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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Kustomer

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AKustomer is a customer service CRM platform built for managing high support volume by optimizing experiences throughout the customer service journey. Kustomer was acquired by Facebook in late 2020, but spun out in 2023 and re-launched as an independent entity, Kustomer, LLC.

    $8,544

    per year for 8 users (minimum)

    NiCE CXone

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ANICE CXone is a cloud-based contact center platform that manages customer interactions across multiple communication channels. It includes features such as automatic call distribution (ACD), interactive voice response (IVR), omnichannel routing, workforce optimization, feedback management, and interaction analytics.

    $110

    per month per user

    Pricing
    KustomerNiCE CXone
    Editions & Modules
    Enterprise
    $89
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Ultimate
    $139
    per month (billed annually) per user
    CXone Omnichannel Agent
    $110
    per month per user
    CXone Essential Suite
    $135
    per month per user
    Cxone Core Suite
    $169
    per month per user
    CXone Complete Suite
    $209
    per month per user
    CXone Ultimate Suite
    $249
    per month per user
    CXone Mpower Ultimate Suite
    $249
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KustomerNiCE CXone
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAll plans require an annual subscription and 8 users minimum.—
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    Community Pulse
    KustomerNiCE CXone
    Considered Both Products
    Kustomer, LLC
    No answer on this topic
    NICE Systems
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    276 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    193 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    284 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    128 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    155 Answers
    Features
    KustomerNiCE CXone
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Kustomer and NiCE CXone
    Feature
    Kustomer
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    1% below category average
    NiCE CXone
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory8.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.611 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Kustomer and NiCE CXone
    Feature
    Kustomer
    8.5
    13 Ratings
    6% above category average
    NiCE CXone
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base8.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base9.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Kustomer and NiCE CXone
    Feature
    Kustomer
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    1% above category average
    NiCE CXone
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal8.710 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR8.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration7.313 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support10.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration6.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Kustomer and NiCE CXone
    Feature
    Kustomer
    -
    Ratings
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    581 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings9.2559 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings9.6471 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings9.5490 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings9.3443 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings9.2403 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings9.8531 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings9.6317 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings9.5376 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings9.3301 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings9.2322 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings9.5510 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings9.3364 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings9.0365 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Kustomer and NiCE CXone
    Feature
    Kustomer
    -
    Ratings
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    556 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.5511 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings9.1373 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings9.6495 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings9.1480 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings9.2486 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings9.4479 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings9.4465 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings9.5299 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings9.6319 Ratings
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    KustomerNiCE CXone
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    KustomerNiCE CXone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (36 ratings)
    9.7
    (613 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.3
    (587 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (7 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.5
    (11 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    KustomerNiCE CXone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kustomer, LLC
    I would say the greatest strength of Kustomer is its flexibility. In the hands of a skilled admin, it can be adapted to tons and tons of different use cases. I've been able to make custom displays for different groups of agents, produce complex cross sections of users, draw interesting data relationships combining marketing contacts and customer-initiated contacts. For example, there's really no other data source in our company which could tell you which users received a specific promo code and checked out with it, received their delivery within 14 days and then can related that to the number of times they contacted us about using our product. At the intersection of communication, marketing, data, and relationship-management, Kustomer shines at the center. I would say it falls short when you are trying to coordinate multiple "side conversations" with multiple sources to resolve an issue. This is a tough task for any type of platform, but if you're maintaining 3 different email chains with a 3PL partner, the customer, and a separate internal conversation, it would be confusing anyway!
