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We performed a comparison between Sage CRM and Salesforce Essentials based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two CRM solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Sage CRM vs. Salesforce Essentials Report (Updated: May 2024).
771,157 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"It has been helpful for opportunity management and lease management.""Sage CRM is flexible, customizable, and user-friendly.""The most useful aspect of Sage CRM is the capability to keep track of each staff member's communication and bill processing activities. The ability to track both customers and employees is a useful tool.""The solution's technical support is fast to respond.""The part I like the most is the reporting.""We have found the solution to be stable.""The Sage Accpac solution has definitely been the most valuable because the finance features are excellent."

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"Salesforce makes tracking every product and customer activity easy, enabling managers to monitor their products, such as key products and their peak performance.""The most important feature is how Salesforce Essentials brings together information from multiple channels. The nature of our complex custom product data has been challenging due to our manufacturing nature. Salesforce also allowed business processes like finance, credit lines, customer complaints, and quality issues to integrate seamlessly. I haven’t used the mobile app functionality, because we haven't fully utilized because of our preferance of more personal interactions over using mobile apps.""The product is stable.""The solution is very scalable and flexible. It can be customized as per the business need.""Salesforce provides the best they have with the current version. Most of the features we need are already there, and it's very easy to use."

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Cons
"Its user interface could be better.""From an improvement perspective, the ability to make modifications to the product needs to be more user-friendly.""The scalability of this solution depends on whether you have a team that can configure it for scale.""Sage CRM doesn't have a dashboard for dynamic reporting.""I would like Sage to improve their UI.""Sage CRM would benefit from improving its interaction with email communication sites and social media platforms in order to gather more leads.""With regards to monitoring the transaction with alerts, it could be better."

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"The product's reporting area has certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required.""The solution could be cheaper.""Salesforce Essentials does not contain domain-specific solutions.""Less integration would be better. It should work independently.""Integrating Salesforce with SAP, considering our business relies heavily on SAP for ERP, has been quite challenging due to the intricate product configurations. Unlike standard products like computers with a few options, our products have hundreds of configurable options, making the integration complex. If such integration were possible, it would have been easier to understand the unique nature of our industry and the limited number of customers who buy steel products, unlike consumer electronics."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We have a yearly license."
  • "We pay for eight core modules and 20 user licenses and this costs us $1500 per year."
  • "From an African perspective, the solution is relatively expensive."
  • "Though my company has to have a perpetual license per user, there is a need to make annual payments towards the costs attached to the support my organization receives from Sage CRM's technical team."
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  • "The tool is moderately priced."
  • "There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution."
  • "Salesforce Essentials is quite expensive, almost 10 out of 10. I don't have the exact cost, but we found it to be very expensive based on our budget constraints."
  • "It's a perpetual license, and the subscription can be expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution's technical support is fast to respond.
    Top Answer:Though my company has to have a perpetual license per user, there is a need to make annual payments towards the costs attached to the support my organization receives from Sage CRM's technical team… more »
    Top Answer:In the next upgrade, my company expects the tool to have the ability to apply travel expenses. In the next version of the product, I want the product to add the travel desk management module since it… more »
    Top Answer:Salesforce provides the best they have with the current version. Most of the features we need are already there, and it's very easy to use.
    Top Answer:It's a perpetual license, and the subscription can be expensive.
    Top Answer:Less integration would be better. It should work independently.
    Ranking
    19th
    out of 169 in CRM
    Views
    346
    Comparisons
    227
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    394
    Rating
    8.2
    22nd
    out of 169 in CRM
    Views
    31
    Comparisons
    19
    Reviews
    5
    Average Words per Review
    384
    Rating
    8.0
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    Overview
    SageCRM software automates sales tasks such as creating quotes and orders, forecasting sales, progressing leads, and converting them to opportunities using sales workflows. Using CRM software, your marketing team can identify the sources of leads, opportunities and closed sales. They can also find customer information for upcoming campaigns and send targeted email marketing campaigns. When customers place orders for your products or services after these marketing campaigns, you can track these orders using an ERP or business management solution. It can be fully integrated CRM or Sage Sales, Marketing, Service modules to suit your business needs.

    Automatically pull data from your email, calendar, spreadsheets, multiple support channels, and more to get a single, 360° view of every customer and your whole business.
    Our simple setup assistant will have you streamlining sales and answering customer questions in just minutes. And become an Essentials pro with our easy in-app tutorials.
    Trailhead is the fun way to learn all about CRM, sales, service, or any other topic—from easy overviews to in-depth, nitty-gritty details.

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    Avis, Fuji Xerox, Formula 1
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    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise43%
    Large Enterprise29%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise57%
    Buyer's Guide
    Sage CRM vs. Salesforce Essentials
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Sage CRM vs. Salesforce Essentials and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
    771,157 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Sage CRM is ranked 19th in CRM with 7 reviews while Salesforce Essentials is ranked 22nd in CRM with 5 reviews. Sage CRM is rated 7.8, while Salesforce Essentials is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Sage CRM writes "Useful employee and client monitoring, reliable, and good online support database ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Essentials writes "Offers good mobile app support, user-friendly UI and convenient to use". Sage CRM is most compared with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Oracle CX Sales, whereas Salesforce Essentials is most compared with . See our Sage CRM vs. Salesforce Essentials report.

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