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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)

    SysAid

    Score8.9 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    SysAid is an ITSM platform that enhances service delivery with AI Agents, chatbots, workflow automation, and asset management. AI Copilot categorizes tickets, provides case summaries, and offers sentiment analysis. The AI chatbot, available via chat, email, and Teams, speeds support.

    $89

    per month Per Admin

    Pricing
    KustomerSysAid
    Editions & Modules
    Enterprise
    $89
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Ultimate
    $139
    per month (billed annually) per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KustomerSysAid
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
    Additional DetailsAll plans require an annual subscription and 8 users minimum.SysAid Copilot is available as an add-on for any plan. It bakes generative AI into every aspect of service management.
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    Community Pulse
    KustomerSysAid
    Considered Both Products
    Kustomer, LLC
    No answer on this topic
    SysAid Technologies
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    94%
    Would buy again
    177 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    169 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    176 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    133 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    144 Answers
    Features
    KustomerSysAid
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Kustomer and SysAid
    Feature
    Kustomer
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    1% below category average
    SysAid
    8.7
    198 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.014 Ratings9.6198 Ratings
    Expert directory8.212 Ratings7.9164 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.611 Ratings9.3146 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.011 Ratings9.0165 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service restoration00 Ratings8.5145 Ratings
    Self-service tools00 Ratings7.7191 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards00 Ratings8.7174 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Kustomer and SysAid
    Feature
    Kustomer
    8.5
    13 Ratings
    6% above category average
    SysAid
    -
    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 SysAid
    Feature
    Kustomer
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    1% above category average
    SysAid
    -
    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
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Kustomer and SysAid
    Feature
    Kustomer
    -
    Ratings
    SysAid
    8.3
    172 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Configuration mangement00 Ratings9.0163 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard00 Ratings8.9170 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement00 Ratings6.9121 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of Kustomer and SysAid
    Feature
    Kustomer
    -
    Ratings
    SysAid
    8.6
    162 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Change requests repository00 Ratings9.0149 Ratings
    Change calendar00 Ratings7.8128 Ratings
    Service-level management00 Ratings9.0155 Ratings
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    KustomerSysAid
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (36 ratings)
    9.0
    (201 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.9
    (48 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (7 ratings)
    8.4
    (59 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.5
    (13 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (15 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.1
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (10 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    KustomerSysAid
    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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    SysAid Technologies
    The system is really good at helping manage first-line requests and incidents. There are workflows that can be set up on templates to give direction to the team and help ensure that all the correct procedures are followed. There are some limitations with the system when it comes to Problem and Change management, as it is very ingrained with the normal ticket system. This can lead to a "clunky" change management process.
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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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    SysAid Technologies
    • Help Desk Ticketing works well and integrates easily with e-mail. IT staff is immediately notified when a new ticket is created.
    • Device management and inventory is easily tracked within SysAid. A full report is easily generated for a device detailing hardware and software specifics.
    • SysAid Copilot AI is phenomenal. It has been designed with the end user in mind. The user can speak to the prompt in natural language and expect a custom response according to their incident or service needs.
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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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    SysAid Technologies
    • The Help tool could use some refining. Particularly indicating the order in which steps must be done. A clear example is the creation of customized fields or lists.
    • Formatting of the ticket. There is no possibility to create dynamic tables, use more than one column. I would want to have more flexibility without having to pay for Professional Services
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Kustomer, LLC
    Because there's no other tool like Kustomer
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    SysAid Technologies
    Here’s your text in natural, professional English:Currently, we are continuously improving our internal AI chatbot within SysAid by feeding our datapool on a daily basis. This is making a real impact on our IT team, as the knowledge base keeps growing and allows us to resolve common incidents and service requests much faster.In addition to that, SysAid helps us manage software licenses and gives us clear visibility of our actual annual costs, which is very useful for tracking upcoming renewals.On the other hand, we would like to see improvements in the reporting area. The interface there feels more basic compared to the rest of the platform and doesn’t offer the same level of depth as other sections.That said, we are really looking forward to seeing how the new Connect module evolves.
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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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    SysAid Technologies
