See in the youtube video above, how Chatarmin's Gorgias WhatsApp integration works.
The challenge arises when using Gorgias's WhatsApp integration directly:
- One WABA for support: Clients naturally interact with your Gorgias WhatsApp Support hotline for ticket resolution and queries.
- One WABA for marketing and/or sales: Clients receive offers, event notifications, deals, news, and more through a separate WhatsApp business account with its own number, leading to confusion and a potential crack in your customers' user journey.
- The issue is that you'll have to:
- Manage two WABAs, one for support and one for marketing and/or sales.
- Ensure your clients are aware of which WABA to address for their specific desires, questions, and problems.
- Correspond and engage with your clients through two entirely separate WhatsApp infrastructures.
- Ask your clients to ideally save your WABAs as contacts, especially if you are not yet verified.
- Your alternative:
- Not offering WhatsApp support at all.
- Splitting your WhatsApp traffic into two WABAs, with two phone numbers, and two business profiles: one for Support and the other using a WhatsApp CRM such as Chatarmin for sales and/or marketing purposes.
- Chatarmin addresses this challenge through its Gorgias WhatsApp integration. Simply don't activate Gorgias's native WhatsApp solution; instead, add Chatarmin as a custom third-party app. This way, you can use the same WABA for both support and marketing, without your team having to switch skins or hop between software platforms.
Combine Gorgias WhatsApp Business Account with WhatsApp Marketing through Chatarmin WhatsApp Marketing Tool.
Your clients communicate with one WhatsApp Business Profile, engaging with your WhatsApp customer support on Gorgias, and receiving their WhatsApp marketing campaigns such as automations and campaigns through Chatarmin.
What is Gorgias?
Gorgias, the "#1 rated helpdesk for ecommerce merchants" was founded in Paris in 2015.
Gorgias is a customer support suite enabling companies to manage their clients’ support tickets through a multi-messenger inbox and automated routing, ticketing, and support-agent system.
Use only one WhatsApp accont for Gorgias and your WhatsApp Marketing efforts, through Chatarmin
Gorgias is an omnichannel customer support tool, so, in addition to WhatsApp and email, customers can open tickets using chat, Facebook posts, private Facebook messages, Twitter, and many other social channels.
How to get started: 5 steps to your Gorgias WhatsApp Integration with Chatarmin
Here are your quick five steps on how to get started with Gorgias and Chatarmin, maintaining one WABA and one phone number for all your WhatsApp needs:
- Get your Chatarmin account.
- Get your Gorgias account.
- Copy & Paste your Gorgias API key into your Chatarmin Dashboard.
- Install Chatarmin as your third-party customer support channel in Gorgias.
- Test your solution by texting your WABA, iterate the solution as you see fit, and you're finished!
- Setting up your Gorgias WhatsApp integration with Chatarmin is remarkably straightforward. We are the only WhatsApp CRM globally flexible enough to offer customer support in Gorgias and marketing in Chatarmin.
The 8-figure Shopify & Klaviyo D2C brand "Fatbikeskopen" scales over 95% of support via Chatarmin's Gorgias WhatsApp integration.
Comparison between zendesk and Gorgias
Whilst we just recently launched our blogpost on Chatarmin’s zendesk WhatsApp integration, here is your comparison between Gorgias and zendesk Customer Support Suites:
| Gorgias | zendesk |
|---|
| Fully onboard within 7 days: migration, onboarding & support | Months to get up and running: slow onboarding & success |
| More order-related actions: cancel, refund, create orders | Limited control over orders: switch tabs to check |
| Deeper integrations with your ecommerce apps. | Integrations for more industries: non-ecom-focus |
| Turn social media comments into tickets. | Limited social media |
| Macros that trigger actions in Shopify. | Limited Shopify actions: daily actions require to hop skin |
| Exclusively builds ecommerce features, 100% customer-driven | Deprioritizes ecommerce features. |
| Automations triggered by actions. | Time-based automations (on a delay): 1x/hr automations |
| Fast-acting customer support team 24/7 | Ask users about Zendesk support speed: be aware of reviews |
| Unlimited users. | Pay-per-user. |
So, as you can see, Gorgia’s focus is surely a big upside and argument to choose Gorgias and the Chatarmin Gorgias-WhatsApp-integration. Just like Chatarmin focuses on eCommerce more than any other WhatsApp CRM. Apart from that, zendesk has been in the industry way longer, thus, it is also a very respected, distributed and stable infrastructure.
Chatarmin offers a WhatsApp marketing integration for Gorgias as well as zendesk.
Once you got an overview over Gorgias' and zendesk's feature- and support-landscape, you might wanna dive into the software-sales-footnote of the pricing structurse of both customer support suites. Both are strong tools and integrated through Chatarmin's Gorgias-WhatsApp-integration and zendesk-WhatsApp-integration. This is what we will analyze next.
Gorgias & zendesk pricing comparison: Chatarmin WhatsApp integration works for both as a 3rd party app
| Zendesk | Gorgias |
|---|
| Support Team: $19 per agent/month | Starter: $10 per month |
| Support Professional: $55 per agent/month | Basic: $50 per month |
| Support Enterprise: $115 per agent/month | Pro: $300 per month |
| Suite Team: $55 per agent/month | - |
| Suite Growth: $89 per agent/month | - |
| Suite Professional: $115 per agent/month | Advanced: $750 per month |
| Suite Enterprise: Contact sales for pricing | Enterprise: Contact sales for pricing |
*All plans are billed annually.
*All plans except for Gorgias Starter are billed annually.
It will totally be up to you to decide which system you would love to work with. We can only say, we got clients working with both infrastructures, and both obviously have their pro’s and con’s just like it is the case always, when you do have the choice in software sales.
[BONUS] Why Zapier is Not the Solution for your Gorgias WhatsApp integration
When software sales tells you “they have an integration” or “you can use our Zapier integration to access thousands of integrations”: run. It will neither be scalable, professional, nor an unlimited solution. As soon as you voice one custom individual request, you'll be lost and left alone. Ask for native integrations and real demos of the solutions you request. Only the native Gorgias WhatsApp integration by Chatarmin, provides the necessary robustness and integrativity needed to scale your WhatsApp-Support- and WhatsApp-Marketing-operations at ease.
Chatarmin combines WhatsApp support with WhatsApp marketing in one telephone number.
Chatarmin is the only WhatsApp Marketing Software globally to offer a native 3rd party Gorgias WhatsApp integration.
With this in mind, Chatarmin is the only WhatsApp CRM globally with a Gorgias WhatsApp integration, allowing you to install your custom WhatsApp account as a third-party app in Gorgias.
This way, support and marketing can both work with their dream tech stack, all while using the same WABA that is the only one your clients will have to engage with. Have a talk about our unique Gorgias WhatsApp integration here, and apply for a free 2-week-demo:
