CallRail vs. Invoca

This is great software for differentiating where phone traffic is coming from. Whether it's paid/organic search, you can see exactly where the calls are coming in from. I'd love to see them add text/SMS features in the future, but it does what it claims. I'd also like to see more CRM integrations, but not sure that other users share the same sentiment

Incentivized

We are able to reduce non-sales calls by being able to attribute [the source of incoming calls]. But it needs patience and a long time to get the benefits of its AI capabilities. So RoI could be a longer run. It is expensive if we needed a simple call tracking solution only.

Incentivized

• Reporting - We love the breakdown for attribution and sources for calls. CallRail makes reports easy to understand and lets you share them with clients.
• Call Tracking - This may be obvious, but you get so many options with CallRail in terms of your number pool, recording options, picking your numbers, etc. It gives you the metrics you care about and they haven't experienced any calls mis-forwarding.
• Support - With other companies, I've had to wait for days and days to hear back. With CallRail, they normally get back to us on our tickets fairly quickly and they have a great knowledge base for common questions too!

Incentivized

• From an accounting perspective, Invoca makes it easy for us to determine where our call revenue is coming from and what call type generated the paid call.
• Their dashboard is very user-friendly. I like how you can see everything from the top level and see total call volume, commission paid, and conversion rate. But you can easily drill down into each campaign level too.
• Lastly, you can easily create call campaigns and create individual phone numbers. I especially like how we're able to create a ring pool that allows us to track exactly where the call is coming from, and it's not difficult to setup.

Incentivized

• Sometimes the automatic tagging can be wrong, in terms of whether it's a lead or not, or what the call was about.
• It's not an all-encompassing platform, and would be so much better if it weren't so isolated to its core functionality - would like to see some more integrations.
• Setting up the phone numbers can be difficult for some people.

Incentivized

• Learning Invoca can be a bit of a challenge, as many items are hidden in various views.
• It does lack the ability to speak with 3rd party software with Zapier
• In certain ways, too much functionality for basic campaign setup.
• They do not try to take a business development role with their users to help them grow their business.

Incentivized

The platform is easy to use and we really don't have any complaints with using it so far. The information is invaluable for clients that rely on phone calls to drive more business. Not much negative to say about it at this point. We're actually really happy with it so far and the cost is manageable.

Incentivized

Fortunately, we had a lot of experience with CallRail. That in itself is an indicator that it has just worked for us, and done what the product is supposed to. We've never once wondered if the data was tracking accurately. This is unfortunately less common these days it seems, but we're happy with CallRail as a whole in our organization

Incentivized

Invoca's client success team is great to work with, which is a nice value proposition for their business (many SaaS providers struggle with this). Their support team is very talented and fully capable of addressing the vast majority of questions that they receive. I haven't encountered any negative experiences when requesting assistance.

Incentivized

We have utilized Google call tracking within AdWords before, but considering it is a Google product, it can sometimes be biased. Having that third party vendor elevates that. Google Call tracking is only limited to running AdWords campaigns, so if we need to use a phone number in any other fashion within our business, it couldn't be used.

Incentivized

We used Convirza for a long time and had a pathetic experience as we were paying a high price for nothing special. Convirza was not so good in call tracking and had fewer features as compared to Invoca, and Invoca’s price is also amazing. It has all the essential features that we were looking for, like call scheduling and call recording, that are essential for marketing campaigns too. Its reporting dashboard is our least favorite thing about it.

Incentivized

• Historically, I used CallRail for hundreds of Clients and it allowed us to track more than 50% of conversions that came from a website for service style businesses. It's actually extremely eye opening to see how much comes in for phone calls for some types of services. With SaaS it's interesting to see how reliant on a human conversation people can be in order to make a decision about something so intangible.

Incentivized

• It is really useful to set a price you will pay for inbound calls, and let Invoca manage that tracking system.
• We were able to run campaigns that could not have run otherwise because we had the call tracking for those calls.

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