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Antony C.
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used other for 6-12 months
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It has been really easy to join the service and to configure our workflow instances. There are so many parts to the software it's hard to describe succinctly, but that also means it's very powerful out of the box. I think the admin system looks really good and does a great job of showing you relevant information, stats and ways to enhance the basic configurations. Simply put, it did what I needed it to do without reading any documentation, for a reasonable price, and it all took far less time than I expected. It just works!
It's incredibly quick to produce complex forms and have the data pushed to our other integrations. This sort of thing would normally take days or weeks, and Malcolm! did it in an hour. The admin interface is really well designed, easy to use and looks great.
I don't have any real complaints. The only thing to bear in mind is that there are an awful lot of options when it comes to configuring workflows, and you need to take your time to familiarise yourself with everything.
Mark T.
Farming, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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We use Malcolm for many things, but the main usage is for building up a large and rich Knowledge Base / Questions & Answers system. It is quick and simple for staff to add questions and answers to help our customer support obligations.
Malcolm makes it very easy to create rich snippet FAQ's that look great, are easy to search by customers and add SEO value to the website.
The storage space provided by default is perhaps a little on the small side.
Joe R.
Entertainment, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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Easy and enjoyable.
Malcolm! is a simple and easy software solution for our needs - a client-only portal containing the 'how-to' for activating across our various spaces. The layout and architecture makes navigating the information easy.
Tricky to alphabetically order content, but doable!
Hari K.
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Malcolm has been a pleasure to use and implement.
Great UI and design, intuitive workflow based features, and stellar enterprise-level capabilities.
Integrations are a bit lacking and haven't really seen man updates (publically).
Selle E.
Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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Easy to use!
I love that I can segment faq’s and create widgets and embeds.
The full page ember doesn’t provide much flexibility.
Benjamin C.
Environmental Services, self-employed
Used daily for less than 6 months
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As you can imagine with the rating I gave to Malcom. I am very happy to have discovered this tool. I first had views on the BetterDoc software, then when I discovered Malcom and its design, I was immediately won over. To be honest, I love the design and colors pre-selected in the presentation FAQ so much that I really can't wait to finish creating my FAQs to test them myself and also find out what...
Malcom! allowed me to create my own FAQ page in minutes. This tool is very ergonomic, it's very simple to add a logo and the icons of our choice, in other words, our Malcom page is fully customizable. The team behind Malcom is very friendly and efficient, I didn't wait long before having my questions answered. With Malcom, what I like above all is that it's possible to have indicators concerning the effectiveness of our FAQs and to modify them accordingly. In addition, the tool doesn't stop evolving so I am impatient to see how it will evolve, I also have several suggestions for improvement!
I don't have much to reproach to Malcom! except the color selection tool which is, for my taste, not very practical, even if it remains simple to use nevertheless.
James L.
Food & Beverages, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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The owners and support are extremely responsive to support requests and open to ideas for their roadmap. I like this in a software partner as you can sense that they care about the user experience of their clients and are open to their suggestions to make the software richer.
I love the clean UI/UX for administrators. There has been a lot of thought put into the design of the admin portal. I use Malcolm! principally for the FAQ page and we are extremely happy with it. They have a very nice website widget that slides out when the visitor has a question. There are strong editing and publishing tools. As well as a lot of nice extras (invisible tags to promote certain FAQs for keywords you don't want to show; version control of answers; set publish date in advance etc.). The ability to brand the platform to our requirements is very good overall but there are some small areas for improvement.
Some features I would like to see: * Better linkages between the FAQ tool and the Workflow tool. For example I cannot embed a Malcolm! form on an FAQ page, that should be available. * The FAQ page could have more template options to make it look more attractive and easier to navigate for the visitor (e.g. take inspiration from Intercom, Help Scout etc.) for other layouts. * Please call Workflows...
Ross S.
Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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If webhooks passed the actual form information, it would be a nearly perfect solution.
