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    ChurnZero

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AChurnZero is a Customer Success platform designed to help subscription businesses succeed through improved customer experiences. ChurnZero helps Customer Success team spot potential churn risks early and see renewal and expansion opportunities faster. Its automation and personalization, in-app communications, and Customer Success AI™ support engagement with customers and lead them to value. The platform offers journeys, health scores, survey tools, segmentation, plays,…N/A

    Salesforce Agentforce Service

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AService Cloud is a customer service platform that helps businesses manage and resolve customer inquiries and issues. It provides tools for case management, knowledge base, omni-channel support, automation, and analytics, enabling companies to deliver exceptional customer service experiences.

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    ChurnZeroSalesforce Agentforce Service
    Editions & Modules
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    Starter Suite
    $25
    per month
    Pro Suite
    $100
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $165
    per month per user
    Unlimited
    $330
    per month per user
    Agentforce 1
    $550
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ChurnZeroSalesforce Agentforce Service
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    ChurnZeroSalesforce Agentforce Service
    Considered Both Products
    ChurnZero
    Chose ChurnZero
    I would say that all of those tools are great, but just reiterating that the ease and central location of everything that I need is extremely helpful and vital. I literally have everything I need in the various tabs that are included when I look up a specific account.
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    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
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    76 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    87%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ChurnZeroSalesforce Agentforce Service
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of ChurnZero and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    ChurnZero
    8.1
    193 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
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    Role-based user permissions8.1193 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of ChurnZero and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    ChurnZero
    9.5
    205 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    -
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    API9.0167 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com10.0171 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Data Extraction / Integration
    Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of ChurnZero and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    ChurnZero
    9.5
    221 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    -
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    Product usage9.1218 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help desk / support tickets10.0177 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Success Management
    Comparison of Customer Success Management features of ChurnZero and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    ChurnZero
    9.6
    226 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
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    NPS surveys9.1198 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sponsor tracking9.079 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer profiles10.0211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated workflow10.0218 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal collaboration10.0185 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer health scoring10.0223 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer segmentation9.1217 Ratings00 Ratings
    CSM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of ChurnZero and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    ChurnZero
    9.2
    226 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
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    Customer health trends9.1215 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement analytics9.9210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Revenue forecasting9.072 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboards9.0220 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of ChurnZero and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    ChurnZero
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    7.9
    81 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.279 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.857 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.267 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings6.962 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.779 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings7.978 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of ChurnZero and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    ChurnZero
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    8.7
    76 Ratings
    8% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.567 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.874 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of ChurnZero and Salesforce Agentforce Service
    Feature
    ChurnZero
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Agentforce Service
    7.9
    81 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings7.858 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings8.037 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings7.451 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings8.880 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings7.870 Ratings
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    Score6 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ChurnZeroSalesforce Agentforce Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (229 ratings)
    8.7
    (100 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    6.2
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (133 ratings)
    8.2
    (22 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (45 ratings)
    Performance
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.5
    (122 ratings)
    7.0
    (20 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ChurnZeroSalesforce Agentforce Service
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ChurnZero
    If you are a SaaS business with a high volume of customers, having ChurnZero is a must. If you have a subscription based business and a customer success or account management function in your company, I would highly recommend ChurnZero.
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    Salesforce
    I think Service Cloud is best suited for medium to large operations that require both proactive and reactive service. It’s a great fit for post-sales support. However, I wouldn’t recommend it for very small companies because it can be quite costly, and many of the features may go unused. Salesforce also performs best when you have a capable team managing it, so it’s important to consider your organization’s size and readiness before starting. Once you do, I recommend exploring other parts of the Salesforce ecosystem—Service Cloud works even better when integrated with Sales Cloud, since it allows better visibility across teams.
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    Pros
    ChurnZero
    • ChurnZero has excellent customer success! They worked very hard to ensure a successful implementation and launch.
    • The CZ platform gives a detailed view of customer usage. We know exactly how clients are using our platform which allows us to provide excellent customer success services. This allows helps our product team understand the needs of clients and the success of new features.
    • We are able to create plays based on usage which provides a customized and personal experience for each user. CZ makes it possible to give our clients what they need when they need it.
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    Salesforce
    • Email to case is an interesting piece of it. The threading is very strong, sometimes too strong, but it does very well at handling the incoming emails.
    • The omnichannel routing, using skill-based routing is really effective.
    • Pathing. So making the workflow and helping the team understand what it is that they're trying to do, what they have to accomplish, those step-by-step pieces. That's really helpful.
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    Cons
    ChurnZero
