SugarCRM Software

It's a very powerful tool, that has all you need to start automating your operation and making your sales team more efficient.

Pros

Has all the tools and functionalities you may expect (and sometimes even more). CRM will naturally help organize your contacts, leads and create a sales funnel.

Cons

Much focused in lead management but lack a bit in the Process Flow management side. If you're goal is to center your sales and backup operation around a CRM, you will need to invest much time to it.

Pros

I love the user interface, particularly how one can view various data about a contact without wasting time clicking through to the full contact view. The customized reports, headings, and sections are fantastic. So far our implementation has gone very well with helpful support from a Sugar vendor.

Cons

So far we haven't experienced any cons. Sugar is significantly more expensive than our previous CRM but cheaper than Salesforce, so it seems like a great midrange CRM for a company with 3-5 years of business in the growth stage.

Not a good experience from my side personally. We went into partnership through Sugar for our CRM

The Project was sent in its entirety to Fellow Consulting the so called Elite Partner before anything started for accurate examination and projected costs. Its now April 2018 ,11 months later we cannot present the CRM to staff for implementation.

We managed in December to get Sugar Technical experts to look at the situation and to the work of Fellow Consulting and this raised more questions than answers as to why Fellow did what they did.

I begged SugarCRM to assist but all to no effect and now we go to Court. The attitude from one of the rep was one of complete indifference to whether we went legal. I am not big enough for this to worry SugarCRM in any way. The CEO sent me a email that he was concerned about our experience and that I should contact him, I did but never got an answer.

We have now started with a New Company for our CRM needs and going to Court with Fellow Consulting and SugarCRM. I wish this was not necessary as there are no real winners in such cases but currently I have nothing to lose. I hope that justice will eventually be done as there is no other way with these Companies from my experience.

Pros

I learned a lot about Contracts and the do' and dont's about what to look for with contracts of this nature, SugarCrm leave themselves no a position of being very hard to touch regardless to what they do to you.

Cons

we have existed as a Company since Jan 2010 and always made money. Since putting our Trust in Sugarcarm we lost a lot of money, as we had no CRM to work with.

Pros

I liked how easy the initial set up and install process was, it's a 'small' but powerful CRM that does what most small businesses would need it to do.

Cons

Sometimes the User experience isn't that intuitive or simple, it's got less functionality compared to Microsoft D365 or Salesforce, but I think it's good for the right size of business.

Pros

As an end user and having an employer that has taken advantage of automation I have learned to enjoy this CRM. I can preform the same job and save 1/4 of the time I use to spend on the exact same transactions.

Cons

This may be because a function was not included in our CRM but having to click on more tasks and wait as the tool buffers does not allow me to move as fast as I might otherwise and is a little frustrating. It also experiences little hiccups on a frequent basis. This has happened in the middle of a transaction and I have lost important notes because I'm not in the habit of saving my notes until I'm done. If you are entering in important information you should save frequently.

Lots of great features, highly integrateable

Pros

This is great for small, mid-sized businesses. The backend setup is very user-friendly and the fact that you can make multiple fields for data at one time is a huge plus! I also very much enjoy the process builder on the back for automation. Great functionality.

Cons

There just seems to be something missing. There is tons of things this app does right, but there are a few things that it does wrong as well. But for the pricepoint you cant really be mad at it.

Pros

SugarCRM may not have the ecosystem of say Microsoft Dynamics 365 but it is still highly customizable and extensible.

Cons

It can be complicated to use at times, and so you will need dedicated support people with experience to come in sometimes and help you make it the tool you want it to be.

Pros

The price is right. For a small company it is a very inexpensive solution It is not hard to install or maintain.

Cons

Most people have never heard of this software. Also the name is not professional sounding. It hard to take it serious v

a powerful CRM that is very similar to Salesforce

Pros

All the features and functionalities of a CRM, automates tasks and allows users to manage a pipeline.

