Gorgias: AI, Helpdesk & Chat

This has got to be the greediest and ruthless company ever. We were paying over $13.5k per year on Gorgias for the Advanced plan (6350 automations, 60,000 tickets). This is A LOT...but the story gets worse. I mention this because their pricing is not clear at all after that point. If you a fast growing company, (7-8 figures or more) I highly recommend staying away from this platform. Their upsell features are highly predatory and can increase the cost of your plan by a if your orders/tickets increase. Their AI automation feature auto-bills you over and over, to the point without telling us until its WAY to late, we were charged $14,000 on TOP of $13.5/year. We tried to work with them but we received threats. The AI automation costs them essentially nothing to run, but it would have brought our yearly bill to $27k. Instead of trying to work it out, they tried to strong arm us. For a customer service platform, it was one of the worse customer service experiences I've ever experienced and would not recommend it to anyone. We are switching to a competitor that offers the same functions and essentially unlimited automations. They just lost a customer paying 5 figures a year without any care.

This platform worked very well. They assisted us in setting up the AI agent functionality which took several weeks but turned out fantastically. Then they changed something, likely they degraded the LLM to save money. Suddenly our agent went from solving 95% of issues to failing in 100% of the cases. For example, it forgot what kinds of products we sell and started recommending unrelated items that we don't carry. It stopped being able to follow the logic that the Gorgias team wrote and so could no longer edit or cancel orders. It started promising things to customers that we cannot do. I've been trying to get in touch with support for 2 weeks now with these issues. I've tried reaching out to the team who built the Agent for me, but they don't offer support. I've tried working with their L2 support but response times are well over 36 hours and the issue is complicated enough that asking and answering questions with days between responses is never going to adequately identify the problem. I tried their regular chat support and they told me the code was sloppy and should be deleted- but they wrote the code. I'm left with no choice but to disable the agent because it's frustrating my customers with irrelevant responses, or worse promising that we will do something that we simply can't. It's very disappointing to see Gorgias opt to not support their product and to cheapen the service to this point. The few months of functioning AI Agent definitely convinced me of the value of this kind of thing. I'd be willing to pay close to a regular full time salary. But the Gorgias system isn't the right one because it's not supported. I know I'm not the only one with this problem. During the period I've been trying to get support the Gorgias support team has had to remove their own chat widget because they are being overwhelmed with requests. This is likely due to the failure of their system.

We have been using Gorgias for over a year, and our experience has been extremely frustrating.

If you operate Shopify with a third-party ERP, the integration is unreliable and creates ongoing operational challenges. We have experienced significant syncing issues that directly impact customer experience.

Support has been disappointing. Responses often lack clarity or resolution, and we’ve received explanations that don’t fully address the issue. In one instance, folders were randomly deleted. We were initially told the deletion was done by an admin user (me), but when support reviewed the account, they acknowledged it wasn’t. The ticket was ultimately closed without a clear explanation or resolution, and we are still without closure a month later.

We’ve also encountered instability within the platform itself. Features have appeared and disappeared without warning. We have had folders vanish. Most concerning, the AI/bot has sent incorrect responses to customers, closed tickets without proper replies, or failed to respond entirely—resulting in customer complaints about lack of follow-up.

For a CX platform, reliability and accountability are critical. Unfortunately, our experience has fallen far short of that standard.

support is non existent. I have sent 4 support emails over the last three days and no respons. Just a friendly AI that is useless. Secondly the software lacks many basic features like the ability to create filtered views that make sense. Something as obvious as "show me emails with no reply" doesnt exist. We sell in currency NOK, but Gorgias still show USD with the NOK amount. Go with the larger companies like Zendesk, Hubspot etc.

The app is extremely difficult to navigate with very poor user interface.
It's also very difficult to find info online that actually shows you how to use the app efficiently.

It took over a week for someone on the Apps side to figure out that you only can send chats direct to your email if you're on a paid plan. You cannot test that function during the free trial.

The pricing is ridiculous for what you actually get. Anyone that has been in the AI game for any amount of time knows what tokens cost and their fees for AI responses are ridiculous as well as the price to simply forward a chat through email has equally ridiculous pricing.

We’ve been using Gorgias since 2017. It used to be an amazing tool -affordable, reliable, and backed by great people. Unfortunately, over the last couple of years, things changed.

Prices went up disproportionately, our dedicated CSM was suddenly removed without notice, and support quality dropped drastically. When we finally decided to migrate to Re:amaze (which offered better pricing for the exact same features), Gorgias was anything but helpful during the transition.

After eight years of loyalty, it’s disappointing to say this - but I can’t recommend Gorgias anymore.

Gorgias in theory has a good product and the value prop is there. The AI and responses are probably a 4/10.

What makes Gorgias a 1 star app is how they handle issues on their platform. They advertise that their product can handle cancellations, variant changes, and order edits automatically. From day 1, this was completely broken for me and the ticket was escalated to their L2 support team. It takes multiple days between responses, only for nothing to happen. This is shocking especially as automated order edits is the key functionality their product advertises for Shopify integration.

Where it gets worse is that their technical support rep completely lied to me and told me the issue was fixed by doing a customer sync, but it did not fix the issue at all. They did not provide any details on what the issue was, how they fixed it, and what they tested. They just lied to me and said that it worked when it remains broken, and now I have to continue testing myself and reporting errors to them.

This tells you that their tech team is either not competent or does not care to fix high priority customer issues, which is why it's a 1 star. If you cannot fix tech issues, then lie to your customers just to close a ticket without helping them, then your tech team/support is just bad and doesn't care. It makes it feel like a scam. Your software cannot be trusted, and it calls into question the product at large and the (lack of) TLC that's going into it. I feel completely misled about this product and the false advertising that has taken place so far for me. This is a really bad experience as I have invested probably 36 hours of my time to get the guidance, macros, and rules set up only to be completely washed away by a horrific bug that their tech team has completely dismissed and lied to me about a "fix". Really, really disappointing and disrespectful to small/rapid growth businesses that cannot afford to sink and lose this many hours.

I have heard good things about Gorgias, but I am very unhappy with their customer service. I installed it in my store and was getting things set up on a 7 day free trial. Within hours of installation, it charged me a full $400 for the pro plan, completely negating the "free trial". When I pointed out the error, they quoted policies rather than resolving the issue, and didn't even bother to address me by my actual name. This is not an app I want to use for customer service when their own customer service doesn't come close to meeting our own standards of care. I'm very sorry I gave them a try at all.

We recently encountered a billing issue with this app where we were overcharged $780 on October 24th, and we are still waiting for the refund to be processed. While mistakes can happen, the delay in resolving the overcharge is concerning.

I’m sharing this so other users and businesses are aware and can keep an eye on their billing statements. I hope the team resolves this soon and improves the refund process moving forward.

My contact form has been down for more that one day, emailed twice the support team and I got strictly NO answer from them. Overall the app is pretty good, but when something goes wrong, them it seems will not be there for you (except useless AI automatic responses).