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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ConnectWise PSA

    Score8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    ConnectWise PSA (formerly Manage) is a business management platform for companies that sell, service, and support technology. The platform is cloud-based and integrates automation, help desk and customer service, sales, marketing, project management, and business analytics. It is the hub of the ConnectWise suite.

    $35

    Per Tech Per Month

    Fin

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AFin is an AI Agent for customer service. It automates complex queries, improves resolution times, and delivers consistently high-quality support at scale.

    $0.99

    one-time fee per outcome

    Pricing
    ConnectWise PSAFin
    Editions & Modules
    Subscription
    $35.00
    Per Tech Per Month
    Fin with your current helpdesk
    $0.99
    one-time fee per outcome
    Fin with the Intercom helpdesk
    from $19 + $0.99 per Fin outcome
    per month per seat
    Pro add-on
    from $99
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ConnectWise PSAFin
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—90-Day Money-Back Guarantee Fin includes a 90-day money-back guarantee. Customers must use Fin in at least 250 conversations during the first 90 days of their subscription following the trial period. Customers who are not satisfied may request a refund within 90 days of starting their subscription. Eligibility: Available to high-volume customers handling more than 250,000 conversations per month in North America and Europe.
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    Features
    ConnectWise PSAFin
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of ConnectWise PSA and Fin
    Feature
    ConnectWise PSA
    8.8
    89 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Fin
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.689 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory6.850 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.662 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.269 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission9.989 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response9.888 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of ConnectWise PSA and Fin
    Feature
    ConnectWise PSA
    7.6
    83 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Fin
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base8.968 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base6.378 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of ConnectWise PSA and Fin
    Feature
    ConnectWise PSA
    9.4
    86 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Fin
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal8.181 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR10.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration10.028 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support9.781 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration9.176 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ConnectWise PSAFin
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (144 ratings)
    8.9
    (491 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.6
    (25 ratings)
    10.0
    (21 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (36 ratings)
    8.2
    (399 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    1.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.3
    (27 ratings)
    6.4
    (11 ratings)
    Online Training
    5.0
    (8 ratings)
    7.4
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    1.0
    (5 ratings)
    6.6
    (5 ratings)
    Configurability
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    1.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ConnectWise PSAFin
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ConnectWise
    BrightGauge lets us know when we have critical issues that need solving. A massive influx of tickets all at the same time triggers an investigation. Usually, it is tied to a server going down, which we can address. It would not be helpful for a small MSP or IT department with just a few daily tickets. The stats are better used to track a large amount of clients.
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    Fin
    I can't think of anything off the top of my head regarding less appropriate. However, this product is very customizable. I think with some improvement in reporting it could be better, however, I would recommend due to these types of things. I love the knowledge base and creating those help centers. I would say that it is fairly easy to set up, but once you set it up, not really knowing all the things, it's hard to go back and change, so it would be nice to have an overall idea of guidance prior to the original setup that can just be improved over time.
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    Pros
    ConnectWise
    • Tickets- Customers can email and a ticket is generated and falls under their profile for historical records. You can save documents and select if they are customer facing or only internal facing. The option as well to have communication in tickets whether its internal facing or customer facing is nice to have when you're trying to keep a record or important details for just internal means and the customer doesn't have to see all the jargon.
    • Procurement - It's great to have this integrate with Quosal Sell. Quotes being processed into opportunities and then into a sales order which connects to a ticket or project is pretty easy to use. It does have a learning curve but once you get the hang of it, it's straightforward. Everything is pretty connected, whether keeping track of products customers have purchased historically through us, to knowing what ticket is associated to an RMA.
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    Fin
    • The AI agent can answer our users' questions accurately based on the information available in our Help Center.
    • Ability to set up workflows and procedures helps our team automate repetitive tasks.
    • The inbox layout is clean and easy to navigate, and we can set views to suit our preferences.
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    Cons
    ConnectWise
    • Annual or more than annualized data is desperately needed for MSPs to show trends, current limitation is previous 240 days for ConnectWise tickets
    • Alerts when datasets do not sync properly, I have to rely on my team to notice vs get an automated alert from BrightGauge
    • Small thing, but it would be nice to have more options on the report scheduler to enable a start date. If you wish to do it quarterly, you have to start the schedule exactly 3 months from the next run.
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    Fin
    • I wish I could pull reports on the conversations that have been closed.
    • I wish I could tag fin categories in addition to our live help desk conversations so I can get a good read on the types of questions users are asking.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ConnectWise
    ConnectWise has uniquely positioned themselves with the Modern Office Suite to have direct integration with a nearly full suite of tools for MSPs. Although each tool may not necessarily be the absolute best tool on the market, the efficiencies leveraged through direct integration make the entire suite an obvious choice for most companies.
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    Fin
