Which affordable small business CRM + ERP?
Having trawled through the forum, I see a lot of talk about vendors who 'have' a 'solution'.
I looked at:
- NetSuite - they annoyed me (arrogant and aggressive)
- Microsoft - 3 million businesses use our software...so what!
- Sage - still in the dark ages
- Intuit - Quickbooks, Quickbooks, Quickbooks
- SAP - Kings Ransome
- Epicor - dark ages
- Interprise - clowns
- Everest - Degree in quantum physics required to work the UI
- Others - hacked together solutions
- Open source - this isnt for me - I like to see the owners faces
They are all:
- Expensive with long term agreements
- Over burdened with features
- Seem to have very steep (and expensive)learning curves
I am really clear about my needs. I've looked the 'comparison sites' but nothing really 'fitted' what I need.
My problem is:
- Budget (I want to spend roughly $25 - $30 USD/month per user) and I dont want a long term lock in with a big upfront cost.
- Time - I need a system in one of my businesses immediately
- Effort - I don't want to employ or manage expensive consultants
- Remote working - Many of my employees work off site but need access to information so I am looking for a 'cloud' solution.
I'm at the point where I need to 'standardize' on a system for each of my individual businesses (separate accounts). I'm currently running Quickbooks, PeachTree and Sage with a mess of spreadsheets and contact management systems.
I have two businesses and I'm about to expand to four located in:
- USA
- UK
- Europe - Country not decided but probably the Netherlands
- Australia - Opening in May 2010
I need:
- Really easy to learn and use
- I can deploy it myself quickly
- Low cost - like I said $25 to $30 USD per user
- CRM
- Sales Order processing
- Estimates
- Sales forecasting
- Time sheet capture
- Employee Expense claim management
- Job tracking
- Stock (inventory management)
- Multicurrency Accounting
- Online payments (in and out)
- Manage drop shipments
- E-mail integration
- Oh and lead tracking
- And decent reports - not necessarily dashboards
And like I said I need it in the cloud.
Help me find a solution...
Thanks
Caroline. C.
PS: If you suggest a vendor I have already looked at I will make sure I give you my feedback.
salesorder.com evaluation
Hello Caroline,
our requirements are similar to yours but thankfully there are less of them.
Would be very grateful if you posted your findings -
We currently use Quick books and have to manually import data from our
webstore - this is time consuming, and causes lots of issues - are you looking
to solve this problem or similar?
Any info much appreciated
Cheers Andy
Will you stop selling in this thread
Elodie and TomCoyes
This is my very first time in this forum and the information and response from the members has been fantastic. As a busy CEO i have found a very valuable resource which is unfortunately tainted by vendors 'pushing' and in some cases 'thrusting' their products at me. Guys/Gals? I really wish you wouldn't its annoying and distracting.
Sorry for the slap folks but I am sure you understand.
Thank you
Caroline C