Conga CPQ vs. QuoteWerks

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Conga CPQ
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Conga CPQ empowers sales, partners, and customers to efficiently configure complex products and services offerings, and provide personalized prices and quotes, utilizing codified product and pricing information - to drive higher win rates and a more pleasurable buying experience. Conga CPQ also helps to maintain a single price book, discounting structure, and quoting structure across all channels. With an API-first approach, configuration, pricing, or quoting capabilities that can…
$35
per month per user
QuoteWerks
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
QuoteWerks is specialized Configuration Pricing Quoting (CPQ) software that can be used in every industry to create sales quotes and proposals. The vendor’s value proposition is that rather than relying on Microsoft Word or Excel to create quotes, users can benefit from a tool that is specialized for the task of creating quotes and proposals. QuoteWerks integrates with the user's existing CRM software and distributors. With QuoteWerks users can also submit orders…
$15
per user/per month
Pricing
Conga CPQQuoteWerks
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
QuoteWerks Standard Edition
$15
per user/per month
QuoteWerks Professional Edition
$20
per user/per month
QuoteWerks Corporate Edition
$29
per user/per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Conga CPQQuoteWerks
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsThe QuoteWerks license count is based on concurrent usage so while you may have 5 users using it, you may only need to purchase 2 licenses. The QuoteValet license count is based on daily maximum number of unique users. In addition to monthly and annual subscriptions, one-time, up-front purchasing options for edition and realtime licenses are available which include volume pricing discounts. Invest up-front and pay minor maintenance fees annually. Please contact QuoteWerks Sales at sales@quotewerks.com or 407-248-1481 to answer any questions or to obtain a personalized quote.
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Community Pulse
Conga CPQQuoteWerks
Considered Both Products
Conga CPQ
Chose Conga CPQ
We used QuoteWerks which did not integrate well with Salesforce. It had no approval process and the price book lived on each person's computer. If they did not connect to the server they were quoting old pricing. It allowed them to create products on the fly.
QuoteWerks
Chose QuoteWerks
The major reason to go with the QuoteWerks was due to pricing as compared to its competitors which involves the production of the sales made easy as well as easy to use in order to work on the production and cloud migration made easy in order to go with it and resolve the …
Chose QuoteWerks
Both this software were similar in what they do and pricing, however, the QuoteWork software in my opinion does a better job recording and tracking communications between personnel and clients. QuoteWerks also gives a lot of data that might seem like overkill, but having too …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Conga CPQQuoteWerks
CPQ
Comparison of CPQ features of Product A and Product B
Conga CPQ
7.6
32 Ratings
12% below category average
QuoteWerks
9.2
32 Ratings
7% above category average
Quote sharing/sending7.930 Ratings9.132 Ratings
Product configuration7.232 Ratings9.732 Ratings
Configuration options8.532 Ratings9.332 Ratings
Pricing rules7.631 Ratings8.926 Ratings
Price adjustment6.931 Ratings9.332 Ratings
Purchase history and open contracts6.226 Ratings9.727 Ratings
Guided selling/Sales portal7.125 Ratings8.921 Ratings
CPQ reporting & analytics5.628 Ratings8.421 Ratings
CPQ-CRM integration8.830 Ratings8.827 Ratings
Attachments to quotes9.231 Ratings9.430 Ratings
Order capturing8.08 Ratings9.812 Ratings
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User Ratings
Conga CPQQuoteWerks
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(46 ratings)
9.4
(48 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.8
(9 ratings)
10.0
(21 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(3 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(2 ratings)
6.0
(5 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(2 ratings)
6.0
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
6.0
(4 ratings)
8.9
(9 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
7.0
(1 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
1.0
(3 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.7
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.8
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Conga CPQQuoteWerks
Likelihood to Recommend
Conga
I think the case when I would recommend Conga CPQ is in a legacy org. In that case, the older style and configuration might be more useful, and you are less likely to find yourself forced to upgrade to lightning. If you are already using lightning, or migrating to lightning, then I would only recommend Conga CPQ if the alternative does not support the features you need.
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Aspire Technologies, Inc.
The sales department is satisfied with QuoteWerks and this generates satisfaction throughout the company. The main recommendation is to use the free trial first in order to know what the goals of each company are according to their size and futuristic vision. QuoteWerks opening easy and robust integration with our CRMs, this also improves workflow. It works as an electronic signature that has improved working time and in general the relationship with our clients because we no longer have to ask the client to print the document and then sign it.
