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About UserVoice
UserVoice collects and organizes feedback from multiple sources to provide a clear, actionable view of user feedback.
Super easy to integrate support ticket system in any web app.
It's a bit slow (loading time) when clicking on links within the dashboard. No mobile app for ticket agents.
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Gives us almost everything we need for a great price
Comments: UserVoice is used by our support team to answer users' questions and provide information as needed. It helps us manage our support tickets and provides a way for our learners to easily provide feedback.
Pros:
We've used UserVoice for a number of years now and it's really been almost everything we've needed from a support ticket system. It allows us to quickly and easily manage users' questions and provide answers and feedback. One great thing we've gotten from it is creating our "knowledge base," which helps us both answer frequent questions more quickly (by using the drop down feature to pre-fill a response with an answer from the knowledge base) as well as providing a ready-made FAQs page for our site. Agents can easily be assigned to different tickets and it's clear who is responding to what ticket, which was problematic in our old system and we often had multiple people answering the same question at the same time.
Cons:
On the other hand, UserVoice hasn't always been great about catching obvious spam and we have to do a fair amount of blacklisting manually. We offer content in Spanish, Portuguese, and English but you can only set it to one language, so right now we have a completely separate support system for our Spanish and Portuguese learners. And oddly, they have no online/email tech support available. You have to call if you have an issue. :(
Alternatives Considered:
Great product, miss their help desk software
Comments: I wish they still offered their help desk software.
Pros:
I used uservoice for their help desk software. At the time, they didn't have any in-app heads up messages so I got pressure from our [SENSITIVE CONTENT] to consolidate our systems and use intercom for help desk and in-app messages. It didn't take long to realize the mistake that was made. Uservoice was far superior than intercom for help desk interactions and help articles. Their ability to track how many tickets never made it to our inbox because they were solved by serving up a help doc was really useful.
Cons:
At the time, they didn't off any heads up or bulk messaging to all users. We couldn't send out bulk communications when we were having an outage or we were releasing new features.
not recommended
Pros:
Still not gotten a good walk through of the product from the Customer success, i hate these lengthy email coms and want a slack channel to get going fast.
Cons:
its not so intuitive and no good examples listed and process is not very clear
UserVoice Response
5 years ago
Hi Anand, Thanks for taking some time to share your review of our product here. We care a lot about making sure our users get the most out of our product, and I'm truly sorry to hear that you are finding it is taking longer than expected for you to get fully up and running with UserVoice. I've reached out to our Customer Success Lead about this, and they will be following up with you shortly. We've done our best to design our onboarding process to be as impactful as possible for our customers, but we're always open to improving things. We'd would love any specific ideas you have for improving this experience if you'd be willing to share them with us. -- Heather McCloskey
We and our clients love UserVoice, big improvement to feedback loop & transparency!
Comments: Benefits have been getting a better pulse from our clients on what matters to them most (more than just the squeaky wheels), gives me a pool of clients that have interest on a topic and are engage to do customer interviews with, makes our clients happy to have somewhere that they can see their voice being heard!
Pros:
The best part of UserVoice is getting more and consistent feedback from our users. Right away we had things that got voted to the top that were not even on our radar from client conversations/interviews and other internal feedback. Gives me a pool of people invested in our product to contact for interviews and digging into the 'why's' around their requests. Our internal folks love it as they have somewhere to point our users to that they know will get them heard without them having to be the go between. We have an annual conference, and i had numerous clients come up and tell me that they absolutely love UserVoice.
Cons:
The main struggle is getting the time to keep on top of it, we get so many ideas! The dashboard doesn't give me much information, may be due to our set up, I always head right into a view of the ideas so would love to be able to bypass that page.
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Great product for keeping track of software wishlist
Comments: We've used it for 8 years and loved the features it provides for our small team.
Pros:
Easy to set up.Low cost to start.Issue tracking is great.Great way to keep a knowledgebase
Cons:
We've used Uservoice for 8 years and haven't found much we don't like about it. The only thing I can think of is sometimes customer emails get blocked for no reason so we don't get their support ticket. Uservoice is great to work with when getting these resolved.
Great feedback/suggestion/feature request forums!
Comments: With UserVoice we easily gather feedback from our user, use the threads to make discussions happen and also communicate with our users when new feature are up and ready.
Pros:
The forum moderation options are crucial for feature request/suggestion forums and with UserVoice, they are all there and simple to use. Also we use the widget to gather user feedback directly in our tools.
Cons:
You need to know how to code CSS and HTML if you want to customize the forums.
Accumulate, Analyze, activate
Comments: I appreciate that they cover so much, but I think they make it harder than it should be. Although, I have a small business. A large business would probably use this more.