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    NICE Systems
    NICE CXone Mpower offers a great suite of products and tools appropriate for contact centers. It is a one stop shop for all of the monitoring, scheduling, reporting, and quality tools a large or small contact center may need. It is very feature rich and has many components, some of which we haven't even grown to adopt yet but may in the near future.
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    Pros
    Kustomer, LLC
    • All customer data (past orders, communication with customer service, rewards account data) is in one place. This helps agents avoid confusion and reduces the number of tabs they need to open.
    • The Knowledge Base (or K Base) is very helpful. Any time we roll out a new policy or have a limited-time promotion, we can add all the relevant information and worksheets there for the convenience of the agents. That way they can stay in a chat while looking up the answer to a question.
    • We can seamlessly move from chat into email if the customer leaves or the queue times are too long. All the interactions will stay on the customer profile page, so they are kept up to date.
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    NICE Systems
    • Organizes everyone's interactions within the platform
    • Shows interactions real time with productivity stats
    • Makes Chat/Call quality a breeze with customizable quality forms
    • Easy to share an interaction within the company for others to review
    • Keeps everyone on track with scheduled lunches/breaks/meetings so you don't have to remember yourself and never miss another event again!
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    Cons
    Kustomer, LLC
    • For our team, the feature that defaults all notes to begin in "done" status is difficult. Throughout each day we need to have notes open and assigned back and forth to different teams, and we have to remember to manually "open" each note. There is too much room for human error with this setting, and it is easy for important notes to be missed if a user forgets to open the note.
    • Similarly, it can be hard to remember to assign emails/notes to a particular team in addition to a user. We almost exclusively work out of team inboxes, and if someone on Care writes an email to a customer, the email will automatically be "done" when it is created, and it will be assigned to the user who wrote it, but not also to the user's team. There are instances where an email needs to be snoozed for several days/hours with further action needed, and unless the user remembers to assign the email to their team it may "awake" from the snooze and not be visible to anyone except the user who created it. Similarly to my first comment, this leaves a lot of room for human error and is not very intuitive.
    • Personally, I do not love that all tickets/emails/notes are jumbled together in the same inbox. While this gives visibility to everything on the "to do" list at the same time, it can be visually overwhelming. We have created unique folders for certain types of projects or categories of work, but have experienced tech glitches or just the awkwardness of another step to manually read the note, determine what type of category it is, and then manually assign it to another folder. Would love to have things auto-sort and take out this manual lift.
    • I love the idea of the autopilot setting, but we have not been able to use this for our work because it sorts items based on time, and not based on priority. In our line of work, we may have an urgent situation arise that needs attention before an email that was sent in 60 minutes ago. The autopilot feature would push the email to my associates sooner than it would the urgent situation from 5 minutes ago. Due to this, we manually monitor inboxes and assign work to ourselves and others.
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    NICE Systems
    • There can be changes in interface of the app, however it's still very good
    • I would appreciete detailed web page with all necessary information, but when I need anything, the customer support is very quick and provide all the information
    • Hardly to find any other :)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Kustomer, LLC
    Because there's no other tool like Kustomer
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    NICE Systems
    Nice made it possible for employees to work from anywhere with access to the internet, it made it possible to extract data from contacts in a very thorough way. In addition, the meticaes can be fully customized and the day-to-day monitoring of the operation is more visible.With nice, contacts with clients abroad became easier.
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    Usability
    Kustomer, LLC
    There is a learning curve, but it is more than worth it, especially to have a dedicated resource pointed at Kustomer and any other software it interacts with. The basic implementation is useful, and powerful - certainly a MASSIVE upgrade over taking care of your customers in an email inbox or shuffling between multiple windows and applications! It is also set up really well to grow and reconfigure with your business. I'm a big fan.
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    NICE Systems
    The lack of written SOPs makes some features (WFM / Performance management) very difficult to use. The training provided by NICE is extensive, but it's hard to remember everything shared in the hour. We spend so much time on the platform just trying to figure out how to use the features; it would be much easier with written instructions and screenshots.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Kustomer, LLC
