AlmaSuite (discontinued) vs. Front vs. Hiver

My business is HR consulting. Best benefits: organize freelance consultants by projects and tasks.

I think Front is very useful for every company with multiple teams working together on different emails from clients. Not so useful if a lot of different teams need to work on a request at the same time, because when an email is sitting in multiple shared inboxes things can get messy. Also would not recommend for teams that work is individualized, as team work is the main point of Front.

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For group emails where follow ups are necessary and tracking the progress of team members is a must, Hiver is a good fit. We have 5 different companies where all the AP flows into 1 group email. This group email is then monitored and the work is delegated to the correct assignee to address those emails.

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• Great for task administration.
• Customer service is friendly, pragmatic and always available.
• Organize freelance consultants by projects and tasks.

• I call them "sticky notes" but Front calls them Comments. It's a way to collaboratively make comments on messages sent to joint inboxes for folks to coordinate a response before it goes back to the sender.
• When exchanging with someone using the Comments feature, someone can create a draft reply and then share it before it goes out. It also includes the typing indicator letting you know they are not just replying, but specifically working on a draft reply. These things are really great for individuals, or teams, that don't sit next to each other.
• Tagging. It's a fairly simple concept, but very useful for classifying notes and being able to manage, what could be, a messy inbox. Additionally, the ability to have your own personal tags really allows the user to manage their own messages in a way that works best for them.

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• Manage support emails with more transparency than Gmail Groups.
• Reduces learning curves and boosts productivity by allowing users to function inside the gmail service they are already familiar with.
• Ttracking email status (open, pending, closed) helps ensure customer satisfaction.
• And CSAT follows up to ensure the customer was satisfied with the help they received.

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• Need to improve in the way it shows project development in time: Gantt chart, schedules, etc.

• Zoom Meeting Integration as there are some clients who want to have a call immediately.
• Tagging can be improved - looks scattered.
• Calendly Integration, they have their own calendar appointment but it would be good if I don't need to leave the front to set up [calendar] appointments.

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• export the rules and import rules
• bulk update of the rules, one assignee is no longer here we have to go into each rule individually and update
• adding custom status, integrating with other 3rd party apps so the status can be changed by their triggers

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We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing

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It's very easy to understand and use by new customer support agents as well. Be it a technology, product, or marketing person, we have trained most of the company folks to read and respond to customer conversations in their free time with the help of the Front app. It is also easy to set up for an admin and manage his/her team with communication rules.

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Easy to use

The support is good, and it's definitely prompt, but still lags when it comes to technical requirements, as I guess they are slow in developing newer features fast. So no complaints in terms of responsiveness, but yeah, at times it's not very helpful when you need certain features or are blocked on things which can't be unblocked.

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Support is there, can be slow at times.

Better features for project development follow up than Asana and Wrike (previous choices)

This is something I am not familiar but it seems like it is [available] in Gmail. Thus I cannot give any feedback about it. What I am sure about is Front works for our team and I see Zoom using the service in the Customer Success Organization in a long run.

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True ticketing solutions are certainly more robust in that you can typically manage social media channels and phones, etc. But, in my opinion, when you don't have a team solely responsible for managing a ticketing system they can be complicated to implement. With HIVER, we're already all accustomed to managing our own G-Suite inbox, so it was simply a matter of teaching the team how to utilize the solution.

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• Positive: Internal Communication and Collaboration

• Quality- with all the benefits given, in just matter of time, all your organization will find it familiar and less effort is needed when composing emails.
• Effectiveness- no one wants to miss an email, or never respond to a possible customer. Front will help you that. If you do not want to send that email now, you can set a timer and Front will send it for you later on.
• Simplicity- Front is not the most difficult app to handle, indeed, it is too easy to learn. From the first moment you will have a guided tour and will learn all the good things that it has for you.

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• Hiver has increased our ability to get back to tickets from customers more quickly.
• Hiver has helped our customer service rating.

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