Autoklose vs. Groove, a Clari company

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Autoklose
Score 8.6 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Autoklose headquartered in Toronto provides an SEP solution, presenting a combined package of sales email automation and tracking, contact and email campaign management with sequence templates and optimization, sales intelligence with contact verification, follow-up tracking, and integration with commonly used CRMs (e.g. Salesforce), marketing suites (e.g. Hubspot), and email marketing tools (Mailchimp) to coordinate activites between them.N/A
Groove, a Clari company
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Groove is a sales engagement platform that enables sales leaders to execute their strategy in a smarter and more adaptive way. With Groove, revenue leaders can use automation to do more with less, with the goal of driving greater efficiency and effectiveness across the customer lifecycle. Groove states they enable more than 75,000 users at ADP, Google, Uber, iHeartMedia, Capital One, and other large enterprises.N/A
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Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalRequired
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User Ratings
AutokloseGroove, a Clari company
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
(33 ratings)
9.0
(706 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
8.9
(33 ratings)
Usability
9.2
(30 ratings)
8.7
(542 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(30 ratings)
5.3
(145 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
4.9
(2 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
8.6
(13 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(1 ratings)
7.5
(6 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
AutokloseGroove, a Clari company
Likelihood to Recommend
VanillaSoft
If someone only runs a campaign using email and telephone communication, Autoklose is perfect, and I highly recommend it. If someone uses a more diverse set of tools and wants a more complex type of sequence, Autoklose does not allow their users to program communication tools that some other tools and software allow.
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Groove.co
  • Groove is excellent for the use case of improving sales representative and customer success representative productivity and data quality when used alongside Salesforce. It is a Salesforce focused tool. You should definitely consider Groove if you are a current Salesloft / Outreach user and you also use Salesforce.
  • Groove would not be a good fit for an organization not using Salesforce.
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Pros
VanillaSoft
  • It is helping in editing, managing, and send[ing] out large marketing campaigns.
  • It is easy to handle multiple emails in appropriate sequence.
  • Our company [has been] using this for a very long time. It is one of the perfect email solutions we found for our organization.
  • I have been very much impressed by their support staff.
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Groove.co
  • Groove lets us know real-time when a client has checked an email we sent them.
  • Groove helps us streamline our day-to-day events, meetings, and tasks with the help of the Calendar Booking feature.
  • Groove helps us save a lot of time on typing long letters when we explain our products to our customers with the help of their Templates feature.
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Cons
VanillaSoft
  • AutoKlose uses your own email, (e.g. Microsoft Outlook), so it runs the risk of exceeding the Microsoft Message Rate Limit, which can be problematic for your Outlook account.
  • Additional throttling limits for the SMTP Authentication protocol are:
  • 30 messages per minute
  • Recipient rate limit of 10,000 recipients per day.
  • Exceeding these limits will cause the following issues:
  • Exceeding the per minute limit causes email delivery delays, any excess in message submission will be throttled and successively carried over to the following minutes.
  • Exceeding the per day limit causes the following error message:
  • 554 5.2.0 STOREDRV.Submission.Exception:SubmissionQuotaExceededException.
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Groove.co
  • The footprint of the person who lasts touches the information.
  • The footprint of the person who edited the information.
  • Date and time of the modification of the account owner.
  • Date and time of the modification of the last person touching the account.
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Likelihood to Renew
VanillaSoft
We love it and it works
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Groove.co
I actually don't have any complaint regarding groove. It's just that I will give 9 since I confidently believe that there'd be updates in the future which would be more optimal not just for us users but for the business as well. The only regret I have with groove is I was not able to use it before the current company that I'm employed
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Usability
VanillaSoft
Whether it's setting up integrations, creating email campaigns, managing conversations with prospects, Autoklose is a well-designed tool that provides clarity along the way for users to find their bearings, and understand what to do. The help documentation is excellent, the support is great, but the tool is built in a way that simply makes sense when you're using it.
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Groove.co
Groove has been an awesome platform to use for sales pipeline management. I really enjoy how it integrates with my Salesforce, Gmail, and Google Calendar. It makes my job easier by helping me keep track of the progress of each sales contact that I have. Leads are able to reply and notify us using Groove.
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Reliability and Availability
VanillaSoft
We have really had no issues.
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Groove.co
Our organization has not experienced any availability issues with Groove
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Performance
VanillaSoft
Always loads fast.
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Groove.co
Everything is good
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Support Rating
VanillaSoft
Our Autoklose rep is amazing! Jelena has always gotten back to us within 24 hours, despite living on a different continent. She is completely proficient with the tool and is usually able to answer our questions with a brief email or short virtual meeting.
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Groove.co
My company has a team dedicated to supporting our implementation of operative tools and business systems such as Groove. For this reason, I feel that we have ample support for Groove, although I have not personally contacted Groove for any support issues.
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In-Person Training
VanillaSoft
Jelena is amazing! Very knowledgable. Great instructor.
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Groove.co
It was okay. But, just the once. I had to figure it out with help of others on my team.
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Online Training
VanillaSoft
Jelena is fantastic. She always responds to emails immediately.
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Groove.co
Easy to use
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Implementation Rating
VanillaSoft
It is extremely easy to implement and start using right away
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Groove.co
At Nearpod, I have been impressed with the internal expertise and support around Groove as a key tool for the Sales and Customer Success business systems and operations.
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Alternatives Considered
VanillaSoft
I think that I have already said it, Autoklose has much better support and is really quick to set up and use compared with any of the other systems that I have used over the years.
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Groove.co
I have used Dialpad. Dialpad is great, and Groove in my opinion does everything Dialpad does. Dialpad lacks the automation, which makes me feel that Groove is much better. I have not used any other CRMS besides these two, but I do believe Groove is light years ahead of Dialpad.
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Scalability
VanillaSoft
It's expensive to have a single seat for each salesperson, so the alias feature will be the perfect addition to this product.
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Groove.co
Our organization was able to quickly scale Groove from a pilot group of a few users to a department-wide solution
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Return on Investment
VanillaSoft
  • I feel the increased prospect engagement and business opportunities created supported the cost. In my industry 1 customer can support positive ROI.
  • I saw an overall increase in mass emailing effectiveness and we were able to automate majority of our campaigns which increased productivity for marketing & sales.
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Groove.co
  • Reduced several hours a week of logging time in Salesforce that either wouldn't get done or would have been done to the detriment of more value add activities.
  • Saves hours per week by delivering actionable/useful info from Salesforce into Gmail
  • Gives me valuable insight on what emails are being opened and read. This helps plan targeting.
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ScreenShots

Autoklose Screenshots

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Groove, a Clari company Screenshots

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