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What is Front?

Front is a communication hub that helps businesses keep the human touch in every interaction.

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Front is a versatile tool that is commonly used by teams to improve email management and enhance collaboration. Users have found Front to …
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Starter

$19

Cloud
per month per user

Growth

$49

Cloud
per month per user

Scale

$99

Cloud
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $19 per month per user
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Product Details

What is Front?

Front is a customer communication hub that surrounds every high-stakes conversation with team collaboration capabilities and contextual data to ensure responses are fast, accurate and deeply personalized. Front’s interface is inspired by familiar and easy to use email clients. Behind the scenes, its automation capabilities eliminate manual workflows across systems, and detailed analytics make it easier to improve team performance and the health of customer relationships. The vendor states that more than 7,500 businesses, including Shopify, Airbnb, Hulu, Lyft, and Mailchimp, use Front to build better customer relationships, one conversation at a time.

Front Features

  • Supported: Multi-channel messaging
  • Supported: Live chat
  • Supported: Team collaboration on customer messages
  • Supported: Calendar and one-click meeting scheduling
  • Supported: Basic automation
  • Supported: Integrations with 3rd-party tools
  • Supported: CRM integration
  • Supported: Analytics
  • Supported: Advanced workflows
  • Supported: Smart Rules
  • Supported: User and team management
  • Supported: Onboarding and solution design
  • Supported: Change management
  • Supported: Security and compliance

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With Front, a business doesn’t have to choose between being efficient and being human: they can be both.

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Front Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesAll
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Front is a communication hub that helps businesses keep the human touch in every interaction.

Front starts at $19.

Zendesk Suite, Help Scout, and Desk.com (discontinued) are common alternatives for Front.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.8.

The most common users of Front are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Front is a versatile tool that is commonly used by teams to improve email management and enhance collaboration. Users have found Front to be incredibly helpful for addressing customer needs, ensuring equal email distribution, and providing timely responses. By monitoring mailboxes on a website, Front allows for easy collaboration among sales development, sales, and customer success teams. It collects all support accounts in one place, making it convenient to act on support questions and delegate tasks without the need for forwarding or CCing emails. With features like tagging and assigning emails to specific team members, Front ensures that nothing gets dropped and improves overall organization. Users appreciate how Front offers a one-stop solution for all emailing requirements, with its smooth interface, note recording capabilities, alerts, automation tools, and rules. Additionally, Front simplifies communication between colleagues by allowing users to comment between threads and manage emails of colleagues who are on leave. It also facilitates easy customer service offers, engagement communication, and marketing on the web. Overall, users find that Front saves time and enables effective team collaboration while providing an excellent customer experience.

In addition to the above use cases, Front also serves as a valuable tool for managing shared inboxes and maintaining inbox zero. Users appreciate how it helps them stay organized by sharing information across teams and scheduling tasks efficiently. With its chat feature between team members, Forward reduces forwarding chains and allows for more consistent messaging. Integration with platforms such as Slack and JIRA further enhances collaboration within customer support teams. Some users have found Front particularly useful for organizing leads and ensuring timely responses. However, there are some concerns raised by users regarding the lack of transparent investment into understanding customer needs and operational complexities. Nonetheless, overall feedback indicates that Front is highly valued for streamlining email collaboration through features like tags, chats, shared inboxes, advanced rules, team management capabilities, autoresponders, AI-powered functions like chatbots integration.

Timely email response time: Users have praised Front for its timely email response time, with many reviewers stating that they appreciate the quickness of the platform. The ability to receive prompt responses ensures efficient communication and helps users stay on top of their emails.

Internal collaboration in email threads: Many users find Front's internal collaboration feature in email threads to be highly valuable. This feature allows managers and team members to collaborate within the context of an email, ensuring that no interactions are missed or overlooked. Reviewers appreciate the visibility it provides and how it facilitates teamwork.

Effective notification system: The sticky notes or Comments feature in Front is widely regarded as effective by users. It ensures that no important emails, discussions, mentions, or tags are missed. With this collaborative feature, users can make comments on messages sent to joint inboxes and coordinate responses before sending them back to the sender. Several reviewers have specifically mentioned how this feature streamlines communication and enhances collaboration among team members.