    • When composing an email out of segments, the ability to save it as a draft to review later would be awesome, instead of needing to set up a Play
    • In the admin section, I love that we can have a color palate - but we'd like the color palete to be applied in other areas so CZ has more of our companies branding
    • The content templates can be hard to stylize if you don't know html
    • Add the Merge Fields functionality to tasks, especially tasks made by playbooks
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    Salesforce
    • We had a principle initially to try and use Omni as much as we can from the user experience perspective, but have found that fairly restrictive. It was very difficult to actually get the right customer experience and customer engagement going. So we're actually on a journey at the moment to replace all of our Omni with Lightning web components that gives us that flexibility. That's probably one area where we've had some challenges in terms of how we've used the product out of the box.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ChurnZero
    Our team is very happy with the product after evaluating multiple vendors, including Gainsight, Totango and Planhat. We like the additional functionality that CZ offers on its enterprise version. We were strongly considering other products if the price was right and functionality worked, but the change management would have been too heavy and taken too long. The ChurnZero team has been a good partner to rely on and allowed us to free up our time and resources to focus on more pressing matters
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    Salesforce
    Professional edition works best for a small company with lower call volumes and is very useful but as you grow exponetially I think it has limited ability to do all the things we want to - SLA management, defect, release management to name a few. Reports and dashboards being available in real time.
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    Usability
    ChurnZero
    ChurnZero makes my work life a complete game changer. I say it all the time ChurnZero is a one stop shop for data! I don't fumble through numerous different programs, try to remember different passwords, I literally login to CZ and it is right there in front of me
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    Salesforce
    I had Salesforce experience prior to using Service Cloud which made it a little easier to learn and navigate, but overall my team (some who had no Salesforce experience) caught on very quickly and found Service Cloud to be easy to use.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    ChurnZero
    Quick response by the CZ team.
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    Salesforce
    Working on an application that caters to customer needs requires a platform that acts as a mediator between the actual person and the client. This mediator handles the customer and resolves many of their doubts, helps them map through the entire process, and automates the processes. Such a platform is Salesforce Service Cloud. For queries that cannot be serviced by the platform, it creates a separate ServiceNow ticket for us, and it is assigned.
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    Performance
    ChurnZero
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    Salesforce
    The Salesforce Service Cloud generally has very good performance, however the overall new Lightning user experience can bring that down. For example, if you have too many tabs open, then it can take a while for the Lightning UI to load. This UI is probably not well equipped to handle loading of all of that information at once, but Users tend to leave their tabs open all day long. It can also be fickle depending on which browser you use, what extensions you have installed, and whether you've cleared your cache. This can be the downfall with any software as a service though, not just Salesforce
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    Support Rating
    ChurnZero
    I recently had the opportunity to interact with ChurnZero's customer support team, and I must say, I am thoroughly impressed. Their responsiveness and willingness to solve problems are exemplary. From the moment I reached out, their team displayed a level of professionalism and dedication that truly stood out.
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    Salesforce
    Salesforce offers support, although it generally gets routed to overseas support teams first, and once they are unable to help, it gets escalated up the chain to higher tiers. Frequently, the answer back from support is that there is no native solution, and we either have to turn to the AppExchange for some solution provided by another developer, or custom build our own solution.
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    In-Person Training
    ChurnZero
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    Our in-person training was provided by our implementation partner and it was quite good. This was in part because we were already working with them and so it naturally leant itself to a good training relationship. And because they were building our customizations and configuring things, they could then provide training on those things naturally.
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    Online Training
    ChurnZero
    The training and onboarding have been very helpful. Since I was not a part of the team when ChurnZero was implemented, it was important to get brought up to speed as quickly as possible and our CSM has been incredibly receptive in that regard.
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    Salesforce
    Trailheads are great but it was often unclear what actually applied to our organization. This made it difficult to get a whole lot out of it. Part of it is that because the basic Salesforce features didn't quite work for us, we had to add customizations, which then nullified a lot of the training.
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    Implementation Rating
    ChurnZero
    I implemented CZ in 4 months. When I look back, this is not a long time where I needed to get to know CZ by myself (as I did not have knowledge of it at all..) study the Academy, playing around in the test environment and setting up in live environment.
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    Salesforce
    I would go through an implementation very differently knowing what I know now. It was difficult coming from systems we liked in post-sales service and having to adapt to the clunky and underwhelming feature set in Salesforce. I would trim back our expectations
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    ChurnZero
    Gainsight CS - you need a team to manage this tool; not intuitive to use, and you're not able to be as agile once configured GUIDEcx - One of my favorites in the space, and so easy to set up, configure, customize, and scale. Able to connect onboarding milestones to SFDC cases, and share out as a customer portal. Mixmax has been purchased in past companies to help fill in gaps of other tools (gives us scheduling links, in-inbox email templates, SFDC lead/contact and task management)
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    Salesforce
    We selected this product because we already had some competencies in Salesforce. We own a Salesforce partner with expertise in this area, and on top of that, Salesforce purchased it — it was originally called Velocity. When Salesforce decided to acquire it, that finalized the decision for us.
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    Scalability
    ChurnZero
    Easy to escalate.
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    Salesforce
    The product has scaled up with our company growth just fine. No issues here other than slowness in clicking around and running reports
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    Return on Investment
    ChurnZero
    • ChurnZero has transformed our NPS strategy, helping us get in front of unhappy customers faster
    • ChurnZero has reduced confusion and data cleanliness issues across our CS org
    • Their customer support has helped us implement and get up and running with Churnzero in excellent time.
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    Salesforce
    • We have cut our service team in half over the past 5 years due to the efficiency of the tool
    • The amount of direct inquiries to our technical team is less than 10% compared to the number support tickets that get entered in the system for them to work in a more organized manner
    • Responses are 100% more timely because tickets can be responded to by any individual in the queue or on the team, as opposed to direct emails to just one person
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    ScreenShots

