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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Salesloft

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ASalesloft’s Revenue Orchestration Platform uses AI to help market-facing teams prioritize and take action on what matters most, from first touch to upsell and renewal.N/A

    InsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/APredictive Pipeline kept track of every change in the sales pipeline and predicts quota attainment boasting 80% accuracy, with Neuralytics, the XANT predictive engine. The product was based on C9 Predictive Sales, owned and supported by XANT (formerly InsideSales.com) since May 2015, and no longer available for sale.N/A

    Yesware

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AYesware, from Vendasta since the October 2022 acquisition, is a service for salespeople that helps them close deals faster. An email service tracks email, templates responses and syncs to CRM.

    $19

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    Pricing
    SalesloftInsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)Yesware
    Editions & Modules
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    Pro
    $19
    per month
    Premium
    $45
    per month
    Enterprise
    $85
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SalesloftInsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)Yesware
    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional Details——Annual plans save up to 23%.
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    Community Pulse
    SalesloftInsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)Yesware
    Considered Multiple Products
    SalesLoft
    Chose Salesloft
    we used Yesware mainly to create template emails and to see the opening of our emails.
    SalesLoft is winning by far as the product is much more complete, allows more automation, calendar functionality and so on. Our company selected SalesLoft because it was recommended to us and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    We used to be a XANT/Yesware shop and were disappointed with the experience because multiple sets of fields were required for streamlined activity reporting and the babysitting needed for administration of 2 applications. We compared Outreach to SalesLoft when moving to Sales …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    I was not able to build a cadence in Yesware the way I was with SalesLoft
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    My organization selected SalesLoft. I used Outreach at a previous employer, and I found it very difficult to navigate. There were many automations to choose from and various call dispositions when using the built-in dialer, but it wasn't very user friendly. I was in charge of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    SalesLoft is a more reliable option than Yesware, but they're definitely in the same ballpark.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    SalesLoft is by far the best I have used. I've used Yesware before for email templates. I've also used Salesforce for CRM Management and very basic emailing (copy and paste). Yesware was good because it allowed us to store email templates, but the biggest negative was that we …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    We used Yesware prior to using SalesLoft and in comparison, I wouldn't go back to Yesware. SalesLoft is easier to use and gives us a lot more options. Though SalesLoft has issues with call quality at times, Yesware was much, much worse. We looked into quite a few sales …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    Yesware - The layout was touch to decipher, Many prospects complained that the mail doesn't get delivered quick and the spam rate was high.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    Salesforce is much more efficient when it comes to direct outreach and sending emails. The one component at Yesware that does out perform Salesloft is the tracking capabilities- Yesware was accurate and could track attachment and exactly what they were locking at and for how …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    We evaluated Outreach, ToutApp, PersistIQ, Yesware, insidesales.com and HubSpot. Salesloft and Outreach were by far the best tools offering all the features we needed as a sales development team. There was very little to differentiate between them, but Salesloft's simple …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    Pricing, Support, Flexibility, Responsiveness
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    I have not tried any but when making our buying decision we did review Xant, HighVelocity Sales, and a few others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    The business decided to move forward with SalesLoft over Outreach because the SalesLoft sales rep was far superior.
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    A couple reasons:
    1. Layout within SL was better than the competition, and seemed much more straightforward. From the demo on, ease of use seemed very clear and.
    2. The sales team was simply better. I felt like we'd have more support when working with them, and that our business would …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    SalesLoft continues to innovate their product unlike Insidesales.com
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    We did not evaluate any other solutions, however, there are tons of other sales engagement platforms like Outreach (very similar) or less advanced solutions that are more focused on early stage startups with lower sales stack budgets. We went with SalesLoft based on positive …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    They're similar enough products, but SalesLoft seemed a bit more fleshed out and robust. The support team for SalesLoft is also great and really responsive, something that went into our evaluation. Honestly, part of the reason was that they're a company based out of Atlanta …
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    Easier to make calls and local dial
    Incentivized
    Chose Salesloft
    Incentivized
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Vendasta
    Chose Yesware
    Our team evaluated Salesloft, Saleshandy, RightInbox, and Boomerang. We felt that the Yesware integration with GMail was simple and unobtrusive. While none of these tools integrate directly with our CRM, Yesware's ability to upload contacts via .csv files helped ease that pain …
    Incentivized
    Chose Yesware
    I evaluated both Yesware and SalesLoft. I found that SalesLoft offered a ton of additional features that weren't necessary for our needs and had a price point to reflect the additional functionality. Yesware fits our needs with its product offering and price.
    Incentivized
    Chose Yesware
    Yesware is much more efficient than its competitors and gives much more real-time results compared to SalesLoft for example that in my experience has lagged. Yesware is much more dynamically priced as well which makes it easy to fit any business's needs. We selected Yesware for …
    Incentivized
    Chose Yesware
    Yesware is extremely limited in functionality compared to something like SalesLoft, which is a much more comprehensive tool. We originally moved to Yesware from SalesForce Inbox and Engage as that did not offer the flexibility to deploy templates and was much more cumbersome …
    Incentivized
    Chose Yesware
    Yesware is much more reliable compared to others. The tracking feature is the most outstanding feature of this software which is not provided to the same extent by other software. Users can track each and every email, whether email has been opened or not, which device has been …
    Incentivized
    Chose Yesware
    I think Yesware uniqueness is about being easy to implement for solo users and small teams. You can get up to speed fast.
    Incentivized
    Chose Yesware
    Yesware's main benefit versus the 3 other apps that we use/have used are the ease of use and stability - it performs well while not overloading users with a ton of options.
    Incentivized
    Chose Yesware
    I prefered Yesware over ClearSlide. Much cleaner functionality, however yesware does not have the screensharing capabilities that ClearSlide has. I find that Outreach although it has glitches, is much cleaner when looking to track stats regarding drip campaigns.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
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    88%
    Would buy again
    22 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    74 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    95 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    73 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    65 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
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    User Ratings
    SalesloftInsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)Yesware
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (325 ratings)
