Dont Sign an Agreement with Podium!!
March 11, 2024

Dont Sign an Agreement with Podium!!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Podium

I would recommend any other VOIP software paired with another review software over Podium all day every day. Podium was such a bad experience for us, even if they offered to give us free access I would not use it. In our experience, the onboarding took more than 2 months before we could use the phones and only the phones non of the other fancy features could be used. When we addressed this with customer support they were like, "idk" (I don't know). In my opinion, nobody from the Podium appeared to care. We were offered money back and instead, they accidentally charged our bank more money. In our experience, when we tried to address it, they sent us to collections. I just cant express how bad I think they were. I don't know how they are in business.
  • Collections
  • contracts
  • marketing
  • Onboarding
  • Customer support
  • Product
  • Way overpriced
  • Customers had missed calls because Podium
  • In my experience, worst investment in my history of business
  • We lost tons of potential reviews because we cancelled our other review software and, in my experience, Podium couldn't send out 1 review invite.
  • In my experience, when you cancell they dont allow you download or access previous data from when you worked with them.
In my opinion, OpenPhone is 10x better. Literally 1/5 the price.

Do you think Podium delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Podium's feature set?

No

Did Podium live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Podium go as expected?

No

Would you buy Podium again?

No

I honestly cannot think of any situation where I would recommend Podium. I would recommend OpenPhone paired with NiceJob for reviews. In my opinion, you will get all the features of the Podium for 1/5 the price and the product is way better. I honestly dont see any reason people would choose Podium.
Only small thing Podium does is brings potentially several softwears to gether. But it just didnt work in my case so I dont know if thats possible. We did use it for 6 months.