ManyChat

RATING:

4.6

(70)

About ManyChat

ManyChat is a cloud-based chatbot solution designed to help small businesses drive chat marketing campaigns through social media platforms and text messaging. Key features include message broadcasting, drip marketing, A/B testing, audience segmentation and lead conversion. The solution comes with a drag-and-drop interface, which allows businesses to design custom chatbots using predefined templates. Employees can use the solution to interact with prospects, capture contact information such as name, email address or phone number and add tags to audience groups as per actions performed. It includes a pause automation feature, which enables agents to stop incoming bot messages for a particular period while communicating with a single subscriber. ManyChat offers i...

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ManyChat Pricing

$15/month

Starting price: 

$15.00 per month

Free trial: 

Not Available

Free version: 

Available

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ManyChat Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4

Value for money

4

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for ManyChat

1 - 5 of 70 Reviews

User Profile

Luciano

Verified reviewer

Information Services, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2021

The reference app for conversational design

Overall experience excellent: we are dealing with a product that does many things and does them well. After an initial start a bit quiet and with few integrations, ManyChat has been able to conquer and establish itself in the market for advanced features, such as integrations and templates. This is the platform that I recommend to anyone who is starting from scratch.

PROS

The product is very easy to use: despite its high potential and the many things it allows you to do, the menus and features are always organized in an orderly and logical way. Good responsiveness and stability

CONS

I feel the lack of being able to make chatbots for the web channel: at the moment you can only create bots for Messenger, Email, SMS, Telegram, WhatsApp, and Instagram. In the free plan you can't do almost anything.

Reasons for switching to ManyChat

Reduced costs, greater stability, more integrations, more publication channels

Mugume

Entertainment, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed October 2023

The revolutionary ChatBot ever developed

I have typically been pleased with the ManyChat platform as a user. ManyChat has helped me overcome a variety of company obstacles, such as automating lead creation, marketing, and customer service. I value the advantages I've experienced, including increased effectiveness in managing repetitive activities, improved user engagement through tailored interactions, and the capacity to communicate with a larger audience via various channels. In order to better improve my experience, I have also mentioned platform policy difficulties and wanted extra functionality. Overall, ManyChat has shown to be an effective tool for boosting client interaction and optimizing my business procedures.

PROS

Its automation features, multi-channel support, and lead generation tools. I found the software to be rather user-friendly, particularly when setting up automatic messaging sequences and chatbots. Integrating with already-existing business processes can take several forms depending on the workflow's complexity and the particular tools and systems being used. It also provides integration possibilities with various outside technologies, making it simpler for organizations to integrate it with their current tech stack.

CONS

Requests for more functionality on the free plan, a learning curve for sophisticated automation, sporadic problems integrating based on current infrastructure, worries about shifting platform rules, and more. Although I found the platform to be user-friendly for creating chatbots, integrating it with some particular business processes proved to be somewhat challenging.

Reasons for switching to ManyChat

I've discovered ManyChat to be a remarkably strong and versatile chatbot platform with a number of benefits. These capabilities have significantly improved my capacity to provide my audience with customised and interesting chatbot experiences. I can easily segment users with ManyChat, take use of multi-channel support, build lengthy messaging sequences, and even incorporate e-commerce features for direct sales within chat chats. Additionally, the platform's support for rich media assets, SMS connectivity, and user-friendly flow builder have all proven crucial in creating dynamic and engaging chatbot conversations. I can better refine my marketing strategy for more client engagement and satisfaction thanks to the advanced broadcast scheduling and A/B testing capabilities.

Kelby

Verified reviewer

Publishing, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: GetApp
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

2

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

2

Reviewed August 2023

Great Software Idea hindered by Bugs and Poor Customer Service.

Signed up for a free trial a year ago. Saw the potential but wanted to look at other options before committing to the platform. The free trial ended and was charged for months without being able to even log into the service to cancel or use. Was receiving receipts to my business email address but couldn't use that email address to log in/recover my password. Finally figured out it I had to authenticate via Facebook for access. The platform has a lot of great features that don't consistently work. Have reported several bugs and issues that customer support goes overboard with attempting to indemnify themselves from rather than addressing. Adding an additional account caused the primary account to disconnect from Meta and issues for the following week because their system didn't properly interface with Meta Account/Business Manager.

PROS

When it works, it's quite effective at turning the activity through our social channels into actual leads and site traffic.

CONS

Unfortunately, it doesn't always work and this has led to turn activity through our social channels into frustrated people and missed opportunities

Mike

Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2024

Robust non-code chatbot platform for beginners to advanced

Love it, implement advanced chatbots for clients like looking up documents in the cloud and sending to them etc.

PROS

Easy to setup a new chatbot, create an outline and add the specific actions to be followed. Ability to create complex chats with follow-ups, api calls, tags etc. make it a very robust platform.

CONS

Instagram comment reply is a bit strange to implement at first.

Reason for choosing ManyChat

Was highly recommended by industry leaders

Montrez

Construction, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed November 2023

An Exotic Online Chatbot

Overall Experience with ManyChat was phenomenal, i would definitely advise you to give it a try.

PROS

I like how ManyChat supports integration with popular messaging apps like Facebook Messenger and Instagram. With a lot of companies you would not be able to do as much with Facebook Messenger and Instagram but ManyChat lets you.

CONS

Only thing I didn’t like about ManyChat is its support system. It seemed like you were almost not able to reach them. But overall, a great user base that helps out on other social media platforms.

Reasons for switching to ManyChat

Chatfuel didn’t provide me all of the extras that it was advertising.