Agile CRM vs Hiver: Which is a better fit?

Mike P.: My name is Mike. I'm the president of my company and I would use Agile CRM. I would give them a rating of a four. There's more reviews available down below. Before switching to Agile CRM, I've used a number of different CRM and marketing automation programs. I used a program called SendPepper. I used one called GreenRope, but switched to Agile CRM about two years ago. We chose Agile CRM because it offered a lot of different functions for the money. The program includes a CRM, a marketing automation system, and a help desk system. They're all integrated. It was a lot of things that you could do there in that one package rather than trying to integrate a whole bunch of different pieces of software together. Onboarding and implementing Agile CRM was a little tricky, I will admit, but their support is really good. It comes out of India a lot, but their technicians are top-notch and you can get to them through a chat, or through email or on the phone. They're very helpful. They walked me through everything that we needed to do. I'd say the only thing that really hung us up was getting our email service provider hooked up with Agile CRM so we could send emails under our own domain. Yes, I've actually had the opportunity to recommend Agile CRM to two of my clients. One of them has been using it for over a year now. They're very happy with it. I actually helped them to set it up because I'd already had experience in setting up the system for my own company, but they're very happy with it. I have another client who is just getting ready to implement their Agile CRM system for their company as well. I have lots of good things to say about them. Like I said, they offer a lot of capabilities for a relatively reasonable amount of money.

Brian: Hi, my name is Brian. I am the Director of Accounting at MD Squared Property Group, and I would give Hiver a four out of five. When I started at MD Squared, we were a very small company, and of course, you're doing everything via email. And as we scaled over the years, we were looking for a ticketing solution so we could keep track of our emails and make sure that everything was resolved in a appropriate amount of time. So I started looking into different ticketing systems, and we found Hiver and decided to go with that one. I was looking into a variety of different solutions, some of which had these very extensive online platforms to manage all different types of things. They were very robust, but I decided to go with Hiver because it integrated with Gmail, which we were using at the moment, so we were able to seamlessly integrate that with our existing systems. And I really liked that it was simple and easy to use, and it would not be intimidating for new users, and I thought it was very appropriate for a mid-size firm such as ours, that went from having no solution to having its first ticketing and email tracking solution. Getting started with Hiver was very quick and easy. Their customer support team is great and available 24/7. We had a amazing, I guess, your onboarding associate, who walked us through how to use it on various occasions. And ultimately, all you need to do is install a plugin on your Chrome browser into Gmail, and it's all set, and you pretty much can set it up as you go. And it is very quick and easy to get online, which is one of the reasons why we decided to go with Hiver. So Hiver is very quick and easy to get online, but I would recommend that you have somebody in the office who's ready to handle the influx of data that will be coming in. I think you just need a plan for how you're going to close and resolve these open tickets and just making sure that all of your data flows are working as planned. But I wouldn't be intimidated, because everything is fairly easy to change and to improve. I'd say we jump into it at a small scale and do some initial testing to see how it's going to work, and you could scale up from there. And once you're online and you understand the basics, it's very simple to scale up and make it more robust and more impactful for your company.