Fin vs. Totango

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Fin
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Fin is an AI Agent for customer service. It automates complex queries, improves resolution times, and delivers consistently high-quality support at scale.
$0.99
one-time fee per outcome
Totango
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Totango customer success software, now with Catalyst, helps enterprise businesses and cross-functional teams accelerate customer outcomes in productivity, retention, and expansion. Totango and Catalyst will become a unified product, following the merger in February 2024.N/A
Pricing
FinTotango
Editions & Modules
Fin with your current helpdesk
$0.99
one-time fee per outcome
Copilot add-on
$35
per month per user
Pro add-on
$99
per month For analysis of 1,000 conversations
Fin with Intercom’s Helpdesk
from $39 + $0.99 per Fin outcome
per month per seat
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FinTotango
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsFin comes with a 90-day money-back guarantee. Here's how it works: Intercom states that users who sign up for the Fin Guarantee Success Program and do not achieve at least a resolution rate of 65% will be paid $1M. This program is designed for high volume customers. Eligibility criteria: High volume customers (over 250k monthly conversions) in North America and Europe. Intercom states that phase one of this program will admit customers on Intercom Helpdesk or Zendesk.Each package gives teams a 360° customer account profile, customer health scoring, customer journey program templates (SuccessBLOCS), automated workflows (SuccessPlays), email campaigns, self-paced onboarding, and customer support.
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Community Pulse
FinTotango
Considered Both Products
Fin
Chose Fin
  • Totango: great segmentation and tracking. Very difficult learning curve. Literally over a year to build.
  • Salesforce: Garbage. I have always stood by this. Idiots love Salesforce because they think it's smart. It's not. It's just confusing. There is nothing Salesforce does that …
Chose Fin
Although used for different purposes in general, in terms of automated campaigns, we utilize both products. Totango seems to be more appropriate as it allows for better goal definition and provides more flexibility with a simpler interface.
Chose Fin
The product tours in the Intercom were the reason for picking Intercom over Zendesk and Freshdesk. We are an end-to-end solution, almost an enterprise product - and that needs a bit of user training. We also keep releasing new features. It is not possible to train users in all …
Chose Fin
Other chat tools are not well connected to any platform, Intercom was built for SAAS and it was also cost effective.
Totango
Chose Totango
Not relevant. Do not have experience working with other customer success platforms.
Chose Totango
I was not with the organization when the choice was made. Other products, however, were evaluated based on free trials and live demo sessions.
Chose Totango
We spoke with all vendors and tested Preact and found Totango to be the best fit for us.
Chose Totango
Our team looked at what Totango had to offer and felt that it had all the functionality we might need as we move our customer success program forward.
Features
FinTotango
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Fin
-
Ratings
Totango
8.5
182 Ratings
0% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.5182 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Fin
-
Ratings
Totango
8.5
216 Ratings
2% below category average
API00 Ratings6.9149 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings9.5173 Ratings
Integration with Marketo00 Ratings9.035 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Product A and Product B
Fin
-
Ratings
Totango
8.1
247 Ratings
8% below category average
Product usage00 Ratings8.1243 Ratings
Help desk / support tickets00 Ratings8.2160 Ratings
Customer Success Management
Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Product A and Product B
Fin
-
Ratings
Totango
8.1
260 Ratings
6% below category average
NPS surveys00 Ratings9.4124 Ratings
Sponsor tracking00 Ratings6.16 Ratings
Customer profiles00 Ratings7.9251 Ratings
Automated workflow00 Ratings9.1240 Ratings
Internal collaboration00 Ratings7.7226 Ratings
Customer health scoring00 Ratings7.5253 Ratings
Customer segmentation00 Ratings8.7243 Ratings
CSM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Fin
-
Ratings
Totango
8.3
254 Ratings
1% below category average
Customer health trends00 Ratings8.4243 Ratings
Engagement analytics00 Ratings8.8229 Ratings
Revenue forecasting00 Ratings7.7175 Ratings
Dashboards00 Ratings8.4237 Ratings
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User Ratings
FinTotango
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(481 ratings)
9.1
(261 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(21 ratings)
7.3
(8 ratings)
Usability
8.3
(389 ratings)
8.6
(95 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.9
(3 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.8
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
6.4
(11 ratings)
7.7
(93 ratings)
Online Training
7.4
(2 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.6
(5 ratings)
10.0
(12 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(4 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(8 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.8
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
FinTotango
Likelihood to Recommend
Intercom
