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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Odoo CRM

    Score6.3 out of 10
    N/AOdoo is an open-source CRM software boasting over 5 million users. With it, sales teams can keep track of top leads and opportunities. Users can personalize their sales cycle, take control of their statistics/forecasts, and create marketing campaign automation to increase their overall sales performance. Sales teams are able to analyze the quality of their leads, make faster decisions, and save time by integrating emails from all contacts directly into Odoo as a fully integrated app.

    $31.10

    per month per user

    Salesforce Starter

    Score9 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
    Odoo CRMSalesforce Starter
    Editions & Modules
    One App Free
    $0
    Standard
    $31.10
    per month per user
    Custom
    $46.80
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Odoo CRMSalesforce Starter
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsThe Standard and Custom plans include the Odoo apps for a single fee.—
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    Odoo CRMSalesforce Starter
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    Odoo
    Chose Odoo CRM
    It stacks up well with other popular CRMs in terms of basic CRM functionality. But when you get into the nitty-gritty details and reporting, it's 5 years behind popular CRMs. Engineers are building the product without any sales or marketing input; that's the only conclusion I …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    80%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    80%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Odoo CRMSalesforce Starter
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Odoo CRM and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Odoo CRM
    4.5
    3 Ratings
    54% below category average
    Salesforce Starter
    8.7
    7 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Customer data management / contact management8.03 Ratings7.27 Ratings
    Workflow management6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Territory management1.03 Ratings7.57 Ratings
    Opportunity management7.02 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)6.52 Ratings9.46 Ratings
    Contract management1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Quote & order management7.03 Ratings9.55 Ratings
    Interaction tracking2.03 Ratings8.56 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management2.03 Ratings9.75 Ratings
    Customer Service & Support
    Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Odoo CRM and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Odoo CRM
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Salesforce Starter
    -
    Ratings
    Case management7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help desk management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Odoo CRM and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Odoo CRM
    2.0
    3 Ratings
    118% below category average
    Salesforce Starter
    7.2
    6 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Lead management2.03 Ratings7.26 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Odoo CRM and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Odoo CRM
    5.0
    3 Ratings
    42% below category average
    Salesforce Starter
    8.2
    5 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Task management6.03 Ratings9.65 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management7.02 Ratings6.35 Ratings
    Reporting2.03 Ratings8.65 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Odoo CRM and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Odoo CRM
    1.3
    2 Ratings
    142% below category average
    Salesforce Starter
    9.0
    5 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Forecasting2.02 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization1.02 Ratings8.85 Ratings
    Customizable reports1.02 Ratings9.25 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Odoo CRM and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Odoo CRM
    10.0
    3 Ratings
    27% above category average
    Salesforce Starter
    6.7
    6 Ratings
    13% below category average
    Custom fields10.03 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Custom objects10.02 Ratings7.05 Ratings
    Scripting environment00 Ratings5.75 Ratings
    API for custom integration00 Ratings7.35 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Odoo CRM and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Odoo CRM
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Salesforce Starter
    8.6
    6 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Role-based user permissions10.02 Ratings8.66 Ratings
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of Odoo CRM and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Odoo CRM
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    8.6
    5 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Social engagement00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Odoo CRM and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Odoo CRM
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    8.2
    5 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Marketing automation00 Ratings8.35 Ratings
    Compensation management00 Ratings8.15 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Odoo CRM and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Odoo CRM
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    8.3
    6 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Mobile access00 Ratings8.36 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Odoo CRMSalesforce Starter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    4.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Odoo CRMSalesforce Starter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Odoo
    For small businesses and small teams, Odoo CRM is fine. It has the basics, and it is functional. But as the teams grow, processes become more complex, and reporting needs to be accurate, you will have to either allocate a budget to an Odoo partner or hire a Python developer internally. Sales-led organizations with larger teams will find poor reporting a deal-breaker. You can't do standard reporting that you find in HubSpot or Salesforce. So you end up doing a lot of customization or manual work to get the reports you need.
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    Salesforce
    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.
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    Pros
    Odoo
    • Generating quotations partiuclarly for the ease of data amendment so that products can be added on the fly and names can be amended per quote to suit
    • The contact tagging feature is a fantastic way of grouping customers/leads into industry specific groups for targetting specific areas seperately
    • Very versatile customer pricelist function for ensuring discount structures are accurately calculated
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    Salesforce
    • Tracking phone calls is extremely easy when using the app on the iphone. After a phone call is complete it prompts the user to enter in call details.
    • SalesforceIQ also automatically logs emails for us. This has saved us time from entering in information manually.
    • SalesforceIQ was easy to set up and allowed us customization for fields that were relevant to our business.
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    Cons
    Odoo
    • UI can be improved
    • The lead view can be better since we have to scroll a lot.
    • The server is down or technical glitches are happening . We have seen distance in lead count
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    Salesforce
    • 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.
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    Usability
    Odoo
    Odoo CRM is usable and has a lot of features, so it gives us the basics we need to run a successful business. The problem is, it requires a lot of time and money to customize it and run it smoothly. Plus, Odoo support can be pretty bad. For every 1 good support agent, there are 9 that don't pay attention. We have an internal running joke that ChatGPT is more helpful than Odoo support when they first reply. Once we get to product experts, they usually know what they are talking about. But the first-level support agents, you have to push them and re-explain things to get them to understand and hopefully escalate. Plus, they always miss SLA response times, blaming it on a busy period. Usually takes a week for the first reply. You can get live chat sometimes, but 9 out of 10 times, they will ask you to create a support ticket. Then you wait.
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    Salesforce
    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.
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    Support Rating
    Odoo
    This was a bit of a sticking point, we find the support can be lacking and generally its recommended to spurchase a support pack of hours in order to benefit from full support. We have subsequently gone on to do a lot of the implementation and training by ourselves following lots of trial and error so although things are working now, it was initialy a bumpy road implementing!
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    Salesforce
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    Alternatives Considered
    Odoo
    Odoo was referred by one of my friends and interface was attractive with all these pipelines, filters, etc
    We were able to filter leads super precisely and project as per our vision. The notes and reminders are useful. Odoo Congress with inbuilt calender option from where you can create events and share with the team or the respective prospects
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    Salesforce
    more expensive but as an industry leader and go, the learning curve pays for itself in ROI in lost time in onboarding
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    Return on Investment
    Odoo
    • We're managing millions of dollars in sales orders.
    • 20-30% of time can be spent on fixing or dealing with issues, partially because of Odoo.sh hosting platform limitations.
    • Odoo CRM does allow us to do what we need to run a successful business; it's just 5 years behind HubSpot and Salesforce.
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    Salesforce
    • It made the job more efficient for staff so they can spend time doing other tasks rather than configuring and maintaining Salesforce Starter.
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