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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Autoklose

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Autoklose, a VanillaSoft brand, is an SEP solution, presenting a combined package of sales email automation and tracking, contact and email campaign management with sequence templates and optimization.

    $59.99

    per month per user

    Groove, a Clari company

    Score6.2 out of 10
    N/AGroove is a sales engagement platform that enables sales leaders to execute their strategy in a smarter and more adaptive way. With Groove, revenue leaders can use automation to do more with less, with the goal of driving greater efficiency and effectiveness across the customer lifecycle. Groove states they enable more than 75,000 users at ADP, Google, Uber, iHeartMedia, Capital One, and other large enterprises.N/A
    Pricing
    AutokloseGroove, a Clari company
    Editions & Modules
    Auto Kloser
    $59.99
    per month per user
    Advanced Kloser
    $69.99
    per month per user
    Accelerated Kloser
    $99.99
    per month per user
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    Pricing Offerings
    AutokloseGroove, a Clari company
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalRequired
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    AutokloseGroove, a Clari company
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    99%
    Would buy again
    679 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    26 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    446 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    682 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    400 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    30 Answers
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Score6.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AutokloseGroove, a Clari company
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (33 ratings)
    5.0
    (707 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (33 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (30 ratings)
    5.3
    (543 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (30 ratings)
    4.5
    (145 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    4.7
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AutokloseGroove, a Clari company
    Likelihood to Recommend
    VanillaSoft
    If someone only runs a campaign using email and telephone communication, Autoklose is perfect, and I highly recommend it. If someone uses a more diverse set of tools and wants a more complex type of sequence, Autoklose does not allow their users to program communication tools that some other tools and software allow.
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    Groove, a Clari Company
    • Groove is excellent for the use case of improving sales representative and customer success representative productivity and data quality when used alongside Salesforce. It is a Salesforce focused tool. You should definitely consider Groove if you are a current Salesloft / Outreach user and you also use Salesforce.
    • Groove would not be a good fit for an organization not using Salesforce.
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    Pros
    VanillaSoft
    • It is helping in editing, managing, and send[ing] out large marketing campaigns.
    • It is easy to handle multiple emails in appropriate sequence.
    • Our company [has been] using this for a very long time. It is one of the perfect email solutions we found for our organization.
    • I have been very much impressed by their support staff.
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    Groove, a Clari Company
    • Groove lets us know real-time when a client has checked an email we sent them.
    • Groove helps us streamline our day-to-day events, meetings, and tasks with the help of the Calendar Booking feature.
    • Groove helps us save a lot of time on typing long letters when we explain our products to our customers with the help of their Templates feature.
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    Cons
    VanillaSoft
    • AutoKlose uses your own email, (e.g. Microsoft Outlook), so it runs the risk of exceeding the Microsoft Message Rate Limit, which can be problematic for your Outlook account.
    • Additional throttling limits for the SMTP Authentication protocol are:
    • 30 messages per minute
    • Recipient rate limit of 10,000 recipients per day.
    • Exceeding these limits will cause the following issues:
    • Exceeding the per minute limit causes email delivery delays, any excess in message submission will be throttled and successively carried over to the following minutes.
    • Exceeding the per day limit causes the following error message:
    • 554 5.2.0 STOREDRV.Submission.Exception:SubmissionQuotaExceededException.
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    Groove, a Clari Company
    • The footprint of the person who lasts touches the information.
    • The footprint of the person who edited the information.
    • Date and time of the modification of the account owner.
    • Date and time of the modification of the last person touching the account.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    VanillaSoft
    We love it and it works
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    Groove, a Clari Company
    I actually don't have any complaint regarding groove. It's just that I will give 9 since I confidently believe that there'd be updates in the future which would be more optimal not just for us users but for the business as well. The only regret I have with groove is I was not able to use it before the current company that I'm employed
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    Usability
    VanillaSoft
    Whether it's setting up integrations, creating email campaigns, managing conversations with prospects, Autoklose is a well-designed tool that provides clarity along the way for users to find their bearings, and understand what to do. The help documentation is excellent, the support is great, but the tool is built in a way that simply makes sense when you're using it.
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    Groove, a Clari Company
    Groove has been an awesome platform to use for sales pipeline management. I really enjoy how it integrates with my Salesforce, Gmail, and Google Calendar. It makes my job easier by helping me keep track of the progress of each sales contact that I have. Leads are able to reply and notify us using Groove.
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    Reliability and Availability
    VanillaSoft
    We have really had no issues.
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    Groove, a Clari Company
    Our organization has not experienced any availability issues with Groove
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    Performance
    VanillaSoft
    Always loads fast.
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    Groove, a Clari Company
    Everything is good
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    Support Rating
    VanillaSoft
    Our Autoklose rep is amazing! Jelena has always gotten back to us within 24 hours, despite living on a different continent. She is completely proficient with the tool and is usually able to answer our questions with a brief email or short virtual meeting.
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    Groove, a Clari Company
    My company has a team dedicated to supporting our implementation of operative tools and business systems such as Groove. For this reason, I feel that we have ample support for Groove, although I have not personally contacted Groove for any support issues.
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    In-Person Training
    VanillaSoft
    Jelena is amazing! Very knowledgable. Great instructor.
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    Groove, a Clari Company
    It was okay. But, just the once. I had to figure it out with help of others on my team.
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    Online Training
    VanillaSoft
    Jelena is fantastic. She always responds to emails immediately.
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    Groove, a Clari Company
    Easy to use
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    Implementation Rating
    VanillaSoft
    It is extremely easy to implement and start using right away
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    Groove, a Clari Company
    At Nearpod, I have been impressed with the internal expertise and support around Groove as a key tool for the Sales and Customer Success business systems and operations.
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    Alternatives Considered
    VanillaSoft
    I think that I have already said it, Autoklose has much better support and is really quick to set up and use compared with any of the other systems that I have used over the years.
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    Groove, a Clari Company
    Groove is simple. Like their competitors, they give you the ability to create templated "Flows" (sequences) of calls, emails, and LinkedIn touches. Some of them can be automated, but it's also simple to personalize outreach. Ultimately, my decision to purchase Groove over some of the competitors was based on their Salesforce integration, as well as white-glove customer service.
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    Scalability
    VanillaSoft
    It's expensive to have a single seat for each salesperson, so the alias feature will be the perfect addition to this product.
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    Groove, a Clari Company
    Our organization was able to quickly scale Groove from a pilot group of a few users to a department-wide solution
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    Return on Investment
    VanillaSoft
    • I feel the increased prospect engagement and business opportunities created supported the cost. In my industry 1 customer can support positive ROI.
    • I saw an overall increase in mass emailing effectiveness and we were able to automate majority of our campaigns which increased productivity for marketing & sales.
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    Groove, a Clari Company
    • Reduced several hours a week of logging time in Salesforce that either wouldn't get done or would have been done to the detriment of more value add activities.
    • Saves hours per week by delivering actionable/useful info from Salesforce into Gmail
    • Gives me valuable insight on what emails are being opened and read. This helps plan targeting.
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    Screenshot of Step 01: Set up your campaignScreenshot of Step 02: Choose your recipientsScreenshot of Step 03: Select the best converting templateScreenshot of Step 04: Customize your e-mail sequence

    Groove, a Clari company Screenshots

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