Claritysoft vs. VanillaSoft

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Claritysoft
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
CloudSoft is a simple, cloud-based CRM system for SMBs.
$39
per month
VanillaSoft
Score 4.3 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
VanillaSoft is a lead optimization platform designed to assist fast-response sales teams in maximizing their conversion rates. By providing a structured and efficient approach to lead management, VanillaSoft aims to ensure that every potential customer receives the attention they deserve. This platform is beneficial for sales teams that operate in high-pressure environments where timely follow-ups can significantly impact sales outcomes. The primary audience for VanillaSoft…N/A
Pricing
ClaritysoftVanillaSoft
Editions & Modules
Claritysoft
$39.00
Per Month Per User
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ClaritysoftVanillaSoft
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsVanillaSoft offers several add-ons to use in conjunction with our base platforms including: Auto Dialing Call Recording VoIP SmartCaller ID SMS
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Community Pulse
ClaritysoftVanillaSoft
Features
ClaritysoftVanillaSoft
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Claritysoft
6.6
7 Ratings
17% below category average
VanillaSoft
-
Ratings
Customer data management / contact management8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow management4.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Territory management7.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Opportunity management6.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)5.57 Ratings00 Ratings
Quote & order management7.55 Ratings00 Ratings
Interaction tracking7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management7.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
Claritysoft
8.0
5 Ratings
4% above category average
VanillaSoft
-
Ratings
Help desk management8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Claritysoft
6.4
5 Ratings
19% below category average
VanillaSoft
-
Ratings
Lead management8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Email marketing4.05 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Claritysoft
7.5
7 Ratings
3% below category average
VanillaSoft
-
Ratings
Task management8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting7.57 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Claritysoft
7.2
7 Ratings
6% below category average
VanillaSoft
-
Ratings
Forecasting6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Pipeline visualization8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reports7.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Claritysoft
7.3
7 Ratings
5% below category average
VanillaSoft
-
Ratings
Custom fields9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom objects8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
API for custom integration4.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Claritysoft
6.7
7 Ratings
23% below category average
VanillaSoft
-
Ratings
Single sign-on capability6.57 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based user permissions7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Claritysoft
7.0
5 Ratings
8% below category average
VanillaSoft
-
Ratings
Mobile access7.05 Ratings00 Ratings
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Creatio
Score 9.1 out of 10
HubSpot Sales Hub
HubSpot Sales Hub
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
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Creatio
Score 9.1 out of 10
Outreach
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
ClaritysoftVanillaSoft
Likelihood to Recommend
7.1
(7 ratings)
8.3
(88 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(2 ratings)
8.9
(3 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
ClaritysoftVanillaSoft
Likelihood to Recommend
Claritysoft
Claritysoft is well suited if you need more of an address book as your CRM. Situations where sales are more passive and based on increasing awareness instead of hard, closing sales. In my previous role selling medical equipment, this would NOT work. However, in my current role where awareness is the key factor that drive smaller sales amounts, it does it's job. I've just been in a lot more roles where I need to upload contracts with signatures and track sales Opportunities, and Claritysoft doesn't seem able to do that.
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VanillaSoft
VanillaSoft is well suited for any marketing operations or sales operations team looking for a tool to help them efficiently reach prospects and engage with them through a streamlined method. This can be a great way to manage that engagement, measure it, and keep track of various aspects of prospects.
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Pros
Claritysoft
  • Claritysoft provides great software for keeping track of all the activities you've completed for a customer or lead.
  • Claritysoft also has a great setup with creating new activities that need to be completed in the future so you do not forget.
  • Claritysoft also has a very good support team. When we have questions or problems, Claritysoft is very prompt to address them.
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VanillaSoft
  • Our employees love it - very user friendly, easy to grasp, very little down time to learn it. They feel very confident immediately.
  • Great technical support - I can get solutions to customer problems that make our company look more responsive to our clients. Our clients appreciate our solving their problems immediately.
  • Because of the real time analytics - we can address immediate issues with marketing campaigns to make our client's personnel look great to their superiors.
  • Because of all the functionality - we can provide a turnkey approach from a small company with big company capabilities.
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Cons
Claritysoft
  • There is no spell-check function to use when you are sending emails.
  • Some of the functions you need when deleting records and the like are not always available on every page when you are working in the application.
  • When moving quotes to opportunities, the attachments go with the move so when you go back to the quote, it is not there. Also, when you move a quote it does not automatically fill in the quote number as it was on the quote, it creates a new number. This should be fixed.
  • When you convert a lead it does not move the lead to archives or get rid of it. It leaves it in the Leads area and so you have to manually get rid of it.
  • There is no auto-dial feature built into Claritysoft.
