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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Desk.com (discontinued)

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ADesk.com was a helpdesk, ticketing, and customer support product offered by Salesforce, and oriented towards the needs of small businesses. It is no longer sold and support has been discontinued. Salesforce recommends its modern Service Cloud as a replacement.N/A

    Ortto

    Score9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Ortto is presented as a product-led growth engine that helps businesses acquire and retain customers. Since 2015, Ortto has supported over 10,000 companies with their software. Ortto allows online businesses to unify their customer data with their CDP, segment key audiences across the customer lifecycle; activate these audiences with personalized, omnichannel experiences, and analyze their business for growth with a suite of BI tools. The vendor states teams at Microsoft, Bltly, Typeform,…

    $199

    per month month-to-month commitment with 10,000 contacts

    Pricing
    Desk.com (discontinued)Ortto
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $199
    per month month-to-month commitment with 5,000 contacts
    Professional
    $599
    per month month-to-month commitment with 10,000 contacts
    Enterprise
    Custom
    per month annual commitment, paid monthly with 10,000 contacts
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Desk.com (discontinued)Ortto
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—10% discount for quarterly billing. 15% discount for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    Desk.com (discontinued)Ortto
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Ortto
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Desk.com (discontinued)Ortto
    Email & Online Marketing
    Comparison of Email & Online Marketing features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Ortto
    Feature
    Desk.com (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Ortto
    9.0
    11 Ratings
    15% above category average
    WYSIWYG email editor00 Ratings8.911 Ratings
    Dynamic content00 Ratings8.98 Ratings
    Ability to test dynamic content00 Ratings8.98 Ratings
    A/B testing00 Ratings8.98 Ratings
    Mobile optimization00 Ratings8.910 Ratings
    Email deliverability reporting00 Ratings9.911 Ratings
    List management00 Ratings8.911 Ratings
    Triggered drip sequences00 Ratings8.911 Ratings
    Lead Management
    Comparison of Lead Management features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Ortto
    Feature
    Desk.com (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Ortto
    9.2
    11 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Lead nurturing automation00 Ratings9.911 Ratings
    Data quality management00 Ratings8.910 Ratings
    Automated sales alerts and tasks00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
    Campaign Management
    Comparison of Campaign Management features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Ortto
    Feature
    Desk.com (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Ortto
    8.9
    9 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Event/webinar marketing00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
    Social Media Marketing
    Comparison of Social Media Marketing features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Ortto
    Feature
    Desk.com (discontinued)
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    Ratings
    Ortto
    8.9
    8 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Social profile integration00 Ratings8.98 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Ortto
    Feature
    Desk.com (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Ortto
    8.9
    12 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.912 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings8.912 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Ortto
    Feature
    Desk.com (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Ortto
    8.9
    9 Ratings
    15% above category average
    API00 Ratings8.98 Ratings
    Customizability00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings8.97 Ratings
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    Desk.com (discontinued)Ortto
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Vbout
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Bloomreach
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Iterable
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Desk.com (discontinued)Ortto
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (38 ratings)
    8.9
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (19 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Desk.com (discontinued)Ortto
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Once I had to search the logs to find cases and data on a particular keyword, but I was not able to do so as there was no search tool available, nor was there a sort or filter tool. I was totally frustrated as I had to skim through the data to complete my task manually.
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    Ortto
    Autopilot has a friendly and bright appeal offering a code-free automation experience that makes it easy to build complex automated workflows. Anyone can start creating workflows using the drag-and-drop builder even without technical knowledge. Teams utilize the notes and graphics feature to collaborate on automation workflows providing a much easier way to understand workflows created by someone else.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Desk.com automatically tracks analytics on all cases coming in and going out.
    • Desk.com helps prevent multiple people from working on the same case. However, it does allow us to assign the case to someone else if we feel that person is more qualified to address the case.
    • Desk.com has very few bugs or server issues that we've seen. This helps prevent any delays in communicating with our customers.
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    Ortto
    • Very easy to use automation builder with many great options and integrations. Lets us tailor incredibly precise campaigns through use of Autopilot's own features, plus its tight integrations with data from sources like Segment.
    • Easy and powerful email editing and creation built-in. No need for email template coding.
