CX & Support
Considering adding either Hark or Springboard to your ecommerce brand's tech stack? Customer support and delivering an exceptional customer experience are critical for success in ecommerce. The right tool for your brand's specific use cases can help you personalize your customer experiences, drive higher retention rates and deliver a better customer experience. Read our comparison below between Hark and Springboard to see which one is right for your ecommerce brand.
Hark has created a contextualization engine that takes customers through a journey when getting in touch with service teams for support. This context creation drives much more efficiency for agents and elevates the customer experience.
Springboard is the customer service center thats acts as an extension of your support team. Springboard operates on a pay per ticket model and sources high quality customer service agents from North America.
- Automate customer feedback collection via email and SMS after purchase.
- Customize feedback requests to match your brand’s voice and aesthetics.
- Analyze feedback trends with detailed reporting tools to improve services.
- Integrate with your ecommerce platform for seamless feedback loop creation.
- Use customer insights to tailor product offerings and marketing strategies.
- Encourage positive feedback sharing across social media platforms.
- Offers a flexible cloud POS tool for quick item lookups and easy customer interactions.
- Enables real-time inventory management across multiple stores for efficiency.
- Supports sales representative tracking to enhance sales performance analysis.
- Provides real-time sales dashboards for up-to-date business insights.
- Allows for easy handling of returns, gift cards, coupons, and promotions.
- Integrates CRM and email for improved customer relationship management.
Hark's pricing starts at £1.20 per ticket, with no setup fees or hidden costs. The plans are structured with a pay-as-you-go model, allowing businesses to scale their customer support services up or down as needed without any long-term commitments.
Springboard's pricing starts at $99 per agent per month for the Starter plan. The plans are structured with increasing levels of functionality and user counts, ranging from the $99 per agent per month Starter plan up to custom pricing for the Enterprise plan tailored for larger businesses with more advanced customer service needs.
The most popular integrations offered by Hark include:
- Zendesk
- Shopify
- Aircall
- Hubspot
- Instagram
- Facebook
- Klaviyo
- Amazon
Springboard offers a range of integrations to help businesses streamline their customer support operations. Some of the most popular and relevant integrations include:
- Salesforce
- Zendesk
- Microsoft 365
- DocuSign
- Google Analytics 360
These highlight D2C brands from our database all currently leverageÂ
Hark
 in their tech stack:
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Scan the QR codes provided with the meals purchased on the oven, and it will start cooking your meals in 20 min.
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These highlight D2C brands from our database all currently leverageÂ
Springboard
 in their tech stack:
KulfiBeauty
Kulfi is celebrating South Asian beauty with fun and approachable beauty products designed to compliment our skin tones and undertones.
Cool HausFood
Unbelievably delicious ice cream, that comes in whacky, original flavors. Sometimes they make dairy-free ice creams too! An inclusive brand you should know.
VybesBeverage
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