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Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)

Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)

Overview

What is Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)?

Sugar Sell from SugarCRM is a collaborative CRM, allowing users to track and monitor activities, map each customer’s journey and automate as many workflows as you need to. Sugar Sell is presented by the vendor as lean, fast and integratable…

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Recent Reviews

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SugarCRM is a versatile tool that is widely used across organizations for managing customer relationships, sales opportunities, and …
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Af

6 out of 10
May 28, 2021
Incentivized
[Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)] is being used as a trial currently to fill in the gaps that salesforce crm cannot do and will hopefully take over …
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Sugar Cell Review

7 out of 10
December 17, 2019
Incentivized
My consulting company has implemented SugarCRM as a resource in multiple client organizations. It is used by numerous departments …
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SugarCRM - great product

7 out of 10
December 13, 2018
Incentivized
We use SugarCRM as a central platform for all teams which allows us to be more efficient internally and externally. We use this CRM to …
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Popular Features

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  • Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail) (28)
    9.0
    90%
  • Custom fields (28)
    9.0
    90%
  • Customer data management / contact management (31)
    8.8
    88%
  • Interaction tracking (29)
    7.1
    71%
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Pricing

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Essentials

$49

Cloud
per month per user (3 user minimum, 5 user maximum)

Sugar Enterprise

$85

On Premise
per month per user (billed annually)

Advanced

$85

Cloud
per month per user (3 user minimum)

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.sugarcrm.com/pricing

Offerings

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

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $147 per month 3 users
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Features

Sales Force Automation

This is the technique of using software to automate certain sales-related tasks.

8.2
Avg 7.7

Customer Service & Support

This component of CRM software automates help desk, call center and field service management.

8.2
Avg 7.5

Marketing Automation

This component of CRM software helps to automate and scale marketing tasks and the subsequent analysis of those efforts.

7.9
Avg 7.6

CRM Project Management

This component of CRM software helps users initiate, plan, collaborate on, execute, track, and close projects.

8.9
Avg 7.6

CRM Reporting & Analytics

Reporting and analytics in CRM software includes sales forecasting, pipeline analysis, and automated dashboards.

8.7
Avg 7.6

Customization

This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.

8.8
Avg 7.6

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

8.5
Avg 8.3

Social CRM

This component of CRM software helps companies leverage social media in engaging with customers.

8.2
Avg 7.3

Integrations with 3rd-party Software

This involves the CRM software’s ability to integrate with other systems, whether external or homegrown.

8
Avg 7.2

Platform

8.1
Avg 7.5
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Product Details

Sugar Sell (SugarCRM) Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Sugar Sell from SugarCRM is a collaborative CRM, allowing users to track and monitor activities, map each customer’s journey and automate as many workflows as you need to. Sugar Sell is presented by the vendor as lean, fast and integratable with anything. Sugar Sell replaces former editions of the SugarCRM product, including the SugarCRM Community Edition, the open source edition, which is discontinued.

Sugar Sell (SugarCRM) starts at $147.

Insightly, Zoho CRM, and Pipedrive are common alternatives for Sugar Sell (SugarCRM).

Reviewers rate Billing and invoicing management and Single sign-on capability highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of Sugar Sell (SugarCRM) are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

(246)

Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

SugarCRM is a versatile tool that is widely used across organizations for managing customer relationships, sales opportunities, and tracking marketing campaigns. Users appreciate its flexibility and cost-effectiveness compared to competitors like Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics. With SugarCRM, users can efficiently manage prospects, sales stages, and customer interactions by providing a central source of information. The software offers features like in-line editing that minimize clicks, making it easy to use and navigate. The Sugar Mobile app provides flexibility for users in both desk and field settings, allowing them to track interactions with clients and improve follow-up efforts. Overall, SugarCRM proves to be an invaluable asset for sales teams, helping them manage leads, track the entire sales process, and increase win ratios.

Additionally, the software is utilized for CRM purposes, client follow-up, managing client issues, tracking applications, determining eligibility, managing payments in publicly funded preschool programs, relationship management, accounting, and much more. It also maximizes sales and marketing efforts by providing a centralized platform for managing contacts, leads, and sales opportunities. With automation capabilities, analytics tools, and efficient workflow management features, SugarCRM proves to be suitable for most businesses. It aids in generating and monitoring tasks while offering personalized support. By using SugarCRM, businesses can identify products of interest to customers and enable more specific advertising. Furthermore, the software provides a single tool to view all information related to current and prospective customers.