    We have been and will be continuing our journey with Intercom and nothing too concerning has happened that I have experienced or heard of that has us on the edge yet. If it ever happens it will be something along the lines of "Outgrowing" the use of need of the platform.
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    Usability
    ConnectWise
    I have been using ConnectWise since 2004 and I am impressed with the progress they have made. However, there are still bugs that don't work quite like they should. If I were to run reports and get consistent answers along with a couple other annoyances, then I would score CW as a 10
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    Fin
    Intuitive is a very accurate descriptor. Features do not seem to be hidden by poor UI. Things are usually where you would expect them to be, and the UI has been designed to make it pleasant to work within the platform. The platform also scales really well. Both small and large organizations can achieve a great return on investment by using it.
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    Reliability and Availability
    ConnectWise
    We use the cloud version of ConnectWise and in the last 5 years it has never been down for us during business hours. I can only recall 1 time when it was not available during off hours when we wanted to use it.
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    Fin
    always there
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    Performance
    ConnectWise
    Some tab for certain areas load speeds could be better. Dashboards can load slowly when they reference multiple reports. Some reports can load slowly based on the tables and views they are accessing. At times the SQL queries being performed in the background can actually timeout and a tab or screen will fail to load.
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    Fin
    Fin is super quick and top notch.
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    Support Rating
    ConnectWise
    The front line support techs are wildly inconsistent when it comes to the level of support. Sometimes you get someone who just wants to throw links to University documentation at you, sometimes you get someone who truly tries to understand your issue and confers with peers and managers to find an answer, and sometimes you get someone who just wants to create a ticket and escalate immediately. If you ask three different techs the same question you will probably get three different answers, one of them being, "That's not possible."
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    Fin
    I can get help by asking Fin questions about itself. It answers accurately, citing its own Help Center resources with visuals. It can reason and dialogue well. But when it comes to getting human support for Fin, it is not as quick. It can sometimes take a few days. They are polite and well-meaning. Some things aren't their fault (product limitations), but there was one occasion where something took a long time to resolve with lots of back and forth but it was I who found out the error in the end that they missed, so they didn't really help resolve it.
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    Online Training
    ConnectWise
    We are a telecoms company. Whilst CW were very happy to sell us their product and tell us how good it is for telecoms. All the training material is geared towards IT MSP's. The on-line training material was virtually useless. We found the implementation a bit of a joke. They tried telling us 12 hours of implementation time would be sufficient to launch the product. We erred on the side of caution and paid for 24 hours. This was quickly eaten away and we were nowhere near ready to go-live. I find the on-line chat facility is of much more use for us.
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    Fin
    It was great. We were able to walk through step by step and get our questions answered along the way.
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    Implementation Rating
    ConnectWise
    Rather than letting them sell you a block of time for implementation, create a list of things that must be completed do declare the implementation complete. The implementer will have the discretion on what they set up and in what order. They will be trying to end their services in as little time as possible and may not get things set up right. You are best advised to hire a third-party wizard that has done many of these setups. Record the audio and video of all of your implementation sessions.
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    Fin
    The implementation was surprisingly easy but we are having to adapt from our old process to work well with Intercom.
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    Alternatives Considered
    ConnectWise
    Everyone but dynamics had holes in it. Dynamics is good, but it requires more development time. I spoke with some people that have CW and liked it. But when I inquired after our frustrations, I discovered they had a full time scheduling & logistics CW manager and the field people were using it purely like any other more simplistic ticket system. They said it would be impossible otherwise. The one big difference is the transparency of the sales effort. The other sales people were honest on the limitations or potential challenges and worked with us. They also worked with our agenda. At CW they don't have that option. The consulting time is eaten through a pre-formatted agenda which they communicate too you, not with you.
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    Fin
    Fin far surpasses these other options in platform features and capabilities. Fin allows for side-by-side use by both the Marketing and Support teams, while none of the other similar products did that well. Most platforms are designed for one or the other, not both.
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    Scalability
    ConnectWise
    ConnectWise seems to have a good understanding of the IT service industry. During the required onboarding training, they even preach configuring only features that you need right now, as you can always scale up later. The feature set for the most part takes into considerations all aspects of an IT business, whether small or enterprise, or growing from one to the next.
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    Fin
    The product is very scalable and has helped us scale our user base and onboard 10x the users in just one month. We couldn't have done it without Fin
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    Return on Investment
    ConnectWise
    • The positive impact is no one has to return to the office to look at notes - they can look up the support ticket on their laptop, tablet, or phone.
    • The positive impact on ROI is keeping all of your support tickets organized in one spot and multiple techs can update them.
    • The positive impact on ROI is that you have happier customers as you can update the support tickets no matter where you are at
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    Fin
    • New role opportunities — Using the “Fin-first” approach has reduced the workload for our Tier 1 team, giving them more time to focus on their own career growth. It’s also opened the door to a dedicated, AI-focused role, where a team member regularly reviews Fin’s answers and makes updates to help it perform even better.
    • Enabling Fin has also reduced our response time and allowed us to meet SLA's.
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    ScreenShots