Pros:
I like that this software has a feedback forum. Customers can vote and they have a keyword search which is really nice for the clients customers. The client can even block some and have some subscribe to future status updates and you can tie all the revenues and analyze opportunities lost and lost revenue.
Cons:
It does seem really busy on the site. Less is more sometimes
Good KB portal for mid size product company
Comments:
I was able to launch any KB article with proper tagging and with Ease,
I had a seperate segment for crowdsourcing ideas it was great feature for me
Pros:
Editor capabilities in Uservoice are not present in any other similar products, which makes it stand out of market
Cons:
Mid companies would like any content to have SEO,SEM capabilities. A must required as I want even my KB content to perform
Great product tool to aid in customer discovery and research
Comments: Great product tool to aid in customer discovery and research.
Pros:
Uservoice has a great api that makes it easy to add custom components to your app or web pages and makes it easy for users to provide feedback.
Cons:
The newest version is not as easy to navigate as the old one, but did add some great new features to the list.
Great Feedback Tool
Pros:
Has a multipurpose use, can be used as a help desk or just a feedback tool. Lets users give feedback for different categories that you create and their API is an easy way to integrate contact forms or user feedback forms into your website.
Cons:
Customization of the user portal is not easy and does not allow you to preview any changes made before making them live. They only offer 3 templates and you must download them and apply them manually.
Good but Bloated
Comments: Overall, the experience has been positive, but we do question the value we get out of the idea management board for what we pay.
Pros:
The knowledge board and upvoting features are easy to use. It is easy to manage the ideas, respond to users, and send messages. It is easy for others in the company to contribute ideas from users.
Cons:
There are a lot of features we don't use which sometimes makes the cost a little high for what we are using it for.
Excels on the customer feedback loop
Comments: Despite my several gripes, UserVoice is an excellent product that I would recommend to any organization that wants to focus on improved communication and transparency between the Product Management organization and the customers they serve. UserVoice is very responsible and their product has an excellent User Experience team that ensures features are always easy to use.
Pros:
What I love about this platform is that when customers submit ideas it makes it easy for them to stay in the loop on what happens to their idea. Often times companies that accept Enhancement Requests from their customers, typically go into a "black hole" where the customer never knows what happens. Even if the ER gets delivered and makes its way into the product, the customer isn't told. With UserVoice, it makes it really easy via their email notifications and User Portal for customers submit ideas, make sure the ideas are not duplicated during the submission process, and then they are able to stay current on the discussion that that idea leads to so they know if the idea is something that is declined, something we will hold off on, or something we plan to deliver in on the near term roadmap. I also like the roadmap capabilities that UserVoice is developing, it shows a lot of promise, but isn't currently full featured and is more in the beginning stages of being built out.
Cons:
Three things: 1) And this is most important, it would be great if Customers who log into the public User Portal could see all of the ideas from their company/account. Today we have to manually generate reports so they can see the status of all ideas originating from their organization, but this should really be a feature of the User Portal that our customers can just do themselves, self-service. 2) The User and Account management in UserVoice leaves a lot to be desired. Today you can't do basic things like change the name or email address of an account. The supported ways of doing this are, A) The customer does it themselves B) The SAML or SSO integration passes updated information to UserVoice during the authentication process C) you make the change via API or a CSV upload file 3) We would like to see more functionality added to the user type called "Contributors" so the PM team can offload, delegate work to other parts of our organization. Currently Contributors are too limited .
Feedback manager
Comments: We currently use the Knowledge Base, the Idea Dashboard, and the Support tickets system.
Pros:
Tracking using feedback, and voting on ideas was the entry point and was quite innovative when we started using the system several years ago. The widget to get feedback integrated into your web application is great and the user can self serve from Knowledge base articles, other users' ideas, or ask our support team.
Cons:
The product backend is quite outdated in UX and over the years it becomes more complex (at least for the size of my company). I suppose this is due to a switch on the types of customers Uservoice targets now (Microsoft-like). The knowledge base is not multilanguage, so you have to create multiple versions of the articles, one in each language, and group them using Categories.
Drives efficiency
Pros:
A simpler platform to other support desks, but allows you to focus on the primary need at hand: solving tickets. Myself and my team have never been more efficient Love the Kudos
Cons:
Has limitations in dashboards and tracking staff
It's time to leverage your product management
Comments: We use UserVoice for constant communication with customers and collecting their requests and votes. It works really great for planning roadmap, not only by gut feelings but real numbers also. The really smart and powerful tool of analysing and visualizing insights.
Pros:
UserVoice is not only a great tool to manage clients request and communicate with them. It also helps the product management team to communicate with others in a company. It helps to analyse and visualize this communication. I like the constant updates, a great knowledge base. The most amazing part for me that guys are using their own tool for their product management.
