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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ContactsFlow (formerly Shared Contacts for Gmail™)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AContactsFlow (formerly Shared Contacts for Gmail) is a contact-management platform for Google Workspace. It enables organizations to create shared contact directories and contact groups, then make approved records available in Gmail, Google Contacts, Calendar, Google Drive, mobile devices, and connected business applications. Teams can centralize professional contacts and labels, add custom details such as company, job title, phone number, notes, and interaction…

    $1.99

    per month per user

    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

    per month

    Pricing
    ContactsFlow (formerly Shared Contacts for Gmail™)Yesware
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    per month per user
    Teams
    $1.99
    per month per user
    Business
    $2.99
    per month per user
    Pro
    $19
    per month
    Premium
    $45
    per month
    Enterprise
    $85
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ContactsFlow (formerly Shared Contacts for Gmail™)Yesware
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Annual plans save up to 23%.
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    Community Pulse
    ContactsFlow (formerly Shared Contacts for Gmail™)Yesware
    Considered Both Products
    Shared Contacts for Gmail
    No answer on this topic
    Vendasta
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    22 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    21 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    22 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    17 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
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    User Ratings
    ContactsFlow (formerly Shared Contacts for Gmail™)Yesware
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (63 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (12 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ContactsFlow (formerly Shared Contacts for Gmail™)Yesware
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Shared Contacts for Gmail
    Shared Contacts for Gmail is well suited for organizations that generate and coordinate long term partnerships and that have a big remote working component as a main form or working. It is less appropriate with organizations dedicated to sales and performance based ways of working. I would recommend it for medium size organizations.
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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
    Shared Contacts for Gmail
    • Helps manage contact lists and distribution lists.
    • Eliminates the need for the use of an additional platform, like a CRM, to manage contacts.
    • Makes it easier to share contacts with a targeted audience with the flexibility to be selective about who the data is being shared with.
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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
    Shared Contacts for Gmail
    • I have been looking for a way to share our contacts within our organization for a while now. This process really improves how we were doing it within Google Sheets.
    • My only negative is that it has taken so long for it to be functional within Google.
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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
    Shared Contacts for Gmail
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Shared Contacts for Gmail
    Very easy to use. Mostly related to the design of the program, but also due to the layout. I find it easy to find what I am looking for. As noted in earlier comments, greater implementation of AI would probably make the program even easier to use, as sometimes finding certain functions is not entirely transparent.
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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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    Support Rating
    Shared Contacts for Gmail
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    Shared Contacts for Gmail
    My company used Zendesk Sell for a while, but the profiles weren't as manageable and easy accessed as Shared Contacts [for Gmail.] It resulted easier to update the contact information within Shared Contacts [for Gmail] and maintain the contact flow, than updating in Zendesk, and then manually go into gmail and continue the conversation. As well we don't use Shared Contacts [for Gmail] alone. We do accompany it with an internal operations system, were we manage the clients profile, but the combination between the two is perfect.
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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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    Return on Investment
    Shared Contacts for Gmail
    • More contact with clients
    • Keeping track of contact information no matter the places
    • Clients like the familiarity that is created by the constant check on them
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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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    ScreenShots

    ContactsFlow (formerly Shared Contacts for Gmail™) Screenshots

    Screenshot of ContactsFlow keeps contacts synced with the power of AI.Screenshot of contacts management to maintain contacts centralizedScreenshot of Share contact lists with different permissions with different users and groupsScreenshot of Restore deleted contacts using the backupScreenshot of Keep Google Workspace contacts synced with LDAP using all devicesScreenshot of collaboration features.

    Yesware Screenshots

    Screenshot of CampaignsScreenshot of Email Templates