Sparkcentral was a social customer care solution and cloud-based customer engagement platform that catered specifically to customer care teams within large enterprises, enabling them to deliver real-time social customer service. Sparkcentral was acquired by Hootsuite in January 2021. The product has since been discontinued.
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Vtiger
Score9 out of 10
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Vtiger is a customer relationship management (CRM) solution with sales and marketing automation, project management, and inventory management capabilities.
$28
per month per user
Pricing
Sparkcentral (discontinued)
Vtiger
Editions & Modules
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One Professional - Single App
$28
per month per user
One Professional - Standard
$42
per month per user
One Enterprise - Single App
$42
per month per user
One Enterprise - Standard
$58
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Sparkcentral (discontinued)
Vtiger
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
$10 / user / month
Additional Details
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Discounts are provided for both annual subscriptions, and for high volume users.
More Pricing Information
Features
Sparkcentral (discontinued)
Vtiger
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Sparkcentral (discontinued) and Vtiger
Feature
Sparkcentral (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Vtiger
9.3
9 Ratings
17% above category average
Customer data management / contact management
00 Ratings
10.09 Ratings
Workflow management
00 Ratings
9.09 Ratings
Opportunity management
00 Ratings
9.09 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)
00 Ratings
9.09 Ratings
Contract management
00 Ratings
9.07 Ratings
Quote & order management
00 Ratings
9.07 Ratings
Interaction tracking
00 Ratings
10.07 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Sparkcentral (discontinued) and Vtiger
Feature
Sparkcentral (discontinued)
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Ratings
Vtiger
8.5
7 Ratings
10% above category average
Case management
00 Ratings
8.07 Ratings
Help desk management
00 Ratings
9.07 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Sparkcentral (discontinued) and Vtiger
Feature
Sparkcentral (discontinued)
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Ratings
Vtiger
6.5
7 Ratings
17% below category average
Lead management
00 Ratings
7.07 Ratings
Email marketing
00 Ratings
6.07 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Sparkcentral (discontinued) and Vtiger
Feature
Sparkcentral (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Vtiger
8.7
9 Ratings
12% above category average
Task management
00 Ratings
8.07 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management
00 Ratings
9.08 Ratings
Reporting
00 Ratings
9.08 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Sparkcentral (discontinued) and Vtiger
Feature
Sparkcentral (discontinued)
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Ratings
Vtiger
8.7
8 Ratings
13% above category average
Forecasting
00 Ratings
7.07 Ratings
Pipeline visualization
00 Ratings
10.07 Ratings
Customizable reports
00 Ratings
9.08 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Sparkcentral (discontinued) and Vtiger
Feature
Sparkcentral (discontinued)
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Ratings
Vtiger
8.7
9 Ratings
13% above category average
Custom fields
00 Ratings
10.09 Ratings
Custom objects
00 Ratings
7.08 Ratings
API for custom integration
00 Ratings
9.07 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Sparkcentral (discontinued) and Vtiger
Feature
Sparkcentral (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Vtiger
8.0
6 Ratings
6% above category average
Social engagement
00 Ratings
8.06 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Sparkcentral (discontinued) and Vtiger
Feature
Sparkcentral (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Vtiger
10.0
6 Ratings
27% above category average
Mobile access
00 Ratings
10.06 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Sparkcentral (discontinued) and Vtiger
Sparkcentral has an extremely dedicated customer service team The platform UX is brilliant Reports are very detailed & easy to export The system is stable more than 98% of the time Queue management is extremely easy They need to work on a mobile app / making the website mobile friendly The ability to add more social media channels is essential
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vTiger packs a ton of functionality and capability, but the challenge is getting there. In today's day where everyone is doing more with less, having a solution that meets a couple specific needs and does that well is essential. To me, at times I feel as though vTiger is trying to be a "jack of all trades" solution which ultimately ends up making it more confusing to use. However, on the flip side of that, if you take the time to learn everything about vTiger, I am sure it is an awesome tool but there is a learning curve associated with it. Finally, I would like to see more integrations with other vendors moving forward so if we cannot use vTiger for everything, at least it would have the ability to "talk" with other programs.
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The biggest advantage of the Sparkcentral platform is its "inbox zero" philosophy. With this, our customer support requests are queued within the app, and agents need to work down the queue to keep it empty.
The app is designed from the ground up for customer care - instead of taking a generic social platform, and sprinkling in some customer care tools. Everything about Sparkcental is designed for helping our customers.
Sparkcentral allows us to do much better CRM. We can make customer notes, see recent interactions, determine who helped the customer (and when).
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In the beginning our team had the option to see what another user was typing as they responded to a post. With the latest update, this was taken away. That feature was key for us to shadow agents remotely who are still in training to provide real time feedback.
Our company has a number of different brands that we manage. Having a truly unified queue would be a great addition for us!
The bulk resolve should allow the option to select on the posts that you wish to resolve instead of selecting a time frame for bulk resolve. Often we find that marketing posts generate more volume in the evening. However, there are sometimes posts where the customer needs assistance during that time. So, if we were to bulk resolve for a certain number of evening hours we would potentially miss a customer's concern through that option as it is currently. But, if the option was to go through and select on all marketing posts and then bulk resolve you would ensure that you are not missing a post where a customer needs assistance.
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Sparkcentral has never given us a good reason to consider any other option. Aside from all the positive points I mentioned in previous areas of this review, something else that has really impressed us is their customer service (makes sense, they're a customer service company after all!). Any time we have a question or concern, we send them an email and we get a response almost instantly.
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In the Last versions they have done a strong effort in creating a powerful data screen. Inside the screen you have access to signing, communications with multiple tools integration and connections with all modules related. With a single view you have all control over your data relations. It is similar to a control managing.
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
It is as good as you could expect for a company that operates from another continent. Emails are quickly responded to and do not usually require additional questions or answers. It is quite rare for a company of their size to be as responsive as they are and that makes them a sound choice to deal with.
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Sparkcentral does what it has offered to do, where other software made empty promises, Sparkcentral delivers. They also inform us, anytime they are undergoing maintenance or when Twitter or Facebook has an API change, where in previous cases we would have to discover this ourselves.
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VTiger had better overall cost and native capabilities that other solutions lacked. We used Nutshell CRM for over a year. It was a very efficient contact management system, but it seemed that if we needed to do anything but record contacts, we had to use an add-on. We spent a lot of time exporting and importing between different services. Quoting, invoicing, and payments all had to be manually transferred to our accounting system. It was very frustrating
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Integration Across the Organization - What started out as just a CRM tool for sales is now being used for ticket management and project management.
Steep Learning Curve - It is not as intuitive out of the box and really requires a dedicated person to be a vTiger expert which can be challenging and time consuming.
Reliability - Sometimes features that worked yesterday don't work today, thus causing more time to complete the same exact task that was done previously. The thing that comes to mind specifically is the main search box as 1/2 the time it works, 1/2 the time it doesn't work.
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