    10.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (63 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    7.4
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    6.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    5.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.2
    (12 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.7
    (143 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    User Testimonials
    SalesloftInsideSales.com / XANT Predictive Pipeline (discontinued)Yesware
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SalesLoft
    I find it to be the best resource for scheduling calls with clients. Specifically when the call includes multiple people using Salesloft, it's so simple and easy to use to send open times to client and then to be able to send active links to the client where with one click the calendar invite shows up on my calendar? it's the best most efficient tool I have in my toolbelt at the moment. When it comes to logging, it's also simple but I wish I could add a contact to SL from the Microsoft integration.
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    Discontinued Products
    C9 is a good and economical solution for what it does. If evaluating them today, I would want to clearly understand their product roadmap and their ability to execute against it.
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    Vendasta
    It works for my company and my problems. If you need a Sales CRM you can go for higher-end products that will give you what Yesware gives along with other stuff. Wherein we had specific problems we wanted to solve. -We needed a solution for a smaller team within our bigger sales team. -We needed a solution to be easy to use point and click and did not require any setup. -We needed to have a better solution to YAMM.
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    Pros
    SalesLoft
    • Salesloft enables us to outreach at scale.
    • Salesloft helps us identify our warmest, most buyer ready prospects to streamline our outreach.
    • Salesloft helps us to identify quickly areas to course correct and provides the necessary data to do that.
    • Salesloft also surfaces data around outreach so we can ensure we are targeting our team with sensible KPIs that connect to our business goals.
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    Discontinued Products
    • It gives you the ability to see where your pipeline was in the past and compare to how it is now. You can set queries that will allow you to show at risk deals, committed deals, etc.
    • This gives much better visibility for management to coach.
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    Vendasta
    • Tracking open rates, link click rates, and reply rates. This allows us to compare different templates in order to see which allows for the most interactions and meetings set directly from email engagement.
    • Seeing exactly when someone opens an email and whether it is in their normal location. Also if they are opening on a mobile device versus a computer to be able to organize the set up of the email in a more beneficial way.
    • Being able to save Templates for Mail Merges to avoid the duplication of effort that other mass email systems utilize.
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    Cons
    SalesLoft
    • Would be nice to have custom reporting available. Coming from Salesforce, the included canned reports are useful but I like to roll my sleeves up and build exactly what I want.
    • Conversations will record meetings booked via MSTeams but requires the BDR/SDR to hit record. Other solutions (e.g. Chorus.ai) join as a participant and don't require a user hitting the "record" button. We have to change our flow to make this work and it is a bit clunky.
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    Discontinued Products
    • We had uptime issues, weird error messages, sluggish performance, and bad data. I hope that some of this can be attributed to growing pains as the company was relatively new when we signed our initial contract.
    • It was not dependable enough to trust the data and to count on accessing the app when we needed it.
    • It actually was unavailable at EOQ one time.
    • I also did not care for the lack of real-time pipeline information. If someone was doing a pipeline review, there was no instant gratification i.e. to see changes in pipeline occur as an AE made a change to an opportunity.
    • You couldn’t do any configuration at all. Even if you just wanted to change a field or add a filter, you had to go through their services team. It was a recognized challenge and I saw roadmap addressing it.
    • The query tool is a little hard to use and we have found that queries are very slow and lock up.
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    Vendasta
    • The ability to unwrap iframe embeds on email (e.g. if I send a Vimeo link over email, have that video thumbnail show and link out to a video)
    • Removing recipients from a campaign. If my ruleset is to remove a contact from a sequence after he/she replies, sometimes a person will reply from another email and Yesware doesn't recognize it. (e.g. if I add jeff@amazon.com to my campaign and jeff.bezos@amazon.com replies to my thread, Yesware will still send an email to jeff@amazon.com unless he is manually removed)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SalesLoft
    SalesLoft is absolutely VITAL to our daily operations. We could not function without it or a program like it. Speaking as a Sales Person who has had to operate without a product like this, the difference is night and day. The ability to stay organized, automate tasks, easily log activities and notes, review calls, and coach team members is an absolute gamechanger.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    C9 is now part of the sales management culture here at IPC. There is no longer any guesswork about the funnel or the forecast. C9 does something that SFDC does not...it increases significantly the value of the information in SFDC by unlocking the meta data that we all need to run the business
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    Vendasta
    I like the product, but due to the limitations I don't love it. I'm curious to revisit other options, particularly in lieu of Yesware's recent price increases (although I'm on a legacy plan). Some of my challenges to be browser related (I'm on an older computer) -- I'll have to see how things go when I receive my new computer. If the glitches (especially with regard to tracking accuracy and send later feature) go away, I'd be much more inclined to renew
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    Usability
    SalesLoft
    Drift was extremely easy for both our demand gen team and SDR to jump right into. It was feature rich and purpose-built for marketers—it was remarkably easy to connect our marketing automation, CRM, and more to the platform and get everything to work together. Now the ability to create digital experiences and conversation landing pages is democratized—empowering our team to do better work and provide better prospect/customer experience.
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    Discontinued Products
    From a sales manager’s perspective it was fairly easy to use the base
    functionality (just viewing current pipeline) and much harder to look at
    analytics (pipeline changes over time). C9 made this easier by allowing sales ops to publish views to sales managers. The query tool was harder to use than it had to be. For example, there were no out of the box relationships set up between Salesforce.com tables (e.g. accounts to opportunities), so I had to create those relationships myself.
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    Vendasta
    Yesware is easy to setup and get connected in existing systems. We were able to get started sending the day we puchased our subscription because of the addon for Gmail and easy connection to our CRM. It's also very easy to use in the day to day, kicking off campaigns and seeing their status to as about as easy as it gets. I have not concerns about usability
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    Reliability and Availability
    SalesLoft
    The availability is pretty good, we do sometimes have errors or delays in syncing activities but nothing that has been too detrimental to our workflow. Most recently we had an issue with Lofting through Outlook due to a change in security token that took a few weeks to resolve but it is fixed now.
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    In 2 years we have only had 1 uptime issue for around 45 min.
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    Vendasta
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    Performance
    SalesLoft
    Yes timely and easy to use. The only delays we have are when we run our big month sales blitz and activities take some time to sync to the reporting as well as SalesForce
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    We have experienced sluggish performance.

