IRIS CRM is a customer relationship management (CRM) software focused on lead management, marketing automation, and business process automation.
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Salesforce Starter
Score 8.9 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Salesforce Starter (formerly Salesforce Essentials) is a small business CRM that replaces the former SalesforceIQ product. It is priced at $35 per user, on a monthly basis, or at $25 per month for if billed annually ($300) and can be tried free for 14 days on a trial.
$35
per month per user
Pricing
IRIS CRM
Salesforce Starter
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IRIS CRM
Salesforce Starter
Free Trial
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Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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IRIS CRM
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Features
IRIS CRM
Salesforce Starter
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
IRIS CRM
9.2
2 Ratings
17% above category average
Salesforce Starter
8.8
7 Ratings
13% above category average
Customer data management / contact management
9.02 Ratings
7.87 Ratings
Workflow management
10.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Territory management
9.02 Ratings
7.77 Ratings
Opportunity management
9.02 Ratings
9.07 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)
9.02 Ratings
9.76 Ratings
Contract management
10.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Quote & order management
9.02 Ratings
9.35 Ratings
Interaction tracking
9.02 Ratings
8.36 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management
9.02 Ratings
9.75 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
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IRIS CRM
9.3
2 Ratings
20% above category average
Salesforce Starter
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Ratings
Case management
10.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Call center management
9.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Help desk management
9.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Marketing Automation
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IRIS CRM
9.5
2 Ratings
21% above category average
Salesforce Starter
7.9
6 Ratings
2% above category average
Lead management
9.92 Ratings
7.96 Ratings
Email marketing
9.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
IRIS CRM
9.0
2 Ratings
16% above category average
Salesforce Starter
8.4
5 Ratings
9% above category average
Task management
10.02 Ratings
9.45 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management
8.12 Ratings
6.95 Ratings
Reporting
9.02 Ratings
9.05 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
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IRIS CRM
8.7
2 Ratings
13% above category average
Salesforce Starter
9.1
5 Ratings
18% above category average
Forecasting
9.02 Ratings
9.15 Ratings
Pipeline visualization
9.02 Ratings
8.85 Ratings
Customizable reports
8.02 Ratings
9.45 Ratings
Customization
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IRIS CRM
9.2
2 Ratings
18% above category average
Salesforce Starter
7.7
6 Ratings
1% above category average
Custom fields
9.02 Ratings
8.06 Ratings
Custom objects
9.92 Ratings
8.05 Ratings
Scripting environment
9.02 Ratings
6.85 Ratings
API for custom integration
9.02 Ratings
8.05 Ratings
Security
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IRIS CRM
9.5
2 Ratings
13% above category average
Salesforce Starter
9.0
6 Ratings
7% above category average
Single sign-on capability
10.02 Ratings
9.06 Ratings
Role-based user permissions
9.02 Ratings
9.06 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
IRIS CRM
9.5
1 Ratings
25% above category average
Salesforce Starter
8.2
5 Ratings
10% above category average
Social data
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Social engagement
9.01 Ratings
8.25 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
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IRIS CRM
9.5
1 Ratings
25% above category average
Salesforce Starter
8.0
5 Ratings
7% above category average
Marketing automation
10.01 Ratings
8.25 Ratings
Compensation management
9.01 Ratings
7.85 Ratings
Platform
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It’s been 2 years since IRIS CRM is supporting me by supporting my business and I have seen enormous progress in my business so far which is a really good sign and is enough for me to be satisfied with it. According to me and as I have observed it is fully loaded with many useful tools that can help in uplifting a business. Removes the manual cycle from me entering every people's hours exclusively. We really evaluated Bullhorn cover and tab it was not awful by any means.
If you own a business that has complex selling processes or requires integrations with 3rd party tools/systems, you should look at Professional, Enterprise, or Unlimited editions. Salesforce operates very well across pretty much every industry, but not all sales, marketing, and operational processes are created equal. If your marketing process requires a long list of sendable contacts then I would recommend adding on Pardot or Hubspot. Always start small and scale up, to avoid boxing yourself in down the road.
Grouping is done very effectively. For a company with a wide product portfolio, it is greatly beneficial to customize product families.
Streamlines the life cycle of merchant services very well. E-signatures, workflows, and help tickets are well integrated to maximize efficiency.
Processing stats and reporting tools are intuitive, useful, and aesthetically pleasing. The software allows you to quickly generate sales reports for specific product families and time periods.
Table views can be sorted by column. Filters can be applied, but only to one column. Multi-column filtering like Excel allows would be extremely useful and a big improvement.
The ability to quick copy data in a table view would also be helpful, like (ctrl ') in excel.
It is a wonderful software with an automated messaging service. It has helped us in having a better knowledge of our customer’s needs, preferences, and habits, and by knowing all these we have improved our business. Security is my basic concern and the fact that it has a disabled human element from the business equation are the things that I don’t really like in it.
The system is very user-friendly on a desktop but lacks mobile friendliness. The Customer relationship manager disappears after the deal is signed. We struggled to get the system in a usable format, which was not cost-effective. The CRM system on desktop was great but way more complicated than it should be.
It has enabled us to keep a record of the demographics of our clients and eventually we can develop a better understanding of our clients that will lead us to uplift our business. With its amazing sales tool, we have developed a strong relationship with our clients, and helped us in creating a good brand image. We really adore the convenience of managing and reporting data. It is quite easy to handle and all our business is depended on it and it helped us in gaining more loyal customers.
By using IRIS CRM we had a wonderful experience with the automated workflow process as compare to other alternatives. Now we are better able to keep a track of the performance and hence we can enhance productivity and eventually can get more profit.it has made automated messaging so convenient and simple. We believe that by understanding our customers we can make our business better and IRIS helped us in having a better knowledge of our customer’s needs, preferences, and habits, and by knowing all these we have improved our business a lot. We have found it very convenient to navigate and now we can better spread our business database. It helped us in having active and strong customer service and now we can better manage our relationship with our customers.
The cost is a bit higher than other options (~$1300/mo), which can be seen as a negative in an absolute sense.
The improvement in workflow management has been significant, and has saved at least 50 man-hours per week across our organization.
Accurate rolling sales data reporting has been critical in defining quality metrics. This benefit is more indirect, but it has allowed us to better respond to changes in customer complaint trending.