Salesken vs. Scratchpad

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Salesken
Score 5.8 out of 10
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Salesken.ai is a conversational intelligence platform that helps sales teams, improve performance, and reduce acquisition costs. The platform gives managers and sales reps visibility into every call, via detailed Call Analytics including emotions, objections, intent etc. The tool also gives sales reps real-time cues during their conversation to help them engage their customers better.N/A
Scratchpad
Score 9.7 out of 10
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Scratchpad is a productivity tool for account executives, built for sales to update Salesforce, take sales notes, and daily todos. The software can be installed as a Google Chrome plugin or as a web application. It connects to Salesforce and provides an interface where sales professionals can keep all their notes, process workflows, spreadsheets, and tasks. Co-founders Pouyan Salehi and Cyrus Karbassiyoon started the company in San Francisco, California in 2019.
$0
user / month *up to five users per company
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Free
$0
user / month *up to five users per company
Premium
$19
per user / month (billed annually)
Team
$39
user / month (billed annually)
Business
Custom pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Salesken
Chose Salesken
Of all the tools we explored such as Salesken, Slintel, Call hippo, we have finalized on slintel for the simple reason that its user interface is one of the best and the overall features provided by Salesken is also something that solves our day to day needs perfectly. The …
Scratchpad
Chose Scratchpad
Gong is terrible compared to Scratchpad. I wish that Gong would buy Scratchpad so that everything would be in one place, but Gong's equivalent tool is as far away from easy and intuitive as possible. It's clunky, and I hate going in there and clicking around.
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Only compared to Salesforce functionality
Chose Scratchpad
Scratchpad's pipeline views allow for better forecasting. This saves me time using multiple tools and views to get a better pulse of where I am at and where I need to be. I selected Scratchpad as it was recommended to me by a colleague, and once he showed me how he was using …
Chose Scratchpad
It doesn't. Scratchpad is more agile and much easier to use as a seller managing a large patch with lots of opportunities. SAP is robust but is far more complicated and involves a lot more inputs to get the same outputs that you can get with Scratchpad in half the time and …
Chose Scratchpad
I can't think of another tool similar to Scratchpad. The only other sales productivity tool that I've used in the past is Mixmax which is also an excellent tool. Mixmax has more features embedded in Gmail with the ability to view and edit Salesforce fields like Scratchpad, but …
Chose Scratchpad
Scratchpad is just a much more enjoyable way of interacting with Salesforce for the features it currently supports. It's not an alternative to Salesforce, it's an alternative UX for certain daily activities in SF, and it's great at that.
Chose Scratchpad
Before finding Scratchpad, logging account movements and mapping were done over OneNote (account management), Excel (pricing), and Word (call notes). Now I can get rid of the OneNote and Word aspects as they both sit on Scratchpad that links directly back to SF. This has helped …
Chose Scratchpad
I prefer the usage and benefit of Scratchpad over Coda, and easier & faster to use than Salesforce. I feel Coda has very little benefit (basically google page), but Scratchpad helps me stay organized for opportunities & discovery notes which is crucial. I highly suggest …
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Scratchpad is far better and has way more ability to make changes than IQ does.
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Scratchpad has more out-of-the-box features like centralized note-taking and the ability to pull in reports.
Chose Scratchpad
Scratchpad customizations stay within the margins of rules set by our organization. We didn't do a deep dive of Dooly and can mainly speak to the quality and effectiveness within Scratchpad. Currently, my entire team of 10 reps is using it, and we all have found usefulness. …
Chose Scratchpad
Before Scratchpad, I made all updates through Salesforce. Reports don't load super quickly and can be tough to change. Scratchpad makes this much easier.
Chose Scratchpad
I haven't ever used anything else other than your typical pen and paper or notes section on my Mac. I wouldn't have any info on how they stack up compared to the competition. I would venture to say they are the only ones trying to change sales reps' lives. It's just what they …
Chose Scratchpad
I selected Scratchpad because the depth of integration within Salesforce is very useful; I don't have to use a separate application than what I'm already using, Scratchpad is imbued within my Chrome and SFDC instances. Their free capabilities don't block you from viewing notes …
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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
. CRM integration will be only done post-implementation and the telephony tool which has only 1 feature of dialing calls manually and getting them logged.2. The caller ID (user-dedicated contact no.) will not support text msg and WhatsApp integration. In case you wanted to connect with a prospect on Whatsapp, you have to do it on your own but there are some complexities involved and not very feasible. With very limited permissions access of the telephony tool, I found the user interface very simple and easy to use wrt to the other tools we evaluated previously.2. Also, after the discussion, I found that call disposition is easier in desktop wrt mobile applications- connected calls will be recorded and logged automatically -for other outcomes you have to log manually (need to confirm this)3. In terms of call drop rates, even with a limited sample size, I can say that it's fairly similar to the drop rates of personal no.. Will give updates on this again after making a few more calls
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I have over 250 accounts in my name, and it can be difficult to prioritize and find notes on past conversations my colleagues may have had. Scratchpad makes it super easy to reference past notes and add new ones to organize my book of business and make the best use of my time.
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Pros
  • Calling features
  • Conversation intelligence
  • CRM integration
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  • Scratchpad notes are super easy to use and link to Salesforce Opportunities.
  • Allows you to update all the necessary Salesforce opportunity fields without going into Salesforce.
  • Easy to use Task manager that helps you stay on track through the day.
  • Extremely easy to use and their CS team is always willing to provide training and help.
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Cons
  • Direct calling
  • Localized numbers for some geographies
  • Pricing structure
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  • When pulling in Salesforce reports, it doesn't have full ability to do grouping/sorting.
  • When looking at pipeline view there's not an ability to expand the default view to see more than 5 people per group.
  • It'd be nice if comments would go as a task rather than a buzz.
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Usability
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Great functionality and a great intuitive tool
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Alternatives Considered
Of all the tools we explored such as Salesken, Slintel, Call hippo, we have finalized on Slintel for the simple reason that its user interface is one of the best and the overall features provided by Salesken is also something that solves our day to day needs perfectly. The pricing structure also played a key to some part. The call metrics dahsboard also made an impact when we were about to finalize our decision.
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Scratchpad is just a much more enjoyable way of interacting with Salesforce for the features it currently supports. It's not an alternative to Salesforce, it's an alternative UX for certain daily activities in SF, and it's great at that.
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Return on Investment
  • Higher call rates
  • Higher connect rates
  • Conversation improvement
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  • I'm using the free version and unfortunately our organization as a whole doesn't use it because we now use Gong. My manager has complimented me many times as always having an updated pipe compared to my other team members. It helps me be on top of it.
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ScreenShots

Salesken Screenshots

Screenshot of Users can analyze the entire call to understand which signals were spoken during a particular call, their frequency, and duration. They are further benchmarked against successful calls which will help them identify their areas of improvement.Screenshot of Our dashboard provides an in-depth diagnosis of all calls at a team level for a Manager's perusal and also at an individual level for SDRs' perusal. Apart from different activity numbers, we also provide information on areas of strength and improvement which would help in the improvement of individual and team performance.Screenshot of A bird's eye view of the dashboard helps managers to quickly understand an SDR/agent's performance metrics. This would also help managers to understand how closely is a call aligned with their Sales Playbook. An exhaustive list of signals detected over the call (both semantic and emotional) are captured here.Screenshot of User can configure the sales process that they follow at their organization and replicate the same as a pipeline flow to get a detailed insight into the buyer's journey from being a prospect to customer.