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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

    TeamSupport

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    TeamSupport is customer support software built for B2B software and technology companies. The solution offers ticket management, a customer and contact database, reporting and analytics, multi-channel support, built-in collaboration tools, and many native integrations.

    $45

    per month per user

    Pricing
    FrontTeamSupport
    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)
    Starter
    $45
    per month per user
    Professional
    $65
    per month per user
    Scale
    $85
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FrontTeamSupport
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsDiscount for annual pricing on Starter and Growth plans. Scale and Premier plans are annual price only.Pricing is based on annual billing
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    Community Pulse
    FrontTeamSupport
    Considered Both Products
    Front
    No answer on this topic
    TeamSupport
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    23 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 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
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    FrontTeamSupport
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Front and TeamSupport
    Feature
    Front
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    7% below category average
    TeamSupport
    8.2
    12 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.26 Ratings8.012 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications6.74 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission7.74 Ratings8.012 Ratings
    Ticket response7.74 Ratings8.012 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Front and TeamSupport
    Feature
    Front
    7.0
    6 Ratings
    13% below category average
    TeamSupport
    8.0
    12 Ratings
    0% below category average
    External knowledge base7.06 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Front and TeamSupport
    Feature
    Front
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    9% above category average
    TeamSupport
    9.2
    12 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Customer portal8.33 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Social integration9.43 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Email support9.24 Ratings8.012 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration8.42 Ratings10.07 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    FrontTeamSupport
    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
    FrontTeamSupport
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (35 ratings)
    9.0
    (58 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (9 ratings)
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.8
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    9.3
    (8 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FrontTeamSupport
    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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    TeamSupport
    TeamSupport is a great ticketing/help desk platform for small companies. It gets the job done and allows for multiple teams to manage workloads. It is not best for bigger organizations as there are lots of lacking features (mobile app, integrations, robust Jira/Confluence like system). The support for TeamSupport is great too. They usually get in touch with customers quickly when the system is down and they resolve issues quickly as well.
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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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    TeamSupport
    • There were other customer support software companies that I looked into at first, however TeamSupport provided exceptional customer service themselves. I paid close attention to how they handled me as a customer to see if they were a company that would understand my desire to give exceptional customer service to my clients and if they had the tools to make the experience easy. Every interaction with them was very positive.
    • Since we needed TeamSupport's software embedded into our software application to give our users easy access to the support tools, the staff at TeamSupport needed to answer many questions and work with our developers to make this possible. They were always willing to take the extra step to ensure a smooth set up.
    • As we continue with TeamSupport, I am especially impressed with the sincerity of the CEO, Robert C. Johnson, and his commitment to us so that together we can deliver exceptional customer support.
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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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    TeamSupport
    • We would like to see a structure to the ticket numbering system. In a previous system we had a numbering system like this mmddyy-xxxxxx This was very easy to see when a ticket was created based on just it's number. Currently with TeamSupport they assign a random number to tickets that is not very informative without a created date field.
    • Reports are nice but lack some rollup capabilities that are needed. Any given report can only work against two data tables at max. This is a limitation that we had to create custom contact fields to get around. They store phone, address and base contact info in separate tables. This makes it impossible with a standard system to create a report of all tickets along with the ticket and contact information in one report. The previous system we were on, allowed you to tie as many related data tables together that was needed to create one high level report.
    • Need Ability to notify external users of ticket activity in regions. So what I mean is we have FAE's in the field that want to know what their customers are asking for their region. They don't want or need a TeamSupport account but want simple e-mails of activity. This has been a lost feature for us going to a new system. I have to create a manual report each week and forward to the people that want this kind of information.
    • Ticket Automation rules will only run against a ticket one time. I understand why they did this to prevent uncontrolled loops but it would be nice to be able to set a limit that was greater than one. This limitation often causes us to have to write multiple rules to handle certain ticket cases.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Front
    We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing
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    TeamSupport
    We are very likely to renew. We have been using TeamSupport for years and have tested a few other ticketing software solutions. We utilize several project management solutions to date and are always looking for better more efficient ways. Team Support is great at working with us and allows us to report issues well.
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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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    TeamSupport
    I think some things could be a little more user-friendly: specifically the dashboard. Although it's fantastic and makes life so much nicer, I'd like to have more control on it's customization. I'd like to be able to default what's collapsed and what's expanded...instead of everything expanding by default each time I load it. But the portal offers great tools and guides on workarounds.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Front
    No answers on this topic
    TeamSupport
    Again while most of the time I CAN access your server, it's offline enough that I can't count on having the software available to me 24/7
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    Performance
    Front
    No answers on this topic
    TeamSupport
    It is a feature heavy web application, thus speed can be compromised sometimes dependent on availability of a quality internet connection
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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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    TeamSupport
    TeamSupport's ease of use and the way it benefited our company overall. From cost improvements, ROI, and overall management of team members it gets high marks. We are better able to support our customer base by providing improved support in a more timely fashion. The End User view of IT Support overall has improved just through using this platform in our company.
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    In-Person Training
    Front
    No answers on this topic
    TeamSupport
    Able to get hands on training and ask questions.
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    Online Training
    Front
    No answers on this topic
    TeamSupport
    Not much training was offered, but it was always provided when we requested it
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    Implementation Rating
    Front
    No answers on this topic
    TeamSupport
    Data import was the most difficult hurdle for us to get over. The mass import was handled through an Excel spreadsheet. TeamSupport doesn't use Microsoft Office products for the most part so they were relying on Google Docs which has limitations over Excel. Special characters and html in import cells can be a issue with importing. When creating a data export from your current system, special care needs to be taken so that the data is able to be processed into TeamSupport without issues.
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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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    TeamSupport
    TeamSupport is a much more modern, intuitive and user-friendly version of NetSuite with many additional bells and whistles. NetSuite has a business only facade with a rather clunky interface and system. TeamSupport compares favorably and meets business needs while being a much more advanced and modern solution.
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    Scalability
    Front
    No answers on this topic
    TeamSupport
    TS keeps adding new features without making sure the program is reliable as-is. The program is frequently offline which makes for significant frustration on my part
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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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    TeamSupport
    • TeamSupport has improved our team's response times. We are able to address all requests within a short time of receiving them.
    • TeamSupport allows us to effectively manage workflow.
    • The program provides us with a certain level of accountability, and requires that we be meticulous in our work.
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    ScreenShots

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