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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Aurea CRM

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AAurea CRM is a comprehensive customer relationship management solution that is designed to enable companies to drive customer engagement tools deep into their sales organization. The vendor says with end-to-end capabilities for sales and marketing, this solution provides a one-stop-shop that delivers a compact overview of team activities, sales pipelines, and key performance indicators so companies can set priorities and make informed decisions. The vendor’s value proposition is that the…N/A

    Bigin by Zoho CRM

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ABigin by Zoho CRM is a simplified customer relationship management (CRM) software designed specifically for small businesses, startups and teams. Bigin helps small businesses unify customer-facing operations— marketing, sales, onboarding, delivery, and support, and it offers features that help to manage these customer relationships effectively.

    $9

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Aurea CRMBigin by Zoho CRM
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Express
    $9.00
    per month per user
    Premier
    $15.00
    per month
    Bigin 360
    $21
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Aurea CRMBigin by Zoho CRM
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details20% discount for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    Aurea CRMBigin by Zoho CRM
    Considered Both Products
    Aurea
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    Zoho
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    98%
    Would buy again
    99 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    97 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    96 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    92 Answers
    Features
    Aurea CRMBigin by Zoho CRM
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Aurea CRM and Bigin by Zoho CRM
    Feature
    Aurea CRM
    8.6
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.0
    79 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Customer data management / contact management9.01 Ratings8.471 Ratings
    Workflow management8.01 Ratings8.274 Ratings
    Territory management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Opportunity management9.01 Ratings8.472 Ratings
    Quote & order management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interaction tracking9.01 Ratings7.866 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings8.168 Ratings
    Contract management00 Ratings7.234 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Aurea CRM and Bigin by Zoho CRM
    Feature
    Aurea CRM
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    7.7
    64 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Lead management7.01 Ratings8.061 Ratings
    Email marketing00 Ratings7.356 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Aurea CRM and Bigin by Zoho CRM
    Feature
    Aurea CRM
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.1
    66 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Task management8.01 Ratings8.265 Ratings
    Reporting9.01 Ratings8.141 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Aurea CRM and Bigin by Zoho CRM
    Feature
    Aurea CRM
    6.3
    1 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.2
    68 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Forecasting6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization4.01 Ratings8.668 Ratings
    Customizable reports9.01 Ratings7.761 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Aurea CRM and Bigin by Zoho CRM
    Feature
    Aurea CRM
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    7.8
    72 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Custom fields8.01 Ratings7.872 Ratings
    Custom objects9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Aurea CRM and Bigin by Zoho CRM
    Feature
    Aurea CRM
    1.0
    1 Ratings
    152% below category average
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.1
    67 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Mobile access1.01 Ratings8.167 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Aurea CRM and Bigin by Zoho CRM
    Feature
    Aurea CRM
    -
    Ratings
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.5
    69 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings8.555 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.467 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of Aurea CRM and Bigin by Zoho CRM
    Feature
    Aurea CRM
    -
    Ratings
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.3
    38 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Social data00 Ratings8.337 Ratings
    Social engagement00 Ratings8.237 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Aurea CRM and Bigin by Zoho CRM
    Feature
    Aurea CRM
    -
    Ratings
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    7.9
    52 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Marketing automation00 Ratings7.952 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Zendesk Sell
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Daylite
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Daylite
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Aurea CRMBigin by Zoho CRM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (80 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (51 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Aurea CRMBigin by Zoho CRM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Aurea
    I have prepared deeply detailed customised queries to prepare detailed customer reports including markets, segments, classifications and potentials to present to our company management which have been highly appreciated. So, it was well suited in that case. Since I'm traveling a lot for customer visit activities, I frequently need to use it as mobile but it's slightly nightmarish to use its unfriendly search function as well as very slow loading speeds. So, it's less appropriate in that case.
