Both GhostRetail and Bambuser offer live video shopping to elevate the online customer experience. So what sets them apart? Read our Bambuser comparison below and learn why the world’s most customer-obsessed brands are working with Ghost.
Minimize IT lift and get your live shopping channel up faster with Ghost’s streamlined implementation. Add a snippet of code to your site and be ready to launch in weeks, not months.
Shoppers can actually complete transactions during a live shopping call, getting support during checkout as needed. Not ready to checkout? Customer carts are still saved for post-purchase transactions.
Our success is your success. Ghost’s transparent pricing includes unlimited seats and access to our training academy for every live shopping associate.
Humanize the online shopping experience with truly personalized service, available on demand, through an interactive and intuitive interface. No signups required or apps to download - shoppers are connected to a live associate right when they need it.
Share products, build bags, and complete orders within a live video shopping call. No store? No problem - Equip your customer service team to answer calls from anywhere or create a virtual store studio.
Connect with your customers at any stage of the shopper journey to deliver personalized recommendations, answer questions, or provide a closer look at a product.
Take your unmanned ecommerce channel and make it interactive to drop return rates and boost retention and CLTV.
Take shoppers from consideration through to purchase with the ability to share products on screen, add to bag, and checkout within a call. If a shopper’s not ready to convert, their cart stays intact for them to check out independently after.
Get started with one-to-one live shopping without heavy IT lift or involvement. Ghost layers on top of your site with a single snippet of code, allowing you to leverage your existing tech stack and innovation, with zero risk of degradation as you update your site or product catalog.
We’re the product experts on how to make live video shopping successful - not you. So we bring our extensive knowledge to the table for every customer, designing promotional strategies, launch plans, training, and more that will help your live shopping channel take off.
Options are never a bad thing. With Ghost, the associate can share products with a customer, or follow a customer as they browse on the site. Shoppers also have the option to turn their camera on or off depending on their preferences, and change their view from co-browsing on a site to full-screen video.
Our Merchant Success and Customer Support teams go well beyond onboarding, bringing their expertise to every element of the live shopping experience.
Our Enterprise customers work closely with a Merchant Success Manager on everything from training and launch strategies to best practices for hosting calls, promoting your service, and guidance on new features in the Ghost platform.
We provide an expert team to guide you every step of the way so you’re up and running in no time - from setup to rollout and beyond. Need help on the fly? We offer direct customer support access to both your administrators and associates.
We often use a ‘train the trainer’ approach for bringing live shopping to your business, with unlimited access to a helpful resource library of best practices, guides, videos, and more.
Our live shopping experts are happy to answer any questions. Plus, pay zero transaction fees for the first $25,000 of revenue generated through Ghost.
Bambuser is a live video SaaS provider headquartered in Sweden. Their primary offering is a one-to-many livestream shopping solution, which is complemented by a one-to-one shoppable video call service.
As a Bambuser alternative, GhostRetail provides a seamless end-to-end, one-on-one live shopping experience that can be implemented with minimal IT lift and unlimited seats. Ghost’s live shopping platform provides an exceptional, personalized, and interactive shopping experience that drives more conversions, boosts AOV, and reduces returns.
With Ghost, you get dedicated service and coaching to take your live shopping channel from idea to reality. We provide support every step of the way, including launch and promotional plans, best practices, personalized training, and ongoing monitoring and suggestions to optimize your live shopping experience.
Bambuser is primarily a one-to-many livestream shopping platform that also offers one-to-one live shopping support. The Bambuser platform involves connecting with a live shopping associate to get advice and add products to cart within a call, then driving them to check out on their own.
Finally, Bambuser’s one-on-one solution requires a sizable tech lift by mapping your product catalog, and creating integrations with your cart, checkout, and scheduling tool of choice. Ghost’s lightweight integration requires just a single snippet of code, allowing you to kickstart your live shopping experience with minimal IT lift.
Ghost’s transparent pricing offers unlimited seats and access for a flat monthly fee, plus a percentage of sales attributed to the Ghost platform. Our business model is designed to grow with your live shopping channel - your success is our success.
Bambuser’s pricing model is a combination of licensing fees with seats. In addition, Bambuser offers paid services as part of their Bambuser Plus full-service agency model, including integrated strategy, creative and production, influencer marketing, and education and training.
As an alternative to Bambuser, Ghost offers many of these same Bambuser Plus services as part of our onboarding and ongoing support for Enterprise clients, at no additional cost beyond your monthly subscription fees.
At present, Ghost’s focus is on perfecting the one-to-one live shopping experience. But keep an eye out - we love live shopping in all its forms and are always looking for more ways to drive better results for our merchants.
Bambuser is a strong option for brands that want to offer a one-to-many livestreaming solution that doesn’t rely on social networks. Based on Bambuser’s pricing model and agency services, Bambuser is also well-suited to brands with large budgets that are willing to make a significant investment in a live video shopping program.
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Firework is a livestreaming shopping platform that also offers the ability to create static shoppable videos using their Firework Studio platform, which features a library of templates, images, videos, and soundtracks to create these videos. Firework also offers the ability to amplify video content through their own distributed ad network.
Looking at Firework vs. GhostRetail comes down to three things: Interactivity, where it services the customer journey, and access.
With Firework, content is pushed out en masse, with no regard for individual shoppers. The most interactivity attendees have is the ability to react or leave a comment during a livestream. As a Firework alternative, Ghost provides 100% interactivity between a shopper and a live shopping associate, in a one-on-one conversation.
The nature of Firework’s products means they’re best suited for the awareness and education phase of a shopper’s journey, by providing a broad introduction to a product. Live shopping support through Firework alternatives like Ghost are about taking a shopper from consideration to conversion. While both Firework and Ghost offer in-experience checkout, only Ghost gives shoppers the opportunity to seek additional information on the spot to help them overcome any hurdles standing between them and checking out.
Finally, livestream shopping events are, by nature, limited to a specific time and place. Meaning shoppers have to choose to attend on a merchant’s schedule, not their own. While shoppable video content has an evergreen element, it cannot take into account real-time questions unique to an individual shopper. Ghost’s live video shopping experience can be requested on demand during whatever hours a merchant sets, with the option to book appointments outside of live shopping support hours.
Firework’s pricing is based on the number of video views a brand generates per month, as well as has some seat limitations for the number of users that can access their platform.
In comparison to Firework, Ghost’s pricing model is extremely unlimited. There is no cap on the number of video calls hosted per month, nor the number of users with access to the Ghost platform. Pricing is based on a flat monthly rate plus a percentage of sales generated through Ghost - our success is your success!
At present, Ghost’s focus is on perfecting the one-to-one live shopping experience. But keep an eye out - we love live shopping in all its forms and are always looking for more ways to drive better results for our merchants.
At present, Ghost’s focus is on perfecting the one-to-one live shopping experience. But keep an eye out - we love all kinds of video shopping and are always looking for more ways to drive amazing results for our merchants.
Firework is best suited for any brand looking to add a social video element to their website. In a lot of ways, Firework takes the video elements consumers love from their favorite social networks - such as livestreams and Stories or Reels - and made them shoppable. While these types of experiences mimic social media interactivity, it’s worth noting they are inherently a one-way mode of communicating with shoppers.
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