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James P.
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What do you like best about VanillaSoft?

It is easy to calendar all my activities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VanillaSoft?

Sending emails can be cumbersome when using Outlook Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It allows me to track all pipeline activity and move quickly through my day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VanillaSoft Overview

What is VanillaSoft?

VanillaSoft, the industry’s most successful sales engagement platform, helps sales development teams engage over 15,000,000 contacts every month. Used standalone, or in combination with existing traditional CRM systems, VanillaSoft empowers sales reps to respond to new leads within seconds, interact with leads more consistently, across more channels, and generate more qualified sales opportunities. Globally, thousands of users employ VanillaSoft’s queue-based sales engine and intellective routing to implement sales cadence automation resulting in substantial gains in speed-to-lead, persistency, productivity, and revenue-per-rep. VanillaSoft is a privately held company based in Plano, Texas, USA. To learn more, visit www.vanillasoft.com. One superpower of the VanillaSoft solution is that it is reputably effective in fundraising campaigns. VanillaSoft's fully customizable, user-managed phonathon software gives phonathon managers maximum control over their phonathon campaigns. Intelligent workflow automation guarantees the consistent application of institutional best practices whilst also optimizing the efficiency and effectiveness of your phonathon outreach. Dynamic caller scripts, data segmentation, and stewardship automation ensure the most effective outreach strategy, whilst also improving the quality of the experience for alumni, donors, and fundraisers alike. Learn more: https://www.vanillasoft.com/solutions/business-function/fundraising.

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VanillaSoft is a powerful, cloud-based sales management software designed for outbound call centers and inside sales teams. This solution combines the best of Sales CRM, lead management and telemarketing software into one, easy-to-use solution.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Most CRMs or lead management systems present a list to their users - typically sales representatives. The sales representatives occasionally will receive signals from other platforms as to what email or other action to take next. Often though they are left with an overwhelming amount of data to decipher in order to decide who to reach out to next - who the next best lead is. This leaves sales reps being a decision-making engine, an analyst, rather than doing what sales reps do best - selling.

VanillaSoft makes that easier - we are the decision-making engine, serving only the next best record for the sales rep to contact. Using our powerful intellective routing engine that can use hundreds of signals, paired with sales management prioritization, sales reps maintain their focus on selling.


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2005
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VanillaSoft is a leading sales engagement platform designed to enhance the productivity of sales teams. It offers a suite of tools that streamline the sales process, including lead management, automated dialing, and performance analytics. With a focus on improving communication and efficiency, VanillaSoft helps organizations increase their sales effectiveness and drive revenue growth. For more information, visit their website at https://vanillasoft.com.


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James P.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"It is used to track all the contacts, calls and pipeline for my campaign"
It is easy to calendar all my activities
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"Great experience, vanilla soft has been a great way to communicate with clients ."
what i like the most about vanilla soft is how user friendly it is
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I like how customizable the interface is, we can create and program our own results. We can program callbacks, we can write scripts, and have acce...
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Bo W.
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What do you like best about VanillaSoft?

Very easy to use, pretty much self explainatory. Auto dialing is very useful, The automated text and automated emails also prove to be very useful. I enjoy getting emails when I see text come in to let me know that we have received text. I also like the availability to my co workers calendars on VS so I can easily schedule appointments for them should I catch their phone call etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VanillaSoft?

Not being able to flip backwards thru contacts, if I needed to go back to a recent one, instead of searching, auto text to missed appointments. When a new lead is generated that has had an appointment scheduled in the past that they no showed for, it would be nice to have a different option other than "no show" that automatically sends a text to reschedule their appointment. There isn't many options available for a lead that has previously no showed to their appointment. It would also be nice to have new leads automatically populated, equally with each rep at a single campus Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VanillaSoft:

Worth it! Make sure this product and which ever product you were using can except leads from each other and integrate well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Students for a college campus, not having to look for the next lead, auto population. The auto population of leads has saved a ton of time and paperwork. The ease of use and integration from user to user across the campus is very beneficial. For example the receptionist can easily look at each individuals calendar and see their appointments that day and make necessary conformation calls to each appointment. that really saves each individual rep time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Janene B.
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What do you like best about VanillaSoft?

I have used several different crm's and lead management programs. Vanilla soft is by far the best I have found. It is really easy to use and easy to customize for your business. It allows me to run reports with just a couple of clicks. But the call routing is by far the best benefit we have found as it is very beneficial to our clients as well. Being an admin user has made my life much easier as well. Very easy to make quick changes, save, and move on. The "Help" options takes you step by step on how to develop a database with very easy to follow instructions. I would highly recommend Vanilla Soft to everyone I know. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VanillaSoft?

