Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CustomerSuccessBox
Score 9.5 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
What is CustomerSuccessBox? An AI-powered customer success platform for B2B SaaS that provides actionable insights to drive customer success. Backed with $1 Million in March 2018 by pi Ventures and Axilor Ventures, CustomerSuccessBox was built from a clear need for a solution that could deliver ‘proactive’ customer success. Customer Success tracks product adoption to understand customer onboarding, product adoption, usage analysis, and calculating customer health scores.…N/A
Freshdesk
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Freshdesk (a product of Freshworks Inc.) is a customer service solution with enterprise capability. Freshdesk unifies channels, conversations, AI capabilities, customer insights, and advanced ticketing into the Freshdesk Command Center so agents are ready to resolve. With Freddy, People-first AI, customer service teams can take AI agents live in minutes to fully resolve complex and simple queries, get response and resolution assistance from AI copilot, and stay ahead with AI insights.…
$18
per month per user
Pricing
CustomerSuccessBoxFreshdesk
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Growth
$18
per month per agent
Pro
$59
per month per agent
Enterprise
$95
per month per agent
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CustomerSuccessBoxFreshdesk
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup Fee$499 per userNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThe pricing is different for the types of businesses to which CustomerSuccessBox caters to- 1. Grow- For businesses who want to start with the customer success initiative with a small success team 2. Business- For businesses with mature customer success practices and a large success team 3. Enterprise- For businesses who want to extend with the customer success initiative across a range of products and teams. For more info on pricing, checkout https://customersuccessbox.com/pricing/
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CustomerSuccessBoxFreshdesk
Features
CustomerSuccessBoxFreshdesk
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
CustomerSuccessBox
8.5
11 Ratings
2% below category average
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
API8.59 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com8.57 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
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CustomerSuccessBox
9.4
15 Ratings
7% above category average
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Product usage9.315 Ratings00 Ratings
Help desk / support tickets9.512 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Success Management
Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Product A and Product B
CustomerSuccessBox
9.0
15 Ratings
5% above category average
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
NPS surveys7.811 Ratings00 Ratings
Sponsor tracking9.18 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer profiles9.014 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated workflow9.514 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer health scoring9.313 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer segmentation9.515 Ratings00 Ratings
CSM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
CustomerSuccessBox
8.8
15 Ratings
4% above category average
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Customer health trends9.313 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement analytics8.614 Ratings00 Ratings
Revenue forecasting8.29 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboards9.315 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident and problem management
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CustomerSuccessBox
-
Ratings
Freshdesk
8.6
203 Ratings
5% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.2198 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings8.2134 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.2199 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings8.9199 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
CustomerSuccessBox
-
Ratings
Freshdesk
8.4
180 Ratings
5% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings8.4163 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.5168 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
CustomerSuccessBox
-
Ratings
Freshdesk
8.8
190 Ratings
10% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings8.7161 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings9.259 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings8.4103 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.1189 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.7120 Ratings
User Ratings
CustomerSuccessBoxFreshdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(15 ratings)
8.5
(269 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(25 ratings)
Usability
9.3
(15 ratings)
9.0
(42 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
7.2
(6 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
9.3
(15 ratings)
8.5
(41 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(200 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
6.2
(7 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(5 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(6 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
6.6
(6 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(5 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
CustomerSuccessBoxFreshdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
Customer Success Box
It is the best software if you are a b2b software who is planning to scale customer success department and you are running blind on potential threats for renewal. It also helps you understand which customer is not getting value out of your product. I completely recommend this. Go for it!!!!!
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Freshworks Inc
I believe Freshdesk is well-suited for companies that manage multiple accounts, such as those in the Business Process Outsourcing industry. It has all the necessary capabilities, such as ticket management that uses omnichannel to receive ticket requests from service requests (managed internally) in the system, emails, etc. There are also several workflow automations that can be built within the platform/system. What is lacking is the API documentation, which limits the possibilities for further automations. Overall, it is a highly recommended tool for managing employee productivity and timeliness.
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Pros
Customer Success Box
  • Journey feature will help you automate your manual tasks like auto csm assignments, auto playbook enrolls, email alerts to your clients about new assignments or any set templates, etc.
  • Making a playbook of your process (must be consist of multiple steps) will help you give the visibility of how many clients are stuck in which steps and from when.
  • They are using Metabase for making analytics dashboards where you can make your own dashboard with different filters like Csm activity report, churn dashboard, potential clients report and also using pulse feature in Metabase schedule your daily report to different required people.
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Freshworks Inc
  • No prior experience with similar platforms is required to use Freshdesk. I found its interface to be quite intuitive, at least for the end user.
  • It's easy to connect with other platforms, so you can sync and manage data from other platforms because the integrations work correctly.
  • Freshdesk's technical support is quite responsive, with short and effective response times. They have easily handled my questions and issues.
  • It has tools for customizing automated chats, answering frequently asked questions before transferring to an agent. Its configuration is extensive and highly customizable.
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Cons
Customer Success Box
  • Health aggregation delay can be improved.
  • Calling with csbox software can be improved, it makes touchpoint even if your call from csbox has not picked up, and accordingly changed relationship health.
  • Add more analytics in the playbook like avg time taken to complete each step and there is no option of selecting multiple csms in the filter.
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Freshworks Inc
  • Freshdesk is buggy, full stop. I don't know how many support tickets I submitted related to user login.
