SugarCRM
Customizable customer relationship management software
3.8 /5 (343 reviews) Write a Review!SugarCRM Overview
What is SugarCRM?
SALES FORCE AUTOMATION
Sugar drives sales force performance by allowing sales representative to track and share contacts and opportunities, manage and upsell into existing accounts, forecast revenue, monitor performance through dashboards, manage quotes and contracts, work offline through our sugar mobile and collaborate through integration with Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes and other groupware applications.
MARKETING AUTOMATION
Sugar closes the loop between marketing and sales. Create, execute and track campaigns across multiple channels with the campaign wizard. Develop compelling email marketing programs and capture leads directly into your CRM system with web-to-lead forms. Manage and assign leads to your sales reps and track the marketing ROI of your programs.
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
Acquiring new customers is much more expensive than selling to existing ones. With Sugar customer support, companies have confidence that customer cases will be handled quickly and effectively. Sugar customer support centralizes customer service requests across channels to allow companies to manage inbound emails, diagnose bugs, share knowledge, and resolve customer issues. In addition, companies that subscribe to Sugar Enterprise or Sugar Ultimate can defray customer support costs with the included Customer Self-Service Portal.
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Excellent Community CRM
SugarCRM Community edition has been a great daily driver for my music business. It's reliable, and has enough functionality to enable me to record all the key data that I need. The ability to self-host the platform is fantastic, because it helps keep costs down, and when you work on a small-scale, you don't need all of the processing power of a paid hosted solution. Definitely a great option if you have the savvy to install and maintain your own instance on your web server.
Indeed a great CRM with effective results
Overall my experience with this CRM is great. I am using it daily and I can say that my daily work is incomplete without it. It is so simple to use and provides amazing results for reports and dashboards, their customer's support team is very responsive.
Good experience with this software
It's been a great way to keep track of customer data
SugarCRM Review - Walz Scale
We have been using Sugar for several years, but only in the past six months have we really dug down to fully utilize the software. The tool is fairly simple to use, I like the reporting functions, but the feedback I get from my sales team is that it is just 'clunky' to use. I'll give you one little example. For the Opportunity 'Actual Closed Won' date, I found through coming across some bad sales data for the month, that if you close a sale in January, and that same month you mark it as Closed Won. But lets say in March you want to go in and add a note to the description. Once you edit that note, (thus changing the Modify date) you autimatically changed the 'Actual Closed Won' date to March. Really messes up sales reports! When I contacted Sugar, there really wasnt an easy fix. We found SierraCRM (third part software) and Bill Convis from there helped with a solution to this problem. We have now purchased this software and believe that this will help take us to the next level of using Sugar. Sugar Support via email is usually pretty prompt, but as far as hearing from our 'Account Manager', just 2 weeks ago was the first time I heard from someone regarding our account. At that point, I had already reached out to SierraCRM, so I did not need anything from Sugar.
To summarize: Great tool, though a little clunky, but the price is not bad. Customer service could be improved, especially for companies like us who are invested in the process, and just need some help taking our sales process to the next level. Thanks!
The new Sugar can go head to head and surpass the greats
As a marketer, I use Sugar to track how our leads and contacts interact with our marketing content, as we've integrated the CRM with Sugar Market, our marketing automation software.
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Excellent Community CRM
Pros
I used the self-hosted community CRM for several years for my own music business. It has a ton of functionality that matches a lot of the basic features you find in Salesforce Classic. It's a great tool for keeping track of client data, deal tracking, etc. It's also nice to be able to self-host the platform as well as it's a lot more affordable than using a paid SaaS solution.
Cons
SugarCRM Community Edition looks pretty dated. If you don't have a lot of experience with the typical CRM data model concept, it can be hard to figure out how to use the system. The interface could be modernized to make it easier to navigate and find your way around. Another downside to being the Community Edition is that you need to know how to install and maintain the platform on your own server, but this is also a plus if you do have these skills.
Indeed a great CRM with effective results
Overall my experience with this CRM is great. I am using it daily and I can say that my daily work is incomplete without it. It is so simple to use and provides amazing results for reports and dashboards, their customer's support team is very responsive.
Pros
I am using it for more than three years and like almost everything about it. This CRM is very easy to use because of its simple design and easy to use user interface. I like the way SugarCRM provides reports and dashboards which is very easy to understand. SugarCRM provides secruity of data and information and now I can handle the different campaigns, create a different campaign for anyone and even get a complete picture of it very easily.
