What do you like best about Nimble CRM?
The first view on any contact is Past Activities - a proper timeline on the most recent interactions, including upcoming meetings in your linked calendars and emails in your linked inbox (IMAP is fine, so it doesn't HAVE to be Microsoft or Gmail 👍) that you haven't even read yet. Other tools seem to want me to do convoluted forwarding of emails to track them - no chance.
This is absolutely ideal as, assuming you use your CRM to record other activities as and when they happen (like custom messages, call notes, or even notes added via the API - VERY handy to record to any SMS sent or received programmatically, which I use), and make use of the custom variables to track outstanding items/issues per contact, you have a single 'ground truth'.
Other CRMs seem to promise it but never quite deliver it, making you jump through hoops just to get to the point where you have one place to check.
I also now use workflows constantly, and can easily see who is in what process and what they need to move them along.
Also, 'merge tag' fields have evolved to allow custom data variables, which means most of my transactional email templates are in Nimble, calling on static per-contact data that would never be inbuilt (like a user's tax code, for example).
All in all, it's my daily driver of work, just simple enough on the right principles, with an API to allow me to code up anything really complex I need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What do you dislike about Nimble CRM?
Other than a few more options for the 'today' view - I don't use the widgets available right now, it's mostly bugs and minor gripes, really, and they can mostly be ignored or worked around.
e.g.:
- I can't seem to get rid of the 'onboarding' option on the left menu
- The 'found' socials details are often wrong, but still add e.g. an avatar of somebody else's image on to my contacts. I don't like to 'admin-fidget' so I simply ignore that, but it could be misleading
- Sequences is a nice idea, but not everybody transacts via email - I think it's not very valuable to me until it can handle multichannel (I might have a too-high bar to measure to here though, I'm comparing it with Lemlist with added APIs for SMS for example, which is expensive and sales-oriented)
- Whenever I receive an email from Google Cloud with an invoice my view gets messed up, so the email viewer must leak CSS from the email - worth red-teaming that one
- I'd rather not have to keep clicking refresh to have an up-to-date inbox showing, it would be great if it were 'live'. I genuinely use Nimble as my business mail client, especially now that send later is there, and I'd like to get emails 'realtime' across the app e.g. while in 'Past Activities' too.
- I can't search emails very easily other than by keywords. Actually, I'd ideally like to search the 'Past Activities' view in it's entirety as I often want to recall when I gave some particular advice - I can usually remember keywords 9though when I can't... see below!)
- I'd like to be able to ctrl-click on more things to open them up in new windows e.g. contact names in particular - I have multi screen and often look at two different Nimble screens side-by-side
Here's the one that's so major that I'm having to develop it myself - where's the AI assistant? I want to be able to enquire with an AI that can perform Retrieval Augmented Generation on one or all client's Past Activities so I can tell when I last gave a particular piece of advice, based on semantic similarity, or even to tell me what a client's VAT number is by asking in the main dashboard etc. I hope you're working on this! 😊 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.