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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94 Likeliness to Recommend
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100 Plan to Renew
90 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+95 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
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
How to read the Emotional Footprint
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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
Vicente H.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Aug 2024
flexible, convenient and user friendly
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Front from other similar products?
The most characteristic feature of Front compared to other programs is the ability to arrange all types of communication channels in one central place where all the email, chat, and social accounts can be accessed. I have had to move around a lot around town to conduct interviews with my customers and this has helped me a lot with my customer service work by reducing my time in movement.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The challenge I enjoy most in Front is simplicity, the easy to navigate inbox that enables easy management of messages and effective collaboration with my team. Furthermore, the possibility to categorise conversations with labels, notes, and tasks has also allowed me to keep track of all of the messages I’ve exchanged with the customers.
What do you dislike most about this product?
As for what I dislike most about the platform, I would say that sometimes, it can appear slow especially when many messages are received in a single period; this can really interfere with one’s work. However, with all these changes and transition, I believe that the advantages far outweigh this disadvantage.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
In conclusion, Front has always been a major enabler in my company in the solution to communication and organizational complications. As a result of the above aspects, we have enhanced customer relationship products and streamlined our operations. In general I would suggest this software to any company that wishes to enhance its communication processes within and outside the organization.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Efficient Service
Prakash Y.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jun 2026
Makes Customer Communication Easy
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Front from other similar products?
The feature that stands out is its collaborative workflow. Team members can leave internal comments, assign conversation, and work together on customer requests without creating long email chains. This makes it much easier to coordinate response, reduce duplicate work, and ensure customers receive accurate and timely support. And I think Front stands out because it successfully blends communication, collaboration, automation, and customer context into one platform.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The features I appreciate is its seamless integration with CRM systems and other business tools. Having customer information available alongside conversation gives valuable context during every interaction. And my favorite aspect of Front is its ability to combine communication, collaboration, and customer context into one easy-to-use platform.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The area that could be improved is the reporting experience. The available metrics are useful for monitoring response times and team performance, but I would like more flexibility when creating custom reports for different departments or customer service goals. And I also think some of the advanced features have a learning curve.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The recommendation is to make fill use of the reporting features. Regularly review response time, customer satisfaction trends, and team workloads to identify areas for improvement. And I also recommend integrating Front with your CRM and other business applications as early as possible. Having customer information available alongside conversation gives agents valuable context and helps deliver faster, more personalized responses.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Effective Service
Egietseme O.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2025
Collaborative and Efficient
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Front from other similar products?
Front shines because it blends email, chat, and collaboration into one spot, making teamwork on customer messages super smooth and transparent—no more lost conversations or silos.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite part is how easily the whole team can jump into conversations together. It keeps everyone on the same page and helps deliver faster, more coordinated responses.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing at all
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Make sure to spend time customizing your inboxes and automation rules upfront, it pays off by keeping workflows smooth and avoiding confusion as your team grows.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity