Front vs. Smartsupp

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Front
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Front is a communication hub that helps businesses keep the human touch in every interaction.
$29
per month per user
Smartsupp
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Czech company Smartsupp offers a live chat tool with a free version. The paid versions include visitor tracking and recording, and agent performance statistics.
$20
per month
Pricing
FrontSmartsupp
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)
Ultimate
$239
per month
Standard
starting at $20
per month 100 to 200 live chat conversations per month
Pro
starting at $30
per month 100 to 800 live chat conversations per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FrontSmartsupp
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsDiscount for annual pricing on Starter and Growth plans. Scale and Premier plans are annual price only.Discount available for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
FrontSmartsupp
Features
FrontSmartsupp
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Front
7.8
6 Ratings
5% below category average
Smartsupp
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets8.46 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket response8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Front
7.2
6 Ratings
11% below category average
Smartsupp
-
Ratings
External knowledge base7.26 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Front
8.8
4 Ratings
10% above category average
Smartsupp
-
Ratings
Customer portal8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration9.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Email support9.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Chat Analytics and Reports
Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Product A and Product B
Front
-
Ratings
Smartsupp
8.2
7 Ratings
6% below category average
Chat history and transcripts00 Ratings8.27 Ratings
Chat reporting00 Ratings8.67 Ratings
Chat and web analytics00 Ratings7.97 Ratings
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User Ratings
FrontSmartsupp
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(35 ratings)
7.9
(7 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.4
(9 ratings)
8.1
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
FrontSmartsupp
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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Smartsupp
Smartsupp is good for every ecommerce with need to answer questions of clients and comunicate with them. A lot of convesations can be automated, so I need less people to do the same work
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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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Smartsupp
  • Ability for multi-platform login between Android, Apple IOS, and Windows
  • Much less buggy than our previous Chat provider
  • Ability to see Live and Offline visitors
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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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Smartsupp
  • I wish we would be able to check ip adresses so we can link the chats so companies before they fill out a contact form
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Likelihood to Renew
Front
We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing
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Smartsupp
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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Smartsupp
Customer response has been much better.In the past, the conversion rate for our services has been very low, probably due to poor UI/UX.But considering that we were still getting a certain number of conversions, we believe that the demand from users was very strong.With the addition of the chat function, we now have a point of contact with customers who had not converted.
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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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Smartsupp
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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Smartsupp
All the features found in other programs in Smartsupp are brought together. In addition, the price offer is attractive, and the multitude of selection of options and possible add-ons is very large and tailored to different thresholds, so everyone should choose an offer perfectly suited to their needs. I haven't had the need to use support, so it's hard for me to judge, but the very fact that I haven't had to do so probably speaks well for it.
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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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Smartsupp
  • It has a very positive impact. I need less workers to do the same job.
  • A lot of communication can be automated - especially answers for simple questions.
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