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    Stonly

    Score4.6 out of 10
    N/AWhen users need to explain how a product works to customers, share knowledge with a team, describe workflows for projects, or onboard new employees, Stonly, headquartered in Paris, offers interactive guides.N/A

    Zendesk Guide

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AZendesk Guide is a smart knowledge base built to help support teams continuously improve content, keep it up to date, and serve it to customers.N/A
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    StonlyZendesk Guide
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    StonlyZendesk Guide
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    StonlyZendesk Guide
    Considered Both Products
    Stonly
    Chose Stonly
    Stonly is the only tool we have used for onboarding guides. We also use Zendesk to help create guides, but I don't think that is a good comparison. Stonly is much more focused on being within the application, whereas Zendesk is more documentation driven.
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    Zendesk
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    User Ratings
    StonlyZendesk Guide
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.4
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
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    User Testimonials
    StonlyZendesk Guide
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Stonly
    Unless you have the time and effort to do this on your own, Stonly is a fantastic tool that helped us communicate with our customers without needing to think about it for too long. It is flexible where needed and we noticed that it is constantly improving as time goes on. I would recommend it to anyone who wants to provide their user's more guidance on how to use their applications or free up some time from the developer's workload.
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    Zendesk
    In our company, we host our benefit articles based on country on our Zendesk Guide. However, these articles should not be seen by employees that are outside their respective article country. For example, an employee that is based in Thailand shouldn't be seeing Malaysia benefits article as employees might compared benefits. With Zendesk Guide, the system allow us to set the configuration of the article so it is only visible Thailand-based employees, and for Malaysia article, only Malaysia-based employees
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    Pros
    Stonly
    • knowledge bases
    • company wikis
    • onboarding
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    Zendesk
    • They give us ability to control the whole frontend of the Communities by giving us access to manipulate HTML (in HBS file), CSS and JS
    • They give handlebars templating engine in backend which helps us to show various listing rendered through server side without having need to implement client side rendering of the listing and features.
    • They provide us dynamic content fields, which can be useful for mapping categories or storing category and topic IDs so we don't need to hard code IDs in Sandbox and Production separately.
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    Cons
    Stonly
    • More features around tracking and understanding our users.
    • Sometimes run into issues with development and connecting with existing components, which may require rework on our end to get up and running.
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    Zendesk
    • Formatting according to our brand guidelines can be tricky
    • Reporting metrics are lacking
    • The user interface can be confusing
    • Their support team takes a long time to respond
    • They have comments open on their KB articles, but almost noone responds, which is frustrating.
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    Support Rating
    Stonly
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    Zendesk
    The support is good but can sometime be frustrating to get a quick answer. We end up being sent articles that don't answer the question and then we have to go back and try again
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    Alternatives Considered
    Stonly
    Intercom and Gist are more focused on Live chat, but the knowledge base is part of their offerings. I love that Stonly is really fleshed out and offers deep features built around the customer education experience.
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    Zendesk
    It is an attribute of Zendesk that allows for easy over the phone communication between agents and customers. It is more personal and allows for better productivity. Phone support from anywhere with reliable internet connection which is essential to call center communication whether in the office or in the home of the agent.
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    Return on Investment
    Stonly
    • Improved time to market for supporting documents.
    • Provided a way for our content team to be autonomous.
    • Helped us think more outside the box on how we tell user's about our new features.
    • Helped migrate outdated users to our new applications.
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    Zendesk
    • We used it for multiple customer so we can say ROI of Zendesk Guide is very competitive.
    • Zendesk meet[s] most of the business objective[s], which suits [a]s best product among its competitor.
    • I highly recommend to use Zendesk for knowledge base and tickets and agents.
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