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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Kayako

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/AKayako 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

    Sendwithus

    Score8 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Sendwithus is a communications platform built around advanced email content management. The platform aims to simplify email creation with a robust API, an intuitive visual editor, and built-in device testing, allowing for collaborative email strategy and execution. The cloud-based product offers a centralized hub for email content creation, approval, and publishing. The goal is to empower marketers and product managers to efficiently create and test meaningful, dynamic communications…

    $0

    per month

    Pricing
    KayakoSendwithus
    Editions & Modules
    Kayako One
    $79
    per month
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Free Trial
    $0.00
    per month
    Lite
    $150.00
    per month
    Enterprise
    varies
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KayakoSendwithus
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Our GDPR-compliant Enterprise platform, Dyspatch, allows global organizations to centralize security, compliance, and reputation management while streamlining collaborative creation, revision, and approval workflows.
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    Features
    KayakoSendwithus
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Kayako and Sendwithus
    Feature
    Kayako
    2.0
    11 Ratings
    122% below category average
    Sendwithus
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets1.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory1.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications1.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation1.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission7.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response1.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Kayako and Sendwithus
    Feature
    Kayako
    1.0
    9 Ratings
    156% below category average
    Sendwithus
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base1.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base1.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Kayako and Sendwithus
    Feature
    Kayako
    1.0
    10 Ratings
    156% below category average
    Sendwithus
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal1.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration1.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support1.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration1.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    KayakoSendwithus
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Postmark
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Postmark
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    KayakoSendwithus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (22 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.8
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    KayakoSendwithus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kayako
    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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    Dyspatch
    It is very well suited for newsletters. With newsletters, I can easily and frequently share market news with my clients. It also gives good results in transactional emails. Its drip email feature makes it a result oriented tool because it sends e-mail as per the recipient's convenience.
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    Pros
    Kayako
    • 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.
    • Nice dashboard view.
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    Dyspatch
    • The dashboard is very comprehensive and easy to operate.
    • Email Editor has a variety of tools that helps me to create beautiful emails.
    • Data importing is very easy in this software.
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    Cons
    Kayako
    • 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.
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    Dyspatch
    • List Segmentation
    • More data analytics
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Kayako
    • 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
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    Dyspatch
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Kayako
    I did not come from an IT background and I picked this program up quickly
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    Dyspatch
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Kayako
    They are really good, but it takes a while to get back, because of the large time difference to the Eastern US. However, they are very helpful.
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    Dyspatch
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Kayako
    • We didn't have to use support too much, but when we did, they were able to assist us and help us make everything work.
    • Mostly we used their Online KB and step by step instructions to get all of our issues resolved.
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    Dyspatch
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Kayako
    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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    Dyspatch
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Kayako
    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.
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    Dyspatch
    Its user interface is quite impressive. And its drip email feature gives us the maximum outcome on our promotional campaigns. It also helps us to reduce unsubscribe rate on our email campaigns. I also find some templates on this tool very much relatable to the kind of information I share with my clients so I don't need to alter those templates much.
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    Return on Investment
    Kayako
    • 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.
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    Dyspatch
    • By using this software we send digital newsletters instead of Paper newsletters. So we save our costs substantially.
    • I send newsletters to all my contacts in one click only. Whereas earlier we used to send paper newsletters to all my contacts and that incurred transportation cost.
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    ScreenShots

    Sendwithus Screenshots

    Screenshot of Set up and track results for A/B and multivariate tests.Screenshot of Track key analytics directly within the Sendwithus application, while deploying with your existing ESP.Screenshot of Dive deeper into specific metrics for a predefined or custom time-frame.Screenshot of Easily create, edit, and schedule campaigns directly within the app.Screenshot of Easily access and organize your templates all in one place.Screenshot of Intuitive, visual editor with built-in device testing and reusable code-snippets for common elements like headers, footers, and CTAs.