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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Daylite

    Score8.3 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Daylite is a project management solution built around features such as contact management, scheduling, and sales pipeline tracking.

    $20.83

    per month billed yearly

    Kustomer

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AKustomer is a customer service CRM platform built for managing high support volume by optimizing experiences throughout the customer service journey. Kustomer was acquired by Facebook in late 2020, but spun out in 2023 and re-launched as an independent entity, Kustomer, LLC.

    $8,544

    per year for 8 users (minimum)

    Pricing
    DayliteKustomer
    Editions & Modules
    CRM
    $20.83
    per month billed yearly per user
    CRM
    $25
    per month per user
    Sales
    $33.33
    per month billed yearly per user
    Projects
    $33.33
    per month billed yearly per user
    Sales
    $40
    per month per user
    Projects
    $40
    per month per user
    Business
    $45.83
    per month billed yearly per user
    Business
    $55
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $89
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Ultimate
    $139
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DayliteKustomer
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—All plans require an annual subscription and 8 users minimum.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    DayliteKustomer
    Considered Both Products
    Daylite
    No answer on this topic
    Kustomer, LLC
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    Features
    DayliteKustomer
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Daylite and Kustomer
    Feature
    Daylite
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Kustomer
    -
    Ratings
    Customer data management / contact management7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Opportunity management8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Daylite and Kustomer
    Feature
    Daylite
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Kustomer
    -
    Ratings
    Lead management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Daylite and Kustomer
    Feature
    Daylite
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Kustomer
    -
    Ratings
    Task management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Daylite and Kustomer
    Feature
    Daylite
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Kustomer
    -
    Ratings
    Pipeline visualization9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Daylite and Kustomer
    Feature
    Daylite
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Kustomer
    -
    Ratings
    Custom fields9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Custom objects9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Daylite and Kustomer
    Feature
    Daylite
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Kustomer
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile access7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Daylite and Kustomer
    Feature
    Daylite
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Kustomer
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Daylite and Kustomer
    Feature
    Daylite
    -
    Ratings
    Kustomer
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings8.212 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.611 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Daylite and Kustomer
    Feature
    Daylite
    -
    Ratings
    Kustomer
    8.5
    13 Ratings
    6% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.013 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Daylite and Kustomer
    Feature
    Daylite
    -
    Ratings
    Kustomer
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings8.710 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings8.69 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings7.313 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings10.015 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings6.011 Ratings
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    Score10 out of 10
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    DayliteKustomer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (10 ratings)
    9.0
    (36 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.4
    (7 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.0
    (1 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
    DayliteKustomer
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Daylite
    Well suited for any size company which needs CRM management. Easy to use. Great for individuals or teams that use Apple products. Daylite and ios expert integration has been key in capturing leads from our website into the Daylite database, plus then if they opt into email marketing, they are entered into the MailChimp database. The web forms also automate the creation of opportunities and are linked with the contacts/companies. Sales Managers with geographical responsibilities can easily filter contacts or projects based on these regions so they only see what they need. Daylite is not appropriate for Windows users.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    I would say the greatest strength of Kustomer is its flexibility. In the hands of a skilled admin, it can be adapted to tons and tons of different use cases. I've been able to make custom displays for different groups of agents, produce complex cross sections of users, draw interesting data relationships combining marketing contacts and customer-initiated contacts. For example, there's really no other data source in our company which could tell you which users received a specific promo code and checked out with it, received their delivery within 14 days and then can related that to the number of times they contacted us about using our product. At the intersection of communication, marketing, data, and relationship-management, Kustomer shines at the center. I would say it falls short when you are trying to coordinate multiple "side conversations" with multiple sources to resolve an issue. This is a tough task for any type of platform, but if you're maintaining 3 different email chains with a 3PL partner, the customer, and a separate internal conversation, it would be confusing anyway!
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    Pros
    Daylite
    • Daylite allows you to link your email so when you email a client it will link to their contact in Daylite and save the communication so anyone on the team can see all the emails that have been sent between the client and our company.
    • Daylite allows you to create "opportunities" for the different packages and services we offer. This lets us track where someone is in the process, if they are still thinking about a service, have been sold on it, or are not interested.
    • Daylite lets you leave notes on the account that everyone on the team can see. This has been so helpful for our company because it lets us drop helpful notes on personal things about the client that would be good for everyone to know.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    • All customer data (past orders, communication with customer service, rewards account data) is in one place. This helps agents avoid confusion and reduces the number of tabs they need to open.
    • The Knowledge Base (or K Base) is very helpful. Any time we roll out a new policy or have a limited-time promotion, we can add all the relevant information and worksheets there for the convenience of the agents. That way they can stay in a chat while looking up the answer to a question.
    • We can seamlessly move from chat into email if the customer leaves or the queue times are too long. All the interactions will stay on the customer profile page, so they are kept up to date.
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    Cons
