
What is Front?
Front is a hub for all things customer communication. Front combines the simplicity of email with the intelligence of a CRM, so you can provide tailor-made service at scale. Front is a hub for customer communication that allows companies to offer tailor-made service at scale. Front looks and feels like your email inbox with a few very important differences: teammates collaborate in the same place where external messages are sent and received, and behind the scenes, robust workflows and integrations power the efficiency and insights typically found in a CRM.
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90 Likeliness to Recommend
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100 Plan to Renew
85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+98 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Front?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
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While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Front Reviews
William C.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2022
Does the job but has its quirks
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Front from other similar products?
I don't think Front tries to differentiate from similar products, but just provides a secure platform that companies can use to substitute for gmail etc.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I like that you can link your phone number into the product and text message using their application.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The product is very slow sometimes and it feels old. The app needs a refresher to feel smooth and up to date like gmail.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Front is a great application that has never let us down, but definitely test other products since these products are similar in what they do and see what works best for your company.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service

Alexandre L.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2022
Robust software, easy to use.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Front from other similar products?
We mostly utilize it for client communication: as project managers (both technical and operational/marketing), we have 10 to 20 projects going concurrently. It improves communication between us; for example, we may simply ping colleagues who know more about a topic to ask for their expertise. The snooze option is also handy for reminding us when to return to a customer and preventing us from having fifty emails in our inbox. It has contributed significantly to highly qualified integral development; it is the greatest alternative for disseminating various interaction procedures.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I am glad that the program is of great importance. Front has been able to build numerous areas of strong and great communication with team members. The UI is really appealing, and I feel very comfortable utilizing its functions. I am appreciative for your assistance. The nicest thing about Front is the collaborative component; there are usually numerous individuals working on a project at the same time, and having a shared inbox, communicating internally in the same thread, and sharing our drafts helps us a lot to be more productive. It is also quite simple to distribute projects/subjects.
What do you dislike most about this product?
You're having sync troubles with mobile devices; it should be lot easier or more accessible. One issue we occasionally have is that when customers use our general address (projects@...), which we usually correspond with, it does not always come up immediately in our inbox (if they start a new thread and is not allocated), so we must be cautious and keep a check on the common inbox as well. It can also be an issue if they utilize this generic URL to provide us with access to test builds, for example.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If communication internally and with clients聽is a vital element of your profession, I would suggest Front. It is useful for sharing information with coworkers and managing your email box. It entails several benefits that will assist you in developing networks and direct interactions with any member of the firm. You'll appreciate how its interface is built, and the pricing is reasonable. One of the most crucial features is shared mailbox, and you should utilize many that offer it eg projects, support, partners. You should also provide tags to assist clarify the view and identify essential threads or the location of the project..
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity

JT E.
- Role: Vendor Management
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2022
Fantastic tool for collaboration and communication
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Front from other similar products?
Their CS team and the way the product just works!
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The ability it gives us to Collaborate as a team is unmatched.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There are always limitations. But we we work around them.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Do it! You won鈥檛 be disappointed
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing