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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Front

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AFront is a communication hub that helps businesses keep the human touch in every interaction.

    $29

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Front
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $29
    per month per user
    Growth
    $79
    per month per user
    Scale
    $99
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Premier
    $229
    per month (billed annually) per seat (50 seat minimum)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Front
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount for annual pricing on Starter and Growth plans. Scale and Premier plans are annual price only.
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    Community Pulse
    Front
    Considered Both Products
    Front
    Chose Front
    Front is cleaner from an email communication standpoint. Less details are sometimes better. Hubspot is more of a CRM and that focus is key. While Front is more of a communication channel.
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    Front was easier to have shared inbox. It also gave us more flexibility in tagging, both tagging users and tagging the emails to triage. It was also quick to set up and get users on boarded and trained. We found it was just a more intuitive and flexible system for us.
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    Front is better for communication with the team.
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    We switched to Front because of how simple it looked, then we realized we could tailor it to the type of business we have. I don't see us using any other tool to manage emails besides Front.

    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    I have only used Gmail in the past and Front is any day better than Gmail in terms of the interface and ease of usage. The ability to send scheduling links and comments between the email threads makes it better than Gmail. The shared inbox also makes it easier for the entire …
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    NA
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    Front's UX/UI is more intuitive. The work seems to flow better in their app.
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    A few features are very good in Front that are not in Outlook, like sharing draft content with teammates, commenting, read receipts, etc., which made us choose Front.
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    The tagging feature stands out. Their tagging can be quite deep and effective if it's set up properly. For example, I can pull out all the clients who [have] an issue with billing. Or better yet valued clients who [have] a specific MRR that has an issue with billing that needed …
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    Front is honestly an amazing blend of an email server and Slack, as it allows for nimble, efficient, and immediate communication between team members without needing to forward a single email back-and-forth before finally responding to a client. Front also saves time when …
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    This is something I am not familiar but it seems like it is [available] in Gmail. Thus I cannot give any feedback about it. What I am sure about is Front works for our team and I see Zoom using the service in the Customer Success Organization in a long run.
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    Thanks to Front, it has allowed us to have smooth and effective internal communication between departments, attaching projects, problems, and endless files without any problem. It is allowing us to have practical and soft customer support.
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    Front is better than any other tool. It is a great app to use also because of its multipurpose features. Anyone can also use this app for your customized business needs and manage your work accordingly. I feel that Front is easy to use and it is also very user-friendly due to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    I love how scalable the software is. Also, Front comprises many good features that are needed for helping teams work efficiently and effectively for sales and support.
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    Front has been simple to implement and operate on our team. It is not possible to lose an email; it is impressive how it adapts better while being used daily. We can have excellent communication between colleagues, the percentage of evaluations, and changes in planned tasks …
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    Front is always getting the newest capabilities of the industry [and] is never behind. Instead, it provides you with features that [you] would not even think exist. Also, it is faster than other apps [and] takes just a moment for you to get started in your daily tasks.
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    Front was not designed as a ticketing system and doesn't have great reporting tools, but the commenting and draft features were important and other platforms' versions of these features were weak or unintuitive.

    It should be noted that we ended up developing our own messaging …
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    Front is so much simpler to search and access templates for emails or texts.
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    It offered newer features and more ways to control user communication inflow, as well as team roster management. The Front app also had a presence on the app, mobile web, and web, which was helpful for on-the-go email queue management. In short, at the time we made this …
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    Front manages more communication channels.
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    We have used Yesware. It's a really good lead prospecting tool, but doesn't have the shared inbox, or collaborative capabilities of Front.
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    Zendesk is by far the market leader here and offers a tremendous solution. It is, of course, very expensive -- especially if you require multi-brand support. Many of the other solutions (except Groove) offer some flavor of multi-brand support but they are not as good as Zendesk.…
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    We had all our leads going to a gmail account before front. Front solved so many problems that Gmail had. It was much more user friendly for somethings and it was a much more flexible software that we were able to use to meet our needs. It also has a reporting feature that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    Front is a flexible and quickly growing tool that integrates with almost every system we use. Front have been our go-to support system since we started and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    23 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    Features
    Front
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Front
    Feature
    Front
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.26 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications6.74 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission7.74 Ratings
    Ticket response7.74 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Front
    Feature
    Front
    7.0
    6 Ratings
    13% below category average
    External knowledge base7.06 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Front
    Feature
    Front
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Customer portal8.33 Ratings
    Social integration9.43 Ratings
    Email support9.24 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration8.42 Ratings
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    Front
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    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Kustomer
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Front
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Front
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Front
    I think Front is very useful for every company with multiple teams working together on different emails from clients. Not so useful if a lot of different teams need to work on a request at the same time, because when an email is sitting in multiple shared inboxes things can get messy. Also would not recommend for teams that work is individualized, as team work is the main point of Front.
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    Pros
    Front
    • Even if you are just trying to compose a single email, Front gives a smart system that has options such [as] organized templates, tags, alerts, [and] changing your outbound dpt email.
    • Tasks- with Front you will not miss any interaction. When you are required to get assistance from a coworker, you only need to mention him/her and that notification will appear automatically in their inboxes.
    • Smart Notifications- sometimes we are just overwhelmed about the several notifications on our devices that we tend to miss some of them, but Front offers a new way to notify every email, discussion, mentioning, or tag that you really would not want to miss.
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    Cons
    Front
    • Their integration to Salesforce is lacking. As the owner of our productivity tools and how they are used, I have very little control over what things to enforce, or even change what objects are available. For example, we don't use Cases in Salesforce but with the Salesforce integration the Cases object shows up. There's no need to have that there. I've heard there is a roadmap improvement forthcoming.
    • One of our uses is for our sales development reps to prospect with visitors. Because of the high volume of inquiries it's difficult for our reps to efficiently manage all their follow ups. It would be nice if we could run a "scheduled campaign" where a predesigned cadence of email follow ups can be sent automatically. To be clear, they do have a scheduling capability, but it just can't be used as a prebuilt option.
    • Integrations to other systems require you have a user account to those systems. We have SSO and therefore we don't always have a user account. For example, out integration to Jira uses SSO so we don't each have individual Jira logins. This is an outage for us.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Front
    We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Front
    It's very easy to understand and use by new customer support agents as well. Be it a technology, product, or marketing person, we have trained most of the company folks to read and respond to customer conversations in their free time with the help of the Front app. It is also easy to set up for an admin and manage his/her team with communication rules.
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    Support Rating
    Front
    The support is good, and it's definitely prompt, but still lags when it comes to technical requirements, as I guess they are slow in developing newer features fast. So no complaints in terms of responsiveness, but yeah, at times it's not very helpful when you need certain features or are blocked on things which can't be unblocked.
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    Front
    This is something I am not familiar but it seems like it is [available] in Gmail. Thus I cannot give any feedback about it. What I am sure about is Front works for our team and I see Zoom using the service in the Customer Success Organization in a long run.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Front
    • Saved our executive team considerable amount of time chasing support questions through different channels.
    • Gave our team clear accountability for who was lead on a support issue and how to escalate.
    • Customer regularly say our support is the best in the industry.
    Incentivized
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