Confusing User Interface: Many users have found the user interface of Front to be confusing, leading them to suggest a more user-friendly GUI that would improve usability and navigation.

Compatibility Issues with Office 365: Some users have encountered compatibility issues between Front and Office 365, particularly in terms of the link between the two apps. These issues have caused inconvenience and hindered seamless integration for those using both platforms.

Lack of Customizable Tags: Several users expressed the need for a comprehensive library of customizable tags in Front. This enhancement would enable better organization and classification of emails, improving efficiency and workflow management.

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Siddhant Salil | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have only used Gmail in the past and Front is any day better than Gmail in terms of the interface and ease of usage. The ability to send scheduling links and comments between the email threads makes it better than Gmail. The shared inbox also makes it easier for the entire team to understand the kind of email each CSM is receiving and sending.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The tagging feature stands out. Their tagging can be quite deep and effective if it's set up properly. For example, I can pull out all the clients who [have] an issue with billing. Or better yet valued clients who [have] a specific MRR that has an issue with billing that needed more attention.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Front is honestly an amazing blend of an email server and Slack, as it allows for nimble, efficient, and immediate communication between team members without needing to forward a single email back-and-forth before finally responding to a client. Front also saves time when working between multiple inboxes (both personal and shared) by creating silos for each inbox.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is something I am not familiar but it seems like it is [available] in Gmail. Thus I cannot give any feedback about it. What I am sure about is Front works for our team and I see Zoom using the service in the Customer Success Organization in a long run.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Thanks to Front, it has allowed us to have smooth and effective internal communication between departments, attaching projects, problems, and endless files without any problem. It is allowing us to have practical and soft customer support.
Darren Mihalic | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Front is better than any other tool. It is a great app to use also because of its multipurpose features. Anyone can also use this app for your customized business needs and manage your work accordingly. I feel that Front is easy to use and it is also very user-friendly due to its intuitive interface. The design of Front is quite clean and modern with blended integrations of JIRA that is a great aspect of Front. All of my clients are happy due to the quick responses to their requests in the same email and I am glad that I chose Front for this.
Ben Pincus | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Front has been simple to implement and operate on our team. It is not possible to lose an email; it is impressive how it adapts better while being used daily. We can have excellent communication between colleagues, the percentage of evaluations, and changes in planned tasks through the organization's media.
Jonatan Serna Higuera | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Front is always getting the newest capabilities of the industry [and] is never behind. Instead, it provides you with features that [you] would not even think exist. Also, it is faster than other apps [and] takes just a moment for you to get started in your daily tasks.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Front was not designed as a ticketing system and doesn't have great reporting tools, but the commenting and draft features were important and other platforms' versions of these features were weak or unintuitive.

It should be noted that we ended up developing our own messaging feature within our home-grown platform to enhance communication with our customers once they've been onboarded to our platform.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It offered newer features and more ways to control user communication inflow, as well as team roster management. The Front app also had a presence on the app, mobile web, and web, which was helpful for on-the-go email queue management. In short, at the time we made this decision, this was definitely an advanced version of CRM as compared to the other tools.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zendesk is by far the market leader here and offers a tremendous solution. It is, of course, very expensive -- especially if you require multi-brand support. Many of the other solutions (except Groove) offer some flavor of multi-brand support but they are not as good as Zendesk. For example, the HappyFox multi-brand solution breaks down when it comes to FAQ setup -- the setup is extremely cumbersome and not worth the effort. The other area to watch out is with mobile support. Zendesk offers a clean and intuitive design on any device automatically out-of-the-box. Others, like Cayzu, are solid, but lack mobile support at this level -- probably a deal-breaker for most.

We started using Front before we realized how important a live, robust FAQ resource would be for each site that we support. As we've learned firsthand, it would have been much better to integrate these features from the outset -- and hence we should have chosen something other than Front. If you are just supporting your customers with a single email address and don't have an extensive FAQ or knowledgebase, then Front could be a great option for you.


Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Gmail
We had all our leads going to a gmail account before front. Front solved so many problems that Gmail had. It was much more user friendly for somethings and it was a much more flexible software that we were able to use to meet our needs. It also has a reporting feature that Gmail did not have. It also allows us to respond to chats.
Tom Davies | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Front is a flexible and quickly growing tool that integrates with almost every system we use. Front have been our go-to support system since we started and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.
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