    ConnectWise PSA Screenshots

    Screenshot of ConnectWise PSA service tickets, which give technicians everything they need in one view—communication history, device details, assigned resources, documentation, and integrated tools like ConnectWise RMM and ScreenConnect®. Here, users can track time, update progress, and resolve issues with a customizable workspace.Screenshot of the newly redesigned Projects module, which introduces Kanban board functionality, simplifying project execution with a visual approach to manage tasks, track progress, and maintain accountability. Teams stay aligned, focused, and efficient from kickoff to completion.Screenshot of the updated Projects module that introduces Scheduling Assistant functionality, making project planning and capacity management easier and more efficient, while maximizing team utilization.Screenshot of where technicians on the go can utilize the ConnectWise PSA Mobile App to quickly see what is scheduled, log time, and stay billable without ever opening their laptops.

    Fin Screenshots

    Screenshot of Fin handling a complex query. Fin can securely retrieve data and take action in external systems like Shopify, Stripe, and Salesforce.Screenshot of Fin works across phone, email, chat, Slack, and more so every customer receives accurate, personalized responses, wherever they reach out.Screenshot of Procedures to train Fin to handle queries with multiple steps, business logic and third-party systems from start to finish. Natural language instructions can be combined with deterministic controls to create powerful Procedures that follow exact rules when needed.Screenshot of AI powered Insights and QA products, proactively showing you dominant and emergent trends and topics in your customer experience, as well as one-click recommendations to set live and immediately improve Fin's performance.Screenshot of Fin Operator. It spots problems, finds opportunities to improve, and acts on them, for example tuning Fin, keeping knowledge current, and scaling automation as business needs changes.Screenshot of the interface to customize Fin's tone of voice, teach it support knowledge and policies, and configure how it handles complex tasks in over 45 languages.