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Chili Piper
What Is Chili Piper?
Chili Piper is the leading inbound conversion platform fueling today’s high-growth B2B teams. Its advanced routing and booking software enables fast speed to lead and efficient handoff, making it possible for sales and marketing teams to book meetings instantly and generate more revenue while spending less.
Companies like Intuit, Twilio, Forrester, Spotify, and Gong use Chili Piper to double their inbound conversion rates and maximize revenue.
Who Uses Chili Piper?
Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, Marketing Operations, Sales Development Manager, VP Sales, Growth Marketing, Demand Generation, VP Marketing, VP Customer Success, VP Account Management
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Reviews of Chili Piper
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Clear Winner for Sales Teams, Rolls Royce of Scheduling Tools
Comments: One of the first tools we bought building out eqtble's sales team. We didn't have time to chase prospects down, so now scheduling is completely automated and our conversion has increased because of the easy user experience.
Pros:
-It's built for revenue teams and features speak to that - inbound, outbound, routing are much more advanced than basic scheduling tools -Booking experience is superior (requires less clicks and information for the customer booking) -CS team goes above and beyond -Automates our whole scheduling process so our team spends 0 administrative time scheduling meetings
Cons:
-Setup can be a bit confusing, mostly due to the amount of customization that is possible -More expensive than basic scheduling links
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Great meeting scheduling software!
Comments: The overall experience has been top-notch; and I am a satisfied customer!
Pros:
Easy meeting scheduling, geo & timezone specification capabilities, and reasonable pricing!
Cons:
Load time can be improved for heavy filter jobs.
Caught in nightmare cycle of forced appointment scheduling with wrong phone number
Comments: Virtually useless product
Pros:
Nothing. Appalling user experience. All it did was facilitate the delivery of an email address where I, the customer, could manually contact the provider to inform him of my correct phone number.
Cons:
I could not cancel the appointment I made through CP. I was forced to schedule another one. When I did, the contact information I had updated (contact phone number for the appointment) was NOT UPDATED. NO WAY FOR ME TO BE CONTACTED BY PERSON I WAS HAVING APPOINTMENT WITH.
Chili Piper review from a daily user
Pros:
The integration with the needed tech stack to have a meeting
Cons:
Time zone choose-ability: maybe they could improve it by letting you choose a time zone for a city
The best tool for creating sales meeting invite and handoff
Comments: Chilipiper is very useful in scheduling sales a meeting and sending client handoffs to another department. Their chrome extension is quite handy for a quick customer invite. All I need to do is asks for the customer's email and paste it on the extension and the system automatically send a quick invite so I don't have to look further at the customer's account.
Pros:
It is integrated with salesforce, google chrome as extension, and slack which is very convenient for keeping track of my client meeting. It also sent me and the client an email reminder so they won't forget our meeting schedule which is crucial as the customers are always busy.
Cons:
Just the occasional bugs here and there where sometimes, the zoom meeting link is missing on my invite for no reason at all but they are quick to fix and provide a resolution
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Chili Piper is incredible - both the software and their team
Pros:
I can't say enough amazing things about Chili Piper. It has increased our number of meetings booked with AEs, with leads (that meet our qualification criteria) able to book a meeting with an AE directly after completing a form on our website. Not only that, but the suggested times functionality within emails (where you can suggest meeting times to a prospect that enables them one-click booking from within the email) is a game changer - with huge success from this feature alone. The platform is intuitive and easy to use and also has huge scope for meeting a range of use cases. But not only is the platform fantastic, the Chili Piper team and our technical lead [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] is hands down the best, giving next-level support and care for customers and their use cases to solve. Thank you [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]!!
Cons:
Excited for their Hubspot integration coming out soon!
I couldn't live without Chili Piper and it's features
Comments: AMAZING, it has exceeded all expectations
Pros:
ability to qualify prospects through the self-booking appointment process and auto direct the set appointment to the correct sales rep and auto track show rates with their deep native integration with SFDC
Cons:
There are a lot of features and functionality to learn and implement which is a great thing and I'm not technically savvy with the implementation, I love architecting the stack and so it takes thought and understanding what it can do for you as a platform based on your vision of your flow and this can take some time and well worth it in the end
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Best Scheduling platform put there
Comments: it's amazing, not only the features and functionality but also the CSM and support are super quick, helpful and know everything about it + they are really proactive which we appreciate a lot
Pros:
It has ton of options, the routing, grouping and queues have so many option so it can support almost every business scenario, we only moving new departments to it
Cons:
its complicated to learn everything and it takes time to master it but once you do - it's really worth the money!
