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What do you like best?

It can at least speak to website visitors manually.

What do you dislike?

They make having an SSL certificate so difficult. I've had other white labeled platforms but they are the only ones who force you to leave your current provider to find one to provide them with 3 CERTIFICATE FORMS! Yeah that wasn't fully thought out and now customers like myself have a white labeled subdomain that isn't secured. Not the best experience especially for agencies.

UPDATE!!!

After using this program for a few months I can finally say that this platform is very bad and extremely clunky all around. My only suggestion is take a page from the Mobile Monkey platform to make the user experience better.

1. For starters, they have different programs that aren't finished for whatever reason that they refuse to fix. A good example is there appointment booking app, which allows the user to literally pick any day and time (am or pm) at that customers leisure.

2. With a team of 10+ people, we reviewed their youtube videos and all of their documentation in trying to navigate this app and let me tell you it feels like hours wasted. For example, everything is super vague in telling you what to do to achieve a specific function. Let me try to explain this better, its like teaching someone how to bake a cake giving them the tools and say put that stuff together and put it in the oven. There very aware of this issue but the worst part is when you contact them they continue to give vague answers and its like pulling teeth trying to get them to tell you where everything is.

3. Customer support is absolutely terrible. They have two people apparently working, only in the am (I'm eastern time) and for each question you have to wait for a response in one day. To make this worst, you never get the answer to your question so you spend an entire week or more trying to get a simple answer to a question. Another issue is that, every explanation is given to you as if you're one of their internal staff and you must know where everything is or they literally don't understand or know how to explain things OR really go step by step for where everything is.

4. There SSL certificates for subdomains are very bad. In order to have HTTPS for you subdomain, your provider must be able to generate a physical SSL certificate among a bunch of other documents. For starters, this is archaic and most providers give you DNS settings and you're good to go. We use WPengine and there recommendation is to leave them to use some random other companies to accommodate their platform.

5. Email transactions don't work and the documentation is also vague, surprise surprise, and when asked to clarify the proper DNS settings their response is spend more on there documentation that they were told none of our devs knew what they were talking about and can only assume what to do with what was given to them but of course we also can't verify if something is done properly or get a proper response which I assume will be another week or more from the time of me me writing this review.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Just avoid and go with Mobile Monkey if you don't want headaches trust me its better in every way anyway.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

I haven't solved anything and only getting more problems from them.