Creatio vs. Salesforce Starter

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Creatio
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
Creatio is a provider of a no-code platform to automate industry workflows. The Creatio offering includes a no-code platform (Studio Creatio), along with CRM applications for Marketing, Sales, and Service, industry workflows for 20 verticals and marketplace add-ons. Marketing Creatio - a ready-to-use platform to automate marketing campaigns and lead management workflows with no-code and maximum degree of freedom. Sales Creatio - an end-to-end…
$25
per month per user
Salesforce Starter
Score 8.9 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Salesforce Starter (formerly Salesforce Essentials) is a small business CRM that replaces the former SalesforceIQ product. It is priced at $35 per user, on a monthly basis, or at $25 per month for if billed annually ($300) and can be tried free for 14 days on a trial.N/A
Pricing
CreatioSalesforce Starter
Editions & Modules
Growth
$25
per month per user
Enterprise
$55
per month per user
Unlimited
$85
per month per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CreatioSalesforce Starter
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsCreatio Sales, Creatio Marketing, and Creatio Service are available as add-ons for $15 per month, per user. Creatio AI is included in every tier of the Creatio platform (Growth, Enterprise, and Unlimited). Additional AI Tokens are available for $150 per pack. 5 user minimum.
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Community Pulse
CreatioSalesforce Starter
Considered Both Products
Creatio
Chose Creatio
Salesforce CMS, ClientTrack by Eccovia, CaseWorthy and Penelope
Chose Creatio
Creatio was both more affordable and easier to customize than Salesforce, if slightly less robust, and represented an easy decision when we made the switch.
Chose Creatio
We previously used Salesforce as our CRM. While it has great functionality, we found it to be cost prohibitive to always require consultants to configure and update as our business needs or processes changed. No other platform reviewed ticked as many boxes as we needed in its …
Chose Creatio
Creatio is miles ahead of Infor - now, looking back on Infor, it seems very dated and restricted. I love how you can work things out and change things yourself in Creatio. And if things are a bit more complicated, you have your dedicated team person to help you. We have …
Chose Creatio
Although we haven't totally removed Oracle CX Sales, it's less effective due to its outdated sales marketing capabilities unlike Creatio, which offers robust tools at a lower cost.
Chose Creatio
Sure, the low code approach is eating the world and [is] a powerful feature in this CRM. But training time and time for implementation could be much [longer] than expected.
Chose Creatio
We selected Creatio because it's the most optimal system for our current business requirements and their further scale [development]. Also, we valued the support of the vendor and the big community of implement teams.
Chose Creatio
One-stop-shop for your sales and service needs
Chose Creatio
[Creatio is] more flexible and much more economical.
Chose Creatio
Creatio provides powerful features at an affordable cost. It is easy to customize and set up. The user interface is intuitive. It is possible to set up business rules with an easy interface without writing code. The basic setup can be performed by a business user, without …
Chose Creatio
I had used this as an intern, didn't work much on it.
Chose Creatio
Creatio is much faster and more configurable than Salesforce. The first thing that I noticed when migrating from Salesforce to Creatio was how few clicks it took to record activity or create a new task. Similarly, the page loading speed is so much faster which saves me hours …
Chose Creatio
We selected Creatio to replace Hubspot because it was a better fit for our objectives.
Chose Creatio
For this customer, I've been choosing among AmoCRM, Insightly, Bitrix24, Zoho Bigin (and CRM) and many others. The choice of Creatio was predicted mostly by the fact, that the company was using Terrasoft CRM previously. So it was a safe decision and choice to have the same …
Chose Creatio
The system’s UI, rich functionality, and a great potential for scalability made the system stand out among other vendors. It is a fully-fledged solution that allowed us to work with customer data way more efficiently and improve our processes on a regular basis.
