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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.
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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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Christopher P.
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What do you like best about Gist?

I love how easy GIST was to set up and the features that are continually being added on. Being an early adopter of digital marketing products, it's hard to find ones that continue to deliver on their promises to improve the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

I wish the basic automation was visual so you could map your marketing sequence out for emails. I thought this was going to be part of my plan, but it wasn't. Could have been an honest mistake. The original UIX wasn't very appealing or intuitive, but they've done a great job improving these areas with their new UIX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gist:

If you're looking for a suite of marketing products that integrate together to make your life easier, give Gist a shot. They're continually optimizing their product and adding new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I'm using this as my email marketing platform, live chat, and scheduling platform. I'm very pleased to have all these products integrated together, along with the ability to add a knowledge base in the future. It's already been helpful to see which prospects have reached out via chat, so I can tag them and send email campaigns to them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andie S.
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What do you like best about Gist?

Great tool for managing contacts and much more. In-app messaging system with calendar integration for scheduling meetings makes setting up calls a breeze. We can also directly send knowledge base articles from within the messenger. Ability to tag/assign tickets/conversations to other team mates so there's no need to use supplemental tools for task assignments. Tracks user activity and provides real-time data! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

The only thing missing is the ability to merge tickets/conversations but I was informed that it's in the works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am a customer support specialist so I answer sales inquiries, FAQs and perform product demos. It makes the entire process seamless so I don't have to toggle between different tools/apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JD
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What do you like best about Gist?

What i like about Gist is their price combined with their essential marketing tools that you need every day on your operation. Whatever website you have, you need GIst. Gist have been evolving with a very clear and robust roadmap. I like were the company is headed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

What i dislike are very few things. Maybe more integrations with popular platforms Wordpress and popular Wordpress Membership site plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gist:

Give it a try. They are a full fledged support and marketing machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The problems i am solving are, having an essential tool all companies need to have at an affordable price. They don`t take advantage of their position of being an essential tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gist:

Is a nice tool, is not perfect but they work alot to improved. If you looking for a livechat for selling, support or lead capture is really good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Gist?

We are using different systems in our day to day life but we are looking for all in one automation tool to make it simple and centralize. Then we found GIST (Formerly ConvertFox) and it fulfilled most of the requirements. We are able to close the deal and connect with the customer fast and in a uniform way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

I am LTD user of the GIST(Formerly ConvertFox) and new features are not added into the LTD account users, that is the big disappointment for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gist:

Product is more than 2 years old and Tested very well, So you can easily trust on them for product level usage. The team behind the product is really good so the future release will be really helpful in your business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are using it for Support Chat, ChatBot, and Email Campaigns. And It simply provides a seamless experience in all modules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Gist?

The combination of live chat and email marketing makes it far easier to connect with leads and nurture them till they are ready to buy. It’s a much more friendly experience for the visitors to my site than trying to get them to force them into my funnel my way. With the added integrations, I can get the information I collect into my CRM to track leads and manually take over from automation sequences when the timing is right. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

Although there are almost limitless integrations with zapier, I’d like more native integrations which are easier to set up. Also the embedded form options are slightly limited and more tricky to implement than some options from Mailchimp or ConvertKit. Despite setting up the WordPress plugin, I still get tracking error messages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Gist helps me nurture leads for my copywriting services. The live chat provides relevant prompts on website pages which show different awareness. The integrated email services help to send relevant messages and nurturing sequences to leads collected from optin bribes and other services so to help keep my freelance pipeline full while I work on money generating activities. It means that I can spend less time working on getting clients and more time working on generating income and doing the tasks I enjoy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Craige H.
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What do you like best about Gist?

Gist has attempted to create the state of the art all in one platform for business. And it sure is. From Live chat to their email marketing the platforms works well and there's a lot more good features to come.

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What do you dislike about Gist?

not much. wished their scheduling widget was unbranded. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gist:

Perfect for businesses starting out and want a bang for their budget. Their features will help you stand out and will improve any business single or large team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Has helped me become more organized and structured with email marketing and support and also scheduling clients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tristin R.
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What do you like best about Gist?

Gist provides endless ways of interacting with customers. I can chat and email with them, track their usage on my site, qualify them, add tags and other profile information, and so much more. There is even an awesome live view that lets me spy on visitors to see how they're using the site. The tools are powerful, easy to use, and constantly getting improvements. It seems like every week there is another update being rolled out that substantially extends the functionality or usability of the features in Gist. I am blown away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

Plan limits can be confusing. For example, there is a monthly charge for support and a monthly charge for "growth," plus there's a separate charge depending on how many contacts and seats you have. Perhaps this is normal in the industry, but it can make it a little challenging to understand the bill every month.

Additionally, the vast amount of features means development will never be as fast as you'd like it to be (even though they release updates all the time). This may not actually be a valid concern, and it certainly isn't unique to Gist (who doesn't have a wishlist they're waiting on their favorite SaaS to get to?), but I do believe the likelihood of being stuck without your desired feature being developed goes up a lot as the product gets bigger and bigger. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Gist:

Start with the basics and don't feel like you have to be using 100% of the featureset right off the bat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With one platform I get chat support, email marketing, marketing automation, and all of my customer relationship needs met. It's a wonderful tool for simplifying my tech stack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jói S.
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What do you like best about Gist?

I very much like how the conversations with website visitors are in a very user-friendly type of chat interface like I'm used to from social media, while still having the power to tag teammates, assign tasks, and add details on the contact. I also like that it can handle requests that come in via email and Facebook Messenger in addition to our on-site chat widget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gist?

I noticed that requests coming in via email do not always preserve special characters (like accented characters and such). This would be nice to fix but does not prevent us from using the feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use it for a website chat widget, for prompting visitors when they've spent a while on our pricing page to join us in a chat, and as a way to deal with one of our shared inboxes. We are still using Zendesk for our customer support inbox and for our knowledge base but I'm leaning heavily towards replacing both of those completely with Gist which will give us a one-stop shop for all our shared inboxes, chats, and knowledge base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.