Cons
I would like to highlight one thing that I dislike about it which is its overall cost. A small organization may not afford this CRM but overall it is worth to spend on it.
Good experience with this software
It's been a great way to keep track of customer data
Pros
There are a lot of features included with this CRM, which can make it a little overwhelming to use, but nice if you are looking for a long term solution.
Cons
It can be a little confusing at first just because of the sheer number of options available on the dashboard.
SugarCRM Review - Walz Scale
We have been using Sugar for several years, but only in the past six months have we really dug down to fully utilize the software. The tool is fairly simple to use, I like the reporting functions, but the feedback I get from my sales team is that it is just 'clunky' to use. I'll give you one little example. For the Opportunity 'Actual Closed Won' date, I found through coming across some bad sales data for the month, that if you close a sale in January, and that same month you mark it as Closed Won. But lets say in March you want to go in and add a note to the description. Once you edit that note, (thus changing the Modify date) you autimatically changed the 'Actual Closed Won' date to March. Really messes up sales reports! When I contacted Sugar, there really wasnt an easy fix. We found SierraCRM (third part software) and Bill Convis from there helped with a solution to this problem. We have now purchased this software and believe that this will help take us to the next level of using Sugar. Sugar Support via email is usually pretty prompt, but as far as hearing from our 'Account Manager', just 2 weeks ago was the first time I heard from someone regarding our account. At that point, I had already reached out to SierraCRM, so I did not need anything from Sugar.
To summarize: Great tool, though a little clunky, but the price is not bad. Customer service could be improved, especially for companies like us who are invested in the process, and just need some help taking our sales process to the next level. Thanks!
Pros
I like the Online (sugar on demand) that allows Sugar Support to get into your software and look and something you may be struggling with, like reports...
Cons
Design is little clunky. Think with some improvements, it might be easier to convert leads, update opportunities. Need less clicks!
The new Sugar can go head to head and surpass the greats
As a marketer, I use Sugar to track how our leads and contacts interact with our marketing content, as we've integrated the CRM with Sugar Market, our marketing automation software.
Pros
Customization - pretty much anything you want to achieve with CRM can be done with Sugar, regardless of company size or industry.
Integrations - Sugar can be connected to a vast library of software with out-of-the-box and partner-built integrations.
Cons
The admin panel can be improved from a UI/UX point of view. It's one of the areas where Sugar hasn't been updated in a while.
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Key features of SugarCRM
- Customer Support
- Email Integration
- Marketing Automation
- Sales Force Automation
- Social CRM
Benefits
- Focus attention on the most profitable deals
- Bring new sales representatives up to speed
- Captures leads directly into the CRM system
- Measures return on investment of campaigns
Facebook: read your friends’ news feeds in the Activity Streams dashlet
LinkedIn: See who you know or who can provide you with an introduction at a company
Twitter: read tweets of all the people you follow in the Activity Streams dashlet and add the Twitter name to a contact or lead and read their tweets directly in the contact or lead record
SugarCRM FAQs
SugarCRM FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for SugarCRM.
Q. What type of pricing plans does SugarCRM offer?
SugarCRM offers the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Q. What are the main features of SugarCRM?
SugarCRM offers the following features:
- Customer Support
- Email Integration
- Marketing Automation
- Sales Force Automation
- Social CRM
Q. Who are the typical users of SugarCRM?
SugarCRM has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Large Enterprises, Public Administrations, Non Profit, Freelancers, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does SugarCRM support?
SugarCRM supports the following languages:
English
Q. What type of pricing plans does SugarCRM offer?
SugarCRM has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
Q. Does SugarCRM support mobile devices?
SugarCRM supports the following devices:
Android
Q. What other apps does SugarCRM integrate with?
SugarCRM integrates with the following applications:
3CLogic, Adobe Sign, CogniDox, EasyEvent, Evergage, InterWeave Smart Solutions, LiveChat, Marketo Engage, WhosOn, Zendesk
Q. What level of support does SugarCRM offer?
We do not have any information about what support options SugarCRM has
SugarCRM Community edition has been a great daily driver for my music business. It's reliable, and has enough functionality to enable me to record all the key data that I need. The ability to self-host the platform is fantastic, because it helps keep costs down, and when you work on a small-scale, you don't need all of the processing power of a paid hosted solution. Definitely a great option if you have the savvy to install and maintain your own instance on your web server.