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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

    Zendesk Sell

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AZendesk Sell (formerly Base CRM) is a CRM that aims to give reps access to integrated tools that provide the full context of a customer account. This keeps them in the loop and allows them to capitalize on opportunities. Zendesk Sell can be extended with Reach, a lead generation and engagement tool that automates the process of finding and keeping leads interested, so reps can focus more on building relationships and crushing their quotas. Base CRM was founded in 2009, and acquired by Zendesk…

    $19

    per seat/month billed annually

    Pricing
    Bigin by Zoho CRMZendesk Sell
    Editions & Modules
    Express
    $9.00
    per month per user
    Premier
    $15.00
    per month
    Bigin 360
    $21
    per month per user
    Sell Team
    $19.00
    per seat/month billed annually
    Reach prospecting enrichment add-on (requires a Sell Subscription)
    $27.00
    Per User Per Month (billed annually)
    Sell Professional
    $49.00
    per seat/month billed annually
    Sell Enterprise
    $99.00
    per seat/month billed annually
    Sell Elite
    $199.00
    per seat/month billed annually
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Bigin by Zoho CRMZendesk Sell
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    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
    Bigin by Zoho CRMZendesk Sell
    Considered Both Products
    Zoho
    Chose Bigin by Zoho CRM
    More variables to include on creating campaigns and automations.
    Incentivized
    Zendesk
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    99 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    97 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    96 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    92 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Bigin by Zoho CRMZendesk Sell
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.0
    79 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Zendesk Sell
    6.6
    15 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Customer data management / contact management8.471 Ratings8.914 Ratings
    Workflow management8.274 Ratings6.115 Ratings
    Opportunity management8.472 Ratings7.913 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)8.168 Ratings6.915 Ratings
    Contract management7.234 Ratings5.410 Ratings
    Interaction tracking7.866 Ratings7.915 Ratings
    Territory management00 Ratings4.98 Ratings
    Quote & order management00 Ratings3.97 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings7.811 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    7.7
    64 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Zendesk Sell
    6.9
    12 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Lead management8.061 Ratings6.012 Ratings
    Email marketing7.356 Ratings7.89 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.1
    66 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Zendesk Sell
    5.3
    13 Ratings
    36% below category average
    Task management8.265 Ratings8.013 Ratings
    Reporting8.141 Ratings7.013 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings1.05 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.2
    68 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Zendesk Sell
    8.2
    15 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Pipeline visualization8.668 Ratings7.914 Ratings
    Customizable reports7.761 Ratings9.014 Ratings
    Forecasting00 Ratings7.812 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    7.8
    72 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Zendesk Sell
    4.2
    15 Ratings
    56% below category average
    Custom fields7.872 Ratings7.815 Ratings
    Custom objects00 Ratings4.910 Ratings
    Scripting environment00 Ratings1.16 Ratings
    API for custom integration00 Ratings3.08 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.5
    69 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Zendesk Sell
    9.5
    14 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Single sign-on capability8.555 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions8.467 Ratings9.011 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.3
    38 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Zendesk Sell
    4.0
    5 Ratings
    59% below category average
    Social data8.337 Ratings1.04 Ratings
    Social engagement8.237 Ratings6.95 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    7.9
    52 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Zendesk Sell
    5.4
    7 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Marketing automation7.952 Ratings9.87 Ratings
    Compensation management00 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    8.1
    67 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Zendesk Sell
    8.0
    13 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Mobile access8.167 Ratings8.013 Ratings
    Customer Service & Support
    Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Bigin by Zoho CRM and Zendesk Sell
    Feature
    Bigin by Zoho CRM
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Sell
    9.0
    12 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Case management00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Call center management00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Help desk management00 Ratings9.011 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Bigin by Zoho CRMZendesk Sell
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (80 ratings)
    10.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (51 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    8.8
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bigin by Zoho CRMZendesk Sell
    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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    Zendesk
    Zendesk sell is best for organizations that want a clean and simple, yet powerfully effective CRM tool. It's intuitive, extremely user-friendly, supplies lots of video tutorials and access to the California team for FAQ's, and has all the features other, more complicated, expensive CRM's have. Great for institutions that have a need to tailor their database to fit your needs; and track sales, tasks, and pipeline projects in graphic form. It's affordable and has a great app for mobile phones that allows access to contacts, notes, tasks, and a workable platform while on the go in real time. It's simple to teach new users how to navigate and utilize. Adding or deleting users is simple, and access to the CRM information can be limited/private or made public for the entire team to access. Not as costly as some of the competing products, so if you are on a tight budget this may be the tool for you.
    Incentivized
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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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    Zendesk
    • My favorite piece is the Tasks connected to the Clients OR the Deals themselves that keep the process moving with the right steps, and helps our team from doubling our work, or missing a piece that is crucial for the completion of the sale.
    • The email integration helps to keep all things housed in one place also, so that you're not bouncing back and forth in multiple platforms to stay on top of the orders.
    • Customizations are a HUGE part of why we use Base CRM right now. We can make sure we are recording all of the right information, and not wasting time by having to fill in or skip over content that doesn't apply to our business model.
    • I also like the ability to tied Deals to multiple people, especially as Referrals come across, so we don't forget how we got in touch with different clients.
    Incentivized
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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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    Zendesk
    • There was no ability to add prospects from a company domain or email to auto-fill any data.
    • You had to type in all of the data you gathered about that prospect.
    • The default only gave you two phone numbers for the company, too few.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Zoho
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    Incentivized
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    Zendesk
    The integration with the other Zendesk products is key. Allows other people in the company, such as support, to be involved in the sales process.
    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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    Zendesk
    I received about two hours worth of training on Zendesk Sell (formerly Base CRM). I will say it's a clean look and the ability to change views is extremely helpful. I do wish there were other features that allowed the views to be more simplistic. Some views can be overwhelming to look at. Nevertheless with the minimum training, I am still able to navigate through Zendesk Sell (formerly Base CRM) successfully due to the ease of usability.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Zendesk
    Always available and easy connection from Zendesk Support
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Zendesk
    Never any latency 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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    Zendesk
    Due to the ease of the product, I have not had the chance to reach out to support yet. I’ve had no reason. The resources provided to clients are extremely helpful and detailed. So far my questions have been pretty basic and I generally just ask my colleague or teammate. They're able to assist with the answer.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Zendesk
    This product has a great backing of users, but needs more options direct from Base CRM on all operations of the software. YouTube videos do a great job of helping implement, and the back end support is a great help as well. The CRM is a great free option, and should be treated as such.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Zendesk
    Simple, and straight forward.
    Incentivized
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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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    Zendesk
    Simpler than most CRMs, which can be good if your sales team is not very tech savvy. We switched to HubSpot which provides a lot more value than Base did, but it isn't right for everyone. HubSpot is focused on capturing in-bound leads and has its own flaws and limitations, but overall it's a better fit for our needs.
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    Scalability
    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Zendesk
    Always on, always available.
    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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    Zendesk
    • Using Base has allowed us to double the number of active sales and partner engagements that we can keep track of and make progress on.
    • This has led to us being able to follow up on many smaller deals that were falling through the cracks.
    Incentivized
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