ChurnZero vs. Salesforce Sales Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ChurnZero
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
ChurnZero 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 Sales Cloud
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce Sales Cloud is a platform for sales with a community of Sellers, Sales Leaders, and Sales Operations, who use the solution to grow sales and increase productivity. The AI CRM for Sales features data built right in, so that companies can sell faster, sell smarter and sell efficiently. Salesforce Sales Cloud is used for, and supports: Buyer Engagement Sales Engagement Enablement Sales AI Sales Analytics Team…
$25
per month
Pricing
ChurnZeroSalesforce Sales Cloud
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Starter
$25.00
Per User/Per Month
Professional
$80.00
Per User/Per Month
Enterprise
$165.00
Per User/Per Month
Unlimited
$330.00
Per user/Per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ChurnZeroSalesforce Sales Cloud
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
ChurnZeroSalesforce Sales Cloud
Considered Both Products
ChurnZero
Chose ChurnZero
I prefer that ChurnZero has the health scores and is easier to use.
Chose ChurnZero
ChurnZero was the perfect mix of tools and features at the right price. It has scaled as we've scaled and the new features they roll out are always industry firsts.
Chose ChurnZero
During our assessment it was obvious that Churnzero offered more features that aligned with our business goals.
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 …
Chose ChurnZero
Strikedeck was way to difficult to use and required way to many steps to do one thing. ChurnZero is a game changer with that. When logging a activity, it is literally the same page for everything, no jumping back and forth or having to start a different tab.
Chose ChurnZero
I have never used a true Customer Success software but I researched about 10 and did a lengthy process of elimination to land on Churnzero.
Chose ChurnZero
It is easy to integrate with our systems and it has all the required fields as well.
Chose ChurnZero
I haven't used any other products like ChurnZero
Chose ChurnZero
I much prefer the ease of ChurnZero compared to Salesforce. Within my company, there are many action items that I can do within either platform, and I choose ChurnZero every time. There are items I wish I could do in ChurnZero that I cannot, however, that is due to what …
Chose ChurnZero
I haven't used anything in the same line of products.
Chose ChurnZero
I have not evaluated other similar products.
Chose ChurnZero
I prefer ChurnZero as it has a simpler design, it is more user friendly and the graphics are clearer
Chose ChurnZero
ChurnZero does get and is an amazing one-stop hub for both checking in on clients, having outreach to them, and having reminders sent around internally to avoid anything slipping through the cracks!
Chose ChurnZero
I don't know a lot of other companies that do this sort of Churn Scoring - I'm sure they are out there. Prior to CZ we used Monday to track some metrics and usage, but Monday is much better suited to project management and not customer management (we still use Monday daily).
Chose ChurnZero
ChurnZero really dives deep into our client's statistics versus simply storing client data and information. It has also allowed our various departments to collaborate on the client's journey based on the implementation stage they are in. The ability to monitor client usage has …
Chose ChurnZero
Prior to making the decision to purchase ChurnZero we conducted an exhaustive benchmark and it came up very high in our parameters including flexibility, integrations, ease of deployment and price. Churnzero provides high touch points of contact customer support so you can get …
Chose ChurnZero
For our CSM teams it is the better product. Also, in ChurnZero I can create things to our needs
Chose ChurnZero
CZ is the best I've used this far!
Chose ChurnZero
We chose ChurnZero due to a few factors. The first was cost, ChurnZero offered a package that fit our lower budget while Gainsight did not have any wiggle room with a more expensive product. Next, the implementation period for ChurnZero was much faster than that of Gainsight. …
Chose ChurnZero
I compare ChurnZero to Salesforce because of the flexibility of the platform and the powerful reporting tools. The ability to set specific events and milestones for your clients is instrumental to having a better idea of how successfully your clients are adopting your services. …
Chose ChurnZero
In comparison to what I have been using in the past, ChurnZero sets the bar for customer interaction. With the ease of access and cross-department compatibility, it's been refreshing to have a service that makes it that much easier to identify any trends from my clients. Great …
Chose ChurnZero
This is my first time to be working off the Customer Success platform on a day-to-day basis. While I have not had the chance to work closely with other Customer Success Platforms, I would love to experiment with Planhat sometime due to the favorable reviews I have come across …
Chose ChurnZero
ChurnZero was feature-rich and had everything we needed (Totango was lacking in key features such as displaying a journey to a customer and having them follow along). ChurnZero was way more financially approachable than Gainsight. ChurnZero also was much more of a CS platform …
Salesforce Sales Cloud

