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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

    HubSpot Service Hub

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AHubSpot Service Hub aims to bring customer service data and channels together in one place, and helps scale support through automation and self-service. According to the vendor, Service Hub provides more time for proactive service that delights, retains, and grows your customer base.

    $15

    per month per seat

    Pricing
    FrontHubSpot Service Hub
    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)
    Service Hub Starter
    $15
    per month per seat
    Professional
    $100
    per month per seat
    Enterprise
    $150
    per month per seat
    Enterprise
    Starting at $1,200
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FrontHubSpot Service Hub
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount for annual pricing on Starter and Growth plans. Scale and Premier plans are annual price only.A discount is offered for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    FrontHubSpot Service Hub
    Considered Both Products
    Front
    No answer on this topic
    HubSpot
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    18 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    23 Answers
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    18 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    FrontHubSpot Service Hub
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Front and HubSpot Service Hub
    Feature
    Front
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    8% below category average
    HubSpot Service Hub
    7.9
    16 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.26 Ratings7.716 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications6.74 Ratings8.26 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission7.74 Ratings8.316 Ratings
    Ticket response7.74 Ratings7.816 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.94 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings7.65 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Front and HubSpot Service Hub
    Feature
    Front
    7.0
    6 Ratings
    13% below category average
    HubSpot Service Hub
    8.7
    16 Ratings
    8% above category average
    External knowledge base7.06 Ratings8.916 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.616 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Front and HubSpot Service Hub
    Feature
    Front
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    9% above category average
    HubSpot Service Hub
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Customer portal8.33 Ratings9.14 Ratings
    Social integration9.43 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Email support9.24 Ratings7.86 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration8.42 Ratings9.26 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings7.13 Ratings
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    FrontHubSpot Service Hub
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Kustomer
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FrontHubSpot Service Hub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (35 ratings)
    8.7
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (9 ratings)
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FrontHubSpot Service Hub
    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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    HubSpot
    I'd recommend HubSpot Service Hub for sure. When switching from a different platform to HubSpot Service Hub orgs and admins can count with a vast number of trainings in HubSpot Academy and most of them are free. This means users will find the resources they need without needing to reach for their superiors for training sessions or guidance.
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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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    HubSpot
    • It makes it easier for us to keep track of customer awareness and review in one spot.
    • The great thing about how easy it is to use all of its fantastic tools.
    • The ability to check customer retention.
    • It's easy to track and measure the success of our organization's sales team.
    • This is a fantastic all-in-one customer success suite that includes ticketing.
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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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    HubSpot
    • We've had some issues setting up the Client Portal functionality because we merged with another company and are still operating under two domains; Setting up the Client Portal could be easier or they could provide better support to help us work through it
    • We've been able to do everything we need to do with HubSpot Service Hub
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Front
    We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing
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    HubSpot
    No answers on this topic
    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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    HubSpot
    I'd give it a 9 or 10 for the survey functionality because that is what we use regularly. I left it at an eight because we don't yet have experience with some of the other functionalities within the ServiceHub. Based on our demos, the ticketing system and the ChatBot are great, and we look forward to adding them soon.
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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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    HubSpot
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    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.
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    HubSpot
    HubSpot [Service Hub] had many integrations we needed to connect to our CRM, and the cost was just right from them VS the others. We had to look at all the features, and HubSpot CRM just had way more than the others and more bang for your buck. So the Service Hub was just a bonus with their CRM tools.
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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.
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    HubSpot
    • Easy to keep track of leads and track their journey into becoming a customer. For example, we can tell which leads open what emails and target people differently to help increase sales.
    • Even though HubSpot Service Hub is very expensive, I do think it is worth the price because we can keep track of all leads/ customers very easy, track the customer journey, rework emails with AI, etc.
    • HubSpot Service Hub also has reporting so you can track everything which helps to improve our sales
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