Pipeline
What Is Pipeline?
Join the teams who've used Pipeline CRM to close $40 billion in sales and counting! Built with the heartbeat of America in mind (thats you), we kept things simple. From our promise to help small to mid sized teams win deals faster. To an easy-to-use cloud-based platform that syncs your team in real time. And a Smart Agenda that builds itself while theyre hard at work. Thats how you spend more time closing deals. And less time trying to. Its that simple. Really.
Who Uses Pipeline?
SMBs with a sales team of 10+ who are into things like: a no-fluff, user-friendly CRM that helps segment leads, accurately forecasts sales, and automates time sucking tasks.
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Reviews of Pipeline
Michael
Alternatives Considered:
Its not Salesforce, but it also won't bankrupt your small business
Comments:
Overall, this was the solution my company needed. We had used Salesforce long before I was on staff, and it was too costly to keep using. When I was onboarded there was no CRM being used, and that had to change. Pipeline Deals gave us all the functionality we needed at a much much lower cost and barrier to entry.
Highly recommended.
Pros:
This is a very powerful CRM solution. As I was looking for solutions I came across quite a few that were reviewed by many sites. Pipeline Deals consistently was in the top tier of CRMs for SMB companies. I watched a few online demos and reviews before reaching out to their team. I was quickly assigned a representative that walked my team through a live demo and set us up with a POC trial. After our trial ended we signed up and were off. Setting up Pipeline Deals was quite easy, as the software can conform to your needs. Almost all fields are fully customizable, however this did take some getting used to, to see how changes were reflected as a whole in pipeline view. Overall, great product for a lot less than what Salesforce, Salesloft of Hubspot might run you.
Cons:
As a smaller company some of the integrations that other CRMs have were either missing or lacking. However, Pipeline Deals is getting better about innovation. One of my favorite shortcuts they rolled out was a LinkedIn plugin, this allowed for you to connect with somebody on linkedIn and in one click import them into your CRM. However, many times it would populate the fields with incorrect info or just generic info like where their company was headquartered instead of where that employee was actually located. Additionally, at times the APIs for some of these newer services would change, and then the features would not work.
Julie
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Nice software but we grew out of it...
Comments: It's a generic CRM software that you can tailor to your own needs. In the end we needed a software that was specific for publishing.
Pros:
User-friendly and very easy to use. You can add all sorts of custom fields for your own reporting and tracking needs.
Cons:
No invoicing, no estimates/proposals, the multiple email only works with Gmail accounts, no online payments. It helps you keep track of people, but doesn't really help you bring in the $$$ once a sale has been made.
Larry
Alternatives Considered:
Sales in our office is all about Volume
Comments: The program is really not completely intuitive. This has not hurt us as our questions get answered whenever they arise by their support team. We are more successful with our business because of this program.
Pros:
It could not be easier to load prospects. We signed up for a library card online. We select the type of businesses we want to pursue. We download spreadsheets of demographic information related to them. We upload those spreadsheets and start calling.
Cons:
I am certain that there are programs that provide more management tools. We simply are not that sophisticated with our sales efforts. If it is simply volume you seek, this is the right product. If you are looking for less effort and more management, pick again.
Pipeline Response
3 years ago
Hi Larry, thank you for writing a review. We value your feedback.
Mason
Alternatives Considered:
User-friendly
Comments: Have used some Different CRM’s before. But I seem to like pipeline the way it set up in the way that you can customize it
Pros:
The functionalities on pipeline very customizable you can use this for track and sales you can also use this afternoon customer converts
Cons:
You have to have accurate data if not you have to build it out and then it’s time consuming
Joel
Great for Small Business Sales Teams
Comments: My company has used Pipeline Deals since around the time they started. We were a very early customer. I started with one sales person and have moved up to about 10 today. The system works great for this size sales team. It's not cumbersome to use as a central system for a small team to stay organized. I highly recommend it to anyone with a sales force in that range. I can't speak to it's scale above that as its my experience up to 10 active reps. They have taken what was a massive set of things reps would need to do in some of the other online systems (lets call it OVERKILL) and boiled it down to activity, opportunities, and centralized performance measurement. Its got all the bells and whistles you need... while not overwhelming you (as the sales manager/owner) or your reps with tons of required extras that clutter their ability to move fast and keep selling.
Pros:
The BEST small biz sales relationship management tool we've used (7+ years now every single day) Very intuitive interface. Amazingly powerful API (if you want to code connect it to your own systems) Great customer support team (you talk to real people, in the real office) Extremely powerful list filtering and saved reports tools Constantly adding new features and enhancements to make it more powerful without more "clutter"
Cons:
The actual "finished" reporting built-in for sales performance, historicals, trending, etc is lacking quite a bit as far as "management" type reporting goes [its almost all list based reports, no roll ups, etc... you can see everything, but its not presented in any customized executive way, reason I think it works well for smaller teams. But without better aggregation, I dont think it would be fun to manage 25+ reps on something like this]. (It can be done with outside graphing and custom tools using their API but not everyone can do that). Real-Time, Customizable, Formatted Reporting for "summary/trend management" would make this thing a 10 out of 10 !