Chose Creatio
The user-friendliness of Creatio was a big selling point along with the low-code initiatives, both of which were important to our business. With Salesforce, unlimited wasn't really unlimited. You couldn't deploy an on-site instance and the overall cost of the system far …
Chose Creatio
Creatio stood out from other vendors in terms of both the system’s usability and robustness. We were impressed by the flexibility of customization that the system provides. On top of that, Creatio’s technical support is always very quick to respond and helpful.
Salesforce Starter
Chose Salesforce Starter
The Zoho system is free and gives a long trial product. The salesforce brand is well known, and I wanted to try a good European crm product. The account manager was South African and very friendly. The system was trained on a demo, whereas Zoho did not offer an account …
Chose Salesforce Starter
more expensive but as an industry leader and go, the learning curve pays for itself in ROI in lost time in onboarding
Chose Salesforce Starter
Salesforce Starter is exactly what it says. It's specific to getting a small business up and running effectively, without unnecessary development or internal overhead required. It doesn't allow for a ton of customization, but it provides more than most other providers across …
Chose Salesforce Starter
We selected SalesforceIQ over insightly because of the email automation they offered. Their app also seemed to be a little more robust. I highly recommend a trial before you make a decision. The trial with SalesforceIQ is what sold us on the product.
Features
CreatioSalesforce Starter
Low-Code Development
Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Product A and Product B
Creatio
8.9
Ratings
5% above category average
Salesforce Starter
-
Ratings
Platform Security8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform User Management8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Reusability8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Scalability8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Creatio
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
9.0
Ratings
15% above category average
Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Territory management00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Opportunity management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Quote & order management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Interaction tracking00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Creatio
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.8
Ratings
15% above category average
Lead management00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Creatio
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.8
Ratings
15% above category average
Task management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Creatio
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
9.0
Ratings
17% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Pipeline visualization00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Creatio
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.9
Ratings
17% above category average
Custom fields00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Custom objects00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Scripting environment00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
API for custom integration00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Creatio
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
9.4
Ratings
12% above category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Creatio
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.1
Ratings
10% above category average
Social engagement00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
Creatio
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.3
Ratings
12% above category average
Marketing automation00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Compensation management00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Creatio
-
Ratings
Salesforce Starter
8.6
Ratings
16% above category average
Mobile access00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
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CreatioSalesforce Starter
Small Businesses
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Salesmate
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Quixy
Quixy
Score 9.9 out of 10
Creatio
Creatio
Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
AppSheet
AppSheet
Score 9.0 out of 10
Creatio
Creatio
Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
CreatioSalesforce Starter
Likelihood to Recommend
9.7
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9.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(0 ratings)
9.4
(0 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
7.3
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.6
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CreatioSalesforce Starter
Likelihood to Recommend
Creatio is well suited in following scenarios: Complex Business process modelling and automation, Low code No code development which is best for efficient timelines, customized reporting and dashboarding, seamless integration with other technologies. Scenarios where Creatio is less appropriate: Solutions which require high cutomizations on the frontend side as this can be done by javascript modifications but it increases the load on the page and slows it down.
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SalesforceIQ is a perfect CRM to start with and get your organization used to tracking customer contact. It was an easy setup and well adopted. It allowed us to rollout completely in just 30 days. We have seen a large increase in our ability to communicate. It may be lacking in some items if you already have a tracking method but was the perfect starting point for us.
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Pros
  • Creatio's client success team is super. The team is collaborative, solution-oriented, and client-driven. We have weekly meetings with the team. They show up prepared with solutions/ideas to business requests and they are clearly engaged.
  • Creatio's infrastructure team has been critical to our ability to execute our cloud strategy. They have worked with us to set up our testing and production environments within Azure, assisted in testing, and are responsive and flexible to our unique requirements.
  • Creatio has been very flexible to requests for customization. We have taken their low-code out-of-the-box solution and "Ringlerized" it. The benefit for us is an application that meets our niche business needs.
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  • Sales CRM with built-in guidance and reminders to manage and track opportunities.
