Maximizer CRM vs. Zoho CRM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Maximizer CRM
Score 5.0 out of 10
N/A
Maximizer CRM is a customer relationship management (CRM) software built to maximize sales leads and calls.
$29
Per User / Month
Zoho CRM
Score 8.2 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
Maximizer CRMZoho CRM
Editions & Modules
Small Office
$29
Per User / Month
Business Plus
$49
Per User / Month
Business Plus
$49
Per User / Month
Insights
$89
Per User / Month
Insights
$89
Per User / 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
Maximizer CRMZoho CRM
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup Fee$29 per user/Month$14 /user/month
Additional DetailsAll pricing in USD. Monthly no contract subscription option available.
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Community Pulse
Maximizer CRMZoho CRM
Considered Both Products
Maximizer CRM
Chose Maximizer CRM
I’d definitely rate them the lowest, simply for the fact that their final interactions with me were far from professional. I was genuinely stunned at [what seemed to me like] this company’s arrogance and unwillingness to look at my issues from my company’s perspective. Over a …
Zoho CRM

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Maximizer CRMZoho CRM
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Maximizer CRM
1.8
5 Ratings
124% below category average
Zoho CRM
7.7
274 Ratings
0% above category average
Customer data management / contact management1.15 Ratings8.3266 Ratings
Workflow management1.14 Ratings7.8253 Ratings
Territory management1.14 Ratings7.4186 Ratings
Opportunity management1.15 Ratings8.2240 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)1.14 Ratings7.5239 Ratings
Contract management3.14 Ratings7.6191 Ratings
Quote & order management1.13 Ratings7.6190 Ratings
Interaction tracking4.05 Ratings7.9237 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management2.15 Ratings7.3182 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
Maximizer CRM
1.1
4 Ratings
149% below category average
Zoho CRM
7.1
210 Ratings
6% below category average
Case management1.14 Ratings7.2203 Ratings
Call center management1.13 Ratings6.9163 Ratings
Help desk management1.13 Ratings7.2181 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Maximizer CRM
1.1
5 Ratings
149% below category average
Zoho CRM
8.1
253 Ratings
7% above category average
Lead management1.15 Ratings8.2248 Ratings
Email marketing1.15 Ratings8.0210 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Maximizer CRM
1.1
5 Ratings
149% below category average
Zoho CRM
7.8
251 Ratings
3% above category average
Task management1.15 Ratings8.1236 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management1.13 Ratings7.7171 Ratings
Reporting1.14 Ratings7.8230 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Maximizer CRM
1.1
5 Ratings
150% below category average
Zoho CRM
7.9
246 Ratings
4% above category average
Forecasting1.15 Ratings7.6206 Ratings
Pipeline visualization1.15 Ratings7.9224 Ratings
Customizable reports1.15 Ratings8.1237 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Maximizer CRM
1.1
5 Ratings
149% below category average
Zoho CRM
7.9
265 Ratings
4% above category average
Custom fields1.15 Ratings8.4263 Ratings
Custom objects1.04 Ratings7.9210 Ratings
Scripting environment1.15 Ratings7.3170 Ratings
API for custom integration1.15 Ratings7.8193 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Maximizer CRM
1.1
5 Ratings
153% below category average
Zoho CRM
8.4
253 Ratings
1% above category average
Single sign-on capability1.13 Ratings8.4220 Ratings
Role-based user permissions1.14 Ratings8.4248 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Maximizer CRM
1.1
3 Ratings
147% below category average
Zoho CRM
8.1
158 Ratings
11% above category average
Social data1.13 Ratings8.1157 Ratings
Social engagement1.13 Ratings8.0149 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
Maximizer CRM
1.0
5 Ratings
151% below category average
Zoho CRM
7.6
200 Ratings
6% above category average
Marketing automation1.05 Ratings7.8197 Ratings
Compensation management1.04 Ratings7.5130 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Maximizer CRM
1.1
5 Ratings
149% below category average
Zoho CRM
7.7
219 Ratings
3% above category average
Mobile access1.15 Ratings7.7219 Ratings
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User Ratings
Maximizer CRMZoho CRM
Likelihood to Recommend
1.1
(5 ratings)
8.3
(298 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
3.4
(33 ratings)
Usability
1.0
(1 ratings)
8.3
(168 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
1.0
(2 ratings)
4.9
(65 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.2
(10 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(110 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
9.5
(21 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.2
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(7 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.2
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Maximizer CRMZoho CRM
Likelihood to Recommend
Maximizer Services, Inc.
