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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    kvCORE

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AThe kvCORE platform is described by the vendor, Inside Real Estate in Draper, as a next-gen solution for modern brokerages and enterprises to run their entire business on one platform.N/A

    Swag Pro

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APrintfection is a swag management platform that aims to simplify the buying, managing, and distribution of swag and branded merchandise, from the company of the same name in Denver. They offer a suite of online swag management tools and APIs alongside custom printing, inventory management, and distribution. The vendor states their customers use the platform to drive more leads, reward customers, and engage employees.N/A
    Pricing
    kvCORESwag Pro
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    kvCORESwag Pro
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    kvCORESwag Pro
    Considered Both Products
    Inside Real Estate
    No answer on this topic
    Printfection
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    56%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    79 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    58%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    68 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    68%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    80 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    50%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    56 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    54%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    54 Answers
    User Ratings
    kvCORESwag Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.9
    (25 ratings)
    8.5
    (83 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    2.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.5
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.0
    (9 ratings)
    4.0
    (82 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    kvCORESwag Pro
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Inside Real Estate
    I think if you have a very large brokerage and can afford to pay for a fully customized set up then it may be worthwhile. I would make sure you have a dedicated support team, not an account manager. In my opinion, the account managers are worthless and will not respond most of the time. We are on our second account manager in 9 months of using the system and cannot get in touch with him. In my experience, the account managers have no knowledge of how the system works or how anyone in real estate would want it to work. Obviously, I can only say this for the two managers we have had so far. I would steer clear of this system unless you want to spend a few thousand a month for a system that, I feel, will impede your business rather than improve it.
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    Printfection
    B2B companies, SaaS companies, larger or important swag or customer gifting motions, ABM strategies, large customer thank you motions, certification programs where earners are thanked or rewarded, lean teams, ample budgets, field sales teams with agency of gifting and swag, marketing teams that don't have room or space for holding or managing inventory
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    Pros
    Inside Real Estate
    • Not one thing!
    • It sends unwanted canned responses to potential clients that you haven't approved. You must figure out how to use it to make them stop. This was day 1.
    • If you like to learn using many many different videos to learn a product, then this maybe for you.
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    Printfection
    • The swag catalogue has lots of items to choose from and they try to source anything else you need
    • Takes care of the logistical challenges of getting swag to offices, events and to customers
    • Their customer team are really hands on and helpful
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    Cons
    Inside Real Estate
    • Their support is good, but wait times can be long. They want you to use their chat, but then when you ask your question, it can be a several hour wait time between responses. The people are nice and resolve your issue. But I think chat is for quick back and forth communication, not something with a long delay. Also, you can only really do it effectively on your computer, not on your phone.
    • It's proving very tough to track leads from campaigns we are running ourselves. If your website converts a lead, it really just gives you the website source, and even that only some of the time. It would be great to create custom sources and have kvCORE track that traffic and lead via some sort of UTM tag or URL parameter.
    • Some of the load times aren't great. When I load up my database, it takes a while to actually display. Also, when a lead is claimed in a pond, you have to refresh to be able to contact them. Then once you add a campaign, you have to refresh again to see the tasks that fire. This is a bit clunky.
    • The app is great, but there is still some limited functionality. It would be great to access and claim leads from a pond on the mobile app. Also if you could get push notifications when new leads are added. Our time to lead sucks, and that's because kvCORE doesn't alert you super quickly.
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    Printfection
    • Their Giveaway feature was made some improvements but I would like to see it be more flexible
    • Being able to get more samples of products and printing prior to ordering
    • Swag photography/ items in stock in our closet- we had to provide photos of these items
    • Better updates on swag items that are low in stock
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Inside Real Estate
    No answers on this topic
    Printfection
    We are currently extremely satisfied with printfection. The quality of swag is very good, but the customer service ranks high above any other swag company. I have been working closely with my Printfection manager (Tyler Rowland) and he has been more than helpful from the start.
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    Usability
    Inside Real Estate