Cons:
Sometimes it's hard to navigate in so many coloured numbers on the screen.
UserVoice helps us provide better support to our users and build a product that they love
Comments: UserVoice is a great fit for us. Our tool lives around the web on many websites and devices, so we really needed an in-app solution - and that's exactly what we got with UserVoice. It's extremely easy to use and very efficient for our support team to provide amazing support to our users. From inserting help articles directly into email responses, to keeping track of individual user interactions, UserVoice helps us operate more efficiently. UserVoice is very well designed and built. Over our 2 years with them, have never had any issue with the product. They also are continuously improving their analytics and admin dashboards that empower us to become more data driven as they develop. There customer support is superb. They always answer questions that we have very quickly and provide complete and thorough answers. You will never feel like you are talking to a robot because their support team is very friendly, personable and professional. The analytics and reports on our feature requests, all components of our support streams, and users. It makes it extremely quick to query the reports and find the exact insights that we need to help us make Product and Business decisions.
Game Changer
Comments: This is something we have been looking for since our company established our Product Management department. The ability to reach subscribers in mass with basically one click is a game changer for us.
Pros:
The feedback loop - that is huge for our company - making sure the information gets back to the correct people. The implementation process was well laid out and the UserVoice team is great to work with! The analytics available is crucial in setting our Road Map.
Cons:
We have some 'company' specific features that our end users were accustomed to with our old format so from that perspective it would aid in the transition to UserVoice. With that said, our hope is eventually those features will be a thing of the past!
Good product suggestion platform
Comments: It allows us to get feedback on our product from users.
Pros:
I like that this product allows you to quickly and easily collect feedback from your users on things they would like to see changed. The voting system is really cool as it allows other users to vote on good ideas in an easily quantifiable way.
Cons:
I wish it was a bit easier to have similar ideas merged together. Its a painstaking manual process to individually merge similar ideas.
Good for what it is...
Comments: We have been using UV for 3 years and it has been working for us for the most part. We recently wanted to add another brand and they were unable to support that so we had to look into migrating to another provider.
Pros:
The platform is a little outdated but it is easy to use.
Cons:
They do not offer muliple brands and do not have an app
UserVoice Product Review - Sound
Comments: Improved communication within departments has been the biggest problem solved with UserVoice. There is significantly less confusion about what features are being worked on, and when they will be available to our end users.
Pros:
This software platform has taken our Product Development efforts to another level. Our team now has a better idea of what our end users (and internal staff) would like to see as new features, and are now able to communicate directly with our contributors using a single platform. We are the first in our industry to have this functionality and we are excited for what it will bring to future products!
Cons:
The initial push to get going wasn't as easy as we thought, but we have found that marketing efforts and social media have helped really get things going. We still need to get our Dynamics 365 integration going, which should only make things better
UserVoice does everything it needs to, with a fantastic user experience on top
Comments: Full disclosure: I used to work at UserVoice. But I had no obligation to use it at my next job, and I had to take it through the same assessment and pitch to my executive team as any other tool. We chose UserVoice, hands down. Why? UserVoice doesn't just fit the feature requirements of a customer service tool - it's obsessively focused on the customer experience, trying and succeeding at making the customer service experience BOTH efficient and easy for everyone involved. Add on top of that an incredibly innovative feedback system that truly helps you prioritize what customers want what? You've got a seriously badass (and affordable) resource for keeping your customers happy. I'm very proud of my time at UserVoice and will continue loyally using their tools for many years.
Great Help Desk Software with a few Quirks
Pros:
Easy to use and the interface is somewhat intuitive. Works great for startups and smaller companies as this is the size of the company I am in. Support seems responsive and quick at fixing any problems.
Cons:
Sometimes a clunky interface with glitches which are not fixed quickly. Could work on their mobile UX for better ease of use.
UserVoice keeps feature requests prioritized and organized!
Pros:
UserVoice does a great job at tracking feature requests and allowing customers to "up-vote" existing requests. Listening to ever customer becomes a slippery slope and can distract your team from the product roadmap and ultimate vision. By allowing customers to see if their requests already exist and "up-vote," your team can clearly see features that will benefit the masses - these are the request to seriously consider. UserVoice helps automate and streamline this process.
Cons:
When I think of UserVoice, nothing negative comes to mind. It just works how it is intended to work :)
Simple way to have support tickets in your web app
Pros:
Super easy to integrate support ticket system in any web app. Also, the screenshot feature has been proved super-useful for our users when communicating a problem, and the feature-suggestion part is also a win.
Cons:
Email integration can be a bit confusing: it's not 100% clear if email is sent to the ticket author when replying an email ticket.