Quite often I need to leave a note on a prospect record and do not want to terminate the record. It would be awesome if there was an easy way to be able to do that. Say maybe type the note and hit save, or something along those lines. You can do it on the backend, but it is time consuming that way. I would also like to be able to build a report easier as it takes a lot of time to add in all the little term codes that you want shown in report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering VanillaSoft:

I would highly recommend this product. It literally does everything that I need to track prospecting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Call routing is a benefit we use to actually close deals with our clients. Because we are able to generate an informational email to prospects on behalf of our clients and then are able to set a date for that record to come back into the front of rotating is key for us and our clients. Also it automatically rotates the record to the front when the prospect has opened the email. Also being able to have extensive information on the home screen for our callers saves time as well. The ease of use and help features are amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JW
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What do you like best about VanillaSoft?

VanillaSoft has helped tremendously with our transition from Phonathon to Engagement Center. All of VanillaSoft's capabilities and features are helping in the process of having a dynamic and vareity of engagement for our constituents. The software was easy to implement, is easy to use, and the integration was streamlined! We use it frequently for our call center and the customer support is always available when my students have questons. It is truly an amazing software to assist with our development efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VanillaSoft?

Sometimes can seem like too much to use, and can be difficult to find where something is you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

VanillaSoft is helping with the transition from a normal phonathon to an Engagement Center. In addition to calling, the email and SMS features are easy to use and the various segments make it easy to do all kinds of cultivation with constituents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LS
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What do you like best about VanillaSoft?

I like how customizable the interface is, we can create and program our own results.

We can program callbacks, we can write scripts, and have access to the customer's informations directly on the same screen as the scripts and results, and you don't have to look for the tabs etc.

The customer service is very reactive and quick to answer, they answer and guide you easily even through the chat bot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VanillaSoft?

There are some issues sometimes but they are very light Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Vanillasoft allows me to access all the calls my team has made in the past months, we are able to call people that hasn't been called in a while, to keep track what has been done through the comments, and to program call backs easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brenda K.
BK
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What do you like best about VanillaSoft?

Vanilla Soft is super easy to use and user friendly, I teach my team how to use it in less then a day and they love it too. when they use it often it becomes like second nature and we use it every day. Also great customer Support they really help us out with easy implementation. It also intergrats with all of our clients so that makes it nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VanillaSoft?

I wish you could open it more then one at a time so you can copy data or comapre records when an SDR has an isssue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

it watches my SDr's calls and call duration so i don't have to manuallly track it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
AH
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What do you like best about VanillaSoft?

This software is so, so easy to use and the one on one training process is incredible. I feel well supported and all of my questions have been answered in a timely manner. The customer support VanillaSoft is able to provide is top tier.

My team was able to quickly learn the ins and outs of the software by just clicking around because it is so user friendly. As a manager, that is fantastic as I don't get nearly as many questions about "how do I do this" as I did with our previous Engagement Center sofotware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VanillaSoft?

Customer service is only open until 8 pm EST/ 7 pm CST, which is annoying when you call in the evenings. All support emails are answered the next morning, which is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use VanillaSoft to call alumni, friends, and parents of our University.The software features show the script, how much money a team member should ask a donor for, the date of their last donation, how much their last donation was. All of these are incredibly importanat, but my favorite feature is seeing the coments the last person that called the donor made. This makes relationship building so much more effecive for my team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VanillaSoft?

How great the software is at keeping track of my work, call volumes, callbacks, notes, and it has everything layed out in a great format, aiding me during my calls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VanillaSoft?

The only change I would make is the 'Advanced Search' page. Sometimes, I will be searching for a lead by their address and they won't pop up but then I search by their first or last name, they appear and the address would be exactly what I typed. And this has happened vice versa when serching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Has a nice, clear format that makes multi-tasks such as calling clients, and take notes, all while imputting info into the software very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about VanillaSoft?

Quick and easy CRM. Not too complicated and does what it needs to. Has prospects info, can dial prospects, can quickly grab info using SMS templates as needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VanillaSoft?

Unable to use drip campaigns. Number and texts get blocked easily. Also unable to keep notes/outgoing msgs just to me, the logged in user. Also does NOT show my outgoing call number. ALL on the system/team can access notes. Should have capability to display my outgoing dialing/call-back number so I can verbally relay or text to lead when asked. Also should have capability to write public notes for everyone and private notes only visible to me, as a specific logged in user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Contacting and managing prospects very quickly without being a cumbersom tool for computer or phone Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jeramie R.
JR
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What do you like best about VanillaSoft?

This is one of the most functional and easy to use CRM'S i have ever had the pleasure of using. And the customer serves team is amazing as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VanillaSoft?

It does lag from time to time. Although it may be the internet or the computer that is hard to determine sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I land clients from here all the time. it helps me stay organized and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Madeline M.
MM
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What do you like best about VanillaSoft?

VanillaSoft is easy to use and the interface allows for easy navigation. I use it multiple times a week and find it to be reliable. There are many features that are useful for my job and them being located in one software is incredibly convienient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about VanillaSoft?

Sometimes when I use the software for an extended amount of time it needs to refresh before I can continue. Not a major issue though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Vanilla soft is helping me to reach out to my client base in a secure and easy fashion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.