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Birdeye Review
AI reputation, reviews, listings and messaging for multi-location brands
Quick verdict
Who Birdeye fits: Growth-stage or multi-location home-service companies that want review generation, listings, AI-assisted responses and customer messaging across locations, and are comfortable buying through a sales quote. Pricing: Not published. Birdeye's pricing page shows no plans or prices; you request pricing through a form that asks for your number of locations, and Birdeye says you pay for what you deploy at your locations under one contract. Drawbacks: No published pricing (quote by number of locations); reputation and communication layer rather than FSM; breadth can exceed what a single-location shop needs; overlaps with Podium and FSM review features.
About Birdeye
Birdeye is a reputation and customer-experience platform for local and multi-location businesses, run by Birdeye Inc from Palo Alto, California. Its About page says brothers Naveen and Neeraj Gupta started it after a 2012 hospital stay in the family, and Birdeye says 10,000+ brands use it. The company is privately held; its 2022 Series C was led by Accel-KKR, and in 2023 it announced it had passed $100M in annual recurring revenue.
The product now centers on what Birdeye calls AI coworkers: Jay for marketing (AI search visibility, reviews, listings, social, chatbot and marketing automation), Myna for front-desk operations (appointments, reminders and multi-channel messaging), and Robin for customer experience (surveys, insights, competitor analysis, ticketing and reporting). Its home-services page adds referral campaigns and digital payments, and Birdeye says 9,000+ home-service businesses and contractors use it.
For a trades business, the core is review generation: Birdeye says it integrates with over 3,000 software systems, including ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, JobNimbus, Service Fusion, QuickBooks and Square, so review requests can be triggered from the software you already use, and its Review Response Agent drafts replies in your brand voice and either posts them or holds them for approval.
The trade-off: Birdeye does not publish prices, its pitch is aimed at multi-location brands, and the full suite is more than a one-truck shop needs. It can also overlap with review and messaging features in your FSM platform and with tools like Podium, so decide which system owns reviews and messaging before you buy.
How it works
You connect Birdeye to your Google Business Profile and other listings, and to the software you already run, such as ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, JobNimbus, Service Fusion, QuickBooks or Square. Birdeye's review agent asks customers for reviews, pulls incoming reviews into one dashboard, and drafts responses that post automatically or wait for your approval. The same platform handles listings, social posting, web chat and texting, appointment reminders, surveys, referral campaigns and digital payments, organized around its AI coworkers (Jay for marketing, Myna for front-desk operations, Robin for customer experience). Pricing is quoted: you fill in a form with your number of locations and Birdeye's team comes back with a price.
Pros & cons
What works
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Review generation tied to your job software
Birdeye says it integrates with ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, JobNimbus, Service Fusion, QuickBooks and Square, among 3,000+ systems, so review requests can be triggered from your job software instead of relying on someone to ask.
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AI help with reviews and listings
Birdeye says its Review Response Agent replies in your brand voice and can post on its own or hold replies for approval, and its marketing agent also covers listings, social posting and AI search visibility.
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Built for multiple locations
Birdeye pitches itself at multi-location brands, with per-location review and listing management and reporting across locations, useful for a home-service company with several branches.
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Wide customer-experience suite
Beyond reviews it includes messaging, web chat, appointments and reminders, surveys, referral campaigns and digital payments, so these functions can live in one platform.
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Established company
Birdeye has operated since the early 2010s, raised a Series C led by Accel-KKR in 2022, and announced passing $100M in annual recurring revenue in 2023.
What doesn't
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No published pricing
The pricing page has no plans or prices, only a form asking for your number of locations. You cannot compare cost without talking to sales.
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Reputation layer, not FSM
Birdeye manages reviews, listings and customer communication but does not run estimates, dispatch or job management. It sits alongside your field-service software.
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Breadth can be more than you need
The suite (reviews, listings, social, messaging, surveys, ticketing, payments) is aimed at multi-location brands. A one-truck operator may pay for capability it never uses.
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Overlaps with other tools
Its review and messaging features overlap with Podium and with review tools built into some FSM platforms. Decide which tool owns reviews and messaging so you are not paying twice.
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Not trades-specific
Birdeye serves healthcare, dental, automotive, real estate, restaurants, retail and more. It has a home-services page and integrations, but it is a general local-business platform.
Pricing
Not published. Birdeye's pricing page shows no plans or prices; you request pricing through a form that asks for your number of locations, and Birdeye says you pay for what you deploy at your locations under one contract.
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Frequently asked
What does Birdeye do?
Birdeye is a reputation and customer-experience platform. It sends review requests after jobs, gathers reviews and listings in one dashboard with AI-assisted responses, and adds messaging, web chat, appointment reminders, surveys, referrals and payments, organized around AI coworkers for marketing, front-desk operations and customer experience.
How much does Birdeye cost?
Birdeye does not publish prices. Its pricing page asks for your number of locations and contact details and returns a quote, and Birdeye says you pay only for what you deploy at your locations. Get the quote and contract term in writing.
Birdeye vs Podium: what's the difference?
Both are local-business platforms that overlap on reviews and messaging, and neither publishes prices. Birdeye leads with reviews, listings and reputation across many locations; Podium leads with an AI agent that answers and books leads, plus payments. Pick one to own reviews and messaging rather than running both.
Does Birdeye work with my field-service software?
Birdeye says it integrates with 3,000+ systems and names ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, JobNimbus, Service Fusion, QuickBooks and Square on its home-services page. Confirm your exact software and the trigger for review requests during the demo.
Does Birdeye replace my field-service software?
No. Birdeye handles reviews, listings and customer communication, not estimates, dispatch or job management. It sits alongside your FSM, so check for overlap with your FSM's built-in review and messaging features.
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