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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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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It has really helped us to maximize our sales and marketing efforts. All our info regarding sales opportunities, accounts, contacts, leads, etc are under one platform allowing us to get visibility into our sales efforts and pipeline. Also by automating most of the tasks by setting up workflows helps a lot in saving time and making the process efficient. It is very easy to use and very affordable and also well suited for most businesses. It covers most of the important functionalities required in any CRM like workflow automation, analytics, leads and contacts management, etc. Overall it is a very robust and scalable CRM in the market for small to mid size businesses.
May 28, 2021

Af

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 the large number of duplicate accounts that are in sfdc currently. [Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)] is used by other software companies as well and I was tasked to get the crm and see if it could add value to where salesforce is lacking and that’s the source of the truth.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sugar is the main program for our company. It's used across the whole oganization. At the momento we've had small issues such as sometimes it would get stuck or at times certain information was not available on the right hand side at the time of putting notes on a case.
March 23, 2021

SugarCRM for Taxes

Joshua Willemse | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Community Tax has been using SugarCRM for almost three years now and it is being used for the entire company. We use this platform to attend individuals and businesses with income tax problems from; filing taxes, amending taxes and resolving tax debts so that our team can access the issue within the same platform.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This system is used by several departments within the company, and this allows each department to have knowledge and control over the situation of our client. With this, each person who can open the information of our client will know what the problem is and the history of the customer and in this way to be able to offer a correct service and attention.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use [Sugar Sell (SugarCRM)] to manage all the leads of all the customers. It's basically a data base for the company. All the company uses it. For each customer we attend, there is a lead with the specifics on that case (customer). Some of our mates have already integrated the phone calls directly on the CRM, there is now a widget for Genesys (phone).
March 09, 2021

SugarCRM Experience.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Sugar [Sell (SugarCRM)] all over the company, what we like the most it that it's customizable to your business needs.
It's a nice tool that allows to record all the calls and send SMS easy and quick, it lets you have a detailed record of all your clients, user friendly.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company has multiple product lines, each with their own sales teams. Since each sales team is managed separately, CRM tools have historically been used very differently by each team. We have been through multiple big-name CRM tools. What eventually happens is that product use drops to almost zero because the tool cannot meet the needs of everyone. Sugar Sell has solved that problem for us.
Edward Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SugarCRM is being used in our team to generate and monitor tasks and also to manage our business needs, such as offering an administration portal for personalized support and sales and marketing automation, creating automated workflows as an administrator, and now the documentation is much easier because each user places the information in a centralized place and registers the contact with the buyers, and we have realized that this keeps our business organized.
December 17, 2019

Sugar Cell Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My consulting company has implemented SugarCRM as a resource in multiple client organizations. It is used by numerous departments including sales, vendor management, and others. It is used as a tool to consolidate and clearly view information on clients and their needs within the company. It addresses the need to have client information (business details, point of contact, location) located in a simple, easy interface.
Kelly Wasden | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using SugarCRM in its most basic form, for sales account management, and have recently started using it more for post sales and customer support. We track lead flow and where they were generated, reports for some mild forecasting, as well as all lifecycles of the sales process. We currently are using it for tracking converted leads, opportunity creation, upsell opportunities, and account management from our Customer Service team.
Rick Giddings | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
SugarCRM is the staple of our sales floor. This application makes my life easy from a sales management standpoint. SugarCRM allows all users to make notes from each time contact is made to a prospect, log the time and date, and keep it assigned to that specific user. This formula can help avoid having multiple sales reps working on the same account/prospect and ultimately eliminate any confusion. Sales managers can check in on any quotes for their teams to help create a funnel that doesn't get pushed to the side.
This application can also easily be manipulated into the way your company needs it most. We implement new functions to the dashboard frequently with ease. Customer support is always prompt as well.
December 13, 2018

SugarCRM - great product

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 house internal information and build reports on my team's sales funnel in terms of prospects and warm leads to closed accounts. We have various sales teams globally so its helped us scale while streamlining reporting and communication among the teams. It also helps ensure all teams are maintaining their client pipeline with a intelligence behind it which is helpful for management.
Emma McCarthy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SugarCRM as our primary tool in tracking applications, determining eligibility, and managing payments for children in publicly funded preschool programs. Although it was primarily designed as a sales tool, we use it less as for sales (given that we are not a sales organization) and more as a relationship management and accounting tool. We have a very small team (10 people total), but we all use Sugar on a daily basis.
Peter Fletcher | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have worked with Sugar for many clients ranging in size from 2 to over 300 CRM Users.

Sugar is extremely flexible and cost effective compared to its competitors like Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics.

Sugar covers the whole customer life cycle from Lead through Sales and on-going Support and Marketing. It is easy to use and has many features like in-line editing that keep Clicks to a minmum. Most tasks can be one with two or three clicks.

Sugar Mobile gives a very strong mobile app to give users complete flexibility whether at their desk or in the field.

December 12, 2017

Sugar CRM Is Pretty Sweet

Zeke Becerra | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Sugar across the organization in many ways: to manage marketing automation, customer journey, and our quotes. My use of Sugar is completely sales-related. I use it to manage my customers and prospects in the way a CRM is traditionally used--logging communication and activities with them in the CRM. I also create and manage quotes in Sugar and that makes managing my forecast/pipeline easy to do.
August 17, 2016

Sugar CRM Review

Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The marketing and sales department used it for the tracking of vendor contacts, partnerships, trade show contacts and lead vendors. We also used it to track project management for different sales and marketing initiatives. In the system, emails were tracked against contacts. New opportunities for projects and trade shows were also managed. For all of these different functions, we had simple workflow actions that made notifications for certain business events and triggers. We also used the system for sales and marketing reporting on ROI and forecasting for sales.
Marc Prince | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Sugar is being used by the whole organization. We use it primarily to track all of our interactions with our clients. We can now monitor the entire sales funnel. One of the biggest process failures was in our followup with the client. Know what the conversation and pain points are with each contact has greatly increased our win ratio.
April 08, 2016

SugarCRM Review

Aaron Fisher | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I reviewed multiple enterprise CRMs to find which would fit our company the best. SugarCRM was one of those. My review consisted of actively testing each CRM for about 2 weeks, attempting detailed customizations, testing the workflow processes and evaluating the overall usability of the system. At the end of my review there were two CRMs that ultimately met our requirements, SugarCRM and Salesforce.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
SugarCRM is being used as the main engine to support Sales, it starts with adding Leads, upon further analysis and contact with the leads, those leads get converted into Opportunities, SugarCRM is very flexible and efficient at handling this process due to the workflow integration where approvals and notifications can be set. Opportunities then can be closely tracked, upon further client management, the goal is to transform, those Opportunities into actual accounts, that is signing contracts and again execute and keep track of all the workflows within SugarCRM, that involves the interaction with several other departmewnts in the company that are connected through SugarCRM to produce documentation, notifications and Approvals to bring in new accounts into our sales system in SugarCRM.
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