Podium Features

Provides a forum for customers to give feedback and data storage for company analysis.

Allows users to get real-time information on competitors performance and reputation.

Gives users greater visibility into the how feel and respond to reputation gaining tactics.

Helps monitor the overall performance of marketing efforts and brand establishment.

Provides a centralized hub and management tools for all data points related to online reputation.

Helps track and monitor social media trends and interactions.

Helps manage social messaging and measures the full impact of social campaigns.

Helps manage ad messaging and measures the full impact of digital advertising campaigns.

Gives visibility into employee performance and each individual's impact on reputation initiatives.

Helps establish a workflow that allows team members to communicate effectively and collaboratively.

Enables a popup chat window on company websites to encourage interaction between website visitors and designated company representatives.

Delivers notifications to both sides of the conversation.

Sends automated emails to further engage clients and potential clients.

Allows for live chat to be enabled within the app for customer help.

Allows agents to join a customer's browser session and navigate through the website with them.

Allows users to customize chat colors, text, logos, and branding.

Archives conversations in a separate location for later reference.

Enables employees to denote potential customers.

Establishes a knowledge base for employee reference during conversations.

Provides a central location for help requests, helping employees respond sooner.

Allows for the creation of profiles for contacts and customers.

Enables users to place phone calls over the internet.

Enables users to contact one anothers through mobile phones and landlines.

Offers users the option to play music for contacts who are on hold.

Offers users a unique number that can be dialed from anywhere.

Uses LLMs to generate dynamic responses within defined boundaries and business-safe content rules.

Maintains context across user turns in a single session to provide coherent, relevant responses.

Understands varied user phrasing and infers intent without relying solely on keywords or scripts.

Supports building conversational flows using predefined paths, rules, and decision trees.

Provides fallback messages or guidance when the bot cannot understand or fulfill a query.

Mapped-out responses for conversations.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbot involvement.

Live human component of conversations.

Conversations enacted over social media.

Conversations enacted through embedding or pop-ups on websites.

Conversations enacted through text message (SMS).

Conversations enacted through other channels.

Software incorporates multiple digital communications channels.

Allows incorporation of inbound contacts from non-marketing channels.

Overall quality of customer targeting based on needs or situations.

Creation and modification of customer profiles based on conversations.

Reporting based around specific and overall conversation results.

Capture and organization of leads from conversations.

Success rate of conversations leading to customer purchases.

Provides analytics tools that reveal important business metrics and track progress.

Connects to external systems and applications as needed to complete team workflows.

Is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks reliably.

Has a centralized dashboard for users to interact with

Self-monitors important metrics and sends notifications to users in-app or through email, text message or otherwise.

Provides a cloud based version of the platform

Is accessible from a mobile device and by users on the go.

Contains in-application messaging abilities

Automates some or all operation related tasks

Enables users to send mass text message campaigns

Facilitates two-way text messaging to encourage consumer engagement and loyalty

Provides the ability to schedule single or bulk text messages to recipients on a specific date and time

Provides automatic text message replies to recipients

Provides automatic URL shortening to use less characters via text

Sends out multimedia via text messages, such as coupons, pictures, and audio

Offers features for personalizing text messages based on customer information or past behavior

Allows users to establish automated workflows and triggers to deliver transactional text messages

Allows planning and deployment of an overall communications strategy.

Outbound communications are segmented and personalized.

Inbound contacts are identified and handled based on history.

Software verifies compliance with GDPR, CAN-SPAM, and other legal requirements.

Allows users to leave notes or comments on emails or relevant cases.

Allows users to create canned answers or templates for email responses.

Integrates without outside software to provide additional functionality or pull information.

Provides a tagging system to allow users to sort emails by relevant subject.

Provides API access to connect with proprietary business systems or internal data sources.

Offers embeddable widgets or SDKs for integration into websites, apps, or third-party tools.

Allows non-developers to configure and design chatbot flows via visual or no-code interfaces.

Provides personalized responses to interlocator based on segmentation or past responses.

Has tools (e.g. dashboards and reports) to better understand conversations Intelligent Virtual Assistants have had.

Can have a natural, human-like conversation with an interlocator.

Customize your chat workflows with rules and automations.

Control who the chatbot converses with (and when).

Has the ability to connect interlocator with a human agent when the need arises.

Can send triggered sequence of automated messages sent on a predefined schedule in a targeted fashion.

Allows business to edit conversations to meet the unique needs of one's business.

Gives users the ability to update systems, like CRM, based on conversations.

Allows users to maintain and observe the accuracy and viability of Intelligent Virtual Assistants.

Has the ability to customize look and feel of chatbot to match` company branding.

Gives user the ability to analyze conversations with the chatbot and see its performance.

Allows for varying access to chatbot and admin settings, depending on user, their role, etc.

Can collect and store information from interlocators, such as email, phone number, etc.

Provides pre-built or customizable performance reports

Automates tasks and features for added convenience

Text enables landline phones so users can receive text messages sent to an existing business number

Facilitates the integration of text messaging into existing business applications through an SMS gateway API

Identifies the customer and personalizes interaction at every touchpoint.

Allows multiple related channels to interact at once to reduce transfers.

Prompts agents to engage customers based on contextual data, such as product usage or conversation history.

Provides features for sending outbound messages to engage customers through proactive support.

Can route contacts to agents the customer has worked with before.

Provides features for escalating conversations to the appropriate agent.

Maintains a transcript of conversations from all channels.

Enables customers to resolve queries or issues without the assistance of an agent.

Ensures consistent performance, delivering reliable outputs based on user prompts.

Implements stringent measures to protect user data and ensure privacy.

Shows adeptness in comprehending and responding to complex or multi-part queries.

Facilitates natural and human-like conversations, delivering engaging interaction experiences.

Demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of both written and spoken user commands.

Exhibits proficiency in maintaining and utilizing context throughout a conversation.

Offers a high degree of customization to meet individual user or business requirements.

Features robust learning mechanisms, improving responses over time based on past user interactions.

Showcases the ability to recognize, correct, and learn from its own mistakes.

Displays creativity in generating diverse, interesting, and contextually relevant responses.

Produces content that is accurate, factually correct, and relevant to the user's query.

Regularly receives updates that contribute to continuous improvement of the product.

Assesses the chatbot's ability to function seamlessly across various platforms and devices.

Seamlessly integrates with other platforms or software systems, enhancing overall utility.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Allows users to automate responses to customer inquiries across various channels.

Allows users to automate responses to customer inquiries across various channels.

Allows users to automate the process of generating and qualifying sales leads.

Allows users to automate the handling, processing, and management of documents.

Provides users the ability to automate the collection and analysis of feedback from customers, employees, or other stakeholders.

Allows the AI agent to learn from interactions and adapt its responses accordingly.

Allows the AI agent to learn from interactions and adapt its responses accordingly.

Provides the AI agent the ability to execute tasks without requiring constant user input.

Allows the AI agent to identify and resolve issues without user intervention.

Contains PBX & VoIP softphone that can be used within the VoIP business system.

Manages incoming calls with features such as call forwarding, transferring, and routing.

Supports real-time network monitoring via dashboards and alerts to identify and resolve issues.

Enables integrations with communication and CRM platforms.

Provides compatibility with both hosted and virtual PBX solutions.

Supports SIP trunking services for local and long-distance calls.

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Enables tuning or updating chatbot behavior based on user feedback or admin input (non-live learning).

Includes safeguards to restrict inappropriate responses and ensure compliant language use.