Jen S.
Premium Pricing Without a Premium Customer Experience
We’ve been a long-time Gorgias customer, and recently I reached out to our account manager to discuss pricing after learning that comparable help desk/CRM platforms are available at a significantly lower cost with similar functionality. To be clear, I wasn’t asking Gorgias to fully price match. Migrating platforms is a major operational lift, and my preference was to stay with Gorgias if there was a reasonable path forward on pricing. Unfortunately, that conversation left me more inclined to leave the platform than stay. While I understand that pricing flexibility may be limited, the experience itself was disappointing. After discussing cost concerns, I was presented with a more expensive annual plan that included features I neither requested nor needed. I replied on April 22 expressing frustration that the conversation felt more like an upsell than an attempt to retain an existing customer, and I never received a response to that feedback. Separately, we continue to experience ongoing technical frustrations with the platform. Gorgias support is generally responsive, but many issues are routinely attributed to cache or browser problems, with the recommended solution often being to clear cache or switch browsers. While this sometimes resolves the issue, it creates recurring operational friction for our team. One example: we removed an AI order cancellation action from a guide, but the AI continued behaving as though the action still existed for roughly 12 hours afterward. That kind of delay creates real concerns when automations impact customer orders. Another frustrating experience is that when attempting to contact support through chat, we were often routed through rigid click-through flows that made it difficult to reach an actual conversation quickly. Overall, Gorgias does have strong functionality and capabilities, but at its current price point, the combination of support experience, platform instability, browser/cache dependency, and lack of flexibility has made it increasingly difficult for us to justify the premium cost.



