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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    e-automate

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AECI Software Solutions offers e-automate, an ERP for office technology companies to automate business workflows and increase contract profitability.N/A

    QuoteWerks

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/AQuoteWerks 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
    e-automateQuoteWerks
    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
    e-automateQuoteWerks
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—The 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
    e-automateQuoteWerks
    Considered Both Products
    ECI Software Solutions
    No answer on this topic
    Aspire Technologies, Inc.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    48 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    47 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    81%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    22 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    e-automateQuoteWerks
    CPQ
    Comparison of CPQ features of e-automate and QuoteWerks
    Feature
    e-automate
    -
    Ratings
    QuoteWerks
    9.1
    33 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Quote sharing/sending00 Ratings8.033 Ratings
    Product configuration00 Ratings10.032 Ratings
    Configuration options00 Ratings10.033 Ratings
    Pricing rules00 Ratings9.026 Ratings
    Price adjustment00 Ratings9.532 Ratings
    Purchase history and open contracts00 Ratings10.028 Ratings
    Guided selling/Sales portal00 Ratings9.021 Ratings
    CPQ reporting & analytics00 Ratings8.521 Ratings
    CPQ-CRM integration00 Ratings8.627 Ratings
    Attachments to quotes00 Ratings9.031 Ratings
    Order capturing00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
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    e-automateQuoteWerks
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Conga Advantage CPQ
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Agentforce Revenue Management
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    e-automateQuoteWerks
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (54 ratings)
    10.0
    (49 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (21 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.3
    (6 ratings)
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    2.3
    (2 ratings)
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 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
    e-automateQuoteWerks
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ECI Software Solutions
    If you need a system to place and track sales quotes, sales orders, purchase orders, and service calls then E-Automate is perfect. However, if you want to be able to easily bulk upload customers and contracts or if you want to be able to quickly and easily track contract profitability, customer costs, etc, then you'll likely want/need a secondary or different system to do so.
    Incentivized
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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
    ECI Software Solutions
    • Sending Invoices out to customers via email or printing.
    • Keep track of ordering and inventory.
    • Sales Tax reporting.
    • Monitoring customer payment activity/setting up and removing credit holds.
    • Calculating payments to process each cycle.
    • Excellent aging reports.
    • I like the fact that when I am looking at one item, such as an invoice, I have the capability to switch to the customer menu rather than having to exit out of invoices and then enter into customers.
    • I love the flexibility of the search menus - being able to sort on several factors at once.
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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
    ECI Software Solutions
    • Make sales invoices not require serial numbers, or be more flexible with it.
    • Make contract invoices have some sort of flexibility in terms of editing. Our end users complain that QuickBooks made it very easy to edit invoices, and in e-automate, for them, it is practically impossible. (I do personally understand why it has to be as it is myself, I'm just forwarding their observation.)
    • Make the API actually useful. I spent days looking at the functions and the functions available are not really useful.
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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
    ECI Software Solutions
    Its really the only option for the industry that does enough of what we need for it to function . I'm not sure if there were better options out there if we would have to renew our subscription. With the addition of AI, hopefully something will be able to become more useful.
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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
    ECI Software Solutions
    The user interface may be slightly outdated, but it is very intuitive and easy to navigate. Once you have learned one module within the system it is very easy to apply that knowledge to any other module. It makes using the system much easier, and it makes training another person on the system quick and efficient.
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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
    ECI Software Solutions
    Mostly available, sometimes down for issues but usually there when we need it
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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
    ECI Software Solutions
    Reports are the struggle the most with the information being extracted in a way that you need to copy and paste it into a new document so some of the information is not covered
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    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
    ECI Software Solutions
    Sometimes when you need answers quickly, a voice on the phone is far better than having to wait for email support or a callback. I have found this to have delays and feel ECI e-automate should invest more in its support infrastructure.
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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
    ECI Software Solutions
    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
    ECI Software Solutions
    No answers on this topic
    Aspire Technologies, Inc.
    Originally it was weak, but they have really stepped up.
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    Implementation Rating
    ECI Software Solutions
    I did not participate in implementation
    Incentivized
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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
    ECI Software Solutions
    E-automate is much better at understanding the needs of the office equipment industry and provide the necessary tools. SAP Business One has limited features specific to the office equipment industry and includes things that are not useful. E-automate is also priced much better and provides the best value for your investment.
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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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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    ECI Software Solutions
    I was not involved in the sales process
    Incentivized
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    Aspire Technologies, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    ECI Software Solutions
    Every department we have does use e-automate to some degree with most being successful.
    Incentivized
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    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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    Professional Services
    ECI Software Solutions
    I was not involved in the sales process
    Incentivized
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    Aspire Technologies, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    ECI Software Solutions
    • The e-automate will stop working if we stop paying each year. We chose not to go to the cloud and buy the software. QuickBooks and other software are a one-time fee.
    • E-automate has very few outside vendors for add-on modules.
    • The vendors that do have modules are costly.
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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

    e-automate Screenshots

    Screenshot of an item search, in e-automate

    QuoteWerks Screenshots

    Screenshot of An example of a QuoteWerks Proposal