Olark

RATING:

4.5

(471)

About Olark

Olark is a cloud-based live chat solution that enables businesses to interact with customers through their website. Key features of Olark include automated messages, team management, real time reporting, searchable transcripts and more. The solution also offers targeted chat, chat monitoring and analytics within a suite. Olark can integrate with the HTML code of the website and allows users to add live chat options across all website pages. The solution provides trigger-based chat feature, which allows customer agents and sales representatives to proactively start a chat session with website visitors. When live chat agents are not available, Olark takes messages from visitors so that agents can reach out to them later. Olark offers dashboards and customized re...

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FrontRunner 2021
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Olark Pricing

Try Olark for free. Scale Olark with your live chat team. $17 / month for 1 live chat operator. $49 for a team of 4 live chat operators. https://www.olark.com/pricing?rid=getapp

Starting price: 

$29.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Available

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Olark Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Olark

1 - 5 of 470 Reviews

Jeremy

11 - 50 employees

Used less than 6 months

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:

3

Reviewed May 2021

We had major functionality issues

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Abiola

Verified reviewer

Consumer Goods

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 July 2018

Excellent helpdesk solution.

PROS

I have tried and administered a few helpdesk solutions over the years and I think Olark stands out for me at this time,it could be different in future though. I love Olark's simplistic approach ,everything from its user interface ,add-on services and features are simplified for teams and organizations to have a perfect understanding of how they work ,and how best to maximize their impact on an organizations sales(customer service) activity. With Olark ,I am able to measure the performance of all agents reporting to me , set a limit on the amount of chats an agent can respond to at one time ,access vital analytic which becomes very important to helping my organization better prioritize chats,score our leads and modify our sales strategy by leveraging on the insights in visitor data collected from social profiles and on our website by Olark.

CONS

Olark needs to continuously innovate the Olark helpdesk solution. Over the last year ,Olark hasn't undergone any major change or upgrade in terms of features. An overly confident organization,yea?

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Romina

Verified reviewer

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

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:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

Easy to use tool

Olark is a great platform that adapts to all your needs, it has excellent functionalities and characteristics that are essential to communicating with your customers, and it allows you to keep track of the activities and interactions of your customers.

PROS

Olark is a very easy-to-use platform with a simple interface, it is quite accessible since it is relatively cheap, it has excellent functions and features for a very low cost, you can use it completely free for 2 weeks, with Olark you can create quick answers for basic questions This is excellent because if a customer asks a question, they do not need to wait for an answer since quick responses are pre-assigned, with this platform you can offer the customer an excellent experience to increase sales.

CONS

I have not obtained negative aspects of this software, it has offered me a fairly protected commercial tool, I have been able to increase sales and obtain better performance in terms of communication with my clients.

Vendor Response

Hi Romina, Thanks for your review. We're glad we could be helpful. If you have any questions around additional support we'd be happy to chat with you at Olark.com

Replied March 2023

Nick

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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:

3

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

2

Reviewed February 2023

Review

Tried it on Trial, didn't like it, because can'tbe online all the time, because they don't have an app for mobile.

PROS

Live chat option and analik module. It's easy to use and mobile application works fine for me. I can be online all the time.

CONS

No phone app, so I can't be online always. Not good analys and didn't like the chat module. Cancelled after trial.

Reason for choosing Olark

Just tried

Reasons for switching to Olark

Didn't like 'add free live chat' in Tawk.

Vendor Response

Hi Nick, Thanks for your review. We're glad we could be helpful. We're regularly updating our integrations & capabilities. If you would like to learn more, please chat with us at Olark.com

Replied February 2023

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Brent Lionel

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less 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:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed December 2018

Olark is a great tool to respond to customer enquiries

Overall, it's okay but there's a lot of room for improvement.

PROS

Olark allows you to create a pre-chat survey to get leads. The fallback message is cool too specially if you're not able to answer any chat within a span of time. You can also forward the message to the right department that must take care of any request from a possible customer or existing customers. The Pro version allows the chat support to access the scree of the customer with the customer's approval. You can also transfer the chat to another chat support member. Their cobrowsing is super duper useful.

CONS

The chat window templates doesn't really look good and their design are not that attractive. The design of the templates should be improve so they can be attention-grabbing and appealing.