Custify vs. Planhat

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Custify
Score 9.7 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Custify is a customer success platform designed for B2B SaaS businesses. It helps users better meet customers' needs, reduce churn and increase lifetime value. The user can see in-product usage insights as well as data from CRM, support, billing, and other systems in one place. Relevant customer success KPIs and client interactions are displayed in its dashboard. Custify also identifies clients that get stuck during onboarding, those whose trial is about to expire, and those whose usage has…N/A
Planhat
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Planhat, headquartered in Stockholm, offers their modular suite of applications to subscription based businesses, providing customer success product usage health alerts and guidance, as well as revenue management for tracking subscriptions and business health.N/A
Pricing
CustifyPlanhat
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Custify
Chose Custify
Hubspot is defintiely more robust in what you can do with it, but Custify is great for customer success specific activities. We do use hubspot in line with custify, but we wouldn't be able to use one without the other. Custify can measure some product engagement metrics that …
Chose Custify

This software makes it easy to analyze your data and optimize your onboarding - maybe the easiest I've seen, but you've got to be willing to dig into its features and setting. And of course without their Concierge Onboarding this is not so easy.


Chose Custify
Custify was simpler to integrate and easier to use. We got troubled by enterprise-grade software as it has a lot of requirements and were sometimes even shocked that the data is kept only for a short timeframe so no historical data digging was possible. Custify helped here a lot.
Chose Custify
I'd get Custify if you have high-value accounts, but your team doesn't have enough time to give them personalized treatment. If you're facing this, I know how difficult it is to run a CS team and use "no time" as the reason a key account is at risk.
Chose Custify
We tried other products before. They were good, but Custify is hands down our favorite. I recommend getting a demo from a few companies, maybe give a few a try, to see what works best for your needs.
Chose Custify
We actually thought of using Trello first. But as great as Trello is for task management it just won't work for this. Most other Customer Service systems seem to be designed for enterprise-level or have a bad user experience.

Planhat
Chose Planhat
Overall performance is great in Planhat, and value vs investment (money) is good! Planhat is made for larger companies and teams that want to create a scalable way of working cross departments.
Chose Planhat
I have not used other CSM platforms but have trialed churn zero which had a much more user friendly interface, the cost was higher though
Chose Planhat
I believe Planhat is the best Customer Success Management tool in the market. It gives me a 360-degree view of all my customers and has a modern interface as compared to the other similar tools that I have used. Planhat also offers a competitive pricing that makes it easier for …
Chose Planhat
I was not the person involved in choosing Planhat, but it seems to me that Planhat is much better suited to an account management style role, whereas Hubspot is closer to a sales CRM instead. In my position, Planhat is better suited as it is more graphical, more flexible, and …
Chose Planhat
When evaluating Planhat, we found that it had a better UI and was a more rounded product than Churn Zero. Planhat was considerably more expensive than Churn Zero, but we felt that the extra investment was worthwhile given that the product better met our needs.

