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A comprehensive CRM comparison

Nutshell vs. Monday

Choosing the right CRM is crucial for your business. Explore why Nutshell is the right CRM over Monday CRM. Nutshell’s standout features include:

  • Powerful yet easy-to-use CRM, sales, and marketing automation platform
  • Industry-leading pipeline automation tools with advanced functionality
  • In-app email marketing suite with robust marketing and analytics
  • An affordable pricing model that doesn’t compromise on features
  • Providing free world-class customer support
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What is Monday CRM?

Monday CRM is a UI theme for Monday’s project management platform that visually and functionally replicates a CRM. You can use this platform to customize your sales cycle in a way that works best for you and your team.

Monday.com is a great project management tool, but Monday CRM just provides project management with multiple templates that make it look like other tools. From the outside, Monday.com presents a wide enough range of management tools from IT to creative to sales. When you get into the details, you’ll see that the software all revolves around the same project management features.

What is Nutshell?

Nutshell is an award-winning CRM platform that helps B2B sales and marketing teams work together to close more deals. Powerful enough to support any element of your business and simple enough to implement without a paid admin or IT department, Nutshell is favored among small to medium-sized companies who know better than to overpay for software they’ll never use. Furthermore, Nutshell’s features often outshine the competitors in terms of both usability and comprehensiveness, according to customer reviews.

Nutshell is dedicated to helping businesses grow their revenue and solving the most critical challenge of sales and marketing software: motivating teams to use it. We’re passionate about our customers’ success, and we love finding new ways to take the frustrations out of selling.

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Nutshell vs. Monday CRM comparison

If your company is new to customer relationship management (CRM) software, finding a free program that helps you get started sounds like a win-win. So, you go with Monday.com. For a while, it does the job, but as more bugs crop up during your everyday processes, you soon find yourself wondering if there’s a better alternative.

Nutshell is here to answer your questions and offer a new solution to your CRM needs.

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Monday CRM Pros

Monday.com takes pride in its fully customizable appearance and easy-to-use interface. Teams can easily color-code tasks to make them easier for everyone to monitor, and project managers can keep a close eye on operations through their integrated monitoring platform. All in all, Monday is a vibrant, powerful introduction to what CRM platforms can do.

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Monday CRM Cons

Though you can access some of Monday’s best features for free, making the software work for you can come at a cost, especially as you work through the first weeks and months with it.

Monday users report a steep learning curve, and its versatility is a downfall as much as a benefit. Such open customization possibilities make it challenging to find and use all of Monday’s best features, which you need if you want to get your money’s worth out of the pricier top service tiers.

Furthermore, if you need consistent access to your CRM, Monday poses other significant challenges. Its mobile app is lacking key features you need on the go, and it doesn’t refresh automatically, which is a major concern when you find yourself in one of Monday’s many low-connectivity spots. If your business plan requires comprehensive services, you may need to start exploring Monday.com alternatives.

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Nutshell: A great Monday CRM alternative

Nutshell banishes the Monday blues. We take that user-friendly interface and customizability that make Monday great and give you even more with:

  • Comprehensive automation tools: Take your email marketing and customer relations to the next level even as your business expands with automation tools that allow you to keep up with communications while doing more.
  • Integrated communications and cross-site management: Bring everything you were using before with you to Nutshell. Our platform integrates seamlessly with Slack, Gmail, and most other professional platforms.
  • A responsive mobile app: Stay connected to your work wherever you end up. Our app is constantly updating to keep you in the know.
  • Dedicated support: Our team is available through email and through live chat support to assist you in answering questions and making the program work better for you.
  • Transparent pricing: What you see on our pricing page is what you pay, period. We don’t do hidden fees or upsell pricing.
  • Growth-focused: Sales teams will like the improved sales process, while marketing teams will find the marketing features excellent for covering the email marketing basics while staying in sync with their sales team.
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Constructing a Better Nutshell Experience

We listen to and anticipate the needs of our customers to provide a user-friendly and affordable CRM filled with valuable features.

We regularly add new features and update our software to provide superior service including:

  • AppConnect to connect your CRM data with the apps you already use
  • Scheduler to simplify meeting planning and appointments
  • PeopleIQ to automatically tracks visitors to your website and their company data
  • And many more

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Easy to Use. Easy to Sell. That’s Nutshell.

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Nutshell is the CRM and email marketing tool I have been searching for since 1992.

Evan T Account Executive

Nutshell vs. Monday CRM, head-to-head

PER USER COST Comparisons based on similarly priced packages (Nutshell Pro and Monday CRM Pro)

CONTACTS, FILE, AND DATA STORAGE Unlimited contact, company records and data storage.

SALES PROCESS BUILDER Automatically move your leads through your pipeline based on automated triggers.

AUTOMATED PERSONAL EMAIL SEQUENCES Create and schedule one-on-one sales drips that are more likely to capture attention. Nutshell triggers a sales sequence at the pipeline stage of your choice, remembers the follow-up for you so that valuable prospects don’t float away, and stops the sequence as soon as they reply.

ONE-CLICK PHONE DIALING/RECORDING/LOGGING Integrate with your phone system or preferred communication platform and call from within Nutshell.

EXPORT CONTACTS FROM MAP VIEW With Nutshell Maps you can zoom in on the location, export the data from the list.

INTEGRATED EMAIL MARKETING Nutshell Campaigns is an add-on that starts for as little as $5/mo and is based on the number of contacts. Even without adding Nutshell Campaigns, you are able to send up to a certain number of emails with Nutshell Campaigns based on your CRM plan.

ACTIVITY LOG HISTORY View changes on People, Leads and Company timelines to trace any user actions.

ADVANCED USER PERMISSIONS Create roles within your organization and customize the permissions for each. The number of customizable roles available varies by plan.

WORKFLOW AUTOMATIONS Automatically move your leads through your pipeline based on automated triggers.

MOBILE BUSINESS CARD SCANNER Nutshell’s business card scanner is lightweight and built into the Nutshell mobile app.

AUTOMATIC INFO GATHERING Automatically gathers firmographic data to make your companies smarter than ever.

UNLIMITED SALES AUTOMATIONS Automatically move your leads through your pipeline based on automated triggers.

EASE OF USE Nutshell is well-known for its easy-to-use interface and hassle-free features.

REPORTING Instantly view how you’re tracking against quota and previous periods, and segment by product, rep, lead source, and more to identify what’s really driving your sales.

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$28* per month billed annually,
$33* per month billed monthly (*three-seat minimum required), so the minimum cost is $84 per month

100 GB

No

Limited

Calling only

No

No

1 Year

No

Limited

No

None

No

Tricky interface to navigate

Good for tracking activities, bad for tracking time and expenses

Additional Nutshell Features

  • Campaigns – Email Marketing in your CRM
  • Landing Pages — Create and host branded landing pages on your website
  • 1:1 SMS — Send and receive text messages to and from your contacts directly from Nutshell
  • Nutshell IQ – Identify Organizations & People on your website
  • App Marketplace  – Tech & Application integration assistance

Explore our Monday CRM alternative

Nutshell combines the power of comprehensive CRM with an intuitive interface that helps you boost sales every day. Sign up for your free trial now. No credit card required and free support offered during your trial.

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I’ve honestly had more problems than solutions when it comes to using Monday. It was very visually pleasing, but that’s as far as the benefits went.

Kevin K. Media Production

It is extremely frustrating to be left at the mercy of [Monday’s] horrible tech support. If we had to make the decision all over again, we would have passed on Monday back when we initially had the opportunity to sign up.

Administrator Photography Industry

Using Monday really feels the way Mondays feel.

Michelle E. Apparel & Fashion

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