  • The mobile app needs to look and feel just like the online version.
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VanillaSoft
  • It really needs an "undo" button. I can't tell you how many times I was typing notes etc and hit a wrong button and all was gone so I had to start over.
  • This may be the way we have it set up....we have term codes which are how the callers terminate a call they were on. They finish the call, then type notes in the notepad section of what happened, then they terminate the call. But there are times that I need to go onto a record and just leave a note but don't need to terminate it as anything. If there is a way to do that, it would make my life a lot easier.
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Likelihood to Renew
Claritysoft
It works for us and the support is excellent
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VanillaSoft
We have no reason not to renew. VanillaSoft has been the best CRM (for us) that we have ever used. The value is great, we love the system, and it's easy to get assistance from VanillaSoft team when needed. Our team is so used to the calling and admin functions there is no desire to change.
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Usability
Claritysoft
It is VERY, VERY, simple and easy to use and learn. All I needed was a super brief 30 minute overview to understand how to use it, and their Customer Support is pretty good. I was raised on Salesforce, which is much more complicated, but allows you to do so much more.
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VanillaSoft
The entire system is set up so perfectly. It makes training callers much quicker, and admin tools are so easy to navigate when you get used to using it. Also, if there is ever something I cannot figure out, I can get support from VanillaSoft very quickly to resolve and get my task accomplished.
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Reliability and Availability
Claritysoft
No answers on this topic
VanillaSoft
It is very rare that we have system issues. Maybe a handful of times over the years, we had to contact support about being unable to access. It was always a quick response from the VanillaSoft team, and they would clearly explain the issue and usually give time frame on fixing, or have it fixed immediately.
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Performance
Claritysoft
No answers on this topic
VanillaSoft
I work on all aspects for VanillaSoft for our company. The pages overall do load very quickly. Reports are amazing, I can get quick report, customized reports, and anything I may need to present to client in very little time. It has made my job so much simpler. As far as I know, integration goes smoothly as well.
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Support Rating
Claritysoft
They are very helpful and quick whenever I have a question about Claritysoft CRM. I think the guy I've spoken with is named Evan, and he's been very helpful. Claritysoft, give the man a raise if you know who I'm talking about. He responds super quick with truly helpful insights.
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VanillaSoft
Response time was acceptable for the relatively few problems any of our users may have encountered. Fortunately, such occasions were rare.
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In-Person Training
Claritysoft
No answers on this topic
VanillaSoft
It was very helpful and informative. The learning of the tool is something anyone can do, as the setup is so well thought out.
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Online Training
Claritysoft
No answers on this topic
VanillaSoft
It was very thorough. VanillaSoft team did not rush us. They explained the various functions clearly and were open to any and all questions we had as we began to learn the system. Also, once training completed, if we encountered anything we could not figure out, the support team was fantastic in helping us out.
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Implementation Rating
Claritysoft
So easy to do - you control the process, supported by the Claritysoft
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VanillaSoft
Our implementation was very easy.
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Alternatives Considered
Claritysoft
Claritysoft's emails are much easier to use since Salesforce is in the middle of switching from Classic to Lightning. Also, Salesforce does not have a native group edit option. Claritysoft is much more data driven and you can use all functions of Excel to customize reports. However, Claritysoft does not have as many third-party add-on options compared to Salesforce's app exchange.
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VanillaSoft
VanillaSoft stacks up against Microsoft Power BI very well by allowing the data visualization in a more effective way, Power BI has positioned itself as one of the more robust and intuitive tools for business intelligence and data presentation. VanillaSoft and Microsoft Power BI are a great bundle for the report and analytics team.
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Scalability
Claritysoft
No answers on this topic
VanillaSoft
VanillaSoft has been great. The flexibility of the system is wonderful. The scalable software options are impressive as well. I would strongly support VanillaSoft's capabilities in this area. You really can do just about anything to get the setup and or integrations you may desire for your company needs.
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Return on Investment
Claritysoft
  • It has made it easier to see our overall sales for each sales rep.
  • The only negative is that we cannot change over the account, contacts, leads, and opportunities with one ownership field. You have to do each one separate and when you are transferring 1000 clients this takes much too long to do. No reason for it.
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VanillaSoft
  • Ability to contact more clients each day.
  • The ability to save my correspondence and notes on each interaction allowing for the appearance to the customer that I am very engaged when we are speaking.
  • Increased sales from the calendar setting and saving my notes.
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ScreenShots

VanillaSoft Screenshots

Screenshot of the VanillaSoft Call Activity Dashboard, used to to monitor sales campaigns.Screenshot of where to build reports using the VanillaSoft Web Reports Wizard.Screenshot of where VanillaSoft offers the ability to arrange modules into four panels for access to almost everything in one screen.Screenshot of VanillaSoft's caller screens, which can be displayed in three panels.