ClientSuccess vs. Totango

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ClientSuccess
Score 8.4 out of 10
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ClientSuccess, from the company of the same name in Lehi, is presented by the vendor as a simple yet sophisticated solution for CSMs, and the Executive team. For the CSMs, ClientSuccess brings together the tools, best practices, insights and analytics needed to proactively manage customers. For the Executives, they deliver analytics, metrics and reports to provide a comprehensive view of the health of a SaaS business.N/A
Totango
Score 7.8 out of 10
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Totango customer success software, now with Catalyst, helps enterprise businesses and cross-functional teams accelerate customer outcomes in productivity, retention, and expansion. Totango and Catalyst will become a unified product, following the merger in February 2024.N/A
Pricing
ClientSuccessTotango
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsEach package gives teams a 360° customer account profile, customer health scoring, customer journey program templates (SuccessBLOCS), automated workflows (SuccessPlays), email campaigns, self-paced onboarding, and customer support.
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Features
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Security
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ClientSuccess
8.2
Ratings
8% below category average
Totango
8.5
Ratings
5% below category average
Role-based user permissions8.20 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
ClientSuccess
8.4
Ratings
3% below category average
Totango
8.5
Ratings
2% below category average
API10.00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com9.00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Integration with Marketo7.30 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Integration with Eloqua7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Product A and Product B
ClientSuccess
8.9
Ratings
0% above category average
Totango
8.1
Ratings
9% below category average
Product usage8.40 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Help desk / support tickets9.40 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Customer Success Management
Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Product A and Product B
ClientSuccess
8.6
Ratings
1% below category average
Totango
8.1
Ratings
7% below category average
NPS surveys7.00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Sponsor tracking9.40 Ratings6.10 Ratings
Customer profiles9.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Automated workflow8.90 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Internal collaboration7.70 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Customer health scoring9.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Customer segmentation9.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
CSM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
ClientSuccess
8.4
Ratings
3% below category average
Totango
8.3
Ratings
4% below category average
Customer health trends9.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Engagement analytics8.10 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Revenue forecasting7.60 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Dashboards9.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
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User Ratings
ClientSuccessTotango
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7.6
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9.1
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Likelihood to Renew
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7.3
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Usability
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8.6
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Availability
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9.9
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Performance
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8.8
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Support Rating
10.0
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7.7
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Online Training
-
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7.0
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Implementation Rating
-
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10.0
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Configurability
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8.2
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Ease of integration
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8.0
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Product Scalability
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9.8
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Vendor post-sale
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8.0
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Vendor pre-sale
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8.0
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User Testimonials
ClientSuccessTotango
Likelihood to Recommend
ClientSuccess is perfect for the growing small-to-medium business like ours. It's simple and easy enough to quickly implement as a starter solution, but also robust enough to support multiple Customer Success teams. It may fall a bit short in terms of an enterprise organization in scale, customization, and flexibility. However, I can see enterprise organizations using different instances of ClientSuccess, perhaps for different departments or sections, if those organizations didn't need overarching analytics
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for a CSM it´s marvelous, you have in one window everything,the agenda for your day by day work, the workload you have in a day,all the customers database and call history added by tasks and toutch points, the to do thing in each customer you know what to do next, with renewal you hace an digital engadgement with customers inform they need to renew in order to keep using the app.
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Pros
  • Pulse - It is so nice to collect the pulses of my client to know if they are healthy or not. I base a lot of my interactions with clients off of pulse. It shows me how many days it's been since I last had a pulse check on someone and from there I can see if I need to reach out or not.
  • Automated Emails - It's so comforting to know that my clients are being communicated to when I haven't thought to reach out to them. I have set up a lot of automated emails and rules for when they should go out and I've had a lot of clients get in touch with me from it that need.
  • Success Cycles - It has allowed me to set up success cycles for the clients. Because of this, I know exactly how to train them and exactly where they're at in the training process.
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  • Totango easily integrates with other tools to pull information in one place.
  • Totango is extremely easy to configure how you want, including adding new attributes that are important to you, creating segments relevant to your business, and automating processes through SuccessPlays and Campaigns.
  • Totango Support is amazing! Very knowledgeable and prompt!
  • Totango provides so many resources for users, including tutorials, a knowledge base, and the new creator campus. It's awesome.
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Cons
  • The support view takes a few steps to get to the meat and potatoes.
