Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
LinkPoint Connect
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
LinkPoint Connect promises to streamline data entry and access by enabling users to instantly view CRM data within their email client. This sales intelligence solution integrates Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics CRM data in Outlook or IBM Notes. According to the vendor, key capabilities include: View real-time Salesforce data without ever leaving your email. Click on an email, and the LinkPoint Connect Side Panel instantly displays that contact’s information directly from…
$192
per user, per year
Sugar Connect
Score 6.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
SugarCRM’s Sugar Connect (formerly Collabspot) is a sales email tracking tool specifically targeting Gmail’s integration with SugarCRM. Sugar Connect offers email syncing, archiving, and tracking to help sales reps track and manage customer data. It also provides some automation within the interactions between Gmail and SugarCRM, and sales reporting and analytics on prospects’ interactions with emails. The platform can also track prospects’ social media activity data.N/A
Yesware
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Yesware, from Vendasta since the October 2022 acquisition, is a service for salespeople that helps them close deals faster. An email service tracks email, templates responses and syncs to CRM.
$19
per month
Pricing
LinkPoint ConnectSugar ConnectYesware
Editions & Modules
LinkPoint Connect for Outlook + Salesforce
$192
per user, per year
LinkPoint Connect for Outlook + Microsoft Dynamics CRM
$192
per user, per year
LinkPoint Connect for IBM Notes + Salesforce
$228
per user, per year
LinkPoint Connect for IBM Notes + Microsoft Dynamics CRM
$228
per user, per year
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Pro
$19
per month
Premium
$45
per month
Enterprise
$85
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LinkPoint ConnectSugar ConnectYesware
Free Trial
YesYesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNoYes
Entry-level Setup Fee$16 per user per yearNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSubscriptions are billed annually. Discounts available for non-profits. Volume discounts available. LinkPoint Connect Solutions are available for Outlook and IBM Notes users. These include preconfigured implementations for Advologix, Apto, Apttus, FinancialForce.com, Jobscience, Navatar, Pardot, Salesforce Shield, and TaskRay.Annual plans save up to 23%.
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User Ratings
LinkPoint ConnectSugar ConnectYesware
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(3 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
8.3
(62 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(12 ratings)
User Testimonials
LinkPoint ConnectSugar ConnectYesware
Likelihood to Recommend
LinkPoint360
LinkPoint is well suited to any situation where Outlook is used for email correspondence and calendar items and there is need to have a record of those items and/or perform connected actions (schedule tasks, follow up reminders, etc.) in Salesforce. Automating this process and removing as much duplication of work as possible is the primary goal and the primary benefit that LinkPoint provides. In addition to efficiency, automating the process also provides a pretty substantial increase in accuracy, removing ca. 50% of the chance for human error. It's pretty simple functionality in concept, but extremely valuable in execution.
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SugarCRM
It is a fantastic and very useful application. It has many customization options, but it does not have the power that a giant company requires.
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Vendasta
It works for my company and my problems. If you need a Sales CRM you can go for higher-end products that will give you what Yesware gives along with other stuff. Wherein we had specific problems we wanted to solve. -We needed a solution for a smaller team within our bigger sales team. -We needed a solution to be easy to use point and click and did not require any setup. -We needed to have a better solution to YAMM.
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Pros
LinkPoint360
  • Adding emails is a breeze.
  • Creating contacts/leads from outlook is as simple as highlight, drag and drop.
  • Additional customization to allow you to bring in associates custom objects.
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SugarCRM
  • Makes saving emails in SugarCRM really easy
  • Flexible as to which types of records you can save to
  • Accurate reporting on opens and clicks
  • Easily add new records to SugarCRM from Gmail inbox
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Vendasta
  • Tracking open rates, link click rates, and reply rates. This allows us to compare different templates in order to see which allows for the most interactions and meetings set directly from email engagement.
  • Seeing exactly when someone opens an email and whether it is in their normal location. Also if they are opening on a mobile device versus a computer to be able to organize the set up of the email in a more beneficial way.
  • Being able to save Templates for Mail Merges to avoid the duplication of effort that other mass email systems utilize.
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Cons
LinkPoint360
  • The plug-in for Outlook needs to be reset every couple of months.
  • It does not tag e-mails sent from mobile devices (or we haven't figured out how to do that yet).
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SugarCRM
