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Gorgias

Gorgias is a customer support platform for ecommerce. Learn why it's used for unified inboxes, macros, and order context, plus alternatives.

Why this tool?

The problem

Support tickets spread across email, Instagram DMs, and live chat make it hard to track conversations, and agents waste time looking up order details.

The old way

Support teams juggle multiple inboxes, copy-paste order numbers, and write the same responses repeatedly without a unified view of the customer.

The better way

Gorgias centralizes all channels, displays order history and customer lifetime value inline, and uses macros to automate common responses like shipping questions and returns.

What makes it stand out

Deep ecommerce integrations (Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce) that show order context directly in the support ticket.

Tradeoffs to consider

Pricing scales with ticket volume; setup takes time to configure macros and automations; overkill for very small stores.

Who it is for

When not to use it

If you're under 20 tickets per week and can manage with Gmail, or if you don't sell products and don't need order context.

Published 6/23/2026

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