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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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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 Features
- Supported: Insights
- Supported: Guidance
- Supported: Sentiment
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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November 30, 2022
How I Pendo
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pendo helps my team make data informed decisions about how to drive our product roadmap. It also helps us monitor how users are getting value out of our platform. In addition to usage metrics, we leverage the Guides to support better user onboarding experiences and self-guided learning.
- Delivers insightful usage analytics
- Supports us in our A/B Testing efforts
- Facilitates a better user onboarding experience
- Better road-mapping capabilities
- Easier use of the API
August 02, 2022
Easy-to-use tool for your on-platform messaging
We use Pendo as our on-platform messaging tool to drive user adoption. Additionally, we use Pendo to educate users on our new product & feature releases. We trigger messaging based on user behaviour and events, which allows us to target our messaging to the right audience segments at the right place and time.
- Easy design tool that allows you to craft messaging without technical knowledge
- Easily trigger messaging based on specific user events
- Great functionality to receive feedback & NPS scores from users
- The installment process was quite lengthy with a bit of back and forth
- The tool is quite pricey to adopt for a start up
- We are not using Pendo for mobile because it's not fully compatible with Flutter
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 20, 2022
Pendo helps companies understand and educate users
I currently use Pendo in a variety of ways including user guides of our product, new user onboarding checklists, tooltips and product announcements, we use the Pendo Resource Center as well to deliver product announcements and training materials to our users. We also have a lot of analytics and Feature and Page tracking set up with Pendo and we've configured numerous dashboards to help our UX team as well as stakeholders to understand user behavior, new feature success, trends, etc.
- User Behavior Analytics
- User Guides
- In-app announcements and Resource Center
- They release a lot of features frequently which is great but some can be buggy at first.
July 20, 2022
Great for understanding your product usage
We are not reliant on email anymore which can easily be ignored or missed. Increased customer engagement and education using targeted guides and segments. Not being in the dark with product analytics or requiring our development team to source this information for us. We can now easily identify our most used features and user journeys.
- Incredibly easy to use and intuitive features.
- Great CS support and training sessions.
- The extensive set of reporting widgets and customizable dashboards.
- Would be helpful if you could do batch functions, specifically for exclude lists.
- Having a more classic output for heat maps would be helpful for sharing.
- Would also be useful for external 'read only' dashboard links as we use them for weekly/monthly department reporting.
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.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
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.
We are using [Pendo.io] to track user behavior and other analytics on our site. We also use [Pendo.io] guides and resource center as part of our onboarding process.
- Track user's click paths
- Track user's page views
- Provide users with release notes
- Target segmented groups with messaging
- Walk through, step by step guides could be more fluid
- No screen recording
June 10, 2021
Self-guided onboarding and measure feature adoption
Pendo.io is a must-have for SaaS companies looking to automate their customer onboarding experience. This tool is best placed into the hands of product teams, trusted implementation team members, or product operations managers. By implementing a Pendo.io resource center of self-guided training tutorials, we've been able to offload the need to schedule portal training demos with our customers. This allows customers to reduce friction on demand and successfully reduces one hour of human interaction per customer during onboarding, with 10 hours per agent each week.
Pendo.io is also helpful for us driving feature adoption for new offerings. Every time we push new capabilities to our application, we publish both awareness Pendo.io guides to notify customers that new features are available, and educational Pendo.io guides to instruct the user how to derive value out of our new software. We love not only using the software but also working with the company as a whole.
Pendo.io is also helpful for us driving feature adoption for new offerings. Every time we push new capabilities to our application, we publish both awareness Pendo.io guides to notify customers that new features are available, and educational Pendo.io guides to instruct the user how to derive value out of our new software. We love not only using the software but also working with the company as a whole.
- Self-guided training tutorials
- Product thought leadership
- Product usage data
- Support tickets tend to take longer than we'd like
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.
March 13, 2020
Very helpful tool for understanding product usage!
We use Pendo.io to analyze what features of our software are being used the most and how much they are being used by our customers. It allows us to see usage patterns and find areas we can improve our platform/teach users how to navigate it more effectively.
- Site loads very quickly with results.
- Provides detailed usage stats.
- Clear, colorful graphs.
- UI feels clunky and it could be easier to build reports and dashboards.
January 23, 2020
Pendo.io is great!
Pendo.io is used primarily for product analytics and for onboarding purposes. It is mainly utilized by the product and customer success organizations to see what features are being used on an account by account basis and digging into individual user analysis. It helps us know how useful the product features we have implemented are and allows us to understand how to do better.
- All in One product (Analytics, dashboards, guides)
- Historical tagging of features
- API to other platforms (ie Customer Success Software)
- Guides scheduling
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]
Pendo has created an awareness for our internal groups that is vital to our Customer Success teams. We are now able to see where our customers are spending their time. Our Product teams can identify and prioritize new feature development based on user experience and adoption. Overall Pendo analytics and in-app training guides are key to our company's success.
- Surveys
- Guides
- Reporting
- The new designer and navigation could be smoother.
June 20, 2019
Weave improves, thanks to Pendo.io
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Pendo.io is used by our organization to collect and track usage information for our products. Customer engagement uses this information to help guide new and existing users, as well as to reach out to customers that appear to be under-utilizing the product. Our Helpdesk uses Pendo.io data to help answer customer questions. Our Product team uses Pendo.io data to guide design and development decisions. We can easily see what areas of the product are heavily used, and those areas that are under-utilized. We can survey our users in-app about their behavior.