    Daylite
    • The main drawback of Daylite is that it becomes slow on its iOS mobile devices.
    • Sometimes I face a lot of retries to log into the account. The mobile app needs a change and needs an upgrade. Apps are lacking in giving appointment reminders on time. Sometimes it does not notify on the right time about the appointment with the client.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    • For our team, the feature that defaults all notes to begin in "done" status is difficult. Throughout each day we need to have notes open and assigned back and forth to different teams, and we have to remember to manually "open" each note. There is too much room for human error with this setting, and it is easy for important notes to be missed if a user forgets to open the note.
    • Similarly, it can be hard to remember to assign emails/notes to a particular team in addition to a user. We almost exclusively work out of team inboxes, and if someone on Care writes an email to a customer, the email will automatically be "done" when it is created, and it will be assigned to the user who wrote it, but not also to the user's team. There are instances where an email needs to be snoozed for several days/hours with further action needed, and unless the user remembers to assign the email to their team it may "awake" from the snooze and not be visible to anyone except the user who created it. Similarly to my first comment, this leaves a lot of room for human error and is not very intuitive.
    • Personally, I do not love that all tickets/emails/notes are jumbled together in the same inbox. While this gives visibility to everything on the "to do" list at the same time, it can be visually overwhelming. We have created unique folders for certain types of projects or categories of work, but have experienced tech glitches or just the awkwardness of another step to manually read the note, determine what type of category it is, and then manually assign it to another folder. Would love to have things auto-sort and take out this manual lift.
    • I love the idea of the autopilot setting, but we have not been able to use this for our work because it sorts items based on time, and not based on priority. In our line of work, we may have an urgent situation arise that needs attention before an email that was sent in 60 minutes ago. The autopilot feature would push the email to my associates sooner than it would the urgent situation from 5 minutes ago. Due to this, we manually monitor inboxes and assign work to ourselves and others.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Daylite
    While we have enjoyed using Daylite, we have been looking into more expanded services that allow us to integrate our technologies further.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    Because there's no other tool like Kustomer
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    Usability
    Daylite
    Easy to use for Mac OS users. Not possible for Windows Users. I will still give a rating of 10, though.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    There is a learning curve, but it is more than worth it, especially to have a dedicated resource pointed at Kustomer and any other software it interacts with. The basic implementation is useful, and powerful - certainly a MASSIVE upgrade over taking care of your customers in an email inbox or shuffling between multiple windows and applications! It is also set up really well to grow and reconfigure with your business. I'm a big fan.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Daylite
    It's been great for us and we have not had any major issues with accessing Daylite when needed
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    Kustomer, LLC
    Because Kustomer is available when you need it
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    Performance
    Daylite
    I have not noticed any loading or performance issues specifically with Daylite
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    Kustomer, LLC
    Because ages load quickly, reports complete in a reasonable time frame, given their complexity
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    Support Rating
    Daylite
    The team at Marketcircle has always been good at support and usually quick to respond and usually under 1 hour. Keep up the good work here!
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    Kustomer, LLC
    I did not reach out to Kustomer support when we had an issue. Still, whenever we provide feedback to our manager regarding what can improve based on our experience using Kustomer, our manager always comments that Kustomer support always replies with some positive feedback based on our suggestions.
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    In-Person Training
    Daylite
    No answers on this topic
    Kustomer, LLC
    Because they are very hands-on in training us and very approachable
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    Online Training
    Daylite
    No answers on this topic
    Kustomer, LLC
    It was very easy to understand.
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    Implementation Rating
    Daylite
    I was not involved
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    Kustomer, LLC
    Nothing really because it is easy to use. After an hour of using it, we're already getting the hang of it.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Daylite
    Daylite provides authentic services and features with excellent programming. I have also collaborated on the Daylite calendar
    with Apple Calendar so that I can never leave behind any updates of the
    future. Moreover, it keeps on updating its feature for giving better services.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    Apps like Intercom, Zendesk, and Gorgios all treat customer inquiries as tickets, just tracking that one issue or interaction with a customer. Kustomer treats each customer as an individual, which allows us to provide top-notch customer service. Customers love that we're able to be more conversational and informal, while still solving their issues quickly. It also helps us build relationships with customers and increases repeat orders.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Daylite
    Was not involved
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    Kustomer, LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Daylite
    Daylite has worked well for our small company trying to get a client base, but as we grow we are wanting more integrations that are unavailable
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    Kustomer, LLC
    Because customer is flexible and scalable
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    Professional Services
    Daylite
    We did not use professional services
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    Kustomer, LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Daylite
    • Daylite has been very helpful for new employees to answer their own questions about contacts/passwords, etc.
    • We found the tiny notification bell to be weak, sometimes a project comes in with a tight deadline and we have to double-check and ask an employee if they saw the notification. More time would be saved by just chatting about the project and its expectations.
    • A huge benefit is the institutional knowledge that can be had by reading past projects. We've tracked everything, so the history is there.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    • We’re getting so much positive feedback — which is not something you traditionally associate with a customer care team — because we’re making it effortless for customers to deliver both positive and negative feedback, and we can now resolve the bad feedback really really quickly.
    • Primarily from our increased efficiency with Kustomer, we’ve seen a significant reduction of $3 to $4 for every cost per contact.
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