Smartsupp versus POWR

Smartsupp is a Czech based live chat company focused on providing innovative solutions for customer care and e-commerce. Their software is user-friendly and offers tools improve support, engagement, and overall customer experience. They offer live chat, chatbots, and session recordings easily installed through a variety of plugins and integrations with popular e-commerce platforms like Joomla, Prestashop, and Shopify.

One of Smartsupp’s key features is video recording, which allows businesses to replay visitor website sessions and analyze their behavior. This helps businesses identify issues and deliver a more personalized experience to their customers. Each recording is automatically linked to the corresponding live chat session, making it easy to navigate and analyze.

Smartsupp also offers helpful resources to support their customers. Their website includes an extensive FAQ section and documentation for developers who want to integrate their software with their website or application. The documentation includes detailed instructions and code examples to help developers get up and running quickly.

Smartsupp offers a Free plan for their live chat services, which includes a single seat and is limited to 100 conversations per month. Chatbots are not included in the free plan.  Their paid plans do not have a limit on the number of chat conversations and start with the Standard plan at just $19.95 per month. This plan includes 3 seats and 100 chatbot conversations per month.

All of Smartsupp’s plans come with a 14-day free trial, allowing you to try out the software and see if it’s the right fit for your needs. 

Overall, Smartsupp is an excellent choice for businesses of all sizes looking to improve their online customer support and e-commerce capabilities.

POWR offers a complete suite of no-code eCommerce solutions with more than 60 apps and plugins, mostly aimed at platforms like WordPress, Squarespace, and Shopify.

Their live chat plugin connects through Facebook Messenger. Meaning, POWR may not be a good choice for businesses that have concerns about Facebook’s policies and reputation.

The customization tool for the chat widget is easy to use but constrained, even with their more expensive plans.

POWR’s commercial approach is different from their competitors’. They have a dual pricing system for their products that may seem simple at first but can get complicated and costly quickly.

Firstly, they offer complete suites that are billed by a maximum amount of traffic on your website. The plugins will stop working if this amount is exceeded. A free suite with a restricted number of apps is available for sites with traffic up to 250 views per month.

Secondly, they offer subscriptions per app or plugin for a set price. This applies to their live chat plugin as well. A free plan with limited features is available. Their paid plans starts at $5.49 per month. There are no free trials available.

Customers of POWR are mostly small businesses. A few of them share their success stories on the POWR.io website.