    • Autopilot allows marketers to have full control and implement new web forms to capture leads quickly with its automatic form detection. No need to save custom form data to our own backend saves our development team time.
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Internal knowledge tools are clunky and annoying to access, outside the regular workflow of everyday staff
    • Arbitrary and confusing limitations in business rules and custom fields
    • Arbitrary and confusing limitations in case handling - for example, if you begin a case as a phone call you CANNOT email the customer from the case. As though no one working at Desk has ever sent a follow-up email...?
    • Not very good for B2B, mid-to-large businesses. Difficult to set business rules based on company information (for example, service level/tier) and nearly impossible to track key stakeholders and get clear insight into the relationship at a high level
    • Reporting tools are clunky, slow, and just all-around pretty useless
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    Ortto
    • Limited Design Customization: If you're an experienced marketer and are used to the unlimited customization capabilities of larger platforms (or coding your own templates), you might find Autopilot's options to be limiting. It's great for a beginner user who shouldn't be encumbered with those options, but I could see if being frustrating for others.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    We will be very likely to renew our contract with Desk.com. It is easy to use, and provides us with everything we need to keep our customers and employees happy. They have also been very helpful in catering the application to our specific and unique needs, including working across brands and adding specific content for our products
    Incentivized
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    Ortto
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    Desk.com and Salesforce Service Cloud's usability is seamless to get up and running, administer, and scale across the organization. It allows us to get up and running in days rather than weeks and has transformed our customer support teams globally into efficient, world-class teams. The best practices that the Salesforce and Desk.com teams provide are also very valuable, as we have the right case studies and tips to implement right away in our organization.
    Incentivized
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    Ortto
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    We've never had a problem with Desk.com's availability.
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    Ortto
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    Fast, responsive, gorgeous, and fun. It's always run like a thoroughbred for me.
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    Ortto
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Their support leaves much to be desired. They do not respond quickly and do not follow up with feature requests. There is also a lack of on-demand or live training available for the teams to use as they learn a new tool. Because there is so much customization, a lot of questions do come up regularly.
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    Ortto
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    As I stated earlier, implementation of Desk.com went more smoothly than most. The resources in the "Support Center" are fantastic, and I never ran into anything that left me stumped, angry, or disappointed.
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    Ortto
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Overall, it performs a lot better than all three combined, with a lot fewer glitches and a lot more user-friendly and user experience efficiency. Any new link that needs to be done, takes a lot less time to execute on desk compared to the three others. Simply advanced when it comes to execution this platform is.
    Incentivized
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    Ortto
    How would I say this, for me Autopilot is a whole other tool then the other MA tools I use. Most other MA tools focus on a lot of options and things you can do with it. But Autopilot seems to mainly focus on the visual builder to make automations, and they do that really well! The other tools are also great but more a "complete package solution" with a lot of options. And that can be overwhelming. So if you want a great easy-to-use workflow/automation builder and less of all the other options Autopilot is a great start.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Better customer service and employee efficiency when dealing with cases
    • It's so universal, meaning that everyone can use it and it's easy to understand.
    • The only negative impact is that our IT department who is assigned tickets has responded to customers instead of to the local reps and we have to ensure they know to change the email if it's assigned to them.
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    Ortto
    • Not sure. I cannot put a $ on it for ROI as I was the administrator and not part of the team that procured it. Time-wise I would say I spent less time using it than I previously had used in CloudPortal Services Manager.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

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    Ortto Screenshots

    Screenshot of a single view of the customer journey to create more meaningful connections with an audience in the moments that matter.Screenshot of custom activities that represent product-qualifying actions or behaviors that lead to growth, that can be used to enter people into customer journeys, create target audiences, or build reports and dashboards.Screenshot of pop-ups, forms, bars, notifications, screen takeovers, banners, reactions, spin wheels, surveys, videos, countdowns and collect feedback. Contacts captured from tracked forms can be added to customer journeys.Screenshot of event-based journeys can be built in minutes and help to create connections with customers. Journeys can include email, SMS, and in-app messaging for critical customer moments.Screenshot of business Intelligence reporting, not just open and click rates. Ortto gives businesses instant, real-time access to simplified business intelligence, reporting, and dashboard tools with built-in revenue attribution to track the metrics that matter.