XM for Frontline vs. Front

Enhance your front office operations to build stronger customer relationships, foster seamless connections, and boost team efficiency.

XM for Frontline

XM for Frontline

XM for Frontline is a customer service and support platform that provides tools for managing customer interactions, and improving customer satisfaction.

Front.com

Front.com

Front is a customer operations platform that enables teams to streamline communication and deliver exceptional service at scale.

Joining XM for Frontline

XM for Frontline

Front

Free trial
Data import & export
Customer success consulting
Onboarding foundations

Open source

Customizable
In control
Free & sustainable

Omnichannel communications

Email
Social channels
Website Forms

Shared Inbox

Internal notes
Tracked data
Assignments
My inbox

Knowladge base

Internal notes
Unlimited
Limited
Tracked data
Assignments
My inbox
Limited

Open source

Open source

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  1. Transparency: allows customers to access the underlying code to build trust as users can see how the software operates, ensuring no hidden functionalities or security vulnerabilities exist.
  2. Customization: Customers have the freedom to modify the software to suit their specific needs or preferences. This flexibility enables businesses to tailor the software to unique requirements, fostering innovation and efficiency.
  3. Community collaboration: We aim to support and contribute to the community where developers can collaborate and learn from one another.

🏆 Winner: erxes

Shared inbox

Open source
Open source

Both erxes and Front are strong shared inbox solutions designed to streamline customer communication effectively.They share common features like consolidating messages from various channels and providing clear ownership and customer data visibility.

  1. Consolidate inbound messages from email, social media, SMS, voice, and other channels into a unified inbox.
  2. Facilitate clear ownership assignment for managing conversations.
  3. Provide visibility into customer history and data alongside ongoing conversations.

erxes sets itself apart in terms of shared inbox:

With internal messaging for team collaboration within conversations and offers more extensive customer data tracking, including website activity analysis. These additional features make erxes a compelling choice for businesses seeking enhanced communication tools.

🏆 Winner: erxes

Omnichannel

Open source
Open source

Both erxes and Front embrace the Omnichannel approach to ma aiming to streamline operations, enhance customer engagement, and swiftly adapt to evolving communication landscapes. Both of them share similar values:

  1. Minimized context switching, boosting productivity
  2. Meet customers on their preferred communication channels without leaving either platform, ensuring a seamless experience for users
  3. Quick integration of new communication channels, keeping up with evolving trends

Front outperforms with 25+ integrations

Front outperforms erxes in this aspect by providing over 25 readily available integrated channels. Meanwhile, erxes is actively expanding its integration capabilities to include a broader range of communication channels.

🏆 Winner: Front

Help Center

Open source
Open source

Both erxes and Front share similarities in offering strong customer support features essential for maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction:

  1. Add live chat widget directly to help center
  2. Build no-code help centers with multi-layered categories and ensure content quality with versioning.
  3. Equip support teams with a knowledge base for streamlined replies across channels.
  4. Tailor separate knowledge bases for different brands, catering to diverse audience needs.

Additional functionalities unavailable in Front gives erxes the edge:

erxes allows ticket and query submissions directly within the help center, enabling customers to report issues and track their progress seamlessly.

🏆 Winner: erxes

Ticket management

Open source

Front doesn't offer a dedicated Ticket Management tool in the conventional sense. However, erxes features a robust ticket pipeline designed to organize customer queries, issues, or requests into a structured pipeline. It ensures that each customer inquiry receives proper attention, tracking, and resolution.

  1. Streamlines the workflow for customer service teams by providing a systematic way to assign, prioritize, and manage tickets
  2. Allows for the tracking of each ticket's status, providing transparency into ongoing issues or inquiries
  3. Faster response times, better issue resolution, and improved customer satisfaction
  4. Captures valuable data about customer issues, patterns, and frequently reported problems

erxes excels in effectively managing customer queries.

erxes allows ticket and query submissions directly within the help center, enabling customers to report issues and track their progress seamlessly.

🏆 Winner: erxes

Integrations

Open source
Open source

Front doesn't offer a dedicated Ticket Management tool in the conventional sense. However, erxes features a robust ticket pipeline designed to organize customer queries, issues, or requests into a structured pipeline. It ensures that each customer inquiry receives proper attention, tracking, and resolution.

  1. Streamlines the workflow for customer service teams by providing a systematic way to assign, prioritize, and manage tickets
  2. Allows for the tracking of each ticket's status, providing transparency into ongoing issues or inquiries
  3. Faster response times, better issue resolution, and improved customer satisfaction
  4. Captures valuable data about customer issues, patterns, and frequently reported problems

erxes excels in effectively managing customer queries.

erxes allows ticket and query submissions directly within the help center, enabling customers to report issues and track their progress seamlessly.

🏆 Winner: erxes

Pricing

Open source

XM for Frontline by erxes comprises over 25 plugins and services available for the $49-a-month plan. The combined value of these plugins and services amounts to over $700, yet we offer them all for just $49. Within this plan, we provide a multiple services aimed at helping you kickstart your journey with erxes:

  1. Onboarding foundations
  2. Customer success consulting
  3. Support service

Pay-as-you-go

XM for Frontline by erxes offers a pay-as-you-go system. As your business expands and you approach the limits of the plan, you have the flexibility to purchase additional limits for individual plugins. This scalability ensures that you only pay for what you need as your business grows.

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