Glip (discontinued) vs. Zoho CRM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Glip (discontinued)
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
Glip was a conversation platform to plan, share and organize work. Glip featured text and video chat at its core, with file sharing, collaborative task management, shared calendars, and automatic version control. Glip was acquired by RingCentral in 2015 and is no longer available standalone, though its features are included in RingCentral MVP.
$11.99
Per User Per Month
Zoho CRM
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Zoho CRM is a simple, very low-cost CRM option for the smaller end of the SMB segment. The product has several useful integrations with other products, including QuickBooks, and Google Apps and Google Docs. The product also has an integrated project management module.
$14
per month
Pricing
Glip (discontinued)Zoho CRM
Editions & Modules
Pro
$11.99
Per User Per Month
Standard
$14.00
Per User/Per Month
Professional
$23.00
Per User/Per Month
Enterprise
$40.00
Per User/Per Month
Ultimate
$52.00
Per User/Per Month
Plus
$57.00
Per User/Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Glip (discontinued)Zoho CRM
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$14 /user/month
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Glip (discontinued)Zoho CRM
Features
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Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Glip (discontinued)
10.0
11 Ratings
25% above category average
Zoho CRM
-
Ratings
Task Management10.011 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Glip (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Zoho CRM
8.4
288 Ratings
7% above category average
Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings8.5279 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings8.2266 Ratings
Territory management00 Ratings8.6196 Ratings
Opportunity management00 Ratings8.6253 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings8.6248 Ratings
Contract management00 Ratings8.6203 Ratings
Quote & order management00 Ratings8.1203 Ratings
Interaction tracking00 Ratings8.0249 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings8.3192 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
Glip (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Zoho CRM
8.2
221 Ratings
6% above category average
Case management00 Ratings8.4213 Ratings
Call center management00 Ratings7.8172 Ratings
Help desk management00 Ratings8.4189 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Glip (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Zoho CRM
8.4
266 Ratings
8% above category average
Lead management00 Ratings8.5261 Ratings
Email marketing00 Ratings8.4219 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Glip (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Zoho CRM
8.4
263 Ratings
9% above category average
Task management00 Ratings8.5248 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings8.2180 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings8.4242 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Glip (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Zoho CRM
8.4
258 Ratings
9% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings8.3216 Ratings
Pipeline visualization00 Ratings8.3235 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings8.5249 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Glip (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Zoho CRM
8.2
277 Ratings
7% above category average
Custom fields00 Ratings8.3275 Ratings
Custom objects00 Ratings8.1222 Ratings
Scripting environment00 Ratings8.0178 Ratings
API for custom integration00 Ratings8.3203 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Glip (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Zoho CRM
8.3
266 Ratings
1% below category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings8.3231 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.3261 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Glip (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Zoho CRM
8.2
165 Ratings
9% above category average
Social data00 Ratings8.2164 Ratings
Social engagement00 Ratings8.2157 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
Glip (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Zoho CRM
8.5
210 Ratings
13% above category average
Marketing automation00 Ratings8.7207 Ratings
Compensation management00 Ratings8.4138 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Glip (discontinued)
-
Ratings
Zoho CRM
8.5
230 Ratings
11% above category average
Mobile access00 Ratings8.5230 Ratings
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Glip (discontinued)Zoho CRM
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Troop Messenger
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Score 9.8 out of 10
Creatio
Creatio
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
HCL Connections
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Glip (discontinued)Zoho CRM
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(14 ratings)
8.5
(310 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(2 ratings)
7.6
(42 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(2 ratings)
7.8
(172 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(7 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
6.1
(4 ratings)
6.2
(69 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
5.6
(8 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.5
(16 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
5.1
(114 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
9.5
(21 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.1
(5 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
5.8
(6 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(7 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(13 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(13 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
Glip should definitely be on your shortlist for a team collaboration tool. Glip has a lower cost and contains all the features found in competitive tools such as Microsoft Teams and Webex Teams. Glip is also scalable and robust enough for large enterprises and is great to coordinate and document large projects with hundreds of tasks and hundreds of resources. Glip, MS, and Webex Teams are excellent for an individual to create and receive task assignments and document and complete those tasks but these tools do not replace enterprise project management software and tools. Glip, MS Teams, and Webex Teams quickly become complicated and disorganized and it becomes easy to drown in all the sea of data unless you work diligently and continually at organizing your workspace.
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Zoho
Interfacing with our target clients at the correct minute is crucial in today's society. Another valuable include is its capacity to coordinated with other programs. It helps me in keeping track of the every day work emails I send to my colleagues or get. Zoho CRM makes it straightforward to consequence or send out information agreeing to our needs. Zoho makes a difference keep in mind individuals by means of e-mail and pop-ups, which dispenses with the issue of overlooking follow-ups and reminders. This not as it were helps within the organization of this incredible instrument but moreover within the execution of data.
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Pros
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  • Ease of use: It is extremely easy to use Glip and its features.
  • Ease of adoption: You can start using Glip in a couple of minutes and scale its use to the whole team, no hassle.
  • Scalability: This products scales well both in users and in pricing.
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Zoho
  • Hooks into our website and can import data from forms.
  • Has great automation tools built in.
  • Reporting features are great.
  • Easy to learn, makes it easy for us to onboard new users onto it.
  • Fairly customizable. We have fine tuned it to work the way we need it to.
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Cons
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  • Allow the ability to move a conversation when a hyperlink is involved. Currently not able to do this. Glip is aware and hopefully working on it.
  • Add a more robust search feature to find old conversations. Search query time could also be sped up.
  • Add reminder notifications. When tasks are added, it is sometimes easy to overlook older tasks.
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Zoho
  • Need some way to switch a field type without losing the pre-existing data.
  • The settings controls should be broken out differently - I don't like that I can't keep some users from exporting all contact records (i.e., the entire Contacts module) because if the export function is turned off, the export function of Reports for those same modules is also blocked.
  • Frustrating that only 3 custom lookup fields are allowed per module in our license.
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Likelihood to Renew
Discontinued Products
Glip has saved us so much time that my team could no longer live without it. I don't know what we would do. All of us used it constantly all day every day. It is one of the best tools in my arsenal!
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Zoho
i have already renewed my subscription twice. I am in the 3rd Year now. I have been using it for a while and have been recommending to my friends as well.. have attended ZOHOLICs the annual program of zoho and it gave me new insights of managing the crm solutoin.
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Usability
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Mobile UI is not as pleasant as others, it looks washed out and that makes it seem like it lacks some features.
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Zoho
The methodology of the 'out of the box' user interface is fairly easy to learn. In some cases however, the interface is not consistent throughout the software. Upgrades to the interface has certainly improved some of this--- but now we are seeing the same kinds of inconsistencies across Zoho apps, particularly those more recently added to their platform. This issue is not major in that everybody on staff seems able to learn how to work the programs--- it's just annoying and less than efficient when inconsistent user interfaces or inconsistent terms are used in the programs and/or the requisite documentation.
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Reliability and Availability
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No answers on this topic
Zoho
In my many years using Zoho, I think there were only 1 or 2 days when there was something happening and I was not able to log in. Sure, it wasn't fun and we all panicked a bit, but right after that, all was well and work-life continued. Being cloud based, I'm never worried about losing my iPhone, iPad or Laptop as I know I can log in anywhere on any device and workflow won't stop.
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Performance
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Zoho
I don't recall every having any issues with a page not loading due to it being a Zoho issue. Anytime I've had any issues with something being wonky, I clear cache and that has always solved the problem. Or a simply computer reboot and we're back, hard at work. Look, I don't expect any product to delivery 100%, 100% of the time but if I had any consistent ongoing issues, I would have left many years ago. I still keep my eyes open to what is new but after a quick evaluation, I know Zoho will long be my home.
