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    FreshShifts

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    $2

    per month

    Planhat

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/APlanhat is a post-sale customer platform designed for enterprise B2B organizations to aggregate customer data, automate lifecycle workflows, and monitor account health. As a dedicated Customer Success platform, it evaluates product usage telemetry, communication logs, and financial metrics to proactively manage customer health and support value realization.N/A

    Totango

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ATotango is an enterprise customer success platform designed for B2B software and recurring-revenue organizations to manage customer retention, track account health, and automate lifecycle workflows. The platform consolidates product telemetry, financial data, support interactions, and CRM records into a central hub to give cross-functional teams visibility into customer adoption and expansion opportunities.N/A
    Pricing
    FreshShiftsPlanhatTotango
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $2
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details——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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    FreshShiftsPlanhatTotango
    Considered Multiple Products
    Westrock Services
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    Planhat
    Chose Planhat
    Planhat compares relatively well to Totango, despite not coming along with the massive price tag. It was able to perform all of the functions our CSM team was needing and hoping it could do for us. It was able to highlight the customer's health according to the metrics we …
    Incentivized
    Chose Planhat
    Planhat was better value for money, seemed to be more user-friendly, and required less time to set up.
    Incentivized
    Chose Planhat
    We needed a software that would not take months to set up and learn how to use. We needed powerful data that was easy to understand and action based on health scores dropping, etc. It was also important for us to be able to get our full team on the platform so that we could all …
    Incentivized
    Chose Planhat
    Planhat was the most agile and easy to use software, while still having unique and powerful features that allowed us to really customize the software around our organization and needs. Planhat is more than a Customer Success tool in essence and adds tremendous value and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Planhat
    Planhat has a better UI, covers a wide range of features and use-cases. It covers hybrid tech-touch and high touch well. Strong on revenue management.
    Incentivized
    Chose Planhat
    Planhat won on best UI, easy to use, easy to set up and had the enterprise-grade features we were looking for.
    Incentivized
    Totango
    Chose Totango
    Planhat feels like Pandora's box. It was very cool, shiny, complete but felt like an empty canvas. We felt so overwhelmed by the amount of possibilities that we didn't know where to begin. Because we sought out a tool which could help us out with the best 'time-to-value' due to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Totango has a lot of the features that Gainsight has, but it's a lot cheaper.
    Planhat was a good alternative to Totango a year ago, but Totango made a lot of improvements the last year that make it hard to compete with them (in my opinion).
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Better price/quality ration.
    Incentivized
    Chose Totango
    Better customization and integrations overall, plus health management. The product was easier to adopt and I like the help of their support team, really responsive.
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    Key User Insights
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    91%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    92%
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    184 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
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    87%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    FreshShiftsPlanhatTotango
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of FreshShifts and Planhat and Totango
    Feature
    FreshShifts
    -
    Ratings
    Planhat
    7.5
    13 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Totango
    8.5
    182 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings7.513 Ratings8.5182 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of FreshShifts and Planhat and Totango
    Feature
    FreshShifts
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    Ratings
    Planhat
    7.5
    13 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Totango
    8.5
    216 Ratings
    2% below category average
    API00 Ratings8.112 Ratings6.9149 Ratings
    Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings7.09 Ratings9.5173 Ratings
    Integration with Marketo00 Ratings00 Ratings9.035 Ratings
    Customer Data Extraction / Integration
    Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of FreshShifts and Planhat and Totango
    Feature
    FreshShifts
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    Ratings
    Planhat
    8.2
    14 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Totango
    8.1
    247 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Product usage00 Ratings8.214 Ratings8.1243 Ratings
    Help desk / support tickets00 Ratings8.212 Ratings8.2160 Ratings
    Customer Success Management
    Comparison of Customer Success Management features of FreshShifts and Planhat and Totango
    Feature
    FreshShifts
    -
    Ratings
    Planhat
    7.9
    14 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Totango
    8.1
    260 Ratings
    6% below category average
    NPS surveys00 Ratings7.712 Ratings9.4124 Ratings
    Sponsor tracking00 Ratings8.09 Ratings6.16 Ratings
    Customer profiles00 Ratings9.014 Ratings7.9251 Ratings
    Automated workflow00 Ratings6.713 Ratings9.1240 Ratings
    Internal collaboration00 Ratings8.513 Ratings7.7226 Ratings
    Customer health scoring00 Ratings7.914 Ratings7.5253 Ratings
    Customer segmentation00 Ratings7.914 Ratings8.7243 Ratings
    CSM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of FreshShifts and Planhat and Totango
    Feature
    FreshShifts
    -
    Ratings
    Planhat
    6.9
    13 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Totango
    8.3
    254 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Customer health trends00 Ratings6.813 Ratings8.4243 Ratings
    Engagement analytics00 Ratings6.813 Ratings8.8229 Ratings
    Revenue forecasting00 Ratings5.68 Ratings7.7175 Ratings
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.213 Ratings8.4237 Ratings
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    FreshShiftsPlanhatTotango
    Small Businesses
    When I Work
    Score6.5 out of 10
    ClientSuccess
    Score6 out of 10
    ClientSuccess
    Score6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    When I Work
    Score6.5 out of 10
