Crelate vs. Salesforce Agentforce Sales

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Crelate
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Crelate is a recruitment platform built for executive search, direct placement, and in-house talent teams. The Crelate platform combines an ATS, a Recruiting CRM, and intelligent sourcing.
$149
per month per user
Agentforce Sales
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Salesforce' Agentforce Sales (formerly Salesforce Sales Cloud) is the company's flagship CRM platform. The AI CRM for Sales features data built right in.
$25
per month per user
Pricing
CrelateSalesforce Agentforce Sales
Editions & Modules
Business
$149
per month per user
Essentials
$1020
per year per user
Business Plus
Custom Pricing
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
Starter
$25.00
per month per user
Professional
$80.00
per month per user
Enterprise
$165.00
per month per user
Unlimited
$330.00
per month per user
Agentforce 1 Sales
$550
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CrelateAgentforce Sales
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsVolume and commitment pricing discounts are available.
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Community Pulse
CrelateSalesforce Agentforce Sales
Considered Both Products
Crelate
Chose Crelate
We have only used Loxo in the past
Chose Crelate
My two favorite systems are Crelate and Recruitee.
  • From my experience, Crelate is the best full-service database because it allows you to track Business Development and candidate activity
  • Recruitee is very effective as an applicant tracking system
Chose Crelate
  • Easier to use, modern, supports drag and drop. Easy to set up and use. Fewer keystrokes
  • better support than zoho, not as good (but getting there) as PCR
  • Crelate is a smaller company, nimble and has ear of the customer
Agentforce Sales
Chose Agentforce Sales
Based on my experience, I’ve used Odoo — it’s an open-source ERP system. It’s not exactly the same as Salesforce or Sales Cloud, but it serves a similar purpose. And I feel that Sales Cloud is better. Personally, I find it easier to use and better than what Odoo offers, …
Chose Agentforce Sales
I've used ServiceNow. But we mainly use it on the service side and not on the sales side.
Chose Agentforce Sales
Mendix. It’s somewhat comparable, but not really a true CRM.
Chose Agentforce Sales
Salesforce Marketing Cloud and MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
Chose Agentforce Sales
Over the years, I’ve helped many people move from different sales solutions — like Dynamics, HubSpot, and Act, which was one of the first ones. I’ve supported a lot of organizations in moving from those platforms to Salesforce.
Chose Agentforce Sales
So I've evaluated, implemented Microsoft Dynamics in the past. I've used Oracle CRM solutions. I've used Daylight, which is a very niche CRM system the last couple of years. And I've evaluated a variety from Legacy Microsoft Ones to Zoho and Sugar when making implementation …
Chose Agentforce Sales
Actually, we have not. By the time I joined my company, we already had Sales Cloud. It was already there and the decision was made. I'm sure that there were other small companies that the upper management team evaluated very quickly, but they came to a decision very quickly. I …
Chose Agentforce Sales
Raiser's Edge, CSING. Those are the primary ones. There's no competition at all. I mean, in terms of tracking duplicate contact, I mean contacts ability to be secure and provide the right access for different levels. Salesforce was able to do that. Oh yeah. Yes. Whereas the …
Chose Agentforce Sales
We have used HubSpot and we have used jojo CRM. So the customer who cannot afford the licensing model of Salesforce, jojo CRM is a very good platform and another for assembly level, hub Spot does the work as well.
Chose Agentforce Sales
I haven't used any other.
Chose Agentforce Sales
Salesforce CMS is by far more capable to be tailored towards the need and critical aspects based on how our org is structured and work.

