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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)

    SentiOne

    Score6.5 out of 10
    N/ASentiOne is an AI-powered customer service automation platform. It consists of three modules: Listen, React, and Automate. Listen is a comprehensive social listening solution which monitors the entire public internet (including social media), utilising proprietary algorithms to generate insights and detect sentiment behind posts. React is an all-in-one customer service management and automation platform, which allows teams to manage online conversations on dozens of channel from the same tool.…

    $299

    per account

    Pricing
    KustomerSentiOne
    Editions & Modules
    Enterprise
    $89
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Ultimate
    $139
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Team
    $299
    per account
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    per account
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KustomerSentiOne
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$299 per account
    Additional DetailsAll plans require an annual subscription and 8 users minimum.—
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    Community Pulse
    KustomerSentiOne
    Considered Both Products
    Kustomer, LLC
    No answer on this topic
    SentiOne
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
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    Implementation went as expected
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    KustomerSentiOne
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Kustomer and SentiOne
    Feature
    Kustomer
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    1% below category average
    SentiOne
    -
    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 SentiOne
    Feature
    Kustomer
    8.5
    13 Ratings
    6% above category average
    SentiOne
    -
    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 SentiOne
    Feature
    Kustomer
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    1% above category average
    SentiOne
    -
    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
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    KustomerSentiOne
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (36 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    KustomerSentiOne
    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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    SentiOne
    SentiOne is one of the best available platforms in the market dealing in customer automation on AI level to help businesses grow. We are very much impressed by their services, all in all as they are offering the best possible solutions to every problem which makes it more reliable and trusted in order to handle business.
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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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    SentiOne
    • The platform easily measures social media, blogs, posts worldwide using different algorithms, collects public mentions, and automatically analyzes the situation then provides a customizable solution that will have more chances to get accepted and will work fine.
    • It has the best features to be the best in terms of functionalities and features include in it.
    • Daily report feature is also very intuitive.
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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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    SentiOne
    • Customer support of SentiOne is not up to mark.
    • They need to be more accessible and responsive to our questions instead of making us hold for hours and do not provide any solution which is tiring and less professional.
    • Customer support needs a lot of attention and has more knowledge about the platform to be helpful.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Kustomer, LLC
    Because there's no other tool like Kustomer
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    SentiOne
    No answers on this topic
    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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    SentiOne
    I just love to use this amazing software.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Kustomer, LLC
    Because Kustomer is available when you need it
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    SentiOne
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Kustomer, LLC
    Because ages load quickly, reports complete in a reasonable time frame, given their complexity
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    SentiOne
    No answers on this topic
    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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    SentiOne
    It is very supportive. I am a very contented user.
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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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    SentiOne
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Kustomer, LLC
    It was very easy to understand.
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    SentiOne
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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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    SentiOne
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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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    SentiOne
    SentiOne is a major part of our organization. We are solving a lot of problems in the organization by using SentiOne. It has been operational in our organization for a long time and has a great find for us all in all. I like that feature that it gives me all information about new mentions to my inbox every day and informs me about it which gives day-to-day insights, change or update strategies.
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    Scalability
    Kustomer, LLC
    Because customer is flexible and scalable
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    SentiOne
    No answers on this topic
    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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    SentiOne
    • The best feature that I like the most and have been using for a long time that its analytical section is up to mark.
    • When I open the analytical section it gives me the all insights of my audience including their gender, location, days when most of the mentions are published which is great to have. It is best to have more marketing wins as it does not limit the searches of keywords.
    • This helps to search multiple phrases connected with a marketing strategy which is life and most recent in trends.
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    ScreenShots

    SentiOne Screenshots

    Screenshot of Sentiment analysis widgets tell how many of mentions had positive, negative or neutral meaning.Screenshot of Monitor all mentions of your brand and easily reply to comments, posts, and messages - directly from one tool.Screenshot of Manage every channel from one tool and assign incoming requests to various teams.Screenshot of Set up priorities and automatically assign customer requests from every channel – saving time and ensuring every message gets to where it needs to be.Screenshot of Measure the effectiveness of your customer service team, analyze KPIs and optimize your resources.Screenshot of SentiOne’s intuitive bot-building interface enables you to create multiple scenarios and automate your customer service on social media, email, and WhatsApp.