For the creation of a support portal apart from any other support solution, it provides great mechanisms for creating support FAQs, customer service forms and workflows and customer knowledge bases; malcolm is as easy to use as creating a blog posting. And you can embed FAQs as popups on your site, creating a much better interactive experience for your customers.
Web hooks integrations are really severely lacking, passing only that it completed a form and no other information. As it is you get an email notification that a form completed, and the associated data (not too useful); or you use the notification to download a CSV directly from the site. It seems to me to be far more useful to provide the data in the webhook, then *I* can write it to a CSV, eliminating Malcolm! from having to write a crap ton of integrations.
Hello - just to let you know you can now get full data via Webhooks :-) More info here: https://support.malcolm.support/faqs/webhooks
Tasha R.
Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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It my best easy to use FAQ, Knowledge Base, Form Automation and Information gathering tool.
Lovely and clean layout landing page which is easy to customised to match your brand. Also, they provide the option for readers to rate the answers or email it to someone which is excellent. In addition the platform allow you to collect and automate information by using forms. Another great feature is that you can embed the FAQ on your website
It's a bit confusing to set up at first but once you get the hang of it you will be ok.
Andrew R.
Nonprofit Organization Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Simple to use and integrations were perfect
Nothing really - as all software it took a little time to understand how it works but it didn’t take long
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Design, self-employed
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Malcolm is an incredibly quick, easy and intuitive way to create a knowledgebase for a company of any kind. I highly recommend it.
Literally love everything about Malcolm, not sure I can list anything that I don't like.
Elliot R.
Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Used monthly for 6-12 months
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I have a really positive experience of Malcolm, it makes building out workflows incredibly easy, literally anyone could do it, and the helpful tips of the system make it easy to understand. It feels like it’s been user tested and tweaked as appropriate.
Malcolm is a great tool packed with useful features. Some of our favourite features: - The ability to manage feedback through Malcolm for our clients across multiple sources and have it all in one place - Real-time analytics quickly and clearly shows the value of using Malcolm as a platform to service the needs of your brand - Setup speed. With Malcolm, you can setup just about all features quickly...
It’s all great, I don’t have any negative feedback per say. But, feature request...! I’d love to have more features around general content publishing. The system is incredibly easy to use, it would be even more powerful if you could add in general content/article pages and have real-time analytics associated with them, making it easy to see the journey of users against goals set by us.
jay m.
Health, Wellness and Fitness, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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We needed to put up assessment forms for our employees - giving us greater access to appraisals etc. We were using an open source alternative but it was buggy and really confusing. Our full management team could understand how Malcolm would work - so it was an easy 'sell' to our team. We're still building with it now - adding in other things like the FAQs. It's been about 6 months and I don't see us switching.
It's easy and quick to build forms with. We also used it for FAQs and that was a lot faster than building from scratch. The whole process made sense - v logical. It also integrates with other software/services we use (e.g. jira, zendesk, slack) so that was a plus.
It took me a minute to get my mind around it but that's the case with most things. As I came to understand it, it was quick and logically put together.
Stephanie B.
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Malcolm! is very easy to use and implement. It's so clever and a great off-the-shelf solution for FAQs and Customer Support Centre. It's also very affordable for SMEs and scale-up businesses like ours. We wanted a solution that would empower our customers to self serve as well as free up time for our Client Support team to focus on more complex customer queries and the tool has done just that! The tech is first class, the UX is excellent and the team at Malcolm! is very knowledgeable and always happy to offer support and advice.
Very easy to use. It takes no time to implement and as a client you get five-star customer support.
We've been using the tool for just over 6 months and honestly haven't had any major issues with the product.
Weber N.
Hospitality, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Malcolm! has let us build a new online proposition and attract and service those new customers.
Within a few hours we were able to create a whole new business proposition - this would usually have taken us months and cost us a lot of money in external web development but we were able to do everything we wanted within Malcolm!
There is quite a bit to take in at first but once you get the hang of it all is great. Support team are very helpful.
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Retail, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Malcolm is absolutely great, it's way batter than what the competition is doing out there. They provide excellent support, an excellent UI and it just works.
