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Olark Overview

What is Olark?

Olark live chat is the easiest way to boost your sales, help solve issues and understand your customers. Give your customers the answers they need immediately and gain powerful insights about what they want for relationships that last. Olark is WCAG 2.0 AA compliant, accessible, and GDPR ready.

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Product Description

Olark - Talk with your customers now with beautiful, easy to install live chat software.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Olark Live Chat can be as simple or sophisticated as users want it to be. It's easy to install, use, and customize in whatever way best benefits a business' bottom line. Setup takes minutes and users can start closing sales on day 1. With some customization, users can create advanced routing options, targeted chat rules, and customer database connections that will increase the likelihood of closing sales.

Our pricing is straightforward - pay only for the number of unique logins you need - and very competitive. Even at our lowest priced plan ($17/month) users have access to nearly our full range of features, including customization, automatic greetings, shortcuts, CRM integrations, transcripts, report, Javascript API, and more.


Seller Details
Seller
Olark
Year Founded
2008
HQ Location
Ann Arbor, MI
Twitter
@olark
6,246 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
27 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Chat with your Customers. Understand who’s on your site, make your customers love you, and earn more money.


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4.5 out of 5
"Olark is pretty good"
I like the fact that Olark is nice and simple to setup !!
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"Olark is easy to use and has many features."
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"Olark chat was easy to configure & use"
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JK
Guest Experience Assistant Manager
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Olark?

The Dashboard is easy to manage for someone (me) who is not very techy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olark?

It would be helpful to our team to see if another agent has already started responding to a chat before "[name] is assigned to...] Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Olark solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our guests LOVE that we have a live chat feature on our website. Our conversion per interaction has increased because of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Olark?

I like that Olark is very easy to use, very quick and I can chat with multiple clients at once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olark?

I would like more options on the sounds settings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Olark solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am solving problems with clients getting our mobile locations, and obtaining their pet records. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
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What do you like best about Olark?

Like how straightforward and real-time it is, the ability to customize notifications and save shortcuts, and how easy it is to toggle available status on/off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olark?

occasionally, it hangs, spins, or the availability toggle locks up or disappears - not really awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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file sharing and cobrowsing can get laggy on occasion, but otherwise, it's a simple and straightforward chat app that's unobtrusive and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Olark solving and how is that benefiting you?

additional channel for interacting with client base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Music
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What do you like best about Olark?

It allows our entire team to be in live chat through the day to be able to serve our customers the best way possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olark?

I wish we could see everyone that is logged into the chat at the Same time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Olark solving and how is that benefiting you?

We can communicate with customers who need to solve a problem quickly but can’t get on the phone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Fine Art
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What do you like best about Olark?

The instant notifications and simple design help me stay in touch with clients; answering questions, communications and sales are made easier with a platform I can rely on. I can assist clients in real-time while they are browsing my site and keep track of the specific items they are requesting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olark?

There is very little to improve on but I do have a few suggestions: It would be great to have this platform linked with my commerce platform so that payments can be handled within the chat. I also think that the popup chat bar could be more discreet but that is only a minor issue. Overall I am quite pleased with this product. It hasn't failed me yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Olark:

If you're looking for easy to use software that will help you stay in touch with clients and never miss a business opportunity then this is the product for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Olark solving and how is that benefiting you?

As an independent artist, I am responsible for every part of my sales, presentation, customer service, and outreach. I can easily communicate with my clients and receive direct messages about interest in a piece or commission requests. The ability to send automated messages to peak my customer's interest and inform them of updates to my website is also a huge benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Olark?

Accessibility for individuals who prefer to type over talk Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olark?

Not HIPPA compliant, so conversations may require an actual phone call Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Olark:

The most basic plan only allows for one user at a time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Olark solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easier way for anxious, shy individuals to communicate real-time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Olark?

I like how you can see the pages and activity of the visitor through the chat portal and the ability to tailor messages based on the page or activity. I also like how in the chat, it shows you the UTM params or referral source and also integrates with salesforce. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olark?

Although Olark integrates with Pardot (which is great) it is a bit challenging to set up and doesn't always work. It can be especially challenging to integrate properly if you use chat for sales and support. This may not be a limitation on Olarks side, but if you use Pardot and need to push leads through to Saleforce, it can be a challenge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Olark:

Do your research. Olark can be great, but make sure it meets all of your needs as there are plenty of options out there to compare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Olark solving and how is that benefiting you?

Great tool for sales to answer questions on pricing or reach out at crucial moments to convert more visitors into leads. It's a great tool for support as they can answer questions and get through more cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JC
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What do you like best about Olark?

Olark is a very easy to use chat service making communication to our clients on our website possible in real time. The reporting is easy to manage and read the analytics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olark?

We have found no issues in using olark as of yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Olark:

Olark is great for smaller companies who have a lower budget for additional customer service oriented features like live chat and email automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Olark solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have increased real time communication with our clients which has increased sales. What used to go to our inbox and have delayed response time is now addressed on a real time basis providing greater customer satisfaction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting
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What do you like best about Olark?

What I like best is how with Olark I am able easily to connect with customers in real-time and see what they're seeing.

Some customers don't want to call in and they might be multitasking so task offers another medium for our customers to connect with us and shared their issues and get answers in real-time. This is great as opposed to emailing us through our contact form- which often involves a lot of back and forth and wait time between each party's response. It takes on average 10 minutes to get a chat complete to resolve all their questions, whereas versus email we would have to sometimes take up to 24 hours to get an issue resolved with all the back and forth.

Also, with Olark, we can see what page the customer is seeing which ensures that we are both on the same page. #punny Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olark?

I don't like how the link to that person's account doesn't automatically open. This means that I still have to manually pull up their account by searching by email in our system and this means more wait time for the client. Clients expect faster responses via chat and it would be nice if somehow Olark could be integrated with our CRM so that a customer's account can instantly pop up which would definitely create a WOW experience for clients as we are able to immediately look into the issue as opposed to searching for the account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Olark:

Olark is easy to use and allows faster connection with customers in real-time. You're able to see when they're typing and what pages they're looking at which helps make a more WOW experience as you're able to more easily diagnose the issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Olark solving and how is that benefiting you?

One of the main problems was response time. Previously we only had email channel where clients could write in. This meant a slow response time, and clients couldn't upload screenshots to their requests. This was a problem especially for our technical troubleshooting where a client was seeing something and we weren't sure what they were seeing and then they'd have to describe everything and then send us screenshots which further delayed the process.

Plus, email led to a lot of back and forth which mean a longer response time to resolve their questions.

With chat, they are now able to upload screenshots via Olark and we are able to answer all their questions while we're both available instead of waiting for the other party to reply by email.

This has led to higher customer satisfaction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
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What do you like best about Olark?

Their customer service is amazing. Whenever they mess up or it fails( which isn’t often), they always reach out and let us know and try to fix it as soon as possible. It’s really user friendly and efficient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olark?

It would be nice if you could see more info on what the customer is doing. Also it’ll look like the customer is typing for a really long time when their not. If they could change that to where it says customer stopped typing or something that would be better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Olark:

It’s a really great chatting option that really works well with customers and agents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Olark solving and how is that benefiting you?

We deal with a lot of info and showing customers where links are on our website. It’s really nice because it’s very efficient and easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.