Channelscaler vs. Salesforce Partner Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Channelscaler
Score 9.2 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Channelscaler is the product resulting from the combing of Allbound and Channel Mechanics. It is a cloud-based channel sales and marketing platform that allows organizations to give real-time access to sales enablement, marketing tools and resources in one mobile-friendly place.N/A
Salesforce Partner Management
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce Partner Management is a partner relationship management (PRM) software solution offered by Salesforce.
$25
per month per user
Pricing
ChannelscalerSalesforce Partner Management
Editions & Modules
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Essentials
$25
per month per user
Professional
$75
per month per user
Enterprise
$150
per month per user
Unlimited
$300
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ChannelscalerSalesforce Partner Management
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAll plans are billed annually.
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
Salesforce Experience Cloud
Salesforce Experience Cloud
Score 7.9 out of 10
Salesforce Experience Cloud
Salesforce Experience Cloud
Score 7.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Salesforce Experience Cloud
Salesforce Experience Cloud
Score 7.9 out of 10
Salesforce Experience Cloud
Salesforce Experience Cloud
Score 7.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
ChannelscalerSalesforce Partner Management
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
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8.5
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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8.2
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Usability
10.0
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7.3
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Support Rating
10.0
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Implementation Rating
10.0
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User Testimonials
ChannelscalerSalesforce Partner Management
Likelihood to Recommend
Very well-suited for a rising startup like ours that is rapidly growing its customer and partner base. Very well-suited for needing to make rapid changes to your marketing mix and being able to quickly see it reflected in the portal.
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For partners on-boarding and information sharing this tool is a perfect fit. It also fits well for admin users as it helps to consolidate all information in one place with most common integrations being supported by Salesforce. So far we've been dipping our toes with this product, but in the future look forward to expanding on functionalities that we utilize in business processes
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Pros
  • Lead registrations. One reason we chose Allbound was for its easy to use deal registration form.
  • Events. We promote every event that our company will be attending to all of our partners via Allbound.
  • Prospecting. Our team also creates unique prospecting pages for customers, prospects, and partners to help drive specific information that these companies should have access to across the organization.
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  • Connects with Salesforce CRM
  • Retains historical data
  • Good UI
  • Well organized
  • Easy to link items to owners
  • Salesforce CMS is good
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Cons
  • I worked on Cloud based Channel Mechanics product, not sure it could be a server setup model product
  • It's good for mid and big firms. But not sure this product can be economical for startup and micro business
  • Service level integration is difficult require easy way of doing it
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  • One thing is, you have to put the time you took on the case if you edited it. I would like to change the name or a note and not have to go back and put how long it took.
  • Reports can sometimes be hard to create.
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Likelihood to Renew
Allbound is so easy to use as an administrator and provides human support and a resource for its customers to learn about the features and tools available. Our partners consistently provide feedback to us about how much they absolutely love our partner portal, which Allbound provides the structure and functionality to allow us to over amazing things to thousands of partner globally. Almost every person who provides feedback says some iteration of "this is the best partner portal i've ever used."
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We are definitely going to renew as we created and developed a very functional and complete solution that we won't want to lose. and the reason we achieved that is by continuously evolving and enhancing. That would not be possible without the qualified technical support we have at our disposal internally.
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Usability
It is by far the easiest system to administrator that I have either had experience doing or demoed from other vendors. No coding skills needed. Simple interfaces for everything. And the Allbound University and live support are great!
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Salesforce Partner Management is complete and has great usability. Just as a Salesforce full CRM does. However, when you have to deploy the initial implementation and/or create the infrastructure for your Salesforce Partner Management it might require, as expected, a very good support and development team and resources
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Support Rating
Allbound has a support team that is easy to contact right through the PRM interface. Additionally, we have a dedicated account manager and development team who are super responsive and helpful. Allbound has a ticketing system for support as well, which keeps you up to date on status of your support requests.
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Implementation Rating
Regular meetings, lots of UAT, quick responses, and adherence to our timeline made implementation a breeze -- even though we had some really complex processes we needed to support.
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Alternatives Considered
For our partner portal, we have chosen Allbound. We wanted one place where all of our partners could go to find the information they required, and where some of that information could be made available automatically. Allbound provides us all the necessary tools for facilitating content exchange with our partners, including legally binding contracts, transaction registrations, and everything else we may need. It also helps us empower our partners by providing them with instructional courses and turnkey marketing strategies.
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In general lines, the simple drag-and-drop interface of Salesforce Partner Management makes it a great tool when comparing it with the rest of the tools in the market. Additionally, the vast number of integration with content management systems is not a feature easily found in other similar tools and it really helps with the assets management process.
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Return on Investment
  • Helped us recruit way more partners and scale the program
  • Helped us be way more organized with our partner collateral which was all over the place before
  • Has helped us drive more opportunities to the business thanks to the ability to scale and not have everything manual
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  • Saves time during my day to find not only my notes but other people's notes so I don't have to go back to them to find the data.
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