Compare SuiteCRM and Zendesk - Sep 2023

Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / Sep 28, 2023

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - SuiteCRM or Zendesk?

Zendesk is more expensive to implement (TCO) than SuiteCRM, and Zendesk is rated higher (92/100) than SuiteCRM (81/100). Zendesk offers users more features (23) than SuiteCRM (0). There is a clear winner in this case and it is Zendesk!

Looking for the right CRM solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

SalesAgility Vs. Zendesk

SalesAgility: SalesAgility re an employee-owned CRM Consultancy. As such, we are highly invested in developing cutting edged and innovative open sourced CRM solutions for organisations locally, nationally and globally. SalesAgility began life delivering bespoke open source solutions for the SugarCRM Community Edition over a decade ago. By 2013 however, SugarC...

Zendesk: Zendesk is founded in Copenhagen, Denmark. Zendesk is the leading cloud-based customer service software solution. More than 20,000 companies such as Groupon, Box, and Zappos are using Zendesk to lower costs, raise productivity, and increase customer satisfaction.

Who is more expensive? SuiteCRM or Zendesk?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of CRM software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for SuiteCRM and Zendesk.

SuiteCRM price starts at $1,500 per license , On a scale between 1 to 10 SuiteCRM is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of CRM software. Zendesk price starts at $49 per agent/month , When comparing Zendesk to its competitors, the software is rated 2 - much lower than the average CRM software cost.

Bottom line: SuiteCRM cost is around the same cost of Zendesk.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared SuiteCRM Vs. Zendesk based on some of the most important and required CRM features.

SuiteCRM: We are still working to collect the list of features for SuiteCRM.

Zendesk: Customer Survey, Email Integration, Knowledge Base/FAQ, Multi-Site Support, Rules/Workflows.

Target customer size

SuiteCRM is a designed for small businesses (1-20 employees) use, medium-sized companies (10-100 employees) and in large enterprises (more than 1000 employees) in the Information and Technology (IT), Systems Management and other Information Provider industry, mainly those businesses engaging in the field of customer support and CRM. Zendesk is the tool for any company, big or small, that has to deal with a certain number of customers on daily basis and needs an evolving platform to facilitate this process.

SuiteCRM

ITQlick rating
(4.3/5)

starts at $1,500 per license

SuiteCRM is a cloud-based and an on-premise open-source customer relationship management software solution. This software is enterprise-ready and can also be customized to fit a business of any size as well as ...

Categories: Document Management, Banking CRM, Casino CRM, Customer Success.

Zendesk

ITQlick rating
(4.3/5)

starts at $49 per agent/month

Zendesk is a SaaS and a cloud-based customer service software that help the user to manage customers. The solution enables the user to build more meaningful productive as well as personal relationships with cus...

Categories: Customer Service, Ticket Management, Help Desk, Document Management, CRM.

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Compare features

SuiteCRM: 0 Features

We are working to collect the list of features

Zendesk: 23 Features

Customer Survey
Email Integration
Knowledge Base/FAQ
Multi-Site Support
Rules/Workflows
Scheduling
Self Service Portal
Service Level Agreements
Change Management
Customer Survey
Email Integration
Knowledge Base/FAQ
Multi-Site Support
Rules/Workflows
Scheduling
Self Service Portal
Service Level Agreements
Customer Database
Customer Self Service Portal
Customer Service
Customer Support Tracking
Knowledge Base
Mail Order Sales
ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
ITQlick score ITQlick Score is a 1 to 100, the calculation is based on pricing, and functionality Vs. alternative solutions
Pricing score pricing Score is a 1 to 10 (10 is high cost), based on the TCO (cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
License pricing license pricing (if provided by the software vendor)
Functionality score
Software review
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SuiteCRM
ITQlick rating
4.3/5
Score
81/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$1,500 per license
Functionality
18
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Zendesk
ITQlick rating
4.3/5
Score
92/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$49 per agent/month
Functionality
48
Pipedrive
ITQlick rating
4.6/5
Score
99/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$9.90 per user/month
Functionality
19
Salesfor...
ITQlick rating
4.4/5
Score
98/100
Pricing
3/10
License pricing
$25 per user/month
Functionality
28
Zoho CRM
ITQlick rating
4.2/5
Score
98/100
Pricing
2/10
License pricing
$14 per user/month
Functionality
36

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