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A comprehensive CRM comparison

Nutshell vs. LeadSquared

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

  • An affordable pricing model that doesn’t compromise on features
  • Seamless integration with G Suite, Microsoft 365, Zapier, and more, plus built-in solutions to send quotes, identify website visitors, generate leads, and more
  • Multiple views for pipeline management, including a drag-and-drop board and an interactive map
  • Providing free world-class customer support
  • In-app Nutshell Marketing and Engagement suite with email and SMS marketing, web chat, 1:1 SMS messaging, and more
Nutshell vs LeadSquared

What is LeadSquared?

LeadSquared is a sales CRM software designed for customer-facing teams, including inside sales, call center, operations, and marketing. It helps enhance productivity for businesses, but cons—such as limitations on storage capacity, features, and support—may cause some to hesitate on this CRM.

What is Nutshell?

Nutshell is an award-winning CRM platform that helps B2B sales, marketing, and customer teams work together to close more deals and retain more customers.

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 businesses from a wide variety of industries and sizes due to its ease of use, flexible set up, and available features.

Furthermore, Nutshell Sales’ features often outshine the competitors in terms of both usability and comprehensiveness, according to customer reviews. Plus, we have a full Marketing Suite and Engagement Suite, with some of our marketing and engagement tools included with your Nutshell Sales license.

Here at Nutshell, we’re dedicated to helping businesses grow their revenue and solve 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, marketing, and managing.

Nutshell not only seamlessly syncs with all of Google Workspace (download our Chrome extension), but we also sync seamlessly with all of Microsoft 365 (download our Outlook extension).

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Nutshell vs. LeadSquared comparison

LeadSquared offers a one-stop platform for sales and marketing teams to generate leads and close sales. Positive reviewers praise its lead management features.

Unfortunately, other LeadSquared users face issues such as software bugs that cause slow loading times, downtimes, as well as inexplicable call dropping. Let’s look at the pros and cons of LeadSquared CRM in more detail.

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LeadSquared pros

LeadSquared proves to be an adequate CRM platform for medium-sized businesses and companies, helping team members to track and capture leads closely.

Many satisfied LeadSquared users praise the platform’s lead management capabilities, including scoring, offline lead capture, and advanced but limited search filters.

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LeadSquared cons

More than a few reviews from users, even among those who gave glowing reviews, mention bugs and operational issues that the platform faces.

One user reports that the platform occasionally stops functioning for up to one hour, hindering sales progress and employee productivity. Additionally, customer calls—one of the crucial elements in sales—periodically drop without warning, according to other users.
The interface is also not intuitive to many teams. Many reviewers report a steep learning curve that eats at their time. The long time to implementation means time lost to the sales process and, ultimately, revenue.

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Nutshell: A great LeadSquared alternative

At Nutshell, we understand the struggle of adapting to new business software, particularly a sales CRM. A system that’s supposed to make things easier on your sales team can often complicate their lives even more.

The best CRM is the one you use. And you’ll definitely use Nutshell, with features including:

    • Ease of use: Users find Nutshell Sales easy to set up, navigate, and work with, making it accessible to both sales professionals and non-sales individuals.
    • Affordable and transparent pricing: Get exceptional value with straightforward pricing and no hidden fees, making Nutshell a budget-friendly solution for growing businesses.
    • Intuitive automation: Streamline your sales processes with easy-to-use automation tools for email, lead generation, and sales support, freeing up your team to focus on growth and easily measure campaign success.
    • Award-winning customer support: Get dedicated assistance whenever you need it with our empathetic, human-based customer support team, available via email and live chat, regardless of your plan size.
    • Growth-focused: Sales teams will love the way Nutshell Sales enhances their sales process to improve productivity and increase sales revenue. But investing in Nutshell Sales also keeps sales and marketing teams in sync, further boosting business growth with access to robust marketing tools, powerful engagement features, and advanced prospecting tools, as well as Nutshell Quotes.
    • Free white glove data imports: Free onboarding data importing assistance to ensure you and your team get up and running as quickly as possible.
    • Advanced customization: Tailor Nutshell to your unique business needs with powerful automation, seamless third-party integrations, custom report creation, and personalized marketing plans.
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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:

  • App Marketplace to connect your CRM data with the apps you already use
  • Scheduler to simplify meeting planning and appointments
  • Email marketing through our Nutshell Marketing suite to help you strengthen relationships with customers and prospects
  • SMS marketing, available with a Marketing Pro subscription, to engage more effectively with leads and customers
  • Web chat through our Nutshell Engagement suite to let website visitors seamlessly initiate a chat with your team while visiting your website
  • 1:1 SMS when you sign up for Engagement Pro to easily interact with leads and customers via text message
  • Nutshell IQ add-on to automatically track website visitors, generate leads, and find people at the companies you already work with
  • Nutshell Quotes add-on to swiftly deliver professional quotes directly from your CRM
  • And many more

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

Nutshell vs. LeadSquared, head-to-head

CRM is Nutshell’s flagship feature that is available in our Sales Suite. Our Sales Suite has 5 plan tiers to help you choose the best plan for your budget and required features. Below, we’re comparing our most popular Sales plan (Sales Pro) to LeadSquared’s most comparable plan.