    Because Kustomer is available when you need it
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    NICE Systems
    NICE inContact CXone is available when you need it. I have been using it for about a year and I have never suffered any issues that caused my not to have access to the product. If there are updates, they must be downloaded and install in the background because I do not see them
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    Performance
    Kustomer, LLC
    Because ages load quickly, reports complete in a reasonable time frame, given their complexity
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    NICE Systems
    NICE inContact CXone performs very well even on old computers that are limited in resources. I use a older computer with limited memory and it seems to handle NICE inContact CXone very well in most cases. There will be times when it acts up for whatever reason bust over ninety percent of the time.
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    Support Rating
    Kustomer, LLC
    I did not reach out to Kustomer support when we had an issue. Still, whenever we provide feedback to our manager regarding what can improve based on our experience using Kustomer, our manager always comments that Kustomer support always replies with some positive feedback based on our suggestions.
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    NICE Systems
    inContact only allows specific users to contact them for support. Even though I use the product daily and it accounts for a large amount of my workload, I still have to contact an authorized user to create an incident. These users are managers and their schedules are very busy. This can result in delays in incidents being opened and resolved.
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    In-Person Training
    Kustomer, LLC
    Because they are very hands-on in training us and very approachable
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    NICE Systems
    The In-person training was fine for a general overview. I think it would have been really helpful to have a review of pre-built reports and how to use them as tools.
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    Online Training
    Kustomer, LLC
    It was very easy to understand.
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    NICE Systems
    I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.
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    Implementation Rating
    Kustomer, LLC
    Nothing really because it is easy to use. After an hour of using it, we're already getting the hang of it.
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    NICE Systems
    We love the use of our new tools. However, NICE staff turnover was frustrating. We lost ground each time a new team took over. Some people were good some were not as much. Some people did great training while others were not as helpful
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    Alternatives Considered
    Kustomer, LLC
    Apps like Intercom, Zendesk, and Gorgios all treat customer inquiries as tickets, just tracking that one issue or interaction with a customer. Kustomer treats each customer as an individual, which allows us to provide top-notch customer service. Customers love that we're able to be more conversational and informal, while still solving their issues quickly. It also helps us build relationships with customers and increases repeat orders.
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    NICE Systems
    When it comes to this specific situation (cell centers) NICE definitely has an ADP beat. The analytics, scheduling, and forecasts are extremely well-tailored for this situation. ADP has a more comprehensive solution in my opinion - I feel their UI and mobile app are also more user-friendly. But in terms of performance management functionality, NICE has a more robust system and is able to create additional metrics if we need them When I used ADP there were no custom options available.
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    Scalability
    Kustomer, LLC
    Because customer is flexible and scalable
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    NICE Systems
    I rated 10, because Nice CX one is very much functional. You can simply acess it by website Nice, in any navigator, desktop, notebook or mobile, so you can in a fast way run on every departament of the company.
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    Return on Investment
    Kustomer, LLC
    • We’re getting so much positive feedback — which is not something you traditionally associate with a customer care team — because we’re making it effortless for customers to deliver both positive and negative feedback, and we can now resolve the bad feedback really really quickly.
    • Primarily from our increased efficiency with Kustomer, we’ve seen a significant reduction of $3 to $4 for every cost per contact.
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    NICE Systems
    • NICE CXone has allowed us the ability to, on specific teams, not have to back fill positions due to attrition.
    • NICE CXone has provided us insight into data metrics that we did not have before.
    • NICE CXone provides us with visibility into the productivity of our offshore agents which we did NOT have prior to our partnership.
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    ScreenShots

    NiCE CXone Screenshots

    Screenshot of CXone Copilot is a partner for every conversation — bringing knowledge, next steps, and smart suggestions before agents even have to ask.Screenshot of CXone Orchestrator is a visual yet tool that does not require programming skills, but instead empowers everyone—from business user to routing flow programmer—to build and manage routing flows for all channels.Screenshot of CXone Interaction Analytics, used to get actionable insights from every voice, digital, and self-service customer interaction.Screenshot of CXone Performance Management aligns employee performance, contact center goals, and customer expectations with continuous improvement.