Olark vs. Smartsupp

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.

Incentivized

Services that require immediacy will be a good match.Also, since it is easy to use with smartphones, it will work well for young people who are used to chat-based communication.The ability to get an immediate response may replace phone-based customer support.I thought it would work well with customer support because it keeps a good history, etc.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Live chat function
• Ability to see where traffic from our website is from
• Ability to see browsing history on youtr website

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• customer support doesn't answer chat requests or messages
• implementation of the trial option works but not clear wether extra features work in trial

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

Smartsupp fulfills all forms of customer integration that I expect from an application. I have used other solutions before, but they were usually not complete in one product or some of the options were very truncated, probably at an additional cost, which did not necessarily have an attractive effect on the overall offering.

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

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

Smartsupp is easier to use than Tidio live chat, it has a lot of integrations, mobile application on which you can conversate everywhere. Mobile app is easy to use. Chatbot is doing its job.

• 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.

Incentivized

• Visitor status needs to show whether they came from "paid" ads. This helps us gage our spending and investment
• Missed chats due to phone apps error: either not showing up at all, not notifying, or heavy delay
• People are comfortable with the Chat program and don't mind keeping it open. Makes it easy for us to stay connected with customer