  • The success score model can be improved to include smaller one-off campaigns. Success score is good for a campaign that has existed for a while but not for the one-off projects.
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  • Editing templates can be slow and confusing.
  • Building items across teams can be a challenge.
  • Reports and segments seem to be the same thing and it's a challenge telling people to build a segment when they are looking to build a report.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We like the tool enough to keep it in the long run. It does what we need it exactly to do, and I think there's still a lot for us to uncover in terms of its capabilities. There are a lot of functions we want to take the time to learn, but we've been strapped on resources so are just staying afloat.
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Usability
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It is easy to use and understand, and simple to follow day to day. Logging notes and tasks is one of the key areas this is utilised along with tracking reports and accessing key data points for conversations with customers which is helpful. Mobile app helps too to access information on the go.
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Reliability and Availability
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Totango is available all the time . the only problem is that some times it takes time to load specially the records of the customers. The data loading inside the customer account is fast. It may be because of internet service but still it can i,prove a lot. i have seen other competitors software which is faster
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Performance
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At times the integration sync can be really slow when it comes to touchpoints. I can't say the same for customer health syncing, but I do tend to notice the lag from email syncing, and in those cases, I will need to refresh the Totango page a couple of times or wait a couple of extra seconds/minutes for it to show up.
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Support Rating
They are SUPER responsive...even for late night inquiries.
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I give Totango a support rating of 10 because I can always get support whenever needed. If its a technical issue, I know I can email their support team for help. If it's a more in depth question with respect to our instance of Totango, I can reach out to our CSM and always get help in a very reasonable amount of time. I always look to Totango as the standard when I think of how to best communicate and support our own customers.
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Online Training
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Our CSM did a great job of conducting the training so we understand, at the very least, the functionality that is directly relevant to us. This also allowed us to train our own new team mates when onboarding based on the training flow that was first presented to us. This was also conducted as a interactive sessions, as training are notoriously known to be dry
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Implementation Rating
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Totango has been easy for our team to integrate most of our new features into, which is great considering we have to factor in the customers' usage of the new features into all of the health and usage metrics we have. It has taken a while to integrate our second product however, which is why I would rank this a 7.
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Alternatives Considered
Our team had previously been using HubSpot CRM as a way to manage client contracts in combination with Trello for simple client progress mapping, and Client Success has eliminated the need to use either of them for client management. HubSpot is designed more for sales processes and was missing a way for our team to get an accurate view of our clients and their details. In a similar manner, Trello is designed more for task and project management and didn't provide the detail orientation we needed.
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I've implemented dozens of systems over the last 15 years and, I feel, Totango was by far the most challenging. I have a background in several areas, but the most applicable to Totango is my background in data management, systems administration, programming, web design, web dev. Totango was very challenging to set-up. Other systems have more intuitive UIs and onboarding. For anyone wanting to use Totango, don't. For those that are still not convinced, I would make sure you are game for a very long implementation and the ongoing maintenance of syncing/resyncing. If you are in charge of implementation, in my experience, this is a not a 'set it and forget it' type of platform. It does require someone who is highly technical to partner with your customer success team to make sure it is functioning properly.
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Scalability
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Information keeps missing and changing in totango . Because of that there is are lot of problems with it. We need to manually keep the backup in an another file. More over if in case we take the backup its so hard to track since its all in numbers. Totango can be much better if the cloud storage is working fine. My company is planning to discontinue due to this factor
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Return on Investment
  • Within the first week, leadership was able to have more visibility into the lifestage and health score of each client
  • We needed to become more proactive as an organization and this platform has allowed us to do so with real-time metrics and reporting.
  • We needed to find a way to scale our approach, especially as our Client Success organization continues to grow, and this is already helping.
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  • Definitely enables to improve overall client retention, our target is 97%, we're at 96%.
  • A significant contribution to our increasing client conversion from starter package to the subscribed client within the first 90 days or less.
  • ROI continues to increase with every new release from Totango, and it will ultimately become our primary source of truth for all customer data.
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ScreenShots

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Screenshot of collaboration tools to manage a customer portfolioScreenshot of a 360° view of customer healthScreenshot of the dashboard to monitor customer metricsScreenshot of engaging in-app experiences and email campaigns to improve customer retentionScreenshot of integrated data in the Customer Data Hub