Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Intercom
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Intercom creates modern Customer Service software that aims to redefine how businesses support their customers. The platform connects businesses directly to customers using powerful messaging and automation. According to the vendor, Intercom enables teams to scale support without investing more resources - leading to happier customers and more efficient support teams.
$39
per month per seat
Totango
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Totango customer success software, now with Catalyst, helps enterprise businesses and cross-functional teams accelerate customer outcomes in productivity, retention, and expansion. Totango and Catalyst will become a unified product, following the merger in February 2024.
$2,988
per year
Pricing
IntercomTotango
Editions & Modules
Essential
$39
per month per seat
Advanced
$99
per month per seat
Expert
$139
per month per seat
The Early Stage program
From $65 for 5 support seats
per month
Proactive Support Plus add-on
from $99
per month
Starter
$2,988
per year
Enterprise
$18,000
per year
Premier
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IntercomTotango
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsAI customer service features included in every plan. Intercom integrates Help desk, AI Chat bot, and Proactive support.Each package gives teams a 360° customer account profile, customer health scoring, customer journey program templates (SuccessBLOCS), automated workflows (SuccessPlays), email campaigns, self-paced onboarding, and customer support.
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Community Pulse
IntercomTotango
Considered Both Products
Intercom
Chose Intercom
  • Totango: great segmentation and tracking. Very difficult learning curve. Literally over a year to build.
  • Salesforce: Garbage. I have always stood by this. Idiots love Salesforce because they think it's smart. It's not. It's just confusing. There is nothing Salesforce does that …
Chose Intercom
Although used for different purposes in general, in terms of automated campaigns, we utilize both products. Totango seems to be more appropriate as it allows for better goal definition and provides more flexibility with a simpler interface.
Chose Intercom
The product tours in the Intercom were the reason for picking Intercom over Zendesk and Freshdesk. We are an end-to-end solution, almost an enterprise product - and that needs a bit of user training. We also keep releasing new features. It is not possible to train users in all …
Chose Intercom
Other chat tools are not well connected to any platform, Intercom was built for SAAS and it was also cost effective.
Totango
Chose Totango
Not relevant. Do not have experience working with other customer success platforms.
Chose Totango
I was not with the organization when the choice was made. Other products, however, were evaluated based on free trials and live demo sessions.
Chose Totango
We spoke with all vendors and tested Preact and found Totango to be the best fit for us.
Chose Totango
Our team looked at what Totango had to offer and felt that it had all the functionality we might need as we move our customer success program forward.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
IntercomTotango
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Intercom
8.1
111 Ratings
3% above category average
Totango
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets8.4101 Ratings00 Ratings
Expert directory8.068 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications7.767 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation8.275 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission8.3104 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket response7.8109 Ratings00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Intercom
7.3
115 Ratings
6% below category average
Totango
-
Ratings
External knowledge base7.4114 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal knowledge base7.299 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Intercom
8.2
111 Ratings
7% above category average
Totango
-
Ratings
Customer portal8.589 Ratings00 Ratings
IVR7.736 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration7.569 Ratings00 Ratings
Email support8.8105 Ratings00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration8.580 Ratings00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Intercom
-
Ratings
Totango
8.5
182 Ratings
3% below category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.5182 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Intercom
-
Ratings
Totango
7.9
216 Ratings
8% below category average
API00 Ratings6.8149 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com00 Ratings8.0173 Ratings
Integration with Marketo00 Ratings8.935 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Product A and Product B
Intercom
-
Ratings
Totango
7.6
247 Ratings
13% below category average
Product usage00 Ratings7.8243 Ratings
Help desk / support tickets00 Ratings7.3160 Ratings
Customer Success Management
Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Product A and Product B
Intercom
-
Ratings
Totango
7.6
260 Ratings
9% below category average
NPS surveys00 Ratings8.0124 Ratings
Sponsor tracking00 Ratings6.16 Ratings
Customer profiles00 Ratings7.8251 Ratings
Automated workflow00 Ratings8.4240 Ratings
Internal collaboration00 Ratings7.1226 Ratings
Customer health scoring00 Ratings7.6253 Ratings
Customer segmentation00 Ratings8.3243 Ratings
CSM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Intercom
