SMS.to vs. Zoho SalesIQ

SMS.to is ideal when you have a large number of users and you need to be charged by SMS delivered not by number of users. Let's put an example other solutions out there wanted us to pay user or contact which is illogican for a product that has more than 100K users because it doesn't matter if you send no message or you send 10 messages they will charge you per contact in the other hand solutions as SMS.to they will charge per SMS delivered which makes really economic the scenario specially if you only send to specific segments of contacts by making use of contact lists. A least appropiate scenario is when you need to send emergency/urgent SMS because for some resaon the SMS in this platform will be sent after 20-30 minutes even an hour I ignore why it happens but that's why we always try to schedule our campaigns and be sure they are generic marketing messages. For emergency/urgent SMS is recommended to use another platform.

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If you are facing issues of agents not being able to respond to queries, which is usually faced with our tools, Zoho SalesIQ is probably the best choice as the default notification is very loud and clear hence makes sure that no chat query is left unattended. The desktop application of Zoho SalesIQ for Windows, Linux, and MAC OS is a superb feature not offered by many other chat applications. The geographical locations of website visitors are sometimes not very accurate hence it is advised not to always rely on it and better reconfirm it from the lead.

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• Bulk messaging.
• Easy to send notifications to customers.
• With SMS.to, it is easy to market our business thanks to the ability to send promotional messages.
• It's easy to use and affordable.

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• It has helped us increase our revenues by a significant margin over the last few years. Technical help is quite quick to respond.
• UI that is convenient and practical. It's simple to use and understand. We value being able to see how users arrive at our site.
• Zoho SalesIQ has a fantastic live chat feature that includes a notification, monitoring and reporting system.

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• Inbound SMSs not yet available in my country
• API Intergration, it is a bit complicated and i had to get a developer to help me understand it all

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• Overall it's a very simple tool that doesn't offer a lot of complexity or expanded tools
• Even though it's all in the Zoho family, it doesn't work seemlessly with CRM or other Zoho products
• Not always the best at identifying similar users across different browsers, devices, etc

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I already pointed out this but basically we decided to go with SMS.to because 2 reasons:

1. It can be paid with paypal (first reason) we have some bad experience with other products because payment gateways may suddenly block your cards and you're unable to pay even if you want to use the service so when we saw that SMS.to has Paypal payment we just decided to go for this option.

2. You pay per message and not per contact this is ideal other platforms will ask you a monthly fee for marketing features that you're not looking plus paying per SMS or per contact we were just looking a straight forward software in order to send SMS campaigns.

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Tawk to was nice but it was missing a lot of features that Zoho SalesIQ has. And a massively important advantage that SalesIQ had was that it integrated with other Zoho apps that we already used. The pricing of Zoho SalesIQ was also very attractive, we felt that it offered a great bang for our buck.

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• Easy communication.
• Better engagements thanks to fast delivery of messages.
• It's a great marketing software.

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• We interact with about 50 visitors a month and it's great when we can see the full picture, to see and interact based on whether they are a new contact or a long-time customer.
• Capturing new website visitors at the time that they have a question about your product is important.
• Missing chats can be frustrating.

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