It was not a good experience. Nothing was as advertised, from the user experience to the security of purchase. The address book was not able to be converted from the Leads module and the maps feature wasn’t able to connect from Leads. The mobile version has a lot of bugs and isn’t very functional. They have a tutorial, yet [I think they] aren’t proactive in distributing it to new users. Their focus is on sales. And it’s not a very salable product in my opinion. The worst aspect of this company is that they aren’t risk free. If you purchase a year software and decide after a few weeks it simply isn’t for your company, there are no refunds. I had to initiate a chargeback with my bank after being told that “unfortunately, due to the terms and conditions...” No customer wants to hear that. [I feel] they tried to bully me into keeping their software. There are far too many options in 2021 for CRM to be forced into one, especially one so difficult to use. When I asked about a feature that I needed, I was told, “Perhaps later this year...” Not what I need if I’m paying good money for a software. Their sales VP wouldn’t call me when I requested a call after being denied a refund. When I went through their main website again after my experience with Maximizer, I [felt] that everything they advertise is not in line with the product they put out. They say that there’s a free trial available. Not the truth [in my experience]. This maybe would have been a good CRM in say, 1999. [I think] it’s antiquated and didn’t serve the needs of my business. I used well-known CRM previously and didn’t find Maximizer to be better than the free version of that one. There was a disconnect in usage that wasn’t able to be overcome by myself or my employees in several weeks of trials.
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Zoho
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.
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Pros
Maximizer Services, Inc.
  • Shared Calendar
  • Customer Service cases
  • Common database of customer information
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Zoho
  • Zoho CRM has so much space to capture lots of information.
  • Zoho CRM can be customized for your organization's needs.
  • Zoho CRM is great for running reports to help make business decisions.
  • We love all the different dashboards we can create.
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Cons
Maximizer Services, Inc.
  • Handling large data. Maximizer needs to improve on this.
  • Add additional user-friendly shortcuts for the most frequently used functions in the web version.
  • There is no mark for deletion option. They need to provide a way to delete without physically deleting records.
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Zoho
  • 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
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Likelihood to Renew
Maximizer Services, Inc.
We are heavily entrenched in Maximizer and trying to pull our data out and into another CRM, with the same amount of customization and workflow would take a lot of effort.
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Zoho
Zoho has been a wonderful tool for us for several years and there is so much more we can do with it. New features are released often which give a team like us the option to further fine tune our business process management techniques. I honestly couldn't imagine running our business not on Zoho.
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Usability
Maximizer Services, Inc.
The CRM didn’t have the capability I expected
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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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Support Rating
Maximizer Services, Inc.
The support staff are very knowledgeable and competent. Never really had an issue with them not knowing what they are doing.
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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
Maximizer Services, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Zoho
It was harder to learn when there were mostly real estate users in the room. We are sales solely.
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Online Training
Maximizer Services, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Zoho
Online training is tough, but Zoho and their partners do a good job of explaining things.
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Implementation Rating
Maximizer Services, Inc.
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
Maximizer Services, Inc.
We chose to go with Microsoft Dynamics CRM over Maximizer because of the customization and marketing options that were associated with Dynamics. The ease of use with Maximizer, however, was far better than that of Microsoft Dynamics.
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Zoho
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
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Maximizer Services, Inc.
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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Professional Services
Maximizer Services, Inc.
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
Maximizer Services, Inc.
  • It allows us to maximize our service billing
  • It is easy to generate service quotes
  • It is easy to follow up on leads.
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Zoho
  • ROI is good, providing your entire team is involved with the program and uses it
  • During busy season, Zoho keeps the flow going with reminders for quote follow-ups
  • Our company saw an estimated 20% gain in closing sales that went through Zoho as compared to quotes not answered through Zoho
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ScreenShots

Maximizer CRM Screenshots

Screenshot of Maximizer CRM Logo

Zoho CRM Screenshots

Screenshot of Deals - Cash in on all opportunities. Close more deals. Great sales management is all about prioritizing, tracking, and monitoring the deals in your pipeline. Zoho CRM gives you everything you need to manage deals across territories and sales structures.Screenshot of Activities - Keep track of all the tasks, meetings, calls, events, or activity records. Neatly organize the numerous records along with the activities associated to them such as follow-up, pre sales and post sales activities, phone conversations etc.