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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Narvar

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ANarvar, headquartered in San Francisco, offers their post-purchase oriented customer experience platform, providing shipment tracking, customer pick up options, notifications, and purchase return capabilities and features.N/A

    Pendula

    Score9 out of 10
    N/APendula drives the shift from broadcast to conversation by enabling two-way messaging and workflow at scale, allowing users to create, manage, and optimise digital customer experiences across every channel. With no coding knowledge required and built on Zuora & Salesforce, Pendula supports automated two-way communication across SMS, email, social messaging and fax. It also enables outbound posts. Customers can see and take action on messages, whenever and wherever they…N/A
    Pricing
    NarvarPendula
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    NarvarPendula
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Contact Pendula.com to discuss pricing
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    User Ratings
    NarvarPendula
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    NarvarPendula
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Narvar
    If you're not on a platform that has a branded post-purchase landing page or in-email estimated delivery date script, Narvar provides this experience. It's a nice-to-have for any brand that wants to provide a seamless, branded shopping experience for their customers. Narvar's grown rapidly and it seems they are increasing costs, which may be prohibitive and hard to justify for smaller companies.
    Incentivized
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    Pendula
    We used Pendula as part of our re-engagement program. This was valuable, as we were able to connect with 40,000 or more names. Knowing that either a significant telesales team effort--too expensive and not enough people--would be implausible. We designed an interactive SMS journey that allowed us to begin the process of taking the 40.000 and discovering those who were willing to shop with us again automatically. We also found that promotions and blasts worked really well, were very easy to set up and run, and then the automation on the back to create the Salesforce opportunity. We have also engaged with custom objects and were able to trigger events on internal activities and sales status, such as shipping notifications.
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    Pros
    Narvar
    • Narvar offered us a turn-key solution that we had up and running in less than a month.
    • Narvar offered several out of the box widgets (solutions) to help build/customize content (calendar view, milestone icons, SMS messaging and personalize content based on items purchased).
    • Narvar's solution is scalable/expandable to include returns (once we are ready).
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    Pendula
    • EOFY campaigns that drove limited time, limited release offers. We could segment our targets and engage those most likely to respond well.
    • Limited release wine offers, again targeting the right buyers, and then designing a series of interactions with them. This enabled sales reps to speak to those most warm.
    • Customer re-engagement. We have very many historical customers. We were able to reach 30,000 or so people and then lead them through several steps towards re-engagement.
    • Targeting smaller customer segments was made easy due to the deep integration with Salesforce. We could create campaigns to account owners of contacts that met criteria--which provided a deeply personal experience.
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    Cons
    Narvar
    • Pricing is much more expensive than competitors.
    • UI Design is often lacking.
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    Pendula
    • Navigating a variety of journeys can get tricky. They have been steadily improving the interface here.
    • Managing launch times and turning campaigns on and off can be cumbersome.
    • Naming, tagging, and cross-journey reporting would be great.
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    Support Rating
    Narvar
    Once it's set up, it doesn't require much support. We used to have quarterly or bi-annual touch bases with an account person to review our rating and customer usage but haven't heard from them in a while - either because we're too small or they got rid of this interaction. Can't say we miss it though because we can see our rating and feedback, and there is only so much you can do within the confines of the platform without adding on new functionality.
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    Pendula
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    Alternatives Considered
    Narvar
    At the time, Narvar had no other competitors to my knowledge. We looked at building this functionality in house which had a 3 month estimate. Everyone involved happily welcomed the tool.
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    Pendula
    We found the user interface, the customer service, and the feature sets worked very well for us. Pricing was also affordable.
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    Return on Investment
    Narvar
    • Not sure we could attribute ROI to this tool.
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    Pendula
    • We were able to activate a large number of old customers
    • We generated significant revenues and fast sales
    • We have been able to run multichannel campaigns to great effect
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    Screenshot of Trigger Actions in Zuora & Salesforce based on customer responseScreenshot of Create stronger experiences with customers through Subscriber Engagement