  • There can be a language barrier with support and sales.
  • There were a couple of hours-long outages that significantly impacted my company's customer experience.
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Likelihood to Renew
Customer Success Box
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
New support agents can learn the system quickly, minimizing training time and maximizing productivity from day one. Agents are more willing to use a system that is simple, reducing resistance to change and ensuring all interactions are logged (a common problem with complex systems). The platform is known for being easy to set up and customize, allowing teams (especially smaller ones) to get started with minimal technical expertise.The platform makes it easy to set and monitor Service Level Agreements (SLAs), ensuring customers get timely responses and helping managers enforce performance standards.
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Usability
Customer Success Box
Customer success box is one of the best products we have used as it solves the main problem for us. Use tracking and adoption. The best part about various software integrations is that now we are able to track everything at one single platform with multiple reports, analytics and dashboards.
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Freshworks Inc
Freshdesk is extremely easy to use as implemented it on our own with average technical skills. A lot of the options are straightforward and Freshdesk provides easy-to-understand explanations for some of the more complex-sounding ones. We recently onboarded new specialists and they were able to learn Freshdesk with minimal training.
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Reliability and Availability
Customer Success Box
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
I have encountered a lot of errors in the Freshdesk, however, they tend to resolve it on priority or at least they will share the timeline by when this can be resolved. Most of the time the issue has been from the other partner's end. They take time to resolve their vendor issues and they don't have any timelines in case of developed app errors.
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Performance
Customer Success Box
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
The reports take a lot of time to download if the time period is large. Also, the tickets take their sweet time to open and load. It is not fast as Zendesk. Only 30 tickets are visible in a single go and there isn't any option to select all. If we need to change the pages and dashboards it takes a lot of time to open.
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Support Rating
Customer Success Box
I have created two - three support tickets so far and their response is very very quick. Their team is also very empathetic, understanding and highly motivated towards solving a customer's problem. I would definitely recommend and rate them 10 / 10 for their excellent after sales support. They support for all EST & PST zones.
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Freshworks Inc
Because I never worked with a company that responds so quickly to their customer! They are always fast at responding and very open to new ideas and quickly turning them around to include them in future releases. They walk us through when we need assistance and are very good at communicating. Overall top notch support
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In-Person Training
Customer Success Box
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
In-person training is provided to all the agents and it is very easy to learn the basics of the Freshdesk interface. Solving tickets via dashboards, replying to the guest queries in bulk via Freshdesk. The training which is a bit hard is creating the logic according to the ticket flow and intergeration.
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Online Training
Customer Success Box
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
This tool is no doubt easy to learn but in-person training is a lot better than online training. It takes time to grasp things in the online training, however, in pandemic we have done all the training online. Apart from a bit more time we haven't faced any issues with online training.
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Implementation Rating
Customer Success Box
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
Was a fairly quick implementation for us. However, we are only doing email integration and not some of the more complex integrations that are possible. One clarification on an earlier question. I selected that Freshdesk doesn't have a given feature, but this is not true. I selected this because there wasn't a selection for I don't use the feature. This is a weakness in the survey.
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Alternatives Considered
Customer Success Box
CustomerSuccessBox provides a great UI where I can manage all the activities related to a client in a single window. This helps to update and focus on key tasks related to the client. Small insights graph helps to quickly analyze the client's health towards our product. The customizable filters are a great help in sorting the data.
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Freshworks Inc
Compared to Crisp, Freshdesk offers much more organization and is just much more helpful when it comes to having more than one region/team. Not that Crisp is bad, but with Freshdesk, internal communication and collaboration are much easier, which was quite important for our team to grow.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Customer Success Box
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
I was not very involved with the purchase/contract (my company purchased Fresjdesk before I was brought on), but I will say that pricing per agent made it difficult to grow our support team. Additionally, we were kind of disappointed after our upgrade because it didn't solve our pain points as much as we expected.
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Scalability
Customer Success Box
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
My company had Freshdesk agents from support and success. It's generally difficult to customize permissions for different agent "roles." We were a fully distributed company, so "multiple sites" doesn't apply to us. We found Freshdesk features lacking as we grew our customer base, and adding agents wasn't easy because price steeply increases with number of agents.
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Professional Services
Customer Success Box
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
- good customer support
- personal contact
- usage limited to basic product features, individually designed solutions seem unlikely
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Return on Investment
Customer Success Box
  • It has helped in managing large amount of Client data under single platform.
  • It helped in generating valuable insights from data.
  • It is helpful to take proactive actions.
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Freshworks Inc
  • Increased response times - Client Success maintains at 98% SLA for resolution
  • Categorization of feedback and issues - custom ticket fields make it easier for us to review why clients contact us on a high level
  • Standardization of internal procedures via templates, canned responses and automations
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ScreenShots

CustomerSuccessBox Screenshots

Screenshot of 360 Degree View 

A fully integrated customer success platform that connects with your CRM, Helpdesks, Billing system, customer engagement system, and even your homegrown systems to provide customer success managers a complete 360-degree view of each account.Screenshot of Actionable Platform

No more juggling between tools, get all customer communication in one place. You get the ability to send emails, make calls and manage tasks from inside the customer success platform. CSMs take preemptive measures to engage with accounts with average or poor health.Screenshot of Segmentation

Customer Segmentation is done based on revenue generated/MRR (Enterprise-Mid market-SMBs or Tier 1-Tier 2-Tier3), location (US, Asia, EMEA, ANZ, etc), Product used or plans opted for, etc.Screenshot of Playbooks 

Time-bound playbooks are created to manage tasks to onboard, increase product adoption, renewals, and upsells.  Playbooks help in creating an Ideal Customer Journey along with various Tasks, Outcomes & Milestones