Close Features

Allows administrators to customize to accommodate their unique processes. Includes ability to create custom objects, fields, rules, calculations, and views.

Automates a process that requires a series of steps that typically require intervention by a several different users. Administrators can write rules to determine who and when a user needs to complete a step. Also includes notification of users when they need to take action.

Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.

Enables users to view and transact business with the same content in multiple languages and currencies.

Allows administrators to easily develop and test changes to the CRM deployment. After changes are made admins can easily migrate the changes into the "live" or "production" environment.

Allows consuming, publishing and editing content from a central interface. Content management for CRM systems might include presentations, documents, images and other related electronic files.

Software is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks quickly because they are not waiting for the software to respond to an action they took.

Allows administrators to create templates that enable users to quickly generate dynamic documents in various formats based on the data stored in the application.

Allows inflow of requests through various digital channels such as email, social media, etc.

Allows users to access the software using mobile devices.

Provides queue management in case of increase in case/call inflow.

Allows distribution of incoming calls to agents.

Allows users to request a call back.

Offers IVR (interactive voice response) for interaction between customers and a computer operated phone system.

Allows automatic distribution of incoming calls to the agents.

Store and retrieve information associated to customer contacts and accounts. Track company-wide communication and information about contacts and accounts.

Manage sales opportunities through their lifecycle from lead to order. Track stages, values, and probabilities of close. Manage sales pipelines by individual sales rep, team, region, and company-wide.

Manage and track tasks and activities. Assign due dates and integrate to calendars to manage daily schedules and priorities.

Assign and manage sales quotas and territories. Track progress against quotas. Change as needed.

Allows users to sync their Email, Calendar and Contact tools with their CRM system. Includes Microsoft Outlook and Google integration.

Enter product/part numbers and manage the prices associated with them. Typically functionality allows users to add products and prices to opportunities and quotes if these modules are provided within the same system.

Allows users to create a quote to be provided to a customer that contain at least products, prices and associated discounts. Order management allows users to process orders that contain products, prices and associated discounts.

Management of contracts made with customers. Contract management includes negotiating the terms and conditions in contracts and ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions, as well as documenting and agreeing on any changes or amendments that may arise during its implementation or execution.

Allows users to send email to contacts in bulk. Common features include: Built in Email templates, social media integration, Subscriber list management, sign up forms, success rate reports, AB testing and auto-responders.

Optimizes the process for organizations to develop and deploy multiple-channel marketing campaigns to target groups or individuals and track the effect of those campaigns, by customer segment, over time.

Allows users to manage and track leads though a process. The lead process typically involves steps such as: 1. Lead Generation, 2. Customer Inquiry, Inquiry Capture, Lead Filtering, Lead Grading, Lead Distribution and Lead Qualification.

Enables analysis of effectiveness of an organizations various marketing activities

Tracks issues/help requests reported by customers through the resolution process.

Provides a convenient way for customers to get answers to inquiries, post service issues, place orders, view order histories, and gain access to other information contained in the knowledge base.

Information repository that provides a means for information to be collected, organized, shared, searched and utilized. Allows customers to get answers to common questions.

Allows customer support professionals access to all information required to support the customer including customer information, case history and related customer social activity. Common features include: call recording, analytics, workforce management, call script management, and compliance management.

Enables analysis of customer support activities to optimize customer support professionals, processes and tools.

Ability to input, modify and extract data from the application in bulk through a structured file.

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc with other software applications.

To what extent are there partner applications readily available for integrating into this product? Partner applications typically provide complementary, best of breed functionality not offered natively in this product.

Enables multiple users to interact by sharing information to achieve a common goal. Social collaboration focus's on the identification of groups and collaboration spaces in which messages are explicitly directed at the group and the group activity feed is seen the same way by everyone

Use public social networks to listen and engage with customers. Allows users to filter what’s important and respond quickly. Often this functionality allows questions and requests from customers on social networks to case management.

Allows software to be easily used on multiple mobile devices include phone and tablet devices.

Enables reporting of all data contained within the system. Typically contains standard reports as well as the ability to create ad-hoc reports.

An easy to read, often single page, real-time user interface, showing a graphical presentation of the current status and historical trends of an organization’s Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to enable instantaneous and informed decisions to be made at a glance

Enables projection of sales revenue, based on historical sales data, analysis of market surveys and trends, and salespersons' estimates.

Compiles data from a breadth of either internal or external sources.

Enables user to communicate data by securely exporting and sharing it.

Allows users to view data visualizations on several devices.

Dashboards which are customizable and interactive so that the user can view sales information in a way that fits his or her needs.

Enables user to segment customer or prospect data in meaningful ways such as by industry or region.

Provides scores or rankings of each prospect based on the data provided.

Provides insights to determine which deals already in the pipeline have the best chance of closing.

Warns sales teams of accounts that may be at risk of being lost.

Provides live customer data so that sales organizations forecasts stay current.

Updates every time a change is made enabling users to trace a deal through the pipeline.

Enables competition between a sales team by providing things like challenges and scoreboards.

Provides insightful data at the account level to arm salespeople with the most relevant information possible.

Enables sales managers to stay on top of their team activities by providing visibility into customer communication.

Records calls for future reference.

Allows users to perform calls from their preferred device, whether laptop, desktop, mobile or otherwise.

Gathers contacts from integrated tools, allowing users to call with one click.

Has auto-dialing or predictive dialing functionality.

