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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Smartsheet

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASmartsheet is an online project management and collaboration tool. It includes automated alerts, instantaneous updating and sharing across team members, resource management, nested tasks organized in a hierarchy, a Gantt chart view, exportable and automated reports, and integration with email.

    $12

    per month per user (up to 10 users)

    Pricing
    CustomerSuccessBoxSmartsheet
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Pro
    $12
    per month per user (up to 10 users)
    Business
    $24
    per month per user (3 user minimum)
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Advanced Work Management
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CustomerSuccessBoxSmartsheet
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    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/A discount is offered for annual billing.
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    CustomerSuccessBoxSmartsheet
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    Customer Success Box
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    Smartsheet
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    62 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    58 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    61 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    47 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    51 Answers
    Features
    CustomerSuccessBoxSmartsheet
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of CustomerSuccessBox and Smartsheet
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    8.5
    11 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Smartsheet
    -
    Ratings
    API8.59 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com8.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer Data Extraction / Integration
    Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of CustomerSuccessBox and Smartsheet
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    9.4
    15 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Smartsheet
    -
    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 Smartsheet
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    9.0
    15 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Smartsheet
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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 CustomerSuccessBox and Smartsheet
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    8.8
    15 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Smartsheet
    -
    Ratings
    Customer health trends9.313 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement analytics8.614 Ratings00 Ratings
    Revenue forecasting8.29 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboards9.315 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of CustomerSuccessBox and Smartsheet
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    -
    Ratings
    Smartsheet
    9.1
    129 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings9.8126 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings10.0108 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings9.0109 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings9.8111 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings9.2100 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings10.0122 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.981 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings9.079 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings9.2101 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings9.0100 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings8.096 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings9.762 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings8.169 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings8.075 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of CustomerSuccessBox and Smartsheet
    Feature
    CustomerSuccessBox
    -
    Ratings
    Smartsheet
    7.9
    66 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings8.144 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings7.537 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings8.760 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings7.332 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    CustomerSuccessBoxSmartsheet
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (15 ratings)
    9.3
    (146 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (15 ratings)
    9.2
    (17 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (15 ratings)
    8.1
    (45 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CustomerSuccessBoxSmartsheet
    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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    Smartsheet
    Smartsheet shines for collaboration. When you have multiple people involved with planning events Smartsheet makes it easy to share and collaborate. For instance, multiple people can be in Smartsheet working at the same time. Also setting permissions for exactly those who need to know is quite easy with Smartsheet. For data analytics and general spreadsheet purposes Excel is better but for project management and event planning Smartsheet is superior
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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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    Smartsheet
    • Its hard to overstate the value of familiarity. Being able to use a tool that has some familiarity takes away the time needed to train and orient employees on a new tool and allows an organization to hit the ground running.
    • Smartsheet covers most of the basics of a project management tool, the usual tasks, milestones and project viewing options.
    • For data viewing, you get multiple data viewing options including a calendar view (good for marketing teams and those who work around scheduling), Kanban, Gaant etc
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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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    Smartsheet
    • Smartsheet set up is similar to Excel, yet when you upload an Excel file, things like conditional formatting are lost. Smartsheet has its own conditional formatting, and you have to reinstate the rules. It would be great if those would apply automatically once a file is uploaded
    • Some Smartsheet management and access rules can take some tweaking to work properly. This may be a case of offering more info to admins so they can apply these better and with more efficiency
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Customer Success Box
    No answers on this topic
    Smartsheet
    It definitely meets our needs as far as organizing and archiving our tasks and files. As we train more staff to view it, I see opportunities for more improvement, which I am sure this program can handle. I look forward to seeing continued improvement from Smartsheet on their capabilities and functionality.
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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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    Smartsheet
    Smartsheet is very easy to learn. However, while I have been able to pick it easily, Microsoft Excel and Project super users that I have trained on Smartsheet get bogged down in the differences and can find it frustrating. Explaining the differences ahead of time and why Smartsheet is being chosen instead of a different software seems to counteract those reactions
    Incentivized
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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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    Smartsheet
    I give this rating because it fills a niche in the market. MS Project scares many away from proper task management but there are limited tools our there, especially cloud-based that are mobile-friendly. Smartsheet fills this market gap, especially for small to medium-sized businesses. IT is not fair to compare it to MS Project, but fairer to see what gaps it fills.
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    Implementation Rating
    Customer Success Box
    No answers on this topic
    Smartsheet
    It's absolutely paramount to take a few minutes to actually play with the software. It's nearly impossible to do anything wrong or make a mistake which cannot be fixed easily. Under the help menu is Live Training option. After you familiarize yourself with the commands, watch the live training for some in depth understanding of how to make the software fit your needs perfectly.
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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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    Smartsheet
    Jira and Redmine are much more robust and technologically advanced project management solutions. I enjoy using either when managing a very large project. However, I prefer to use Smartsheet for my smaller to medium sized projects. As for Google Drive - I would say that Google sheets and Smartsheet are almost identical in my opinion when it comes to functionality. Personally I prefer to manage smaller projects via Google Drive, but it is a personal preference!
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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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    Smartsheet
    • This has really opened up collaboration across teams. A lot less working in silos.
    • It hasn't fully replaced any one tool so it means having to go to another place. Hopefully, we can eliminate a tool or two in the next six months.
    Incentivized
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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