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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Salesforce Starter

    Score8.9 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.

    $35

    per month per user

    Pricing
    KintoneSalesforce Starter
    Editions & Modules
    Professional Subscription
    $24
    per month per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KintoneSalesforce Starter
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAll subscriptions have a minimum requirement of 5 users.—
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    Community Pulse
    KintoneSalesforce Starter
    Considered Both Products
    Kintone
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    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    46 Answers
    80%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    44 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    43 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    38 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    40 Answers
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    Features
    KintoneSalesforce Starter
    Low-Code Development
    Comparison of Low-Code Development features of Kintone and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Kintone
    9.4
    43 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Salesforce Starter
    -
    Ratings
    Platform Security9.534 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform User Management9.640 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reusability9.538 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Scalability9.640 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sales Force Automation
    Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Kintone and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    9.0
    5 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Territory management00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
    Opportunity management00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Quote & order management00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Interaction tracking00 Ratings7.85 Ratings
    Channel / partner relationship management00 Ratings9.44 Ratings
    Marketing Automation
    Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Kintone and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    8.7
    5 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Lead management00 Ratings8.75 Ratings
    CRM Project Management
    Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Kintone and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Task management00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Reporting00 Ratings9.44 Ratings
    CRM Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Kintone and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    9.0
    4 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Forecasting00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Pipeline visualization00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings9.44 Ratings
    Customization
    Comparison of Customization features of Kintone and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    8.8
    5 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Custom fields00 Ratings9.45 Ratings
    Custom objects00 Ratings9.44 Ratings
    Scripting environment00 Ratings7.84 Ratings
    API for custom integration00 Ratings8.84 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Kintone and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    9.4
    5 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.45 Ratings
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.45 Ratings
    Social CRM
    Comparison of Social CRM features of Kintone and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    8.2
    4 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Social engagement00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-party Software
    Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Kintone and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Marketing automation00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Compensation management00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    Platform
    Comparison of Platform features of Kintone and Salesforce Starter
    Feature
    Kintone
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Starter
    8.6
    5 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Mobile access00 Ratings8.65 Ratings
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    Creatio
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Score6 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Creatio
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    Score7.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    KintoneSalesforce Starter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (48 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (46 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.8
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.6
    (42 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    KintoneSalesforce Starter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Salesforce
    If you own a business that has complex selling processes or requires integrations with 3rd party tools/systems, you should look at Professional, Enterprise, or Unlimited editions. Salesforce operates very well across pretty much every industry, but not all sales, marketing, and operational processes are created equal. If your marketing process requires a long list of sendable contacts then I would recommend adding on Pardot or Hubspot. Always start small and scale up, to avoid boxing yourself in down the road.
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    Pros
    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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    Salesforce
    • Tracking phone calls is extremely easy when using the app on the iphone. After a phone call is complete it prompts the user to enter in call details.
    • SalesforceIQ also automatically logs emails for us. This has saved us time from entering in information manually.
    • SalesforceIQ was easy to set up and allowed us customization for fields that were relevant to our business.
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    Cons
    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.
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    Salesforce
    • 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
    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
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    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.
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    Salesforce
    The system is very user-friendly on a desktop but lacks mobile friendliness. The Customer relationship manager disappears after the deal is signed. We struggled to get the system in a usable format, which was not cost-effective. The CRM system on desktop was great but way more complicated than it should be.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Kintone
    Never had an issue with this.
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    Salesforce
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    Performance
    Kintone
    No issues.
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    Salesforce
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    Support Rating
    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.
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    Salesforce
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Salesforce
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
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    Salesforce
    more expensive but as an industry leader and go, the learning curve pays for itself in ROI in lost time in onboarding
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Kintone
    Should be multiple pricing packages.
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Kintone
    I could see this work for all departments if implemented correctly.
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    Salesforce
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    Professional Services
    Kintone
    Needed improvement at the time.
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    Salesforce
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Salesforce
    • 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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    Screenshot of a view of apps from the portalScreenshot of 4 ways to build an appScreenshot of mobile accessScreenshot of the drag and drop interfaceScreenshot of business app views

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