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Gist Overview

What is Gist?

Gist is a suite of tools businesses use to market, sell and communicate with their customers. And we're on a mission to help marketing, sales and support teams create great customer experiences in every interaction across the customer lifecycle, at scale. Today, over 10,000 businesses are using Gist and we're just getting started. Customers use us to talk to their leads and customers and be that central source of truth. We believe that we’re in the middle of a huge shift in SaaS space towards all-in-one platforms and we need your help. Join us on this journey and help us transform the way people run businesses :)

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Gist (formerly ConvertFox) is a comprehensive software platform designed to streamline businesses’ marketing, sales, and customer support operations. Through its suite of tools, Gist offers live chat, email marketing automation, event tracking, lead generation forms, and knowledge bases, all unified under a single dashboard. This integration provides a seamless experience for managing customer journeys from initial contact to continued engagement.Gist's platform is particularly noted for its ability to track user interactions and behavior on websites, enabling businesses to tailor their communications based on detailed customer insights. The goal of Gist is to help businesses cultivate better relationships with their customers by providing personalized and timely communication solutions. By automating various aspects of customer interactions, Gist allows businesses to focus on delivering higher value services and products.

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Alex S.
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Alex S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
0.0 out of 5
"Trashed company"
All-in-one functionality for ticketing, live chat, help desk, AI assistant for internal team and customers.
Patrick F.
PF
Patrick F.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Gist is a good choise as a CRM"
The thing we liked best about Gist is that it is an all-inclusive platform within which you can do both marketing and business process management. ...
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Andy L.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"A great CRM solution for Solopreneurs"
I've found Gist to be a very intuitive software to set up. It integrates well with my existing SOP and the support through both Knowledgebase and W...

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Gist Demo - Share Team Inbox
Talk to the right people in the right place, at the right time – on your website and inside of your app. Stop chasing uninterested leads, and proactively reach out to the people who are most engaged on your site right now.
Gist Demo - Email Marketing
Increase sales by sending each lead a hand-crafted email campaign. Trigger emails and drip campaigns automatically using interactions and behaviors of your users.
Gist Demo - Popups & Forms
Capture every possible lead by creating and testing multiple forms. Configure forms to show on any page and anytime you set by using preset display conditions to fine tune your list building.
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What do you like best about Gist?

1. Software is constantly updating and improving.

2. They have responsive support that are always ready to answer any questions.

3. They are ready to help. They moved our knowledge base from another provider to make it easier for us to move. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

1. They had some bugs in their WYSIWYG . However, these are now fixed.

2. Our email templates broken after one of their system's update Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have been using Gist for several months for live chat, email marketing automation, and knowledge base. We switched from more expensive solution. Gist fully meets our needs and offers an adequate price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Gist?

- simple and fast set-up

- Linking between crm and supportdesk

- engaged support

- messenger Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

- onboarding for new users could be even simpler

- Visitor detection could be improved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gist:

If you need kind of simple service desk, knowledgebase, crm and onlinemarketing, then consider the all in one approach of gist. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

- Support kb

- Service desk Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vinson L.
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Founder
Marketing and Advertising
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Gist?

If you are looking to improve your customer service, then you definitely want to check Gist. Their all-in-one tool has live chat, email marketing, knowledgebase, meetings, sales process automation and lead capture forms. Their tools also integrates with most popular saas platforms so you can combine your business tools functionality to streamline all your processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

What I don't like right now is their lead capture forms which are too basic. Hope they can also come up with a highly customizable form editor so that we can create beautiful and enticing forms to capture leads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gist:

I personally recommend Gist for business owners who are looking to solve customer related concerns on their website at the same time looking for email marketing software to be used on their email list. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Customer service such as answering enquiries via livechat. We have seen live chat is very effective and it will increase your site conversion as they know someone on the backend of our website is always there to answer our customers' questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Gist?

I'd compare Gist to Intercom. It's a platform for managing your customer contacts and your communications with them. You can field inquiries for onsite chat, Facebook Messenger, and Twitter Direct Messages in a single location. Gist aggregates all your support channels.

We use Gist for managing support and for communicating with property owners. I've not once experienced and outage. It always performs quickly. There's an iOS app.

