When comparing ClientFlow vs Missive, the Slant community recommends Missive for most people. In the question“What is the best shared inbox?” Missive is ranked 13th while ClientFlow is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose Missive is:
In Missive you can live edit an email draft with your teammates, the draft composer acts exactly like a Google doc. Each team member has a different color cursor.
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Pros
Pro Approval requests
It allows you to send standardized approval requests to clients that they can approve or reject directly from their Inbox. You can also track pending approvals and set automated reminders to clients. This is extremely useful.
Pro Pre-built templates
They have a bunch of pre-built message templates under categories such as status updates, feedback, etc. which they have put together very thoughtfully. You can you build your own customized templates. You can rely on these templates to send recurring emails to clients quickly.
Pro Client management
You can organize emails in client and project folders. This is extremely useful as you'll have all communication with a particular client at a single location.
Pro Cost of Product
The cost of product is relatively very low compared to its competitors
Pro User Interface (UI)
The UI of ClientFlow is very similar to gmail and you get used to it rather quickly.
Pro Live collaborative draft editor
In Missive you can live edit an email draft with your teammates, the draft composer acts exactly like a Google doc. Each team member has a different color cursor.
Pro Is a fully functional email client
The email section allows for consuming all of your email accounts in it, utilizing shared addresses (help@acme.com), personal work inbox (philippe@acme.com) and personal inbox (phil@gmail.com).
It’s important because the collaborative part of Missive becomes useful when users consume all of their emails within the app. You not only want to collaborate around emails sent to your company help@address, but also around the really important emails you most likely receive at your personal company address, like that really important email you received from a potential high profile partner.
Pro Team chat
Missive is also a team chat app. When using Missive you can ditch your email client, chat app and help desk.
Pro Unified inbox
Merge all email accounts in one unified inbox.
Pro Tasks
You can create multiple tasks per conversation all assignable to a single or a group of persons.
Pro It works
Nicely written software. Always works as you'd expect, beautifully designed, a classy piece of software.
Pro Multi-organizations
Supports multiple organizations with one user login.
Pro Offers read receipt
Know exactly if and when the recipients read your important email.
Pro Has emojis
Pro Gmail shortcuts
Supports Gmail shortcuts.
Cons
Con No option to add words to spellcheck dictionary on Windows
Incredibly frustrating to see the name of your company constantly underlined in red, with no way to fix it.