Salesforce Starter vs. Vtiger

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Vtiger
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Vtiger is a customer relationship management (CRM) solution with sales and marketing automation, project management, and inventory management capabilities.
$28
per month per user
Pricing
Salesforce StarterVtiger
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
One Professional - Single App
$28
per month per user
One Professional - Standard
$42
per month per user
One Enterprise - Single App
$42
per month per user
One Enterprise - Standard
$58
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Salesforce StarterVtiger
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$10 / user / month
Additional DetailsDiscounts are provided for both annual subscriptions, and for high volume users.
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Community Pulse
Salesforce StarterVtiger
Considered Both Products
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.
Vtiger
Chose Vtiger
It's not complicated and very easily to use compared to the CRM I used from my former company. There not too much to click just to finish the tasks. Easy to generate data for reporting.
Chose Vtiger
The selection of Vtiger as CRM wasn't on my hands. The decision was made before I arrived to the company. Nevertheless, I know that the pricing was one of the main reasons and the overall performance of Vtiger. It was feature on the top of Gartner's Magic Quadrant. And the …
Chose Vtiger
Synaptica is mainly for taxonomy, but it stores our product attribution as well, just like Vtiger. Vtiger is a more robust software, and stores product data beyond selling attributes. At our organization size, we like a program like Vtiger because it's more broad with more …
Chose Vtiger
VTiger had better overall cost and native capabilities that other solutions lacked. We used Nutshell CRM for over a year. It was a very efficient contact management system, but it seemed that if we needed to do anything but record contacts, we had to use an add-on. We spent a …
Chose Vtiger
Just being a user of Vtiger since I got hired at GB Advisors. Used those solutions on previous experiences, Microsoft Dynamics was deployed in my previous job for opportunity management, it was not so friendly as Vtiger, not sure if it was a bad deployment. Salesforce was used …
Chose Vtiger
SugarCRM is a very powerful CRM let down by a complex UI which means that most organizations would have trouble self-managing the database. leading to a high cost of ownership.
MailChimp is a great email marketing tool for databases below 2000 contacts as that is the point at …
Chose Vtiger
I have used MS Excel to manage such kind of operations but during reporting I faced lots of difficulties. Where in Vtiger CRM I got the most advantage out of MS Excel. It has a dynamic communication history system and a real time activity log where I can track the real time …
Chose Vtiger
The selection of vTiger was done by my management team to be able to see invoicing status in Quickbooks. Unfortunately, this feature has never worked but I think this might be a problem on our end, not a vTiger issue. We looked at Salesforce, HubSpot CRM, and ACT before making …
Features
Salesforce StarterVtiger
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
9.0
Ratings
15% above category average
Vtiger
10.0
Ratings
26% above category average
Customer data management / contact management9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Territory management8.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Opportunity management9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)10.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Quote & order management9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Interaction tracking7.80 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Contract management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
8.8
Ratings
15% above category average
Vtiger
10.0
Ratings
27% above category average
Lead management8.80 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Email marketing00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
8.8
Ratings
15% above category average
Vtiger
10.0
Ratings
27% above category average
Task management9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Reporting9.40 Ratings10.00 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
9.0
Ratings
17% above category average
Vtiger
9.7
Ratings
25% above category average
Forecasting9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Pipeline visualization8.60 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Customizable reports9.40 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
8.9
Ratings
17% above category average
Vtiger
9.3
Ratings
21% above category average
Custom fields9.40 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Custom objects9.40 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Scripting environment7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
API for custom integration8.80 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
9.4
Ratings
12% above category average
Vtiger
9.0
Ratings
8% above category average
Single sign-on capability9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Role-based user permissions9.40 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
8.1
Ratings
10% above category average
Vtiger
10.0
Ratings
31% above category average
Social engagement8.10 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
8.3
Ratings
12% above category average
Vtiger
-
Ratings
Marketing automation8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Compensation management8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
8.6
Ratings
16% above category average
Vtiger
5.0
Ratings
38% below category average
Mobile access8.60 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Starter
-
Ratings
Vtiger
9.5
Ratings
23% above category average
Case management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Help desk management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Salesforce StarterVtiger
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.4
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Salesforce StarterVtiger
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Vtiger has evolved in the interfaces design. You can access all required data from one screen, similar to a control data. You have also sales and support dashboards predefined, but you can create your own. As less appropriate the templates design, it has not evolved from old versions of Vtiger.
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Pros
  • 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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  • I love reporting. I can build a custom report using all or any of the dimensions of my choice. This is great when other programs often limit this ability.
  • I like that is a source of truth across the organization. We can all go in and see the same thing.
  • This also works for communication with our teams in other countries. We are a global organization.
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Cons
  • 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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  • Although Vtiger integrates well with email, like most CRM systems it assumes that you have one email system and therefore it is less suitable for use cases where multiple email systems need to be supported.
  • Although Vtiger supports Twitter it does not support other social media systems in the same way. You can tailor the system to hold the URLs of your contacts' social media profiles but if SM is a big thing for your organization then there are better systems available.
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Usability
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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In the Last versions they have done a strong effort in creating a powerful data screen. Inside the screen you have access to signing, communications with multiple tools integration and connections with all modules related. With a single view you have all control over your data relations. It is similar to a control managing.
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
there is not much problem in using CRM. There were times it was lagging or bugging, but later on it will be fixed and I can use it again.
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Alternatives Considered
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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The selection of vTiger was done by my management team to be able to see invoicing status in Quickbooks. Unfortunately, this feature has never worked but I think this might be a problem on our end, not a vTiger issue. We looked at Salesforce, HubSpot CRM, and ACT before making the switch to vTiger
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • I managed to increase my production by 20% each month.
  • We increased the number of new clients each year.
  • Clients were satisfied by our support team.
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ScreenShots

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Vtiger Screenshots

Screenshot of Vtiger's home page dashboardScreenshot of A typical contact record in Vtiger