    We have found that queries are very slow and lock up.
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    Vendasta
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    SalesLoft
    The support team was very responsive but at the end of the day they took a long time to fix our issue. The issue did get fixed, though, so that is what matters. Very nice people who are there to help in any way they can.
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    Discontinued Products
    C9 cares about their customers and responds quickly. However, the ticketing system could be better and there is no easy way to track the status of your requests.
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    Vendasta
    Because it deserves this rating. The features and functionality provided are great. Our Sales team is very satisfied with this software as it integrates very well with our other software like Outlook, Salesforce, etc. Yesware provides great follow up with customers, which is essential for sales. Meeting scheduling is also flawless.
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    In-Person Training
    SalesLoft
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Good assistance on set up and detailed training
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    Vendasta
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    SalesLoft
    We had some virtual training with our CSM which was very well constructed. It took some time to get into the full swing of things but with a few weeks of hands on experience I was feeling confidant. The SL team was always available to answer questions or jump an a call to walk us through stuff. I also used the Customer Help Center for a few self guided learnings on how to use specific features related to reporting and team management.
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    Discontinued Products
    Online information and training was done reasonably well compared to other vendors, but would benefit from being more polished and rounded out.
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    Vendasta
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    Implementation Rating
    SalesLoft
    must invest time and effort in define the best way to integration with Salesforce in order to get data visualization
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    Discontinued Products
    Very simple implementation. They basically set up the imports and then they configure the tool per customer requests.