Integrations are also great! Critical data is easily being synced with other tools in tech stack.
Chose Agentforce Sales
Salesforce is magnificently more robust and functions much better when managing complex sales cycles with multiple individuals and products. With simple sales cycles and few products, Excel is a strong contender.
Chose Agentforce Sales
Salesforce CMS stacks up as a Customer management system because it has a more user friendly snd intuitive interface. The UX is better and more modern. It can be customised and extended. There are always learning opportunities and updates for the system so it keeps on …
Chose Agentforce Sales
I did not make the decision to use Salesforce. However, I am happy with its current implementation to manage our employees.
Chose Agentforce Sales
Salesforce more so compliments these products, rather than stacks against them. We don't have any products similar to Salesforce CMS, so in lieu of that, these are the products we were using that mesh the easiest with Salesforce CMS in terms of proceeding through the …
Chose Agentforce Sales
In my opinion, Salesforce CMS is the most complex of these offerings, and probably the most complex platform of its kind. It was selected by another stakeholder - I would likely have chosen something less expensive and more intuitive to use. The robust feature set is amazing, …
Chose Agentforce Sales
Salesforce CMS is way beyond the other tools in its performamce also
Chose Agentforce Sales
We used the Catalyst product of Totango. It was not great as it was hard to navigate, and it did not offer any reporting capabilities at all, nor did it speed up our day-to-day tasks.
Chose Agentforce Sales
Works well with others and I like the newer deployments which continue to make it even more useful and promotes efficiency and transparency.
Features
CrelateSalesforce Agentforce Sales
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Crelate
8.9
Ratings
12% above category average
Salesforce Agentforce Sales
-
Ratings
Job Requisition Management10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media5.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customized Application Form7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Resume Management10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate Search10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Templates7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
User Permissions9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Crelate
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Sales
8.2
Ratings
4% above category average
Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Territory management00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Opportunity management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Contract management00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Quote & order management00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Interaction tracking00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
Crelate
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Sales
7.8
Ratings
1% above category average
Case management00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Call center management00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Help desk management00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Crelate
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Sales
7.9
Ratings
2% above category average
Lead management00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Email marketing00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Crelate
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Sales
8.1
Ratings
5% above category average
Task management00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Crelate
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Sales
8.3
Ratings
8% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Pipeline visualization00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Crelate
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Sales
8.5
Ratings
10% above category average
Custom fields00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Custom objects00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Scripting environment00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
API for custom integration00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Crelate
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Sales
9.0
Ratings
6% above category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Crelate
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Sales
7.8
Ratings
3% above category average
Social data00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Social engagement00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
Crelate
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Sales
8.0
Ratings
6% above category average
Marketing automation00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Compensation management00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Crelate
-
Ratings
Salesforce Agentforce Sales
8.2
Ratings
7% above category average
Mobile access00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Best Alternatives
CrelateSalesforce Agentforce Sales
Small Businesses
Breezy HR
Breezy HR
Score 8.9 out of 10
Salesmate
Salesmate
Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Breezy HR
Breezy HR
Score 8.9 out of 10
Creatio
Creatio
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
PeopleStrong
PeopleStrong
Score 10.0 out of 10
Creatio
Creatio
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
CrelateSalesforce Agentforce Sales
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.8
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.4
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CrelateSalesforce Agentforce Sales
Likelihood to Recommend
There is definitely a little bit of a learning curve (but this would be with any platform) but what we have loved most is the ability to centralize both relationship management and workflows. We feel it has given us much better visibility into our pipeline.We love that the platform is highly customizable (with the help of our customer success manager) which has allowed us recreate workflows that have already worked for our team and has been easy to use for our new team memebrs
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In the end, I think we can always make it fit — and that’s one of the powers of Salesforce. Because of its flexibility and wide range of possibilities, you can really make it work for almost any need. The key, though, is to make thoughtful decisions upfront and plan carefully how you set it up. If you do that, you’ll end up with a truly flexible and effective system.
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Pros
  • The way that all the information about a candidate is readily available at the top of their profile is great and very helpful
  • The amount of filters you can use to sort through candidates is really useful
  • The Crelate team is really responsive to inquiries and suggestions
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  • It does a good job of routing our leads to customers, to our inside sales reps and teams.
  • It does a good job of tracking all of the opportunities that we have, the contacts that we have with people related to the opportunities.
  • Organizing and being able to do reports on what our sales are.
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Cons
  • Would be better to incorporate texting feature directly to my existing phone number, rather than use a separate system.
  • Sending calendar invites is a little hard to remember how to do - could be a bit more intuitive.
  • Need faster support - online chat would be great.
  • Click to dial works well, but would be nice to "record" the event in the contact record.
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  • I’d say the only thing that can be a bit tricky — and I know Tableau helps address this — is that sometimes we’re limited in how deep we can go with the data in terms of reporting. It would be great to have a bit more robustness within the app itself. However, we’ve figured out our workarounds, and overall, I think it’s a fantastic product — which is why I’ve been working with it for 23 years.
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Likelihood to Renew
It works, but not sure that it's the best/we might try out alternatives first.
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There are days when I wish we hadn't switched, but I know that if we put in the time, we will get to where we want to be with the software and that it has many more capabilities than anything else we looked at. However, the amount of time and onboarding we need to do is also far greater than we realized/were told when we originally bought the product. They told us we should hire onboarding support, but at the end, after we had already reached our budget maximum for this, so it's been slower than we had hoped.
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Usability
Like said earlier there is definitely a little bit of a learning curve but support and CS is wonderful to work with. Our team trainings have helped significantly. The ui is really easy to navigate as well, a little outdated but easy to navigate but they are in the process of improving it I believe.
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All in all, it's a great product that use all day, every day. It's aesthetically pleasing overall and specifically provides information in a clean, concise way. It's easy to manipulate and seems to play well with the other products I use such as Pardot, Gmelius, and our company's proprietary data system. It increases my efficieny in my admin tasks so I have more time to focus on revenue-generation and account management. It's also easy to use from everywhere where it be on a university campus, in a hotel room, one of a million Starbucks, or at home
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Reliability and Availability
No answers on this topic
All Force.com apps run on world-class data centers with backup, failover, and disaster-recovery facilities. Force.com has had a proven 99.9 percent uptime record for years. Accordingly, I only recall our instance of Salesforce having one unscheduled, brief down time over 6 years. I can't remember for sure, but it may have been due to our Internet Service Provider (ISP) versus Salesforce itself. Also, Salesforce does it's best to keep customers in the loop:

