Planhat 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.

Access pre-built and custom reports and dashboards for viewing

The number of sources from which the platform can pull customer data and how well those integrations are supported.

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

Automates everday customer success functions for more efficient and effective day-to-day processes.

Set alerts for customer actions in order to respond quickly and proactively.

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

Ability for the platform to grow with the user's company and support an increasing number of customers and users within the platform.

The measures taken to ensure that the customer data being held within the platform is being hosted in a safe environment and is not prone to risks.

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

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

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

Manage partners by tracking channel partner leads and sales opportunities. Provide a partner portal to collaborate with channels on sales opportunities and to share product, pricing, quoting, ordering, and training information

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.

Provides users a customer-specific score to determine the overall satisfaction of each customer.

Monitor customer actions overall as well as their interactions with different teams within the company, such as the support team

Gain a holistic view of your customers. Create customer profiles based on data pulled in from multiple sources including CRMs, service desks, marketing tools, and financial systems such as accounting and payroll software.

Create and structure key customer success processes into a "playbook" to create unified team best practices for handling customers.

Separate customers into similar segments based on criteria such as subscription models, support needs, or usage behaviors to allow for more personalized and specific attention.

Identify which customers are getting the most out of your products or services and highlight those who have not yet fully adopted or may need further training.

Allows users to create and send out surveys to customers to determine net promoter scores and other key satisfaction information.

Calculates the risk that your customers will not renew or continue using your product or service.

Discovers and highlights factors that lead to upsell opportunities.

Allows users to set custom triggers to signal actions that will lead a customer to act in a particular way.

Ability for the platform to learn and improve predictions based on previous customer behavior and a growing database of customer information.

Identify customers that are more likely to cancel their subscriptions

Optimize product offerings and packages to increase customer loyalty

Address customer churn by identifying the causes of cancellations

Estimate future changes in revenues per product type or customer category

Track usage per company, custom time period, or contract

Track payments received for products that haven't be delivered yet

Recognition rules to accrue revenue on a daily or monthly basis

Provide multiple payment terms per customer or contract

Different types of billing such as: recurring, one time changes, based on number of seats or usage

Manage customer specific pricing as well as coupons, discounts, and gift plans

Ability to see analytics at the account level.

Ability to see analytics at the user level.

Ability to compare usage across segments such as role, company size, etc.

See how users move though a product via grouped page sequences

Receive automated alerts and reports based on gains or losses in performance.

View analytics for multiple products in a single dashboard, including cross-product engagement

Scores customers and visitors to identify at-risk or thriving accounts.

Breadth and functionality of integrations with third-party products.

Uses external data sources to improve customer profiles.

Can be updated to accept new sources and types of data.

Can act as a content marketing platform.

Can engage with customers across any device with a consistent message.

Provides analysis of marketing program ROI and efficiency.

Predicts outcomes based on statistical models; can give insight to "what-if" scenarios.

Uses artificial intelligence to provide suggestions based on desired outcomes.

Highlights cross-sell, upsell, and white space opportunities

Can fully automate the deal renewal process

Suggests content appropriate to stage and tone of the deal

Correctly identify inaccurate, incomplete, or duplicated data from a data source.

Utilize deletion, modification, appending, merging, or other methods to correct bad data.

Standardize data formatting for uniformity and easier data usage.

Clean data as it enters the data source to prevent mixing bad data with cleaned data.

Finds duplicates using the fuzzy logic technology or an advance search feature.

Provide follow-up information after data cleanings through a visual dashboard or reports.

Automatically run data identification, correction, and normalization on data sources.

Schedule automated audits to identify data anomalies over time based on set business rules.

Gives a view of the entire data quality management ecosystem.

Allows user role-based access and actions to authorization for specific tasks.

Can operate under at least two distinct sales methodologies

Includes recording and review capabilities to train new salespeople or review old deals

Creates and stores multiple playbooks for sales

Allows multiple relationship maps for each account and opportunity

Includes explicit definitions of stakeholder roles

Provide templates for customer journey mapping to jumpstart the process.

Ability to export customer journey maps in a variety of formats to present and analyze.

Allow team members to invite others to collaborate on journey maps and make direct changes.

Provide the ability to compare the experiences of multiple personas in one journey map.

Ability to integrate with cross-channel, real-time data analytics to power customer journey map creation.

Allows users to simultaneously collaborate on a document within the application.

Stores different versions of a document.

Allows users to provide an e-signature within the platform.

Allows businesses to request files from clients.

Allows businesses to solicit feedback on projects or documents from clients.

Provides billing and invoicing within the application.

Provides internal and/or external instant messaging capability.

Offer project management features like task creation and tracking within the application.

Offer analytics concerning productivity or client engagement.

Allows businesses to track time spent on projects within the application.

Provides a mobile application.

Provide customizable workflows for onboarding activities and tasks.

Include templates for onboarding project plans and documents.

Generate checklists to monitor the prograss of onboarding projects.

Track tasks, project, and dependencies using timeline views or GANTT charts.

Allocate resources to tasks and projects, and track their costs.

Manage onboarding documents, training materials, and other content.

Assign and track onboarding tasks to internal and external stakeholders.

Identify trends and analysis that can be used to optimize onboarding.

Provider a portal for customers and external users to collaborate and share documents.

Include features to keep customers engaged such as internal communications.

Create white-label portals by customer, product, or project.

Provide multiple levels of visibility accrosss all onboarding stages.

Allow internal and external users to collaborate without loging into the system.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

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.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Supports configuration using natural language instructions.

Allows users to customize the tone of agent.

Enables definition of clear security guardrails for agent actions.

Provides support across web, mobile, messaging apps, and other channels.

Allows customization of agent branding, including visual appearance and conversational style.

Equips agents with proactive response capabilities based on predefined triggers.

Facilitates seamless escalation to human employees for complex issues.

Provides analytics and reporting on agent performance and interactions.

Offers agents the ability to maintain contextual awareness across interactions.

Ensures compliance with data privacy and governance requirements.

Automates workflows and actions based on agent responses.

Allows the use of APIs for advanced agent configuration.

Enables interoperability with multiple platforms for unified experiences.

Allows integration with CRM data to ground agent responses in business context.

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

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

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

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

View analytics for multiple products in a single dashboard, including cross-product engagement

Ability to see analytics at the user level.

Ability to see analytics at the account level.

Ability to compare usage across segments such as role, company size, etc.

See how users move though a product via grouped page sequences

Scores customers and visitors to identify at-risk or thriving accounts.

View analytics for multiple products in a single dashboard, including cross-product engagement

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Receive automated alerts and reports based on gains or losses in performance.

Breadth and functionality of integrations with third-party products.