Lackluster Implementation and Untapped Potential
Comments: In managing sales teams and Revenue Operations concurrently, I encountered Chili Piper — a product that was already under contract when taking this particular job. From what I was told, it promised to revolutionize our lead capture operation; however, my experience with Chili Piper was a tale of untapped potential and lackluster performance.It appeared that Chili Piper had signed the contract with us and merely performed the bare minimum. The onus of setting up, customization, and optimization seemingly rested solely on the customer's shoulders. It is unclear whether the previous RevOps handler possessed the knowledge to fully utilize the product, but it seemed they were confined to getting Instant Booker up and running alone.Initially, I perceived Chili Piper as a scheduling and booking software; thereby, offering limited value for its cost. It was only when the Handoff platform was brought to my attention that the true potential of the product came to light. It was an invaluable tool that had the ability to revolutionize our lead management strategies as was promised. Unfortunately, the lack of implementation and support stifled any opportunity for growth or optimization.The inability to easily engage with the customer support team compounded the disappointment. When I sought answers to my questions, the team was elusive and unresponsive, leaving me stranded in a sea of uncertainty. Ultimately, we made the decision not to renew our contract.
Pros:
One aspect that truly impressed me was the Handoff platform, but this was left untouched and ignored, rendering it a mere specter of its true potential. Its inherent potential for lead management and generation was truly captivating. Yet, it was not on my radar because it not being intuitive to navigate to the separate platform, this being particularly an issue if you don't know it even exists. Only through months of exploration at which time Chili Piper sat idle being used sparingly by a couple of people in the org and then used by me when I had time to continue setting up the product and finishing what never was completed during implementation was when I uncovered its hidden treasures. I did have Handoff set up for a few months and realized that it was a missed opportunity that could have propelled our sales teams to new heights, especially during that interim period.
Cons:
As I delved into Chili Piper, it became apparent that the implementation fell short of the mark and there was a whole platform hidden within the labyrinthine of the product. While Instant Booker showcased some level of competency in its setup, it failed to reach the heights of excellence that would truly elevate the product and deliver substantial value. It lacked the essential functions that could have transformed it into a game-changer and had a major bug problem with several elements (especially in calendar management). The greatest disappointment that became, to me, the true catalyst in the decision not to renew was the atrocious customer support experience that was never available or responsive to my problems.
Chili Piper - Multipurpose Solution For Business
Pros:
With Chili Piper, we have best features for lead capture and generation The software makes sales force automation easy and is great for sales enablement Finally, I like the many meeting and scheduling capabilities
Cons:
Chili Piper has been amazing and nothing really to hate about Chili Piper
The sales machine !
Comments: Chili Piper is the sales data rockstar :))) It gives you insights into your sales data that you can use to identify trends and opportunities, and to make better decisions about your sales strategy. It helps you to convert more leads into customers.
Pros:
Chili Piper simplifies your sales processby automating all the tasks taht take up too much time, like lead generation, nurturing, and follow-up. This frees up our sales team to focus on closing deals. It's got all the tools our marketers need to capture, qualify, and nurture leads.
Cons:
Chili Piper is relatively expensive and can be a complex tool to set up. If you don't have a lot of experience with sales automation tools, it can be difficult to get started.
Growth business with Chili Piper
Comments: Overall experience with Chili Piper is smooth, secure , business growth which is on par. Will suggest to other users also.
Pros:
I most liked about this software is appointment follow up, with customized calendar notification.
Cons:
Everything feel good , yes tutorial guide should be there to use it's full feature which is lot of help.
Easy to use scheduling and meeting booking tool
Comments: Very easy to use and does exactly what we need it for very well - automated the booking of meetings for our SDR team.
Pros:
Super easy to use and setup, requires almost no training or setup time. Visually appealing interface for prospects.
Cons:
The UI on the back end is a bit dated and the management of different elements is a bit unclear - there is no save button for instance - when making changes, they just happen without confirmation.
The best scheduling tool on the market
Comments: Amazing, the tool it's very good and the CSM team it's very helpfull in everything
Pros:
Chilipiper it's so easy to use and it brings results so fast!
Cons:
Some small things about the UX can get better.
Great Scheduling Platform
Comments: Overall, Chili Piper has been a great platform, helping us manage the bookings well and providing the flexibility in terms of making changes without much hassle.
Pros:
We have cases where we need to change the percentage of calls being booked for the various reps for various reasons. Great thing about Chili Piper is that is allows to make such changes at the click of a few buttons, and help equalize the number of calls booked towards the end of the month.
Cons:
We haven't explored the platform to the maximum. Still not much clarity in terms of how to use the reschedule option or make changes to the internal calendar. Found a bug where if our Google Calendar is in one time zone but the org-wide Chili Piper is in another time zone, the round-robin starts acting weird.
