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    Trainual

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ATrainual is a modern training manual for growing businesses. It provides one simple tool that aims to help users centralize processes and policies, automate onboarding and training, and build a foundation to scale faster. The vendor says Trainual is designed for small to medium sized businesses that are growing quickly and eager to document systems and processes, define step-by-step workflows, eliminate grey area between roles, and ensure that training happens consistently, every…

    $119

    per month

    Zendesk Guide

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AZendesk Guide is a smart knowledge base built to help support teams continuously improve content, keep it up to date, and serve it to customers.N/A
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    TrainualZendesk Guide
    Editions & Modules
    Pro
    $119
    per month
    Premium
    $179
    per month
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    TrainualZendesk Guide
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    TrainualZendesk Guide
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Trainual and Zendesk Guide
    Feature
    Trainual
    9.4
    9 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Zendesk Guide
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    Ratings
    Course authoring9.48 Ratings00 Ratings
    Course catalog or library9.48 Ratings00 Ratings
    Player/Portal9.68 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning content9.59 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile friendly9.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications9.59 Ratings00 Ratings
    Assignments9.48 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance management9.68 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning administration9.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics9.16 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social learning8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    TrainualZendesk Guide
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (9 ratings)
    7.4
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    Support Rating
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    TrainualZendesk Guide
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Trainual
    We have offices set around the world, and hiring new team members in certain countries makes it a bit difficult, especially now to fly out or fly in to help get them situated and fully trained. This really helps close the gaps in between the distance and training. Makes onboarding a heck of a lot easier.
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    Zendesk
    In our company, we host our benefit articles based on country on our Zendesk Guide. However, these articles should not be seen by employees that are outside their respective article country. For example, an employee that is based in Thailand shouldn't be seeing Malaysia benefits article as employees might compared benefits. With Zendesk Guide, the system allow us to set the configuration of the article so it is only visible Thailand-based employees, and for Malaysia article, only Malaysia-based employees
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    Pros
    Trainual
    • Tracks progress for training.
    • Easily determines a new hires competency in handling tasks on their own.
    • Houses all of our documents and videos in one location versus several.
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    Zendesk
    • They give us ability to control the whole frontend of the Communities by giving us access to manipulate HTML (in HBS file), CSS and JS
    • They give handlebars templating engine in backend which helps us to show various listing rendered through server side without having need to implement client side rendering of the listing and features.
    • They provide us dynamic content fields, which can be useful for mapping categories or storing category and topic IDs so we don't need to hard code IDs in Sandbox and Production separately.
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    Cons
    Trainual
    • The subject organization could use work! It's just jumbled and needs folders.
    • It's very cumbersome to have to click back and forth to subjects when you are within a task. I wish there was a larger side bar that could show ALL subjects, topics, and tasks in one glance with drop-down menus.
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    Zendesk
    • Formatting according to our brand guidelines can be tricky
    • Reporting metrics are lacking
    • The user interface can be confusing
    • Their support team takes a long time to respond
    • They have comments open on their KB articles, but almost noone responds, which is frustrating.
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    Support Rating
    Trainual
    During the entire sales process, the Trainual team was great to work with. After the sale, their onboard process was top notch as well and was very quick to answer any questions and actually were open to customizing the platform to meet our specific needs. They have been great this entire time.
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    Zendesk
    The support is good but can sometime be frustrating to get a quick answer. We end up being sent articles that don't answer the question and then we have to go back and try again
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    Trainual
    • This is our first time using anything like this!
    • Previously we just wrote task items in shared Google documents. It was the best of what we could do at the time, but this is a whole different world, and we love it! Being able to integrate quizzes and photos and interactive video is excellent!
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    Zendesk
    It is an attribute of Zendesk that allows for easy over the phone communication between agents and customers. It is more personal and allows for better productivity. Phone support from anywhere with reliable internet connection which is essential to call center communication whether in the office or in the home of the agent.
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    Return on Investment
    Trainual
    • Saves time for the team for training
    • The fact that everything is in one location is really good!
    • Allows us to edit and change and adjust as the business does
    • Keeps us flexible and not cemented to a way of doing things
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    Zendesk
    • We used it for multiple customer so we can say ROI of Zendesk Guide is very competitive.
    • Zendesk meet[s] most of the business objective[s], which suits [a]s best product among its competitor.
    • I highly recommend to use Zendesk for knowledge base and tickets and agents.
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