We also use Pendo's in-app guides and messaging to communicate with our users. In-app guides and tutorials help users without forcing them to go search for a resource on another page. The built-in NPS polling has been invaluable for us as well.
We also use Pendo's in-app guides and messaging to communicate with our users. In-app guides and tutorials help users without forcing them to go search for a resource on another page. The built-in NPS polling has been invaluable for us as well.
- Pendo.io is very user-friendly, designed for users (like me) without a technology background, to easily set up and navigate the tool.
- In-app guides and walk thru's are very easy to set up and customize.
- Customized Dashboards are excellent for our different teams, they can focus on exactly what they need, and adjust their dashboard widgets easily as needed.
- NPS tool basically runs itself.
- Pendo.io staff is always helpful and available to answer questions. They are always willing listeners when we have suggestions or a unique problem to solve.
- Pendo.io Slack channel is very helpful! lots of sharing of best practices between all kinds of Pendo.io users.
- New guide design tool isn't yet as robust as the classic designer.
- Pendo.io does not track text/content entered into cells by users, this could be helpful for us.
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)
March 28, 2019
Pendo.io makes product analytics easy
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In the 4 months since implementing, we've made heavy use of Pendo in our Product Management and UX groups to aid in finding hotspots, evaluate the success of features, and seek out areas of improvement or possible retirement. We've begun experimenting with guides and tooltips to prompt usage of more lightly used features and to introduce new functionality to our users.
We've utilized the Salesforce connector to pull data in at the account level to aid in segmentation when evaluating feature usage and rendering guides. Additionally, we've begun pushing account level activity and feature usage reports out to Salesforce that gets used within our Gainsight customer engagement scores.
We've utilized the Salesforce connector to pull data in at the account level to aid in segmentation when evaluating feature usage and rendering guides. Additionally, we've begun pushing account level activity and feature usage reports out to Salesforce that gets used within our Gainsight customer engagement scores.
- The ability to tag features is amazing. I've used other behavior analytics tools that required development time for each additional feature (or update) and Pendo's tagging functionality is 1000x easier and quicker.
- Guide creation! Again, we've used tools like joyride or similar to introduce features but they require programming time, time to change, and time to remove.
- Path analysis is incredible - seeing what people are doing is great, but then seeing what they do before and after they've done the desired feature is really, really useful to get a bigger picture of "why".
- The new feature tagging tool/designer doesn't seem to always work very well. I often drop back to the original.
- Observing behavior that is not performed via a click (drag & drop, form submission, etc) is impossible.
- The dashboards could be made more useful - only being able to add (mostly) pre-defined widgets is limiting. I wish I could define several features to watch on a dashboard...I would love to create one dashboard per application or product we sell with the most crucial features & user info on each.
We use it across the entire organization to get an understanding of how our users experience our platform and to help guide them to specific areas we want them to see, use and understand. It has solved a huge problem of needing to use up valuable resources to code in guides and tooltips - instead, we can actually understand where our users need help and then implement guides or walkthroughs to help them.
- Guides are so easy to use and put in place. As someone who is not traditionally from a tech background, it is easy to implement without the need of technical resources and you can have a new guide live in minutes to address a problem you might have.
- Easy to understand insights: we used to use another provider and felt the insights we were getting were convoluted and a little hard to understand. Pendo.io is far more visual and it's easy to see what your users are doing and how they move through our app.
- Sometimes we do have some issues with guides behaving as they should, despite everything looking right in terms of the implementation.
- More system-generated recommendations of changes you can make to your app/site would always be welcome - with Pendo.io already seeing the data, it would then be great to see which pages need tooltips, guides or walkthroughs.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We've been using Pendo to gather data about usage of our multiple services as well as creating personalised guides for our Users. It's been great so far and we've been able to build and track our KPIs around Pendo data, which is capable to not only present data, but allows us to go into detail information about users and create reports and graphs with ease. Guides allowed us to drive adoption and communicate new features to our users as well as get their feedback on the products we work on. I'd definitely recommend Pendo, its biggest advantages are ease of use and outstanding suppport.
- Ease of Use - Interface is easily understandable and laid out clearly.
- Support - Pendo provides us with great Customer Experience through their Support Team as well as Account Manager.
- Flexibility - We are able to adjust Guides and Reports in many ways.
- Well Defined Reports - Default graph and raports are very usefull and are good enough to gather most important information on our users.
- Customisation of Guides might be hard to understand for all of the users as it requires CSS/HTML knowledge.
- Would be great to have more in depth (advanced) options for Guides start method.
- More Enhancement Request than a downside - I'd like to be able to save snapshots from specific time in the tool - I.E Data of Q42018. I know I can click few times and get it each time, but I'd like to have some saved ones always ready.
February 20, 2019
Pendo.io: Analytics for Anyone
Pendo is being used for one of our newer products (where it was easier to work into the code), but not for our flagship product. It's used for analytics, occasional announcements, and invitations to participate in our NPS survey. We could/should be using it more.
- I love that you can target specific tags and elements for analytics. It's pretty easy even if you don't understand HTML, and super easy if you do.
- It's easy to set up specific filters and audience groups to slice and dice the data.
- Pendo is very flexible... and sometimes that causes problems. For example, you can customize your guides and invitations with your own HTML, CSS, and JS, but the effects of doing this are not always obvious and sometimes break the experience without you being able to tell. I've had a support person even tell me that they recommend people NOT change the HTML or CSS for this reason... in which case the feature shouldn't be exposed to users.
- It is harder to identify specific data about a user (role, permission level, etc.) than it ought to be. You can set up specific custom fields, but it's not easy and requires a bunch of coordination.