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
ChurnZeroSalesforce Sales Cloud
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
9.7
191 Ratings
8% above category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.9
248 Ratings
7% above category average
Role-based user permissions9.7191 Ratings8.9220 Ratings
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.0216 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
9.5
203 Ratings
8% above category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
API9.4165 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com9.6169 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
9.5
219 Ratings
7% above category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Product usage9.4216 Ratings00 Ratings
Help desk / support tickets9.7175 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Success Management
Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
8.8
224 Ratings
2% above category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
NPS surveys9.7196 Ratings00 Ratings
Sponsor tracking5.177 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer profiles9.3209 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated workflow9.4216 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal collaboration9.5183 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer health scoring9.4221 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer segmentation9.5215 Ratings00 Ratings
CSM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
9.1
224 Ratings
6% above category average
Salesforce Sales Cloud
-
Ratings
Customer health trends9.4213 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement analytics9.4208 Ratings00 Ratings
Revenue forecasting8.470 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboards9.1218 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.2
262 Ratings
6% above category average
Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings9.0262 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings8.3253 Ratings
Territory management00 Ratings7.8205 Ratings
Opportunity management00 Ratings8.8254 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings8.1239 Ratings
Contract management00 Ratings7.7210 Ratings
Quote & order management00 Ratings7.9193 Ratings
Interaction tracking00 Ratings8.2224 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings8.0185 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.8
100 Ratings
3% above category average
Case management00 Ratings8.198 Ratings
Call center management00 Ratings7.779 Ratings
Help desk management00 Ratings7.683 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.3
240 Ratings
9% above category average
Lead management00 Ratings8.5235 Ratings
Email marketing00 Ratings8.0202 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.0
243 Ratings
5% above category average
Task management00 Ratings8.1232 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings7.575 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings8.3196 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.2
256 Ratings
8% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings7.9224 Ratings
Pipeline visualization00 Ratings8.1243 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings8.5253 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.7
247 Ratings
14% above category average
Custom fields00 Ratings8.8245 Ratings
Custom objects00 Ratings8.7234 Ratings
Scripting environment00 Ratings8.6174 Ratings
API for custom integration00 Ratings8.6204 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.3
157 Ratings
13% above category average
Social data00 Ratings8.4155 Ratings
Social engagement00 Ratings8.3153 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
8.2
213 Ratings
12% above category average
Marketing automation00 Ratings8.2209 Ratings
Compensation management00 Ratings8.1143 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
-
Ratings
Salesforce Sales Cloud
7.5
228 Ratings
1% above category average
Mobile access00 Ratings7.5228 Ratings
Best Alternatives
ChurnZeroSalesforce Sales Cloud
Small Businesses
Intercom
Intercom
Score 8.6 out of 10
Salesmate
Salesmate
Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CustomerSuccessBox
CustomerSuccessBox
Score 9.5 out of 10
Creatio
Creatio
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
Gainsight CS
Gainsight CS
Score 8.9 out of 10
Creatio
Creatio
Score 9.1 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
ChurnZeroSalesforce Sales Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(227 ratings)
8.7
(394 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.3
(5 ratings)
9.8
(58 ratings)
Usability
6.4
(131 ratings)
8.2
(121 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.8
(27 ratings)
Performance
6.4
(1 ratings)
9.0
(18 ratings)
Support Rating
6.2
(122 ratings)
8.2
(92 ratings)
In-Person Training
6.4
(1 ratings)
7.9
(11 ratings)
Online Training
7.3
(2 ratings)
9.1
(15 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.3
(3 ratings)
1.4
(18 ratings)
Configurability
6.4
(1 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(9 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.3
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.7
(53 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(8 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ChurnZeroSalesforce Sales Cloud
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
Salesforce Sales Cloud is an intuitive and easy-to-use platform. It is easy to customize this platform to meet the ever-changing business needs and requirements. It is easy to integrate with other platforms and offers incredible features that help businesses generate leads, automate their marketing processes, and collaborate effectively.
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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