    I wish there had been more consultation during the implementation, but it wasn’t bad given the effort expended. We ended up re-implementing after about a year and a half.
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    Vendasta
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    Alternatives Considered
    SalesLoft
    Salesloft blows outreach out of the water in all aspects. One of the biggest issues I had was their unwillingness to listen to customer feedback. I had requested several small changes to be made when I had previously used the platform that unfortunately fell onto deff ears. I am much happier using Salesloft and the positive results I've experienced are a direct result of that.
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    Discontinued Products
    Zoho CRM is less up to speed and much more out of date. The support at InsideSales.com Predictive Pipeline have been very helpful during the initial roll out face. Overall I was very happy!
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    Vendasta
    All of these tools do what Yesware does, and more; but Yesware does the follow-up email portion best, in my experience. It is reasonably priced and is regularly adding new functionality to make it a sticky license for us to have. Yesware does not have predictive analytics or a particularly strong dialer solution, but it does provide team-wide and template efficacy tracking, and a basic dialer.
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    Scalability
    SalesLoft
    The scalability was pretty good, we started with 4 or 5 users on one team and scaled into 30+ members across 3 teams
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Vendasta
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    SalesLoft
    • I have been with a company that was using Salesloft, but moved to a competitor. I can't say it was exactly the competitors fault, as a lot of other internal changes were happening, (hence leaving the system that was working well), but we had the worst sales year in company history that year. Reps who consistently performed at or above quota were suddenly struggling to keep their pipelines in order, and the middle of the pack reps were going on PiPs and being let go.
    • Is it the dialer, or the leadership? You decide.
    • But the leadership also changed the dialer - so maybe it's both?
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    Discontinued Products
    • The product provides a single source for pipeline and forecast data and has scaled well with our organization. We have grown from 10 sales reps to 100 reps and we really needed a tool to to manage data and do roll-ups etc.
    • It's also important to provide senior management visibility into the pipeline, and the tool works well for this.
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    Vendasta
    • I think net positive ROI from generating meetings that lead to closed deals. Ultimately very difficult to quantify the ROI since it is essentially automating a lot of the manual prospecting done by BDRs/AEs - so ROI is likely higher than just that quantifiable number around deals closed.
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