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Support Rating
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We have a free account so I understand why we are not at the top of the list. But we have had issues before that took forever for them to get back to us. Once I had to make a Twitter account just to tweet at them about the issue and they finally got back to me. After several weeks. And the issue was something we just had to wait out for a few more days. Normally you have to submit a ticket through their support page and maybe they will get back to you and maybe not. We had one issue where the standard user on the iMac was getting popups every few minutes about installing a helper tool. The only way to fix this was to delete and reinstall Glip as an admin user. This was frustrating because it took time to do this for me as the IT person, and after reaching out to a few times, I was finally given an answer two years after I had asked about it! Finally some devs reach out to me on Glip and told me to just put the app in the user folder instead of the app folder which is managed by the admin account. They said it should be fixed now and I believe it is.
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Zoho
We did the training and that was a huge waste of money. The information provided was basic and the instructor was sloppy (he even forgot to turn off his mic when he used the restroom - no one should ever hear what we heard). I offered up a 9 because we were able to find what we needed on your website.
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In-Person Training
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No answers on this topic
Zoho
I attended a Zoho-Holics event in Austin, TX, several years ago, and it blew my mind. So many industries were represented using Zoho in so many different ways. It was unbelievable all that I learned from that experience, as there were features that I wasn't aware of that I immediately started using. Best of all, the trainers were patient and knowledgeable
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Online Training
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No answers on this topic
Zoho
There is an endless supply of YouTube videos from Zoho and the many Zoho partners/consultants. Plus, Zoho has it's own library of training videos and webinars to learn from plus an entire community at the ready to answer any questions. While Zoho has been available for many years, there are constantly new training videos and webinars available for the novice and the experienced users.
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Implementation Rating
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No answers on this topic
Zoho
When you switch CRMs, you can automatically assume everything isn’t going to match up correctly. We had used Salesforce for 10+ years and had a ton of data and customizations. It was not a clean transfer, but we were able to sort it all out. The only issue that really bothered me was Zoho support. Even simple questions couldn’t be answered over chat, and we would have some team members try for hours to find the right answer
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
Zoom, Slack, and Wunderlist are all great applications. They do a good job at one core focus. If your team is already familiar with these applications and satisfied with them, you can stick with them. I found Slack confusing and difficult to learn, as did others when onboarding. Zoom and Wunderlist both have a solid user interface and do their jobs well -- not many complaints from them. I just valued simplicity and ease of adoption, which made us look at Glip as one app to do it all.
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Zoho
Free user access was one reason to use it more than any other software. Also, for a mid-size organization, the Salesforce cost was a little higher, and Pipedrive was almost similar to Zoho. As we were already using Zoho, we found no urgency to switch.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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No answers on this topic
Zoho
I think Zoho CRM is priced at a reasonable amount. Simply put, you get what you pay for and Zoho does not disappoint. My organization is comfortable with what we pay and pleased with continually renewing the software. The billing frequency is just right. There are no complaints on our end
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Scalability
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No answers on this topic
Zoho
We're still in the early stages of scaling this across departments. We have high aspirations of doing this, but it takes time to migrate to the new system and to help people get acquainted of doing their work in a different way thru Zoho.
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Professional Services
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No answers on this topic
Zoho
In addition to being a user of Zoho CRM, we are a reseller as well. Often, at times our Partners request for on-boarding the platform configuration for them. During such requirements, we have utilized the Professional services team directly from the Zoho CRM team. Our partner feedback was quite positive, throughout.
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Return on Investment
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  • Because Glip was free, it helped us save money on our chat app. While not a crucial part of the business, the costs of software for your company add up and it was nice that, in this case, it did not add to our expenses.
  • This isn't really Glip directly, but we used it because we were using RingCentral Meetings for video conferencing with clients, and unfortunately RingCentral Meetings was a bit difficult to use. This was often the client doing things wrong, but it was annoying to have frequent audio feedback, etc. So if that is part of your reason to use Glip, check out if you have any problems there first.
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Zoho
  • because we are new to the CRM world, we wanted a product that was reasonably priced, yet had the features we were looking for
  • we have found a much higher customer engagement rate and ROI
  • we used to "lose" customers in our makeshift process. Now, all customers are being attended to.
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