-
Ratings
Totango
7.5
254 Ratings
9% below category average
Customer health trends00 Ratings7.7243 Ratings
Engagement analytics00 Ratings7.7229 Ratings
Revenue forecasting00 Ratings7.0175 Ratings
Dashboards00 Ratings7.8237 Ratings
Best Alternatives
IntercomTotango
Small Businesses
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite
Score 9.0 out of 10
Intercom
Intercom
Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite
Agiloft Flexible Service Desk Suite
Score 9.0 out of 10
CustomerSuccessBox
CustomerSuccessBox
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce Service Cloud
Score 8.7 out of 10
Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)
Cisco Webex Experience Management (discontinued)
Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
IntercomTotango
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(260 ratings)
8.3
(261 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.9
(19 ratings)
7.4
(8 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(168 ratings)
8.6
(95 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.9
(3 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.8
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
7.1
(10 ratings)
8.1
(93 ratings)
Online Training
8.1
(2 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.5
(5 ratings)
10.0
(12 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(4 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(8 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.8
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Intercom
Well suited for real time customer support needs - that's where it really shines. Well suited for proactive outreach and the ability to gather feedback from customers + surveys. Less appropriate for a non techie company to set it up, basically any sort of changes in integration have to be done by an engineer.
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Totango
for a CSM it´s marvelous, you have in one window everything,the agenda for your day by day work, the workload you have in a day,all the customers database and call history added by tasks and toutch points, the to do thing in each customer you know what to do next, with renewal you hace an digital engadgement with customers inform they need to renew in order to keep using the app.
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Pros
Intercom
  • Intercom's ability to centralize customer communication is a game-changer.
  • Intercom's automation features have saved us time and streamlined workflows.
  • Help desk for users.
  • Intercom seamlessly integrates with a variety of other tools and platforms, enhancing its functionality and making it a central part of our tech stack.
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Totango
  • Enables us to easily send and collect NPS & CSAT scores regularly.
  • Syncs with HubSpot to bring in updated client data and deals automatically.
  • Allows us to manage clients based on health score which is multi-dimensional.
  • I can log touch points directly in Totango from Gmail so easily..
  • As we improve and develop our non SaaS business client experience, Totango continues to develop more functionality that we can benefit from.
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Cons
Intercom
  • The AI tools should have a make shorter option
  • The research is difficult compared to other platforms such as Zendesk where it is easier to find stuff (accounts, emails, messages...)
  • I know that you could integrate better AI tools! The chatbot is amazing, so I'm just missing more AI tools to increase productivity
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Totango
  • Integrations -- in my experience, they constantly break and disconnect.
  • Implementation -- I feel it was a HUGE challenge to set-up our environment. It took over 200 hours and it didn't work.
  • Communication -- during implementation/onboarding, in my opinion, we were mislead on how to create some of our custom data objects and it ended up being a big waste of time since the approach we were instructed to use ended up being incorrect.
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Likelihood to Renew
Intercom
We have been and will be continuing our journey with Intercom and nothing too concerning has happened that I have experienced or heard of that has us on the edge yet. If it ever happens it will be something along the lines of "Outgrowing" the use of need of the platform.
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Totango
I personally believe Totango is the right Customer Success Tool for me, my team, and my organization. I couldn't find limitations until now, it's capabilities are on point and it's very scalable. of course, transitioning to another tool would mean a lot of hours and training, and would expose risks
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Usability
Intercom
Everything is very straightforward and easy to see, explore, and use. Intercom provides walkthroughs and helps guides in case something is not apparent to the user and has their agents available to help. I always feel confident when exploring new features or making changes that I can have it accomplished due to the service they provide.
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Totango
It is easy to use and understand, and simple to follow day to day. Logging notes and tasks is one of the key areas this is utilised along with tracking reports and accessing key data points for conversations with customers which is helpful. Mobile app helps too to access information on the go.
