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Mainstay

byMainstay
in Value Selling
4.7

Overview

Product Information on Mainstay

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Mainstay?

Mainstay is a software designed to automate and personalize communication for organizations, supporting engagement across various channels such as SMS, email, and web chat. The software incorporates conversational artificial intelligence to manage routine inquiries and deliver timely messaging, aiming to streamline communication workflows and improve responsiveness. Mainstay enables organizations to provide accurate information and resources to users, supports campaign management, and facilitates tracking of engagement metrics. The software addresses challenges related to operational efficiency and enhances the capacity to reach and interact with large audiences while ensuring consistency and data-driven insights for communication strategies.

Mainstay Pricing

Mainstay software uses a subscription-based pricing model, offering different tiers based on features and usage limits. Organizations pay a recurring fee that varies depending on the number of users and selected functionalities. Custom pricing is available for larger needs, while standard plans provide access to core messaging and engagement tools. Discounts may apply for annual commitments and educational institutions.

Overall experience with Mainstay

MANAGER
<50M USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“Boosting Sales Success with Streamlined Lead Management”

4.0
Dec 29, 2024
Excellent and easy to use customer sales, lead and life cycle management in one place.
There are no reviews in this category.
CRITICAL

About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th August 2024

Mainstay’s Advisor Value Platform delivers an integrated set of marketing, sales, and customer success value tools that enable your sales and value engineering teams to quantify and communicate the business value of your solution throughout the customer lifecycle. With over a decade of innovation, Advisor helps to simplify the complexities of value selling to global sales and channel partner sales teams, empowering you to win more deals, close deals faster, and protect margins.

Company Details

Updated 6th August 2024
Year Founded
2003
Head office location
Castle Rock, CO, United States
Number of employees
11 - 50
Website
www.mainstaycompany.com

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Mainstay Likes & Dislikes

Like

1. Creating a channel partner page and management of leads from it makes our sales go up. 2. Tracking the sales and revenue numbers from various sources helps us focus better. 3. Follow-up automation helps in closing deals faster and makes better customer sales and customer success decisions.

Like

I like that everything is built using the Office suite. I also like that they don't have different user types or charge a per-user fee. You pay for the platform and development hours and can have unlimited users. We haven't yet hit a limitation that we couldn't overcome and we don't have to try and conform to a solution with capability limits.

Like

Simplicity, customizable, transparent and ease of deployment.

Dislike

1. The dashboard UI/UX is very basic and can be customized. 2. Additional integration pricing is high. 3. Adding a customer success and sales database required a third party application.

Dislike

There is a preference to create multiple solution models over a single model with many solutions. When you sell a suite of products in a single purchase, this could be problematic. We created one large single model, but it required a good amount of back and forth initially. Having some templates would be helpful to accelerate deployment, but this could limit some of the functionality. I think they can also continue to improve upon their analytics as there are basic capabilities and it would be nice to have more data to confirm adoption and increased usage. Finally, because we created such a large model, the load time can be long. Having the ability to insert a custom message while loading would be a nice feature.

Dislike

UAT can be better, but this is constantly improving with Mainstay. They are very good at taking on feedback and implementing.

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Mainstay Reviews and Ratings

4.7

(3 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
67%
4 Star
33%
3 Star
0%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.3

Integration & Deployment

4.0

Service & Support

4.3

Product Capabilities

4.3

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  • MANAGER
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Boosting Sales Success with Streamlined Lead Management

    4.0
    Dec 29, 2024
    Excellent and easy to use customer sales, lead and life cycle management in one place.
  • Global Director of Value Management
    10B+ USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Mainstay Platform: A cost-effective and flexible solution for enabling Value Selling

    5.0
    Aug 27, 2024
    The Mainstay platform and team are straightforward to work with. The platform leverages Microsoft Office Suite which lowers training costs. The Mainstay team is very responsive and helps us to enable the system to deliver everything we require with respect to Value Selling and self-service tools.
  • World Director Sales Performance
    10B+ USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Experience the Simplicity and Customizability of this Innovative Product

    5.0
    Aug 30, 2024
    Great partnership in short. I like the agility the team have but also the fact from the CEO down the team own the problem in front of them. They are consultative and it was really good to leverage their experience.
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