Copper

Copper has helped me extensively keep track of not only my own but my company's workflow. With so many projects and quotes to track, it has become essential to keep me on task and not miss any of our goals. It has been a perfect fit with our specific workflow, but I don't think it has the customizability just yet to be a perfect fit for every company out there.

They were quick to answer any of my questions with chat and phone support and I have never had an issue getting help.

Good starter / mid-sized CRM. I moved to this from Zoho. - the Gmail integration is a nice touch, but most CRMs have that today

Horrible - see my comments on no replies. Just poor business to ignore people

Inexisting Support (that answers partially to all our email), extremely poor integrations (budget at least $200 zapier sync every month), limited features (have to buy at least 3 other tools to make it work properly). RUUUN !!!

Inexisting .... 2 minutes to partially answer an email, impossible to have a demo .... Too bad because a good Saas is all about support

Honestly, I think Copper is a great CRM for any startup. They're small enough to where they are very accommodating to their clients but large enough to have a ton of integrations with other business tools that a company may use. The toughest thing with Copper is when your business model may not revolve around a set Value derived from each customer. If your company doesn't view a sale/client as set dollar amount, a lot of the features, KPIs, etc. become essentially useless.

Copper's use of articles, Live support, and office hours is fantastic. The only downsides to some of these features is that on occasion, the articles are a bit outdated and the individuals holding office hours don't have the best bedside manner.

It is very easy to use to enter client information and opportunities, as well as follow-up tasks. I use the program every day to set myself up with a client follow-up list on a specific day each week when I either call a client, follow up on an opportunity, or simply schedule a service for them.

There have been a few times when I contacted the "help desk" or "support team" and they just told me to watch a video or join a seminar to learn what I am looking to do. I would have expected someone to take a few minutes and literally walk me through the steps one by one until either I figured it out or accomplished the goal of my request.

Copper is well suited for companies that really need to keep an up to date calendar, keep all of their clients and contacts in one space, and to make sure you do not miss any important calls, meetings, or any type of client interaction. So far, I do not have a scenario where Copper hasn't worked for me.

I haven't used their support so I cannot answer this question.

Sales management
Customer lifecycle management
Contact managment
Integrations with other systems

We have tried getting in touch with our sales rep, but she has not reached back.

Positives for [Copper (formerly ProsperWorks)]:
-G Suite Compatibility: An industry problem Copper CRM is focused on solving is the lack of integration with current software systems like G Suite. Copper CRM is fully compatible with G Suite, and it is the only sales automation solution endorsed by Google.
-Copper CRM is focused on the time-to-value ratio. It aims to provide the maximum value possible while limiting the time it takes for its users to input data manually. Some of its features include workflow and task automation for users who sign up for the two higher tiers.
-Simplicity: Copper CRM is designed to be simple. The software has a handy sidebar where users can search for tasks, tracked emails, opportunities, and companies. A link to contact the Support team is also included. If users have issues, they can simply reach out to this team.
-Quick Onboarding: Setting up or switching to Copper is a quick and painless experience. Copper focuses on getting new users set up within days, not weeks or months like some of its competitors.

Negatives:
-Lack of Features: The biggest drawback of Copper CRM is the lack of features it provides its users. It is designed for simplicity. Therefore, it is missing many of the advanced features offered by its competitors. For example, it doesn’t offer users a dedicated account manager, and click-to-call requires third-party software.
-Lack of Flexibility Outside G Suite

It has been so far so good, they have been quick to respond to queries, and do follow up as well. But then again this is a work in progress and I guess they would not have a solution to every problem every posed to them right away. Hence I will refrain from making any judgments.

Copper was honestly a good CRM solution that provided a relatively advanced feature set packaged in an easy to use UI. I honestly would have recommended it to many people had I not had such a terrible experience when canceling and considered using it again in the future. But their TERRIBLE customer service and DECEPTIVE cancellation policy make me unable to recommend working with this company at any time for any reason. Consider Hubspot, Pipedrive, or Insightly instead.