    ChurnZero
    Score7.9 out of 10
    ChurnZero
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Gainsight CS
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Gainsight CS
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FreshShiftsPlanhatTotango
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    7.7
    (14 ratings)
    9.1
    (261 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    7.6
    (8 ratings)
    8.6
    (95 ratings)
    Availability
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    9.9
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    Performance
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    -
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    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    9.7
    (4 ratings)
    7.7
    (93 ratings)
    Online Training
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    -
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    -
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    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    -
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    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    -
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    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.8
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    -
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    8.0
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    Vendor pre-sale
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    FreshShiftsPlanhatTotango
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Westrock Services
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    Planhat
    For someone working in the Customer Success team, Planhat is a must-have software. All your client-level data can be easily managed, stored, and reviewed at any point in time by Planhat. It also helps the management and the leadership team better see each account and its usage. It also helps in identifying potentially risky customers and taking the required actions to engage and retain the account. It also gets integrated easily with other meeting recording tools wherein the summary from the tool gets easily synced with Planhat
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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
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    Planhat
    • Reporting - you can set up filters with boolean criteria to give you insight into everything you need to know.
    • Playbooks - these are very good for less-experienced CSM's who need a step-by-step guide on how to deal with different stages of the customer lifecycle. More experienced CSM's may not need the playbooks.
    • Usage data for customers - there's a wide range of charts in Planhat that tell the story of client consumption.
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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
    Westrock Services
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    Planhat
    • Allow for cc'ing of AEs or others within the same organization from the messaging center. When I went to send a message from within Planhat, I had to manually type out the AE's email address every time if I wanted them cc'd.
    • The fonts were funky if I went to add text into an existing email template. For example, if I added in an extra sentence or paragraph, in Outlook on the recipient's end, the font was different despite looking the same within Planhat. Gmail was all consistent, Outlook was showing a different font.
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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
    Westrock Services
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    Planhat
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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
    Westrock Services
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    Planhat
    It takes a while to learn Planhat even for experienced users. It has limitations in terms of what data you can present where, but its important to set internal guides outside Planhat as well so everybody working collaborative. But as CSM Planhat is a great- and critical tool which I use daily to optimise my work schedule and customer interaction with various topics.
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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
    Westrock Services
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    Planhat
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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
    Westrock Services
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    Planhat
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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
    Westrock Services
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    Planhat
    The support team couldn't be better. They are quick to respond, very helpful, and thorough. Our CS manager was always happy to schedule calls to go through specific feature queries and she ensured we had a smooth and quick setup.
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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
    Westrock Services
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    Planhat
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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
    Westrock Services
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    Planhat
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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
    Westrock Services
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    Planhat
    I was not the person involved in choosing Planhat, but it seems to me that Planhat is much better suited to an account management style role, whereas Hubspot is closer to a sales CRM instead. In my position, Planhat is better suited as it is more graphical, more flexible, and easier to find information on.
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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
    Westrock Services
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    Planhat
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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
    Westrock Services
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    Planhat
    • Planhat has, for the first time, given us a 360-degree view of all our customers and access to all the different types of communication we have with them across different departments and functions.
    • The ability to automate workflows, tasks, and assign playbooks to the various phases of our customer lifecycle has aligned all our departments.
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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

    Planhat Screenshots

    Screenshot of Insights identify outliers in a portfolio to help users understand risks and opportunities.Screenshot of Displays clients through any filter to shows only the information that matters.

    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