Sales departments find SugarCRM particularly helpful as it simplifies sales management by allowing users to make notes and track contact with prospects. With this tool in place, businesses can avoid multiple sales representatives working on the same account. Users have also implemented SugarCRM for marketing automation purposes such as monitoring customer journeys and creating quotes. Moreover, consulting companies benefit from SugarCRM's ability to consolidate client information, track vendor contacts, manage projects efficiently while keeping track of sales and marketing initiatives. For larger departments handling various clients or accounts managers experiencing high turnover, SugarCRM helps stay in touch with customers, mitigates turnover, and avoids re-explaining client discussions to new account managers. The software is also widely used to track leads and customers across the whole organization, providing a central repository for all customer data. It serves as an excellent tool for sales teams to track leads, convert them into accounts, clients, and ultimately track income from projects. Additionally, SugarCRM solves the problem of lack of accounting for certain types of work. Some businesses even prefer SugarCRM as a lightweight alternative to Salesforce CRM for tracking and managing leads and customer accounts. It fills in the gaps of Salesforce CRM and provides a reliable source of truth for other software companies. Overall, SugarCRM has proven to be a valuable tool for businesses of all sizes and industries, offering a wide range of use cases to effectively manage customer relationships, sales processes, marketing campaigns, and more. Its user-friendly interface, flexibility, customization options, and cost-effectiveness make it a popular choice among users. Whether it's tracking leads and prospects, managing customer interactions, automating sales and marketing processes, or providing a centralized platform for data management, SugarCRM has proven to be a versatile solution that helps businesses streamline their operations and maximize their revenue potential.

Customization Capabilities: Many users have praised SugarCRM for its customization capabilities, stating that it allows them to tailor the software to their specific needs and workflows. This has been particularly beneficial in streamlining operations and incorporating larger initiatives, making their companies more efficient.

Intuitive User Interface: Reviewers have consistently highlighted the intuitive user interface of SugarCRM, noting that it is user-friendly and has a nice layout. The easy navigation and clear organization of information make it simple for users to find what they need quickly and efficiently.

Reporting Capabilities: Several users have commended SugarCRM's reporting capabilities, considering them to be much better than their previous solutions. They appreciate the ease of use and intuitiveness of generating reports, allowing them to access valuable insights about their sales activities and performance.

Reporting Capability: Users have consistently mentioned that the reporting capability of SugarCRM is lacking and in need of improvement. Many users have expressed frustration with the limited capabilities for more complex reporting, stating that while it may be adequate for basic reports, it falls short when it comes to advanced functionalities.

System Downtime: Numerous users have experienced frequent system downtime, which has negatively impacted their productivity. This issue has been mentioned by a significant number of reviewers and highlights the reliability concerns associated with using SugarCRM.

Support Responsiveness: Users have repeatedly stated that support from SugarCRM is unresponsive unless there is a complete system outage or impairment. While initial response times may be satisfactory, many users have complained about delays in receiving solutions to their issues, especially when further explanation is required.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Jay Moore | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SugarCRM is very flexible, and, since we have direct access to the underlying data, it is not too bad to integrate with other systems. If you want it as an email campaign platform, then I would look elsewhere or think about integrating with a tool that is better suited to do that.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It can be used as an end to end CRM tool. It has all features for lead management, opportunity tracking, contact management, analytics etc. It is more suited for small to mid sized companies. It's not the best CRM if your requirements are heavy in terms of workflow management as lacks some advanced features present in other CRMs.
May 28, 2021

Af

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think [Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)] is well suited for small to medium sized businesses it seems to lack a true enterprise feel and I doubt it’s capabilities if your company is exceeding either 100M in revenue or, more than 450 employees. Other than that[,] it is an affordable crm if a company does not want to invest in an enterprise crm like a salesforce. I would recommend [Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)] to all my medium to small sized network accounts to use.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sugar allows us to keep récords of the clients that the company has, such as new inbounds that are coming in hot or clients that you have to follow up with. These last couple of updatees that the system has made have been real helpfull. Especially being able to link a phone system to the system and be able to dial out quicker.
March 23, 2021

SugarCRM for Taxes

Joshua Willemse | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The way Community Tax uses Sugar from a users point of view is, it can house a lot of information for either a company or individual with the option of adding additional sub cases . The down side is there are licenses issued per user and 1 per user is not enough because most of the time we are multitasking. Therefore a program/software would be more suitable instead of using a URL.
Perla V. Ordonez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SugarCRM is well suited to doing exactly what it is meant for, for managing my pipeline. It has a function that I have never had before that I believe that has helped me being successful within my role. I am easily able to use when the last time I had contact with a client/prospect. Every lead I have is important and this helps me ensure I am following up with all of my prospects.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sugar Sell is an excellent system in our company since it allows us to share information between the different work departments. It helps us when the client calls us, no matter who answers, [they] will be able to provide the correct attention because the client's information will be sent to the Mac and I can also update it. I could improve the system for scheduling appointments, but it works well.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's actally great to be able to integrate the phone function, but at the same time, it's not a good idea to be able to "refresh" the website if you are on a phone call, there should be an alert or something to stop you from doing it. Or, a pop up alert saying "you are about to leave the page, phonecall will end".
March 09, 2021

SugarCRM Experience.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's great to follow up with clients, schedule call backs, send SMS, record calls, billing and many other functions.
Easy to understand and also allows companies to customize in order to succeed all the expectations and needs.

I don't like that you need to keep deleting cache in order to work properly.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If your organization has needs or requirements that it seems cannot be met by the industry leaders in CRM, I would urge you to talk to Sugar Sell (SugarCRM). They bent over backwards to work with different groups of people within our company to prove to them how committed they were to making the product work for us. It seamlessly integrates with our email and other applications we use frequently. And they helped us configure detailed reporting for our very complex sales territories and organizational structure.

