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Freshsales vs Zoho CRM comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Freshsales
Ranking in CRM
23rd
Ranking in Opportunity Management
7th
Ranking in Sales Force Automation
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
CRM Customer Engagement Centers (8th)
Zoho CRM
Ranking in CRM
5th
Ranking in Opportunity Management
3rd
Ranking in Sales Force Automation
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the CRM category, the mindshare of Freshsales is 1.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zoho CRM is 3.8%, down from 5.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Cristina Neri - PeerSpot reviewer
Cheaply-priced and does not require much customizations
It is a scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten. At the moment, the tool functions quite well for our needs. Around five people use the tool. In the future, my company might plan to increase the use of the solution. Currently, all the sales people in our company use the product.
Yogesh Kumar Mali - PeerSpot reviewer
A highly stable solution that allows customization and data sharing
We can customize the solution the way we want to. We built a ChatGPT extension. It has some capabilities of building its own widgets with respect to CRM. We can integrate it with any web application. We also created SalesInbox, which is a mailing feature. We can set up our mailbox with Zoho CRM. We get updates from Zoho CRM whenever we send out an email. It tells us whether the person viewed the email or clicked on any links. One of the best features of the solution is data sharing. We can create our own rules even if we have configured the standard rules. We can have a different rule setup where we can assign rules based on value and give data-sharing permissions.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Freshsales is user-friendly, scalable and stable."
"I like Freshsales because it's integrated with Shopify which we use to host our website."
"Email integration is easy."
"The solution is a low-cost CRM product compared to other CRM alternatives."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its well-organized sales cycle, which is important to us."
"Freshsales is very simple to use, but it's fairly limited in its functionalities, and it's very cheap."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to divert deals based on the potential revenue or specific market to certain sales teams."
"The most valuable solution of Zoho CRM is lead management and analytics. It has a powerful analytics tool."
"I am impressed with the product's information on customers."
"The user interface, especially the dashboard, offers good navigation."
"We use the solution for different projects. We use it to patch lead details from clients' sources."
"Zoho CRM has been a really good product. From a basic CRM perspective, we use it to maintain the details of our company's customers."
"The whole forecasting and pipeline management is very good."
"What I like most about Zoho CRM is its configurability. We can adapt it to our needs in terms of the sales process. It has automation capabilities, but we mostly use it as a static system, except for sending emails and information about updated products."
"Highly configurable, enabling graphically built workflows, and the writing of customized scripts if required."
 

Cons

"The price of this solution could be improved as well as the reporting functionality."
"The licensing costs should be based on the amount of data and number of clients that one can insert into the application."
"We have a problem with the time to delivery for our customers, although this is not specific to this solution. Time to delivery can be 90 days."
"It lacks customizability for complex and larger use cases."
"We can use only one domain in the basic package."
"The reporting for this solution across all their products could be improved. Currently, we have clients who export their data from Freshservices to third party solutions such Power BI to create more comprehensive reports."
"The solution needs to improve the user experience and leads capture."
"It would be useful to have some way of mapping organizations that could add more value. If I have X company's database and am trying to create multiple contexts for different entities of the same company, I should be able to map it in such a way that I can see the organization chart."
"Zoho CRM’s customer service can be a little difficult to reach sometimes."
"The solution's feature for forecast has limitations."
"I would like to see better integration with Zoho Creator."
"This solution needs a more user-friendly interface."
"The only thing I noticed was that it does not support multi-country operations. In Canada, for example, we do not use the term "state," but rather "province," and we do not use zip codes, but rather "postal codes.""
"We'd like the solution to be less expensive."
"They should provide an option to customize modules."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Freshsales is an economical product."
"The basic price is affordable. The add ons are expensive."
"If one is a very low price and ten is expensive, I rate the product price as a three."
"The price for this solution is good in general, but in Brazil we do pay additional taxes."
"The tool is not that expensive."
"I rate the product a four out of ten. The cost for Zoho CRM is not fixed; different editions are available, and the features depend on the edition chosen. Some capabilities, such as integrating with workflows, might incur additional costs, but these are well-documented and not hidden."
"I have no information about the pricing for Zoho CRM because the finance department handles that."
"Compared to other CRMs, it is very cheap."
"There is a license required for this solution."
"On a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price and ten is a low price, I rate the pricing a five. However, the pricing is fine because we chose the enterprise plan as a private limited company."
"Zoho CRM has a subscription-based license, which is not too expensive."
"Zoho CRM is available at a fairly average price"
"This solution is less expensive than Salesforce."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
25%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
10%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Educational Organization
82%
Computer Software Company
3%
Financial Services Firm
2%
Government
1%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Freshsales?
Freshsales is very simple to use, but it's fairly limited in its functionalities, and it's very cheap.
What needs improvement with Freshsales?
The licensing costs should be based on the amount of data and number of clients that one can insert into the application. The number of clients in the tool is 500, which is less in number.
What is your primary use case for Freshsales?
I use the solution in my company since we are interested in the application and all the activities that salespeople do. We track the email, then the appointment, and the feedback from the appointme...
What do you like most about Zoho CRM?
Zoho CRM integrates easily with customer service workflows.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zoho CRM?
The tool started out quite cheap. It's had some changes with small and medium business subscriptions, but it's still worth the price. I'd say it's priced a bit below the medium range.
What needs improvement with Zoho CRM?
The main area for improvement is how the solution handles leads. Leads are separated and always tied to a contact, which makes it difficult to maintain leads within a company. This could be handled...
 

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