Chose Planhat
Planhat compares relatively well to Totango, despite not coming along with the massive price tag. It was able to perform all of the functions our CSM team was needing and hoping it could do for us. It was able to highlight the customer's health according to the metrics we …
Chose Planhat
Planhat was better value for money, seemed to be more user-friendly, and required less time to set up.
Chose Planhat
We needed a software that would not take months to set up and learn how to use. We needed powerful data that was easy to understand and action based on health scores dropping, etc. It was also important for us to be able to get our full team on the platform so that we could all …
Chose Planhat
Planhat was the most agile and easy to use software, while still having unique and powerful features that allowed us to really customize the software around our organization and needs. Planhat is more than a Customer Success tool in essence and adds tremendous value and …
Chose Planhat
Planhat has a better UI, covers a wide range of features and use-cases. It covers hybrid tech-touch and high touch well. Strong on revenue management.
Chose Planhat
Planhat won on best UI, easy to use, easy to set up and had the enterprise-grade features we were looking for.
Features
CustifyPlanhat
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Custify
7.0
Ratings
22% below category average
Planhat
7.6
Ratings
14% below category average
Role-based user permissions7.00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Custify
8.0
Ratings
8% below category average
Planhat
7.7
Ratings
11% below category average
API8.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com8.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Product A and Product B
Custify
9.0
Ratings
2% above category average
Planhat
8.2
Ratings
7% below category average
Product usage9.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Help desk / support tickets9.10 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Customer Success Management
Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Product A and Product B
Custify
8.3
Ratings
3% below category average
Planhat
8.0
Ratings
7% below category average
NPS surveys8.00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Sponsor tracking8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Customer profiles8.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Automated workflow9.00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Internal collaboration7.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Customer health scoring9.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Customer segmentation9.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
CSM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Custify
9.0
Ratings
7% above category average
Planhat
7.0
Ratings
18% below category average
Customer health trends9.00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Engagement analytics9.00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Dashboards9.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Revenue forecasting00 Ratings5.80 Ratings
Best Alternatives
CustifyPlanhat
Small Businesses
ChurnZero
ChurnZero
Score 7.9 out of 10
ChurnZero
ChurnZero
Score 7.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
CustomerSuccessBox
CustomerSuccessBox
Score 9.5 out of 10
CustomerSuccessBox
CustomerSuccessBox
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Gainsight CS
Gainsight CS
Score 8.8 out of 10
Gainsight CS
Gainsight CS
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
CustifyPlanhat
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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7.8
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Usability
9.0
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7.6
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Support Rating
9.0
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9.7
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User Testimonials
CustifyPlanhat
Likelihood to Recommend
Two big use cases where it's very well suited: onboarding of our clients and churn prevention. It just saves me so much time and helps me recommend more strategic suggestions. At the end of the day I can see my productivity being a lot higher than before having Custify.
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Planhat is very cost-effective compared to its competitors and offers a similar level of functionality. So if you are looking for a CS platform that will give your CSM's all the data they need to manage their portfolio, then Planhat will do the job very well. I was part of the team that was tasked with selecting a CS platform for Pexip, and the combination of cost and performance made Planhat a clear winner against the other two products we were evaluating.
I still use Salesforce on a daily basis because that's the platform we use to generate quotes. It would be nice if I only had one platform to perform all of my CS tasks in. I'm not sure if that's a criticism of Planhat or not, as I don't know if it has a quoting module that we haven't implemented, or whether that function simply isn't available.
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Pros
  • 360 degree view of anything that has to do with a single account, including health score history across many elements, all the lifecycles of that account, different usage and adoption trends on multiple users in the same account, and more.
  • Getting multiple health scores and trends on one screen.
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  • Excellent customer support and onboarding experience. They are very quick to respond to queries via the live chat. Our CS manager was brilliant in helping us get set up and making sure we were getting the most from all the features.
  • The platform and features are very user friendly and intuitive. It's an extremely powerful tool with a lot of functionality, but thankfully it doesn't take long to learn how to use it.
  • The customer portal is a game changer. The ability to share playbooks, data, and meeting notes all in one place is so useful for our customers and helps build trust and transparency.
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Cons
  • My biggest surprise was that we needed to dedicate more time than I thought at the beginning to learn the software more deeply. The interface is the easiest I've used, but there are just many possibilities this software opened up for us, and we wanted to make sure we're familiar with them.
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  • Allow for cc'ing of AEs or others within the same organization from the messaging center. When I went to send a message from within Planhat, I had to manually type out the AE's email address every time if I wanted them cc'd.
  • The fonts were funky if I went to add text into an existing email template. For example, if I added in an extra sentence or paragraph, in Outlook on the recipient's end, the font was different despite looking the same within Planhat. Gmail was all consistent, Outlook was showing a different font.
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Usability
Overall a great tool with very useful features. It's UI seems a bit clunky and there is no full dashboard. Without these it takes a bit of work to find what you need and get an overview of current activity. Also, implementing everything takes a bit of work. I would recommend it to any saas that is serious about scaling and has a customer success dept
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It takes a while to learn Planhat even for experienced users. It has limitations in terms of what data you can present where, but its important to set internal guides outside Planhat as well so everybody working collaborative. But as CSM Planhat is a great- and critical tool which I use daily to optimise my work schedule and customer interaction with various topics.
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Support Rating
I personally have never used their support but i know our business has had multiple calls with them and they have always been helpful. I would imagine they are helpful as they have always had responses for our questions and have never left us hanging. Highly rate their support team
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Planhat support is excellent. We have a dedicated resource allocated to work with us, and he is extremely knowledgeable, articulate and responsive. The wider support team at Planhat is also very good, responding quickly to any issues logged. As an end-user, you can chat with Planhat support if you encounter any issues or have any questions, and they have always helped me.
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Alternatives Considered
Hubspot is defintiely more robust in what you can do with it, but Custify is great for customer success specific activities. We do use hubspot in line with custify, but we wouldn't be able to use one without the other. Custify can measure some product engagement metrics that hubspot cannot
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I believe Planhat is the best Customer Success Management tool in the market. It gives me a 360-degree view of all my customers and has a modern interface as compared to the other similar tools that I have used. Planhat also offers a competitive pricing that makes it easier for my team to evaluate as compared to other similar platforms. The support team of Planhat is also great which makes it the right fit for my organisation
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Return on Investment
  • Connecting all these data points has been a game-changer. We're seeing higher conversions both from free trials and from starter plans to premium plans. We're now developing an upsell offering for our most premium plan and figuring out how to integrate it into Custify. We're ambitious and want to see what's possible to pull off.
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  • Planhat has, for the first time, given us a 360-degree view of all our customers and access to all the different types of communication we have with them across different departments and functions.
  • The ability to automate workflows, tasks, and assign playbooks to the various phases of our customer lifecycle has aligned all our departments.
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Planhat Screenshots

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