Cirrus Insight vs. Scratchpad

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cirrus Insight
Score 6.1 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Cirrus Insight integrates Salesforce with Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts. Instantly View Contextual Salesforce Information in Your Inbox. Save Emails & Attachments to Salesforce with a Click. Sync Your Google & Salesforce Calendars. Create & Edit Salesforce Records on the Fly. Customize Your Salesforce Workflow in Gmail. Add Google Contacts to Salesforce. Salesforce Tasks Integration. Salesforce Templates Integrated with Gmail.
$15
per month
Scratchpad
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
Scratchpad is a productivity tool for account executives, built for sales to update Salesforce, take sales notes, and daily todos. The software can be installed as a Google Chrome plugin or as a web application. It connects to Salesforce and provides an interface where sales professionals can keep all their notes, process workflows, spreadsheets, and tasks. Co-founders Pouyan Salehi and Cyrus Karbassiyoon started the company in San Francisco, California in 2019.
$0
per month
Pricing
Cirrus InsightScratchpad
Editions & Modules
Starter
$27
per user/month
Closer
$45
per user/month
Rainmaker
$72
per user/month
Free
$0
user / month *up to five users per company
Premium
$19
per user / month (billed annually)
Team
$39
user / month (billed annually)
Business
Custom pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cirrus InsightScratchpad
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$500 per installationNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing based on annual billing.
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User Ratings
Cirrus InsightScratchpad
Likelihood to Recommend
6.9
(21 ratings)
9.5
(26 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cirrus InsightScratchpad
Likelihood to Recommend
Cirrus Insight
For someone who uses both Gmail and Salesforce as part of their main role, this software is an invaluable connector for them both. Some of the features are also not Salesforce specific - such as the Meeting Scheduler, which has proved invaluable to me, and I would recommend to any Gmail user who frequently set up meetings (either internally or externally).
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Scratchpad, Inc.
Frankly, if I can do something in Scratchpad instead of Salesforce, I prefer Scratchpad because it's faster, easier, simpler, with a much more readable and useable interface. Salesforce has been getting requests to allow font size modification for over a decade and hasn't even done that. That's what sent me looking for something like Scratchpad. I sort of view it as a much more user-friendly UI to layover SF. It's faster and less frustrating than SF for frequent daily activities. It's great for creating notes and tracking tasks at a basic level in a much more user friendly environment than Salesforce. But it interacts w/ SF, which is great!
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Pros
Cirrus Insight
  • Log email to Salesforce. You click one button and it logs for you. This is easier than adding the BCC email address that Salesforce provides as a way to log email.
  • Track views and engagement on these emails. It's nice to know if the email was opened and if links were clicked.
  • Update quick fields in Salesforce directly from their inbox using Cirrus. This prevented reps from needing to click into Salesforce, wait for it to load, then update fields like the phone number or name.
  • If the rep did need to open Salesforce, Cirrus provides a quick button to navigate to the Lead/Contact/Opportunity page quickly.
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Scratchpad, Inc.
  • Scratchpad notes are super easy to use and link to Salesforce Opportunities.
  • Allows you to update all the necessary Salesforce opportunity fields without going into Salesforce.
  • Easy to use Task manager that helps you stay on track through the day.
  • Extremely easy to use and their CS team is always willing to provide training and help.
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Cons
Cirrus Insight
  • Outlook for Mac could use some work as an add-on because it's hard to read sometimes on my laptop. It's not a sidebar, like the Windows functionality, so it's harder to read.
  • Doesn't always find an opportunity, even though I know it's in our Salesforce system.
  • Randomly shuts down and doesn't log in properly at times. I've had to remove and re-download more than once.
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Scratchpad, Inc.
  • When pulling in Salesforce reports, it doesn't have full ability to do grouping/sorting.
  • When looking at pipeline view there's not an ability to expand the default view to see more than 5 people per group.
  • It'd be nice if comments would go as a task rather than a buzz.
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Likelihood to Renew
Cirrus Insight
It is the best google to salesforce integration on the market. support is incredibly responsive and very helpful. They are constantly adding new features, and the current feature set is well beyond anything else that is currently offered in the market
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Scratchpad, Inc.
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Usability
Cirrus Insight
Very easy to use. Everything opens in a familiar interface right inside the google apps sidebar. It brings in salesforce records, so as long as you know google apps / gmail and salesforce you'll be all set. It's point and click.
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Scratchpad, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
Cirrus Insight
Haven't had a down issue in the almost 2 years I've been using the product. Support is also super responsive.
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Scratchpad, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Performance
Cirrus Insight
Pulls in salesforce data very quickly, and syncs very quickly.
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Scratchpad, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Cirrus Insight
The plugin is installed inside your internet browser as an extension/add-on. It can be found in most add on stores and is easy to install. Usually just a few clicks. It handles authorization for you once you sign in, and then takes care of all the rest. It couldn't be easier to get working right out of the box. You're up in running in less than 5 minutes.
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Scratchpad, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Cirrus Insight
Yesware regularly sent me alerts that my emails had been opened by someone who I hadn't sent them to, from locations they couldn't possibly have been. I also don't recall its Salesforce activity logging working as smoothly, though I last used Yesware more than 12 months ago so my memory isn't as fresh as it could be
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Scratchpad, Inc.
It doesn't. Scratchpad is more agile and much easier to use as a seller managing a large patch with lots of opportunities. SAP is robust but is far more complicated and involves a lot more inputs to get the same outputs that you can get with Scratchpad in half the time and effort.
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Return on Investment
Cirrus Insight
  • Customer data is paramount and Cirrus Insight supports optimal data integrity.
  • Ease of capturing updated customer information and sales activity helps in forecasting, operational insight, etc.
  • Facilitates transition of sales opportunities by seeing a clear trail of correspondence and customer updates.
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Scratchpad, Inc.
  • I save many hours a week using Scratchpad to simply manage my tasks.
  • I no longer waste time waiting for SFDC to load.
  • I can easily create opps, adjust the pipeline, and check to see if someone is already prospecting into an account.
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