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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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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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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I love to use Sugar Sell because it's more user friendly, has more information spred out, a lot faster to use. Looks a lot more updates as well. Can have different tabs open without a problem. Let's management control different information being able to be saved for the sales Department.
March 23, 2021

SugarCRM for Taxes

Joshua Willemse | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SugarCRM is a lot better in many ways then LogicsCRM which I started using when I started as a sales rep at Community Tax. Yet there is still room for a lot of improvements to accommodate a steady workflow. They integration of old CRM files seems to have worked great from Logics to Sugar.
Perla V. Ordonez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I work in sales and the other programs I have used were suited for customer service. The ability to track my client in all stages of the sale is key. I quickly see the payment that has been run and payments that were declined for the day. Making it faster for me to call clients as with most sales job, time is important.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is the first time that I have worked with a system like Sugar, but it has facilitated the work experience. It is practical, helps with the maintenance of the information of our clients, and does an excellent job keeping the system and the information of the clients updated. [All this] helps us provide better service to our customers.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used similar platforms, but they are not listed here because these were developed by companies i have worked with, as in, their own staff developed them or bought the license and it's not listed here, the last one was FRONT2GO.
March 09, 2021

SugarCRM Experience.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Well actually this is the first time that I use a CRM like this, I used to work in a different industry.
But I can say that the change was really smooth and I'm happy with the experience overall, it was easy to understand and get used to it.
I can see why companies like this CRM.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sugar Sell is the only product we found that met the needs of everyone involved in the evaluation process. It can be customized to accomplish just about anything you need, and trust me....we pushed the limits on that. It is a product that our users actually enjoy using which in itself contributes to productivity. We used other CRM tools in the past, and the discontent from our users resulted in consistently declining use and ultimately dropping those products.
Kelly Wasden | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We selected SugarCRM from a startup mentality when, in reality, we should have bitten the bullet and opted for something like Copper. Copper is 100% the CRM of choice that is integrated into G-Suite for businesses. I would even take Zoho over Sugar, having implemented it previously. They have tried to give their UI a face lift, but it isn't something that is conducive to a productive workflow in my opinion.
December 13, 2018

SugarCRM - great product

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Overall I'd say SugarCRM is a great product. It has some issues here and there with some of the reporting and not having all reporting metrics I'd like but overall its a good product compared to some of the other ones I've used. I would like some of their UI and features to be updated though similar to SFDC. It would be nice to also add some additional visualizations for the reporting as this is often helpful for my team and exec team to review overall progress, growth and trends.

The flexibility is great on all user levels, there is also mobile and desktop access which is great since I travel alot and work from my phone often.

I would suggest this product.
Emma McCarthy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used a number of built-from-scratch, customized database software packages. I like the strength of Sugar's backbone, and that it offers tremendous reporting capabilities right off the bat. I also appreciate how flexible it is - it can truly be used for a variety of different business cases. I can see how it would be a powerful tool in a sales arsenal, but we use it for eligibility determination and payment tracking, which is just as effective.
Peter Fletcher | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Sugar is easier to deploy and use with much a better TCO than Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics. It is much easier to use than its competition, in general, bothe from an end user and an administration viewpoint. It's very simple Licensing Model is easy to understand being user based and including all the tools and Sugar Mobile for a single dollar figure. No extra costs for things like API usage, Workflow tools, Microsoft Office integraition.
August 17, 2016

Sugar CRM Review

Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Analytics Cloud was much more than we needed for reporting so it didn't make sense to pay the cost for SFDC just for that feature. Callidus Cloud Marketing Automation was very marketing centric and didn't fit our business process as well; would have required more customization than SugarCRM.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sugar is a legacy product for us and given the amount of history and data we have in it, we didn't look too seriously at switching. We decided that despite its flaws, it was still a better decision for us to stick with Sugar and simply bring in a consultant who could help us optimize the system for what we needed. It's been a work in progress but we are satisfied with our decision to continue on with it.
Marc Prince | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We saw a lot of the same desirable features in both platforms. Although Salesforce offered a greater level of support, we did not think it was worth the extra spend, at the end of the day. We have had to do a bit more leg work when it comes to social media intelligence, but in the end our spend on Sugar was less than what Salesforce was offering.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I inherited this decision and did not have an opportunity to shop. I would have gone with a less expensive product with more built-in marketing integration and better campaign email capabilities. However our executives appreciate the reporting function and I believe this was why the decision was made to go with SugarCRM before my time.
April 08, 2016

SugarCRM Review

Aaron Fisher | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We ultimately selected Salesforce due to the issues faced with SugarCRM however I would recommend SugarCRM to any company that doesn't plan on managing the CRM in house. The costs associated with hiring a Sugar Partner and purchasing multiple licenses are still going to be lower than Salesforce costs most likely and you'll have the same functionality. However if you want a CRM that can be managed in house without a steep learning curve SugarCRM is not the way to go.
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
HubSpot is considerably better than Sugar, but we don't use the CRM to the fullest extent. We used another CRM that was much better (and program-based, not cloud-based/web-based), but I can't for the life of me remember the name of it. It was better as it was easier to search, use, and track leads/clients. However, Sugar it was easier to tag clients by company, which was a bit of a hassle in the other CRM. So at least it has that going for it.
February 12, 2016

Queen of the Details

Marissa Schuchat | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have used BMC FootPrints for similar internal IT service tracking and I found updates to be slow. The home page/user interface was not as easy to grasp as SugarCRM's was. SugarCRM was already implemented in my previous organization when I arrived, and I was able to grasp its interface pretty quickly and easily. The fields are very descriptive and the dropdowns usually provide the answer I am looking for.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
More cost effective and allowed us to have it running on our own infrastructure instead of hosted by their servers. This allowed us to write custom code and modules for our specific business needs. Our sales team ended up hating SugarCRM and has moved off it completely and to Salesforce.com We are an odd company because we are using both tools in our organization.
September 29, 2015

Partner's view of SugarCRM

Jeff Bickart | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
I work for a SugarCRM partner and compete against Salesforce, MS Dynamics. We chose to become a SugarCRM partner because of the open nature of their software stack. Nothing is hidden from users or partners. We have full access to the source-code and can make any time of modification that we see fit to meet our business needs.
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