Kustomer vs. Vtiger

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Kustomer
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Kustomer is a customer service CRM platform built for managing high support volume by optimizing experiences throughout the customer service journey. Kustomer was acquired by Facebook in late 2020, but spun out in 2023 and re-launched as an independent entity, Kustomer, LLC.
$89
per month, per user
Vtiger
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Vtiger is a customer relationship management (CRM) solution with sales and marketing automation, project management, and inventory management capabilities.
$28
per month per user
Pricing
KustomerVtiger
Editions & Modules
Enterprise
$89
per month, per user
Ultimate
$139
per month, per user
One Professional - Single App
$28
per month per user
One Professional - Standard
$42
per month per user
One Enterprise - Single App
$42
per month per user
One Enterprise - Standard
$58
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
KustomerVtiger
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$10 / user / month
Additional DetailsAll plans require an annual subscription and 8 users minimum.Discounts are provided for both annual subscriptions, and for high volume users.
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Community Pulse
KustomerVtiger
Features
KustomerVtiger
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Kustomer
8.1
Ratings
1% above category average
Vtiger
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Expert directory8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket response8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Kustomer
8.5
Ratings
8% above category average
Vtiger
-
Ratings
External knowledge base8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal knowledge base9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Kustomer
8.0
Ratings
3% above category average
Vtiger
-
Ratings
Customer portal8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
IVR8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Email support10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Kustomer
-
Ratings
Vtiger
10.0
Ratings
26% above category average
Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Opportunity management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Contract management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Quote & order management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Interaction tracking00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
Kustomer
-
Ratings
Vtiger
9.5
Ratings
23% above category average
Case management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Help desk management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Kustomer
-
Ratings
Vtiger
10.0
Ratings
27% above category average
Lead management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Email marketing00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Kustomer
-
Ratings
Vtiger
10.0
Ratings
27% above category average
Task management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Kustomer
-
Ratings
Vtiger
9.7
Ratings
25% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Pipeline visualization00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Kustomer
-
Ratings
Vtiger
9.3
Ratings
21% above category average
Custom fields00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Custom objects00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
API for custom integration00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Kustomer
-
Ratings
Vtiger
10.0
Ratings
31% above category average
Social engagement00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Kustomer
-
Ratings
Vtiger
5.0
Ratings
38% below category average
Mobile access00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Kustomer
-
Ratings
Vtiger
9.0
Ratings
8% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Salesmate
Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
Creatio
Creatio
Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
SysAid
SysAid
Score 9.1 out of 10
Creatio
Creatio
Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
7.9
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
6.4
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
7.6
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.3
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.9
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.9
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.7
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
KustomerVtiger
Likelihood to Recommend
It works really well for you to ask a teammate to review a case/email/message and provide some input since you can all review the same conversations and client accounts. They can also cover your inbox using your email handle in case you are out of the office suing some well deserved PTO.
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Vtiger has evolved in the interfaces design. You can access all required data from one screen, similar to a control data. You have also sales and support dashboards predefined, but you can create your own. As less appropriate the templates design, it has not evolved from old versions of Vtiger.
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Pros
  • All customer data (past orders, communication with customer service, rewards account data) is in one place. This helps agents avoid confusion and reduces the number of tabs they need to open.
  • The Knowledge Base (or K Base) is very helpful. Any time we roll out a new policy or have a limited-time promotion, we can add all the relevant information and worksheets there for the convenience of the agents. That way they can stay in a chat while looking up the answer to a question.
  • We can seamlessly move from chat into email if the customer leaves or the queue times are too long. All the interactions will stay on the customer profile page, so they are kept up to date.
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  • I love reporting. I can build a custom report using all or any of the dimensions of my choice. This is great when other programs often limit this ability.
  • I like that is a source of truth across the organization. We can all go in and see the same thing.
  • This also works for communication with our teams in other countries. We are a global organization.
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Cons
  • For our team, the feature that defaults all notes to begin in "done" status is difficult. Throughout each day we need to have notes open and assigned back and forth to different teams, and we have to remember to manually "open" each note. There is too much room for human error with this setting, and it is easy for important notes to be missed if a user forgets to open the note.
