Carbonio Community Edition vs. Front

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Carbonio Community Edition
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Carbonio Community Edition (Carbonio CE) is a free and open-source (FOSS) email and collaboration platform designed by Zextras. The email solution allows organizations to maintain digital sovereignty through on-premises self-hosted servers, ensuring privacy and control over its communications. Carbonio CE's features include email management, calendaring, chat, video chats, dedicated file management, and collaborative document editing. Additionally, its dedicated iOS and Android apps…
$0
Front
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Front is a communication hub that helps businesses keep the human touch in every interaction.
$29
per month per user
Pricing
Carbonio Community EditionFront
Editions & Modules
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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
Carbonio Community EditionFront
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount for annual pricing on Starter and Growth plans. Scale and Premier plans are annual price only.
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Community Pulse
Carbonio Community EditionFront
Features
Carbonio Community EditionFront
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Carbonio Community Edition
-
Ratings
Front
7.8
6 Ratings
5% below category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Carbonio Community Edition
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Ratings
Front
7.2
6 Ratings
11% below category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings7.26 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Carbonio Community Edition
-
Ratings
Front
8.8
4 Ratings
10% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings8.43 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.14 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
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Carbonio Community EditionFront
Small Businesses
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Score 9.4 out of 10
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Medium-sized Companies
Front
Front
Score 9.0 out of 10
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Front
Front
Score 9.0 out of 10
SysAid
SysAid
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Carbonio Community EditionFront
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(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
Carbonio Community EditionFront
Likelihood to Recommend
Zextras
No answers on this topic
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.
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Pros
Zextras
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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
Zextras
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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
Zextras
No answers on this topic
Front
We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing
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Usability
Zextras
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
Zextras
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
Zextras
No answers on this topic
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
Zextras
No answers on this topic
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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