- adoption since it was implemented. We also receive outstanding insight from our customers as they respond to the in-app query.
The NPS tool is simple to implement and has returned 25%+/- adoption since it was implemented. We also receive outstanding insight from our customers as they respond to the in-app query.
- NPS with a high adoption rate.
- Feature and page utilization.
- Seemingly infinite ability to segment user data.
- Reporting.
- Creation of meaningful guides takes some effort...simple guides are self-explanatory but significant effort is required to deliver deeper guides.
January 28, 2019
Pendo.io is a wonderful product to dePend on.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pendo.io is being used by our business to understand how our customers are using our product and how we can better design our software for the betterment of our customer experience. Pendo.io addresses the need to understand how our customers are interacting with our software and what areas may need improvement based on usage statistics.
- Provides a clean interface with which to interact. This ensures all data is able to be found quickly and efficiently.
- Provides accurate and up to date metrics on the data we are looking for.
- Allows us to create guides and surveys to keep us closer with our customers and ensure we are offering the best product we can.
- The current Dashboard is easy to use but is limited on the customization ability. I'd like to see the ability to customize your dashboard and move features where you want them instead of adding them and having them be set/stuck for you.
January 21, 2019
Great usage analytics tool for Product Managers
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Pendo.io to track usage of and engagement with our SaaS application. We've tagged pages and features and identified workflows in order to see if usage on the ground matches our expectations of our user experience and to track feature adoption across clients and client segments. We also use Pendo.io to message our users about new features, upcoming opportunities, and any service outages.
- Pendo.io has a very intuitive and in-depth UI that allows me to digest a lot of data easily and within a single page.
- Pendo.io is easy to install and manage.
- Pendo.io has enough customization to allow me to get what I need out of it, but isn't so customizable that it becomes a pain to manage.
- Pendo.io makes it easy to create easy notifications for users.
- Pendo's team produces great Product content.
- Added customizability to its usage metric (more than just logins).
- Broader library of announcement templates.
January 16, 2019
Quick and easy messaging and analytics
Pendo is used across our organization and is essential to our user adoption. We use guides to help new users get acclimated and to inform current users about new features and releases. Pendo is also the backbone of our recently stood-up NPS and other user surveys, providing an easy way to integrate the surveys directly into the platform and then push that data out of Pendo and into our other systems. Overall, what should have been a complicated NPS implementation was made super easy by Pendo.
- Pendo makes it easy to quickly create in-app guides and messaging, without a great deal of technical knowledge necessary
- When we decided to start tracking NPS, Pendo was our obvious choice and made the whole process quite simple
- The segmentation options make it trivial to target very specific subsets of users, for anything from usage tracking to survey responses
- A lot of the UI still feels like it could be polished -- there's no separate menu to edit/create a segment without first opening a report for example. Most of it is very intuitive but decisions such as the above can be frustrating.
- There are certain fields that can't be used in reports but are available in other parts of the app. For instance, a visitor report can't use the date of response for an NPS survey as a field, so it can't be pushed externally. However, this information is plainly available in the NPS panel. Making additional fields available for use in reports would be a major step forward.
- There still seems to be hiccups with the Salesforce Visitor and Account integrations. Fields don't sync sometimes, or need to be selected multiple times before the field actually displays under the account or visitor.
December 28, 2018
Pendo Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Pendo.io across our company to help understand our users better, communicate important messages, and troubleshoot issues that are reported to support. Information from Pendo.io is also used in our customer health score
- Targeting messages and experiences to a particular user set, such as an embedded video
- Providing historical information on users and accounts
- Pulling different pieces of information together for rich reporting
- Be able to target users that haven't seen a guide in a set amount of time
- Differentiate the use of visitors across multiple accounts