ConnectWise Manage vs Kayako

• Manage's GUI is fantastic and easy to use.
• Makes it very simple to create support tickets and organize them.
• The different boards in Manage are what really make this product great.
• Being able to lay everything out and easily organize to our liking is a huge plus!
• Being customer friendly is another aspect I like.
• The portal is easy to setup and easy for clients to use.
• We use this feature heavily as an MSP.

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• Gives a very good report on an individual level of what is being done for a customer or corporate issue.
• Easy to understand who has what, what the tickets are about, how long they have been opened and how many times the customer/employee have gone back and forth with each other.
• Nice dashboard view.

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• The inventory and procurement module could use some work. It is often difficult to navigate through. A cycle count option would be a great addition as well.
• More customization would be great especially in the PO emails.
• The StreamLine IT function, while great, could use some improvement. It is difficult to setup and can at times interfere with other things that we do.
• The invoices are perhaps the ugliest. A straight forward customizable invoice template, not a report that adds 20 steps to the process, would be a huge improvement.

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• Departments need a bit of work. Even though you can have multiple departments, the only changes that can be made are globally. If you want independent queues within the departments, you have to do a lot of work that can be very confusing.
• Survey system is not up to speed. Kayako really needs to add Net Promoter Score into their system. Also, if a staff user removes their name from an incident ticket, it removes them from the survey so you really can't even get a good estimate of how well your staff is in the eyes of the customer.
• Very difficult to implement when you already have a customer base. Setting them up in organizations is difficult. Also, the sign-up for new customers is quirky. If you send an email to Kayako, it will say you are not an authorized user, however, it will store your email address. If you try to send an email a second time, it will go through. This is one of many reasons why we decided to move from Kayako to Oracle Service Cloud.

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• ConnectWise has contributed to being more accurate with our Engineers time keeping. Being able to track everything to very granular detail has been beneficial.
• Pre-planning and recurring service tickets for companies has been a big benefit as well. Love being able to set it and forget it.
• Having more options on time entries has allowed our Field Engineers to become more granular with the time spent on site. It has allowed us to capture more follow up opportunities to get back in front of the Client to show them.

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• Tickets were definitely responded to faster once we implemented the audible alarm that would go off when new tickets came into the queue. This was possible because of the API.
• Since the system was email based we could set our monitoring software up to generate tickets automatically via email for customers when it found something out of the ordinary.

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