ClientSuccess vs. Totango

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ClientSuccess
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
ClientSuccess, from the company of the same name in Lehi, is presented by the vendor as a simple yet sophisticated solution for CSMs, and the Executive team. For the CSMs, ClientSuccess brings together the tools, best practices, insights and analytics needed to proactively manage customers. For the Executives, they deliver analytics, metrics and reports to provide a comprehensive view of the health of a SaaS business.N/A
Totango
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Totango customer success software, now with Catalyst, helps enterprise businesses and cross-functional teams accelerate customer outcomes in productivity, retention, and expansion. Totango and Catalyst will become a unified product, following the merger in February 2024.
$2,988
per year
Pricing
ClientSuccessTotango
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Starter
$2,988
per year
Enterprise
$18,000
per year
Premier
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ClientSuccessTotango
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsEach package gives teams a 360° customer account profile, customer health scoring, customer journey program templates (SuccessBLOCS), automated workflows (SuccessPlays), email campaigns, self-paced onboarding, and customer support.
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Community Pulse
ClientSuccessTotango
Considered Both Products
ClientSuccess
Chose ClientSuccess
Personally, I think I have a fondness for Woopra that isn't shared by my team. ClientSuccess is clean, efficient and easy to use, but I have love for Woopra that I can't shake. That being said, we are comparing diamonds to diamonds, and I think you should go with the one that …
Chose ClientSuccess
Honestly just saw product demos, didn't evaluate hands-on. For our use case, the price point was MUCH more accommodating.
Totango
Chose Totango
I was not part of the evaluation of ClientSuccess in detail, but the main thing we liked as an advantage of ClientSuccess was the customer lifecycle stages. For the Gainsight comparison, our data could be ingested better with Totango which is why the decision was made to move …
Chose Totango
Totango seemed the best way to have quick wins, long term wins, and work through optimizations and iterations along the way. We could launch piecemeal and adapt to our business needs as we saw value in Totango, instead of having to create a masterpiece that would be complex to …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
ClientSuccessTotango
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
ClientSuccess
8.2
15 Ratings
5% below category average
Totango
8.4
182 Ratings
3% below category average
Role-based user permissions8.215 Ratings8.4182 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
ClientSuccess
8.4
13 Ratings
1% below category average
Totango
7.9
216 Ratings
7% below category average
API10.010 Ratings6.8149 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com9.012 Ratings8.0173 Ratings
Integration with Marketo7.32 Ratings8.935 Ratings
Integration with Eloqua7.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Product A and Product B
ClientSuccess
8.9
16 Ratings
4% above category average
Totango
7.6
247 Ratings
12% below category average
Product usage8.414 Ratings7.8243 Ratings
Help desk / support tickets9.412 Ratings7.3160 Ratings
Customer Success Management
Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Product A and Product B
ClientSuccess
8.6
17 Ratings
5% above category average
Totango
7.6
260 Ratings
8% below category average
NPS surveys7.09 Ratings8.0124 Ratings
Sponsor tracking9.411 Ratings6.16 Ratings
Customer profiles9.017 Ratings7.8251 Ratings
Automated workflow8.917 Ratings8.4240 Ratings
Internal collaboration7.716 Ratings7.1226 Ratings
Customer health scoring9.017 Ratings7.6253 Ratings
Customer segmentation9.016 Ratings8.3243 Ratings
CSM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
ClientSuccess
8.4
17 Ratings
3% above category average
Totango
7.5
254 Ratings
8% below category average
Customer health trends9.015 Ratings7.7243 Ratings
Engagement analytics8.113 Ratings7.7229 Ratings
Revenue forecasting7.614 Ratings7.0175 Ratings
Dashboards9.017 Ratings7.8237 Ratings
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User Ratings
ClientSuccessTotango
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
(18 ratings)
8.3
(261 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(8 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(95 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(3 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.1
(93 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(12 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(4 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(8 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.8
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
ClientSuccessTotango
Likelihood to Recommend
ClientSuccess
Client Success is well suited to both growing and established companies who know what they want and need to track for their clients. With the broad ability to support numerous accounts, have multiple users, and its custom success cycles to map a clients progress, it would be a great solution for any Client Success team. I think that teams that are unaware of what they need to track wouldn't find Client Success as useful, and organizations that require a large number of custom client descriptions and variables would find certain limitations a barrier to successfully using this tool.
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Totango
for a CSM it´s marvelous, you have in one window everything,the agenda for your day by day work, the workload you have in a day,all the customers database and call history added by tasks and toutch points, the to do thing in each customer you know what to do next, with renewal you hace an digital engadgement with customers inform they need to renew in order to keep using the app.
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Pros
ClientSuccess
  • ClientSuccess makes it easy for our customer success managers to manage their workflows and provides excellent visibility into our company's customer activity and engagement. We're able to log into CS and regularly check segments of our customers that need to be engaged with on a daily basis, log customer health, and be aware of approaching subscription renewals in order to pay appropriate attention to the right customers.
  • The user interface is easy to use, friendly in design, and quick to learn. They make it look attractive with bright color schemes without overdoing it too much.
