Avochato is a cloud-based text/SMS messaging solution aimed at sales, support, and marketing teams, which allows users to send, receive, manage, and collaborate on messages from customers. The system can also be used to manage communication with field agents and remote workforces, including cleaners, technicians, inspectors, and healthcare professionals.
Avochato provides distinct, unique phone numbers for sending and receiving messages, allowing users to communicate from their own mobile devices without revealing their personal phone number. The text tree can route inbound messages to the correct department, and conversations can be assigned to different users, prioritized, flagged, and escalated as necessary. All messages received in Avochato are displayed in the web dashboard and in the native iOS and Android apps, allowing users to respond from wherever they are. Users can also create automated response templates to keep customers informed outside of working hours.
Avochato can be incorporated into existing IVR systems or phone trees, enabling customers to self-resolve issues, and escalating to an agent if necessary. Integration with Salesforce, Desk.com, and Slack allows users to send messages to customers from within different applications. Avochato can also be used for inbound and outbound calls, using the dedicated phone numbers provided.
Avantages
The free trial was critical in helping me make my decision to use Avochato. I was able to test the full product's features at my own pace, and once I tested it with customers I was impressed. My customers were very impressed with my quick response times as well. I love that I can text my customers either from the web dashboard, from the mobile friendly dashboard, or from the iPhone app. The integration with Slack is amazing, as I can now text folks back from the "Threads" feature in Slack too. My entire team is on Avochato (support and marketing), and we are responding to both support requests via SMS as well as new leads coming in from our AdWords account. Avochato integrates with AdWords to have new leads text directly into Avochato. They even have a bot that can be configured to answer common questions and collect information. This saves our team so much time and headaches. The design of the product is great...and who doesn't love avocados!
Inconvénients
I wish Avochato could automate almost all of our customer interactions. It would be amazing if it resolved all of our support requests without the assistance of our agents. The current bot works well but if it could be customizable we could use it for more of our use cases. We'd also love to see it transcribe voicemails and calls into text format.
Thank you! We're glad to help. You touched on some very interesting ideas in the "Cons" section around automation -- since your review, we've been building out a number of tools such as templates and keywords to help our customers save time/effort in composing their texts. But we're going to be taking it much further than that ... stay tuned!
The team at Avochato has been exeptional! They always got right back to me with all my questions. Were very helpful and a great pleasure to do business with! I highly recommend using them for your text message marketing and to take your business to a new level in staying in communication with your customers!
Avantages
Like the Survey feature. We can use it to gather basic info from our customers saving us both time.
Love how easy and intuitive the framework is.
You can tag your customers in many ways and broadcast to the specific groups your message would mean the most to using those tags. This way you can be more focused and do not waste texts needlessly. We have our customers birthday in their tag and every day we can send out a Happy Birthday message to the right people. It makes them feel special!
You can program auto responses for as many keywords as you need.
They have an app for both IPhone an Android that works together with their software so you never miss a text!
Inconvénients
Had to think about this a bit...
I guess free incoming messages would be nice.
It is a challenge to keep your message within the 160 character limit. I'm sure this is an industry standard but if you go over it just sends multiple segments. This means if you send 2 segments to 200 people you use up 400 of your texts to do it. Like I said though I'm sure its an industry standard set by the carriers and there's most likely nothing they can do about it.
Consider this review a raving endorsement. For those of you on the fence about whether you should be sending text messages to your customers - start testing it with your personal cell phone first. Then imagine those results across your entire funnel. You'll be kicking yourself for not starting sooner.
Avantages
LIke most seasoned sales and marketing professionals, I'm always looking for an edge to increase engagement with potential customers and existing customers by optimizing email subject lines/copy and calling my leads/customers over the phone.
There is something magical about finding a tool or trick in 2019 that can boost engagement 3-4%, every channel is so saturated that small numbers move the needle. Avochato has increased our engagement 30%+ and we haven't even begun optimizing our outreach copy.
Customers and leads are significantly more likely to engage via text than over email/phone. I almost hesitate to recommend Avochato because I want it to be my team's secret weapon!
Inconvénients
There is room to improve on the UX/UI of the mobile product and additional integrations that would be nice to have. Neither of these 'flaws' remotely impact the instant effectiveness that I've been able to generate using Avochato though.
Its more benefical for my co-workers and I to use this software instead of our own phones. We have the ablility to all see the messages and be able to respond if/when needed. I do wish there was a private chat feature where you and only you can see the message between yourself and the person your chatting with. It would be nice to be able to open that private chat to all if wanted to needed. -Over all it has made communicating with our caregivers alot easier as well.
Avantages
I like that the Avochato software can be used on your mobile device and computer. I also like that there is an APP that can be used as well.
Inconvénients
Boradcast do not work as effectiley as I thought it would. When sending group text via broadcast the messages do not come in right.
Not only drinking the koolaid but I’m eating the guac! I’ve experienced the progression of Avochato. The team actively listens and rapidly responds to your business needs.
Avantages
It’s the people! Avochato support team is not only quick to acknowledge your request, but reliably provides solution(s) or an alternative method. Other notable pros- ease of sending one or 1,000 messages with a few clicks, custom fields & templates for mass broadcasting, broadcast analytics
Inconvénients
Lack of reporting. Interested in exporting data from broadcasts, tags, contacts. Ie: contacts that have replied stop or start
‘Out of Office Reply’ interested in the functionality of sending ooo replies to any contact who reaches us outside of business hours, not just to new contacts.
Core: $99/month
Standard: $198/month
Pro: $396/month
Enterprise plans are also available.
Voici quelques-unes des questions fréquentes sur Avochato.
Types de licences disponibles pour Avochato :
À partir de: 99,00 $US/mois
Type de licence: Abonnement
version d'essai gratuite: Disponible
Core: $99/month
Standard: $198/month
Pro: $396/month
Enterprise plans are also available.
Fonctionnalités du logiciel Avochato :
Utilisateurs habituels du logiciel Avochato :
Grandes entreprises, Entreprises de taille moyenne, PME
Langues dans lesquelles Avochato est disponible :
anglais
Types de licences disponibles pour Avochato:
Abonnement
Appareils pris en charge par Avochato :
Android, iPhone, iPad
Applications s'intégrant à Avochato :
Cognito Forms, Office 365, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Slack
Ressources d'aide disponibles pour Avochato :
Support en ligne, Support téléphonique
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