We selected Sendoso because of the integrations they had with HubSpot, Amazon, Square, and more. And their ability to meet the needs of multiple teams in our organizations.
Reachdesk does not have the same gift card policy as Sendoso. They do not make you pay for gift cards that are not redeemed even if the email is opened. I find this to be a significant leg up over Sendoso because this policy seems unfair and creates a lot of waste in our budget.
Besides DoorDash, is the overall robust first solution I've used, and would not change it! Ease of use and user interface enables anyone to use the solution.
When I joined RollWorks, we were using Sendoso, I am most familiar with Sendoso's interface and capabilities. I like Sendoso's selection of gifts and ability to choose the value of an e-gift card. My favorite Sendoso feature is the ability to send a specific item via Amazon.
Sendoso has a more flexible solution than Alyce and at a better price. In addition, it has a wider breadth of eGift options than PFL has. I think PFL does have better inventory tracking but overall needed more on the front end to make it worth it (and gifting in more …
Alyce and ASendoso are pretty similar when it comes to using. We use both here at RingCentral. We use Alyce to get meetings with prospects and we use Sendoso for confirming the meeting with them by sending them a small gift card. If Sendoso had a few more items to send, it …
Sendoso is super
easy to use, their Salesforce integration is a game-changer, tracking
capabilities are solid, and their customer support is as good as you could hope
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Sendoso is more advanced than Reachdesk in most areas. Alyce has a better platform for e-gifting.
It's way better. PFL is extremely limited and better designed for mass print mailers. PFL prices are also outrageously high; all you can do is laugh when you get the quotes.
Sendoso does everything I wanted it to do, except [for] really get into AI learning and crawling the web for customer information. Alyce does an okay job at that but you are paying for it. We encouraged our representatives to build a relationship with the prospect to earn trust …
I was not part of the evaluation process, but what I will say is that our team did extensive research on a go-to-market solution that could help scale with us, especially into international markets where we are doing a lot of business. From my understanding, there is no …
I have not used other products like Sendoso but my colleagues have researched others when it came time to renew our contract and we still went with Sendoso because of the advanced features and ease of use. Sendoso is planning on releasing a send recommendation feature that …
For the most part when we have been curating our own swag and having it sent to the warehouse we have had great luck at keeping our costs minimal and then curating a holiday or themed swag box for our staff to be sent. The ease at which we can set up a build your own box and have it curated how we like is fantastic and super helpful. We love the touch of the "handwritten" notes as well! Our team always say they love these. There have been a few instances where we had issues with Sendoso and how something was handled. One example is when we created and ordered glass travel mugs from KeepCup to be sent to our team. Some of them arrived damaged and they were rejected before we could even do anything about it, we were told after the fact and not given any ability to work with the Vendor for replacements and Sendoso with a plan to use the cups that were still in tact. Through this we lost 4 boxes of inventory and hundreds of dollars of swag for our team and clients - which doesn't sound like a lot but w are a small company and this has a bit impact on us. Not to mention resolving this issue then took 5+ months of admin power and time. In the end we didn't get much resolve and being the customer in the situation felt like we were in between two companies and their policies, KeepCup did all they could to work with us for a resolution but Sendoso didn't. We felt like we got the short end of the stick in this instance
The Custom Brand Shop has been a real game-changer.
Easy to place curation requests and quick responses.
The ability to send items through Amazon but also include inventoried items is great for higher value gift bundles and lets you avoid having to source items that you may not be 100% sure about the quantity needed.
We're very sticky with Sendoso and would prefer to not train the entire sales org on a new platform! That and we've already sent up a plethora of gifts the team can send out (eGifts, physical branded items, treats, plants, etc.).
The platform is continually being upgraded to make sure the platform is usable and prevents unnecessary errors. Once you get used to the platform you can get in there and build eGift touches, physical gifts, etc. quickly. You an also send quickly and in a variety of ways. The address confirmation feature makes sending when you don't know where your recipient lives is very helpful
Sendoso occasionally has downtime, but it's usually isolated to a single feature and doesn't effect the entire platform. They are responsive when it comes to intaking these outages and are quick to work to resolve them
Their platform doesn't take a long time to load, and it typically isn't too buggy once a new feature has been out for a while. Reports are pretty quick to generate and are emailed to the user on file for use typically within ten minutes or so. I have not noticed Sendoso slowing down any of the software it integrates with at all
They listened to the problem with delivery times but did not present a reasonable solution. Again, the shipping costs consumed too much budget. On one bulk send their support team agreed to take over a project for a few of the reps which is encouraging to see.
Our in person trainings were on zoom, but they are not recordings which is why I listed them as in person. You get a live person to walk you through integrations, how to use the platform, sendings best practices, setting up other users, etc. The customer success team will help you training staff users too. Ours even ran a contest for them to encourage them to send to prospects and they provided the prize!
These were CSM and Onboarding team zoom meetings where they hand-hold you, which is nice especially compared to other company onboardings. After that they have Zen desk articles and regular check-ins where you can get the training you need. I also am on a slack channel with Sendoso staff where I can ask additional questions or look for best practices.
Get Sales and Marketing both involved in the implementation so you can strategize on how you'd want to use it across your organization. This will help your CSM roll it out the way you want instead of trying to piecemeal it after you've finished the onboarding process. Also I would recommend using a mix of Sendoso Direct, Inventory and eGift sends. Relying all on one or the other will not serve you well
Local vendors, including print & mail houses, are the only thing I can compare to Sendoso for similar services. Local vendors are good for ordering a bunch of swag to have at the office or [giving] away at conferences but if you are looking to send items to clients/prospects on-demand then a tool like Sendoso is a must.
Sendoso has really improved here. Along with helping you train your staff, you can now clone gift touches, sync them with salesforce from the platform directly, and send out address confirmations using your own or their email sending platform - they also just released an option for you to white-label your own domain. helping you save time and get a lot off the ground quickly