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  • PER USER COST Comparisons based on similarly-priced packages (Nutshell Sales Pro and LeadSquared Sales Pro)

    $42 per month billed annually,
    $49 per month billed monthly

    $50 per user per month, annual (no monthly payment option available)

  • CONTACT RECORDS AND DATA STORAGE

    Unlimited

    Unlimited

  • CUSTOMIZABLE SALES PIPELINES Customize your sales pipeline to include the stages, activities, goals, reminders, and automations your team needs to accomplish more.

    5

    None (included in Super plan, $100/month)

  • APP MARKETPLACE App Marketplace lets you integrate your workflows and data between Nutshell and the applications your company already uses.

    Included (restrictions apply)

    No

  • FREE ONBOARDING DATA IMPORT ASSISTANCE

    Yes

    No

  • EMAIL SYNC Send and reply to work emails directly from your CRM, plus send templated Nutshell emails from your email composer.

    Yes

    No

  • EMAIL HEALTH SCORE Determine how healthy your email inbox is before sending emails to ensure the highest possible deliverability and engagement.

    Yes

    No

  • AI WRITING ASSISTANT FOR EMAIL MARKETING Nutshell’s AI writing assistant will help you generate email campaign copy that wows and inspires (as part of our Marketing Suite features)

    Yes

    No

  • ADVANCED REPORTS Run advanced reports like forecast, losses, activity, funnel, and custom reports in Nutshell.

    Yes

    No

  • BUSINESS CARD SCANNER

    Yes; Included in the mobile app

    No

  • EMAIL MARKETING MIGRATION ASSISTANCE

    Yes; migration assistance is offered when you switch to Nutshell Campaigns

    No

  • AUTOMATED PIPELINE DISTRIBUTION Nutshell will automatically distribute your leads through the right pipeline based on criteria that you set, like industry, market, source, and more.

    Yes

    Yes

  • Web Chat tool Sales Pro customers have access to our Nutshell Engagement Foundation tier features, including unlimited Web chat tool usage, chat thread assignment, chat conversation management, and data collection through forms.

    Unlimited

    No

  • FREE IPHONE/ANDROID APPS Included mobile app from the App Store or Google Play to access the power of Nutshell anywhere.

    Yes

    Yes

  • LIVE TECHNICAL SUPPORT Available on Monday through Friday from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm EST (excluding holidays)

    Live chat support included free

    Live chat support included free

Even more power on Sales Business & Sales Enterprise

  • Sales Business: Includes everything in Sales Pro, plus: AI capabilities, higher limits, Audit log, Changelog and more.
  • Sales Enterprise: Includes everything in Sales Business, plus: higher limits, Read-only SQL access, Enterprise SSO and Enterprise directory sync

To compare all of Nutshell’s Sales plans, go to our pricing page and click “compare all plans”.

Learn more about our LeadSquared alternative

When making CRM comparisons with Copper, Nutshell should be on your radar. That’s because we offer:

  • More platform integrations: While our software does integrate with the Google suite, it also works well with many other platforms, like Microsoft and Slack.
  • Better interface: Start using Nutshell to your benefit immediately with our easy-to-understand interface, onboarding support, and ongoing customer care.
  • Advanced customization: Make Nutshell work for you. Customize marketing plans, create personalized reports, and tailor our software to meet your brand’s unique needs.
  • More features: Simplify your day-to-day by utilizing our fully integrated Marketing and Engagement suites, our Scheduling tool, our Quoting tool, and our Prospecting tool, all in the same app.

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Awesome service. The White Glove Important service convinced me to roll this out to my entire company.

Steve K. Speedwagon Properties

A perfect system that meets all our requirements; Flexible and easy to customize.

Vimmi

Nutshell—somehow—made me *want* to use a CRM again. Might be a first.

Lisa L. Generations Now LLC

Nutshell gives us insights into our business through their reporting, and the CRM is easy fr our sales and onboarding teams to use. I highly recommend them for a growing Saas.

Brian S. Testimonial Tree

Your customer service is hands-down the best I’ve seen in a long time. It is greatly appreciated. Keep up the good work!

Ryan M. Reichel Insulation

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