Dotdigital vs. Freshchat

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Dotdigital
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Dotdigital is a customer engagement platform that helps digital marketers and developers deliver communications across the customer journey. It uses customer data to drive engagement, conversion, and loyalty for brands as they grow and scale. The platform connects first party data across systems to surface insights and automate predictive cross-channel messages.N/A
Freshchat
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
A solution to engage customers with smarter conversations on any channel, designed so support, marketing, sales, and even bots to have conversations at scale with customers.
$19
per month (billed annually) per agent
Pricing
DotdigitalFreshchat
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Growth
$19
per month (billed annually) per agent
Pro
$49
per month (billed annually) per agent
Enterprise
$79
per month (billed annually) per agent
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DotdigitalFreshchat
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
DotdigitalFreshchat
Features
DotdigitalFreshchat
Chat Analytics and Reports
Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Product A and Product B
Dotdigital
-
Ratings
Freshchat
6.5
Ratings
28% below category average
Chat history and transcripts00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Chat reporting00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
Chat and web analytics00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
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User Ratings
DotdigitalFreshchat
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(0 ratings)
8.1
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Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(0 ratings)
7.1
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
6.2
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DotdigitalFreshchat
Likelihood to Recommend
The platform is very similar to many of its competitors, and the only reason why some people chose this over others is its natural integration with Magento. For its limits, it is worth investing in an integration with another platform to save money in the long run.
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its good app Freshdesk Messaging help me to contact the customer and contact the customer to inform my problem to solve it and is a good app and help full app and its easy to use uncomplicated and Freshdesk Helps me provide good quality to the customer and make customer feedback good for a company
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Pros
  • Seamless experience on the platform
  • Integration to Shopify, Loyalty Lion etc
  • Helpful KAM with troubleshooting issues and setting up program
  • Responsive customer support on platform
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  • Freshchat has been offering best-in-class chatbots that primarily focus on intent and engagement.
  • It is quite proactive and has rich media campaigns to segment and target audiences.
  • Freshchat is also one of my favorite software because it offers seamless integration with apps.
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Cons
  • Improved email results reporting are needed.
  • Learning the system and planning campaigns can take time.
  • It had issues integrating Google Analytics and lacked transactional email metrics.
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  • Bot communications used to take time to appear, but this was fixed recently and we are now more than satisfied to use it.
  • The initial process of setting up a Freshchat account is a long one.
  • The billing is per member/month which can get expensive fast.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Freshchat has been a reliable and user friendly platform for the past 5 plus years for engaging with customers in real time. It has helped us streamline support, reduce response time and improve customer satisfaction. The advanced automation feature and chatbot functionality have also saved our teams a lot of manual effort and increased efficiency. I didn't rate 10 because there is still room for improvement in reporting and deeper integration.
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Usability
DotDigital is not difficult to use, however, the user interface could use some optimization. There are certain elements that can be challenging to find, and the menus are not always intuitive. However, the tool makes up for that with easy to use features, like creating segments, and allowing many rules to specify these particular groups.
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I give it an 8 due to its usability. Yes, I had a few issues to begin with and needed some assistance from Freshchat agents, but considering this is something that is completely new to me, to set up what feels like a professional chat handling system complete with autobot within a day is really saying something I feel.
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Reliability and Availability
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Freshchat has always been available when I needed to use it.
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Performance
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Freshchat always loads quickly and communication is quickly sent and received.
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Support Rating
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The experience we had in past for lets say 4-5 months with the support team and our TAM was really helpful. The changes in the bot flow has helped our bot to ensure we connect with customer easily.
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Implementation Rating
No answers on this topic
I hope to show new users data because this can save a lot of time
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Alternatives Considered
DotDigital's platform is simple to use for essential email marketing campaigns. Setting up Programs (action-driven automation) is simple. It gives you the ability to design stunning campaigns with a wide range of customizability. To better understand our customer base, it analyzes each email sent out. In every situation, the support team has been responsive and helpful.
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We have used a self-developed solution for the same purpose with full in-house development however the features vs the value that freshchat provided were worth the selection, freshchat achieved overall better performance and received gemerally more praise, some key advantages were related to user experience and performance of the system
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Scalability
No answers on this topic
We only implemented the product in 1 way so I cant speak to this.
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Return on Investment
  • Positive - Always delivers a good amount of inbound enquiries
  • Positive - This has delivery a sold amount of client wins over the years - an integral part of our bottom line sales.
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  • From the positive effect of working on it, it helps employees to speed up their thinking and writing.
  • One of the positive effects of our clients is that their problems are solved easily and quickly.
  • Each employee knows how many of his chats have been resolved.
  • There is no negative effect in general.
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ScreenShots

Freshchat Screenshots

Screenshot of Channel Freedom: The interface to engage customers on the channel of their choiceScreenshot of Unified Agent Workspace: Equips agents to deliver personalization at scaleScreenshot of Admin and Analytics: These drive informed decisions to help business scale