    It doesn't deserve a zero because you can access contacts and get reminders to contact them. In my experience, you can not use the system for proper communication with both prospects and their spouses.
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    Printfection
    I think they do their work well. It's just not amazing or a company I feel a necessity to keep. If someone had the same service with the same cost, I might suggest asking both about the level of customer service.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Inside Real Estate
    No answers on this topic
    Printfection
    Prinfection's availability has been great. There was one time when a product we needed wasn't available, but our Printfection rep made sure to get what we needed.
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    Performance
    Inside Real Estate
    No answers on this topic
    Printfection
    Printfection's performance has been top-notch. We have been using Printfection for only about 8 months, and have not had any issues with performance.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Inside Real Estate
    I love kvCORE's support. Having the little chat feature in the bottom right of my screen the whole time I'm working takes away any stress or worry about using it. When I first started using it, I learned its features by clicking and trying things, and more than once I had to go into the chat support and ask how to undo or fix what I had done. I don't think I've ever waited more than 5 minutes to get a reply back and it being almost instant and right there on my screen allowed me to continue working and know immediately when my question had been answered.
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    Printfection
    They're willing to help and do what is necessary, even when unnecessary. This is the case when I don't need service at that level, but I'd rather have excellent service always than wonder if it will be there when I need it. Overall, they are perfect, and they have good intentions.
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    In-Person Training
    Inside Real Estate
    No answers on this topic
    Printfection
    Tyler led some of our staff through training and was very helpful. Tyler was also always available for any questions after training was complete.
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    Online Training
    Inside Real Estate
    No answers on this topic
    Printfection
    We completed online training with a Printfection rep leading us through the process. This made the whole experience easy and helpful.
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    Implementation Rating
    Inside Real Estate
    No answers on this topic
    Printfection
    Their team is very helpful in getting set up and we felt like they worked with us on price and also getting our previous inventory we had at our offices set up in Printfection. The only down side of shipping in your items to Printfection is the photography of the items (which clients can see) is pretty terrible if you don't have clear product photos prior to sending the items to Printfection warehouse.
    **All items purchased through Printfection the product photos look better (so this issue won't be the case with those who aren't shipping existing swag to their warehouse)
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    Alternatives Considered
    Inside Real Estate
    Konversion and BoomTown are the only two I have used. Both have their things to recommend. Since I used Konversion, using kvCORE was simpler and I was able to upload my contacts seamlessly. This made adopting a new system easier and less likely to have a gap in contacting customers.
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    Printfection
    I reserached swag platforms and narrowed it down to 3 that I wanted to learn more about. I based my choices on response time to demo requests, customer service, items, ability to meet the needs of my supervisor, etc. I learned that 2 out of the 3 platforms I found were both under Custom Ink which I have used in the past. So I know the items are of good quality. The main deciding factor was the staff. Both companies had nice staff. But Printfection did a superb job of not making me feel like a cutomer but a friend. I didn't fee like I was a sale but a partner.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Inside Real Estate
    No answers on this topic
    Printfection
    Simple pricing and easy to pitch to stakeholders
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    Scalability
    Inside Real Estate
    No answers on this topic
    Printfection
    Only two departments use this product effectively. Ideally we have two other departments would use it, but they kept getting confused on how to navigate through it.
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    Professional Services
    Inside Real Estate
    No answers on this topic
    Printfection
    There aren't many professional services besides what is related to their product. What would have been great was to get design services included in our membership since we dont have one in house
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    Return on Investment
    Inside Real Estate
    • Because I am an EXP agent, I receive kvCore for $50/month so I have a $1550/month positive over any non-EXP agent.
    • Great new lead follow up with automatic and realistic contact for a higher conversion rate that I couldn't do by myself.
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    Printfection
    • Printfection is far more expensive than what we were previously using and we haven't seen a huge ROI yet in terms of influence on pipeline.
    • Our employees are more engaged using Printfection than they were with our previous tool.
    • Printfection helps with product design and research which saves me a ton of time when selecting new items.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    kvCORE Screenshots

    Screenshot of IDX websites for all agents - with behavioral intelligence & chat.Screenshot of Smart CRM bubbles up top priorities each day in 1 dashboard.Screenshot of Agents wake up to warm leads right on their phone.Screenshot of Mass Email + Text, Video Messaging, Power Dialer, Pond Accounts + MoreScreenshot of Drive listing exposure with seamless social media sharing.Screenshot of Tight transaction and business analytics integration.