Customer.io vs. RingCX

This tool is well-suited for companies looking to run email marketing campaigns or send out newsletters regularly to their users/customers. The workflow setup is especially useful for companies who want to send specific emails based on user behavior - i.e. they've not logged in recently, have bought a specific product, haven't opened any emails, etc. This could also be useful for freelancers like me since you can create different workspaces within Customer.io. I have configured it this way to handle email marketing for a few of my clients, and the software keeps everything organized and separate. This might not be the best tool for small businesses, considering the price. It may be better to start out with a cheaper email marketing tool, and then if/when necessary, scale-up with a tool like Customer.io.

RingCX can be well suited for any environment. It's call center focused but it can also be used in a non-call center setting.

Incentivized

• Ease of use, a good tool for non programmers, or not so tech savvy people.
• Great support, willing to help a lot, by chat, calls, or screen sharing.
• Fast updates, it's a newer tool, but they are coming with fixes and updates fast.

Incentivized

• Set-up was well structured, and programmers made adjustments for items we requested
• conversion was quick and easy
• Sales team worked with us to get to pricing we had budgeted for

Incentivized

• I may be missing it in the UI, but a place to see the list of emails who qualify for a certain email.
• One easy to view chart of all our automated/lifecycle emails to see what a given user would see over their customer journey. (This is really just a feature request/idea - the product itself is really awesome.)

Incentivized

• We've had instances where items that we insisted on was not fulfilled.
• We wanted more detailed reports for our matrixes.
• Very sensitive to our virtual environments.

Incentivized

It is really difficult to leverage all the neat features without a developer. I actually think the base software could be really great for a small business if the price is right, but there are so many things you *can* do but have to know how to do them or have access to your website and the ability to code.

Incentivized

Because it works almost flawlessly. In the last several months, I only had one instance where I had to log out of RingCX and log back in to make it work. With our Last VOIP, we had to do that several times per day. It is always easy to log calls, whether answering with the RingCX Salesforce dialer, desktop app, or mobile phone. Creating SOPs couldn't be any easier because RingCX just works!

Incentivized

We used Autopilot in the past. It worked well but the integration wasn't very good, considering they only used cookies. We have a very complex system right now to be able to track every customer, and it was expensive but worth it. Autopilot worked very well when we were starting, but then it didn't track purchases, it wasn't easy to change a customer attribute, and so on (this was a few years ago, probably they have improved a lot). It was more visual and better to create huge workflows. . Mailchimp was the first program we used. It's very basic but good at what it does: sending a newsletter to your small database. It has integrated very well with other services and we haven't used in a lot of time, but certainly was grown a lot so it must be doing things fine. I also tried Active Campaign but it was almost the same as Autopilot.

Incentivized

We used to use SipVine before switching and they used an app called Bria for mobile stuff. It worked, but as we scaled as a business we needed more. That's where RingCX came in. Anytime a company makes a full-scale change it comes with pains, but to say that the pains for RingCX were minimal would still be an understatement. They helped us switch Seamlessly from our last VOIP; the whole process only took a few minutes, and then using the app, Salesforce integrations, etc., was incredibly easy.

Incentivized

• Helped increase our new user engagement with our cloud-based software
• Helped our sales team identify clients who had dropped off and stopped interacting with our software
• Helped our sales and customer service team track which clients were completing their full registration process
• Helped our marketing, sales, and customer service team identify key features and messaging with A/B testing for different campaigns

Incentivized

• We had been experiencing dropped calls and call quality issues, none of this occurs anymore
• We previously were not able to route, manage and report on email coming into the team, now we can

Incentivized