Cons

pricing is demanding for a small organization. customization of CRM sections requires expertise (and perhaps a dedicated internal resource). not very intuitive although it provides much functionalities

The culture of the 1CRM implementation of SugarCRM featuring incomplete, inflexible and user-unfriendly software reinforced by unhelpful and disdainful "support' is propagated throughout their network, for example by their German distributor Visual4 GmbH, who auto-renewed a subscription even though it had been cancelled (as just one example of their total administrative failure - they didn't know if you're a cloud or own-server customer, as another of many) and refusal to support a fully paid-up customer because s/he identified real and tangible problems rendering the software near-unusable.

Pros

The OpenSource concept is obviously wonderful, but needs to be transformed into a usable product with proper support, which is where 1CRM fails.

Cons

The leverage of SugarCRM into 1CRM fails in simple things like country lists that you can't add to, yet not all countries are included in the list (for example, there is no United Kingdom, UK, Britain, Great Britain, or England!), and the security certificate had expired. If you're ok to override the big red "insecure site" warnings to store your critical business data, go ahead. Me not. Whereupon "support" tells you it's your fault and you're stupid and anyway commercially useless to them. Reports are childishly implemented, can not be used by a business - but you can re-do them yourself using a clunky and functionally limited interface for an additional fee. Professional-looking offers, order confirmations, and invoices have been around for decades, should be included in the most basic version of any product, and should not need end-user re-programming at any cost.

SugarCRM is "the" system every business ,big or small, should incorporate as a true leverage for taking your business far and beyond..

Pros

Flexibility, affordability, portability, cristal clear cost model, user friendly, intuitivity, integrability.. All abilities.

Cons

It will be nice that reporting capabilities where improved.
A bigger apps exchage market place wil be a plus.

The best way to start into CRM World!

Pros

- Easy to Install
- Easy to Deploy
- Easy to Development
- Many knowledged base pages
- Many plugins
- Easy to Integrate

Cons

- Scalability
- Not is intuitive
- Little volatile
- Hard frond-end customization
- Security Schema not enough

Value for money

Pros

Easy to commence with few functionalities around
Low implementation cost
Ability to import data from traditional spread sheets & databases
Export function when migrating to enterprise level (high level CRM systems)

Cons

Only suitable to address small to mid-rage complexities
Out dated UI
Limited functionality compare to Salesforce and MS Dynamics

Not real happy with customer service also.

Pros

It does have cool graphics
The mobile app is pretty great,
The whole premise of what it can do for you seems to great, just was difficult to make it perform like they said

Cons

I don't like that I have to input the same info multiple times on mulitple pages to get the info in the right place
Difficult to do filters.
I didnt like the format for leads to accounts to sales.
Pipeline is difficult to follow also

Great product if you are into social media engagement management.

Pros

Easy to integrate with social accounts.

Cons

Not many options on basic CRM features

Likes Best

Good pricing and service from Sugar. The pricing was lower than most of their competition. The staff was friendly and helpful but restrained due to the options available to them in order to solve our issues.

Likes Least

Cell phone app needs improvement and it's not as easy to use as other crm's.

Recommendations

Make sure the company is updating with the current requirements especially regarding cell phone application and email integration.

Likes Best

We were able to create a custom quote tracking capability. Quotes were generated from within Sugar.

Likes Least

Has more bells and whistles than we need. We really just need contacts, leads, opportunities and quotes.

Recommendations

Make sure you have a software savvy person available to set it up.

Likes Best

Lots of room for data. The sorting by dates or subject ease the searches and nice to have customer data handy.

Likes Least

Sometimes takes what seems to be a long time to enter data on different screens.

Recommendations

To help understand the operational capabilities, tutorials would help understand the available functions.

Likes Best

I did do the job, but not always in the way that we would have expected.

Likes Least

The unannounced forced updates, which would come along with new interfaces leading to sometimes days of confusion.

Recommendations

Be sure you have a high-level techie available if you want this platform to conform to the way your company does business.

Likes Best

I am able to use the Sugar application in my office or while traveling via my mobile devices.

The Sugar team responds quickly when I need assistance.

Having my customers contact and recent project activity at my fingertips is very helpful and saves time while I am out in the field.

Likes Least

I would like to see quicker page to page navigation and quick access sales reports

Recommendations

Good substitute to other CRM programs, such as Salesforce.