User experience is more than an app. It's the support you receive with it and how quickly the team responds to feedback. I genuinely like Gist's support team. They're a great bunch of people. On couple occasions, they're deployed changes in the same day. They always follow-up. A+ on the people side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

The one major change I want to see is how Gist user identity is managed. A single user can have multiple projects. That's fine. However, user identity is persistent across projects in an account, and there is no concept of an admin user. So, if you're communicating as two different entities -- abc.com and xyz.com -- you need to create a separate Gist account. While that's manageable, it's unmanageable in the iOS app. You can only be logged-in with one account at a time. If the model will continue as multi-project to single-domain, that's okay. However, in that configuration, the iOS app needs multi-account support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Managing support via email is untenable. Stuff gets lost. Wires get crossed. Aggregating support enables us to provide higher quality service to our customers. It also allows team members to add notes, so we can have a record of why any given decision was achieved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joseph H.
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Marketing and Advertising
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Gist?

The best part of Gist is it allows me to segment and target different messages to different users based on the actions they take on my website through email, or in my case live chat. Their segmentation and automation capabilities provides endless possibilities. Additionally, their integration with Zapier means I can connect all aspects of my marketing stack with Gist. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

Gist does take some time to setup and implement - so it's not exactly plug and play. It would be great if they had more resources for training and guides. Additionally, I look forward to more direct supported integrations with other platforms and tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gist:

Gist is comprehensive end-to-end solution for B2B marketing that includes a livechat/chatbot, email, and even social messages (Facebook and Twitter). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Initially, I wanted a simple chat interface for my website. After implementing Gist, I realized there's a ton more opportunities with their rich feature-set of automation tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrew B.
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Career Mapping Navigator | Teacher of Self Education | Online Course Creator
Marketing and Advertising
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What do you like best about Gist?

Love the updated interface and ease of installing on wordpress with the plugin. It's got everything. I was skeptical that one program could provide so much (email, website/social chat integration, marketing, forms integrations, workflows, calendaring, bots) AND do it without causing heartburn or with missing features. As a founding user, it was first called ConvertFox. When I signed up, I was excited, but found that the tool was really in Alpha status. I've seen it through both Alpha and Beta, and I really feel that the wait was worth it. The tool is now really well positioned to make a splash in the integrated marketing space. I am really encouraged at the cadence in which the development team is releasing new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

Customer service is spotty at best. Often a boilerplate/scripted response to a specific request. Although, I haven't had to reach out to support much recently because the program is running so much better. Would be nice to have more communication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gist:

Strongly consider it. The system is good and getting better. It's like Intercom meets Convertkit and TimeTrade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Setting up autoresponders, chatting with website users and online course students, tracking users on website and marketing products and services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MT
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Apparel & Fashion
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What do you like best about Gist?

The best thing about Gist is that it is a complete CRM solution for any business and has all the necessary features that you need in one place. You don't need to buy 2-3 softwares for managing your users if you have Gist. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

Gist provides so much features that's why the on-boarding and setup experience can be a bit confusing for new users. It requires time to understand and implement all it's features but it's not a con really. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gist:

If you need a complete one spot solution to manage your business and does not want the hassle of using different softwares for different needs then Gist is for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Gist helps us to be there for our users as and when required through the live chat feature and respond to the user queries instantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Gist?

There are a lot of different ways to do things. I love how I can tag users based on their actions and send out an email blast or even a drip campaign to only people with a specific tag Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

It is hard to know where to start because there is so much to it and as far as I can tell there isn't a "getting started guide" to help new people who may be overwhelmed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gist:

They have a ton of documentation that you really should read. Without it its like swimming with rocks tied to your legs. The documentation and the support they offer really what make this great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Mainly they're who I use to send out emails and I'm working in other integrations with other services that are supported to build out what I can do with their automation software. I hope to really be able to identify what my traffics specific interests are and really go deep with it to get them what they want. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Leonardo W.
LW
Fundador Eikonikos
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What do you like best about Gist?

We started to use Gist a couple years ago, when they used to be called ConvertFox. When they started the tool it was possible to notice some hiccups, but team started to upgrade it, and release a lot of new features. Today, Gist is a super powerful tool, with things like:

- email automation,

- knowledge base,

- bots,

- site automation

- Powerful automations based on visitor action,

- broadcasts, drip campaigns, behavioral email marketing and way more.

The email deliverability rates now are also pretty high, and is our go to tool for our main website.

Get it, worth every dollar Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

The only thing I still don't see, is the visual flow builder for the emails, but I heard they will implement it soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

This tool help us to solve all our marketing automation needs, from email to knowledge base to share knowledge with our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jignesh P.
JP
Founder
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What do you like best about Gist?

Like ancient Greek mythology god Zeus, Gist is for small business owners like us, i am associated with gist when it was called converfox, U am super happy with this awesome tool since than. I am hoping to get constantly surprised and amazed in future with the features they are coming up with one by one at speed of a bullet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

Earlier the mobile app lagging, but now its rectified Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gist:

awesome tool, go for it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Customer interaction on the go and email automation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.