Avochato

4,7 (131)
SMS texting and live chat for sales, support & ops teams

Overall rating

4,7 /5
(131)
Value for Money
4,6/5
Features
4,5/5
Ease of Use
4,7/5
Customer Support
4,8/5

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Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Political Organization
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Simple, intuitive platform for customer outreach

Reviewed on 2018/11/17

I love them and the team are incredibly responsive, and they've opened up a whole new channel for us to engage with our customers/constituents

Pros

Amazing, intuitive user interface. No technical background needed to implement. Amazingly thoughtful and responsive team, with a growing product that will only get better. Avochato made having a unified SMS front for our constituents super easy.

Cons

Sometimes it's hard to find old conversations while using the mobile version of the app, but that might be user error

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Excellent with a couple huccups

Reviewed on 2018/11/16

We are reaching lots of individuals quickly. Avochato support is quick to respond via text or email when issues arise.

Pros

I liked it being user friendly and that it meets the demands for our company. I like how Avochato is willing to work with us to make it better and more personalized for our type of business.

Cons

The app does not load fast enough for us to look for the information we need if we are out and about. The app has crashed and difficult in times when we need to make phone calls.

Taylor
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

Average Avochato

Reviewed on 2018/11/16

Pros

Avochato works well for our company because all of the conversations are synced with Salesforce and allow everyone to see conversations.

Cons

I do not like that you can't send pictures via the app. You also cannot put someone on speaker phone when you call from the app. Sometimes it takes a long time to receive voicemails. I know that I have one waiting, but it won't let me listen to it.

Peter
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  • Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism
  • Company size: 501–1 000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Invaluable tool for us

Reviewed on 2020/02/29

We have seen an immediate change is speed of response for seasonal employees who are typically of college / millennial age who are always on their phones and not their email.

Pros

Avochato and it's API integration has been gaming changing for both our customer acquisition and seasonal employee hiring.

Cons

Honestly not much, it's the perfect tool for us.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

Avochato Review

Reviewed on 2018/11/21

Pros

It's a very simple, easy to use, and does the job of a texting platform!

Cons

There were quite a few bugs that popped up that made use difficult, but the support team was usually able to rectify the problems within a few hours.

Michael
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Excellent experience.

Reviewed on 2017/07/06

Pros

I really like the integration to Slack, and the ability to send pictures via SMS messaging from the dashboard.

Response from Avochato

Thanks Michael! Glad you've enjoyed the Avochato experience. We use our own Slack integration side-by-side with Avochato to support our own customers, and we love it too!

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great SMS Platform for Teams - Highly Recommend!

Reviewed on 2019/03/19

We have successfully switched over to Avochato for our team of 22 sales people and everyone loves it! It also makes my life as an Administrator a lot easier because the leads are automatically round-robined to my team.

Pros

I like the fact that Avochato takes care of the round-robin rotation of leads as they come through in real-time.

Cons

The software is very easy-to-use. I really don't have any complaints that I can think of for Avochato. Great system at a great price!

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Customer Service 10/10

Reviewed on 2018/11/16

So far, I'm impressed.

Pros

It enables companies & brands to effectively communicate with their audiences via one medium. People tend to feel more comfortable with a brand when there's a phone number provided to contact them directly. Not to mention, being able to assign messages to people is another bonus.

Cons

Some slight hiccups in the beginning when trying to figure out the zapier integration, but the customer support staff is remarkable.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Defense & Space
  • Company size: 5 001–10 000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Texting for Recruiting

Reviewed on 2018/11/16

Pros

I use it to follow up on previous communications with candidates. It allows me to quickly text a number of people.

Cons

The biggest negative is that some people call the number after receiving a text, which does not work well.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

What a difference it has made to our business

Reviewed on 2018/11/16

Pros

extremely easy role out and implementation. we were able to integrate with our website and have now saved money since we no longer need a webchat...we just text.

Cons

there really are not too many things we are concerned with this software. we would like a little more ability to alter the website widget, but they were able to help us out a bit in the beginning.

Ariana
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  • Industry: Hospitality
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Mainstream and easy

Reviewed on 2019/08/01

Mainstream, (everyone texts) simple, and great guest experience when they can simply text us questions about their upcoming vacation or any maintenance issues when the arrive.

Pros

What I like most about this software is it gives not only our guests and vendors a mainstream and easy way to communicate with us but Avochato is also very user friendly, simple and an overall amazing platform for commercial purposes. The text Broadcast feature is a great way for use to send a que’d message to over 1,000 in-house guest timely and efficiently. Customization is also something I have been very impressed with this company. Our tech team has worked hard with them to meet our needs as a small company to ensure we are using all features and resources to the greatest extent we can.

Cons

I can’t complain much, truthfully. One thing that our company is working with Avochato on is automatic “close-out” of our housekeeping survey. The company has worked diligently and closely with us to help meet our very personal needs.

Brooke
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  • Industry: Hospitality
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Ease & Efficiency

Reviewed on 2018/11/27

Not only drinking the koolaid but I’m eating the guac! I’ve experienced the progression of Avochato. The team actively listens and rapidly responds to your business needs.

Pros

It’s the people! Avochato support team is not only quick to acknowledge your request, but reliably provides solution(s) or an alternative method. Other notable pros- ease of sending one or 1,000 messages with a few clicks, custom fields & templates for mass broadcasting, broadcast analytics

Cons

Lack of reporting. Interested in exporting data from broadcasts, tags, contacts. Ie: contacts that have replied stop or start

‘Out of Office Reply’ interested in the functionality of sending ooo replies to any contact who reaches us outside of business hours, not just to new contacts.

