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Salesforce CPQ
Formerly Salesforce CPQ / SteelBrick

Overview

What is Salesforce CPQ?

Salesforce Revenue Cloud (formerly Salesforce CPQ or SteelBrick) is built and delivered on the Salesforce Platform and Salesforce1 Mobile App which enables users to create accurate sales quotes quickly and submit error-free orders on the fly from any device.

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Recent Reviews

Salesforce CPQ

1 out of 10
February 10, 2022
I've used Salesforce Revenue Cloud for the past 4 years and had a good experience with it. It is relativity easy to learn and makes …
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All in-one sales tool

9 out of 10
December 29, 2021
Incentivized
This platform is used to support the Configure-Price-Quote/Quote-To-Cash process for one of our clients, the ability to configure the …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Attachments to quotes (31)
    8.5
    85%
  • Price adjustment (31)
    8.2
    82%
  • Quote sharing/sending (31)
    7.3
    73%
  • Product configuration (32)
    6.2
    62%

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Pricing

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Basic

$30

Cloud
Per User per Month

Professional

$50

Cloud
Per User per Month

Enterprise

$75

Cloud
Per User per Month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://www.steelbrick.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

How to Set Up Contracted Pricing with Salesforce CPQ

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Improve Up- & Cross-Selling Salesforce CPQ Bundled Quotes

YouTube

Multi-Dimensional Quoting (MDQ) with Salesforce CPQ

YouTube

Salesforce Billing Demo

YouTube

Guided Selling with Salesforce CPQ

YouTube

How to Use Product Rules with Salesforce CPQ

YouTube
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Features

CPQ

Features related to configuring and pricing products and delivering quotes to customers.

7.7
Avg 8.6
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Product Details

What is Salesforce CPQ?

Salesforce Revenue Cloud (formerly Salesforce CPQ or SteelBrick) is built and delivered on the Salesforce Platform and Salesforce1 Mobile App which enables users to create accurate sales quotes quickly and submit error-free orders on the fly from any device.

Salesforce CPQ Features

  • Supported: PRICE & QUOTE: Ensure consistent pricing and discounting. Generate customer-friendly quotes easily and accurately.
  • Supported: PROPOSALS & CONTRACTS: Create professional-looking branded proposals and contracts.
  • Supported: ORDERS & RENEWALS: Automatically generate renewal quotes. Apply existing contracted terms and prices to add-on orders.
  • Supported: PRODUCT CONFIGURATOR: Configure products and services based on your business rules and logic.
  • Supported: GUIDED SELLING: Help your sales reps select the right products and services for each customer every time.
  • Supported: RESELLER CHANNELS: SteelBrick CPQ for Communities is an online selling platform that connects your resellers and distributors to your own sales processes and resources.

Salesforce CPQ Screenshots

Screenshot of Configure. Price. Quote. Anytime, anywhere, on any device.

Salesforce CPQ Video

Salesforce CPQ Demo

Salesforce CPQ Integrations

Salesforce CPQ Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationOther: Salesforce1
Supported CountriesAll
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Salesforce Revenue Cloud (formerly Salesforce CPQ or SteelBrick) is built and delivered on the Salesforce Platform and Salesforce1 Mobile App which enables users to create accurate sales quotes quickly and submit error-free orders on the fly from any device.

Conga CPQ, Oracle CPQ, and SAP CPQ are common alternatives for Salesforce CPQ.

Reviewers rate CPQ-CRM integration highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of Salesforce CPQ are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Salesforce CPQ Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)20%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)50%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)30%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The ability to process a quote quickly and efficiently helps my daily task proficiency increase
  • Straight forward to use, and intuitive.
  • Has reduced the number of steps needed when building and finalizing a quote
  • Could be reduced to less steps than it already is
  • Some steps need additional workflow than desirable
Graham Power | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • native workflow w/in salesforce.com opportunities - that is a pretty essential characteristic.
  • automating the quote, contracting and renewal process
  • enabling reps to produce complex price quotes that can span multiple product lines and (to an extent) simplify orders
  • This is not an easy product to stand up. when it comes to pricing for most companies selling an array of products, nuisances can really complicate your experience.
  • If you need to quote multiple product configurations across multiple subscription terms, things quickly become quite laborious
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to use interface. Very shallow learning curve, so it's not a massive headache switching from previous tools.
  • Ability to adjust different line items on quotes as needed.
  • The ability to house multiple quotes that can be updated on the fly and integrate well with our pricing packages.
  • Automatically save. I will change the name of a quote, forget to click save and then it reverts back to standard name
  • Ability to update certain aspects of quote, even when it is in approval stage. while it is in the stages of being approved or even receiving an SOW or a service request, I'm not able to update the license name until the approval goes through.
  • Approvals go DIRECTLY to necessary people. When there is a massive chain of approvals....one person out of the office in that chain can create a headache.
Cameron Walker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to use UI integrated within existing SFDC platform
  • Generate quotes from opportunity object and have pricing proposals organized in a neat and orderly fashion
  • Automated workflow for proposal approval
  • Quote slow to load at times
  • Order form generation can get a bit tricky with multi-year agreements with annual increases in subscription, ramped subscribers, exceptions to standard contract terms
  • Once quote is approved, the steps required to export the document to pdf outside of SFDC is not entirely straightforward
March 16, 2018

