CustomerSuccessBox vs. Pendula

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CustomerSuccessBox
Score 9.5 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
What is CustomerSuccessBox? An AI-powered customer success platform for B2B SaaS that provides actionable insights to drive customer success. Backed with $1 Million in March 2018 by pi Ventures and Axilor Ventures, CustomerSuccessBox was built from a clear need for a solution that could deliver ‘proactive’ customer success. Customer Success tracks product adoption to understand customer onboarding, product adoption, usage analysis, and calculating customer health scores.…N/A
Pendula
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Pendula drives the shift from broadcast to conversation by enabling two-way messaging and workflow at scale, allowing users to create, manage, and optimise digital customer experiences across every channel. With no coding knowledge required and built on Zuora & Salesforce, Pendula supports automated two-way communication across SMS, email, social messaging and fax. It also enables outbound posts. Customers can see and take action on messages, whenever and wherever they…N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$499 per userOptional
Additional DetailsThe pricing is different for the types of businesses to which CustomerSuccessBox caters to- 1. Grow- For businesses who want to start with the customer success initiative with a small success team 2. Business- For businesses with mature customer success practices and a large success team 3. Enterprise- For businesses who want to extend with the customer success initiative across a range of products and teams. For more info on pricing, checkout https://customersuccessbox.com/pricing/Contact Pendula.com to discuss pricing
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
CustomerSuccessBox
Chose CustomerSuccessBox
CustomerSuccessBox provides a great UI where I can manage all the activities related to a client in a single window.
This helps to update and focus on key tasks related to the client.
Small insights graph helps to quickly analyze the client's health towards our product.
Chose CustomerSuccessBox
We have chosen CustomerSuccessBox as it provides a 360degree customer view and end-to-end customer success management. On top of that having the visibility to automate alerts.
Chose CustomerSuccessBox
I have not evaluated any other software. Nor have I used it. My manager has chosen this software. I'm not the decision maker, my management takes care of all this. I also use Freshdesk, Mixpanel and Hubspot for managing my other work. Good news is, all these are integrated with …
Chose CustomerSuccessBox
Playbook and journey plan, Dhanboard, User level data, Revenue details, Custmomer segmentation
Chose CustomerSuccessBox
I haven't used any other products like CustomerSuccessBox, and I am not looking for a change in software since this seems to be more than helpful
Pendula
Chose Pendula
We found the user interface, the customer service, and the feature sets worked very well for us. Pricing was also affordable.
Features
CustomerSuccessBoxPendula
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
CustomerSuccessBox
8.5
Ratings
2% below category average
Pendula
-
Ratings
API8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Product A and Product B
CustomerSuccessBox
9.4
Ratings
6% above category average
Pendula
-
Ratings
Product usage9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Help desk / support tickets9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Success Management
Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Product A and Product B
CustomerSuccessBox
9.0
Ratings
4% above category average
Pendula
-
Ratings
NPS surveys7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Sponsor tracking9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer profiles9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated workflow9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer health scoring9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer segmentation9.50 Ratings00 Ratings
CSM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
CustomerSuccessBox
8.8
Ratings
2% above category average
Pendula
-
Ratings
Customer health trends9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement analytics8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Revenue forecasting8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboards9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
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CustomerSuccessBox
CustomerSuccessBox
Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
CustomerSuccessBoxPendula
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
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9.0
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Usability
9.3
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Support Rating
9.3
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Vendor post-sale
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10.0
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Vendor pre-sale
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10.0
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User Testimonials
CustomerSuccessBoxPendula
Likelihood to Recommend
Customer success box is very well suited for SAAS companies where p product tracking and adoption of needed. Customer support our implementation teams can use customer success box. For tech, quality teams or marketing teams within a company this product is not useful as the domain for these teams are different.