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Pros
Conga
  • The perceived power strength is that it is supposed to contain CPQ, Contract Management, Document generation and template manipulation, and cash/invoice process all in one wrapped package.
  • It was developed on the Force.com platform.
  • They provide multiple releases of their product per year.
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Aspire Technologies, Inc.
  • It offers a robust API Integration with Connectwise Manage as well as several other CRM and accounting packages.
  • It offers a robust templating system that has allowed us to remove large amounts of manual labor from our quoting system.
  • It allows you to integrate rate sheets from your leasing partners for easy leasing options.
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Cons
Conga
  • Apttus has not completely transitioned from a product suite to a product platform vendor. Upgrades of certain products can have interoperability issues with other products in the Apttus stack. Our pain point here was attempting to use Apttus Xauthor for Excel to get around product line limitations in the Apttus CPQ shopping cart. The ultimate resolution was for us to upgrade and leverage the latest version of CPQ, where pricing callback limitations were addressed by client side processing, rather than the hybrid Xauthor process we tried to use.
  • Upgrades in general require significant testing to ensure no unanticipated issues occur. We have a complete Salesforce sandbox dedicated to providing an environment for testing any modifications or upgrades.
  • Apttus support model almost requires you to purchase premium support. Given the CPQ system is complex, the level of skilled support available through basic support require you to escalate several times before getting to a resource that can address your issue.
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Aspire Technologies, Inc.
  • QuoteWerks can be a little clunky at times, but overall is easy to use.
  • QuoteWerks could be a little more visibly attractive, but it gets the job completed.
  • QuoteWerks Has added a couple of features that I would rather not see there - a view of all of the open quotes for a customer just muddies up the screen and it asks you if you want to save a quote at the most inopportune times.
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Likelihood to Renew
Conga
It is critical to our sales process. We are not satisfied with all aspects of the product and have gone through many tough experiences with their PS, support, and PD teams -- but we're not unhappy enough to re-build what we're already built
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Aspire Technologies, Inc.
We will renew because QuoteWerks has all the capabilities we require for our business processes and our reps like it. The support is top notch and the pricing model saves us considerable money over SaaS models. I also feel confident that Aspire Technologies will continue to improve and add features
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Usability
Conga
Conga CPQ is a great tool but lacks good support and [a] very limited knowledge base which doesn't include day to day errors which users face, thus leading us to support and take more time in turn. Also cart performance can be improved drastically which will enhance the user experience as the user doesn't have to wait for the pricing.
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Aspire Technologies, Inc.
In my experience, QuoteWerks is incredibly easy to get started with and very intuitive to putting together your first quote. It also has a depth of features that has not only allowed us to enhance our own internal quote / order / invoice production, but also implemented into other businesses has increased their quote production significantly.
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Reliability and Availability
Conga
I have not heard of any issue
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Aspire Technologies, Inc.
QuoteWerks is a very stable, robust solution. In my experience: bugs in the software are rare; any crashes or system failures are usually due to other infrastructure issues rather than the software itself, i.e. a problem with the network or server, an issue with a.n.other piece of software on the User's workstation that has a knock-on effect on QuoteWerks.
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Performance
Conga
No answers on this topic
Aspire Technologies, Inc.
Once set up and running, and particularly when running the more reliable, faster Corporate edition rehosted to SQL Server, then QuoteWerks performs very well. The only reason for the slight mark down here is that QuoteWerks is very sensetive to having a database connection. If there is an issue whereby the connection to the server is lost (network glitch for example) then whereas Outlook (or a.n.other piece of software) might just wait and poll in 30 seconds time, QuoteWerks will crash and potentially a User lose all changes to the document(s) that they were working on.
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Support Rating
Conga
Tier1/tier 2 support can only handle native functionality. Customizations have to be escalated to developers which aren’t included in the support program.

