Beware, Cloze Will Merge Contacts Without Your Approval.
March 11, 2022

Beware, Cloze Will Merge Contacts Without Your Approval.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Cloze

Cloze Software has some good features set up. The biggest issue is that they have smart features set up in their CRM which most of the time is great but we have asked Cloze to turn off those features on our account and in our experience, they refused to do so. The problem we keep having and have had for 3 or 4 years is that when Cloze software feels that two contacts are the same (even though the name, phone number, email address, and business name have no indicators that they are affiliated) Cloze will merge them into a single contact automatically without asking if we want to merge them or not. So Cloze tried to fix it but it's on a case-by-case situation where they go into the coding and put in blocks so two contacts won't merge any longer. Instead of doing what we ask and that stops the AI. When we show Cloze what is happening they tell us that we can fix those. But in order to do so, you have to remove the contacts and info that doesn't belong in the one contact and turn it back to the original contact. Now the bigger issue is when you go in to merge the information and names that don't belong in the merged contact that information gets dropped back into Cloze without the original contact name, all the notes and info you had associated with that contact are no longer affiliated and you have to basically rebuild those contacts again. When we try to explain everything to Cloze I feel like they just ignore us, they have been doing it for some time and we are done dealing with them.
  • Easy to use
  • Auto populates contacts upon send or receive of email
  • Is a simple system
  • Contacts merge without user's permission.
  • Cloze auto merges contacts and you have to go split them back apart if they don't belong.
  • Support is terrible in my opinion. I feel they won't and don't listen to your problem or solve it, they tell you how they use it and that is the way things are. I don't believe they are not here to help you, all they care about is $$$$$.
  • They don't offer phone support unless you want to spend $250 a month or have 10+ users on your account. They started that 2 years after we signed up with them.
  • Their support is sending you instructions they have posted on the website, and in my experience, if you don't understand what they sent they will not offer to do a screen share session to help you better understand what they are talking about.
  • NONE WE HAVE LEFT.
  • Negative - We have a contact database of 100000 contacts that we have to go in and rebuild on our new TMS system because, in our experience, Cloze destroyed 5 years worth of data with their smart features and AI.
They don't, they say they are a personal contact manager but I believe they are wanting large companies that have their own IT Departments as they don't really offer that good of support in my opinion and they do not have phone support. I wouldn't recommend this software to anyone for personal or business.

Do you think Cloze delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with Cloze's feature set?

No

Did Cloze live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Cloze go as expected?

No

Would you buy Cloze again?

No

It's ok for personal use but for business use, it is begging to become a terrible system. We used it for 5 years and after that, we have decided to move to a different system, upon export of the information we started looking at and our database of contacts was so messed up with contacts merged together that don't belong together. So as our database was so corrupted we had to start over with new contact lists and rebuild everything again. I would not recommend this software unless you have your own IT department that can fix things themselves.