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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    brightwheel

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ABrightwheel is a platform for early education that combines SaaS, Payments, and a consumer-like daily experience, from the company of the same name headquartered in San Francisco. With brightwheel, teachers have tools for assessment, communication, and photo sharing; administrators can manage their business with enrollment, reporting, and online bill pay; parents get a real-time view of their child’s day that helps them participate in the learning + continue it at home.N/A

    Salesforce Partner Management

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASalesforce Partner Management is a partner relationship management (PRM) software solution offered by Salesforce.

    $25

    per month per user

    Pricing
    brightwheelSalesforce Partner Management
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Essentials
    $25
    per month per user
    Professional
    $75
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $150
    per month per user
    Unlimited
    $300
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    brightwheelSalesforce Partner Management
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—All plans are billed annually.
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    Community Pulse
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    brightwheelSalesforce Partner Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    8.2
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    Usability
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    User Testimonials
    brightwheelSalesforce Partner Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    brightwheel
    Any preschool can benefit from brightwheel, no matter the size. Brightwheel is also excellent for billing, which is especially helpful for schools that do not have other databases and billing systems. Because our school is a PS-12, it is a little cumbersome to have brightwheel along with another management system that we use school-wide. It would be nice to have a separate price point that does not include the things that another database system does for schools that are required to use what the older grades also use.
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce Partner Management is a great tool for scenarios where a partner portal needs to be created in a quick and cost-efficient manner by teams that do not necessarily have a broad technical knowledge and when the time to market is key. In the situations where the use case is more advanced and cannot be covered by the out-of-the-box functionalities of SPM, then the tool is less effective.
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    Pros
    brightwheel
    • Recording data for students.
    • Connecting to parents with photos, videos, and messages.
    • Signing in and out electronically and saving paper daily.
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    Salesforce
    • Clear, concise user interface.
    • Organizes calls & notes & client info into one uniform platform.
    • Allows knowledge to be shared across the organization & account teams.
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    Cons
    brightwheel
    • Offering a price point that does not include billing.
    • Allowing more freedom of uploading own documents.
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    Salesforce
    • One thing is, you have to put the time you took on the case if you edited it. I would like to change the name or a note and not have to go back and put how long it took.
    • Reports can sometimes be hard to create.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    brightwheel
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    We are definitely going to renew as we created and developed a very functional and complete solution that we won't want to lose. and the reason we achieved that is by continuously evolving and enhancing. That would not be possible without the qualified technical support we have at our disposal internally.
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    Usability
    brightwheel
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Salesforce Partner Management is complete and has great usability. Just as a Salesforce full CRM does. However, when you have to deploy the initial implementation and/or create the infrastructure for your Salesforce Partner Management it might require, as expected, a very good support and development team and resources
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    Alternatives Considered
    brightwheel
    Brightwheel does much more for the preschool level than FACTS does. The creators of this app know early childhood. The company also provides helpful webinars that are unrelated to their software, such as staff retention or ways to market. They understand the business of early childhood and exist to make the lives of providers easier.
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    Salesforce
    Tune provides great on-boarding experience for new users, but the functionality of the product itself is limited. For example if you multiple partners worldwide who sell your product, Salesforce CRM integration is a must to achieve business goals. Salesforce ecosystems helps to avoid having multiple tools and licenses. One big differentiator is that Salesforce Partner Managements allows for personalization that is user-friendly, while with Tune user is expected to do some coding
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    Return on Investment
    brightwheel
    • Value add for parents
    • Saves paper
    • Benefits for teachers who fully utilize
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    Salesforce
    • Single integrated lead management system- positive.
    • Partner information and communication - positive.
    • One system for all partner needs like assigning deal registration or MDF- positive.
    • Trainings required internally- negative.
    • Too expensive- negative.
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