Retains a log of extraneous contact information such as timezone and contact engagement.

Finds and opens saved contact information for reference at the time of a new call.

Allows users to denote which contacts they believe are prospective customers.

Allows users to take notes during or after the call for future reference.

Delivers users a daily summary of activity.

Sends automated voicemails to prospective clients who fail to answer.

Sends automated emails to increase engagement with prospective clients.

Organizes contacts based on probability of success.

Automatically transcribes and summarizes meeting discussions.

Records the rate at which emails are opened.

Syncs information from other software such as contacts, emails and calls to reduce manual data entry.

Allows administrators to schedule out emails in advance.

Reminds administrators to follow-up on emails based on pre-set reminders.

Allows for the categorization of emails.

Allows for the creation of templates for frequently-sent emails.

Offers a chatbot to initiate and carryout inital conversations with prospects and leads.

Automatically calculates which leads are the most likely to become a customer.

Automatically contacts all leads.

Utilizes natural language processing to set up meetings.

Manage sales opportunities through their lifecycle from lead to order. Track stages, values, and probabilities of close. Manage sales pipelines by individual sales rep, team, region, and company-wide.

Automates the entry of collected data.

Application Programming Interface - Specification for how the application communicates with other software. API's typically enable integration of data, logic, objects, etc. with other software applications.

Provides real-time coaching to sales representatives.

Tracks and analyzes sales representative performance.

Measure return on investment and leverage data to predict profitability of future projects.

Enables projection of sales revenue, based on historical sales data, analysis of market surveys and trends, and salespersons' estimates.

Automates in-system tasks and provides reminders and details for manual tasks for sales team members to complete.

Integrates tightly with email inbox and allows the scheduling and tracking of email outreach and correspondence.

Provides sales dialer functionality or integrates tightly with dialer software, with useful automation and high-quality calls.

Provides relevant automation in sales channels outside of email and calls, like social media posts, SMS text messages and more.

Provides two-way integration with sales CRM: (1) Tracking sales team actions and prospect responses and (2) Pulling CRM data to populate and personalize sales outreach.

Integrates with calendar software so users can seamlessly schedule calls.

Automatically assign strategic leads and accounts to individual reps in a shared bucket for anyone to work on.

Retains and incorporates company-approved messaging and presentations into emails, calls, meetings, etc.

Orchestrates automated sales tasks and outreach across a number of channels (email, calls, social media, etc.) and/or integrated systems.

Reports on the effectiveness of an entire outreach workflow as well as the effectiveness of specific marketing materials, messaging, outreach tactics, and team members.

Surfaces relevant insights about how a team member can perform better, either with improved sales techniques or prospect-specific hints.

Provides gamifaction features to rank sales reps on performance

Presents information about the individual being called before the call begins.

Gives agents a predetermined amount of time to view call information before automatically calling. Similar to Preview Dialing.

Uses machine learning to determine the best times to call and adjust dialing speed to connect agents with leads efficiently.

Allows a supervisor to listen to a call and train in real time.

Reschedules calls within the software itself, either through a prompt or by the agent themselves.

Records calls to access or evaluate at a later time to ensure quality standards are met, and pause recording of live calls if necessary.

Decides response type by determining if voice is a human response or an answering machine.

Uses touch-tone or voice input to interact with callers, gather information, and route them to the appropriate agent or department.

Removes phone numbers from an uploaded list that appear on the National Do Not Call Registry.

Enables users to send mass text message campaigns

Facilitates two-way text messaging to encourage consumer engagement and loyalty

Provides the ability to schedule single or bulk text messages to recipients on a specific date and time

Provides automatic text message replies to recipients

Provides automatic URL shortening to use less characters via text

Sends out multimedia via text messages, such as coupons, pictures, and audio

Offers features for personalizing text messages based on customer information or past behavior

Software incorporates multiple digital communications channels.

Allows incorporation of inbound contacts from non-marketing channels.

Includes physical media (mail, flyers, billboards, etc.) in the channels mix.

Allows planning and deployment of an overall communications strategy.

Includes or integrates with content creation apps.

Outbound communications are segmented and personalized.

Inbound contacts are identified and handled based on history.

Software verifies compliance with GDPR, CAN-SPAM, and other legal requirements.

Provides pre-built or customizable performance reports

Automates tasks and features for added convenience

Facilitates the integration of text messaging into existing business applications through an SMS gateway API

Allows users to create lead prioritization rules to prioritize the msot important bueyrs and customers.

Provides lead scoring features that allow user to target leads that are the most qualified and likely to engage

Provides features that allow users to identify and automate the best time to send out emails or other sales engagement communcations

Provides features that allow users to have insight into buyer profiles such as likelihood to respond to emails and calls.

Provides AI and machine learning features that offer predictive recommendations no how to engage with buyers based on historical buyer behavior.

Allow managers/supervisors to monitor calls for quality assurance purposes.

Allows managers/supervisors to evaluate the performance of agents.

Allows supervisors/managers to record and review telephone conversations of agents.

Report on historical or real-time call center performance metrics, and access data through highly visual dashboards.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Simulates human-like speech from text inputs.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Uses AI to prioritize and reorder call lists based on lead quality, past interactions and optimal call times.

Uses AI to ensure call compliance with regulations like TCPA or GDPR by detecting violations and triggering alerts or restrictions.

Uses AI to analyze call recordings for sentiment, tone and language to assess interaction quality and flag calls needing follow up or review.