CPQ

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Cloud based
  • Can access this from anywhere and make changes anytime
  • Easy quote to order process
  • I would like to be able to download contracts from CPQ. We only have the functionality now for quotes.
  • Would like there to be an option for international ordering.
February 08, 2018

SteelBricks!

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Definitely better than Excel, Word, or Google Docs.
  • The integration with Salesforce with is very nice.
  • Custom pricing options are an added benefit.
  • Customer service is lacking, especially compared to Salesforce.
  • Slow load times.
  • Does a poor job of highlighting when a field is incorrect or missing.
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • CPQ, when it works properly, works well with approval process configurations. For example, quotes need to run through our approval process when a discount is over 25% on a particular quote.
  • CPQ allows for easy customizations when it comes to changing quotes on the fly - however, you must be using a stable price book in order for your sales team to be happy with this.
  • The Lightning user interface is attractive and looks easy to use for the sales team.
  • CPQ has caused more inconveniences for everyone than any of our other systems. Part of this is that our sales team doesn't have access to adequate training or support and neither do I as the new admin to Salesforce. Support tends to be awful unless you purchase the highest level of support that Salesforce provides, which is very pricey.
  • There are way too many objects and configurations involved in CPQ that I cannot handle this as an admin without training or support, but was tasked to do so; as a result, our system frequently miscalculates renewal pricing, doesn't properly activate contracts, confuses our sales team regarding start dates and end dates.
  • Our CPQ instance has been outdated for two years and as the admin, I haven't received any information about upgrading so I was never in-the-know about the fact that our instance is two years behind. I'm worried to upgrade without proper support because the entire system could be negatively affected.
  • Validation rules that were auto-created by the implementation of CPQ have worked against us. For example, opportunity amounts are based on product sum totals and discounts and terms, but if any one of these records has an error, it's extremely difficult to debug because of the amount of objects and rules and the lack of training.
Simon Whight | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Flexible and complex selling.
  • Granular approval levels.
  • Intelligent discounting.
  • Configuration for out of the box requirements is complicated, we have developed custom visual force and apex solutions.
  • I'd like to see the UI become a little more streamlined.
Jack Pennuto | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The use of bundles, pre-configured bundles and the ability to re-configure bundles are particularly helpful.
  • Utilizing partners as a trigger for different pricing structures are helpful depending if we are quoting to a distributor or to an end user.
  • Advanced Approvals make it possible for us to distribute the approval to anyone at manager level available to approve a deal, instead of having a linear approval waiting for a single manager.
  • The user interface is a bit clunky, in Safari, the search function commonly does not render correctly.
  • The output document flexibility leaves something to be desired. The intent is for very plain documents.
  • The 2.5 MB maximum output document size is VERY limiting. This really limits our ability to provide content-rich, visually appealing documents for quotations.
December 05, 2017

