Arena.im vs. Olark

It's well suited for environments where you have chat participants quickly dropping in and out of chat rooms for quick conversations. We use it in a virtual event environment where this is often the case. It's also good for an environment where each chat room has its own moderators who can control the individual rooms. It can also be easily embedded into sites and doesn't require development experience.

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If you want to have the option to chat on your company website and keep track of those chats, the customer's satisfaction, your employees' capabilities and the repetition of certain inquiries, Olark can truly help your business. We have 4 employees at any given time dedicated to our chat function during business hours. After hours if offers the option to send our customer service team an email with your question on your behalf. Everyone wins.

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• Easy to implement
• Cost effective
• Strong build vs buy proposition

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• Its ease of use and simple design is a huge plus.
• Their customer support is top notch. They have always been super responsive and helpful.
• Past chats are stored and easy to search.
• It's easy to customize to fit the look and feel of your website.

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• User Interface
• Additional functionality for management
• Set up process for use cases where many chat rooms are required

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• There is not a way to add a queue. We have guests that get a little impatient when we are very busy. This would allow for the guest to know that we are working on getting to them and not ignoring them.
• We have experienced outages this past year, and the communication in regards to what is happening is not the best.

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I think it's a great feature to be more in touch with a customer base - it saves time, money, and is often extremely effective in terms of answering customer questions and addressing concerns. Although the subject of product renew is not necessarily in my hands, I strongly advocate for the program's future use

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It is simply easy and customizable to be exactly what you need it to be

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I've used the Olark knowledge base and searched online for help on questions I had. The help section is easy to use. I have found most of the answers I need within minutes. Plus their help section has a chat feature in a box on the same level as the answers so when I did need more help it was right there for me. (didn't need to search for it on another part of the page) This box has a link to open a support ticket, twitter link for quick answers, and a systems notice

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We did not evaluate any other products as Arena.im fit our needs from the start.

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We did use Zendesk chat for a short time but switched to Olark when a colleague suggested Olark was simpler. We were looking for a chat solution that was easy to understand and use visually, plus easy to switch between multiple people when taking turns monitoring chat. And we liked how it fit on the screen of the website - easy to see but not intrusive

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• Keeps our website dynamic.
• Boosts our SEO.
• Saves us time.

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• Positive impact on employee payroll. We would have to hire at least 1 or 2 more employees if we no longer offered Live Chat support.
• I don't believe that Olark had any negative impacts on the business. We simply outgrew the platform.

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