Freshsuccess (based on technology acquired by Natero by Freshworks in May 2019) is designed to help Customer Success Managers prevent churn, increase account expansion, and manage more customers with less effort. The vendor says features include: Customer 360 - See customer emails, chats, meetings, support tickets, billing history, and product usage, in one place. Predictive Alerts - Predict which customers are likely to churn, convert, or expand their…
$79
per month
Olark
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Olark is a website live chat tool for engaging website visitors while they browse. It can be used to to track leads, drive sales, provide support.
$15
per month
Pricing
Freshsuccess
Olark
Editions & Modules
Estate
$79 billed annually
per month per user
Estate
$95 billed monthly
per month per user
Forest
$129 billed annually
per month per user
Forest
$150 billed monthly
per month per user
Self Service
$19.00
Per Agent Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Freshsuccess
Olark
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Freshsuccess
Olark
Features
Freshsuccess
Olark
Security
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Freshsuccess
10.0
5 Ratings
13% above category average
Olark
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Role-based user permissions
10.05 Ratings
00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
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Freshsuccess
7.1
6 Ratings
20% below category average
Olark
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Ratings
API
7.25 Ratings
00 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com
7.26 Ratings
00 Ratings
Integration with Marketo
7.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Integration with Eloqua
7.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
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Freshsuccess
8.6
6 Ratings
2% below category average
Olark
-
Ratings
Product usage
8.16 Ratings
00 Ratings
Help desk / support tickets
9.15 Ratings
00 Ratings
Customer Success Management
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Freshsuccess
7.1
6 Ratings
19% below category average
Olark
-
Ratings
NPS surveys
7.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Sponsor tracking
7.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Customer profiles
7.15 Ratings
00 Ratings
Automated workflow
8.06 Ratings
00 Ratings
Internal collaboration
5.35 Ratings
00 Ratings
Customer health scoring
8.16 Ratings
00 Ratings
Customer segmentation
7.25 Ratings
00 Ratings
CSM Reporting & Analytics
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Freshsuccess
7.4
6 Ratings
13% below category average
Olark
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Ratings
Customer health trends
9.16 Ratings
00 Ratings
Engagement analytics
7.06 Ratings
00 Ratings
Revenue forecasting
4.44 Ratings
00 Ratings
Dashboards
9.16 Ratings
00 Ratings
Chat Analytics and Reports
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Any SaaS company that needs to measure and track the health of client and user accounts will find the data provided by Natero extremely useful. If you have a support team that is tracking tickets, to-do-lists, etc. across different platforms, you'll be happy to know that you can consolidate most of those existing workflows into Natero, making this a single platform for your CES team to keep things running smoothly.
Olark chat is easy to set up and use. You can have more than one user logged in to monitor the chat on different computers. This makes a fast response time more likely. Although you have to be sure to keep your volume up on the computer so you hear the sound letting you know there's a chat waiting. I like that you can see the customers path through the website and you can put clickable links while you are in a chat to guide the customer to a product or a help page. Plus you can see if they actually went there. This makes it easier to upsell
Olark is user friendly for both sides of the CHAT conversation. If you are initiating the chat, or the one receiving the chat, it is extremely easy to follow and use. There are many different levels of computer use comprehension and Olark is for every level.
Olark has reporting features to allow you to check the quality of your employees chat abilities as well as their productivity. It provides feedback for the employee themselves to also see how they are doing and take any suggestions the customer may leave for them regarding their chat experience.
Olark is very affordable and offers you the option, at a low cost, to look bigger and more professional that you even are. We were a smaller company and has the chat option with Olark and now have grown tremendously and STILL have the Olark chat option. Olark allowed us to grow and provide professionalism to our customers .
The Olark program allows you to set up quick responses to keep your customer from waiting, and to allow your employees to not have to retype the same response over and over. It is a great program that the employees really enjoy as well. It reminds you if you forgot to log out when you left your desk and provides your customer a quick note giving them the option to send the chat as an email inquiry instead, so you don't miss a thing.
Not really an area of improvement for Olark specifically, but I will offer that it is incredibly important to keep in mind your company's "shopping hours" or peak traffic times (there is a Reports feature on the software that allows you to analyze peak traffic times).
Transcript history can be a little tricky - if you're searching for a specific past conversation, sometimes you may get multiple search results and have to sift through them until you find exactly what you're looking for.
I'd also offer that you will occasionally come across folks that are on your site to cyberbully or say nonsensical things. While there isn't an absolute fullproof way to deal with this, Olark does offer a nice "block" feature to disregard any unwanted conversations.
To be honest, renewal decisions are not currently within my power. Hypothetically speaking, I'm very comfortable with the platform, have used it daily for nearly a year, and would see no reason to switch to anything else. The small criticisms I had are not significant enough to deter me from using Olark. It's a user friendly, effective tool for our department.
Our organization does not have any complaints about Olark's Support. Anytime we reached out to them for assistance, we received a prompt, helpful reply! As mentioned previously, we used Olark fairly basically so we didn't have too much need to work with their support team other than a few general questions here and there. They were always pleasant to work with.
I highly recommend and prefer using Salesforce over Natero. Salesforce allows me to pull in as many fields into a report as I would like, compared to 14 different fields into Natero. I am able to view and make changes to information much quicker than Natero. I like Salesforce much more.
Olark has an easier implementation process and has better functionality such as the ability to send commands through the platform to either create a ticket in your CRM or push an opportunity to salesforce; you're even able to 'push' the end user to a web page. Implementing their SDK is a snap as well.