Kayako is a help desk and customer support platform that helps businesses automate workflows, improve agent productivity, and deliver personalized customer experiences across email, chat, and social media.
$79
per month
PLANOLY
Score7.5 out of 10
N/A
PLANOLY is a social marketing platform boasting over 5 million users to visually plan, schedule, and measure performance across Instagram and Pinterest.
$16
per month
Pricing
Kayako
PLANOLY
Editions & Modules
Kayako One
$79
per month
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Social Planner Starter
$16
per month up to 1 user
Creator Pro
$20
per month
Social Planner Growth
$28
per month up to 3 users
Social Planner Pro
$43
per month up to 6 users
Creator Pro Plus
$54
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Kayako
PLANOLY
Free Trial
Yes
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
—
Discount offered for annual billing.
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Features
Kayako
PLANOLY
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Kayako and PLANOLY
Feature
Kayako
2.0
11 Ratings
122% below category average
PLANOLY
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets
1.011 Ratings
00 Ratings
Expert directory
1.05 Ratings
00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications
1.08 Ratings
00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation
1.07 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission
7.011 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ticket response
1.011 Ratings
00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Kayako and PLANOLY
Feature
Kayako
1.0
9 Ratings
156% below category average
PLANOLY
-
Ratings
External knowledge base
1.09 Ratings
00 Ratings
Internal knowledge base
1.08 Ratings
00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Kayako and PLANOLY
Feature
Kayako
1.0
10 Ratings
156% below category average
PLANOLY
-
Ratings
Customer portal
1.07 Ratings
00 Ratings
IVR
1.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Social integration
1.04 Ratings
00 Ratings
Email support
1.010 Ratings
00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration
1.06 Ratings
00 Ratings
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Kayako and PLANOLY
Feature
Kayako
-
Ratings
PLANOLY
10.0
1 Ratings
27% above category average
Boolean keyword searches
00 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Sentiment analysis
00 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Broad channel coverage
00 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Kayako and PLANOLY
Feature
Kayako
-
Ratings
PLANOLY
10.0
2 Ratings
20% above category average
Content planning and scheduling
00 Ratings
10.02 Ratings
Audience targeting
00 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Content optimization
00 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Workflow management
00 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Kayako and PLANOLY
Feature
Kayako
-
Ratings
PLANOLY
8.0
2 Ratings
2% below category average
Automated routing and prioritization
00 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Customer interaction histories
00 Ratings
7.12 Ratings
Bulk actions
00 Ratings
7.12 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Kayako and PLANOLY
Feature
Kayako
-
Ratings
PLANOLY
8.0
2 Ratings
3% above category average
Lead generation
00 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Content marketing
00 Ratings
7.12 Ratings
Paid media management
00 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions
00 Ratings
8.02 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Kayako and PLANOLY
Feature
Kayako
-
Ratings
PLANOLY
10.0
2 Ratings
18% above category average
Twitter
00 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Facebook
00 Ratings
10.02 Ratings
LinkedIn
00 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Instagram
00 Ratings
10.02 Ratings
Pinterest
00 Ratings
10.02 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Kayako and PLANOLY
Feature
Kayako
-
Ratings
PLANOLY
8.0
2 Ratings
3% above category average
Campaign success analytics
00 Ratings
8.02 Ratings
Real-time tracking
00 Ratings
8.02 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Kayako and PLANOLY
Feature
Kayako
-
Ratings
PLANOLY
9.0
2 Ratings
13% above category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges
00 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Mobile access
00 Ratings
8.02 Ratings
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Score9.3 out of 10
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Score7.2 out of 10
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Score8.8 out of 10
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Score8.9 out of 10
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Score9.2 out of 10
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
When it works, It's without a doubt a great help desk solution. It is perfect for our usage, and have rolled it out company-wide. It's great if you have multiple departments. We have it set up so most items come through a single desk that then hands out tickets to their proper department. There may be cheaper options for smaller organizations but for one that is as service-driven as ours, we really think Kayako is a great fit.
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Planoly is perfect for managing social media accounts for business or public figures. It would work great for personal use as well but maybe wouldn't be as necessary. For business purposes, it changes the game! Having something that is easy to teach colleagues to use is one of the most important features I looked for when choosing a social media management platform
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Gives a very good report on an individual level of what is being done for a customer or corporate issue.
Easy to understand who has what, what the tickets are about, how long they have been opened and how many times the customer/employee have gone back and forth with each other.
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Departments need a bit of work. Even though you can have multiple departments, the only changes that can be made are globally. If you want independent queues within the departments, you have to do a lot of work that can be very confusing.
Survey system is not up to speed. Kayako really needs to add Net Promoter Score into their system. Also, if a staff user removes their name from an incident ticket, it removes them from the survey so you really can't even get a good estimate of how well your staff is in the eyes of the customer.
Very difficult to implement when you already have a customer base. Setting them up in organizations is difficult. Also, the sign-up for new customers is quirky. If you send an email to Kayako, it will say you are not an authorized user, however, it will store your email address. If you try to send an email a second time, it will go through. This is one of many reasons why we decided to move from Kayako to Oracle Service Cloud.
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
We are grandfathered in on their old Software-assurance pricing and our continued use costs us only a few hundred dollars a year (excluding hosting expenses)
Our team's processes are now heavily ingrained in the system
We have not been shown a more compelling option that is more cost-effective while still offering all the features we've come to expect
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
The support team was instantly responsive and were always happy to answer even the simplest software question. I knew that my clients would be in good hands should I not be available for any scheduling question through the support team. Everything was always impeccably handled in a timely manner! 100% satisfaction.
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Three years in we are about as happy with Kayako as we could be. We've had several employee's leave and on-boarding new hires was easier than it has ever been as things are uniform and consistent across the entire application.
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We were using Spiceworks for a few years before switching to Kayako but found that it wasn't as customizable or as user friendly for our customers. The SNMP scanning and inventory features with Spiceworks was nice but we needed more of a Help Desk that would allow us to scale our services to more companies.
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
I have tried an AI tool called Vocable and used Google Sheets to plan my content. PLANOLY is better because of the visual grid feature. However, vocable is better in terms of the variety of content. With Vocable, we can create text content for Instagram, YouTube, and Linkedin, Product pages, SEO meta titles, descriptions, email newsletters, Blog posts etc. However, PLANOLY is only limited to Instagram and Pinterest.
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Tickets were definitely responded to faster once we implemented the audible alarm that would go off when new tickets came into the queue. This was possible because of the API.
Since the system was email based we could set our monitoring software up to generate tickets automatically via email for customers when it found something out of the ordinary.
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info