  • As a customer success manager myself, I am appreciative of how this tool has kickstarted our fairly-new Customer Success department and made us much more organized and knowledgeable as a customer-facing entity.
  • Their customer success/support teams are excellent as well - which is to be expected. We've felt very well taken care of since we became customers of ClientSuccess.
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Totango
  • Enables us to easily send and collect NPS & CSAT scores regularly.
  • Syncs with HubSpot to bring in updated client data and deals automatically.
  • Allows us to manage clients based on health score which is multi-dimensional.
  • I can log touch points directly in Totango from Gmail so easily..
  • As we improve and develop our non SaaS business client experience, Totango continues to develop more functionality that we can benefit from.
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Cons
ClientSuccess
  • The support view takes a few steps to get to the meat and potatoes.
  • The success score model can be improved to include smaller one-off campaigns. Success score is good for a campaign that has existed for a while but not for the one-off projects.
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Totango
  • Integrations -- in my experience, they constantly break and disconnect.
  • Implementation -- I feel it was a HUGE challenge to set-up our environment. It took over 200 hours and it didn't work.
  • Communication -- during implementation/onboarding, in my opinion, we were mislead on how to create some of our custom data objects and it ended up being a big waste of time since the approach we were instructed to use ended up being incorrect.
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Likelihood to Renew
ClientSuccess
No answers on this topic
Totango
I personally believe Totango is the right Customer Success Tool for me, my team, and my organization. I couldn't find limitations until now, it's capabilities are on point and it's very scalable. of course, transitioning to another tool would mean a lot of hours and training, and would expose risks
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Usability
ClientSuccess
No answers on this topic
Totango
It is easy to use and understand, and simple to follow day to day. Logging notes and tasks is one of the key areas this is utilised along with tracking reports and accessing key data points for conversations with customers which is helpful. Mobile app helps too to access information on the go.
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Reliability and Availability
ClientSuccess
No answers on this topic
Totango
I have yet to experience any downtime with Totango (knock on wood) so reliability has been really top tier since we were onboarded. Given that the support team has been really helpful so far, I can imagine should downtime every be the case, they'll be able to communicate proactively/effectively on the current state of the platform
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Performance
ClientSuccess
No answers on this topic
Totango
At times the integration sync can be really slow when it comes to touchpoints. I can't say the same for customer health syncing, but I do tend to notice the lag from email syncing, and in those cases, I will need to refresh the Totango page a couple of times or wait a couple of extra seconds/minutes for it to show up.
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Support Rating
ClientSuccess
They are SUPER responsive...even for late night inquiries.
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Totango
I give Totango a support rating of 10 because I can always get support whenever needed. If its a technical issue, I know I can email their support team for help. If it's a more in depth question with respect to our instance of Totango, I can reach out to our CSM and always get help in a very reasonable amount of time. I always look to Totango as the standard when I think of how to best communicate and support our own customers.
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Online Training
ClientSuccess
No answers on this topic
Totango
Our CSM did a great job of conducting the training so we understand, at the very least, the functionality that is directly relevant to us. This also allowed us to train our own new team mates when onboarding based on the training flow that was first presented to us. This was also conducted as a interactive sessions, as training are notoriously known to be dry
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Implementation Rating
ClientSuccess
No answers on this topic
Totango
Totango has been easy for our team to integrate most of our new features into, which is great considering we have to factor in the customers' usage of the new features into all of the health and usage metrics we have. It has taken a while to integrate our second product however, which is why I would rank this a 7.
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Alternatives Considered
ClientSuccess
HubSpot is excellent as it was an easy expansion from the sales and marketing work we were using it for. It meets our needs but isn't entirely as geared towards customer success like ClientSuccess. ClientSuccess has more bells and whistles that are out of the box vs. HubSpot, where the capabilities may exist but require a little more leg work.
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Totango
Pipedrive is a great CRM for Sales purposes but it doesnt give much tools for CX management. Totango is all the opposite, it is an excellent product for Customer Management . We currently use both platforms integrated with each other and it gives great results to both Sales and Customer Success teams
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Scalability
ClientSuccess
No answers on this topic
Totango
Information keeps missing and changing in totango . Because of that there is are lot of problems with it. We need to manually keep the backup in an another file. More over if in case we take the backup its so hard to track since its all in numbers. Totango can be much better if the cloud storage is working fine. My company is planning to discontinue due to this factor
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Return on Investment
ClientSuccess
  • Within the first week, leadership was able to have more visibility into the lifestage and health score of each client
  • We needed to become more proactive as an organization and this platform has allowed us to do so with real-time metrics and reporting.
  • We needed to find a way to scale our approach, especially as our Client Success organization continues to grow, and this is already helping.
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Totango
  • Since using Totango we have seen our engagement numbers go up as we are better able to identify the groups that are struggling.
  • We have also seen an increase in retention as we are more consistent in messaging and not missing any data.
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ScreenShots

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Screenshot of Collaboration tools to manage a customer portfolioScreenshot of a 360° view of customer healthScreenshot of the dashboard to monitor customer metricsScreenshot of an engaging in-app experiences and email campaigns to improve customer retentionScreenshot of integrated data in the Customer Data Hub