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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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- Attachments to quotes (31)8.585%
- Price adjustment (31)8.282%
- Quote sharing/sending (31)7.373%
- Product configuration (32)6.161%
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$30
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Professional
$50
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Per User per Month
Enterprise
$75
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Per User per Month
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- Setup fee optional
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- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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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.
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Salesforce CPQ Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Other: Salesforce1 |
| Supported Countries | All |
| Supported Languages | English |
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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.
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
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 20% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 50% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 30% |
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December 06, 2022
Why to force when you have Salesforce.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It is a very good app for storing customer data; we use it to store information within our company and with clients too. We are also working on different modules of this app to be used in our organization. It helps us to ease out our work. We would like to recommend this software to everyone.
- this allows user to develop app as it stores the metadata.
- It provides powerful API's helps in smooth transfer of data.
- Works as SaaS so we can directly use an app within this tool.
- Well, they can work on the layout and interface just to be make it easier for everyone.
December 29, 2021
All in-one sales tool
This platform is used to support the Configure-Price-Quote/Quote-To-Cash process for one of our clients, the ability to configure the product and integrate with the company's ERP solution makes it really easy for an end-to-end process. It is also used to support end-user and quickly trace the logs on what the users are doing for easy resolution. Salesforce CPQ is easy to navigate and use. Being user-friendly, it is easy to learn how to use it and work with it and provides a smooth user experience.
- Configuration
- User-friendly and user experience
- Integration with SAP
- When integrated, sometimes some of the functionality is missing
January 28, 2020
Salesforce CPQ was essential to our digital transformation
We use Salesforce CPQ to quote and contract all sales throughout the organization. It unifies all quoting, discounting and approvals.
- Approval process is robust and smooth.
- Quoting across various business types works very well.
January 15, 2020
Salesforce CPQ Review by Account Manager
We use Salesforce CPQ across our sales team (Account Executives and CSM's, our version of account managers), to make quotes/proposals for our customers. It provides a means for us to more easily put together quotes based on the line items in our price books. We have changed our pricing a few times over the years, and have many different line items, so it allows us to quickly select the items needed to provide quotes for each account and the specific products that they need.
- It organizes line items so you can select exactly what you need for each account.
- It provides a "target amount" field so you can enter the total cost that the items in the quote need to amount to.
- It's difficult to move line items around and organize them.
- I wish there was a "target customer amount" button for individual groups and that you could edit the individual line items to be a certain amount. In general, and to add up to the "target customer amount."
SFDC CPQ is good for creating and generating quotes when you have a set, organized price-book and line items. If you have a lot of different price books or pricing that has changed over time, and different terms/amounts that need to be grouped together, it can be difficult to use, since you can't customize the prices, and it can be a bit clunky to arrange when you have a variety of products in a single quote.
Salesforce CPQ is currently used @ Xactly Corporation to provide easy access to build quotes directly from within the opportunity object in SFDC. Sales, Sales Operations, and Customer Success are the departments utilizing the tool primarily. We use this tool to avoid manual order form creation processes in Excel.
- Salesforce CPQ easily maps to standard and custom fields within the opportunity in SFDC, allowing you to avoid time spent duplicating effort or copying and pasting deal criteria.
- Salesforce CPQ connects directly to pre-determined price book, making it very easy to provide a proposal based on standard cost and/or add discounts to standard cost and reflect those reductions on the order form as appropriate.
- Salesforce CPQ provides the ability for administrators to configure workflows for approval based on certain discount %'s on the standard cost, offering a quick and easy way to route automatically through the organization for approval.
- Calc and process time are slow, as is the case with many Salesforce native applications. If there are too many line items, you may see APEX errors.
- The order form process can get very lengthy if you have several line items or need to account for year over year increases in per subscriber cost with separate line items for each year in a multi-year agreement.
- If there are not multiple people eligible to approve a quote at a certain stage in the approval process, it can take a significant amount of time if that individual is away from their computer / mobile device.
March 16, 2018
CPQ
CPQ is being used throughout the North America sales organization. It was implemented about a year or so ago. We love it.
- 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.
December 13, 2017
Complicated with little support.
We use Salesforce CPQ to quote customers on product purchases. We use quotes, quote templates, contracts, subscriptions, products, etc. to handle our ordering process which is quite manual. This is being used by the sales (inside and field reps) teams as well as myself as the Salesforce administrator, in that I have to fix quotes frequently and edit quotes based on our approval process issues.
- 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.
December 05, 2017
Salesforce CPQ Review
Currently, CPQ is being utilized by our sales department across all verticals. We primarily use CPQ as our main engine to formulate proposals to our clients. CPQ allows us to address certain business issues such as: Allows for consistent pricing throughout our organization; avoid the need to utilize third party software or Excel pricing sheets; allows for one area to select price book, solutions, dating terms, and/or discounts, and a faster/effective way of creating proposals.
- 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 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We've had Quote Quickly for about four years now, and use it for quoting all of our products. It solves, very well, complex quote builds and versioning, and almost all other quote related activities.
- 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
September 09, 2015
Great tool that is making everyone's lives a LOT easier!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Steelbrick is being used directly by our sales team and our finance and executive teams are receiving information out of it. We have a very complicated setup in terms of products and pricing. All of my company's contracts have just slightly different terms (i.e. product 3 is 25% of the sum of products 2 and 3 for client one but 30% for client two but 20% with a $5000 minimum for client 3). With some creative problem solving assistance from our implementation team, we were able to make it so that our Sales team only sees the products associated with each client and gets all of the product calculations to function appropriately. What this means is that we have reduced the opportunity for error to virtually zero while also drastically reducing the amount of time sales has to wait for answers about pricing and the amount of time it takes to actually build/calculation costs.
- 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.
September 01, 2015
SteelBrick elevates our sales organization to look and be efficient
Our Commercial Sales Team is using the solution. Sales associates collect information about a building project, and the information needed to initiate a proposal for HVAC solutions. The solution is a good fit for our needs, which includes: multiple versions of an online price book for different customer segments, the Quote builder and proposal document generator, including multiple versions of a Quote for internal and customer reference, and integration with SalesForce.com workflows for pricing or proposal approval. The application has improved sales productivity, as well as organized data for market and business analytics.
- 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.
March 27, 2015
Steelbrick from a beginner's perspective
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Steelbrick CPQ is being used by the sales department as the primary quoting and configuration tool.
- 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.