    Whilst it delivers on most of the features it comes with, I feel Change Management needs a complete re-do as it is really complicated, and think it should be made to be straightforward. For the free services of their Market Place, they should develop a platform where one can just browse for the script (downloaded) and apply the patch, without having to go into various places in code to activate the service. or at least, build the integrations into the system and have [a] section under settings, or even straight from the Market Place, where one can just enable the service, and if required, be prompted to input additional information, including credentials.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Kustomer, LLC
    Because Kustomer is available when you need it
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    SysAid Technologies
    Another of the benefits of sysaid is that it is highly available when working in on-premise environments.The only times the system is down is when a restart of the services is required to add a new feature. Apart from that, we have not had any problems.In the case of the cloud, the only condition I have seen where sysaid is not available is because the internet link is down or damaged.
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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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    SysAid Technologies
    In the case of system performance, I have seen that no matter the number of assets and users, Sysaid responds in the same way and at the same speed. The reports that are scheduled do not have any details because they arrive directly to your email. In the same way, when it is integrated with other systems, for example through the API or by email, we have not seen any failure due to the integration. It works very well with or without integrations.
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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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    SysAid Technologies
    SysAid support is fast and effective. They support their own product, so they know it well. I can expect a response to my request in less than 24 hours and often in less than an hour. Their sales, customer support, and technical support staff are experts in the area of the support request ticket, so we seldom are transferred to another support agent. Their system is well designed and one of the best of all the applications we use.
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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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    SysAid Technologies
    My team was greatly assisted and trained well. Despite the time zone difference the trainer made every effort to be available during times that were suitable for us and the assistance and help offered was extremely appreciated by my team. A wonderful experience by the team.
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    Online Training
    Kustomer, LLC
    It was very easy to understand.
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    SysAid Technologies
    The training I received was very good, they gave me tasks to carry out and then they checked what I had done.It was gratifying that the instructor noticed that I had made very fast progress because I had done the implementation myself and it was very fast. At least I remember that after 5 days I had already finished almost 90% of all the implementation tasks.
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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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    SysAid Technologies
    It is recommended that it be synchronized with the active directory for a better experience, also using the network scanning tools are very useful both to maintain your hardware and software inventory. See all the documentation found on the portal where they suggest good practices for the use of SysAid and exploit it from the first time
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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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    SysAid Technologies
    SysAid is very cost-effective and flexible and integrates ITSM and asset management tools in one platform, reducing the need for separate tools. They have an intuitive interface that ensures a smooth user experience, reducing the learning curve for IT teams. SysAid offers easy-to-set-up integrations and automation to streamline workflows and reduce manual tasks.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Kustomer, LLC
    No answers on this topic
    SysAid Technologies
    When we purchase it, the plans were different and mainly we acquired lifetime licenses. in the past year, we migrated to the cloud version. In both cases, the pricing structure was accurate, although they could provide some extra flexibility to pay for exactly what we need in the business.
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    Scalability
    Kustomer, LLC
    Because customer is flexible and scalable
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    SysAid Technologies
    Le doy esta calificación porque los módulos que contiene se pueden usar para casi cualquier departamento, tanto gestión de tickets como inventarios de equipos, hemos utilizado una versión gratuita en Ingeniería para gestionar sus tiempos en las tareas asignadas, es lo único que utilizan pero podrían usar fácilmente el módulo de inventario para su herramienta y el módulo de proyectos también
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    Professional Services
    Kustomer, LLC
    No answers on this topic
    SysAid Technologies
    We have used SysAid since 2008. Through out these years, we find that SysAid support is very helpful and professional. The respond that we get is very fast and they will help us until we have solved our problem that we reported to them. So far, we are very happy with SysAid support.
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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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    SysAid Technologies
    • Our resolution time has increased a lot compared to not using a ticketing system.
    • We have reduced communication load significantly for our helpdesk admins.
    • The knowledgebase is rough, but still allows us to preserve and share our collective experience and expertise.
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    ScreenShots

    SysAid Screenshots

    Screenshot of a view of active service records, appearing in SysAid IT service management.Screenshot of Ticket Journey - Admins can deep dive into the history and context of a ticket, quickly, with ticket journey filters, while reviewing a chronological, consolidated view of everything to help reach a resolution, faster – including all actions takenScreenshot of a workflow to move service tickets from request to resolved with minimal human contact, so teams can focus on more important things than password resets.Screenshot of SysAid Advanced Discovery, powered by Lansweeper. It continuously scans an estate, on-network and cloud, and syncs every asset automatically, removing risk and blind spots.Screenshot of the software contracts and renewals dashboard, viewed to discover the applications an organization actually uses with usage insights to uncover shadow IT, reduce duplication, and cut unnecessary spend.