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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Answerbase

    Score8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Answerbase is a knowledge management platform for customer support and e-commerce, allowing users to ask questions, receive quality answers, and browse content and articles to meet their demand for information about your products and services. Each system comes with administration and moderation tools that are designed to help companies customize, manage and grow an engaging platform. According to the vendor, advanced features like moderation, user group management, actionable content insights,…

    $49

    per month

    Front

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AFront is a communication hub that helps businesses keep the human touch in every interaction.

    $29

    per month per user

    Pricing
    AnswerbaseFront
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $49
    per month
    Professional
    $149
    per month
    Business
    $399
    per month
    Enterprise
    Quote
    per year
    Starter
    $29
    per month per user
    Growth
    $79
    per month per user
    Scale
    $99
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Premier
    $229
    per month (billed annually) per seat (50 seat minimum)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AnswerbaseFront
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAnswerbase Enterprise allows for 100% custom adaptations and developments to take whatever ideas, new functionalities or integration requirements you may have and make them a reality. Our knowledgeable team will manage setup, integration, and provide web-based education and training to make sure your team has all the tools and information they need to successfully manage and grow your site. Therefore, we organize a quote on a per customer basis only for customers interested in an Enterprise implementation.Discount for annual pricing on Starter and Growth plans. Scale and Premier plans are annual price only.
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    Community Pulse
    AnswerbaseFront
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    Lumin Creative
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    Front
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    93%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    23 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    Features
    AnswerbaseFront
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Answerbase and Front
    Feature
    Answerbase
    -
    Ratings
    Front
    7.5
    6 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.26 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings6.74 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings7.74 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings7.74 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Answerbase and Front
    Feature
    Answerbase
    -
    Ratings
    Front
    6.9
    6 Ratings
    15% below category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings6.96 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Answerbase and Front
    Feature
    Answerbase
    -
    Ratings
    Front
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings8.33 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.42 Ratings
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AnswerbaseFront
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.2
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AnswerbaseFront
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Lumin Creative
    We implemented a Q&A board since we felt this would be the best way to create high quality content for our team when discussing the next sales strategy process. Really aids customers who have purchased a product from our company to navigate any problems they experience as they can seamlessly check the community question board Increases networking opportunities
    Incentivized
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    Front
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Lumin Creative
    • Increases your team to collaborate with each other as you are available to post questions that more people can answer to express and opinion or idea
    • Browse existing community pages to see if your question has been answered
    • Allows you to share relevant documents with specific staff
    • Excellent customer service support team that are always on hand to help
    Incentivized
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    Front
    • Even if you are just trying to compose a single email, Front gives a smart system that has options such [as] organized templates, tags, alerts, [and] changing your outbound dpt email.
    • Tasks- with Front you will not miss any interaction. When you are required to get assistance from a coworker, you only need to mention him/her and that notification will appear automatically in their inboxes.
    • Smart Notifications- sometimes we are just overwhelmed about the several notifications on our devices that we tend to miss some of them, but Front offers a new way to notify every email, discussion, mentioning, or tag that you really would not want to miss.
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    Cons
    Lumin Creative
    • Onboarding checklist would be a great addition as setting up can be complicated
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    Front
    • Their integration to Salesforce is lacking. As the owner of our productivity tools and how they are used, I have very little control over what things to enforce, or even change what objects are available. For example, we don't use Cases in Salesforce but with the Salesforce integration the Cases object shows up. There's no need to have that there. I've heard there is a roadmap improvement forthcoming.
    • One of our uses is for our sales development reps to prospect with visitors. Because of the high volume of inquiries it's difficult for our reps to efficiently manage all their follow ups. It would be nice if we could run a "scheduled campaign" where a predesigned cadence of email follow ups can be sent automatically. To be clear, they do have a scheduling capability, but it just can't be used as a prebuilt option.
    • Integrations to other systems require you have a user account to those systems. We have SSO and therefore we don't always have a user account. For example, out integration to Jira uses SSO so we don't each have individual Jira logins. This is an outage for us.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Lumin Creative
    No answers on this topic
    Front
    We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing
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    Usability
    Lumin Creative
    No answers on this topic
    Front
    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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    Support Rating
    Lumin Creative
    No answers on this topic
    Front
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    Lumin Creative
    Just from a personal viewpoint, I feel that the ease of use with Answerbase is amazing and with first class customer service support team, that could not be more friendlier and helpful. The decision was easy and they designed specific requirements that met our needs. It has really complemented our workforce and saved time.
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    Front
    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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    Return on Investment
    Lumin Creative
    • Increased collaboration in the workplace
    • Saved time on staff asking the same questions
    • Provides customers a 'live' community to liaise with
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    Front
    • Saved our executive team considerable amount of time chasing support questions through different channels.
    • Gave our team clear accountability for who was lead on a support issue and how to escalate.
    • Customer regularly say our support is the best in the industry.
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    ScreenShots

    Answerbase Screenshots

    Screenshot of Each customer has access to an Admin Site where they can access the tools they need to effectively manage all of your content, users and access.Screenshot of The public interface comes with a standard template. Customers are encouraged to customize the look and feel, so that it is accomplishes their goals and accurately reflects their brand.Screenshot of Each admin and moderator has access to a “My Work” area where they can see their content assignments.Screenshot of Admins and moderators have advanced tools for moderation to control each piece of content from one area.Screenshot of Admins can have full control over customization to accomplish any look and feel they want.Screenshot of Widget builders and API’s empower you to accomplish even the most sophisticated integrations or even build your own Answerbase-powered Q&A applications.

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