Where Nermio differs, and where it doesn't
Putting two CRM packages side by side on features tells you almost nothing: both can do what you need. The difference is in what they were built for, and that is what these pages are about.
Three comparisons
Two with a package you may already know, and one with what you're probably using today.
Nermio and HubSpot
A platform for marketing, sales and service, next to one product for a company where a few people make the calls.
Nermio and Pipedrive
The package closest to ours in thinking. The difference is in how much you can configure, and in the shape of the price.
Excel or a CRM
Where a spreadsheet is perfectly fine, and where it quietly stops working.
How we compare here
We don't state other packages' prices or feature lists as fact. Not out of reticence, but because they change: last year's comparison is misleading this year, and a misleading comparison is worse than none. What doesn't change is what a package was built for, and that is the thing you actually want to know.
We also name where the other package is stronger. That isn't courtesy: if you're searching for "alternative to", you're often already using it, and then you know better than we do what it does well. A comparison that papers over that loses you on the first line.
What Nermio itself does and doesn't do is set out, unfiltered, on the page about CRM software, including the list of what isn't in it.
Two weeks is enough, and far more reliable
Trialling two packages side by side tells you more in a fortnight than any comparison page, this one included. Just do it so the outcome means something.
The same ten customers in both
Not an invented test company, but ten real relationships with an open enquiry. Only with your own data do you notice where entering it grates.
Actually work in it for two weeks
After every customer conversation, record three lines. What you're measuring isn't what it can do but whether you still open it after ten days — that's the only reason CRMs fail.
Ask how you get back out
Ask both of them outright, and ask what form your data comes back in. Almost nobody runs this test, and it says the most about where you stand as a customer. With Nermio the answer is: under Settings there's an export button that gives you your companies, contacts, deals and tasks as CSV, any day, not only on your way out.
Put Nermio next to what you use now
A trial with no credit card, and you can stop at the end of any month.