Cognito Forms vs. GetFeedback

It's excellent for small sets of forms, from simple to highly complex It's not good at scale. With over 170 forms now, we desperately need some way to manage and maintain shared content once Cognito does not help. Their approach is that you can copy a working form (great) and modify it to create the next one. That's how we've got so many forms...

It is great to standardize under a single survey tool. Because it integrates so well into Salesforce it is very useful if your business lives and breathes in SFDC. It's helpful if you have a lot of surveys you are sending at different points in the customer lifecycle. You will need to have your own email delivery tool to really take advantage of when you are engaging a customer.

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• New Hire Form - It announces the new hire and provides direction to several departments on their needs, computer, phone, security level, etc.
• Terminations - We use it to shut off security, badges, computers, track phone, electronics, etc.
• Temp Form - It provides an avenue to enter them into our payroll system for tracking hours, also, for the start and end dates.

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• The way it works with Salesforce CRM and how you can create dashboards and reports based from criteria gathered in GetFeedback.
• Customisable features are a big plus - allows you to choose what kind of question you want to ask.
• Very easy to use interface and so easy to assemble a survey within minutes.

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• We have families of forms with a mix of unique parts and common functionality. Cognito has no ability to copy a field or a section (set of fields) between forms. If you need to update the common functionality, you have to do it separately for each affected form.
• It seems that the (large and impressive) functionality has outgrown the capabilities provided to manage sets of complex forms that exploit this functionality - such as copying and pasting between forms or being able to define a section in one place and have it appear in many forms (#include)
• The documentation is incomplete - often have to discover how things work by trial and error
• A spell checker for content would be nice!

• Survey submissions can notify only one email address so if you need individual responses to go to another individual you have to either set-up Salesforce workflows/email alerts or auto-forward rules in the email inbox
• Salesforce integration and sync is great and usually reliable but occasional record ID changes cause a failure in a survey response to sync to Salesforce. GetFeedback has no way to notify the administrator of the record's failure to sync.
• Easier to sync all data to Salesforce and do survey reporting within Salesforce than within the GetFeedback user interface

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We have just renewed our annual license. I don't think we could move the company backwards at this point

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We have been using Cognito Forms for over 5 years. We find it very easy use and it is part of the programs we use on a daily basis.

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It is incredibly straightforward to use. Setup time is hours to days. When it is up and running, you can forget it exists. The Lightning Platform integration then starts to provide many options around creative use of the tools. It becomes more about where you can extend to your hearts content. Lightning App developers will have a great time here.

Very friendly and helpful, but typically takes at least one day to respond. However, when they do respond they dive right into the specific form I ask about and tell me exactly how to fix what I need help with

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The few times, and I mean few, I have had to reach out to the support staff they were very helpful. I was also lucky enough to meet the developer at a users' conference. His willingness to hear what I had to say was impressive. After understanding his background coming from the CRM world I knew that he knew what we as users needed in the way of integration.

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I have not used any other programs like Cognito Forms. I have been with my company for almost two years. I very much like the ease of this system and its capabilities. I like knowing everyone is using the same thing. I do not foresee us making any changes to our current use of Cognito Forms.

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Satmetrix actually replaced GetFeedback, by SurveyMonkey at my previous company with a lot of objection from myself. The rationale was: wanted quicker survey deployment and better analytics, neither of which was solved by bringing in Satmetrix as the issues were architectural around the self-built IP and NOT GetFeedback, which did precisely what it could with the data it had. Much like other NICE products I have encountered, the synergy with Salesforce is labored and incredibly challenging to get up and running. There was a lot of heavy lifting to get the two platforms to work with each other and the sentiment that I got from Satmetrix was that it wanted to be the centre of the CX world and would be much happier if Salesforce didn't exist. This is great if you a company that is solely marketeers but terrible if you want to leverage and use the multifaceted capabilities of CX strategies.

• We have used Cognito Forms in place of having to purchase a specific platform or software for Employee Engagement
• We have used Cognito Forms for great surveys and found the reporting pretty good too

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• Our response rate for our lead qualifying survey has been hovering around 55%. That doesn't mean that they complete the entire thing, but at least we are getting some answers back. It also allows us to weed out any leads that are outside of our scope of work. The survey when answered in its entirety gets a lead 13 steps down our customer journey map.
• The automation of sending out the recruiting survey has allowed our recruiting manager to focus on qualified applicants and has completely eliminated the duplicate data entry of key information that the hiring managers required for determining if a candidate should be scheduled for a phone interview. Over the past year of using this survey we received 145 survey back. That is 145 manual emails that no longer had to be sent out by staff. You do the math on that time savings.
• The new hire training feedback has allowed internal trainers to understand how to better tailor each session to on-board future employees in a more effective manner. With over 33 different training modules you can imagine how intensive our on-boarding process can be and if we can understand what works and what doesn't this only adds to the effectiveness of each trainer.

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