At the level we're at, we have the Sales Creatio corporate licenses. These cost $60 per user. We are implementers and partners, so we have special pricing. Bottom line is that Sales Creatio's cost is half of Salesforce's cost. If I'm not mistaken, Salesforce is priced at $120. Microsoft's more like us, but we have everything. $60 per platform per module and we can pick and choose. If you have five users for sales, that's five times 60, so that's $300 a month, times 12.

They also have other versions. They have the lighter version for $30. You don't need everything in sales. It's attractive in terms of pricing, plus you're going to get a lot of features. You're going to get a lot of flexibility. These are part of what makes Sales Creatio attractive.

To get the same thing on Salesforce, you're going to have to invest. As you go on, surprising, surprise. You will be hit with additional charges here and there. That's when people don't realize when they're going to close a project. They think they're paying something, then six months down the road, they'll be hit with another invoice. They'll go: "What is this?" Then they'll find out it's for additional storage, or additional platform for marketing, or that they're utilizing too many contacts.

Sales Creatio is straightforward with their costs and charges. We've never had an issue and neither do our clients. Their costs are upfront. It's $60 for a license per month, per user. Pricing is plain and simple. Only if you really need storage, they're going to charge you additionally for storage. There is an additional charge for documentation and database, etc. If you're using marketing and you're marketing to 10,000 contacts, the pricing is going to be different than marketing to 200,000. The number of contacts will change the pricing for marketing.

Sales Creatio's enterprise version is $60 per user per month. Other leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for sales automation, such as SAP, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle, are about $150 to $200 a month, and Creatio is $60.

Compared to Salesforce and other applications, Sales Creatio is a cost-effective solution. The fact that the solution is from an East European company makes it cheaper because of labor arbitrage.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a four or five out of ten.

The pricing is broken down into a monthly charge, but you are invoiced for the entire year. They have three versions that you're able to choose from. The cheapest one starts at $30 per user monthly, and then the most expensive one is the enterprise edition, which is $60 per user, per month, but all billed annually.

I believe the minimum number of users per pricing tier is five.

Beyond the licensing, they have connectors that are absolutely free that you're able to download, implement, and then you have them on the spot. Then they also have premium connectors that you have to pay for whether it's on a monthly charge, a yearly charge, or a one-time fee.

Creatio has an annual subscription. I think the price is average compared to other CRM solutions. It's cheaper than Salesforce but more expensive than some other local CRMs that offer less functionality. Overall, I think it's the right price for what it does.

Again, honestly, I'm not benefiting from the product the way I should because I don't have a dedicated person to work on it and customize it. So for me, for the time being, it's expensive because I'm not using it to the optimum. The price itself is fine, I'm not complaining. But for the amount I'm paying, because we are a small to medium business, we should be benefiting more from the features of the product.