  • The payment plan that Collabspot provides does not have many advantages over the free plan.
  • The scores do not reflect the true assessment towards clients and candidates.
  • Mail templates have an outdated design.
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Vendasta
  • The ability to unwrap iframe embeds on email (e.g. if I send a Vimeo link over email, have that video thumbnail show and link out to a video)
  • Removing recipients from a campaign. If my ruleset is to remove a contact from a sequence after he/she replies, sometimes a person will reply from another email and Yesware doesn't recognize it. (e.g. if I add jeff@amazon.com to my campaign and jeff.bezos@amazon.com replies to my thread, Yesware will still send an email to jeff@amazon.com unless he is manually removed)
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Likelihood to Renew
LinkPoint360
No answers on this topic
SugarCRM
No answers on this topic
Vendasta
I like the product, but due to the limitations I don't love it. I'm curious to revisit other options, particularly in lieu of Yesware's recent price increases (although I'm on a legacy plan). Some of my challenges to be browser related (I'm on an older computer) -- I'll have to see how things go when I receive my new computer. If the glitches (especially with regard to tracking accuracy and send later feature) go away, I'd be much more inclined to renew
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Usability
LinkPoint360
No answers on this topic
SugarCRM
No answers on this topic
Vendasta
Yesware is easy to setup and get connected in existing systems. We were able to get started sending the day we puchased our subscription because of the addon for Gmail and easy connection to our CRM. It's also very easy to use in the day to day, kicking off campaigns and seeing their status to as about as easy as it gets. I have not concerns about usability
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Support Rating
LinkPoint360
Never had to use the support team, which probably means the product works well!
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SugarCRM
No answers on this topic
Vendasta
Because it deserves this rating. The features and functionality provided are great. Our Sales team is very satisfied with this software as it integrates very well with our other software like Outlook, Salesforce, etc. Yesware provides great follow up with customers, which is essential for sales. Meeting scheduling is also flawless.
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Alternatives Considered
LinkPoint360
Prior to our move to LinkPoint, we used the Salesforce add-in for Outlook. This required manual syncing of email and calendar items and no easy to use interface between the two programs. It was very cumbersome for me to use, to the point where I quit using it altogether some time ago. I found it far less frustrating to just switch back and forth between Outlook and Salesforce and manually perform the requisite actions, create tasks or other items, enter the required data, etc.
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SugarCRM
Very similar. Two different layouts for two totally different systems. Collabspot/Sugar is my primary system, but when I was an SDR, I used HubSpot for prospecting primarily because of email automation. Now that I'm a Territory Manager, I don't use HubSpot much anymore as my time is filled up with partners and clients--I do less "hunting" these days than I did as an SDR. Our company uses SugarCRM and Collabspot is integrated so I use Collabspot almost exclusively now. Right tool for the right job, I guess.
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Vendasta
All of these tools do what Yesware does, and more; but Yesware does the follow-up email portion best, in my experience. It is reasonably priced and is regularly adding new functionality to make it a sticky license for us to have. Yesware does not have predictive analytics or a particularly strong dialer solution, but it does provide team-wide and template efficacy tracking, and a basic dialer.
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Return on Investment
LinkPoint360
  • Activity history tracking. Our users send most of their emails from outlook.
  • Contact and lead creation.
  • Visibility of all associated records.
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SugarCRM
  • The staff that enters is of guaranteed quality.
  • Customers can respond to our requests quickly.
  • The staff of the administration is much more committed to their work.
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Vendasta
  • I think net positive ROI from generating meetings that lead to closed deals. Ultimately very difficult to quantify the ROI since it is essentially automating a lot of the manual prospecting done by BDRs/AEs - so ROI is likely higher than just that quantifiable number around deals closed.
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ScreenShots

LinkPoint Connect Screenshots

Screenshot of Record emails to your CRM when sending messages via your email application. LinkPoint Connect makes it easy to associate emails with the right contacts and opportunities with just a few clicks in your email.Screenshot of View real-time CRM data without ever leaving your email. Click on an email, and the LinkPoint Connect Side Panel instantly displays that contact’s information directly from the CRM.Screenshot of Screenshot of Screenshot of Screenshot of

Sugar Connect Screenshots

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Yesware Screenshots

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