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CloudSponge Overview

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What is CloudSponge?

The CloudSponge Contact Picker improves your word-of-mouth sharing feature by making it easy for your users to share their contacts. We include all the major address books for your users to choose from. Most customers use CloudSponge to allow their users to share their contacts without having to leave their websites. We’ve come a long way from the copy and paste game. We know that once a customer has to leave a site to gather that information, they could leave forever. With the Contact Picker, users have straight access to their entire address books. Sharing contacts becomes a simple click. With straight access to their address books, users are going to share more. That means more site visitors, more referrals, more sales, better open rates, and lower customer acquisition costs.

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Product Description

CloudSponge is a software-as-a-service tool for importing contacts from address book providers like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook.com, iCloud and AOL.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

CloudSponge has a team dedicated to keeping our 50+ contact importers functioning 24/7/365. When address book providers change, our automated status testing service detects it within 5 minutes and notifies our team immediately.

Since our solution is hosted by us, we handle all of the sensitive data so that our clients don't have to worry about taking possession of their users' usernames and passwords. Our infrastructure, policies and procedures are routinely audited and held to the highest standard.

Companies that don't want to be distracted by the tedious process of integrating with several address book providers but still want a very high quality integration with uptime monitoring choose CloudSponge instead of building their own integrations.

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CloudSponge
Year Founded
2009
HQ Location
San Francisco
Twitter
@CloudSponge
5,103 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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4 employees on LinkedIn®
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Recent CloudSponge Reviews

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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Works great"
Seamlessly integrates, works well, great for lead gen and address books.
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Sean R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great software for adding that viral component to build your user base!"
Cloudsponge is really a breeze to integrate and get up and running within a very short period of time. Testing was easy and took less than an hour ...
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SJ
Sujay J.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"CloudSponge Email Address Book Integration"
CloudSponge provide an excellent address book tool/widget that can be used to extract contacts from people using your website. 10 years ago, when I...
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$50.00
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CloudSponge Demo - CloudSponge Address Book Contact Picker Menu
Your users see a list of as many as 50 address book providers so they can choose the one that works for them.
CloudSponge Demo - CloudSponge Skinnable Contact Picker
You can override CloudSponge's default style with your own fonts and colors to make the Contact Picker match your site perfectly.
CloudSponge Demo - CloudSponge Responsive Address Book Widget
The address book widget renders itself beautifully on all devices to make sure your users have the best experience possible regardless of their screen size.
CloudSponge Demo - CloudSponge Address Book Advanced Search
The Contact Picker includes fast, local searching and a tappable alphabet in the right margin to make sure your users can find their contacts quickly.
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What do you like best about CloudSponge?

I like easy integration of the product and the quick response from the support team when we have an issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CloudSponge?

Nothing we noticed so far to dislike and report Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CloudSponge solving and how is that benefiting you?

Importing the contacts from the address books of google , yahoo, outlook etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CloudSponge?

The ease of use for the end user. The fast import. The easy integration. The Frequent upgrades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CloudSponge?

Nothing i can think of in particular. Maybe the dealing with LinkedIn. import which is anyway problematic so I wouldn't blame CS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CloudSponge:

The staff is awesome !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CloudSponge solving and how is that benefiting you?

importing contacts for our end users is critical to the success of fundraising campaigns. Since email is the most effective tool for friends raising, CS is instrumental to the success of personal fundraising pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CloudSponge?

We have exploring contact importer for our product https://democ.io and we want an seamless integration with minimum efforts. We have tested various products and finally came across Cloudsponge which we feel is the best product in the World. The ease of integration and excellent support. We love Cloudsponge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CloudSponge?

I hope to see much more Email service providers integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CloudSponge solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps people to send invites to their friends or Colleagues to join the Democ groups.

It's ease of integration and excellent support. It supports many Email service providers and the user interface is mobile friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Kyle U.
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What do you like best about CloudSponge?

Widget looks clean and is intuitive. And Contact searching is very fast! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CloudSponge?

A little bit cumbersome to setup a fresh install, but still worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CloudSponge solving and how is that benefiting you?

Saved us lots of time and potential headache with setting up and configuring each social API integration ourselves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CloudSponge?

integration for gmail and outlook

easy to use design, layout Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CloudSponge?

unknown maximum limits for different types of invitations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CloudSponge solving and how is that benefiting you?

sending out user referrals.

benefits realized including higher number of invites being sent out Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CloudSponge?

Using CloudSponge means I don't have to learn and integrate with different APIs, CSV formats and authentication schemes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CloudSponge?

Setting up OAuth with some of the integration parties can be a pain, but that's more about OAuth than CloudSponge, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering CloudSponge:

Spend a few days getting to know the customization options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CloudSponge solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're allowing our users to import their Gmail, Outlook and LinkedIn contacts into our CRM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CloudSponge?

We first started using Cloudsponge several years ago. Since the initial setup we haven't had any issues with it and it continues to run month after month. It saved us lots of development time compared to writing our own code to import from Google, Yahoo, AOL, etc. As our business has grown, so has our customer's usage of Cloudsponge to load their contacts into our site. We're now averaging over 1,000 address book imports a month and we almost never get questions about how to use the widget.

We recently upgraded to the new Cloudsponge widget and the timimg was great. Their new widget UI has a mobile first design and works perfectly on our new mobile friendly site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CloudSponge?

The initial setup was a little tricky when linking Cloudsponge and our API keys with the 3rd party sites. That's been a while ago, so it may be an easier process now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CloudSponge solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloudsponge allows our customers the ability to imports their friends and family onto their guest list directly from many of the most common webmail and email clients. This is easier for our users than having to build their list manually in an Excel or CSV file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about CloudSponge?

The customer service team and the tech team over at CS have been great in helping us implement this software. Very responsive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CloudSponge?

Google is relatively strict with what you can do with emails and therefore there is a time delay between purchasing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CloudSponge solving and how is that benefiting you?

CloudSponge is allowing our users to upload emails from their address books into a preset email form so they can share our product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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