Gorgias: AI, Helpdesk & Chat

We used a different platform before, and switching to Gorgias was one of the best decisions we ever made. I would like to address a few positive topics:

Personalized onboarding: Several 1:1 sessions on migration + a super comprehensive help center.

Historical data (e.g., from Zendesk or other platforms): Can be easily imported - retroactively up to 2 years.

Intuitive interface: Easy to understand, very logical structure.

Automation: Flows, order management, AI assistant etc. We achieved a 30% automation rate after a short time and are really very satisfied with the work of the AI agent.

Price: Billing by ticket instead of user accounts – for us, this billing model is very fair and less expensive compared to other platforms.

Analyses that really help: Ticket tags, performance metrics, etc. are easy to set up – dashboards can be customized using drag & drop which helps a lot.

Deep integration with Shopify: Unfortunately, we have an ERP in between, but otherwise you can do a lot with this app and it saves an incredible amount of time because you no longer have to switch between systems, e.g., for refunds, customer data, etc.

Gorgias has helped us automate our customer support, to the point where Q4 customer support requires very little hands-on time for our team. We have been supported by Gorgias every step of the way, and it can do everything we have asked of it. When the AI makes mistakes, their team works through the issues with us, and we always get the problem sorted!

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.