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    Zoho
    - Multiple pipelines let me organize processes like sales, marketing, customer support, and assets clearly. - The forms builder allows me to gather leads, sign-ups, and customer requests from my website directly into the Bigin by Zoho CRM. - Integrations with Zapier and Make connect website orders and data from other sources smoothly. - Email templates make it easy to send professional, branded communications. - Automations handle repetitive tasks like managing customers, orders, and team tasks, saving me time.
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    Pros
    Aurea
    • customised and detailed query preparation
    • offer creation
    • creation of detailed activity reports
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    Zoho
    • Manage big databases. We have a large database of contacts and partners (more than 5,000 contacts), which are updated day by day, as a result of our participation in conferences, webinars, etc. For this reason, we needed a platform that would allow us to always have our database up to date, and accessible and editable by any member of the company.
    • Pipelines. Pipelines are very necessary in our daily lives, since we present many service proposals to different clients, and until now we control the status very manually. With Bigin by Zoho CRM, we can have all this information centralized in a single place, and know at all times the status of the service proposals we present (sent, pending decision, lost, won...).
    • Product definition. The product definition block has allowed us to further structure our typologies of products and services. At least, it has allowed us to reflect on them and what is the best way to package the service offered.
    • Control panel. The control panel has been very useful for us to be able to quickly see the main indicators (offers presented, next actions to be taken, etc.).
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    Cons
    Aurea
    • slightly complex user interface and menu items
    • very slow loading speeds particularly for mobile smartphone use
    • missing information for current or next steps of the menu while typing or entering something
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    Zoho
    • No multi-select bulk move in pipeline After a webinar we had 42 cold leads that qualified → wanted to drag them all to “Interested” in one go. You can’t; moved them one-by-one like playing Solitaire.
    • Workflows hidden behind pay-wall We needed an auto-survey when deal = “Won”. Works in trial, the day licence dropped back to free the rule simply stopped – zero warning.
    • Offline mobile = read-onlyMentor met founder in co-working basement (no Wi-Fi). Took paper notes, re-typed into Bigin back at office → duplicate risk.
    • Pick-list values can’t be deactivated, only deletedWe miss-typed “Refferal” instead of “Referral”. To fix, must delete; history of 60 old records then shows empty source.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Aurea
    No answers on this topic
    Zoho
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    Usability
    Aurea
    Since it's providing useful features, I like to use Aurea CRM on my company PC at the office for my daily activities. However, we are in highly digital age via mobile devices particularly smart phones and we need to use softwares even in mobility which is highly weak feature of Aurea CRM and needs to be improved as soon as possible.
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    Zoho
    Bigin has really helped us with selling our monitoring services to our customers, which is primarily farmers in the UK. We often need to talk to customers before, during and after a sale, and Bigin helps us keep our contacts and leads organised as we track all these interactions. We recommend it very strongly
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Aurea
    I'm not getting in touch directly with Aurea CRM support team member because they have trained our company's IT team members that are in direct contact with Aurea CRM support channel. As far as I know, the overall support for Aurea CRM is quite good and highly prompt in a professional way.
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    Zoho
    The support is all international and it takes a while to get support as you have to go through chats and set up times, not as easy to just call and get the support you need. They are very nice when you do finally connect with someone and they are knowledgeable, just challenging being international sometimes.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Aurea
    I didn't select Aurea CRM myself. Since our company is global, our headquarter has selected Aurea CRM after certain years of old Oracle based Crm use. As far as I know the old one was having some weaknesses about reporting, analysing via queries, lack of marketing activies etc. That's why our top management has selected Aurea CRM for a better solution which I highly agree with it except terrible mobile use.
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    Zoho
    Simplicity Without Sacrificing Core Features
    Unlike full-scale CRMs that often feel overwhelming, Bigin by Zoho CRM provides a focused set of features that are perfect for managing deals, contacts, and activities. It’s not bloated, and that was exactly what we needed for a lean, fast-moving team.
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    Return on Investment
    Aurea
    • positive impact for efficiency of indoor sales activies
    • positive impact for better report preparation
    • negative impact for mobile use
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    Zoho
    • I was able to migrate from Hubspot CRM easily saving me hours of time
    • I have recieved 5 x replies to the email sequence i set up since i started using it
    • I have improved lead conversion by 5% so far
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