  • Self-service for customers and internal employee needs. Integrates forms and chatbots very easily into your existing website.
  • Guided setup with inherent flows to make transitioning from legacy systems to new age cloud-based technologies
  • Integrates with Outlook and Gmail extremely well. Includes the Salesforce Inbox mobile app to link records with calendar and email. Email reminders included automatically.
  • The Salesforce Mobile App comes with Starter, making it super easy to work on the go, even in remote areas.
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Cons
  • When we started using Creatio in 2022 the new user interface had just been released and did not include all the features we needed; however, we used a more classic user interface and were still satisfied with the results.
  • The ability to capture a digital signature directly within the application was missing in the base system; however, Creatio connected us with a partner that provided a solution for this specific situation.
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  • Table views can be sorted by column. Filters can be applied, but only to one column. Multi-column filtering like Excel allows would be extremely useful and a big improvement.
  • The ability to quick copy data in a table view would also be helpful, like (ctrl ') in excel.
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Likelihood to Renew
We have always used a CRM and Creatio has proven to be much more effective in meeting our needs than our previous provider. Its customizability will allow us to adapt this product as our business may change in the future.
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Usability
It's very user friendly, at least to me ;-) No downtime, quick with updates, lot's op possibilities and options to explore and work with. I also realy like to use the Creatio Academy, it's a bit much but in this case less is more is the opposite: the more the better
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easy to use, training is intuitive and can be peer taught if needed. Not overly complex so that users can get started within a very short period of time.
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Reliability and Availability
Other than the daily maintenance window where the server may be inaccessible for a few minutes, there have been no issues with accessing our Creatio site. The daily maintenance window is outside normal business hours so it does not affect our Users - just myself when I am looking to implement changes.
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Performance
Some Users have reported slow responses from the server at times which seems to be localized. Users are based across four different time zones and the issue is intermittent.
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Support Rating
Creatio support is generally very responsive and often responds much faster than the expected SLAs. We have very rarely had "blocking" problems when creating new applications or features, and in all cases, Creatio has been able to help us or direct us to a solution. Overall, we are very satisfied with their support.
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Online Training
Most of the roadblocks to learning were not discovered until the users were actually in the system using it on a day to day basis. Our Customer Success Manager has offered to setup additional training sessions as needed to close the gaps in our learning. Some areas which required some additional training are setting up filters, dashboards, and generating reports.
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Implementation Rating
The project manager for our implementation was great to work with and took the time to understand our business. We felt very comfortable going into the project with a reasonable scope of work to provide us with a functional version of Creatio to meet our needs. Unfortunately, we came across multiple challenges with this partner in their deliverables and timelines. Thankfully Creatio was able to provide support resources to ensure we were able to launch. We have since changed partners for our third-party support.
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Alternatives Considered
Creatio is miles ahead of Infor - now, looking back on Infor, it seems very dated and restricted. I love how you can work things out and change things yourself in Creatio. And if things are a bit more complicated, you have your dedicated team person to help you. We have Olga, who is amazing and really understands what we are trying to achieve.
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Salesforce Starter is exactly what it says. It's specific to getting a small business up and running effectively, without unnecessary development or internal overhead required. It doesn't allow for a ton of customization, but it provides more than most other providers across sales, service, and integration/automating business processes. Some tools are more specific to organizations that want to focus on a specific area to grow or manage their business. That's where the other package types and integrations with specific tools come in
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Scalability
I can see the promise of how it can be customized to other aspects of our business.
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Return on Investment
  • We went from manually processing Work Orders into Invoices once a day - representing significant impact to turn around speeds - to submitting automatically in real time, eliminating a great deal of human transcription errors and freeing up a great deal of operations time
  • Custom Implementation automation in Creatio has eliminated 4-6 hours of configuration work per sale in comparison to our old manual methods
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  • It made the job more efficient for staff so they can spend time doing other tasks rather than configuring and maintaining Salesforce Starter.
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