Intercom versus Gorgias

Intercom has some of the world’s largest tech companies among its clients. As an industry-leading provider of live chat and in-app messaging, they have an impressive amount of features and an unrivaled level of customizability.

Intercom’s conversational support funnel is set up to efficiently filter support requests. Support tickets trickle through from proactive support to self-serve support via their knowledge base, to actual human support. Inbox automation can be set up to quickly prioritize tickets. Team efficiency and customer experience metrics are an integrated part of the platform.

Intercom leaves no matter to chance and knows that live chat needs to connect seamlessly with your existing software stack. For this purpose, an incredible number of integrations and apps in multiple categories can be found and installed through their app store.

Gorgias offers an extensive product that helps DTC companies (Shopify, and other online e-commerce businesses) with support and live chat throughout their supply chain and delivery, monitoring your socials as well as allowing customers to chat with you on your website.

Unique about Gorgias is its Academy, where they offer Agent training next to regular account setups. You need a subscription in order to access these documents, but the academy content itself is free.