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Gist Reviews & Product Details

Gist Overview
What is Gist?

Gist is an all-in-one, feature-rich email marketing platform that empowers site owners to bridge the communication gap between them and their audience. The platform offers an email builder that lets users create and broadcast automated emails, upsell and cross-sell emails, consolidate multiple communication channels and provide access to live chat and chatbot widgets. The advanced cross-channel messaging features boost audience engagement and interaction and Gist’s free plan is quite comprehensive.

Company Gist
Year founded 2016
Company size 11-50 employees
Headquarters Tampa, Florida, United States
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Gist Product Details
Capabilities
AI
API
Segment
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
Training Documentation
Languages English
Gist Pros and Cons
Pros
  • Free plan is quite comprehensive
  • Supports advanced cross-channel messaging
  • Offers buildable forms and popups
Cons
  • Clunky chat history functionality
  • Limited integrations
Gist Features
Agent Collaboration
Agent Performance Analytics
Audio and Video Chat
Automated Responses
CRM Integration
Canned Responses
Chat Encryption
Chat History
Chat Routing
Chat Tags
Chat Transcripts
Chat Transfer
Chatbot Integration
Co-Browsing
Custom Branding
Customizable Chat Widgets
Email Integration
Feedback Collection
File Sharing
Mobile Compatibility
Multi-language Support
Offline Messaging
Proactive Chat Invitations
Queue Management
Real-Time Chat
Social Media Integration
Typing Indicators
Visitor Analytics
Visitor Information Dashboard
Visitor Tracking
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215 Gist Reviews
4.6 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 01, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Kaushal B. avatar
Kaushal B.
Director & Co Founder
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"Best customer support Automation Product"
What do you like best about Gist?

In GIST, Email automation and event tracking are the best. In our SaaS Platform https://callerdesk.io , we are using all of its features whether its knowledge base for product information or its Live chat feature.

What do you dislike about Gist?

Basically all product and features are good but we have seen that, they are providing web forms which are quite basic and simple. Hope in future, they will upgrade it .

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

We are using GIST for best after sales customer support services via knowledge base & live chat. Also using Email automation for connecting new prospects.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 24, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Oliver B. avatar
Oliver B.
Founder
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"Powerhouse rising"
What do you like best about Gist?

Gist offers a lot of great features. I particularly like the fact that emails and website chat are integrated. This, along with data the platform gathers, segmentation and triggers enables advanced and personalised messaging to really keep users engaged.

What do you dislike about Gist?

The native pop-ups need a little more development. They offer great targeting options but lack the ability to add an image to the lightbox popup.

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

Lead magnet delivery and drip feed email campaigns. User tracking and intel, website chat (when users are logged in).

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 06, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Samuel B. avatar
Samuel B.
Owner
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"Easy to use"
What do you like best about Gist?

I like that this is really easy to use : a simple js script to include in my application and I can have a tool to help my users.

What do you dislike about Gist?

The downside is that this is a saas application : very useful for my usage, but it means I cannot use the solution for some clients with strict cloud policies in europe

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

I can see the activity of my application and I track the pages they visited : this is helpful when I try to know how an user landed on a specific page

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 05, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"A great all in one tool for marketing"
What do you like best about Gist?

I like I got almost all the must have tools in one pack for communication. Advanced email automation that is just got a new function of graphical campaign builder. Also, my subscription is include a live chat and a chat bot and both works well with my sites. No slowing down or other script issues that are not common in this kind of services. If I had an issue the team was super responsive and helpful, that is essential for every business. The email delivery is great, so virtually no email has landed into spam folder. Finally, the knowledge base is an excellent alternative for other Saas solutions. We just started to use this feature and our team is very satisfied with the results. Interface: I like the UI that is modern, simple but highly usable. The developer is keeping taking care of it and the user experience is constantly evolving.

What do you dislike about Gist?

Rarely a few glitches can slow me down, but usually it's not a typical issue. Also, a few months back we experienced some email delivery problems, but the Gist team finally fixed it. It's hard to say a bad word about it. I'd like to see it have multiple knowledge bases.

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

It's all about marketing communication. It solves the email marketing and chat needs. Also, the knowledge base is very handy for our company as we wanted to share tips and tricks and short tutorials.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 03, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Fahiem J. avatar
Fahiem J.
Senior It Consulant
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"Better communication = More conversion = More Moola"
What do you like best about Gist?

I like using Gist chat on my website, it helped me communicate with potential prospects that would otherwise have just bounced to the next site. The backend is cool with location information and captured lead details.

What do you dislike about Gist?

The URL to get to gist portal is a bit hard for me remember.

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

I was getting alot of website visitors but very low conversions, I sell high ticket items and users seem to only convert once there is an element of trust. Gist helps with visits who do not want to email or phone but are more willing to shoot an instant message.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 30, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
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Aleksandar N.
Content Manager
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"A pleasant smooth ride where you constantly get new surprises in the form of fancy new features"
What do you like best about Gist?

Analyzing and segmenting contacts has become a breeze. With their amazing segmenting feature, it becomes extremely easy to look at what your contacts are engaging with and automatically have a "bird's eye view" of your contacts.

What do you dislike about Gist?

The workflow builder/journey builder is not good enough for us to switch over to a higher-level of gist. We're currently using a lower plan that doesn't include the journey builder. So we combine our Gist account and use it alongside an AutoPilot account (because that one has a better journey builder). And also because of a few quirks (custom fields on gist have weird limitations that autopilot doesn't).

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

Tracking lead engagement with our marketing material.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 29, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
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Ale R.
Editor
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"Nice solution for email marketing, support and livechat"
What do you like best about Gist?

I use several livechat and helps, what i like about Gist is they offert a nice solution for work with B2B and B2C What i like about gist is: - livechat - the email - the tracking url (you can view what pages the visitor view) - The marketing automation is good - Really Good integrations The best for my is the chat prompt because you can livechat, help and for capturing lead.

What do you dislike about Gist?

The founder (Jitta) is cool, but the support is really slow. They also face some delivery problem with the email they work and my account still get block it....so is really annoying Also... at fist, the plataform was really slow but they improved alot.

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

Insted of using a "pop up" we use gist on landing page like livechat, help and for capturing lead. Very usefull. Is really usefull, for selling, contact or support.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 29, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Excellent Email Marketing & Funnels Software."
What do you like best about Gist?

Easy to use, email marketing suite. I have LTD and since i have started using it in 2018, there has been lots of changes as promised by Gist Team.

What do you dislike about Gist?

Email templates are lacking. Though it's in the roadmap, currently we have to configure the template in HTML/CSS. I am sure the team is working on Email templates for Pro Users.

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

I use it for email marketing and alternate to Mail Chimp.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 27, 2019
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Overall Rating:
4.0
AY
Abu Y.
Proprietor
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"I was an early Gist adopter..."
What do you like best about Gist?

...and from being a very basic software it has come on in leaps and bounds, so much that I now use it as my main software for all things marketing

What do you dislike about Gist?

Sometimes integrations can be a bit slow as others systems don't recognise Gist, but this is changing

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

Ease of use, drip campaigns, on-boarding

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 25, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
MB
Madhav B.
Marketing Lead
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"Good for bloggers"
What do you like best about Gist?

Live chat is great, drip emails are quite good, support is GREAT

What do you dislike about Gist?

Mobile app could be better and too many features in the app atm

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

Gist helps in running my blogging business. I used 5 tools before and now I use just 1.