Less Annoying CRM vs. Sage CRM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Less Annoying CRM
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
Less Annoying CRM is a customer relationship management (CRM) solution built specifically for small businesses to help clients manage contacts and track leads.
$15
per month per user
Sage CRM
Score 8.9 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Sage CRM is an SMB-oriented CRM platform offered in both SaaS and on-premise editions. Unlike the Sage SalesLogix product, the SaaS version is a true multi-tenant offering. The platform offers excellent integration with Sage ERP and accounting products. It is also a good global solution and is available in many languages and is used by over 12,000 customers worldwide, with many customers in Europe.
$45
Per User per Month
Pricing
Less Annoying CRMSage CRM
Editions & Modules
Always
$15
per month per user
Sage CRM (cloud)
$45
Per User per Month
Sage CRM (on premise)
$0
Lifetime License per Seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Less Annoying CRMSage CRM
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThe system is $15 per user per month. No hidden costs or fees, or paying unused functionality. No long-term contracts. The first 30 days with the product are free, and the vendor won’t ask for payment information until that trial period ends.Tiered pricing is available for multiple users.
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Community Pulse
Less Annoying CRMSage CRM
Features
Less Annoying CRMSage CRM
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Less Annoying CRM
9.2
Ratings
18% above category average
Sage CRM
8.8
Ratings
13% above category average
Customer data management / contact management10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Workflow management8.60 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Territory management8.80 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Opportunity management10.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)8.80 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Contract management9.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Quote & order management8.80 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Interaction tracking10.00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Channel / partner relationship management9.10 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
Less Annoying CRM
10.0
Ratings
28% above category average
Sage CRM
8.1
Ratings
7% above category average
Case management10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Help desk management10.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Call center management00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Less Annoying CRM
8.7
Ratings
14% above category average
Sage CRM
8.7
Ratings
14% above category average
Lead management8.90 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Email marketing8.50 Ratings8.70 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Less Annoying CRM
9.1
Ratings
18% above category average
Sage CRM
9.0
Ratings
17% above category average
Task management10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Reporting8.20 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Less Annoying CRM
9.1
Ratings
18% above category average
Sage CRM
8.6
Ratings
13% above category average
Forecasting9.20 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Pipeline visualization9.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Customizable reports9.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Less Annoying CRM
9.0
Ratings
18% above category average
Sage CRM
8.6
Ratings
14% above category average
Custom fields9.10 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Scripting environment8.90 Ratings9.00 Ratings
API for custom integration9.10 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Custom objects00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-party Software
Comparison of Integrations with 3rd-party Software features of Product A and Product B
Less Annoying CRM
8.2
Ratings
11% above category average
Sage CRM
9.0
Ratings
20% above category average
Marketing automation8.20 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Compensation management00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Less Annoying CRM
9.7
Ratings
28% above category average
Sage CRM
7.8
Ratings
6% above category average
Mobile access9.70 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Less Annoying CRM
9.9
Ratings
17% above category average
Sage CRM
8.7
Ratings
5% above category average
Role-based user permissions9.90 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Less Annoying CRM
-
Ratings
Sage CRM
9.4
Ratings
25% above category average
Social data00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Social engagement00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
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User Ratings
Less Annoying CRMSage CRM
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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8.9
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(0 ratings)
5.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.9
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(0 ratings)
7.9
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Less Annoying CRMSage CRM
Likelihood to Recommend
Less Annoying CRM is an excellent system for us as we log everything we do with a customer and has easy access to the imfromation later. May sound "of course" but this is by far the easiest CRM I've ever worked with during my 30 years in sales. Follow-up and scheduling is easy managable as well as designing forms and fields our selves. Less Annoying CRM has a good list of plug'ins to other software for integrational puposes. Most important to us is support when needed. Less Annoying CRM excels in its support. Don't hesitate, it doesn't do everything, but get started and get surprised
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as it is a very flexible software that can be adapted to any business model, other functions human resource management, manufacturing and supply chain planning, all these functions are housed in a highly technological interface. I liked this system because it made automating accounts payable so much easier.the control of the basic accounting of any type of company
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Pros
  • Simple, intuitive usage
  • Daily agenda emails
  • Ease of moving calendar / action items around, closing out
  • Customer service is extremely responsive, they don't hide behind a "contact us" form on their website as so many companies seem to do. You can readily reach them by phone!
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  • Sage CRM is very intuitive and easy to use. The benefit to organizations using this system is that users will find executing daily tasks seamless and accessing historical information easily while selling or servicing customers and prospects.
  • The dashboards and reporting are extensive at both a global and a client level. In addition, these reports and dashboards are available through any interface (smartphone, tablet, browser). This makes accessing real time information in a meaningful way available to users easy through any device wherever the user is located.