Salesforce CPQ Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ability to customize proposals base don your organization and products amongst different verticals
  • Configure quotes faster with greater accuracy
  • You don't have to leave your sales cloud to create proposals
  • Fully customize quotes. Currently, we have to rely on sales operations to make these changes, removing control from the sales rep or management team.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Salesforce CPQ is great for being able to quickly and easily build product bundles in an intuitive and visually appealing way.
  • The product catalog and ability to easily add fields to product records makes setting up products really simple and adds a lot of value to reporting within Salesforce.
  • Basic product and configuration rules are very easy to understand and set up.
  • More complex product and configuration rules seem overly complex. If any math is required in a rule, even simple quantity rules can very complicated.
  • Quote templates while easy to customize are very simple in their layout. We'd like to be able to have more dynamic and visually appealing quote templates.
  • Guided selling is lacking in very basic ways. You can't create questions with dependencies for "if this, then that" or an intuitive questionnaire or guided selling wizard.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Product configuration
  • Quoting process, integration with docusign, emailing quotes to customers
  • Approval process
  • Least custom components on SFDC
  • Process for Amendments - Not very streamlined process for creating amendment quotes, Not well thought in the context of integration with Billing system
  • Several products that are common in Subscription industries can't be easily designed
  • Paid Pilots ( Where products have pilot period when customer can stop the service
  • User Ramp ups ( MDQ does not support the bundle SKUs. Quote lines with different dates create different contracts)
  • Overage SKUs ( Can't define commitment for overage SKUs and link them to commitment SKUs)
  • Usage SKUs ( Ideally usage SKUs should have a price on the quote line and no quantity on the quote)
  • Following processes can't be supported without customization:
  • Evergreen contracts ( In this case no renewal quote is needed but contract dates should be pushed by renewal term)
  • Change Orders ( Amendment quoting is not streamlined enough)
  • Cancellations
Michel Hepp | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Easy to get up and running - only a few days.
  • Easily bundle products together. Product configuration and solutions are constantly changing and Steelbrick lets us make these changes easily and ourselves.
  • Seamlessly integrated to Salesforce. The sales team does not realize they are using another application for quoting.
  • It would be great if they provided a visual, drag and drop tool to allow us to create more advanced templates. Basic templates are easy but needed our web developer to help with HTML - it was not difficult but would be nice to be able to do it ourselves.
Igor Nikishin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Ease of quoting process through configuration.
  • Support services provide solutions for issues, configurations, and looks to the user to help decide what is needed in the next update.
  • Training options.
Joel Naumoff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Customer support - they are one of the best in our vendor portfolio
  • Functionality - right blend of simple and flexible
  • Integration with Salesforce.com - it's native and works extremely well w/the SFDC platform
  • Could improve the User Interface - more simplified would be better
Marcus Sandelowsky, CLSSBB | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Product bundling and pricing flexibility.
  • End user UI.
  • Document generation.
  • Templates can be difficult to build without HTML knowledge.
  • Some features, like Solution Groups, aren't built out yet or there is confusion about how it should be applied.
  • Multi-dimensional quoting needs to be much more robust.
Christina Rowell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • SteelBrick offers additional functionality with a small learning curve due to the applications development within the Salesforce platform
  • The ability to update information and changes back to the local ERP is amazing.
  • Streamlining the configuration process makes changes and updates seemless.
  • My catalog size and manufacturing requirements do not always fit the Steelbrick platform.
Chris Osment | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • The ability to manage multiple Price Books based on a master list of products and price is particularly useful in our busienss. We sell in North America, Carribean, and South America markets. Each region needs to view a unique product list, with centrally managed pricing.
  • Filters to search and select product based on different factors, such as Electric Power, Cooling Capacity, or building profile makes it efficient for sales associates.
  • Integrated Reporting on Quotes by type, status, sales are or sales person with other information in SalesForce is very useful.
  • We look forward to talking with the vendor about bundles in the CPQ. A bundle is several products which are required for a specific product SKU, but are made up of multiple individual products. SteelBrick codes these as "required options" though we would prefer to associate them as bundles with a bundle price and unit prices.
Rebecca Piatz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • I can easily make field and layout changes to our products and quotes. This has allowed me to customize the tool a lot to fit our special pricing structure.
  • Their support team is amazing. Every question I've had has been answered clearly and quickly.
  • Their online support topics could be clearer. I've relied a lot on their support team because the directions online were not easy to understand.
  • We currently don't have a way to show pricing change year over year on a quote. Though, I hear this is coming on a future update.
Mark Gremban | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • The administrative tasks are relatively easy compared to previous CPQs I have been the administrator for. When new product rules or configuration changes are made they are reflected in real time as soon as you are done.
  • Steelbrick is user friendly, and reliable to account for our sales quoting needs.
  • I have been using Steelbrick for less than a year, and it is pretty easy to use. It would be great to have a more expansive knowledge base. I use support which has been great, but it would be good to have more documentation and videos or an admin guide.
  • Its configuration is easy, but there is not much complexity offered for the customization of the tool.
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