ChatBot vs. Front

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ChatBot
Score 9.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
ChatBot is an all-in-one platform to create, deploy, and track chatbots across channels. With it the vendor states users can create chatbots in minutes with diverse templates and automate key tasks right away, or easily drag-and-drop new elements to adapt any template to your needs. ChatBot is ready to work out of the box, while AI algorithms help users improve responses over time. Design conversational experiences to build better relationships with customers.…N/A
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
ChatBotFront
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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
ChatBotFront
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
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.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
ChatBotFront
Features
ChatBotFront
Chat Analytics and Reports
Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Product A and Product B
ChatBot
7.8
2 Ratings
9% below category average
Front
-
Ratings
Chat history and transcripts9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Chat reporting7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Chat and web analytics7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
ChatBot
-
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
ChatBot
-
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
ChatBot
-
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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User Ratings
ChatBotFront
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(4 ratings)
8.9
(35 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.4
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.8
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
ChatBotFront
Likelihood to Recommend
LiveChat
Most suited: Frequent duties can be automated. services can be improved by analyzing customer feedback. Load and Heavy tasks can be reduced. Less workforce is required. Less Suited: Specific product queries and their proper answers. When the user uses those words that are misspelled or have a long sentence it finds difficulty in giving them proper information.
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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.
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Pros
LiveChat
  • Routing rules
  • no code workflows
  • UI/UX is excellent for a newbie to start on
  • Their Chat support is very helpful
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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
LiveChat
  • Having enough conversational data to train the chatbot.
  • Really understanding intent.
  • Understanding emotion.
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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
LiveChat
As long as budget is not an issue - we renewing this solution.
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Front
We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing
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Usability
LiveChat
Since I deployed this solution end to end for my organisation, I would speak from my experience that since I was a newbie to this platform I took ample support from their team, their training resources. However, the product's UI/UX was simply very intuitive that it helped me to get a lot of hand-on practice on the product well. This helped me with the timely deployment of this solution.
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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
LiveChat
Full end-to-end support is critical to maintain the ongoing service, robustness, training and customer service Chatbot offers.
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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
LiveChat
ChatBot is more stable and enhanced as compared to other rivals which are new in this segment and also provides a lot of details which is missing in other products like report etc. Also, chatBot is more commonly used so support wise it is also great and you can find multiple examples on the internet and from your peers as well.
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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
LiveChat
  • Connecting to DB.
  • Customizable dashboards.
  • Automated reporting.
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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

ChatBot Screenshots

Screenshot of Chatbot conversations are automatically archived, allowing users to analyze and improve their story flows.Screenshot of With ChatBot you can control the entire conversation flow.Screenshot of Improve your chatbot day by day using the training tool.Screenshot of Save your time importing a ready to use template and turn it into your own bot assistant.Screenshot of Stories are an intuitive way to tell the bot how to react to different situations. Create Stories for frequent questions and cases to save more time for the difficult ones.Screenshot of To create a fully operating chatbot you don’t need any other tools or apps. The scenario tree structure and drag and drop interface are very intuitive.

Front Screenshots

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