Insightly is presented as a modern, affordable CRM that is easy to use, simple to customize, and that scales with companies as they grow, designed to solve common pain points that legacy CRMs can't. Available in any vertical, Insightly CRM customers can add companion products for marketing automation, customer service, and integrations in the same platform. Insightly has more than a million users worldwide.
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Zoho CRM
Score 8.3 out of 10
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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.
Trialed the trial version of this. It wasn't as intuitive. The basic features of Insightly are pretty intuitive and you can be logging leads within 10 minutes. Zoho CRM didn't offer Outlook integration and certainly didn't have the degree of customer support and training that …
Insightly CRM could stand to offer more functionality for larger organizations. But what Insightly CRM does, it does very well, with a few minor caveats. The user interface (UI) is easy to follow, and there are plenty of customizations and integrations. However, it cannot …
I have had experience with other tools and the Insightly support is far better than my experience with the other tools. Support and training are critical when it comes to the adoption of a new tool within an organization. Insightly very much values their partnerships and …
1- Custom field options are more enhanced in insightly. 2- Integration with google drive and Gmail is in a clear listing. 3- Conversion of leads into the opportunity gets connected with the contact. It helps data stay in line in contrast to having scattered in other CRMs. 4- …
For me, Insightly works for the Basic price point subscription (lucky to have been on this subscription level before they closed it to new customers). Also, like the Gmail interface and the ability to manage both sales and projects.
I found Insightly much easier to use than Salesforce or Zoho. I used Salesforce with a prior organization and I did not find it intuitive like Insightly is. It also took quite a while to create and sort opportunities. I found Zoho to be a little more cumbersome and not as easy …
We selected Insightly because of the price. After a year we migrated to Freshsales because it gives us all the features we need for inbound and outbound (workflows for tasks, email campaigns, auto-assignation, integration with a phone provider, integration with multiple apps …
After extensive research, I chose Insightly due to: colleague recommendations, online research of various CRMs for smaller businesses, price point, and finally a free trial usage was the deciding factor! Again, the reason I've stayed with Insightly is the on-going training and …
We have used ZOHO in house and they are different beasts for different approaches. I find ZOHO too large and not up to date with integrations. It is a sign of the times that the previous industry leaders are lagging behind their younger counterparts and they also have a …
I moved from Batchbook about 3.5 years ago, because it had increased its price significantly. Insightly was a good fit with the bonus of the project manager. It was pretty simple to use back then, although it didn't really allow me to manage clients the way I wanted to. …
Much more simple software! The interface is clean and not busy. Simple is smart. Insightly is simple. It has tags which you can use to find all sorts of important information. You can tag by company, titles, basically any custom tag you create. On my emails, Insightly …
Out of all of the CRM systems that I tried, I was most impressed with Insightly and Nimble. Insightly was very easy to use and was not as "clunky" for me to use as HubSpot and SugarCRM. The email integration for insightly is smooth. I like the ability to CC your Insightly …
I like HubSpot’s email integration better but hated their app. Zoho was a step above HubSpot and was free for the size of my team. Google sheets combined with TeachWorks has actually been good enough for our team. Salesforce is great but expensive.
We did a one year of evaluation of 17Hats and while there were things that we liked - like the integration with DocuSign, they were just not worth trying to make the switch. Overall, the company seemed to do a good job of growing with its clients, it just seemed a bit 'young'. …
At a previous company we used Zoho which was used similarly as a CRM, but I found Zoho's capabilities less effective than Inisghtly. Zoho offered much less capabilities.
Insightly is more comprehensive than the others except for maybe for Vtiger. Price/quality relation is better in Insightly. The learning curve is lower with Insightly.
It's just one notch below each on in all honesty. Salesforce has reports and integrations, Zoho has a great UI, and HubSpot has email open notifications. If the vendor combined all of those features into their platform it would be an A+. For now, Insightly doesn't pale in …
Zoho is very good but includes many useless functions, it's too sophisticated. You have to learn too much about the tool in order to get some interesting results. With Insightly you get more with less.
We jumped to Zoho CRM from previous trial periods with Hatchbuck and Insightly. Zoho CRM is better suited for larger, growing organizations as it has more capabilities and features than Hatchbuck and Insightly. We liked to think of those CRMS as "starters" for small businesses …
The major reason to select CRM is always with the user experience and reliability from the Zoho which is quite better as compared to the competition also it provides very good support in order to use their services due to these reasons it becomes highly recommend as per any …
Using Zoho CRM has been a great experience because of its scalability and ease of use. As a robust design, the solution is easy to set up and comes in an out-of-the-box. This platform is ideal for small-to-medium-sized businesses looking for easy and quick growth. It is the …
Zoho CRM was right for my business because I signed up for it a few years ago as part of a Zoho One subscription, and so it was a great value. It was also very configurable and flexible for my needs. I have used and implemented Salesforce with clients, and [it] is equally …
I loved Daylite and hated to leave it as it was great but it didn't have a cloud-based solution and that was paramount to me at the time. I tried about 7 different CRMs and found that most of them had some really great features but each one seemed to be lacking some integration …
Zoho is a much more matured product, ready to be deployed with no intensive initial customization needed. Its favorable pricing model makes it faster to reach a positive ROI (HubSpot is free, but every advanced feature needs an upgrade). One of our critical requirements was the …
Zoho has most if not all of the features of Salesforce, at a more competitive price, and is easier to set up and maintain. Zoho has many features that Insightly does not have (i.e. Products, Invoices, Purchase Orders, Cases, etc.). If you need a simple CRM, Insightly is easier …
Insightly is very well suited to track steps in a particular process. It is also very easy to connect contacts, organizations, requests, and projects. It is great for storing data in a way that is easily referenced. It is a helpful tool for facilitating team collaboration. The connectivity to our website forms is also very useful. It is less appropriate for tracking financials as far as invoicing and payments.