    ChurnZero Screenshots

    Screenshot of an overview of ChurnZero's customer success AI. It is used to automate content creation, turn scattered data into clear insights, and track customer sentiment. The tools offer deeper visibility, better engagement, and more time to focus on building lasting customer relationships.Screenshot of an overview of ChurnZero's customer insights, which provide a real-time, 360° view of every customer. These are used to track engagement, monitor health, and drive action without guesswork.Screenshot of an overview of how ChurnZero guides customers through key milestones, providing real-time visibility into their progress, and collaboration on personalized success strategies.Screenshot of how ChurnZero keeps customers informed and engaged. With in-app communications, WalkThroughs, and Success Centers, customer success agents can deliver targeted messages, guide users through key features, and provide on-demand resources—all without disrupting their workflow.Screenshot of how ChurnZero defines Data-driven automation = The right actions, for the right customers, at the right time. ChurnZero helps automate key touchpoints, jumpstart engagement with templates, and stay informed with instant updates.Screenshot of how ChurnZero helps to predict risks, seize opportunities, and drive revenue growth. ChurnZero provides real-time insights to identify at-risk accounts, track key trends, and forecast revenue with precision. This helps agents to proactively manage churn, uncover expansion opportunities, and make data-driven decisions that fuel long-term success.

    Salesforce Agentforce Service Screenshots

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