  • Logging notes: SF makes it easy to log notes in the timeline or static notes that live in an easy-to-see spot for longevity.
  • Logging activities: It's easy to post a call, text, email, etc.
  • API data: Once connected, SF is critical to automation, such as website activity, login activity, pages visited, etc., which saves the Customer Success side time in understanding account activity.
  • Custom fields: you can add custom fields to really personalize your experience. We use quite a few and it's brilliant.
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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
  • Sometimes setting up the interface can be overly complex.
  • Depending on what level of salesforce you are paying for, the SLA for their service team to respond can take a decent amount of time.
  • Wish there was more connection between the salesforce apps like service and sales.
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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
There are days when I wish we hadn't switched, but I know that if we put in the time, we will get to where we want to be with the software and that it has many more capabilities than anything else we looked at. However, the amount of time and onboarding we need to do is also far greater than we realized/were told when we originally bought the product. They told us we should hire onboarding support, but at the end, after we had already reached our budget maximum for this, so it's been slower than we had hoped.
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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
Salesforce has been designed on the basis of "Clicks, not code". So anyone willing to learn the Salesforce user interface (which is quite good as far as management software platforms go) is able to become a Salesforce user or even a Salesforce administrator. You don't have to know coding language to work in the Salesforce environment. Also, Salesforce has one of the best software training resources (Trailhead) that I have ever encountered. It is free to all, easy to use, and most importantly it is interactive. No scrolling through endless text in a user manual. There are hands-on modules and related videos interlaced and through it all you earn points and badges to display your level of learning.
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Reliability and Availability
ChurnZero
Quick response by the CZ team.
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Salesforce
Salesforce is always available securely from any internet-capable device anywhere in the world, UNLESS you choose to set security measures so that ONLY trusted IP ranges may access the system at certain times of the day. It's all about choice and flexibility with Salesforce products.
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Performance
ChurnZero
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Salesforce performance in general is excellent. "The cloud infrastructure beneath Force.com has been fine-tuned over the past 10 years. It powers nearly 100,000+ businesses running more than 185,000 applications that 3 million users count on every day."
Points per Salesforce -
1) Multitenant kernel - With a multitenant platform, each business that uses the app doesn’t have its own copy. Instead, all businesses share a single copy and then customize it for their specific needs.
2) ISO 27001 certified security - You can’t compromise when it comes to enterprise-level security. Force.com is road-tested and trusted by nearly 100,000+ companies, including many of the world’s most security-conscious organizations, such as banks and health care providers.
3) Proven reliability - All Force.com apps run on world-class data centers with backup, failover, and disaster-recovery facilities. Force.com has had a proven 99.9 percent uptime record for years.
4) Proven, real-time scalability - Force.com is used by many of the world's largest enterprises, including Cisco, Japan Post Network, and Symantec. Applications can automatically scale from a few users to millions of page views, as needed.
5) Real-time query optimizer - You need fast access to your data. The Force.com query optimizer delivers under 300ms response time, at a massive scale.
6) Real-time transparent system status - You can always see real-time system performance, availability, and security information at trust.salesforce.com.
7) Real-time upgrades - Unlike traditional software platforms, our upgrades never break your customizations, code, or integrations. We upgrade the platform for you 3 to 4 times each year. As a result, you’re always on the latest version, with access to the latest features, performance, and security enhancements.
8) Real-time sandbox environments - With a single click, you can create copies of your applications, configuration, and data in separate environments for development, testing, and training.
9) Three global production data centers and disaster recovery - Force.com runs on three geographically dispersed, mirrored data centers with built-in replication, disaster recovery, a redundant network backbone, and no single points of failure
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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
The overall support has been good. More and more features are being released quite frequently. Very small features are also making big difference in how the tool can be adapted and used better. If there is anything we need or are stuck, the support team sets up a call and helps in resolving the issue/provides workarounds.
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In-Person Training
ChurnZero
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
I attended two training sessions. I would rate them a 4 as an advanced user. It was very basic – great for someone new – would give 8+ for new person.

