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Birdeye builds AI agents for multi-location brands — trusted by the largest enterprise brands globally, including Sutter Health, Aspen Dental, Sun Auto and Caesars Entertainment. We give you AI coworkers at every location — for marketing, operations, and customer experience — that do the jobs your business needs done by employing multiple agents that work together to win AI visibility, convert demand, and deliver a consistent customer experience. Enterprise-Ready → Built for Scale SSO, audit logging, HIPAA, SOC 2, and GDPR. Role-based access, tiered approvals, and location-level reporting give corporate and local teams the control they need. So you stay in control while AI handles execution across hundreds of locations. With teams across the U.S., U.K., Australia, and India, Birdeye is redefining how enterprises win locally at scale.

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Podium is a comprehensive AI-driven lead management and communication platform utilized by over 100,000 businesses seeking to enhance customer acquisition and retention. At the heart of Podium’s innovation is its AI employee, which ensures businesses respond to incoming leads instantly around the clock, dramatically improving conversion rates and revenue growth. The platform assists businesses in generating more customer reviews, improving their Google rankings, and unifying their lead channels into a single, manageable dashboard. Through the web and mobile applications, businesses can call and text customers, send payment links for quick transactions, and deploy bulk messaging campaigns to boost repeat sales. Podium’s powerful AI-driven automations seamlessly manage customer interactions across multiple communication platforms, providing accurate and timely responses that help drive sales.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Location-based businesses of all sizes

Audience

Business owners

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$250/month
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$399 per month
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Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.8 / 5
ease 4.8 / 5
features 4.8 / 5
design 4.7 / 5
support 4.8 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.5 / 5
ease 4.8 / 5
features 4.8 / 5
design 4.7 / 5
support 4.7 / 5

Pros from Real Users

Pros

  • It helps in consolidating online reviews, surveys, & customer data in one dashboard. It also provides useful insights into customer sentiment & operational gaps.
  • The platform enables businesses to connect with customers and prospects through a variety of digital channels, including SMS, email, chat, and social media.
  • The integration that has these CRM platforms is perfect, they are very complete, it has facilitated the synchronization of a lot of data that I have from clients, thus being able to send the automatic submission of review requests more easily. This has been a great help since I do not have to manually export from other platforms to Birdeye, there are also many platforms that I can integrate with it, so I have no limits in case an integration is available and in case this happens to me I can create my own connections via the API. Birdeye has a very solid and complete mobile application, it has allowed me to access this platform from any time anywhere, thus being able to monitor any review that customers make about the experiences obtained. In addition to that I can also add answers in case a customer leaves a question within a review and also be able to send surveys in case of conducting market research. The review generation function helps me a lot to automate the process of receiving a rating from clients which I am providing a service, this has been useful to me because emails or text messages are automatically sent to clients after a transaction has been completed, asking them to rate the experience obtained and to leave a review of what their entire process was like. With this functionality I have been able to exponentially improve the positions received through different platforms, such as social networks, which can have a great impact on potential clients who want to consult my services. Keeping track of opinions is an easy task with this platform because it gives me a space where I can receive notifications when a customer leaves an opinion on one of the platforms where I have linked Birdeye and thus be aware of the most recent opinions, helping me to improve in case something is going wrong and in case it is a positive opinion to be able to know that everything is going correctly with the business which is meeting the objectives. I can also respond from the dashboard or send a private message to resolve any issues a customer may have leaving a negative review on an event they don't like. With this platform I am able to improve customer satisfaction by being able to improve the services that I am offering. Birdeye gives me the facility to import reviews from other platforms to my website to avoid the manual work process of passing reviews one by one to my website. A clear example is that this platform links the opinions of users of social networks with my website without having to make manual entries, this in order to increase credibility and my online presence. In addition to that I can also filter unwanted content in order to have responses with positive and negative feedback, and that they are not reviews that generate hatred or violence towards other clients or company staff, simply that they are constructive and high-value reviews that allow to improve the customer experience and it does not matter if it is negative or positive. The reports it provides are very complete and detailed, with analyzes that show the performance of any type of business in different channels where Birdeye is linked. This gives me an idea of how customers perceive my brand, so I can determine the areas where there is a deficiency and where it would be advisable to improve to exploit its maximum performance. I can also export this data in a CSV format so that I can perform more personalized analysis on any platform that interests or suits me.
  • The fact that we get the reviews in almost real time is great, and I love how they are posted to our website and review platforms.
  • Birdeye has some really excellent features: the review request text messaging and review response automations are very helpful for our clients. Having all online reputation management and customer interactions available on the same profile is very helpful, and being able to give our clients a login profile so they can see and respond to reviews and messages is great. The option to integrate POS systems is also very helpful.
  • I love being able to see how our patients feel after leaving our practice. We really care about their words and Birdeye makes that easy!
  • Bird eye is great we love all in one dashboard. We will continue to use this to help grow business. Definitely a recommendation.
  • Birdeye is awesome and very user friendly, never have a long wait time when calling would recommend to all our offices.
  • Birdeye has a great platform, and always communicates clearly quickly. Their user interface is very intuitive, easy to understand, and looks great!
  • I love Birdeye! They are easy to use and provide the best customer service. I have no issues with them and will definitely suggest them to other companies!

