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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Kintone

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AKintone is a customizable digital workplace platform that lets the user manage data, tasks, and communication in one central place. Over 30,000 customers use Kintone’s no-code platform with more than 1.5 million database and workflow applications custom built for their businesses. The no-code drag-and-drop interface can be used to create custom database applications. Whether it’s sales leads, customer quotes, or inventory management, it can be organized in Kintone and viewed from the…

    $24

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Bigin by Zoho CRMKintone
    Editions & Modules
    Express
    $9.00
    per month per user
    Premier
    $15.00
    per month
    Bigin 360
    $21
    per month per user
    Professional Subscription
    $24
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Bigin by Zoho CRMKintone
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details20% discount for annual pricing.All subscriptions have a minimum requirement of 5 users.
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    Community Pulse
    Bigin by Zoho CRMKintone
    Considered Both Products
    Zoho
    No answer on this topic
    Kintone
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    99 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    46 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    97 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    44 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    96 Answers
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    43 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    38 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    92 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    40 Answers
    Features
    Bigin by Zoho CRMKintone
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Kintone
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.0
    79 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Customer data management / contact management8.471 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management8.274 Ratings00 Ratings
    Opportunity management8.472 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)8.168 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contract management7.334 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interaction tracking7.866 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Kintone
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    7.7
    64 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Lead management8.061 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email marketing7.356 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Kintone
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.1
    66 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Task management8.265 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting8.041 Ratings00 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Kintone
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.1
    68 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Pipeline visualization8.668 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports7.761 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Kintone
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    7.8
    72 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Custom fields7.872 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Kintone
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.5
    69 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Single sign-on capability8.555 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.467 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Kintone
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.3
    38 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Social data8.337 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social engagement8.237 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Kintone
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    7.9
    52 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Marketing automation7.952 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Kintone
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.1
    67 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Mobile access8.167 Ratings00 Ratings
    Low-Code Development
    Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Kintone
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    -
    Ratings
    Kintone
    9.4
    43 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Platform Security00 Ratings9.534 Ratings
    Platform User Management00 Ratings9.640 Ratings
    Reusability00 Ratings9.538 Ratings
    Platform Scalability00 Ratings9.640 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Bigin by Zoho CRMKintone
    Small Businesses
    Salesflare
    Score6 out of 10
    Creatio
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zendesk Sell
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Creatio
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Daylite
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Creatio
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Bigin by Zoho CRMKintone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (80 ratings)
    9.0
    (48 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (51 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    9.4
    (46 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.6
    (42 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bigin by Zoho CRMKintone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Kintone
    Kintone is great if you want a software that will help you in managing your data, and keep track of which tasks are assigned to whom. It also helps to streamline communication and information in one central place. However, it is not for you if you are looking for something complex that has to manage a lot of data.
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    Pros
    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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    Kintone
    • Flexibility. You can build apps (without coding) to serve a wide range of processes and projects.
    • Ease of use. The interface is intuitive.
    • Training. There are resources readily available to train new users. Even starting from scratch, I felt like I was up to speed in just a few hours.
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    Cons
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Kintone
    • I feel that Kintone is not well enough known yet. This means that other apps/APIs are not necessarily easy to connect with Kintone. Yes, you can use Zapier though for interfacing with other apps.
    • It would be great if it could give more customized options to change the look and format of certain things. You can make price quote apps, for example, but have to rely on 3rd party apps or programming skills to customize the look and fields.
    • If you make a table as an input field, it cannot connect to other internal Kintone apps for lookups and such.
    • I think there is more potential to make more customized data graphs.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Zoho
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    Kintone
    I still think that there's a room for Kintone's future, and high expectations for them in additional features and innovative tools and supports. Truly hope that they will support email features, and standardized supports for various plug-ins with the 3rd party software and apps. In the meantime, we will have to consider our ways of doing our work in all aspects
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    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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    Kintone
    Kintone is agile app and most of the time we can easily come up with new apps. However, there should be more feature-based drag and drop and or a visual-based usability, as we all want to minimize the number of clicks and dropdown menu selections as much as possible. Thanks.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Kintone
    Never had an issue with this.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Kintone
    No issues.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Kintone
    I have had very specific questions about different aspects of the software, and I have always been able to get a hold of someone who could help. If my sales rep didn’t know the answer, he would get me in touch with someone who did know the answer. The whole team is very ready to help. It definitely feels like they view my success as their success, which is so important with this type of software.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Kintone
    Everyone has their own tastes of things and way they want to work. Asking them to adapt to the changes with the new tools or apps is always difficult. We would want to start with a very small but best example within the organization, which in our case was that the employees will not be bothered by the bosses by being asked to find the documents, status of the progresses, or major things/requests/projects.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Kintone
    Kintone is the easiest product to create from and the cost is the lowest I believe. In addition, reconfigurability and extendability are great. If you look for a low code tool, you can try Kintone. But as same as another low code tool, don't expect too much.
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Kintone
    Should be multiple pricing packages.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Kintone
    I could see this work for all departments if implemented correctly.
    Incentivized
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    Professional Services
    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Kintone
    Needed improvement at the time.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Kintone
    • It has helped us reduce the amount of people we need to track our inventory. We’ve saved time and money using less people.
    • We are able to see our data much better now and have a spot that we can all look at the database on the go.
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