For customizing a CRM without needing specialist support, Zoho CRM is great. The admin UI is pretty intuitive and easy to use. Zoho CRM also works great for tracking contact records and relationships to other records. For instance, we run 10+ different programs, and we need to track every contact's relationship to any and all of our programs. Besides the program relationship, we also track organization/employer relationships, host site relationships for interns, team relationships for several of our programs, and we are starting to track grant disbursement as well. Zoho CRM's "joiner modules" handle all of these different connection points fairly well, though the data import process can be a pain.
There are some minor glitches such as the screen freezing up. You can fix this by refreshing the page and it doesn't happen often but when it does, it does disrupt the flow.
Pulling a report from multiple objects is limited. You have a lot of options but there are some things you want to be able to pull in together and you can't.
Items such as Contacts and Organizations don't always link together.
our team found it very challenging to integrate directly to our wordpress site
while there may be a way to integrate to the SMS system, we have not discovered how a sales rep would be able to get an sms when customers leave their contact info (not through the app)
we have one team member who still works with outlook calendar. it was easy to integrate with google calendar, but a second calendar, depending upon the user
Insightly offers a great product; it's the right fit for our company at this time. We were, however, considering moving to Contactually due to their cost effective automation features. However, they lacked the project management capabilities of Insightly. As our company grows, we would love to stay with Insightly - and if they can nail the automation and add the ability to customize a little bit more, it would be the perfect solution for us. For a larger company with a more involved sales team, you might find the metrics/reporting to be a bit basic. Insightly offers great customer service even to free customers
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.
The reports are easy to customize and generate within seconds. The pipeline clearly shows what is going on with the order, so we don't have to waste time frequently checking in. The database helps us quickly look up a healthcare provider's NPI so we can add it to the order and verify eligibility for insurance.
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.
Knock on wood... I haven't had any difficulties with Insightly's availability to-date. I mostly use it on my desktop and infrequently access via my Android phone. No access issues.
I've not yet experienced any unscheduled downtime with Zoho CRM. Furthermore, planned maintenance is really well communicated in ZOHO CRM, and a 'banner ad' is prominently positioned on the ZOHO CRM system notifying of times/dates when maintenance is scheduled and the system may be down for a period.
Pages normally load quickly, but every now and then, as entering updates to fields, it take a while to update. Sometimes even after refreshing the screen, we have to exit and go back in to get the fields or queries to update.
Using zoho by itself has never been a problem. However one has to check for its compatibility/sync with other software. For example, it does not have a clear and full sync with getresponse since a long long time
We have used Insightly for almost 2 years now. We have always been able to get in touch with support for a variety of reasons and they have never disappointed us. The support staff have always been very understanding. They have assisted with answers to our questions and have provided great tech support. We would highly recommend them.
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.
Insightly is a very useful tool, it has the essential capabilities that a company need. Easy to use and very intuitive, so, you don't need tutorial or extra documents. Navigation inside the platform is quite simple. You will be able to store your client's information, about your potential business opportunities, organize teams and users and, connect your emails
The online training consisted of watching youtube videos and pre-recorded webinars. They helped us learn what we needed, but there's still a need to learn more and where to access that information.
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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
Insightly has far more modern applications than GoldMine. It allows for more customizations. Our reports are nicer looking and it seems much more user friendly. Insightly also seems to be more than just sales focused. GoldMine seemed to really be geared more towards a sales staff. Insightly has more capabilities for our future needs as well
Zoho is the only product we have used. Our company is fairly new and before purchasing Zoho a few years ago, client files were only saved and looked at through our company server. Because of how great Zoho has been, we have never considered looking for another product because there really is no need
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
(+) Being able to download my LinkedIn connections was a huge benefit. (+) I use the task function to stay on top of my follow-up activity which is another positive feature. (+) The sorting capabilities also help me pinpoint the contacts that I need to stay on top of. (-) When I add a new lead from an existing organization, I would like the organization's information to automatically populate the fields like address, website, description. I enter all that information manually. (-) My mass mailing experience has been tedious due to the email function being interrupted and crashing due to bad email addresses in some of my records. (-) Many of my leads do not have current email addresses. I wish Insightly offered a tool to help find email addresses. I spend too much time researching to find email addresses.
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.
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.