Bigin by Zoho CRM is a simplified customer relationship management (CRM) software designed specifically for small businesses, startups and teams. Bigin helps small businesses unify customer-facing operations— marketing, sales, onboarding, delivery, and support, and it offers features that help to manage these customer relationships effectively.
$9
per month
Visual Studio
Score 8.9 out of 10
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Visual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.
$45
per month
Pricing
Bigin by Zoho CRM
Microsoft Visual Studio
Editions & Modules
Express
$9.00
per month per user
Premier
$15.00
per month
Professional
$45.00
per month
Enterprise
$250.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Bigin by Zoho CRM
Visual Studio
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
20% discount for annual pricing.
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Features
Bigin by Zoho CRM
Microsoft Visual Studio
Sales Force Automation
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Bigin by Zoho CRM
7.9
100 Ratings
2% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
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Ratings
Customer data management / contact management
8.590 Ratings
00 Ratings
Workflow management
8.094 Ratings
00 Ratings
Opportunity management
8.292 Ratings
00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)
8.287 Ratings
00 Ratings
Contract management
6.951 Ratings
00 Ratings
Interaction tracking
7.986 Ratings
00 Ratings
Marketing Automation
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Bigin by Zoho CRM
8.0
79 Ratings
4% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
-
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Lead management
8.476 Ratings
00 Ratings
Email marketing
7.770 Ratings
00 Ratings
CRM Project Management
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Bigin by Zoho CRM
8.1
81 Ratings
6% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
-
Ratings
Task management
8.179 Ratings
00 Ratings
Reporting
8.056 Ratings
00 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
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Bigin by Zoho CRM
8.1
84 Ratings
7% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
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Pipeline visualization
8.584 Ratings
00 Ratings
Customizable reports
7.875 Ratings
00 Ratings
Customization
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Bigin by Zoho CRM
8.0
89 Ratings
5% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
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Custom fields
8.089 Ratings
00 Ratings
Security
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Bigin by Zoho CRM
8.6
84 Ratings
3% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
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Single sign-on capability
8.669 Ratings
00 Ratings
Role-based user permissions
8.582 Ratings
00 Ratings
Social CRM
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Bigin by Zoho CRM
7.6
48 Ratings
3% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
-
Ratings
Social data
7.547 Ratings
00 Ratings
Social engagement
7.747 Ratings
00 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
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Bigin by Zoho CRM
8.0
64 Ratings
8% above category average
Microsoft Visual Studio
-
Ratings
Marketing automation
8.064 Ratings
00 Ratings
Platform
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Startups Needing Quick Setup with Low Overhead Startups that need a CRM quickly and don’t have the time or resources to onboard heavy tools can set up Bigin in a matter of hours. It covers all the basic CRM needs out of the box, making it ideal for teams just getting started.
It's useful for app development, debugging, and testing. I've been using it for two years and have seen it grow into a fantastic tool. All of the features, NuGet packages, and settings that enable different types of projects are fantastic. It also has a connection to Azure DevOps and Git. It's a fantastic product that's simple to use.
Manage big databases. We have a large database of contacts and partners (more than 5,000 contacts), which are updated day by day, as a result of our participation in conferences, webinars, etc. For this reason, we needed a platform that would allow us to always have our database up to date, and accessible and editable by any member of the company.
Pipelines. Pipelines are very necessary in our daily lives, since we present many service proposals to different clients, and until now we control the status very manually. With Bigin by Zoho CRM, we can have all this information centralized in a single place, and know at all times the status of the service proposals we present (sent, pending decision, lost, won...).
Product definition. The product definition block has allowed us to further structure our typologies of products and services. At least, it has allowed us to reflect on them and what is the best way to package the service offered.
Control panel. The control panel has been very useful for us to be able to quickly see the main indicators (offers presented, next actions to be taken, etc.).
Since Microsoft offers a free Community Edition of the IDE many of our new developers have used it at home or school and are very familiar with the user interface, requiring little training to move up to the paid, enterprise-friendly editions we use.
The online community support for Visual Studio is outstanding, as solid or better than any other commercial or open-source project software.
Microsoft continuously keeps the product up to date and has maintained a history of doing so. They use it internally for their own development so there is little chance it will ever fall out of favor and become unsupported.
Certain settings and features can sometimes be challenging to locate. The interface isn't always intuitive.
Sometimes there are too many ways to do the same thing. For example, users can quickly add a new workspace in Source Control Explorer when a local path shows as "Not Mapped," but it doesn't indicate that the user might want to check the dropdown list of workspaces. The shortcut of creating a new workspace by clicking on the "Not Mapped" link can lead to developers creating too many workspaces and causing workspace management to become unwieldy. If the shortcut link were removed, the user would be forced to use the Workspace dropdown. While it can add an extra step to the process, workspaces would be managed more easily, and this would enforce consistency. At the very least, there should be a high-level administrative setting to hide the shortcut link.
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VS is the best and is required for building Microsoft applications. The quality and usefulness of the product far out-weight the licensing costs associated with it.
This is because ever since my team and I started using Bigin we have never been stuck to a point where we have no clue on how to use Bigin, the app can be used even by someone who has just started working and has never been exposed to any type of training and soft wares before.
The thing I like the most is Visual Studio doesn't suffer from Microsoft's over eager marketing department who feel they need to redesign the UI (think Office and windows) which forces users to loose large amounts of productivity having to learn software that they had previously known.
The support is all international and it takes a while to get support as you have to go through chats and set up times, not as easy to just call and get the support you need. They are very nice when you do finally connect with someone and they are knowledgeable, just challenging being international sometimes.
Between online forums like StackOverflow, online documentation, MSDN forums, and the customer support options, I find it very easy to get support for Visual Studio IDE when I need it. If desired, one can also download the MSDN documentation about the IDE and have it readily available for any support needs.
The price is much more attractive than equivalent tools. Pipe drive is as good, but the cost is a big factor when you are a small company, especially at the beginning. So that is why we chose BIgin, and we are delighted with it. With five members, it saves a few hundreds of euros a year.
I personally feel Visual Studio IDE has [a] better interface and [is more] user friendly than other IDEs. It has better code maintainability and intellisense. Its inbuilt team foundation server help coders to check on their code then and go. Better nugget package management, quality testing and gives features to extract TRX file as result of testing which includes all the summary of each test case.
We've had hundreds of hours saved by the rapid development that Visual Studio provides.
We've lost some time in the Xamarin updates. However, being cross platform, we ultimately saved tons of time not having to create separate apps for iOS and Android.