If you are looking for a very basic CRM tool that doesn't require much configuration, Sugar will still work for you, but you certainly have other options.
Edward Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The product has an excellent development model. Excellent integration with SQL. It can be customized to meet business requirements, it is cost effective and architectural integration is flexible, I like being able to create a new opportunity directly from an Outlook email and the fact that it can be implemented on the site, allowing additional flexibility with integration to other systems. On the other hand it is not so easy to use or robust compared to other CRMs that we have used, in addition to the fact that sometimes it is slow and not all modules work in the same way, for example, not being able to mass import the budget module, or lack of scanning in the document module.
December 17, 2019

Sugar Cell Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SugarCRM is well suited for medium-sized businesses with semi-integrated departments to keep everyone on the same page and allow integration with other applications to streamline the process of managing customer relationships. I feel that SugarCRM would be less suited for multinational companies that need stronger visualization and customization, with good support, for their businesses.
Kelly Wasden | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SugarCRM can make sense in some scenarios where it is somewhat cheap to deploy and get up and running. Don't be fooled by simplicity though, because you might need to hire an outside source to come in and configure it all properly for you which isn't the cheapest thing ever. For smaller sales teams, I think SugarCRM can and really has gotten the job done for us. However, as the team scales and more reports are needed, I find it very hard to recommend as a CRM when there are SO many other better choices out there. Reports are a mess, their mobile app is terrible, and their opportunity conversion is an absolute joke and needs some serious UI/UX re-tooling.
December 13, 2018

SugarCRM - great product

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When our company got acquired in early 2018 we had various sales teams located globally. Some of the teams did not use a CRM. With SugarCRM we were able to streamline all reporting, communication and accountability among the teams. The CRM has helped us ensure the teams are not targeting the same clients and doing double work. Additionally since teams are in various timezones the activity tracking is extremely helpful to give a snapshot of the latest status with the account and how close we are to the sale. Without this CRM we would be extremely messy and on different pages with each sales team.
Emma McCarthy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's well suited for tracking and managing customer relationships. We also find that it's well suited for tracking program eligibility. We use it to manage over 6000 applications for publicly-funded preschool programs, as well as the entire communication flow with both families and preschool providers who engage with our program. It does well if you have a few different customer groups that interact with one another - it allows you to track your communication with these groups, as well as their relationships with one another.
Peter Fletcher | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sugar is an excellent product that covers the CRM needs for most organisations, large or small. Its low cost, flexibility and ease of use make it stand out in a very cluttered market. For mobile teams, Sugar Mobile is a free IOS/Android App that is superb.

Ease of customisation and administration mean our clients can control their own destiny if they wish to. This ease of use helps significantly reduce Sugar's TCO sine external consultants are not required to make the system changes that Clients want on a regular basis.
December 12, 2017

Sugar CRM Is Pretty Sweet

Zeke Becerra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SugarCRM is great for keeping track of your interactions with your customers and prospects, both from the standpoint of logging activity manually (calls, emails, etc.) and linking it with a marketing automation tool. I think for someone who is not a Sugar admin, reporting can be time-consuming. As a Territory Manager, I want creating a new report to be easy, fast, and accurate. SugarCRM provides accurate reports, but I haven't found creating them to be easy or fast.
August 17, 2016

Sugar CRM Review

Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Small businesses may find use of the application because it's low cost. Or companies that have a pretty straightforward sales process and won't require a lot of heavy customization. Heavy customization is fine in the framework, however you need a skilled developer to be able to manage it.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I think Sugar is the kind of thing that can be used out of the box but shouldn't. We needed help to go back and rethink the design of it for our organization and once we did that, it became a better solution.
Marc Prince | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We all have Sugar on our computers and mobile devices. Workflows are dedicated to ensuring Sugar is always up to date. Now, when I am in the field, or meeting with a client on their premises, I have all the information on my phone. Many of my closings are done in the moment.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I believe with proper support a more complex sales force would appreciate SugarCRM. Simpler sales operations or those who do not have backend support might want to look at a simpler product. Social and marketing is underdeveloped at this point. Other products offer more if you are looking to integrate.
April 08, 2016

SugarCRM Review

Aaron Fisher | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SugarCRM is a great fit for a company that wants the features of Salesforce but not the price, or if you need to be able to host the CRM yourself for security or customization purposes. Finally I would recommend SugarCRM to a company that plans on having an outside "Sugar Partner" set up the CRM and perform regular maintenance as opposed to handling it in house.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
SugarCRM is so flexible than can be adapted to handle multiple Industries and customized processes, for developers, the configuration is very intuitive and for end users the overall experience is positive since end users can customize their own dashboards or request changes to the way workflows and notification are handled throughout the system. Several business processes can be implemented for Sales, HR, Facilities etc.
Chin Uba (MBA, MSc, MCITP, MCSE) | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is a very stable CRM and that is what it is! However, I will recommend it more for businesses in healthcare, manufacturing, IT, accounting and logistics. In fact any business where there is a need to keep customer records in a pliable way and be ready for retrieval is where SugarCRM plays well.
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