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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Front

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AFront is a communication hub that helps businesses keep the human touch in every interaction.

    $29

    per month per user

    Zendesk Suite

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AZendesk is a customer support solution with built-in ticketing, conversational messaging, and live chat, designed to help businesses of all sizes and industries deliver personalized service at scale. Zendesk's AI agents are trained in CX to help Service teams resolve customer issues faster and more accurately while still providing a human-centered experience. Zendesk ultimately aims to help businesses improve time to value, reduce effort per ticket, and keep costs low.

    $69

    per month per agent

    Pricing
    FrontZendesk Suite
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $29
    per month per user
    Growth
    $79
    per month per user
    Scale
    $99
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Premier
    $229
    per month (billed annually) per seat (50 seat minimum)
    Suite Team
    $69
    per month per agent
    Suite Growth
    $115
    per month per agent
    Suite Professional
    $149
    per month per agent
    Suite Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FrontZendesk Suite
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsDiscount for annual pricing on Starter and Growth plans. Scale and Premier plans are annual price only.20% discount available with annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    FrontZendesk Suite
    Considered Both Products
    Front
    Chose Front
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    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.…
    Incentivized
    Chose Front
    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.
    Incentivized
    Zendesk
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    FrontZendesk Suite
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Front and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Front
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.8
    154 Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.1153 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings8.3102 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.6106 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings8.5104 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.3153 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings9.3152 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Front and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Front
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.5
    139 Ratings
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.5133 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.5127 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Front and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Front
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    9.0
    150 Ratings
    Customer portal00 Ratings9.2121 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings8.659 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings8.697 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings9.4147 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings9.2112 Ratings
    User Ratings
    FrontZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.5
    (28 ratings)
    9.0
    (192 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (43 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (65 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (13 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    5.5
    (31 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (9 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (18 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.3
    (3 ratings)