Xactly Forecasting® vs. Yesware

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Xactly Forecasting®
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Xactly Forecasting enables users to tackle the toughest pipeline challenges and deliver the results that matter to everyone from the CRO to Finance. Xactly Forecasting helps to improve sales and revenue forecasting accuracy using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology, consolidated performance metrics, and quick insights to understand the health of a revenue engine.N/A
Yesware
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Yesware, from Vendasta since the October 2022 acquisition, is a service for salespeople that helps them close deals faster. An email service tracks email, templates responses and syncs to CRM.
$19
per month
Pricing
Xactly Forecasting®Yesware
Editions & Modules
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Pro
$19
per month
Premium
$45
per month
Enterprise
$85
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Xactly Forecasting®Yesware
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAnnual plans save up to 23%.
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Community Pulse
Xactly Forecasting®Yesware
Features
Xactly Forecasting®Yesware
Sales Forecasting Features
Comparison of Sales Forecasting Features features of Product A and Product B
Xactly Forecasting®
7.4
Ratings
15% below category average
Yesware
-
Ratings
Sales Benchmarking7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Quick Dashboard/Forecast6.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Visuals6.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Forecast Templates6.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Forecasting Factors6.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Forecast Review6.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Forecasting Management9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Custom Forecast Models6.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Record of Previous Sales Forecasts6.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Forecast Collaboration:7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
CRM Data Import9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Xactly Forecasting®Yesware
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
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8.3
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Xactly Forecasting®Yesware
Likelihood to Recommend
I think TopOPPS is better suited for the larger sales team with shorter sales cycles. We have very long sales cycles and we have not truly seen it impact how we do business in terms of sales. I also think it's better suited for teams that have a true sales manager monitoring the reps and opps.
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Yesware has had the best deliverability of all the email senders I've used (beating Mixmax, Apollo, GMass). Yesware is perfect for sales teams sending outbound. It's not well suited for sending marketing campaigns/newsletters. It's great for startups/SMBs/early mid-market companies on the Premium team for sales teams <10. I haven't experienced the enterprise option, but for small teams it's hard to beat.
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Pros
  • Provides a quick detailed over view of our pipeline. This will help us identify deals that need attention and to maintain a healthy pipeline
  • being able to view our pipeline is also a motivational tool to help us drive success
  • an aligned forecast helps us to be more confident in our sales numbers as well as providing more accurate information to our management team.
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  • Personalization- Yesware does a great job at allowing you to customize and edit emails in a way that allows you to send a mass amount, but still have them feel like you spent a lot of time personalizing each one. Allows you to move faster and more efficient.
  • Tracking and reporting- the tracking and reporting is very detailed, clear and concise. Allowing you to gain insight into how well your emails are doing in terms of open rates, clicks and reply's. This is extremely helpful for testing out different subject lines and email copy to find out what emails are the most successful and why.
  • It is all around easy to use- does not require much training on the tool, if at all. Easy to navigate and set up through Salesforce. Any member of your team can use it to their advantage and hit the ground running very quickly.
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Cons
  • Integrate with SFDC.
  • The alerts need to be changed.
  • Chat bot needs improving.
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  • We don't use Yesware's dialer tool because it doesn't measure up to the quality or speed of their competitors
  • Yesware has kept on a legacy tool, 'MailMerge' which is essentially duplicative to the main tool 'Campaigns', but has one neat feature that allows us to 'CC' another recipient, which is useful we want to reach out to two people at the same account
  • Yesware makes sure that users don't add the same prospect to multiple email/call campaigns, but it does not offer that safety measure across users, so theoretically, two sales/marketing reps can be reaching out to the same person
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Likelihood to Renew
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I like the product, but due to the limitations I don't love it. I'm curious to revisit other options, particularly in lieu of Yesware's recent price increases (although I'm on a legacy plan). Some of my challenges to be browser related (I'm on an older computer) -- I'll have to see how things go when I receive my new computer. If the glitches (especially with regard to tracking accuracy and send later feature) go away, I'd be much more inclined to renew
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Usability
I have had an excellent experience so far with Xactly Forecasting®.
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Pretty good overall, but again it needs some tweaks to ensure user frustration is kept to a minimum. This would go back to the autosave feature I mentioned which would immediately be a value add but not something that should need a user to move into a paid tier.
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Support Rating
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Because it deserves this rating. The features and functionality provided are great. Our Sales team is very satisfied with this software as it integrates very well with our other software like Outlook, Salesforce, etc. Yesware provides great follow up with customers, which is essential for sales. Meeting scheduling is also flawless.
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Alternatives Considered
Xactly Forecasting has a smart AI tool, this is what puts them ahead of the competition. With their smooth interaction with other apps and programs, it makes it seamless when using other apps and programs. I find that when it uses its forecasting skill it shows us exactly what we need to see for the future.
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WE were looking for a sophisticated tool to solve our outbound efforts and one name keep popping up. Outreach. We tried to set up meetings with them but they discovered us over an email and told us that someone from my org tried to look for their solution however it is not best suited. I replied, that I would still like to look at their tool to understand if this could solve our newly created team for outbound but they decided not to move onto a demo as not having Salesforce kinda was a deal-breaker for them. Hence, we decided to stick to Yesware as we thought it solved our problem, and outreach maybe just looks for Enterprise level customers.
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Return on Investment
  • Saves Time
  • Increases Efficiency
  • Accurate Forecasting
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  • I think net positive ROI from generating meetings that lead to closed deals. Ultimately very difficult to quantify the ROI since it is essentially automating a lot of the manual prospecting done by BDRs/AEs - so ROI is likely higher than just that quantifiable number around deals closed.
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ScreenShots

Xactly Forecasting® Screenshots

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Yesware Screenshots

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