CustomerSuccessBox vs. Zendesk Suite

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
Zendesk Suite
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Zendesk is a customer support solution with built-in ticketing, conversational messaging, and live chat, designed to help businesses of all sizes and industries deliver personalized service at scale. Zendesk's AI agents are trained in CX to help Service teams resolve customer issues faster and more accurately while still providing a human-centered experience. Zendesk ultimately aims to help businesses improve time to value, reduce effort per ticket, and keep costs low.
$69
per month per agent
Pricing
CustomerSuccessBoxZendesk Suite
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Suite Team
$69
per month per agent
Suite Growth
$115
per month per agent
Suite Professional
$149
per month per agent
Suite Enterprise
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CustomerSuccessBoxZendesk Suite
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup Fee$499 per userOptional
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/20% discount available with annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
CustomerSuccessBoxZendesk Suite
Features
CustomerSuccessBoxZendesk Suite
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
CustomerSuccessBox
8.5
11 Ratings
2% below category average
Zendesk Suite
-
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
7% above category average
Zendesk Suite
-
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
Zendesk Suite
-
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
Zendesk Suite
-
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
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
CustomerSuccessBox
-
Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.8
172 Ratings
7% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.3171 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings8.2118 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.7119 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.2122 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.4172 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.3171 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
CustomerSuccessBox
-
Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.4
156 Ratings
5% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings8.3150 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.5143 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
CustomerSuccessBox
-
Ratings
Zendesk Suite
8.8
168 Ratings
10% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings9.1138 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings8.570 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings8.4112 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.3165 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings9.0128 Ratings
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CustomerSuccessBoxZendesk Suite
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Enterprises
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
CustomerSuccessBoxZendesk Suite
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(15 ratings)
9.0
(209 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(43 ratings)
Usability
9.3
(15 ratings)
8.8
(82 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(14 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(11 ratings)
Support Rating
9.3
(15 ratings)
5.6
(31 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(10 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(19 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
CustomerSuccessBoxZendesk Suite
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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Zendesk
Being a customer support agent, I found it very good when it comes to send an email or call or chat- with the user. I can do all that from the one single platform which is so easy and time saving for you. It does not take much time to use this, We can chat- with the user and at the same time we can send an email to them as well.
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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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Zendesk
  • UI/UX; mature macros and automations, slick and well thought out UI.
  • Reporting, reporting, reporting. With user, org, and ticket level tags, we can track every aspect of our ticket flow.
  • Extensibility; the app marketplace is a great resource for expanding functionality from the baseline offering.
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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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Zendesk
  • Is there a way for AEs and CSMs to be informed in a weekly summary of all their accounts and any tickets? Example: Disney submitted a ticket on XYZ. Google has an urgent issue on X still unresolved.
  • Is there a way for CSMs or AEs to have a Dashboard that's specific to their accounts instead of seeing all the tickets in the queue that are not relevant to them?
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Likelihood to Renew
Customer Success Box
No answers on this topic
Zendesk
Zendesk is an amazing tool for communicating with your customers easily. The communication tickets from sellers to us or from us to sellers are stored, and there are statuses used to make communication easy. We have internal conversations between departments, linked with useful software such as Zingtree, Talkdesk, and Webs.
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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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Zendesk
Pros: The agent interface is sleek, contemporary, and relatively easy to learn compared to many other enterprise tools. For common tasks, admins are given point-and-click options- adding fields, modifying workflows, constructing macros. The knowledge base (Guide) editor is easy to use for non-developers. Drawbacks: Once you move past the initial things - complex automations, reporting/analytics in Explore, and/or customizations integrating the API, it requires much more advanced training to use successfully. Navigating between the different modules (Support, Explore, Chat, Guide) can feel very disconnected; often you are reminded that it really is a "suite" of products brought together -not really one unified platform. If you're using multiple brands managing simultaneous support tickets, or heavily customizing workflows to meet your brand, you may run into a bit of struggle with usability. So: it's a lot more user friendly than the palaces (Salesforce Service Cloud, ServiceNow), but is not used as quickly or with as much streamlined flow as a product made for a small shop. So if you are looking for a great balance, this is a good option if you are a net new organization or an organization on their way to scaling from 15 - 50 employee. Expect some elbow grease from the admin team once learning, adapting, and working efficiently once you move past the basics with your support tickets and initial customizations.
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Reliability and Availability
Customer Success Box
No answers on this topic
Zendesk
In the past year, I'd say I have only noticed maybe two hours total of downtime in my own usage. Very minimal.
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Performance
Customer Success Box
No answers on this topic
Zendesk
There has been minor performance degradation on a very few days out of the two years I have been using the product.
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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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Zendesk
We rarely need to contact their support team, but when we do they are responsive. However there have been notable times when communication between myself and the support rep was challenging despite me providing clear explanation of the issue, screenshots, and a thorough explanation of the goal we hope to achieve. It took several back and forth attempt, on a few occasions, to get resolution on an otherwise simple request
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Online Training
Customer Success Box
No answers on this topic
Zendesk
Zendesk has tons of available material for training - videos, webinars, articles, etc. The only reason this is not a 10 is because it can be hard to figure out how to navigate to these things and find what you are looking for.
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Implementation Rating
Customer Success Box
No answers on this topic
Zendesk
I was very satisfied. They have a free trial for 30 days and I recommend you do that and use it. It is very easy to get started with the basics and the build on over time.

The only thing technically complex was single sign-on and integration to Salesforce.com required some tweaks – otherwise setting up system was very easy
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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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Zendesk
The customisable reporting every time. Our leadership reply on me to run my team and want to know what customers are telling us so they can elevate our products. We have extensive custom reports that tie up all aspects of our product and customer journeys. I've not found another product that allows me as much freedom as Zendesk Suite explore does, so far.
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Scalability
Customer Success Box
No answers on this topic
Zendesk
WHY we will use Zendesk in HR and PD internally
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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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Zendesk
  • Integrating other AI solutions for an organization with high volumes can cost about USD5000 monthly. With Zendesk AI and by building onto the same with AI powered apps built for Zendesk Suite we save a projected USD4000 monthly.
  • Robust Zendesk APIs have enabled us to integrate our internal system with a customized app saving us hundreds of hours every quarter spent loading customer profiles that are not loaded instantly from the app.
  • Plug and play apps like Round robin save us weeks of sprint delay timelines as they do not require additional coding or developer support to install and start using.
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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

Zendesk Suite Screenshots

Screenshot of the Zendesk Agent WorkspaceScreenshot of Omnichannel MessagingScreenshot of Zendesk TicketingScreenshot of Bots powered by Zendesk AIScreenshot of Tone shift with Zendesk AIScreenshot of Zendesk ticketing side conversations