  • Similarly, it can be hard to remember to assign emails/notes to a particular team in addition to a user. We almost exclusively work out of team inboxes, and if someone on Care writes an email to a customer, the email will automatically be "done" when it is created, and it will be assigned to the user who wrote it, but not also to the user's team. There are instances where an email needs to be snoozed for several days/hours with further action needed, and unless the user remembers to assign the email to their team it may "awake" from the snooze and not be visible to anyone except the user who created it. Similarly to my first comment, this leaves a lot of room for human error and is not very intuitive.
  • Personally, I do not love that all tickets/emails/notes are jumbled together in the same inbox. While this gives visibility to everything on the "to do" list at the same time, it can be visually overwhelming. We have created unique folders for certain types of projects or categories of work, but have experienced tech glitches or just the awkwardness of another step to manually read the note, determine what type of category it is, and then manually assign it to another folder. Would love to have things auto-sort and take out this manual lift.
  • I love the idea of the autopilot setting, but we have not been able to use this for our work because it sorts items based on time, and not based on priority. In our line of work, we may have an urgent situation arise that needs attention before an email that was sent in 60 minutes ago. The autopilot feature would push the email to my associates sooner than it would the urgent situation from 5 minutes ago. Due to this, we manually monitor inboxes and assign work to ourselves and others.
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  • Although Vtiger integrates well with email, like most CRM systems it assumes that you have one email system and therefore it is less suitable for use cases where multiple email systems need to be supported.
  • Although Vtiger supports Twitter it does not support other social media systems in the same way. You can tailor the system to hold the URLs of your contacts' social media profiles but if SM is a big thing for your organization then there are better systems available.
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Likelihood to Renew
Because there's no other tool like Kustomer
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Usability
There is a learning curve, but it is more than worth it, especially to have a dedicated resource pointed at Kustomer and any other software it interacts with. The basic implementation is useful, and powerful - certainly a MASSIVE upgrade over taking care of your customers in an email inbox or shuffling between multiple windows and applications! It is also set up really well to grow and reconfigure with your business. I'm a big fan.
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In the Last versions they have done a strong effort in creating a powerful data screen. Inside the screen you have access to signing, communications with multiple tools integration and connections with all modules related. With a single view you have all control over your data relations. It is similar to a control managing.
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Reliability and Availability
Because Kustomer is available when you need it
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Performance
Because ages load quickly, reports complete in a reasonable time frame, given their complexity
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Support Rating
It’s a great tool that has helped our company and overall customer service. I believe if we were able to edit certain setting for our specific company that would be hopeful. We have been told before that certain desires of ours would make a change throughout all of Kustomer. Which is not something we would want, we would just want that to change for our business.
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there is not much problem in using CRM. There were times it was lagging or bugging, but later on it will be fixed and I can use it again.
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In-Person Training
Because they are very hands-on in training us and very approachable
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Online Training
It was very easy to understand.
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Implementation Rating
Nothing really because it is easy to use. After an hour of using it, we're already getting the hang of it.
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Alternatives Considered
I find it baffling how little data can be stored or associated with a customer in many other systems, and how difficult that can be to set up. It is fine if you already have a robust CDP that you can hook up and use to power your CRM, but it is rare that an organization has the resources or the customer-focus to rally behind setting up their customer service/experience team up for success. With a platform like Kustomer, you can actually evolve the relationship over time, or use the past experiences (number of contacts, purchases, previous issues, etc.) to power your next steps with a customer, making for a much more nuanced relationship with a human, not just a ticket.
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The selection of vTiger was done by my management team to be able to see invoicing status in Quickbooks. Unfortunately, this feature has never worked but I think this might be a problem on our end, not a vTiger issue. We looked at Salesforce, HubSpot CRM, and ACT before making the switch to vTiger
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Scalability
Because customer is flexible and scalable
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Return on Investment
  • We’re getting so much positive feedback — which is not something you traditionally associate with a customer care team — because we’re making it effortless for customers to deliver both positive and negative feedback, and we can now resolve the bad feedback really really quickly.
  • Primarily from our increased efficiency with Kustomer, we’ve seen a significant reduction of $3 to $4 for every cost per contact.
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  • I managed to increase my production by 20% each month.
  • We increased the number of new clients each year.
  • Clients were satisfied by our support team.
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ScreenShots

Kustomer Screenshots

Screenshot of Example of a customer profile within Kustomer.Screenshot of Example of how Kustomer’s automated chats can save agents time by handling less complex requests automatically.

Vtiger Screenshots

Screenshot of Vtiger's home page dashboardScreenshot of A typical contact record in Vtiger