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    CustomerSuccessBox

    Score9.5 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

    Plone

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APlone is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops, and internal websites.N/A
    Pricing
    CustomerSuccessBoxPlone
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    CustomerSuccessBoxPlone
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    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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    CustomerSuccessBoxPlone
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    Customer Success Box
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    Plone
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
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    Features
    CustomerSuccessBoxPlone
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of CustomerSuccessBox and Plone
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    8.5
    11 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Plone
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    25% above category average
    API8.59 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com8.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Customer Data Extraction / Integration
    Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of CustomerSuccessBox and Plone
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    9.4
    15 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Plone
    -
    Ratings
    Product usage9.315 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help desk / support tickets9.512 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Success Management
    Comparison of Customer Success Management features of CustomerSuccessBox and Plone
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    9.0
    15 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Plone
    -
    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 CustomerSuccessBox and Plone
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    8.8
    15 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Plone
    -
    Ratings
    Customer health trends9.313 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement analytics8.614 Ratings00 Ratings
    Revenue forecasting8.29 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboards9.315 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of CustomerSuccessBox and Plone
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    -
    Ratings
    Plone
    10.0
    5 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of CustomerSuccessBox and Plone
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    -
    Ratings
    Plone
    9.4
    6 Ratings
    18% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings5.05 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of CustomerSuccessBox and Plone
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    -
    Ratings
    Plone
    9.4
    5 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
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    CustomerSuccessBoxPlone
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    ClientSuccess
    Score6 out of 10
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    Score7 out of 10
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    ChurnZero
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Gainsight CS
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CustomerSuccessBoxPlone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (15 ratings)
    10.0
    (13 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (15 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (15 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CustomerSuccessBoxPlone
    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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    Plone
    The larger your organization, the more appropriate Plone will be. This is not to say that Plone is a worse choice for small websites, only that the minimum investment for a Plone site is certainly higher than for other platforms. If you already use Plone for your site and are looking for a redesign or an overhaul, I would only advise switching to a different platform such as WordPress or Drupal if your organization is downsizing. For any other situation, Plone is the natural choice for your growth.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    • Plone is a folder-based system, organising content in a similar way desktop-users are doing for the last two decades. No need to teach non-tech customers some relational-database like paradigm for content management.
    • Plone is secure. It is the most secure CMS you can get your hands on.
    • Plone is flexible, and makes fast development easy.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    • Not everything is configurable or editable by Plone, and when you need to adjust or add custom pieces in, you need to deal with Zope. Zope has an ugly, confusing and difficult UI and structure as a backend.
    • Using 3rd party products is difficult to do - there are a few different ways to get them installed, all of which take a bit of luck to get right.
    • Building custom products for Plone is not fun. You've got to deal with an archaic framework to tie in that is not well documented (there is documentation about many things, but not great documentation and there are a lot of holes in the documentation).
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Customer Success Box
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    Plone
    We have critical systems running on Plone so will need it in the future.
    Free to use since its Open source, so we don't have to worry about licence costs.
    We know how to use and develop Plone and it has no limits.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    Compared to the amount of Plone sites, users and customizations we have in our organization, the amount of support requests and training needed is really small.
    The new user interface in Plone 6 is even better, it is super fast, has lots of different blocks for enhancing the page, has flexible layout system and is easy to extend with more features.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Customer Success Box
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    Plone
    Our Plone sites are very robust. We have critical systems on Plone and we have been running sites on Plone for over 20 years with very little unexpected downtime.
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    Performance
    Customer Success Box
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    Plone
    Plone is very intensive in its operations, and if not configured well it can be slow. However it is designed and built with speed in mind and with proper use of coding, templates and caching can perform extremely well under high loads. It is capable of scaling to very high load availability environments with no specific coding requirements.
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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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    Plone
    There are not too many Plone companies in the world. But the ones who are, are high level professionals
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    In-Person Training
    Customer Success Box
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    I have been participating Plone training and the trainers have always been professional. Materials were good and the instructions clear
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    Online Training
    Customer Success Box
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    Well organized, professional training with good materials and instructions
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Plone
    Drupal: Plone is cheaper, so with Drupal is more complex to reach the required ROI. However, Drupal has a lower learning curve WordPress: For our necessities it has a more expensive learning curve than plone. Joomla, is easier to use. However, it have some issues on security and web content where Plone is much better
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Customer Success Box
    No answers on this topic
    Plone
    Plone has no limits. We have massive sites and can run them just fine
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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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    Plone
    • The impact Plone has had at the University of Oshkosh is as follows: this software allows student workers to learn about IT departments and CMS's in a user-friendly way. It gives many students great jobs that look great on their resumes.
    • Since there are great training manuals for Plone, there is increased employee efficient in the workplace. Training doesn't take long, and if there's ever a question, the Plone manual is a great tool to refer to.
    • If an employee using Plone quits, its easy to find someone to replace them with quick training and great resources.
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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