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    Overview
    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

    Sococo

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASococo is a remote collaboration tool with integrations with third-party applications such as Google Docs, Atlassian JIRA, and Box.

    $14.99

    per month per seat

    Pricing
    FrontSococo
    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)
    Sococo
    $14.99 or $13.99 if paid annually
    per month per seat
    Sococo Unlimited
    $24.99
    per month per seat
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FrontSococo
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    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.Sococo pricing plan includes a 10 seat minimum and 500 minutes per seat per month. Additional minutes price at $5 per 1,000 minutes. Sococo unlimited include a 100 seat minimum with unlimited minutes per seat per user.
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    Community Pulse
    FrontSococo
    Considered Both Products
    Front
    No answer on this topic
    Social Communications Company
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    23 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    FrontSococo
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Front and Sococo
    Feature
    Front
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Sococo
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications6.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response7.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Front and Sococo
    Feature
    Front
    7.0
    6 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Sococo
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Front and Sococo
    Feature
    Front
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Sococo
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration9.43 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support9.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration8.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Front and Sococo
    Feature
    Front
    -
    Ratings
    Sococo
    4.7
    3 Ratings
    49% below category average
    Task Management00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings3.03 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings3.02 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Front and Sococo
    Feature
    Front
    -
    Ratings
    Sococo
    5.3
    5 Ratings
    40% below category average
    Chat00 Ratings5.05 Ratings
    Notifications00 Ratings5.05 Ratings
    Discussions00 Ratings6.03 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Front and Sococo
    Feature
    Front
    -
    Ratings
    Sococo
    4.6
    2 Ratings
    55% below category average
    Versioning00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Video files00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Audio files00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Document collaboration00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Access control00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Advanced security features00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Device sync00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    FrontSococo
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Flock
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Troop Messenger
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Kustomer
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Cisco Business Edition 7000 (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FrontSococo
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (35 ratings)
    1.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (9 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FrontSococo
    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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    Social Communications Company
    We tried Sococo as means of gamifying a natively remote office. It does the job but the tool suffers from a lack of integrations. You will run out of free minutes very quickly and the additional charges are too high to make business sense.
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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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    Social Communications Company
    • Visual layout - the virtual office visible was very helpful because it made the organization feel closer and as a whole, much more connected. Further, you can group departments in your layout, so it gave a good visual understanding of who was part of each 'department/team.'
    • Sound - the sound quality was good overall in meetings, and I liked the realistic sounds for opening and closing an office, etc. It allowed for a real office feel, and this is especially important since a lot of companies offer the option to work from home now - this removes the 'disconnect' that usually exists when working from home.
    • Communication options - it allowed for multiple ways to communicate and places to communicate - i.e., in the auditorium, lunchroom, conference room, or a smaller room. Very realistic and a variety in that sense.
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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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    Social Communications Company
    • It would be great if it supported other major browsers. Not everyone has Chrome installed.
    • The ongoing subscription cost is difficult to justify. This is the only reason we stopped using it.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Front
    We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing
    Incentivized
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    Social Communications Company
    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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    Social Communications Company
    It was easy to use but still needs lots of improvement to collaborate with other tools
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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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    Social Communications Company
    Sococo didn't seem to have a strong support line. In comparison to other products, such as Microsoft Teams, it did not regularly check in with us. There should be opportunities to give feedback on the quality of the program periodically and if we had any issues. Sometimes, Sococo would crash, and we would 'restart it' but not know why it happened.
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    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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    Social Communications Company
    I prefer Sococo over Lync/Skype for a few reasons. I feel the user interface is slicker, better voice clarity, easier to hop between calls. And, all call members can go to a common chat room on their own accord instead of one person trying to invite everybody. I also feel that it's easier to share one's screen and swap between different shared screens with Sococo.
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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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    Social Communications Company
    • Morning meetings are much simpler with sococo than without. Small powwows with coworkers to work out little bugs are also a lot more enticing since setup is essentially nonexistent.
    • It might be argued that the cost of sococo isn't worth the benefits of simplicity and ease of use.
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