Salesforce Experience Cloud (formerly Salesforce Community Cloud) vs Twilio | TrustRadius

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Score 8.6 out of 10

Based on 257 reviews and ratings

Score 8.7 out of 10

Based on 120 reviews and ratings

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Pros

Complete integration with the Salesforce ecosystem. Data displayed in your Community portal reflects records from a Sales Cloud organization
Highly customizable. A Community Cloud portal can be totally customized both visually and with different funcionalities with little to no coding skills required

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Pedro Henrique de Almeida

Salesforce Developer Intern

JFOX IT PartnersInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Easy to see my team in one place, when they log in and out and what call status they are in.
Twilio is a simple, user friendly way to log in and out of work activities.
Excellent services and support.
The omnichannel feature which allows agents to get request from all channels.

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Contact Center Solutions Engineer

VesuvITas Contact Center Solutions GroupInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Cons

The documentation for implementing Experience Cloud can be a bit confusing as their rebranding hasn't made it's way into all articles, resulting in different terminology being used to refer to the same thing
Some things are not as intuitive regarding their customizability, so there's a bit of a learning curve (i.e. Lightning apps can't be used to customize layouts in Experience Cloud)

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Verified User

Manager in Other

Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees

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Authy does not support the "push button" multi-factor authentication from your application's native apps. This means if you want to use Authy, you still need to use TOTP based codes.
Not really a shortcoming of Authy, but it does nothing to help with multi-factor authentication using text messages - those are still sent to your platform's messaging app.
Authy doesn't always display how much time is left before your current token expires, making it difficult to know how much time you have left to enter the current code.

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Engineer in Research & Development

Pharmaceuticals Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Usability

Salesforce Experience Cloud (formerly Salesforce Community Cloud) 9.4

Based on 4 answers

Usability is pretty streamlined, especially if you're familiar with other Salesforce products, but even if not, take it from me, as I just entered the technological space about two years ago, that this product is pretty simple to learn. You don't have to jump in with your head underwater. Small wins and learnings along the way are what foster long-term understandings and enable your evolution alongside the product. I definitely recommend Salesforce Trailhead along with it

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Employee in Marketing

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Twilio 9.5

Based on 9 answers

Twilio has well documented APIs and examples. There are several tutorials, videos and Q&As regarding their services. So, usability is very good. I must say that advanced knowledge of telephony, API/Programming and error-handling is essential to make good use of Twilio. It's not just plug-and-play unless you are integrated with a system that has all of the programming built for it.

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CITO (Chief Information Technology Officer)

Risk Administration Services, Inc.Insurance, 51-200 employees

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Performance

Salesforce Experience Cloud (formerly Salesforce Community Cloud) 9.1

Based on 10 answers

It's delivered on our original requirements and we've found ways to grow its usage. We continue to build on our original success and we can report our data out to leadership to show a true return on investment which is great for growing support and expanding uses for the system.

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Verified User

Project Manager in Marketing

Automotive Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Support Rating

Salesforce Experience Cloud (formerly Salesforce Community Cloud) 7.5

Based on 33 answers

We have weekly calls with our Salesforce reps. They bring new ideas to the table and help with taxonomy builds. They have also answered many questions and connected us to the right people for us to grow our knowledge and utilization of the platform. They are a good partner overall in comparison.

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Joseph Alleruzzo

Associate Director, Client Leadership for Michelin

Havas Media GroupMarketing and Advertising, 5001-10,000 employees

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Twilio 8.6

Based on 22 answers

I have not had to communicate with Twilio support in the last 3 years but my past experience with them has been very positive. They replied to my previous requests promptly and kept me well informed to resolve my inquiries.With their documentation that's available, I hardly imagine why anyone would need to contact support since it's all there in a concise and easy to understand format. It would probably take you longer to type out a support ticket than to just open their doc websites.

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Verified User

Director in Marketing

Media Production Company, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I have used Datatel/Colleague/Recruiter before. There were issues because only one person at the institution was able to have the student's record open at a time. This was problematic when collaboration between departments was necessary especially in the case of admissions, financial aid, and registration. We also had to do our work and then log out before asking a questions of another department. Sometimes simultaneous use was necessary. However, this was years ago and they may have since updated the program.

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Verified User

Employee in Customer Service

Education Management Company, 501-1000 employees

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To be honest, I don't know of any Twilio SMS competitors that have the robust transactional SMS that Twilio SMS has. I know of a few marketing SMS platforms such as Textedly but that's more of an email blast (or SMS blast) to your list then something targeted based on user action inside our application that Twilio SMS can provide. On top of that, in Twilio SMS I can push them through my own segmentation and sequences programmatically to even make the marketing SMS's more targetted compared to some of the pure blast competitors.

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Chief Marketing Officer

DinelyInternet, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

Improved online admission application completion rates from mid-60%s to mid-80%s.
Positive user experience from start-to-finish to leverage one data system for all prospective student data
Fewer data integrations transforming and loading sensitive student data by leveraging Salesforce Community Cloud to access already existing data

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Director of Recruitment and Analytics

Taylor UniversityHigher Education, 201-500 employees

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Twilio WebRTC allowed us to move a bulk of our communication to the cloud, giving us a lot of visibility on how we were communicating with our customers.
It also gave us analytics on how much time users spent on communicating with each other over calls and helped us build features around it.
Twilio became the center of all communication on our platform. From chat messages to phone calls, it powered everything.

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Verified User

Program Manager in Product Management

Human Resources Company, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Salesforce Experience Cloud (formerly Salesforce Community Cloud) Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Twilio Editions & Modules

Edition

Programmable Messaging	$0.0075¹
Programmable Voice	$0.0085²
Twilio SendGrid Marketing Campaigns	$15³
Programmable Video	$0.0015⁴
Twilio SendGrid Email API	$14.95⁵
Twilio Flex (Contact Center)	$1⁶
Twilio Flex (Contact Center)	$150⁷
Programmable Voice	$0.013⁸
Twilio Conversations	$0.05⁹
Twilio Authy	$0.09¹⁰
Programmable Wireless	$2.00¹¹
Programmable Wireless	$0.1¹²
WhatsApp Business API	$0.0042¹³
WhatsApp Business API	$0.005¹⁴
Elastic SIP Trunking	$0.045¹⁵
Elastic SIP Trunking	$0.007¹⁶

per message sent or received
per minute to receive a call
per month for 5,000 contacts and 15,000 emails. Your first 2,000 contacts are free
per min per participant
per month up to 100k emails. (Up to 40k emails free for 30 days)
per active user hour (5000 hours free)
per named user per month (5000 hours free)
per min to make a call
per active user per month
per authentication
per SIM card
per MB
Per WhatsApp Template message sent
Per WhatsApp session message
Per min for origination
Per min for termination

Additional Pricing Details

1. Pay-as-you-go pricing: Simple usage-based pricing means you don’t get locked into big contracts. 2. Volume discounts: Discounts trigger as your usage grows, so you always get a fair price. 3. Start building today with free trial credit and full API access.

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