ConvergeHub CRM Review

ConvergeHub Dashboard

ConvergeHub is targeted for small organizations with 10 – 100 employees and offers all-in-one sales and marketing solutions. The CRM dashboard has a comprehensive design that offers a single screen, at-a-glance view of all your CRM activities. The dashboard is dynamic, i.e. it captures real-time data, and is customizable.

The home page of each module offers a simple listing view that allows advantages like-one click access to the details page, inline edit, delete, mass updates, export etc. You can add entries to your Follow and Favorites lists to receive live updates on those.

Business & Sales Process Automation

ConvergeHub has implemented advanced intelligence  in its automation engine to offer easy to build Business and Sales Process Automation to quickly create sales cadence to close more deals. The system will automatically escalate the lead, from the time it’s captured and process it through its lifecycle till closing through its effective deal management feature. A really attractive feature is that it allows you to attach a score to a lead to help you track them based on their probabilities.

Campaign Management

At the core ConvergeHub is a marketing automation tool that helps you design, run and manage marketing campaigns directly from your user account. You can manage and create email marketing and DRIP marketing campaigns using the simple UI that helps you create simple as well as complex marketing campaigns following a minimum number of steps. The CRM has an inbuilt collection of attractive email and newsletters templates that allows you to customize your marketing campaign.

You can create lists of customers you want to add to the campaign and further describe segments to create sub-lists to make your campaigning more targeted and effective. ConvergeHub allows users to import their contacts in CSV format and directly add them to marketing campaign lists so that no time is wasted in initiating a communication. Its advanced level features allow you to set exclusions and add stop criteria actions to make your campaigns more intelligent.

Calendars

This module is created to offer on the go task management solutions for busy sales executives. You can view your plans for the day, week and month, add to your calendar or reschedule appointments from your calendar homepage. It covers the bare essential functionality of a CRM system but the crisp and smart design helps you know about your activities ahead to plan your day effectively. Moreover, the details of meetings can be viewed from the calendar entry so that you always know the person, purpose, time and venue of the meeting beforehand.

Custom Field Creation

What sets ConvergeHub apart from others is that it is a fully customizable application that can be molded as per your business or industry requirements. This is my personal favorite feature of the CRM. You can create and add tabs to the details pages for different modules as well as create customized dropdown lists for fields. ConvergeHub allows customization for the listing pages as well – you can add or omit fields from the page view.

Special mentions

• App store and third-party app integration: A comprehensive apps store that allows users to shop for a hoard of third-party apps on per-user/per-month basis. Some of the native Apps integrated with ConvergeHub are Twilio, DocuSign, PandaDoc, QuickBooks Offline, QuickBooks Online, RingCentral, Office365, Google Gsuite and many more. In addition to its App Store, ConvergeHub also is available with Zapier, PieSync and PabblyConnect to integrate with more than 3000+ business applications.
• POS integration: ConvergeHub can be integrated with all the prominent POS systems available in the marketplace. The POS-CRM integration improves dissemination of information and helps create a better business platform.
• Web meeting solution: Inbuilt web meeting platform will be introduced shortly so that users don’t have to buy third-party applications for live chat. Using the interface customers can be engaged directly in conversations. It will also enable product demonstrations through chatting.
• Document sharing and storing: Upto 2 GB of document sharing capacity has been incorporated. Users can upload/download files as well as share them through ConvergeHub, For document sharing clickable compressed URLs can be added and also the user can control viewer access, number of views, number of downloads, availability duration, etc.
• All the documents shared are listed under Library. The document library can also be managed and edited from the homepage of the Library module. I found the history section in document details page very useful.
• Security and data storage: ConvergeHub offers strong data storage and backup solution. As per their pricing FAQs, all data is stored in highly audited data centers that are manned and monitored round the clock. Data is encrypted both on transit and in store.

Highlights

• All-in-one solution for sales, marketing and communication for SMBs.
• Simple, intuitive designing.
• User friendly interface.
• Hosted in best of breed cloud architecture.
• Multiple language compatibility.
• No learning curve.
• Exhaustive user guide.
• Intelligent DRIP marketing and lead nurturing functionalities.
• Custom field and dropdown menu creation.
• Mobile application.
• Quick access to create tasks and add events to the calendar.
• Highly customizable to suit business and industry requirements.
• Advanced Business process automation to literally build any form of automation process for any industry. 
• Company logo, colors and themes can be added to customize the interface.
• Multi-channel marketing campaign integration.
• ConvergeHub Lead generator Chrome extension gathers lead specific information from linkedin, facebook and twitter.
• Cross-browser compatibility.
• Free trial available for 14 days. After that membership can be upgraded to paid version by paying through your ConvergeHub account.
• Backup data security and GDPR compliance..

Shortfalls

• The ecommerce platform is yet to be completely functional.
• It lacks in social CRM aspect. You can’t yet directly receive social updates on your customers in your ConvergeHub account.

Pricing details

ConvergeHub is competitively priced keeping in mind the targeted users, i.e. small and mid-level businesses. The CRM is available in three versions, namely – Lite, Professionals and Premium. Lite is the most basic version and Premium being the most advanced one. However, most users opt for the Professional version. The billing cycle is quarterly and subscription can be cancelled any time during the billing period. Special discounted rates offered for yearly subscription.

Free trial period is allowed for 30 days, which can be upgraded to paid membership during that time period or afterwards.

• Free Trial – 14 days
• Lite – $9.00 Per User Per Month
• Professional – $29.00 Per User Per Month
• Premium – $59 Per User Per Month