Bitrix24 vs. Sellsy

Bitrix24 is highly beneficial for teams that are geographically dispersed or working remotely. Its real-time communication tools, including instant messaging and video conferencing, enable seamless collaboration regardless of physical location. The centralized document management feature ensures that team members can easily access and collaborate on shared documents from anywhere, facilitating efficient teamwork in a remote or distributed environment.

I'm not sure here. I own an equipment rental business and it fits perfectly. I would say any business where inventory is a concern this would be a perfect operational platform.

• Huge opportunities for customization, integration with other services. Easy search for solutions to setup questions.
• The ability to write letters directly from the system with the help of a binding for working mail.
• The presence of an application for Android. This helps to get access anywhere.

Incentivized

• Appealing Design
• Easy to prepare invoices and send them
• Good tracking system
• Friendly support staff

• Malfunctions
• System impediments of leads
• Technical support is not competent
• No sync with mobile app
• Confusing interface takes time to sort out
• For the sales department, the system is badly sharpened - managers do not need to enter information in 2-3 clicks

Incentivized

• Training. The only real issue I have with Sellsy is that its got so many features its hard to understand them all. I looked for training videos and they are all in French. Thats a big problem for a guy who grew up in NJ.
• I would embed training videos directly into the software. This way as you add services, you get a full tutorial immediately.

It has become the central nervous system of the business and has constantly proven to be of value. We are not just renewing but might even upgrade to advanced Bitrix24 plans and will be adding more user licenses in the next 3 months. Bitrix24 has a sharper learning curve initially. However once it is surpassed, it opens doors to a range of creative deployment strategies

Incentivized

Sellsy ticks the most boxes for us. While it could still do a lot of things better there is no other single app that offers the same spectrum of features at a comparable price for SMEs.

This application is a complete scam and way over priced for what you are getting. They are filled full of false advertising and false statements regarding integrations. They claim to integrate with quickbooks and they DO NOT. This software accomplished nothing but making our day to day lives more difficult and wasted months of our time attempting to build out.

There is room for improvement.

I can't recall any instance of unplanned outages over the past 1 year of use. Likewise for application errors. However note that, advanced users will have a learning curve

Incentivized

We have not yet experienced any down time with sellsy.

Technical performance is 10/10 so far. Cannot comment about integrations since we currently haven't tested those

Incentivized

Sellsy is slow to load pages for us. Sometimes waiting a few seconds. This could be due to our geographical location.

It comes with a lot of features for managing customers relation for making a dynamic marketing strategy. Sharing and attaching any type of file makes our work much easier for our portfolio. I personally don’t like its customer service that needs to be vigilant and should know the way they should treat their clients

Based on our experience. We have submitted a large amount of tickets and they have proven the Sellsy development team have the ability to respond fast and implement changes reasonably quickly. (Updated July 2015)
It took sellsy a number of weeks to solve an issue with the billable hours section of their application. This delayed us from being able to invoice our client for completed works. Lots of small things like email tracking timestamps have never been fixed even though we highlighted this issue months ago. Though small it is growing more and more frustrating to be reminded every time we try to see what time a client read or opened an email from us.

Overall the training was very comprehensive. The trainer did provider necessary additional reading materials as well. However the general approach at Bitrix24 is to divert users to self-help documentation and videos. It is recommended that atleast 1-2 personnel in the organization be "Bitrix24 experts" so that lower phases of training requirements are covered internally itself. Also the best part about Bitrix24 is that not all users need to go very deep while using it. We have multiple counsellors who started using it on day 2 without any major hiccups

Incentivized

If you are importing data from a CSV, Sellsy recommends you use OpenOffice. OpenOffice is an absolute disaster on Windows 8 and crashes every few mins. While no fault of Sellsy they should not recommend software which makes an already challenging task even more difficult. A small gripe in hindsight but during the process was deeply frustrating. For any users looking to format your CSV Google, try importing CSV data into Excel and your life will be much more easy.

The plethora of features and also the beta ones like CRM Analytics, Sales center, and Online Store. I forgot you can also build an online store too. For the value, ease of use, features, this is one of the best to use. It's a time saver from changing from one app to another, just use one. It is a one-stop CRM. If you are a startup you can begin with this and then slowly get on a paying option. The free offers a lot too. This platform can grow with your business and help save time too.

Incentivized

Did not benchmark against others

The scalability and reliability is almost 9.5/10 to be honest. We istarted with Bitrix24 for just 2 functions and now have expanded its usage to 2 more. In terms of users, every full-time employee (FTE) now uses Bitrix24 without fail. We are also working on giving limited/partial access to external service providers

Incentivized

The license model once you understand it is very flexible allowing you to select from the modules within sellsy. This gives small companies control of the cost facilitating them with the option to only pay for the features they use.

• With Bitrix, we have been able to create projects from the start within the software. We have been able to access our workflow, chat notes, documents, etc- all from one place.
• The reporting feature is a favorite. It is very easy to create your own reports, download them and share them with others within your team. Depending on the division that you're reporting for, you can tailor Bitrix's reports to support your needs.
• The biggest negative has been the limited functionality of the mobile app. It would be nice to be able to do everything from mobile app, vs limited functionality. This would include creating all tasks, projects, making edits, etc. While capabilities are there, they are not as full as on the desktop version.

Incentivized

• Efficient tool to manage my contacts and stages.