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Reliability and Availability
Intercom
always there
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Totango
I have yet to experience any downtime with Totango (knock on wood) so reliability has been really top tier since we were onboarded. Given that the support team has been really helpful so far, I can imagine should downtime every be the case, they'll be able to communicate proactively/effectively on the current state of the platform
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Performance
Intercom
works perfect
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Totango
At times the integration sync can be really slow when it comes to touchpoints. I can't say the same for customer health syncing, but I do tend to notice the lag from email syncing, and in those cases, I will need to refresh the Totango page a couple of times or wait a couple of extra seconds/minutes for it to show up.
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Support Rating
Intercom
Intercom is the premier customer support/engagement model and it definitely has one of the top tier customer support teams as well. I don't think I have ever waited more than 5 minutes to get the information I need or get help with an issue. They are incredible and I aim to model our customer service department after them.
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Totango
I give Totango a support rating of 10 because I can always get support whenever needed. If its a technical issue, I know I can email their support team for help. If it's a more in depth question with respect to our instance of Totango, I can reach out to our CSM and always get help in a very reasonable amount of time. I always look to Totango as the standard when I think of how to best communicate and support our own customers.
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Online Training
Intercom
Easy to know the learning path
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Totango
Our CSM did a great job of conducting the training so we understand, at the very least, the functionality that is directly relevant to us. This also allowed us to train our own new team mates when onboarding based on the training flow that was first presented to us. This was also conducted as a interactive sessions, as training are notoriously known to be dry
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Implementation Rating
Intercom
The implementation was surprisingly easy but we are having to adapt from our old process to work well with Intercom.
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Totango
Totango has been easy for our team to integrate most of our new features into, which is great considering we have to factor in the customers' usage of the new features into all of the health and usage metrics we have. It has taken a while to integrate our second product however, which is why I would rank this a 7.
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Alternatives Considered
Intercom
We've used both Drift and Salesforce chat at Owl Labs in the past, and I didn't find them to meet our needs or customer needs the way Intercom has been able to. Intercom ranks higher for us regarding Integrations offered, customization, AI functionality, and user-friendliness. In the past, if chat visitors would click around our website, they'd have to start their chat over again from the start and lose their communication history with us. We also found that Salesforce chat did not have enough customization that we needed. One small example is that in Intercom, you can see when another teammate is looking at a chat and tag them in notes to collaborate. We didn't have access to anything like that when using Salesforce chat. Intercom has made it easy to work alongside one another to be more efficient.
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Totango
Pipedrive is a great CRM for Sales purposes but it doesnt give much tools for CX management. Totango is all the opposite, it is an excellent product for Customer Management . We currently use both platforms integrated with each other and it gives great results to both Sales and Customer Success teams
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Scalability
Intercom
No answers on this topic
Totango
Information keeps missing and changing in totango . Because of that there is are lot of problems with it. We need to manually keep the backup in an another file. More over if in case we take the backup its so hard to track since its all in numbers. Totango can be much better if the cloud storage is working fine. My company is planning to discontinue due to this factor
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Return on Investment
Intercom
  • I like how easy it is to spot the user data needed to assist our members.
  • Love how easy it is to link articles on the chat that will help both us and the customers.
  • I like that the sales force or the tickets is already connected on the chat
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Totango
  • Since using Totango we have seen our engagement numbers go up as we are better able to identify the groups that are struggling.
  • We have also seen an increase in retention as we are more consistent in messaging and not missing any data.
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ScreenShots

Intercom Screenshots

Screenshot of AI Agent - The agent resolves 50% of support volume.Screenshot of AI Copilot - A personal AI assistant for every support agent.Screenshot of Omnichannel inbox - AI-enhanced to increase productivity.Screenshot of Tickets - Intercom tickets are designed for collaboration so complex issues are resolved faster.Screenshot of Help Center -  The help center powers AI and self-serve support.Screenshot of Workflows - Automations are built using the Intercom no code visual builder.

Totango Screenshots

Screenshot of Collaboration tools to manage a customer portfolioScreenshot of a 360° view of customer healthScreenshot of the dashboard to monitor customer metricsScreenshot of an engaging in-app experiences and email campaigns to improve customer retentionScreenshot of integrated data in the Customer Data Hub