Fin is well-suited to most use cases as long as it is trained accordingly. With a robust, well-designed knowledge base, Fin can extrapolate information from help articles and provide detailed instructions to an end user without simply sending a link to the article without context. In my experience, Fin is best suited to standard support requests. As the product becomes more complex and product types change, Fin seems less successful at accurately supporting those requests. It is best to maintain Fin's knowledge sources continuously.
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Totango
for a CSM it´s marvelous, you have in one window everything,the agenda for your day by day work, the workload you have in a day,all the customers database and call history added by tasks and toutch points, the to do thing in each customer you know what to do next, with renewal you hace an digital engadgement with customers inform they need to renew in order to keep using the app.
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Pros
Intercom
  • It is very easy to train
  • It does a great job of recommending answers when little context is given.
  • I love the ability to create a snippet to address issues in the moment or in the long term, based on FAQs.
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Totango
  • Enables us to easily send and collect NPS & CSAT scores regularly.
  • Syncs with HubSpot to bring in updated client data and deals automatically.
  • Allows us to manage clients based on health score which is multi-dimensional.
  • I can log touch points directly in Totango from Gmail so easily..
  • As we improve and develop our non SaaS business client experience, Totango continues to develop more functionality that we can benefit from.
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Cons
Intercom
  • It seems some users really struggle to figure out how to escalate to a human (especially through email).
  • Not excited about how "soft" resolutions still count as resolutions and are paid for. Though some abandoned cases appear to be able to be concluded as "the user got the answer they needed", there are others where they clearly didn't, because they just open up another chat (or even more), trying to get more info. This pads the resolution stats and makes it seem more effective than it actually is.
  • Cost -- Fin is quite expensive. It helps us with scaling coverage, but we're not really saving money.
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Totango
  • Integrations -- in my experience, they constantly break and disconnect.
  • Implementation -- I feel it was a HUGE challenge to set-up our environment. It took over 200 hours and it didn't work.
  • Communication -- during implementation/onboarding, in my opinion, we were mislead on how to create some of our custom data objects and it ended up being a big waste of time since the approach we were instructed to use ended up being incorrect.
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Likelihood to Renew
Intercom
We have been and will be continuing our journey with Intercom and nothing too concerning has happened that I have experienced or heard of that has us on the edge yet. If it ever happens it will be something along the lines of "Outgrowing" the use of need of the platform.
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Totango
I personally believe Totango is the right Customer Success Tool for me, my team, and my organization. I couldn't find limitations until now, it's capabilities are on point and it's very scalable. of course, transitioning to another tool would mean a lot of hours and training, and would expose risks
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Usability
Intercom
Much improved and improving feature set, but overall navigation of the interface and platform is cumbersome. While it's worthwhile to continue building out new functionality and features, there should be some effort to make overall usage more intuitive. Becoming an admin requires either months of daily usage or more complex training.
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Totango
It is easy to use and understand, and simple to follow day to day. Logging notes and tasks is one of the key areas this is utilised along with tracking reports and accessing key data points for conversations with customers which is helpful. Mobile app helps too to access information on the go.
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Reliability and Availability
Intercom
always there
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Totango
I have yet to experience any downtime with Totango (knock on wood) so reliability has been really top tier since we were onboarded. Given that the support team has been really helpful so far, I can imagine should downtime every be the case, they'll be able to communicate proactively/effectively on the current state of the platform
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Performance
Intercom
Fin is super quick and top notch.
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Totango
At times the integration sync can be really slow when it comes to touchpoints. I can't say the same for customer health syncing, but I do tend to notice the lag from email syncing, and in those cases, I will need to refresh the Totango page a couple of times or wait a couple of extra seconds/minutes for it to show up.
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Support Rating
Intercom
