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Feedback for Webcentral highlights a strong divide between phone support and digital channels. Customers consistently praise the telephone team for their patience, promptness, and technical expertise in resolving issues quickly. However, a subset of reviews points to frustrations with automated chat systems, ticket response times, and billing or cancellation processes.
Josh was extremely helpful is assisting me with our website domain & expiring date. I now know how to login to Web Central, access the pin & see our domain list & dates. Thank you Josh. Bye from Maryanne Wright.
The last tech I had fixed my issue witb a simple password reset. After being locked out of my emails for over 24hrs he assisted me with this after multiple techs would not resolve the problem while they told me the fault was elsewhere. The last tech was good, the others were shocking. I do not remomed this company at all, awful service.
Very friendly support staff willing to walk you through whatever you need. I've been a customer for over a decade and always found useful and easily accessible assistance whenever I needed it.
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Joel E was excellent helping me this evening! He really went above and beyond, saved me money where it was possible to do so, was professional and pleasant and friendly to deal with, and is even calling me back shortly to process my invoice over the phone because it is late at night now and it’s been a tiring day and I just want to know my domain… Read more · 1
names for my business are secure. It was stressful earlier today when for a minute there I thought they weren’t. Thank you Joel E for all your help and reassurance and to WebCentral for offering a phone support service to customers. Sometimes it is too hard to use the console and we just need to be assisted over the phone and Joel E and WebCentral have really done that for me this evening. I am very pleased with the customer service and I will be recommending you to others I know. Thank you, and to Joel E - you have really done an awesome job Joel! Well done. Sarah C from Melbourne, Australia
Ray led me through the process, and helped until I got my credit card details updated in the Cpanel! He was very helpful and friendly. THANKS AGAIN to the entire team who were involved in my failed efforts. Show reply
Issues with customer support; their AI bot continues to cycle around and around, multiple tickets issued, not ever solving. Utterly useless, onto the 2nd day of this now.
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I was very happy with the service from Josh. He was able to answer all my questions..
Follow-up · not happy - no one got back to me - I was getting ready to have my site hosted by your company but ended up going elsewhere.. very disappointed - are you guys too large now to be able to offer personalised service for your customers?
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Josh was very helpful and courteous. Polite and patient with my request.
Follow-up · Some operators are very good and follow up, etc, but since this initial experience some are not so good. It has happened twice that my website stopped working. I found out by chance after weeks offline. They eventually fixed the problem their end as they had changed something technical. This was very disappointing and I can’t trust whether my website will be working properly or not. I now need to regularly check myself.
Problems with international emails bouncing – Sule gave me the most outstanding support, clarity to explain issues, outstanding knowledge in a very technical field. So well done Champ - I solution you. I will forever be a Web Central client while Sule there and Im alive :-)
Follow-up · You guys always fiddle with complex settings without notice. My emails and website are linked to WIX. My clients and potential clients are receiving ***SPAM*** RE: YarraDev / Mod T / CSEDS Meeting Request You are continually wrecking my business. You wreck, you fix Im not an IT person
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Positive reviews
I was very, very happy with the service I was provided by the customer represenative at Webcentral. He stayed on the line for 1 hr 40 minutes while we worked through the issues that led to my disconnection. He did a fantastic job, especially in dealing with a very stressed customer who had no access to his emails for 3 days. I rate him 10/10
Jen was very prompt at resolving my issue. She needed to look into the issue further and advised she would call me back. She did call back as expected, identified the issue promptly and resolved it. She offered Profesional advixe on how to fix the issue.
I have had an appalling experience with other support staff at Webcentral, but this single phonecall resolved all of the issues I was experiencing immediately. They listened, took care to actually take steps to address the problem, and were prompt and polite. Thank you.
Negative reviews
Human Tech Customer Support Officer, Kim G. SOLVES Problem in under 30 seconds. FIVE STARS to Kim G. ZERO STARS to Webcentral Orbi Chatbot. Kim was polite, on the ball, efficient, and managed the call professionally. As a business person, ex-HR Director, ex-operations/strategic management, Kim is worth his weight in gold. Kim IS the Future. … Read more
Webcentral AI Orbi chatbot had WASTED MY TIME, DID NOT understand my clear instruction/request and did NOT/could NOT respond further.
AI Revision has cost me 40 minutes of MY TIME in total plus environmental costs searching their website and writing this appraisal - you do the math.
WASTING MY TIME and MY MONEY and raising my ire. Give me a HUMAN everytime.
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Webcentral recently had an email outage that caused major disruption to my business. They were difficult to contact and very unhelpful once I was able to message a technical service agent. A few months later I received an email informing me their prices would be increasing! Over the past few days I have been migrating all my Webcentral services to another company. My advice would be not to use Webcentral.
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On one occasion, they shut down a domain because they wanted me to confirm my address. Regularly the server has apalling performance. Then billed a renewal at 6 x the original cost 3 days before expiry and made me jump through hoops to get a refund - had to complain to Paypal. AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE
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Recent reviews
I had an issue forst thing thismorning with a new domain purchase, I called and spoke to Al who worked through the issue from start to finish and the whole problem was resolved in less than 20 minutes. I really appreciate the help so early in the morning
Mayo in customer support solve an email issue and completed the task efficiently and in a very supportive manner. I will ask for him again if we ever have any issues in the future. Thank you for the great service. Mike Davidson Marinese.com.au
As a website owner, I'm a good nutritionist! Called Joel R. for an explanation on domains, hosting, emails and the like. He was patient and knowledgeable and was able to answer all my questions on website fundamentals and I would highly recommend Webcentral for all your website needs.
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My name is Grahame, AL was extremely helpful today in sorting my websites and sorting renewal problems I had. He did this very professionally and I would commend him for his knowledge politeness and expertise in these and other areas
Al provided fantastic service helping me resolve my invoicing issue. I’ve now spoken with Al twice in 2 days. I was lucky to find him on the other end of the phone.
Polite, informative and helpful with a problem that would have taken me all day to sort out. With his help it took minutes and was done cheerfully but in an informative way.
I spoke with Marlon for some technical assistance and he was very good in answering my queries and resolving my issues. Keep up the good work Marlon and Webcentral
Great support from Joel + team at Webcentral today, as always. Highly recommended for hosting + all their services. Having Support available by phone is an appreciated human touch.
Josh. R was very helpful helped with global administration, invoices, password reset a pleasure to work with through administration tidy up Warm regards, Gary
I had some issues to address for one of my domain names and spoke with Al in the technical team. After quickly confirming the legitimacy of my contact Al checked the concerns I had and resolved them immediately. Great service!
The help I received from Josh.R regarding an issue with our website was fast , efficient and helped enormously in keeping our company running smoothly. Super appreciate it Josh .
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