Hubspot was not my choice, nor would it be
September 12, 2019

Hubspot was not my choice, nor would it be

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with HubSpot CRM

We use HubSpot across our organization for sales, marketing and customer success to track our prospective and current accounts along with their respective contacts, deals etc. We've lightly implemented workflow, mostly along marketing for tracking of activity and conversion with our website. We recently hired a central administrator who sits in the marketing department.

Pros

  • Cheap
  • Easy to deploy
  • Integration with gmail

Cons

  • Reports and Dashboards lack any ability to customize
  • Interface is horrible for sales reps to review account activity, everything gets nested requiring multiple clicks to open threads.
  • Reports cannot be scheduled and sent via email.
  • My entire team grumbles about HubSpot CRM. Nobody likes to use it, but it's what we have.
I didn't select HubSspot CRM, but I have used Salesforce and Siebel in prior roles, and even Siebel with its complexities was more efficient than HubSpot. Salesforce is the big player in CRM for a reason, which I would say is the ease of which you can customize and adapt it to your organization's needs. If you're needs are simple and you can work with an out-of-box CRM, HubSpot might be for you but my bet is you'll be looking to eventually switch off of it.
If you don't have a lot of money, HubSpot would be your choice, I guess. I spend more time wrestling with HubSpot CRM than actual deriving value from it. If you are serious about driving and reporting on sales, bite the bullet and go with Salesforce, which can integrate the HubSpot marketing function.

HubSpot CRM Feature Ratings

Customer data management / contact management
4
Workflow management
Not Rated
Territory management
4
Opportunity management
4
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)
10
Contract management
4
Quote & order management
Not Rated
Interaction tracking
4
Channel / partner relationship management
Not Rated
Case management
7
Call center management
7
Help desk management
7
Lead management
Not Rated
Email marketing
Not Rated
Task management
Not Rated
Billing and invoicing management
Not Rated
Reporting
Not Rated
Forecasting
4
Pipeline visualization
4
Customizable reports
2
Custom fields
5
Custom objects
1
Scripting environment
1
API for custom integration
Not Rated
Role-based user permissions
7
Single sign-on capability
Not Rated
Not Rated
Mobile access
Not Rated

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