Pros from Real Users

Pros

  • The best part of this software is that you can handle all of it from your phone as if you were just texting someone. If someone hops on your website and has any questions or concerns a notification comes up on the bottom corner of the page providing a way for the visitor to contact the company. These messages do go straight to the phone of the the individual over the website, which makes the communication personable and quick.
  • Podium has an excellent interface; it has a high quality in sending files, I can send images or audios without losing quality. Besides that, I use it to create more effective communication and with guaranteed security conditions. Podium cloud is incredible for storing information.
  • This is by far the best review gathering platform for Google around. I think they are actually backed by Google.
  • To get all your reviews from different platforms makes it easier and saves time in the process. A very user friendly app which is easy to set up.
  • It makes interactions easy. Using only one platform we can reply to each and every messages. Google, Facebook, Instagram we can easily connect with our customer on any platform using this software. Responses very quickly. Simple and easy to use. Also we can check the history of any customers interaction.
  • Easy to use for both admins & users Efficient Review tracking Great dashboard for comprehensive view Integration with many platforms like Google, Facebook Automated Review invites feature Responsive customer service
  • The interface for both the administrator and customer is very simple and attractive. I can easily send someone a review invite in within few seconds that goes directly to the customer's phone. It's very effective and quick.
  • Clients can leave Google locals and Facebook review with some clicks. Which makes your business get recognized. Attractive and clean overall user interface. Easy to respond on negative feedback.
  • We've used this with a lot of our clients and it's a great way to send out sms reviews on the go and live chat on your website.
  • Easy to use and very simplistic. Encompasses everything you'd need to set up reviews to gather from customers.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Birdeye
Founded: 2012
United States
birdeye.com

Company Information

Podium
Founded: 2014
United States
www.podium.com

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Categories

Categories

Customer Communications Management Features

Batch Communications
Chat / Messaging
Content Management
Email Distribution
Interactive Content
Multi-Channel Communications
On-Demand Communications
Personalization
Print Management
Template Management
Video Content

Customer Experience Features

Action Management
Analytics
Customer Segmentation
Dashboard
Feedback Management
Knowledge Management
Multi-Channel Collection
Sentiment Analysis
Survey Management
Text Analysis
Trend Analysis

Customer Satisfaction Features

360 Degree Feedback
Analytics
Call Reporting
Complaint Monitoring
Feedback Collection
Survey Management

Live Chat Features

Canned Responses
Customizable Branding
Geo Targeting
Offline Form
Proactive Chat
Screen Sharing
Third Party Integration
Transfers / Routing
Website Visitor Tracking

Local Marketing Features

Advertising Management
CRM
Email Marketing
Feedback Management
Live Chat
NAP Management (Name/Address/Phone)
Online Listings Management
PR Management
Reporting / Analytics
Review Management
SEO Management
Social Media Management
Store Locator
Website Management

Payment Processing Features

ACH Check Transactions
Bitcoin Compatible
Debit Card Support
Gift Card Management
Mobile Payments
Online Payments
POS Transactions
Receipt Printing
Recurring Billing
Signature Capture

Reputation Management Features

Campaign Management
Gamification
Response Management
Review Generation
Review Monitoring
Sentiment Analysis
Social Media Metrics
Social Media Monitoring
White Label

Review Management Features

Campaign Management
Dashboard
Negative Feedback Management
Response Management
Review Monitoring
Review Notification
Review Request
Sentiment Analysis
Social Sharing
White Label

SMS Marketing Features

2-Way Messaging
Artificial Intelligence
Contact Management
Mass Texting
Message Personalization
MMS
Mobile Coupons
Mobile Keywords
Polls / Voting
Reporting/Analytics
Scheduled Messaging
Shortcodes
Text-to-Win

Survey Features

Custom Survey URLs
Data Analysis Tools
Email Marketing
Mobile Survey
Offline Response Collection
Paper Survey
Question Branching
Question Library
Site Intercept Survey
Skip Logic
Supports Audio / Images / Video