I can get help by asking Fin questions about itself. It answers accurately, citing its own Help Center resources with visuals. It can reason and dialogue well. But when it comes to getting human support for Fin, it is not as quick. It can sometimes take a few days. They are polite and well-meaning. Some things aren't their fault (product limitations), but there was one occasion where something took a long time to resolve with lots of back and forth but it was I who found out the error in the end that they missed, so they didn't really help resolve it.
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Totango
I give Totango a support rating of 10 because I can always get support whenever needed. If its a technical issue, I know I can email their support team for help. If it's a more in depth question with respect to our instance of Totango, I can reach out to our CSM and always get help in a very reasonable amount of time. I always look to Totango as the standard when I think of how to best communicate and support our own customers.
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Online Training
Intercom
It was great. We were able to walk through step by step and get our questions answered along the way.
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Totango
Our CSM did a great job of conducting the training so we understand, at the very least, the functionality that is directly relevant to us. This also allowed us to train our own new team mates when onboarding based on the training flow that was first presented to us. This was also conducted as a interactive sessions, as training are notoriously known to be dry
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Implementation Rating
Intercom
The implementation was surprisingly easy but we are having to adapt from our old process to work well with Intercom.
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Totango
Totango has been easy for our team to integrate most of our new features into, which is great considering we have to factor in the customers' usage of the new features into all of the health and usage metrics we have. It has taken a while to integrate our second product however, which is why I would rank this a 7.
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Alternatives Considered
Intercom
Our previous support platform didn't offer an AI agent (they used it internally for their own tickets, but there were delays with shipping it to their users, i.e., us, so we migrated to Intercom). Our colleagues from different brands within our own company demoed a different chat-only tool, but it looked much less impressive than what Fin offered, so we haven't considered it either.
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Totango
Pipedrive is a great CRM for Sales purposes but it doesnt give much tools for CX management. Totango is all the opposite, it is an excellent product for Customer Management . We currently use both platforms integrated with each other and it gives great results to both Sales and Customer Success teams
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Scalability
Intercom
The product is very scalable and has helped us scale our user base and onboard 10x the users in just one month. We couldn't have done it without Fin
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Totango
Information keeps missing and changing in totango . Because of that there is are lot of problems with it. We need to manually keep the backup in an another file. More over if in case we take the backup its so hard to track since its all in numbers. Totango can be much better if the cloud storage is working fine. My company is planning to discontinue due to this factor
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Return on Investment
Intercom
  • New role opportunities — Using the “Fin-first” approach has reduced the workload for our Tier 1 team, giving them more time to focus on their own career growth. It’s also opened the door to a dedicated, AI-focused role, where a team member regularly reviews Fin’s answers and makes updates to help it perform even better.
  • Enabling Fin has also reduced our response time and allowed us to meet SLA's.
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Totango
  • Since using Totango we have seen our engagement numbers go up as we are better able to identify the groups that are struggling.
  • We have also seen an increase in retention as we are more consistent in messaging and not missing any data.
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ScreenShots

Fin Screenshots

Screenshot of the interface to customize Fin's tone of voice, teach it support knowledge and policies, and configure how it handles complex tasks in over 45 languages.Screenshot of Fin handling a complex query. Fin can securely retrieve data and take action in external systems like Shopify, Stripe, and Salesforce.Screenshot of Fin works across phone, email, chat, Slack, and more so every customer receives accurate, personalized responses, wherever they reach out.Screenshot of some procedures to train Fin to handle queries with multiple steps, business logic and third-party systems from start to finish. Natural language instructions can be combined with deterministic controls to create powerful Procedures that follow exact rules when needed.Screenshot of the dashboard to monitor and evaluate quality against standards across both Fin and human conversations.Screenshot of the dashboard to monitor, analyze, and optimize Fin by spotting trends, filling content gaps, and fixing quality issues topic by topic.

Totango Screenshots

Screenshot of collaboration tools to manage a customer portfolioScreenshot of a 360° view of customer healthScreenshot of the dashboard to monitor customer metricsScreenshot of engaging in-app experiences and email campaigns to improve customer retentionScreenshot of integrated data in the Customer Data Hub