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Customer contact software for more than the questions that come in
Customer service is about answering questions. Customer contact is about every moment around a customer: the question, the order, the appointment, the follow-up. Cuego brings those moments together with the people and systems that belong with them.
Cuego AI agent
- Understand the questionWhat is this about and what does the customer really want to know.
- Gather contextOrder, customer data and earlier conversations from your own systems.
- Prepare the answerAn answer that holds up, with the follow-up action included.
- Get it doneReturn filed, ticket updated, queued for your approval.
There's a difference between customer service and customer contact, and that difference determines which kind of software you need. Customer service is the question that comes in and the answer that goes back. Customer contact is everything happening around a customer, including when there's no question: an order that changes, an appointment that needs moving, a quote nobody followed up on.
In most companies those moments are scattered across different tools and different departments. The mail is in the inbox, the order in the webshop, the appointment in a calendar and the follow-up in someone's head. Cuego brings them together around the same customer, so the moment something needs to happen is also the moment the information is there.
The situation
Where customer contact falls apart
Sales doesn't know support handled a complaint from the same customer yesterday, and calls with an offer.
What was agreed during a phone call is written nowhere, so the follow-up depends on who remembers it.
The customer history can be reconstructed, but only by searching in three systems.
How it works in practice
With that context in place, this is what the next step looks like.
Everything around the same customer
Conversations, orders, tasks, appointments and notes hang on one customer card. Whoever speaks to the customer sees what's going on, regardless of which department handled it before.
Systems supply the context
Through integrations with your webshop, ERP, logistics and payment provider, the information sits with the conversation. Your systems keep doing what they do; Cuego fetches what's needed at that moment.
From signal to next step
A moment that needs attention becomes a task, an appointment or a workflow, with an owner attached. Follow-up then no longer depends on memory.
What comes together
Conversations from every channel
Email, chat, voice, WhatsApp and social on the same customer card, with the history included.
Customer data from your own systems
Orders, payments, shipments and returns from your webshop, ERP and carrier, fetched at the moment you look.
Knowledge everyone shares
Policy, procedures and answers in one place, used by your colleagues and by the AI agent.
Tasks and appointments
What follows from a contact gets a name and a date, and sits on the customer card rather than in a separate list.
Workflows that do the work
Recurring steps, such as registering a return or sending a reminder, run automatically with the approval you set.
Insight per topic
Which questions come in, how often, through which channel and how that develops. Usable to see whether a change elsewhere actually reduces questions.
Costs
What customer contact software costs, and what separate tools cost
With customer contact the cost question is rarely about one package. Usually there is already an inbox, a telephony provider, a chat widget and a CRM, each with its own invoice and its own unit.
The sum of your current tools
First list what you currently pay for mailbox, chat, voice and CRM together. That is the amount a platform should be compared against, not the cheapest individual tool.
Connections between systems
Separate tools have to be tied together. Sometimes through an integration platform with its own subscription, sometimes with custom work. Those costs appear on no vendor's pricing page.
Voice and call minutes
Voice almost always bills separately on minutes or numbers, even inside a platform. Ask for the per-minute rate and what the bundle includes.
WhatsApp and messaging costs
WhatsApp Business carries per-conversation costs that the provider passes on. That is a third party in the chain, so check whether those costs are passed through or marked up.
Duplicate data and duplicate work
The most expensive line appears on no invoice: maintaining the same customer in three systems. That costs no licence but it does cost hours, and it is why separate tools tip over as you grow.
The point where separate tools tip over
As long as one person does everything, separate tools work fine. The tipping point arrives when a second person needs to know what the first agreed. From then on you are no longer paying for software but for the retyping in between.
How to compare a platform with your current setup
Compare on total yearly cost and on the actions that disappear, not on the number of features.
- 1Add up all current subscriptions around customer contact.
- 2Add the integration costs and custom work you already have.
- 3Estimate how much time per week goes into looking things up and retyping.
- 4Put that next to the yearly amount of a platform with the same channels.
Cuego bills per customer question with unlimited users, from €499 per month on an annual plan. The full breakdown per plan is on the pricing page.
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What it delivers
What bringing context and action together means in practice.
Customer contact is more than the question that comes in. An appointment that needs moving, a quote nobody followed up on, a callback promise: in Cuego those sit in the same record as the conversations, with an owner attached.
Every module reads the same customer data, so there's one version of the agreement.
One file per customer
the appointment, the quote and the conversations sit together
Every promise gets an owner
a callback promise doesn't stay in someone's head
One version of the appointment
every module reads the same customer data
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Customer service software focuses on incoming questions and handling them. Customer contact software goes broader: the order, the appointment, the task and the follow-up belong to it too, and not only for the support team. You notice the practical difference when sales, warehouse or finance need to know what's going on with a customer.
The terms behind this
What the terms on this page actually mean, with the calculation and where they mislead in practice.
Customer Experience
Customer Experience is the sum of every moment a customer deals with you. Customer service is a small part of that, and often the part repairing the rest.
Omnichannel
Omnichannel doesn't mean being reachable everywhere. It means a customer who switches channel doesn't have to tell their story again.
CSAT
CSAT is the percentage of customers who rate a contact moment as positive. The score is easy to collect and easy to misread.
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