Melanie
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  • Industry: Publishing
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Let people text you

Reviewed on 2021/02/26

This program makes it easier for me and my team to stay on top of things. We love the communication we have with our clients now. I recommend this program to all. My small business is running even more smoothly with this program.

Pros

I really like the option of texting, live chat or calling. It gives me the flexibility I need. Customers can reach me or team members with ease. I've gotten positive feedback from my clients and my team. It's easy to use and customize to my business.

Cons

I really haven't found a down side to this program.. yet. I may in time though. I'm pleased with it so far.

Michael
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great Customer Support. Interactive & Intuitive.

Reviewed on 2017/08/10

Save money, time, and expand my options for marketing.

Pros

It will allow me to scale my business in real estate sales. I can get creative and improve my marketing and service for leads and clients. I just added my first assistant and I'm beginning to add more members to my team so that I can expand my business. The features in this software will allow me to delegate a portion of my workflow to others. I like that they're expanding features and willing to accept feedback/suggestions to improve the product over time.

Response from Avochato

Thanks Michael! It's been great working with you. We're seeing more and more real estate agents sign up for Avochato. As you mentioned, it helps them save time and effort by delegating some communications to others while keeping the primary agent fully in the driver's seat. Looking forward to continuing to work together and build out great tools together for our real estate customers!

Dave
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  • Industry: Hospitality
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Simple to use but extremely effective with driving guest hospitality

Reviewed on 2018/11/16

Pros

Quick setup, easy to train on, easy to use. Flexibility to use with multiple parties (guests, owners, vendors, internal staff). Search capability is very powerful.

Cons

Would love to see it be able to integrate with other platform software.

Krish
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  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

A great product with great customer service

Reviewed on 2018/11/20

Overall fantastic - we schedule a quarterly call to make sure we're using all the new features.

Pros

Ease of use. I have my entire team using it. Took less than 3 hrs onboarding.

Cons

I think it needs more features like recording calls.

Abdi
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great Service!

Reviewed on 2018/11/29

Excellent service! Quick to respond to any questions! Hats off to customer service. The Kiger Group owes you alot!

Pros

The software is simple and easy to use.

Cons

Uploading can be difficult at first however, great customer service staff are always there to help via phone, video conference, or simple email exchange!

Tracy
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  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

OUTSTANDING customer service and the software has helped us tremendously.

Reviewed on 2018/03/06

Pros

The fact that we can "text" our technicians through this program versus from our phones have saved us so much time.

Cons

Once you text a technician, another corporate employee can "take over" the transmission which takes away from yours. This is something their team is working on and they have work arounds.

Ashley
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Our experience with Avochato has been amazing. By far the best Customer Support I have ever...

Reviewed on 2018/05/16

Pros

The software is extremely user friendly. I love how it is a text messaging format compared to other companies where it looks like more of an email thread. I also love the emojis available for conversations. It helps to personalize the experience with our customers rather than the conversation feeling more robotic.

Cons

I honestly can't say much about what I like the least. Anything I have needed for better metrics/analytics Avochato has made sure to provide that information for me. They are an amazing company to work with and I am highly satisfied with this partnership this far.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Food & Beverages
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Great SMS customer support software with awesome features

Reviewed on 2018/11/16

Pros

Easy to use, easy to manage multiple teams and phone numbers, great API for automation

Cons

Software is a bit laggy and glitchy, requiring multiple refreshes. Also iPhone app lacks a lot of essential features

Erin
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  • Industry: Research
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Review

Reviewed on 2018/11/16

Pros

Its very easy to use and is quite accessible

Cons

Have not run into anything that has been difficult to use.

Marsha
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  • Industry: Recreational Facilities & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Potentially great platform

Reviewed on 2018/11/27

I think this would be a good way to reach people. It seems quite professional but in some ways it is a little too impersonal. Several people thought I was a computer (not a real person). Not sure if that is the software fault or a problem with the script.

Pros

The layout was good and easy to understand. There seemed to be lots of options that you could use to personalize the site.

Cons

At some point one of the options, "left a message" disappeared and it wasn't clear to me why. I missed the opportunity to learn how to use the software and it took me a little while to figure it out. More importantly, I was inundated with emails not directed to me and I couldn't opt out of receiving them so I had to delete all the ones I got and block receiving them. It seemed like they were intended for the organizer who is not me.

Sarah
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Easy B2B Texting Solution

Reviewed on 2018/11/16

Overall, Avochato is a great platform. They have capabilities that I had previously thought were exclusive to other platforms. Their sales team is professional and fun to chat with. The software is easy to use and learn. Overall I think Avochato is a great product.

Pros

Overall, I loved the ease of use with this product. The platform itself is designed in a way that is easy to understand and use. Texting clients helps to build trust with our brand and this is definitely a great solution for that need.

Cons

We are really looking for a texting solution that allows us to send native video. So far, we have been unable to find this. Avochato allows you to send links to hosted videos, such as YouTube or Vimeo. But we want to be able to load MP4s as if we were using a cellphone.

Adam
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  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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Super easy to set up and when any issues arise, support is prompt.

Reviewed on 2018/06/21

Pros

Very clean interface, everything makes sense organizationally speaking, and most importantly, it integrates right into our CRM software.

Cons

Nothing really. Once in a blue moon there is a deliverability glitch but in the (I think) almost year we've been using it I can only recall 2 times, and I'm the only user.

Rocky
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  • Industry: Building Materials
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Avochato has been a great feature that we now can reliably offer customers to send their order...

Reviewed on 2018/03/08

Pros

Ease of use and implementation. Avochato is very user friendly and pretty straight forward to use. We have orders sent in via text from one of our bigger volume clients and is a very efficient method of taking orders in. Support is very helpful and responsive.