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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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 Lightning Components & Developer Experience

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Salesforce Platform is designed for building and deploying scalable cloud applications with managed hardware provisioning and app stacks. Lightning Web Components are used by developers to build reusable UI components.

    $25

    Per User Per Month

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    ChurnZeroSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $25.00
    Per User Per Month
    Plus
    $100.00
    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    ChurnZeroSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Considered Both Products
    ChurnZero
    Chose ChurnZero
    During our assessment it was obvious that Churnzero offered more features that aligned with our business goals.
    Incentivized
    Chose ChurnZero
    I haven't used any other products like ChurnZero
    Incentivized
    Chose ChurnZero
    ChurnZero is a better fit out of the box for our business in terms of its features, functions, usability, scalability, serviceability, and costs. We really wanted a customer success platform that doesn't take a long time to deploy while being flexible enough to allow us to …
    Incentivized
    Chose ChurnZero
    ChurnZero has been the only customer success platform that I've personally ever used and within the 2 companies I've worked for that have implemented CZ, only the CSM team had visibility. The main source of information for everyone else was either NetSuite or Salesforce (or our …
    Incentivized
    Chose ChurnZero
    We found these other systems were simply too robust for what we needed and were not agile enough to keep up with pace of a fast growing company. The cost would have made it difficult for us to achieve the ROI we are getting from ChurnZero, if we ever got it at all.
    Incentivized
    Chose ChurnZero
    Salesforce is a great place for us to store some data and gain some customer insights. However, ChurnZero has been able to take that to another level by providing health scores for our clients to help us in segmenting and engaging with them appropriately. Salesforce did not …
    Incentivized
    Chose ChurnZero
    I have used several CRMs and similar software but this is my first review. ChurnZero is significantly more powerful, easy to use, and has phenomenal customer service. Very much the opposite of most platforms that promise all those things without delivering.
    Incentivized
    Chose ChurnZero
    Churnzero has more actionable data and far deeper segmentation capabilities. Other products seem a little more one dimensional with their offerings while ChurnZero can offer an array of sales and success related features/functions. From plays, to journeys, segments, and …
    Incentivized
    Chose ChurnZero
    I think ChurnZero more than holds it own with other products I have used in the past. Their user interface, automation options, data collection, and display match or exceed their competitors. Having said that, what sets them apart is their ability to listen to their clients, …
    Incentivized
    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.
    Incentivized
    Chose ChurnZero
    We have not used any other products.
    Incentivized
    Chose ChurnZero
    We used Amity and Churnzero has direct integration with Quickbooks, very helpful. I evaluated client success but the functionality of ChurnZero was by far more robust. Lastly, the client success process itself of Churnzero puts them head and shoulders above the competition.
    Incentivized
    Chose ChurnZero
    I am familiar with AS400, Salesforce and other CRM software. Other alternatives no doubt satisfy needs. The main difference, and it is a big one, is it is as if ChurnZero completed a thorough analysis of all competitors and what those software providers do and do not do. They …
    Incentivized
    Chose ChurnZero
    Both Strikedeck and ChurnZero fit our needs. We choose to go with ChurnZero because it had a simpler, more intuitive interface and better pricing. After we purchased we also learned that their implementation team is very cooperative, even [beyond] our expectations. We are glad …
    Incentivized
    Salesforce
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    We needed a product that would allow for easy and dynamic reports for potential and new clients. Account Managers use other products as well to monitor the client's success and Salesforce allows for seamless integration to other platforms. This serves as a one-stop-shop for all …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Close and Salesforce are two very different beasts. Close is much more user friendly but lacks the ability to serve complex infrastructures and hierarchies provided by Salesforce. Close is much simpler and faster--great for high volume but will not provide you with rich, …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    135 Answers
    89%
    Would buy again
    25 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    106 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    133 Answers
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    25 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    76 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    82 Answers
    82%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    ChurnZeroSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of ChurnZero and Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    ChurnZero
    8.1
    193 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.1193 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of ChurnZero and Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    ChurnZero
    9.5
    205 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    -
    Ratings
    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 Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    ChurnZero
    9.5
    221 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    -
    Ratings
    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 Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    ChurnZero
    9.6
    226 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    -
    Ratings
    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 Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    ChurnZero
    9.2
    226 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    -
    Ratings
    Customer health trends9.1215 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement analytics9.9210 Ratings00 Ratings
    Revenue forecasting9.072 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboards9.0220 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of ChurnZero and Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Feature
    ChurnZero
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    7.2
    30 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Ease of building user interfaces00 Ratings7.030 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
    Platform management overhead00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Workflow engine capability00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Platform access control00 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings7.025 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings6.023 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings7.026 Ratings
    Issue recovery00 Ratings6.025 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
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    ChurnZeroSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
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    ClientSuccess
    Score6 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    CustomerSuccessBox
    Score9.5 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Gainsight CS
    Score8.8 out of 10
    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ChurnZeroSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (229 ratings)
    8.9
    (36 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (133 ratings)
    8.2
    (9 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.5
    (122 ratings)
    8.1
    (15 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ChurnZeroSalesforce Lightning Components & Developer Experience
    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
    If you have a large customer base and a large amount of data on each of your customers, it is really strong in creating personalized content that your salespeople can use in their pitch meetings—and then setting up workflows for automated for lifecycle journey creations to automatically go out to customers.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • It has a very smooth integration with Salesforce and third-party tools, ensuring easy tracking of policies and assets.
    • It also has impressive security features like used-based permissions and encrypted data.
    • Everything can be managed from a centralized place which saves a lot of time.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • It takes a while before it recognizes bounced emails.
    • We get so many notifications from a single action. Not sure if this can be modified in the settings though.
    • Error messages are sometimes unclear which makes it hard for us to identify the problem.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    It's very good, but it's still living in a little bit in an older design aspect, but I think a lot of it is about to come out, just hasn't quite gotten there yet. Still a little clunky from a you have to know it to know it or you know it to use it. It takes a little bit of training to get into it. It's not quite the, anybody can come in and start using it immediately, type feel.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    ChurnZero
    Quick response by the CZ team.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    I am not an administrator so there may very well be outstanding Support and I am just not privy to it. On a user level it's hard to gauge the effectiveness and responsiveness of Support because nearly everything has to go through an administrator
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    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)
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    We were previously using an older version prior to it becoming Salesforce Lightning Platform so we were well adverse on the advantages of using a CRM, to begin with. It made sense to convert to Salesforce Lightning Platform after we were given a free trial of the platform. Certain reps were chosen to experiment with it and from there a decision was made to move forward. We've been customers ever since.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    ChurnZero
    Easy to escalate.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Salesforce
    • Better visibility of Accounts and Contacts interactions makes it easier to maintain during employee transitions.
    • Tracking of current jobs and relating them to past jobs is very useful.
    • More efficient use of Sales Reps time.
    • Sales Managers have good visibility into how their people are working.
    Incentivized
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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.