Commence

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Online CRM for Small to Mid-Size Businesses

About Commence

<strong>Core Features of the Dashboard:</strong>
- Real time snapshot of leads, sales and service activity
- Read or compose e-mail right within the dashboard
- Analyze trends in your sales funnel
- Alerts keep you on top of your game
- Dashboard is customizable by individual or job function

<strong>Core features of Help Desk and support</strong>
- Create, track, escalate and resolve customer service requests
- Resolve Service requests quickly and efficiently
- Ensure consistent customer responses while lowering training cost
- Introduce new products and services while delivering world-class customer service
- Real time customer support dashboard measures staff productivity
- Analytical reporting provides number of active tickets, how long they have been open and if they have been escalated

<strong>Core features for reporting and analytics</strong>
- View account status, identify new opportunities, manage the sales pipeline and the efficiency of your sales team
- Pre-built, ad-hoc and graphical reporting help you to make informed business decisions
- Built in report generator enables the creation of customer reports
- Identify issues and take appropriate action before they impact your business
- Monitor the effectiveness of sales opportunities, marketing programs and service ticket management
- Graphical analysis provides a quick view of deal flow, win/loss analysis, average deal size and more


Key benefits of Commence

- Improved Market Segmentation
- A Clear Value Proposition
- Increased Sales & Profitability
- Building Brand Recognition
- Management of the Sales Cycle
- Delivery of World-Class Customer Service


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4.9 /5
(44)
Value for Money
4.7/5
Features
4.6/5
Ease of Use
4.8/5
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Steve
Steve
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  • Industry: Legal Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Amazing Software for a Customized Calendar

Reviewed on 2022/06/14

I wanted the ability to customize a calendar to handle a very complex schedule. Commence offers a...

I wanted the ability to customize a calendar to handle a very complex schedule. Commence offers a degree of customization which isn't found on other software. And it integrates with Outlook. And it synchronizes across my desktops and laptops and my assistant can seamlessly help.

Pros

Commence is one of the only items of software on my computers which has worked consistently, correctly and flexibly. The ability to customize the calendar, in so many important ways, using such great tools, makes Commence one of my favorite pieces of software ever.

Cons

After 15 years, I still don't have any complaints. And that isn't true about any other software I use.

Ozair
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Very intuitive. Easy to mold to your specific needs. Powerful CRM for multiple needs

Reviewed on 2018/02/22

Multiple. It has become my primarty Database and CRM software. For a small business with multiple...

Multiple. It has become my primarty Database and CRM software. For a small business with multiple needs, at an extremely reasonable cost per year.

Pros

Commence user for 15 yrs. As a marketing consultant and service provider to multiple non-profit clients, Commence is the primary Database/CRM software I use for all my needs. I have created multiple Commence Databases for multiple applications on my own to suit my specific and particular needs. I have created Commence Applications for Client Management, Inventory management and GTD (Getting Things Done) for my day to day handling of projects and tasks. ALong with many applications for Personal use as well. Once you get a hang of it, it is really very easy to set-up for your specific needs, and more importantly, to change things on a fly when you need to implement a change. I do that constantly. You can change the look and feel to what works for you. The Agents creation function (which is like a Macro function is quite strong and powerful, and so is the filtering and sorting capabilities. Have to mention the connectivity function of one category to the other, which is very powerful as well. Bottom line. I am not a programmer, I am a marketer and administrator, and I can create, modify and change Commence to suit my needs. I am sure you can too...

Cons

I would like Commence to address in their future version of non web based standalone Commence:
1. Allow creation of some sort of Simple Spreadsheet into the DB. Spreadsheet format is something that we are all fond of and comfortable with, and it would be a great boost to have that functionality built in. If this exists already, and I am not aware of it, please let me know?
2. While adding text in notes, it would be great to have some flexibility to change fonts and sizes within the single note itself, that will allow some emphasis to draw attention to it. Right now only one singe font and size is allowed, which is OK, but in a long note, the change in font or the ability to increase/decrease its size or make it italic or underlining it, would make the notes much easier to read and follow.

Response from Commence

Thank you for your recommendations. You'll be pleased to learn we have a grid view that provides a spreadsheet view right in the product. We have also received suggestions about allowing formatted text in notes and will consider this for the future.

Jenny
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

We have had employee complaints about redundancy and not as user friendly to navigate through

Reviewed on 2017/05/15

online document storing

online document storing

Pros

Easy searchable fields are super helpful in looking up accounts and clients. Other than not, not much else.

Cons

There does not seem to be duplicate check feature. Meaning before we can create an account, if we type in the name, it should check to make sure there is not one already created. We have to do it manually our selves.

Response from Commence

Jenny, there is a duplicate feature in the product. It is an option that can quickly be turned on by the system administrator. You can do this under the license settings tab. This will flag any duplicates that people try to enter into the system and address the redundancy issue you mentioned. Furthermore we would be happy to provide additional training for those that may not be as familiar with the product. They can also take advantage of our free training videos on the Commence web site.

Dave
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  • Industry: Semiconductors
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Product flexibility and customizability are 2nd to none.

Reviewed on 2017/05/22

Cost effective, configurable, maintainable CRM.

Cost effective, configurable, maintainable CRM.

Pros

As a Manufacturers Representative, we have created an implementation of Commence on which we run almost all of our business operations (Opportunity Management, Sales History, Quotations, Forecasts, Tracking overseas, Leads, Target customer, as well as the usual CRM contact info). We developed this in-house from the ground up to meet our specific needs....and so can you! Why shoe horn your data needs into a non-optimal architecture?

Commence RM Desktop is very easily configurable which is a top priority for us as the configuration of incoming and outgoing data requirements seems to change at least quarterly by at least a couple of the Manufacturers we represent. This demands updates to the architecture which would be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming if we could not do them in-house.

Commence RM Desktop strikes the right balance with flexibility that can be implemented by non-computer scientists (or expert developers). Their top notch support has been invaluable in the 1-2 instances where we ran into some unforeseen glitches (mostly the result of user error).

Cons

While spreadsheets are the best tool to analyze data, CRMs were never designed to do that. But, the ability to compile reports with totals/summaries is a challenge to implement in Commence RM Desktop (lots of scripting required which we choose not to do due to maintainability concerns). Manually filtering data within Commence (and using the summary button for totals and averages) works great for the most rudimentary tasks, and exporting as tab-delimited TXT takes a few easy steps to get into Excel.

Response from Commence

Thank you for your review of Commence. Buyers of CRM software often overlook the need for a flexible solution that can change along with their business. Thank you for bringing this to the attention to others. Whether you are using our cloud based version or our desktop solution, this flexibility coupled with robust functionality and best in class customers service differentiate Commence CRM from competitors.

Brett
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  • Industry: Information Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Commence - Powerful, Customizable and Reliable

Reviewed on 2020/08/14

Commence's capability, flexibility and support has made working with Commence a great experience...

Commence's capability, flexibility and support has made working with Commence a great experience for us.

Pros

Commence allows us to customize our critical CRM applications to automate our business processes for efficiency, ease of use and quality control. Also, the ability to deploy custom improvements to our system as needed seamlessly without user interruption is a key feature.

Cons

Commence offers good balance of features and capability that we rely on to grow our business. It does take determined effort implement a customized solution (with Commence or any other application) but it is worth the investment and critical to our success.

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Commence FAQs

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Commence offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$29.00/month
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Starting at $19.00/user/month

Commence has the following typical customers:

2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000

Commence supports the following languages:

Dutch, English, French

Commence supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

We do not have any information about what integrations Commence has

Commence offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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