InsideSales Playbooks vs. Reply

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
InsideSales Playbooks
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
InsideSales Playbooks (formerly XANT Playbooks) aims to help SDRs and AEs quickly build closeable pipeline, by helping salespeople get a hold of more of the right people. InsideSales.com uses their A.I.-platform called Neuralytics to target likely buyers combined with their cadence engine to help sales reps consistently engage all of their prospects in a personalized way. Just like Waze from Google helps drivers get to their destination quickly based on the data from other drivers,…N/A
Reply
Score 8.8 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Reply is a sales engagement platform that helps to create new opportunities at scale while keeping every touchpoint personal. From finding emails on LinkedIn to booking calls right through the platform – Reply allows users to automate the process and save the SDR team’s time. Reply helps users to meet sales quota and book more meetings: 1. Email Finder to find valid email addresses in bulk on LinkedIn and Sales Navigator. 2. Multichannel…
$49
per month per user
Pricing
InsideSales PlaybooksReply
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Free
$0
200 monthly data search credits
Business Starter
$49
per month per user
Business Professional
$89
per month per user
Business Ultimate
$139
per month per user
Custom Agency Plan
$166 (starts at)
per month per account
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
InsideSales PlaybooksReply
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
Additional Details
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Best Alternatives
InsideSales PlaybooksReply
Small Businesses
Salesmate
Salesmate
Score 9.8 out of 10
Salesmate
Salesmate
Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Mixmax
Mixmax
Score 8.8 out of 10
Mixmax
Mixmax
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
Groove, a Clari company
Groove, a Clari company
Score 8.7 out of 10
Groove, a Clari company
Groove, a Clari company
Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
InsideSales PlaybooksReply
Likelihood to Recommend
1.3
(127 ratings)
9.1
(10 ratings)
Usability
3.3
(101 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
InsideSales PlaybooksReply
Likelihood to Recommend
Aurea
It is well suited for any sales department, to try to get ahold of the person you are trying to get ahold of. Playbooks has increased the number of decision makers that I can get ahold of on a day to day basis. This tool would probably be less suited for people that do not have calls to make outside of the company.
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Reply
The
reply is an excellent sales management solution. If any company wants
to save time and keep their sales team flexible, they should try it first. It
is a fantastic tool for delivering multiple emails to any target audience. This
is also the best deal for firms who looking for an all-in-one solution, as it
provides virtually unlimited email addresses along with CRM and outreach
automation.
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Pros
Aurea
  • Playbooks does a great job of letting reps know when phone numbers are not a working number.
  • Playbooks does a great job being able to be tailored to your specific organization or business.
  • Playbooks does a great job of having a very friendly user experience.
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  • This product gives me the liberty to very easily and freely navigate all things on my own, which does not require many skills to start working.
  • This product gives us the leverage of creating our own tailored and personalized templates for our teams in just a matter of minutes.
  • This program is so automated that it performs everything on its own from LinkedIn to email search, to even booking meetings.
  • I found the onboarding process pretty great and efficient. I am really happy with the overall customer support. They are some of the nicest people I have met who are there to willingly help me at any time of need and problem.
  • Their usability is also hands down very good. However, I find their user interface to be slightly less user-friendly, so there is some degree of scope in the improvement of their user intuitiveness and user-friendliness.
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Cons
Aurea
  • The ability to filter specific plays or pieces of information so that it's more user-friendly for the overall organization. Essentially, more room to customize the organization of accounts and how you're working them.
  • The initial onboarding process of accounts results in high levels of tasks - the ability to break these down in an easier way to help with time management would be helpful.
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  • Syncing to other programs. You cannot interrelate Reply with other software in a simple way. Zapier is required and even then it’s not perfect.
  • Similar to syncing, there’s no way to export results of particular campaigns. This is awful. If I send out a campaign to a group, I’d like to export the results to enter into a CRM since I can’t sync the contacts. One of these features must be added ASAP.
  • Organization. While Reply itself is user-friendly, keeping campaigns and contacts and results organized is not. You cannot organize campaigns or file them away when they are done. Therefore you have to delete campaigns to stay organized and lose results, which you cannot even export.
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Usability
Aurea
It only took a day to get comfortable with Playbooks. The ease of use and overall usability is fantastic in the sense that it's pretty straightforward once you get enough repetitions in the tool. I also like all of the videos and resources available if support is needed
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Reply
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Support Rating
Aurea
No answers on this topic
Reply
I generally receive a reply in no time at all and found not only the support org. but the sales team to be extremely helpful. Additionally I found a great onboarding process with plenty of resources to consume.
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Alternatives Considered
Aurea
The Insidesales Playbooks is by far more intuitive and organized than other programs I have used in the past. Unfortunately I have not had experience with other products that are available out there. I would hope we will see more improvements from the ISDC tool as we all use it more and provide feedback
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Reply
These tools are great, but they aren't built for what we use Reply for. Reply is perfect for doing these outbound campaigns at scale, whereas with ActiveCampaign and Vitally we were trying to turn the tools into something they are not.
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Return on Investment
Aurea
  • 100's of hours back in our week due to Salesforce Integration!
  • We have more clients answering the phone due to creative caller ID solutions.
  • We can standardize our messaging by partnering with Marketing to help build plays and auto-enroll certain contacts based on messaging.
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Reply
  • They lacked proper security certifications.
  • Saved time and effort on mass email campaigns.
  • Helped gain insights on our outbound business efforts.
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ScreenShots

InsideSales Playbooks Screenshots

Screenshot of Playbooks DashboardScreenshot of Editing a RecordScreenshot of Creating an EmailScreenshot of Adding NotesScreenshot of Scheduling a CallScreenshot of Viewing Task List

Reply Screenshots

Screenshot of Screenshot of Multichannel sequencesScreenshot of Reply Chrome extensionScreenshot of Cloud callsScreenshot of Reposts and statsScreenshot of Tasks dashboard