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Both Conga X-Author for Excel | Microsoft Office & Excel Connector and Proton Text offer paid plans only. Conga X-Author for Excel | Microsoft Office & Excel Connector starts at paid; Proton Text starts at paid. Compare the per-tier features in the Pricing section above before committing.

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Conga X-Author for Excel | Microsoft Office & Excel Connector typically suits early-stage and growth-mode stores based on its review-base composition (45 reviews). Proton Text aligns more with early-stage and growth-mode stores (33 reviews). Larger review bases generally mean the app has been load-tested at scale — relevant if you're processing high order volume or handling enterprise compliance requirements.

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Conga X-Author for Excel | Microsoft Office & Excel Connector vs Proton Text

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Conga X-Author for Excel | Microsoft Office & Excel Connector

4.7·45reviews

X-Author for Excel by Conga is a Salesforce Excel Connector which can update opportunities, assign leads, create quotes, upload data & more. Users have the power of Microsoft Office inside Salesforce. Admins drive toward 100% Salesforce adoption.

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	Conga X-Author for Excel \| Microsoft Office & Excel Connector	Proton Text
Tagline	“X-Author for Excel by Conga is a Salesforce Excel Connector which can update opportunities, assign leads, create quotes, upload data & more. Users have the power of Microsoft Office inside Salesforce. Admins drive toward 100% Salesforce adoption.”246 chars	“SMS/MMS Text Lightning Component with Integration to Salesforce® Objects. 1-to-1 texting with optional Google Translate and Sms2Agent features. Proton Blaster handles bulk SMS to thousands, and our automation library makes SMS part of your workflow.”249 chars
Description	1178 / 2000 chars59% used	1181 / 2000 chars59% used
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Languages	enja	nlenfifrde+11 more
Platforms	Shopify	Shopify
Developer	Conga	Proton 7 Group

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Feature comparison between Conga X-Author for Excel | Microsoft Office & Excel Connector and Proton Text
Metric	Conga X-Author for Excel \| Microsoft Office & Excel Connector	Proton Text
Rating	4.7 ★	★ 5.0 ★
Total reviews	★ 45	33
Free plan	—	—
Pricing	paid	paid
Built for Shopify	—	—
Pricing tiers	1 tier	★ 5 tiers
Listed features	3	★ 9
Languages	2 supported	16 supported
Listed since	Jun 2014	Aug 2018

Listed	June 25, 2014	August 28, 2018

Last updated	—	—

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Conga X-Author for Excel | Microsoft Office & Excel Connector

Use Excel as a Salesforce UI for an infinite amount of use cases: opportunity forecasts, forms, grids for any object, territory re-assignments, compliance forms, data migration between orgs, multi-worksheet processes, risk assessments, import/export data
Use unlimited related and unrelated standard or custom objects simultaneously to create, retrieve, update, delete and upsert data across an infinite number of Microsoft Excel worksheets for a powerful data loader.
Formats include lists, parent-child (n-tier), matrices, transpositions and forms. Name lookups are resolved automatically with no need for IDs in most cases. Use existing Excel workbooks, Excel templates or start fresh in new Excel documents.

Proton Text

𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗬 𝟭-𝗧𝗢-𝟭 𝗧𝗘𝗫𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 ▸ Text Contacts, Leads, and Users from a Home or record page, Utility Bar or Mobile app. ▸ Link to records ▸ Scheduled texts ▸ Send images & files ▸ Out-of-Office autoreply/forwarding
★★★★★ 𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗛 𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 ▸ Read our reviews — all five stars! There's a reason for that ▸ You get personalized support for set up and ongoing needs ▸ You are important to us ▸ Special attention for nonprofit customers
𝗕𝗨𝗟𝗞 𝗦𝗠𝗦 & 𝗠𝗠𝗦 𝗕𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗦 ▸ Blast to thousands of Campaign Members, with full integration to Campaign reporting and opt-out. ▸ Blast to any object List View or CSV list import. ▸ Powerful response handling and real-time error reporting.
𝗕𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗡𝗢𝗡𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗙𝗜𝗧𝗦 ▸ Proton Text is available to nonprofit organizations, priced on a sliding scale to be affordable to everyone. ▸ Nonprofits can join the Twilio Impact program for additional savings on all usage fees.
𝗢𝗣𝗧-𝗜𝗡 / 𝗢𝗣𝗧-𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 ▸ Easily comply with privacy best practices for opt-in and opt-out preferences. ▸ Proton Text automatically handles setting opt-in/out, based on recipient responses to 1-to-1 texts, blasts, notifications.
𝗧𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗘 𝗩𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗦 ▸ Use {!MergeVariables} to personalize 1-to-1 texts and blast messages to thousands. ▸ Proton Text comes with merge variables for standard fields, and you can create your own.
𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗖𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗬! ▸ Sms2Agent provides direct agent interactions via your mobile phone texting app. ▸ View Agent Conversations. ▸ Apex Action generates a transcript of all Proton Text conversations related to recipient or any recordId.
𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗚𝗟𝗘 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘 ▸ Proton GTX (additional subscription) provides realtime translation powered by Google Translate. ▸ Enhance your customer satisfaction by connecting in any of 100+ languages!
𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗬 𝗖𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 ▸ Nonprofit Cloud integration, linking conversations to Fundraising, Gifts, Donor Management and Program Management records. ▸ Field Service Cloud integration ▸ Education Cloud integration

Keyword	Conga X-Author for Excel \| Microsoft Office & Excel Connector	Proton Text
powerful forms	#16	#112
free form	#88	#75

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Conga X-Author for Excel | Microsoft Office & Excel Connector

Anything you can do in Salesforce you can now do faster & easier in Excel. • Create & update Salesforce records from Excel • Use Salesforce picklists in Excel • Adhere to all Salesforce rules, permissions & workflows • Use Excel analytics with live Salesforce data • Build logic & calculations in Excel & easily use results in Salesforce X-Author is the only solution that completely integrates Excel & Salesforce. Build your own Applications in minutes with point-and-click convenience – no coding necessary. Transform standalone Excel workbooks into enterprise applications, or create templates from scratch. • Enterprise: Control any number of Salesforce objects & processes in one workbook • Data Administration: Migrate and maintain data in record time • Presto: Run Excel formulas and macros in Salesforce • Excel Analytics: Deliver fully configured Excel reports & run analytics with ease X-Author Out-of-the-Box Applications are available for everyday needs, including: • Account Management • Opportunity Management • Campaign Management • Quoting in Excel Available to use with PCs, Mac computers, iPads and Google Sheets. This product was formerly Apttus X-Author.

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Proton Text

𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗥 𝗦𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗙𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 & 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗦𝗠𝗦 𝗧𝗘𝗫𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 Customers & leads want to text from their phones and you need to integrate those conversations into your Salesforce workflow. Your team saves time and money, while driving up lead conversation through interaction frequency and velocity. Proton Text looks and feels like a messaging app on your phone, with timestamped talk bubbles 💬, error reporting, emojis 😃, photos and file📎 attachments. Maximize productivity with scheduled texts, QuickResponse templates that personalize frequently-used messages, and Out-of-Office autoreply & forwarding. Automate your texts for Appointment Reminders, Text-to-Case, Text-to-Lead & Lead Nurturing flows, and more. 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗞𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗔 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗢𝗡 𝗕𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥! Proton Blaster schedules SMS Blasts to Campaign Members or any List View or CSV file. Automatic response handling, opt-in/opt-out management, and real-time error reporting. Enables marketing and privacy best practices. 14-Day Free Trial. Email [email protected] for a live demo! Setup videos and free automation at www.protontext.com.

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