Best CRM - Perfex, Rise or Grow?

I love grow. which it was a saas

i prefer perfex.....having the right add on modules, it can perform wonders.

true....

WhiteFluffyPuppy said:

The problem, as you have said, is, having the right add-ons. These are extra costs and more moving parts (dealing with more than one developer in case of compatibility issues).
Perfex reminds me of WordPress in which more plugins can make it perform wonders.

I like everything I need to be in one place if I can help it.
By the way, have you used the others? I'm thinking of going with Rise CRM.

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I just came across Grow crm. Looks like Perfex is still a better choice for later expansion. Many modules are developed, integration with Woocommerce is an advantage, adding SMS channels to take care of customers,...

WhiteFluffyPuppy said:

I agree with you, Perfex is a beast and is solid.
Even though its UI is not as modern as Rise, I can still live with that. However, Perfex doesn't allow you to set and send out email notifications to customers days before the payment date, and they haven't bothered to add that feature all these years. This is my frustration with them!

That is the MAIN reason I haven't bought it and will be buying Rise instead.

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They do have a separate module for your requirement. You might wanna have a look at:

I think that should help.

WhiteFluffyPuppy said:

I agree with you, Perfex is a beast and is solid.
Even though its UI is not as modern as Rise, I can still live with that. However, Perfex doesn't allow you to set and send out email notifications to customers days before the payment date, and they haven't bothered to add that feature all these years. This is my frustration with them!

That is the MAIN reason I haven't bought it and will be buying Rise instead.

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The interface of RISE is quite good, I think it will be customizing on Perfex, which is quite easy.
I need to closely link with SMS & woocommerce. Rese is pretty limited

Perfex, no doubt, tonnes of addons with awesome features, really a king in the CRM world.

if your familiar with codeigniter, i find perfex highly customizable

i will recommend perfex if you are looking to explore more and indepth

My biggest constrain to not go with Perfex was the fact that I run a small PC repair shop and sometimes I have some walking clients etc. that are not having a company or so. In Perfex (about a year ago at least) when you add a customer, it needs to be a member of a company. So to avoid this inconvenience, I was told to either create a :WALKIN: company and assign all the users to it, or there were some settings which made the company field not required but I still had to add the name of the person as a company and as a payee.
I can't speak much about Rise, but I can tell that it is gaining speed and am myself considering switching from GrowCRM to Rise.
It was quite educative to find out that PERFEX has moved forward with some extra plugins and I might give it a shot and re-evaluate.

One thing to consider is the number of plugins/modules one would require to achieve the so called "perfect state" as sometimes if the functionality of one CRM is allowing you to pay X-amount of money and be ready but another requires X*2 or even 3 to include missing functionality as modules, then it would be just a matter of reasonability or personal preference of GUI, developers, support etc.
I wish Rise CRM was built under Laravel as it is my framework of choice and I might have borrowed some of the code for my other projects and ideas, but seems like most of the devs these days pick CodeIgniter as it is faster to develop and is a common startup for India and several other countries (no disrespect to people using it of course).