I had 3 years of experience at the time. I skipped basic and went onto advanced and still not helpful. A lot of it was best practices that didn’t feel relevant for our business
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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
I have gone through multiple. The content that’s delivered is quite basic – I wish they had more advanced training.

We are grandfathered into premium support plus training. We get unlimited access to instructor led and online training for free. We have taken advantage of this
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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
Just from an organizational standpoint - we standardized our data prior to moving to Salesforce. But we essentially standardized it wrong. That's created a big disgusting mess for us know that I'll have to deal with as the Admin. Be sure you think through use cases prior to doing something like that - seek outside opinions on how the data will work best, especially depending on what else you're going to integrate with Salesforce.
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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
At our company, we use Salesforce and HubSpot. I personally like both for different reasons. Salesforce makes it easy to generate reports, keep track of dealer and customer information, tie customers to dealers, and is easy to use. However, I like HubSpot for the marketing features. I think HubSpot has easier-to-use workflows and email creations.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
ChurnZero
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Salesforce is the most widely used CRM system. Professionalism tends to increase when things go wrong for market leaders. Salesforce considers us as users because they own the market. Having all of our data in one place and all of our teams working within Salesforce. Anyone who uses Salesforce is impacted by it, even if they don't.
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Scalability
ChurnZero
Easy to escalate.
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Salesforce
Salesforce Sales Cloud is highly scalable and designed to accommodate the needs of businesses of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises. It offers flexible subscription models and can easily scale up or down based on the organization's requirements. Whether a company is expanding its sales team, increasing its customer base, or adding new features and functionalities, Sales Cloud can adapt to support growth without sacrificing performance or reliability. Additionally, Salesforce's cloud-based architecture ensures that users have access to resources and capabilities as needed, making it a highly scalable solution for organizations looking to automate customer relationship management at scale.
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Professional Services
ChurnZero
No answers on this topic
Salesforce
Using Salesforce.com has made my daily routines more efficient and simplified the manual tasks I had to perform independently. I can now access data from any device, online or offline, and provide better guidance to my team about the forecasts provided by the built-in artificial intelligence (AI). A chat with a Salesforce support specialist would be great. The knowledge base has a community forum where Salesforce users can ask questions and learn more about the product.
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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
  • The inbox feature allows me to see when the customer opens my email, and hence a timely follow-up could result in a higher response rate.
  • The mobile app allows users to gain access to leads and customer contacts on the go, which increases sales team productivity and enhances customer conversations.
  • The reports of the notes on the account level are not working, which is causing manual work in the weekly report to leadership.
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ScreenShots

ChurnZero Screenshots

Screenshot of an overview of ChurnZero's AI built for customer success. It can help automate content creation, turn scattered data into clear insights, and track customer sentiment. ChurnZero’s AI-powered tools offer deeper visibility, and better engagement.Screenshot of customer insights, presented in ChurnZero dashboards. These offer a real-time, 360° view of every customer. Users can track engagement, monitor health, and drive action without the guesswork. ChurnZero offers the insights needed to stay organized, stay informed, and deliver exceptional experiences at scale.Screenshot of the customer journey, planned, tracked, and measured. With ChurnZero, users can guide customers through key milestones, provide real-time visibility into their progress, and collaborate on personalized success strategies.Screenshot of ChurnZero's customer interaction features, that let users meet customers in the product. With in-app communications, WalkThroughs, and Success Centers, users can deliver targeted messages, guide users through key features, and provide on-demand resources without disrupting their workflow.Screenshot of automated engagement workflows, created in ChurnZero.  Scaling customer success doesn’t mean losing the personal touch. With ChurnZero, users can automate key touchpoints, jumpstart engagement with proven templates, and stay informed with instant updates.Screenshot of the real-time insights available in ChurnZero, used to identify at-risk accounts, track key trends, and forecast revenue with precision. These can be used to proactively manage churn and uncover expansion opportunities.

Salesforce Sales Cloud Screenshots

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