Agile CRM vs Avochato: 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.

Andrew K.: My name is Andrew. I'm a program manager at a software company, and I would give Avochato a five out of five rating. Before we started using Avochato, we were a very small scrappy team, and we were actually just using one of the team member's Google Voices account to send and receive texts with customers when we needed to. One of the main alternative products that we considered when we were looking at Avochato was called Skipio. The main reason that we didn't go with it was because the pricing wasn't great for a very small team like ours, though it would have been a better option later on as we grew. The main reasons that we went with Avochato were the pricing, and the compatibility with Zapier. The pricing was great for a small growing team like ours. It didn't have too high of a bar to get started. So we could kind of just pay for what we used. And the prices were very, very reasonable, and they stayed reasonable even as we grew quite a bit. And Zapier was another important thing for us because we use Zapier to automate a lot of these processes as they grew, and Avochato worked really, really well with Zapier. It was really easy to set up and really easy to create automated workflows and expand as we grew. Getting started without Avochato was super easy. I think we basically just read some help documentation on the website for maybe 20 or 30 minutes. We got our account provisioned. That was pretty much it. The rest of it, we just sort of added new features and took advantage of new features as we went along, but getting started and being able to send and receive our first texts took no more than 10 minutes. For people who are considering using Avochato, I would recommend thinking about two things, pricing and integrations. One, pricing is important when you start out, but you also have to think about where you're going to go, because if you're growing 10 X one year, you don't want to have to change SMS platforms if you don't have to. So make sure you pick something that works for you now, but will also work and make sense as you grow. The second thing is integrations. For our team, it was really important that the tool that we chose integrate with certain tools like Zapier. And again, this only gets more important as you grow. So make sure it's going to fit with your other tools that you use.