Brand Protection Features

Case Management
Domain Monitoring
Investigation Management
Marketplace Monitoring
Mobile App Monitoring
Paid Search Monitoring
Prioritization
Social Media Monitoring

Competitive Intelligence Features

Alerts/Notifications
Benchmarking
Competing Product Analysis
Keyword Tracking
Social Media Monitoring
Trend Analysis
Website Monitoring

Conversational Marketing Features

Appointment Scheduling
Audience Segmentation
Chatbot
Email Automation
Group Messaging
Human Handover
Lead Distribution
Lead Qualification
Mobile Messaging
Multi-Channel Communication
Product Recommendations
Video Chat

Customer Engagement Features

Analytics
Churn Management
Communication Management
Community Management
Content Syndication
Feedback Collection
Gamification
Live Chat
Video Content

Referral Features

Affiliate Marketing
Campaign Management
Contact Management
Employee Referral Management
Feedback Management
Lead Engagement
Loyalty Program
Referral Tracking
Rewards Management

SEO Features

A/B Testing
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Auditing
Competitor Analysis
Content Management
Dashboard
Google Analytics Integration
Keyword Research Tools
Keyword Tracking
Link Management
Localization
Mobile Search Tracking
Rank Tracking
Revenue Management
User Management

Social Media Monitoring Features

Audience Segmentation
Competitive Analysis
Configurable Alerts
Customer Engagement
Dashboard
Impact Scoring
Influencer Tracking
Reputation Management
Sentiment Analysis
Trend Tracking

Customer Communications Management Features

Batch Communications
Chat / Messaging
Content Management
Email Distribution
Interactive Content
Multi-Channel Communications
On-Demand Communications
Personalization
Print Management
Template Management
Video Content

Customer Experience Features

Action Management
Analytics
Customer Segmentation
Dashboard
Feedback Management
Knowledge Management
Multi-Channel Collection
Sentiment Analysis
Survey Management
Text Analysis
Trend Analysis

Customer Satisfaction Features

360 Degree Feedback
Analytics
Call Reporting
Complaint Monitoring
Feedback Collection
Survey Management

Live Chat Features

Canned Responses
Customizable Branding
Geo Targeting
Offline Form
Proactive Chat
Screen Sharing
Third Party Integration
Transfers / Routing
Website Visitor Tracking

Local Marketing Features

Advertising Management
CRM
Email Marketing
Feedback Management
Live Chat
NAP Management (Name/Address/Phone)
Online Listings Management
PR Management
Reporting / Analytics
Review Management
SEO Management
Social Media Management
Store Locator
Website Management

Payment Processing Features

ACH Check Transactions
Bitcoin Compatible
Debit Card Support
Gift Card Management
Mobile Payments
Online Payments
POS Transactions
Receipt Printing
Recurring Billing
Signature Capture

Reputation Management Features

Campaign Management
Gamification
Response Management
Review Generation
Review Monitoring
Sentiment Analysis
Social Media Metrics
Social Media Monitoring
White Label

Review Management Features

Campaign Management
Dashboard
Negative Feedback Management
Response Management
Review Monitoring
Review Notification
Review Request
Sentiment Analysis
Social Sharing
White Label

Customer Feedback Features

Alerts / Notifications
Behavior Analytics
Bug Reports
Community Feedback Tools
Live Chat
Negative Feedback Management
Net Promoter Score (NPS)
Screenshot / Screen Capture
Surveys
User Testing Tools
Video Feedback
Visual Feedback Tools
Voice of the Customer (VoC)
Website Feedback

Customer Service Features

Alerts / Escalation
Appointment Management
Call Center Management
Email Management
Knowledge Base
Live Chat
Performance Metrics
Queue Management
Self Service Portal
Social Media Integration
Surveys & Feedback
Virtual Assistant
Workflow Management

Lead Generation Features

Contact Discovery
Contact Import/Export
Lead Capture
Lead Database Integration
Lead Nurturing
Lead Scoring
Lead Segmentation
Pipeline Management
Prospecting Tools
Visitor Identification

Integrations

Denticon
Facebook
Google Business Profile
JobNimbus
Nextech
QuickBooks Online
Refold
STORIS
Stackreaction
Xero
AIM POS
Clio
Covetrus Pulse
DentiMax
Ema
Fivestars
Rent Manager
WinOMS
Wufoo
X (Twitter)

Integrations

Denticon
Facebook
Google Business Profile
JobNimbus
Nextech
QuickBooks Online
Refold
STORIS
Stackreaction
Xero
AIM POS
Clio
Covetrus Pulse
DentiMax
Ema
Fivestars
Rent Manager
WinOMS
Wufoo
X (Twitter)