  • Escalations and workflow are also very powerful. Sage CRM uniquely provides the ability for users to execute workflow from within the context of the dashboards. What this means is that every day tasks can be executed quickly without lots of time searching through client records.
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Cons
  • The one thing I was looking for is a place to manage multiple businesses with one project. Like if I am selling a "summer camp guide," I would like to have info for sales in one place with multiple contacts and businesses. LACRM customer service provided a workaround for me by suggesting I set up a specific pipeline for each project and them put each business in there. It is working great and, actually, a much better way to manage the project than I have originally intended.
  • I really don't have anything else to add. LACRM is perfect for us.
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  • Reliance on Apache Tomcat causes a lot of headaches. There are common issues trying to start up the server, resulting from Apache Tomcat misconfigurations, or Java. Some forum posts on Sage City address common issues, but digging into server logs seems to be an often occurrence.
  • Support is somewhat lacking, less user install base means error messages are sometimes hard to find quick answers for. Most of the knowledge found on the internet is in the Sage City forum.
  • Integration with Microsoft 365 causes you to have to turn off some security features. This will result in your 365 tenants running lower security standards than recommended, it may put you at risk for targeted attacks.
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Likelihood to Renew
Excellent product which meets my needs of a complex industry
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There are really no other words to say, it is a very easy to use application that is more straightforward and has provided better results with the bulk of features that appeal to a very broad amount of users. There may be other CRM platforms out there that are more prevalent, but I have found them to be much more clunky and less intuitive than Sage CRM.
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Usability
I knew nothing about CRMs, and within a day of purchasing Less Annoying CRM, I was able to set up my contacts list with custom fields. After a brief call to Customer Service, I was able to set up my first pipelines and understand how to use them. This CRM is so simple to use, and extremely versatile.
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Excellent integration with the most important social networks (LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter) to get leads. The mobile app is quite useful for speeding up the tasks at hand and not relying on the computer or being in the office to get them done.
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Performance
No answers on this topic
Sage works very quickly based on the network you are using it on. It is internet based so if your network is slow, it will perform slowly. Reports seem to run reasonably fast, if there is too much information it is trying to populate that could slow it down a little. When Sage CRM is integrated with a Sage ERP product it doesn't tend to slow down either system at all
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Support Rating
Customer support is fantastic with these guys, they’re always very prompt to answer, and the team is very personable and easy to work with. I can’t really say much more than that, my interactions have been fairly limited, but what interactions I had, I can see without a shadow of a doubt they were very enjoyable and swift in resolving my issues.
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Support team is really slow and they need to work on this really. Sometimes it takes days to resolve a simple query and there is no way to get it expedited. Rest the product is is amazing but the team should look into the costumer support and get it working
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In-Person Training
No answers on this topic
Most training would come after a upgrade. Otherwise we would self teach new employees. Training was with a Sage Software partner SWK technologies.
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Implementation Rating
After explaining that I was moving from Salesforce and the problems I was encountering, they took over and implemented the data in such a quick and efficient way, I was looking for the other shoe to drop but they did an amazing job so very impressed
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The implementation and upgrades were rather quick and straight forward. Attempting to link Sage CRM with Sage 100 ERP however was a nightmare and will be avoided by us in the future due to numerous issues.
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Alternatives Considered
Less Annoying CRM is so much easier to use and is at least as powerful if not more in the areas that matter to me as a small business owner. The way you do things in Less Annoying CRM are the ways that common sense would dictate you do them. It doesn't overcomplicate things to show how smart the engineers that designed it were.
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Sage is an awesome CRM and has several functionalities that several small business can take advantage of however for a small start up business that is trying to get its legs, Hubspot has affordable pricing and complete customization of the backend, meaning that you can create the perfect CRM for your own unique business
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Return on Investment
  • Not just storage of information, but utilizing that information to build stronger relationships with clients
  • Because it's web-based, we can be at our desk or on the road and still have the full functionality of the CRM at our fingertips, which helps us keep focusing on sales!
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  • It is very affordable in pricing, compared to competitors
  • Lead management and convertion into prospects is also a very easy process
  • Lead capture from web pages should be available, and better ways to capture leads from tradeshows by uploading directly from scanned business cards
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ScreenShots

Less Annoying CRM Screenshots

Screenshot of The full-customizable Lead Report keeps you updated on every opportunity in your pipeline.Screenshot of Every contact and company has a profile that shows your entire history, along with any leads, files, events, to-dos, and more.Screenshot of Your Workspace is your homepage for your CRM. It give you a quick overview of everything that's going on.Screenshot of The full-customizable Lead Report keeps you updated on every opportunity in your pipeline.Screenshot of Our powerful web calendar allows you to stay on top of your events and to-dos and those of your co-workers.Screenshot of Our fully-featured mobile site means you can access your CRM from anywhere you have an internet connection.