Chili Piper has helped us make meeting routing easy and increase show rate
Comments: 1. Meeting routing from SDR to AE is no longer a manual burdensome task for us. We've done both Round Robin and territory-based, and Chilipiper made both crazy easy (especially because of their SFDC integration). 2. We love having standard meeting templates and meeting reminders across the team. Particularly, automated meeting reminders helped increase our show rate by 10%
Pros:
Our team is a huge fan of Chilipiper's automated meeting routing, standardized templates, SFDC logging, and auto-reminders
Cons:
For it's basic features, it's simple and easy to use, but with more complex configurations, all the different settings can get messy
Very flexible and great customer service
Pros:
I like that it integrates seamlessly with salesforce and gmail. It allows our SDR to easily schedule things for our account execs. Also love how easily we can insert time suggestions in emails. The customer service and nimbleness of their company is top notch - they've worked really hard to make sure product works for us.
Cons:
Sometimes the javascript can make our landing pages a little slow, it doesn't work with popup forms (that we've been able to figure out), and I can't use the router for opp and account objects in SF.
Chili Piper is a real time saver
Comments: Overall, it's been a very helpful tool for me. I know there are many powerful features that the rest of my organization leverage, but I stick to the basics.
Pros:
From an individual user, it's easy to use. I just send the type of meeting link I want my recipient to book and I get a notification when they book it. I don't have to go through the back and forth of finding a time that works for them.
Cons:
It was a tiny bit confusing to find certain features, but I found them eventually. I may not have figured it out, but I would love to take two Chilipiper users and send a merged link that will only offer times that are mutually available to both of us. This would come up if I was having a new team member shadow a call, and I wanted to offer only times that were available to myself and the team member shadowing me. This may very well be a feature that exists, and I just didn't figure it out.
Chili Piper has been great for our business
Comments: We use Chili Piper daily. Our SDRs use it to schedule times with a potential customer and our sales Reps. It's been great and its very easy to use.
Pros:
Ease of use. It allows us to have customers quickly find time in calendars and book meetings.
Cons:
I wish Chili Piper can have deeper roots into Salesforce, meaning build custom formulas and look at more than one object.
Lead Routing: Automated
Comments: Couldn't reccomend it enough. There's a reason Chili Piper is taking over the market.
Pros:
This is the only tool on the market that consistently meets our lead routing needs. It's incredibly easy to turn reps on or off, adjust volume, and automate your lead distribution. Their customer support has been unbelievable, always finding time to help us out at any time of day.
Cons:
The reporting can use improving, but their Salesforce integration makes it easy to build reports in Salesforce.
Best in biz for calendaring right now
Comments: Solid team, support and functionality!
Pros:
Advanced features allow for extensive flexibility The management team is excellent
Cons:
Calendaring is becoming a staple in the engagement platforms (Outreach and Salesloft for example) so it will be interesting to see where CP goes next on the product.
Great Meeting Booking Tool for Teams
Comments: The customer support is the best in the B2B SaaS space.
Pros:
Chili Piper looks at our sales reps availabilities and then matches an inbound request to the next batter up based on who is next and meeting availability - takes the back and forth of meeting planning out of the conversation.
Cons:
I wish they had better or more dynamic integrations, specifically with Drift and also writing to a record in Marketo or Salesforce.
Great integrations
Comments: It's so easy for potential customers to pick a time on my calendar or reschedule a meeting. Going back and forth to find time to chat is an utter waste of time.
Pros:
I love Chili Piper's integrations with Zoom, Salesforce, and Google calendar. It reduces data entry, human error when scheduling meetings, and enhances the experience for potential customers.
Cons:
There are times when an SDR routes a meeting to me and my Zoom information isn't added to my Google calendar. Our sales ops have looked into this several times and "fixed" the problem but every now and then it breaks.
A lot of functionality with super user friendly interface
Comments:
1. Streamlined automated and fair sales distribution process
2. Tons of time collectively saved on booking meetings. My personal favorite feature is inserting available times in the email.
3. Customer-centric approach to demo booking with time selection.
Pros:
1. For end-users, like sales or cs teams, you go through the set up once (templates, buffers, reminders) and enjoy saving time every time you book a meeting. 2. Well thought through round-robin flow for SaaS sales teams. 3. Integrations that fit into most tech stacks. 4. Support and customer experience teams are amazing, very friendly, and knowledgeable.
Cons:
We occasionally have lead reassignment problems, which relate mainly to our tech stack setup.
Great fro booking in my demos
Comments: Great tool to make my sales job easier
Pros:
It all goes automatic, you add your working hours and set up meeting times and meeting links and buffers and its done. You dont know its there and see everything right away in your calendar
Cons:
Sometimes there are some hickups with demo’s coming in 2 or times that im not available