Trust.salesforce.com is the salesforce.com community's home for real-time information on system performance and security. On this site you'll find:

Live and historical data on system performance
Up-to-the minute information on planned maintenance
Phishing, malicious software and social engineering threats
Best security practices for your organization
Information on how we safeguard your data
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Performance
No answers on this topic
For a SaaS provider, I'd rate their performance to be one of the best. At times, reporting tends to slow down if the data set is very large, which is the case in any system. But, that's a very rare phenomenon
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Support Rating
Usually the Crelate support is very responsive and quick to fix any problems that arise. I've personally seen emails of the threads where Crelate support was quick to resolve problems and act courteously while doing so. While I have never called their line, it seems that their phone support is also well experienced.
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The overall support has been good. More and more features are being released quite frequently. Very small features are also making big difference in how the tool can be adapted and used better. If there is anything we need or are stuck, the support team sets up a call and helps in resolving the issue/provides workarounds.
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In-Person Training
No answers on this topic
I attended two training sessions. I would rate them a 4 as an advanced user. It was very basic – great for someone new – would give 8+ for new person.

I had 3 years of experience at the time. I skipped basic and went onto advanced and still not helpful. A lot of it was best practices that didn’t feel relevant for our business
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Online Training
No answers on this topic
I have gone through multiple. The content that’s delivered is quite basic – I wish they had more advanced training.

We are grandfathered into premium support plus training. We get unlimited access to instructor led and online training for free. We have taken advantage of this
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Implementation Rating
No answers on this topic
Just from an organizational standpoint - we standardized our data prior to moving to Salesforce. But we essentially standardized it wrong. That's created a big disgusting mess for us know that I'll have to deal with as the Admin. Be sure you think through use cases prior to doing something like that - seek outside opinions on how the data will work best, especially depending on what else you're going to integrate with Salesforce.
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Alternatives Considered
My two favorite systems are Crelate and Recruitee.
  • From my experience, Crelate is the best full-service database because it allows you to track Business Development and candidate activity
  • Recruitee is very effective as an applicant tracking system
Read full review
Based on my experience, I’ve used Odoo — it’s an open-source ERP system. It’s not exactly the same as Salesforce or Sales Cloud, but it serves a similar purpose. And I feel that Sales Cloud is better. Personally, I find it easier to use and better than what Odoo offers, especially in terms of customization and achieving business objectives. That’s where Salesforce Sales Cloud really stands out in comparison to Odoo.
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Scalability
No answers on this topic
It's very scalable as it has a ton of features (but you do need an admin who understands how to leverage these features). Because of the various features, we've also needed to host onboarding sessions with our users so that they can familiarize themselves with the platform, which isn't always super user-friendly or intuitive.
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Return on Investment
  • Crelate has helped me become more focused on multitasking and being able to manage multiple individuals.
  • Crelate has helped me become more time effective with their scheduling and notification features.
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  • It helps us achieve our objectives, especially now with Agentforce — we can get more insights to help our sellers sell more. It’s really nice because it’s almost like you can use the standard part of Salesforce to train your agents and teach your sellers how to improve their sales. So that’s really nice.
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ScreenShots

Crelate Screenshots

Screenshot of a Contact RecordScreenshot of the Job DashboardScreenshot of the List ViewScreenshot of the AI Discover AgentScreenshot of Detailed ReportsScreenshot of Candidates

Agentforce Sales Screenshots

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