Curious about how e2a stacks up against Salesforce Email-to-Case when it comes to features? Wonder no more! We've put together a quick and straightforward summary just for you. Check it out below.
Feature |
E2A |
Email to Case |
|---|---|---|
| Create Case records from incoming emails |
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| Store full email history for each Case | ||
| Email, reply and forward emails from each Case directly from within Salesforce | ||
| Draft emails, including shared drafts and autosave | ||
| Duplicate prevention to stop new cases being created when people hit Reply-all on the original email | ||
| Advanced Email Editor | ||
| Distribution Lists - email to lists of people defined within Salesforce | ||
| Advanced Contact Search - Case Account Contacts, All Contacts, All Leads, Distribution Lists, Users | ||
| Can work without a ref code on every email e.g. [ref:_00D20K7p6._500D015etOO:ref] | ||
| Configurable field mappings - allow any email data to be mapped to any Case fields | ||
| Advanced Case ownership rules - assign Case ownership to queues or users based on email data | ||
| Business Units - Set defaults for users based on membership of Business Unit | ||
| Relate emails to multiple objects - allow an email to link to multiple objects, not just case |
e2a has a far more advanced email editor than Email-to-Case has, which uses the built-in one that comes with Salesforce
Here is a screenshot of the built-in email editor for Email-to-Case. It is fairly basic with limited features:

Here is the email editor that comes with e2a:

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