Malcolm's easy to use interface and setup guidance makes it easy for us to implement knowledge panels and workflows than doing it on our own.
It's a bit overbearing at times, and can be confusing to navigate.
Fred M.
Financial Services, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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I've been really pleased with how [ SENSITIVE CONTENT] has helped us push information to our customers for self-service and track the use and effectiveness of different pieces of content.
The software is intuitive as well as easy to learn and use. The features and functions are useful and the product is supported well with regular updates and improvements.
The search tagging is fairly limited and I find myself creating long lists of tags to try to make sure that different terms are catered for.
Alexandre dos P.
Education Management, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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My experience is great. And the support is very responsive.
Malcolm is easy to use, very beautiful and powerful.
The FAQ edition could withstand more elements...
Nachiket P.
Information Services, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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Great.!!
Design is attractive (Specially if like to play with the colours of our choice). Customisation (Enough for me and I like it). SUPPORT team (very responsive). Many possible use cases - Malcolm can have different type of uses and if you are creative, you can do wonders with it. It comes as your assistance in information and support department. But I'm using it as a full fledged Questions and Answer Knowledge. Plus their suggest Algorithm helps best to achieve. Last but not to forget, you can they have inbuilt elements (like featured boxes) to help you promote your products of services right in knowledge base.
I didn't find any. Prices for higher plans can be a Con. My Suggestion, they can increase the FAQ and Workflows limit in their lower plans. This will make Malcolm a charm. 🌟
Gillian H.
Insurance, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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A genuinely great customer experience - the team at Malcolm have been highly accommodating of our requests and have been very responsive in addressing any queries.
Easy implementation, highly cost effective, great customer support, SEO features out of the box
The out of the box reports are a bit lite however they do what we need them to do and there is a GA integration included. They are constantly updating the feature set (I've seen a number of new features in the short time we have been a customer) so I'm sure we'll see more reports in the UI before long.
Vivek G.
Hospitality, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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I wanted to create an extensive FAQs section for my clients about what to expect while travelling to Uttarakhand. Malcolm was picked up by me and I am very happy with the overall performance, easy of use and extensive Set of features of the APP.
Setting up FAQs can be intimidating at first. The on boarding process can be made easier. Also Setting up your theme for your instance is also chunky in my opinion.
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Health, Wellness and Fitness, self-employed
Used monthly for less than 6 months
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Malcolm! offers a centralised, easy to use, amazing looking platform for FAQs and workflows. Beautiful UI/UX. The team has a strong vision and has a clear idea of where they'd like to go with their product.
Malcolm! helps non-tech people like me produce beautiful sites with ease. It takes a little bit of time to set up and the result is professional with my brand colours. It brings me excitement whenever I press preview/publish. Cons: - Excellent and responsive support. Very patient with my long emails and took the time to respond to every question. - Conversational type forms - Custom domains - Webhooks - Progress bars - Email responses - Password protection +much more
I love that I can change the language on the user end. Wish each instance could show different languages with a switch of a button by the user or automatically change languages based on user's location. It would allow FAQ or workflows to be shared easily. Would also be good if the Malcolm! could send out information about its new features and updates so we know they're out.
Dan P.
Entertainment, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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We use the floating widget on our www.outernetglobal.com website to capture visitor details then automatically integrate them into Mailchimp for marketing. Working with their helpful customer services we can see plenty of future use-cases.
Nothing so far - we are barely scratching the surface
Eduardo R.
Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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This is the easiest, fastest and most cost-effective way to master customer interaction for a start-up or scale-up business. We recommend it to all our clients as an essential way to build trust and relationships with their customers.
- Ease of use both from customer and end user side - Ease of integration into other platforms and products - Well designed UX makes creating work flow simple - Knowledge, expertise and support of the team - Very reasonable price considering the capabilities of the product
- Not enough real world case studies yet (as the product is still young)
Jo B.
Arts and Crafts, self-employed
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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It's clean looking and has some customising options available. Can be installed as a subdomain on the website to have a dedicated customer support area instead of building out an area
Some settings are quite basic but it makes it stable and easy to use