CustomerSuccessBox vs. Pendo.io

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
Pendo.io
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Pendo.io is a product engagement platform with features for in-app analytics, surveys and feedback, and guidance.N/A
Pricing
CustomerSuccessBoxPendo.io
Editions & Modules
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Free
Free
Team
Contact sales team
Pro
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Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CustomerSuccessBoxPendo.io
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
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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CustomerSuccessBoxPendo.io
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Features
CustomerSuccessBoxPendo.io
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
CustomerSuccessBox
8.5
11 Ratings
1% below category average
Pendo.io
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Ratings
API8.59 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com8.57 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Product A and Product B
CustomerSuccessBox
9.4
15 Ratings
8% above category average
Pendo.io
-
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
8% above category average
Pendo.io
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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
7% above category average
Pendo.io
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Ratings
Customer health trends9.313 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement analytics8.614 Ratings00 Ratings
Revenue forecasting8.29 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboards9.315 Ratings00 Ratings
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Enterprises
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
CustomerSuccessBoxPendo.io
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(15 ratings)
8.6
(91 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
9.3
(15 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
9.3
(15 ratings)
9.7
(4 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
CustomerSuccessBoxPendo.io
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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Pendo.io
Pendo is very well suited for startups and mid size product companies who are looking for -
  • Help in user experience building
  • Measuring the impact of a feature on the requirement phase itself
  • Advanced analytics to get a sense of how the product is working
  • Insights about necessary changes that are required to make the product better
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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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Pendo.io
  • Track usage across our platform (new and existing features) - where each customer clicks, how long they stay at certain areas within the software, etc.
  • To promote new features.
  • To train customers on how to use new features.
  • To survey our customers within the software.
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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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Pendo.io
  • I find the reporting and analytics to be a little light. They could improve custom reporting capabilities.
  • Would like to see the capabilities of the Pendo tagging tool built into the platform. (don't launch a separate product). I find the tagging tool does a much better job at selecting the components to be tagged than the platform does.
  • Sometimes takes a while to refresh counts when adding a new tag.
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Likelihood to Renew
Customer Success Box
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Pendo.io
We have had an excellent experience with Pendo. When we've had questions or concerns, Pendo is very quick to respond and communicate with us. We have experienced top-notch customer support and customer engagement. We have actually modeled some of our implementation and product processes after Pendo's examples.
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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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Pendo.io
Overall, Pendo provides a smooth interface, especially with the most recent update, and I couldn't imagine using or learning any other platform so product focused. From the moment I log into Pendo, I know where I'm going and what I'm looking for and I'm able to find that, through the interface, in as little time as possible. This helps keep me focused on doing other tasks at work so I'm not overburdened with hunting things down in the system
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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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Pendo.io
They've been great anytime that we have needed help with something. They also have some really great help articles. We're able to figure most things out through their articles, but when we've had to call in they've been very helpful and we haven't had any problems. I'd highly recommend working with them.
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Online Training
Customer Success Box
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Pendo.io
The training schedule was well thought out and tailored to meet our needs. Chantelle stayed with us through the whole implementation and made sure that we were good to go.
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Implementation Rating
Customer Success Box
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Pendo.io
Use Segment to install and cut developers out of the work cycle!
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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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Pendo.io
WalkMe is an industry leader, but they charge an arm and a leg. Working with them you get a lot of support and CSM time, but is it really worth that price tag? Pendo.io was an easy choice for that simple reason.
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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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Pendo.io
  • We have had an ROI in reduced support contacts.
  • We have had increased NPS scores due to our ability to target messaging for the right reasons to the right audience members rather than blanket distribution of information.
  • Delayed deployment in certain environments (being worked through) has led to a delay in one business area, but it is not public facing yet so we aren't heavily impacted by that yet.
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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