If I could rate it a zero I would. Rude, slow to respond, and unhelpful. They are more focused on trying to figure out what you did wrong than they are on trying to find a solution for you. Extraordinarily antagonistic. Worst customer service I've experienced with a software provider and I've used dozens in my day.

Copper is well suited for sales or donor prospect information and activity. I'm not sure how well it works with multiple users in the same company with the ability of supervisors to monitor activity by individual users. If one is merely looking for contacts storage this product would be overkill. I find Copper adequate for my project management purposes. My guess is that there are other programs dedicated solely to project management that might provide better workflow, etc.

Copper is INCREDIBLE for small organizations that I have found. I can't speak for the enterprise, unfortunately. Companies that are pulling their hair out trying to get sales reps to FILL in information is a key selling point here, at least for us. Using Google's Suite e.g. Gmail made switching to Copper really a no-brainer for us. Crazy as it sounds, using Copper is really fun and easy as a sales rep because it is already there inside of Gmail, making adding leads, creating opportunities just a breeze and really updating any number of accounts that you need to. It is a challenge when working with 3rd party apps like Outreach that have a slide-out bar on the right or wanting to use tasks and the side features in Gmail.

A specific scenario where Copper is well suited is when I receive emails from people in Gmail. Copper makes it extremely simple to add them as a new contact to my address book, and then also sync that new contact with my Google address book. I haven't run into a scenario where it's less appropriate to use Copper.

Copper is well suited for keeping track of sales reporting, being able to track by pipelines, sales member, and weighted probability reports. At a high level, Copper has a solid UI/UX and is a simple CRM solution.

If you are looking for a more robust CRM system to automate opportunities and automatically move opportunities through your pipeline, then Copper is not the solution for you. Their automated work flows is quited limited.

Copper is great if you need a very basic CRM and don’t plan to do anything too complex. Saving people’s information and follow up reminders/tasks are really what it’s good for. If you want an actual helpful CRM that’s super user-friendly, this isn’t it.

Their support team isn’t super fast to respond but they usually solve my problem—after a little back and forth—within 48 hours or so.

Copper is the perfect CRM for businesses and organizations that use G-Suite. It integrates seamlessly with Google products and makes data entry a thing of the past. With a simple click, you can import leads from your Gmail conversations or import a prebuilt list in a matter of minutes. Copper is truly customizable and is very easy to make the CRM work for you. It is very easy to create custom fields, manage leads, people and opportunities, and run reports on user activity, pipelines, and more. I think Copper is less appropriate for organizations that may need very complex CRM environments and do not leverage Gmail or G-suite products. Copper is the CRM for Google users.

Prosperworks is 100% best used if you are a G Suite customer. In my opinion, if you use G Suite as a company then you should use Prosperworks as your CRM. The only exception to that is if you have other programs that heavily tie into reporting features of SFDC. However if you're just looking for a solid CRM to track all your notes, activity, collaborate with your team, and run activity reports - ProsperWorks is a pleasure to use and will not disappoint.

ProsperWorks CRM is good if you want a lightweight solution to give you insight into your current sales that integrates completely with Google Apps and Gmail. You'll need to invest in something more robust like a Salesforce if you want lots of integrations, better analytics/reporting and more complicated work/user flows in your CRM.

Overall the support for ProsperWorks CRM is OK. When I get hold of my reps they are pretty knowledgeable and usually solve my problems. When I first started using the software they were a lot harder to get hold of so this has improved. My biggest complaint though is that my feature requests seem to go into a black hole, I never hear the status of them and I have no idea if they have even been passed on.

It is great for small businesses that use Google Apps. If you are using Google Apps you should give ProsperWorks CRM a look. It is very powerful and with its ability to track emails and conversation it will help with client retention, especially if you have a sales or support individual leave the company.

I can't speak to less suited for, but we ventured into using it as a real estate office slightly blind. It took as a while to set it up the way we wanted it. It offers more flexibility than a RE specific program ie. top producer, wiseagent and it works directly with google and gmail

It's great for really small teams that don't have a legacy process to follow, especially if you are using Google Apps. For that type of company, there will not be much of a learning curve and the product will have the key features your small team needs. While it's quite pricey for what you currently get, I hear there's a lot of development going into the product.