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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Slack

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ASlack is a group messaging or team collaboration app that aims to simplify communication for businesses. Features include open discussions, private groups, and direct messaging, as well as deep contextual search and message archiving, and file sharing. Slack integrates with a number of other tools, such as MailChimp, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Slack was acquired by Salesforce in December 2020. The product is free to use, and also has paid plans with more features and greater controls. The…

    $8.75

    per month per user

    Text-Em-All

    Score9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Text-Em-All, headquartered in Frisco, delivers personalized, informational, emergency mass text messages and phone calls, whether they’re going to five people or 50,000.

    $0.05

    cents

    Pricing
    SlackText-Em-All
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    Pro
    $7.25*
    per month per user
    Business+
    $12.50*
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Starter
    $0
    Credits
    $0.05
    per credit
    Monthly
    $19
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SlackText-Em-All
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details*Per active user, per month, when paying once a year. Pro is $8.75 USD per active user when paying month to month. Business+ is $15.00 USD per active user when paying month to month.Text-Em-All offers a variety of pricing plans to cater to different user needs. The monthly plan starts at $19, with pricing based on group size, making it ideal for consistent senders who reach the same group(s) each month as often as needed. Plans provide access to the full range of Text-Em-All features, to ensure a comprehensive messaging experience. Additionally, the platform offers credits, or pay-as-you-go pricing model, with costs ranging from 5¢ to 9¢ per credit, suitable for users with occasional or high-volume messaging needs. To help potential customers evaluate the service, Text-Em-All offers a free account so users can evaluate and try the service with 25 free credits.
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    Community Pulse
    SlackText-Em-All
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Text-Em-All
    Chose Text-Em-All
    Text-Em-All is much more user friendly than EZ Texting, and has a more reasonable pricing and payment structure. I also achieved a much higher delivery rate with Text-Em-All than with EZ Texting, which was the most important selling point for me.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    188 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    392 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    204 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    222 Answers
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    167 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    250 Answers
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    177 Answers
    Features
    SlackText-Em-All
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Slack and Text-Em-All
    Feature
    Slack
    8.2
    479 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Text-Em-All
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management8.2310 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts6.961 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling7.9259 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation8.4284 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access9.5460 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search8.7463 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visual planning tools8.0187 Ratings00 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Slack and Text-Em-All
    Feature
    Slack
    8.9
    488 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Text-Em-All
    -
    Ratings
    Chat9.8488 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications9.1484 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discussions9.6473 Ratings00 Ratings
    Surveys8.1302 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase7.8300 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with GoToMeeting8.9110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts8.7182 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Outlook8.9120 Ratings00 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Slack and Text-Em-All
    Feature
    Slack
    8.7
    461 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Text-Em-All
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    Ratings
    Versioning8.4229 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video files8.8412 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio files9.1403 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document collaboration8.5318 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access control8.4305 Ratings00 Ratings
    Advanced security features8.4264 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive9.0211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device sync9.1339 Ratings00 Ratings
    Emergency Notification System
    Comparison of Emergency Notification System features of Slack and Text-Em-All
    Feature
    Slack
    -
    Ratings
    Text-Em-All
    7.8
    12 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Mass Notification00 Ratings9.110 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Delivery00 Ratings8.79 Ratings
    Customization and Templates00 Ratings7.39 Ratings
    Geo-Targeting00 Ratings8.62 Ratings
    Multi-Language Support00 Ratings6.13 Ratings
    Emergency Contacts Database00 Ratings9.14 Ratings
    Two-Way Communication00 Ratings8.711 Ratings
    Notification Reporting and Analytics00 Ratings6.412 Ratings
    Integration with External Systems00 Ratings7.18 Ratings
    Mobile Notifications00 Ratings6.78 Ratings
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    SlackText-Em-All
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    Flock
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Microsoft Viva Engage
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Google Keep
    Score9.9 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    SlackText-Em-All
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (488 ratings)
    7.8
    (202 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (23 ratings)
    9.5
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (103 ratings)
    9.4
    (9 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (66 ratings)
    7.5
    (105 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.4
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.2
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SlackText-Em-All
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Salesforce
    If you population likes technology, then I would recommend Slack. It is more difficult to implement if not everyone is on Slack or knows how to use it. Slack was used well by some employees who loved it. Slack allowed them to plan annual events and get feedback and ideas from those involved in the event
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    Text-Em-All
    We have found them to be very good for immediate communication of a brief message to a large number of people at once. Thus, it works perfectly for a neighborhood association. It may not be suitable for longer messages or situations with excessive notifications.
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    Pros
    Salesforce
    • Huddles Run smoothly without any interferences.
    • Smooth individual calls quick and easy without any interruptions.
    • seamless notifications across multiple devices
    • The ability to easily tag a team member to urgently attend to a specific escalation.
    • Slack being user friendly and able to integrate easily with other platforms and apps.
    • How to easily open up different channels for different escalations and needs.
    • a safe direct messaging option.
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    Text-Em-All
