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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Claritysoft

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACloudSoft is a simple, cloud-based CRM system for SMBs.

    $39

    per month

    Zoho Desk

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AZoho Support is a Saas help desk / ticketing system aimed at SMBs. I competes most often with Zendesk, and Desk.com.

    $9

    per month per user

    Pricing
    ClaritysoftZoho Desk
    Editions & Modules
    Claritysoft
    $39.00
    Per Month Per User
    Free
    $0
    Express
    $9
    per month per user
    Standard
    $20
    per month per user
    Professional
    $35
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $50
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ClaritysoftZoho Desk
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalRequired
    Additional Details—A discount is offered for yearly billing.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    ClaritysoftZoho Desk
    Considered Both Products
    Claritysoft
    No answer on this topic
    Zoho
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    Features
    ClaritysoftZoho Desk
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Claritysoft and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Claritysoft
    6.6
    7 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    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 Claritysoft and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Claritysoft
    8.0
    5 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Help desk management8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Claritysoft and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Claritysoft
    6.4
    5 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Lead management8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email marketing4.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Claritysoft and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Claritysoft
    7.5
    7 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    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 Claritysoft and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Claritysoft
    7.2
    7 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Forecasting6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports7.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Claritysoft and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Claritysoft
    7.3
    7 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Custom fields9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom objects8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    API for custom integration4.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Claritysoft and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Claritysoft
    6.7
    7 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Single sign-on capability6.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Claritysoft and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Claritysoft
    7.0
    5 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile access7.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Claritysoft and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Claritysoft
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Desk
    8.5
    5 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Claritysoft and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Claritysoft
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Desk
    9.8
    5 Ratings
    20% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings9.85 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings9.85 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Claritysoft and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Claritysoft
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Desk
    6.6
    5 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings6.83 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings5.44 Ratings
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    Score10 out of 10
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Oracle Sales
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ClaritysoftZoho Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (7 ratings)
    8.8
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    8.8
    (11 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ClaritysoftZoho Desk
    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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    Zoho
    Zoho Desk is a great customer service tool. It is very easy to track the ability to receive tickets and send responses in Zoho Desk. There are lots of options for customization. The knowledge base feature is very extensive and powerful. It makes creating internal and external FAQs easy.
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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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    Zoho
    • It provides a simple widget code with a few clicks once you decide to integrate it with your website or application.
    • There is a very user friendly dedicated mobile application for Zoho Desk for Android and IOS devices.
    • You can easily track all of your tickets and agents from the dashboard interface.
    • You can insert tags with each ticket to group them into specific categories for analysis and troubleshooting.
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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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    Zoho
    • The biggest drawback that I am facing while using the platform is that their ticketing system is not that great [in my opinion]. It does not give us the option to add sales tax and other charges in the invoices which leads to a big problem for us.
    • [I feel] its customer support needs improvement.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Claritysoft
    It works for us and the support is excellent
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Zoho
    I give [Zoho Desk] [an] overall usability score of 9. This is partly due to the search functionality needs improvement. There are several times where I am left unable to find a ticket and have to generate a new one. I am hoping in the future that they will make some changes!
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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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    Zoho
    As Zoho Support is based in a different timezone to ours it can be an issue that we cannot get an immediate response to an issue. But I will say that once their Support is in the office they are fairly good to respond. they have resolved almost all issues I have told them about, but Zoho have also made system changes and not communicated these beforehand which means we are faced with something new and cannot get support on this until their support team is in the office
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    Implementation Rating
    Claritysoft
    So easy to do - you control the process, supported by the Claritysoft
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Zoho
    We selected Zoho Desk as we needed a platform that was going to allow the business to grow through both usage and staffing numbers. We wanted something cost-effective but still offered standard features in an effective cloud-delivered solution but would still allow customization by our internal dev team, to derive better value from the service where it natively didn't do what we needed it to. FreeAgent was okay for a while, but Zoho Desk has allowed a vast improvement in our service offering to end customers.
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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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    Zoho
    • Zoho Desk has created an organised sytem of support which alows me to help my customers more efficiently.
    • By saving resolutions as articles, Zoho Desk has provided a training resource for current customers and support staff as part of solving problems.
    • All new customers become part of a database of customers who continue to receive support and education from forums created by the articles and customer questions.
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    ScreenShots

    Zoho Desk Screenshots

    Screenshot of Log and monitor phone conversations, convert them into new tickets, or attach them to existing ones. Convert social media interactions and live chat into tickets at the click of a button.Screenshot of Bring a Help Center directly into a website to strengthen self-service. Chat with Zia, an AI-powered conversation assistant. Customers can chat with Zia right from a mobile app or website. Zia processes their questions and suggests appropriate solutions from the Knowledge Base.Screenshot of With advanced process automation, internal processes can be setup within the help desk, implement them automatically, and make sure that all processes are followed precisely.Screenshot of Instant responses for instant happiness. Respond to customers the minute they reach out with Zoho Desk's embeddable chat widget. Customers can get in touch with agents instantly, right from the Help Center, so agents can respond and help them find answers faster.Screenshot of Monitor a team's performance, customize and schedule reports. Custom dashboards can be created.Screenshot of Zia brings together predictions across anomalies, sentiment, trending ticket tags, and more into a common dashboard for decision-makers to consume. They can drill down further into the details from the same dashboard to investigate further.