Contactability vs. Zywave Sales Cloud - Agency Management

Contactability is really good for teams that are trying to branch out to an untapped market space. Especially those that are trying to disrupt the health insurance scene. This helps them get their foot in the door in the area and their name out in the community. The customer service representatives could be more responsive.

Incentivized

prospects easy to find; however not all current information is listed. The process for importing prospect lists into the agency management system could be streamlined.

Incentivized

• The software reporting system is really clean and works well and they are good at sending you leads.
• Their customer service is also willing to work with you and they really tried to help me improve our ROI.
• Since using Contactability our workflow is changing. We now only pick up the phone when someone is interested in our services. The prescreening is all handled and we have control over the flow, what is said. Even when we're out of the office we can log in from anywhere and see what's happening with our leads and those missed calls get scheduled for us automatically.

Incentivized

• It's very flexible. You can add custom fields easily and create/update workflows and activities quickly.
• The layout is easy on the eye. The dashboard is laid out well and helps you stay on track with renewals and activities.
• Emails attached to an activity are easily viewed and housed within the activity on a separate tab.
• Adding and reviewing policy info is simple. The tabs make it helpful to find and view info quickly.

Incentivized

• Call the toll-free customer service number and you are transferred to a blank voicemail, with an electronic repeat of the phone number.
• The software training videos were confusing to non technical users.
• We encountered bugs with the use of Windows 10. Some of the futures were bugged.

Incentivized

• Training for new employees and follow up for all employees.
• Importing into agency management system is several steps.
• Not all information on prospects is given, although most have adequate information.

Incentivized

The Zywave Customer Support team is phenomenal! Never any complaints. They resolve things quickly. You can call and talk with a real person, submit a chat question, or email them. Their training videos are good—short and sweet. We still use multiple Zywave products in our Benefits, Commercial Lines, and Marketing departments. They are a great company to work with. The implementation/onboarding for all products has been amazing! Training for products has always surpassed the training we received from other vendor partners.

Incentivized

Contactability does a pretty decent job as it is very user-friendly and puts us in contact with our prospective clients. What they could improve on that Insightly does well is training and support. This could be due to the size of the company or their prioritization of resources. Overall we enjoyed Contactability better than Insightly.

Incentivized

We moved from BrokerageBuilder (BKB) to Epic in June 2019. Epic pros over BKB: You can use Epic for CL, PL, Bonds, and Benefits—one system for your whole agency has a lot of advantages. In Epic, you can drag and drop emails and documents to clients, policies, and activities. Epic has an auto-save feature. Reporting in Epic is better. Epic cons compared to BKB: The design aesthetic of Epic is not as nice as BKB. Navigating Epic is clunky—everything is in multiple layers. Epic is less flexible for custom fields. Epic is designed for CL/PL, so it's not ideal for a Benefits user, although they are improving/investing in the benefits side. BKB is just better for a Benefits user.

Incentivized

• We got our people to become more open minded in trying new software and exploring options for automation.
• Users got discouraged when the software did not work as it was supposed to and customer service was not there too help.
• Once used correctly, we did have a large increase in the number of new clients that our office handled.

Incentivized

• Sales team reluctant to use.
• Initial training was fine but could use some follow-ups.
• ROI has not been measurable.

Incentivized