I go ahead and copy the people I directly worked with on implementation for assistance. I would rate them an 8 for support assistance.
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Aspire Technologies, Inc.
Quotewerks Support and the UK Distributor here have always been responsive to our requests and in particular helped us out when we need some new functionality which then got added in the next build...this really impressed me and showed that where case was made, they readily embraced it and the new build was completed within 60 days.
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In-Person Training
Conga
No answers on this topic
Aspire Technologies, Inc.
There is in-person training offered in Orlando, but our company did not want to spend the money.
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Online Training
Conga
We attended 5 hours worth of webinars early on.

We had to understand how objects worked to figure out how to structure our data.

I would have liked more in-depth training but it would have been an additional cost
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Aspire Technologies, Inc.
Originally it was weak, but they have really stepped up.
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Implementation Rating
Conga
Be iterative. Take the opportunity to build a catalog based on how Apttus works well. Learn the tool yourself or use an SI. Take the time to build a configuration / pricing migration tool with X-Author for Excel or roll your own. Stick with OOTB Apttus as any customization will cost you every time a new version is released
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Aspire Technologies, Inc.
I do not have any key insights on the implementation so I cannot provide any valuable information here. I do know, however, that the process went well when we switched from a old platform to a new hyperconverged solution to host Quotewerks. It seemed to be a quick process and our engineer was able to do so almost seamlessly.
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Alternatives Considered
Conga
We selected Apttus CPQ over SteelBrick due to the simplicity of SteelBrick's out of the box pricing and ability to customize quoted products. As a global organization with selling a highly configurable products, we felt the ability of Apttus to handle our requirements as standard functionalty rather than a customization was a material difference between the platforms.
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Aspire Technologies, Inc.
Both this software were similar in what they do and pricing, however, the QuoteWork software in my opinion does a better job recording and tracking communications between personnel and clients. QuoteWerks also gives a lot of data that might seem like overkill, but having too much information is better than too little.
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Scalability
Conga
No answers on this topic
Aspire Technologies, Inc.
We've implemented QuoteWerks in both micro ("one man band") businesses as well as much larger organisations. With QuoteWerks Corporate editions option to host the backend database on SQL Server (a very powerful and scaleable database platform) it's possible to work effectively with QuoteWerks in an organisation with many 100 Users. The flexibility of the product also lends itself very well to evolving with a growing business and having various individual user configurations to help them work best with the software in their individual role in the organisation.
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Return on Investment
Conga
  • The ability to generate engineered configurations that is right by construction has reduced the cycle time of the customer engagement. The fact that we are able to guide the process and end up with a validated bill of material reduces the iterations with the customers.
  • As long as the validations rules are correct the generated bill of material is accurate. We are now looking at using Apttus to perform quality checks in our product rules since the tool is able to test different configurations quickly and efficiently.
  • Configuration that use to take weeks and consumed valuable engineering resources has been transformed to become a customer facing application that is simple enough for customer to self-service.
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Aspire Technologies, Inc.
  • QuoteWerks definitely allows us to be more responsive to our clients purchasing and planning requirements.
  • QuoteWerks ease of use and more structured sales quoting process makes it easier to bring new staff on-board and maintain better consistency to our sales quoting approach.
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ScreenShots

Conga CPQ Screenshots

Screenshot of Unlimited Product Capability - Can validate any combination of rules & constraints with an unlimited number of configuration attributes​.Screenshot of Model & deploy any pricing structure or strategy​ - pricing intelligence & discounting rules​ and profitability insights ​& margin visibility​Screenshot of Simple to complex product & pricing configurations​Screenshot of Helps sellers to quote accurately and spend less time selling, no matter how complex a business becomes.

QuoteWerks Screenshots

Screenshot of An example of a QuoteWerks Proposal