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Top 5 Customer Success Tools For SaaS Products in 2025

Once you start running and growing your SaaS product, you quickly realize that managing the business is not just about building or selling your product. It's about keeping your customers happy and engaged and making sure they stick around for a long time.

This isn't just for recurring customers, but any sort of online business that wants to keep their customers engaged and grow their business with their help whether it's their feedback, referrals, or reviews. This is where customer success tools come in and help you manage your customers better, understand what they need, and keep them excited about your product.

However, with almost every single tool labeled “customer success platform,” figuring out which ones can truly help you may feel daunting. In this article, I explore five popular customer success tools, so you can pick the best option for your workflow and improve your product.

Keep in mind that this list is not in any particular order. So, let's dive in and see what each tool has to offer.

Vitally

Vitally

Vitally is a customer success platform that's all about making your life easier. It's designed to boost efficiency, improve how much money you keep from your customers, and give them a great experience. With Vitally, your customer success managers (CSMs) can handle customers, projects, and tasks all in one place. It pulls in data from other tools you use, so everything is right where you need it.

Pros:

  • Easy to use and intuitive.
  • Quick and easy implementation.
  • Tracks the customer lifecycle effectively.
  • Manages projects and schedules tasks.
  • Offers a one-stop-shop for client management.

Cons:

  • Flexibility can lead to inconsistent processes if not managed well.

UserJot

UserJot's Feedback Boards

UserJot is a tool that helps SaaS and product marketing teams engage with their customers effectively. It's all about collecting feedback, managing a roadmap, and sharing changelogs. With UserJot, you can create custom feedback boards where users can submit their ideas, upvote others, and see the status of their suggestions. This keeps users involved in the product development process. The platform also lets you publish changelogs and announcements, keeping everyone in the loop about product updates.

UserJot has several features that make it stand out. You can set up custom feedback boards with tailored subdomains, making it easy to organize and collect user feedback. There are tools for user engagement, like upvotes, comments, and status updates, which can help boost user retention and loyalty. You can integrate feedback forms into your app using widgets, and users can submit feedback without needing to log in, which encourages more participation.

Pros:

  • Custom feedback boards with tailored subdomains.
  • User engagement tools like upvotes, comments, and status updates.
  • Seamless integration with widgets.
  • Guest posting feature to encourage more feedback.
  • Changelogs and announcements to keep users informed.
  • SEO-friendly design to attract organic traffic.

Hook

Hook

Hook uses data and AI to help your teams that deal with clients grow your revenue. It predicts when customers might renew and points out where you can step in or expand your services. Hook gives you stats on how your customers are using your product and trends you should know about. It also suggests ways to improve proactively.

Pros:

  • Provides adoption statistics and customer trends.
  • Offers proactive recommendations for improvement.
  • Engagement scores clearly show customer journeys.
  • Helps identify areas needing focus.

Cons:

  • Data can sometimes be inaccurate.
  • Engagement levels can change drastically with little clarity.

Planhat

Planhat

Planhat is a platform that helps your teams use data to work together and solve problems after the sale. It's flexible and offers great support. Planhat uses intelligent automation to make your life easier, freeing up time for you to engage with your customers.

Pros:

  • Flexible platform.
  • Offers excellent support.
  • Intelligent automation.
  • Frees up time for customer engagement.

Cons:

  • Automations can become messy.
  • Lacks a native integration with Stripe.

Catalyst

Catalyst

Catalyst aims to turn your customers into a growth engine. It gives you insights to build workflows, playbooks, and automations based on what's worked for other customers. It gathers a lot of useful data and serves as a one-stop-shop for your CSMs. It's easy to use and syncs with many other tools you might be using.

Pros:

  • Aggregates a lot of useful data.
  • Serves as a one-stop-shop for CSMs.
  • Syncs with many tools.
  • Intuitive user experience.

Cons:

  • System limitations can disrupt operations.
  • Lacks the ability to import historical usage data.

Conclusion

I truly believe these 5 customer success tools are extremely helpful for SaaS products. Whether you're just starting a new business or you're already running a successful one, these tools can help you manage your customers better, understand what they need, and keep them excited about your product.

Try them out, compare features, and pick the ones that best fits your product.

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Very informative. I will have a lot at it.

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