    • Scheduled delivery: works as it should every time and is SUPER convenient.
    • Mass contact upload: I was able to pull a report to excel and it loaded PERFECTLY to ‘Contacts’
    • Feedback: if anyone doesn’t get the message, I will know almost immediately.
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    Cons
    Salesforce
    • Would love a better integration with GitHub. For example, notifications when your PR is updated, when review is requested, @-mention in comments, etc.
    • Improved "Later" tab, for example the ability to create to-do lists or making the "Later" tab into a more powerful to-do list (annotate items with notes)
    • More powerful integrations, e.g. Google Calendar could render a calendar view within Slack, rather than sending the daily schedule
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    Text-Em-All
    • My initial concern was regarding the "opt out" feature. I work with the senior population, and many of whom are not that tech-savvy. I have a couple of residents who had unintentionally opted out of messages thinking it was an individual message they were skipping. I would suggest that there be a clarifying question when a user chooses to opt out; it should default to opting out of a single message and survey the user to see if they would like to opt out of receiving additional messages. My residents were wondering why they were missing information and why I hadn't informed them of important dates and events.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Salesforce
    To be more transparent, I give 10 because Slack serves our collaboration needs. It provide us a good platform for team communication relaying important update within the company, it has even mobile app where you can install in your phone to monitor any updates within that team that needs your immediate attention and intervention.
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    Text-Em-All
    Text-Em-All is a great way to get messages to our associates versus posting on a memo board and hoping they see it. Very efficient. I would recommend this great tool to companies big or small as a form of business related communications. The only thing I would change is the ability to use more characters in the messages. And it would be a plus if you can translate to different languages in the app.
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    Usability
    Salesforce
    Slack is one of the easiest platforms to use! It is very aesthetically pleasing and you can arrange the chats and other features the way you personally like it. They kept it pretty simple for people who aren’t looking to do anything more than streamlining communication, but they definitely have options for folks to build out the Workspace more.
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    Text-Em-All
    It's fantastic. In general, it's a 10. But I give it a 7 because of the way I know it can improve. I save my workers' names in lists...and I have only the first and last name fields to classify them. I grade my workers based on their experiences and based on their jobs; so I use the last name field to group them. This could be easier by you adding another field.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Salesforce
    Yes, the app works 24/7. I don't even recall having any period that we could not use since the implementation. Even the maintenance periods are barely noticeable and our work is not impacted by it when it happens.
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    Text-Em-All
    The availability of the text em all is amazing specially when we needed the most to spread out the word on an event that was happening.
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    Performance
    Salesforce
    Slack is a soft app, we don't have many issues with it. I recall one or two people complaining about something during our usage period, but I didn't have a bad experience. When the app is slow, usually the problem is with my computer or my internet. The app works just fine.
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    Text-Em-All
    I love the performance it provided us. Also, want to clarify that the time it takes to send out a mass text is amazing
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    Support Rating
    Salesforce
    Whenever I've had to troubleshoot an issue with Slack (which, to be honest, has not happened very often), their online documentation has been easy to locate, easy to understand, and effective in resolving my issue. Slack's ever-growing popularity also means that there's a large community of practice out there that can be depended upon.
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    Text-Em-All
    There have been few times over the last 18 years that I have had to make changes to our billing or deal with particular tech questions and I have never had any issues with their response time or ability to be helpful once the issues were communicated
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    Implementation Rating
    Salesforce
    I was not part of the implementation team, but I recall being 100% happy and excited to learn and use a new tool. I'm still am to be honest.
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    Text-Em-All
    This was the best way we were able to reach out to everyone we wanted to, being that there were some not tech-sabi elderly people. This was a better way for them to be able to get the information they needed.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Salesforce
    Having had a lot of experience with Google Chat and Teams, Slack is far and away the better option. In comparison to Teams, Slack is much cleaner with a far more user friendly AI, Teams is far too clunky and feels tiresome to use, whereas it is super easy to pick up Slack and be able to configure it do exactly what you need. Whilst I don't find a massive difference between the usability and UI of Google Chat to Slack. Slack's range of features far outweighs Google Chat. The ease of external connections, workflows, file sharing, external connections for notifications (Make, Zapier etc), plus the huge range of apps you can connect to enhance your workspace is incredible. Google Chat does benefit from directly integrating into your Google Suite so you can get access to automatic status updates based on calendar activity, which would be nice for Slack to have
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    Text-Em-All
    Our last provider was costly for what we needed. We need the ability to text, and that's it. The sense was challenging to navigate; I had to sign a one-year contract and pay thousands upfront. Text-em-all has been the best thing.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Text-Em-All
    Seems like a fair price for the product
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    Scalability
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Text-Em-All
    We have never had a problem being able to use Text em all when we needed it
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    Return on Investment
    Salesforce
    • Use of Slack has enabled us to stay aligned with sales and ensure accurate forecasting.
    • The product has reduced delays in decisions making and helps us to improve on transparency in our departments.
    • Slack has eliminated the use if emails as it allows direct messaging. This has ensured real-time communication.
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    Text-Em-All
    • We definitely have a higher response rate when we contact applicants via text message; it seems to be the thing people check more often than email now.
    • It saves us a lot of time wasted before with "phone tag" when employees are unable to immediately to take a call.
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    ScreenShots

    Text-Em-All Screenshots

    Screenshot of broadcast creation.Screenshot of the interface to add contacts.Screenshot of where to broadcast results.Screenshot of broadcast details.Screenshot of the contact management interface.Screenshot of two-way conversations.