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We used Pendula as part of our re-engagement program. This was valuable, as we were able to connect with 40,000 or more names. Knowing that either a significant telesales team effort--too expensive and not enough people--would be implausible. We designed an interactive SMS journey that allowed us to begin the process of taking the 40.000 and discovering those who were willing to shop with us again automatically. We also found that promotions and blasts worked really well, were very easy to set up and run, and then the automation on the back to create the Salesforce opportunity. We have also engaged with custom objects and were able to trigger events on internal activities and sales status, such as shipping notifications.
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Pros
  • Journey feature will help you automate your manual tasks like auto csm assignments, auto playbook enrolls, email alerts to your clients about new assignments or any set templates, etc.
  • Making a playbook of your process (must be consist of multiple steps) will help you give the visibility of how many clients are stuck in which steps and from when.
  • They are using Metabase for making analytics dashboards where you can make your own dashboard with different filters like Csm activity report, churn dashboard, potential clients report and also using pulse feature in Metabase schedule your daily report to different required people.
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  • EOFY campaigns that drove limited time, limited release offers. We could segment our targets and engage those most likely to respond well.
  • Limited release wine offers, again targeting the right buyers, and then designing a series of interactions with them. This enabled sales reps to speak to those most warm.
  • Customer re-engagement. We have very many historical customers. We were able to reach 30,000 or so people and then lead them through several steps towards re-engagement.
  • Targeting smaller customer segments was made easy due to the deep integration with Salesforce. We could create campaigns to account owners of contacts that met criteria--which provided a deeply personal experience.
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Cons
  • Health aggregation delay can be improved.
  • Calling with csbox software can be improved, it makes touchpoint even if your call from csbox has not picked up, and accordingly changed relationship health.
  • Add more analytics in the playbook like avg time taken to complete each step and there is no option of selecting multiple csms in the filter.
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  • Navigating a variety of journeys can get tricky. They have been steadily improving the interface here.
  • Managing launch times and turning campaigns on and off can be cumbersome.
  • Naming, tagging, and cross-journey reporting would be great.
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Usability
CustomerSuccessBox is a valuable asset for every customer success manager and it is more than helpful for all the tracking functions it has. The trends of finance, product adoption, relationship, service all can be tracked extremely well so that a customer success manager doesn't need to worry on the fact that he has to look into everything from various places but can look at a one-stop solution like the customer success box.
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Support Rating
I have created two - three support tickets so far and their response is very very quick. Their team is also very empathetic, understanding and highly motivated towards solving a customer's problem. I would definitely recommend and rate them 10 / 10 for their excellent after sales support. They support for all EST & PST zones.
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Alternatives Considered
I have not evaluated any other software. Nor have I used it. My manager has chosen this software. I'm not the decision maker, my management takes care of all this. I also use Freshdesk, Mixpanel and Hubspot for managing my other work. Good news is, all these are integrated with CustomerSuccessBox
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We found the user interface, the customer service, and the feature sets worked very well for us. Pricing was also affordable.
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Return on Investment
  • It has helped in managing large amount of Client data under single platform.
  • It helped in generating valuable insights from data.
  • It is helpful to take proactive actions.
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  • We were able to activate a large number of old customers
  • We generated significant revenues and fast sales
  • We have been able to run multichannel campaigns to great effect
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ScreenShots

CustomerSuccessBox Screenshots

Screenshot of 360 Degree View 

A fully integrated customer success platform that connects with your CRM, Helpdesks, Billing system, customer engagement system, and even your homegrown systems to provide customer success managers a complete 360-degree view of each account.Screenshot of Actionable Platform

No more juggling between tools, get all customer communication in one place. You get the ability to send emails, make calls and manage tasks from inside the customer success platform. CSMs take preemptive measures to engage with accounts with average or poor health.Screenshot of Segmentation

Customer Segmentation is done based on revenue generated/MRR (Enterprise-Mid market-SMBs or Tier 1-Tier 2-Tier3), location (US, Asia, EMEA, ANZ, etc), Product used or plans opted for, etc.Screenshot of Playbooks 

Time-bound playbooks are created to manage tasks to onboard, increase product adoption, renewals, and upsells.  Playbooks help in creating an Ideal Customer Journey along with various Tasks, Outcomes & Milestones

Pendula Screenshots

Screenshot of Trigger Actions in Zuora & Salesforce based on customer responseScreenshot of Create stronger experiences with customers through Subscriber Engagement