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What is Workbooks?

Workbooks is the affordable CRM alternative to Salesforce and HubSpot. For sales teams aiming to better identify opportunities, increase deal closures, and boost revenue growth, Workbooks provides sales pipeline management software to optimize business sales processes. For marketers aiming to execute campaigns, generate higher-quality leads, and monitor return on investment, Workbooks gives you an automated marketing CRM that supports businesses to execute campaigns, measure ROI and strategize effectively. For finance and sales teams aiming to drive more efficiency and collect cash faster, Workbooks is a CRM platform specializing in order, contract and supplier management For teams striving to enhance customer value and boost overall satisfaction. Turn customer service into a competitive advantage with the Workbooks customer service CRM.

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Product Description

Workbooks.com delivers an intuitive, fast to implement CRM that empowers small to mid-size organisations.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

When you invest in Workbooks, we invest in you by co-funding your CRM project throughout your journey.

We call our approach Shared Success – your success is our success.

Shared Success reduces the risk of your CRM project failing and reduces the cost of implementation through a simple 3-step process:

1. We help you understand what you need to achieve your business goals with a co-funded workshop before you invest in software
2. When you invest in Workbooks, we co-fund your implementation to give you a made-to-measure CRM for an off-the-shelf price
3. And with a co-funded customer success programme, you can future-proof your business processes with a CRM that grows with you

That’s why, on average, our customers stay with us for 10 years and more than 1000 businesses around the world already trust Workbooks to help them work better, work together, and work in the right way.


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Workbooks
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Year Founded
2009
HQ Location
Reading, Berkshire
Twitter
@Workbooks
2,826 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
65 employees on LinkedIn®
Phone
+44 (0) 118 3030 100
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Founded by a successful team of entrepreneurs, Workbooks.com is a rapidly growing provider of web-based CRM and Business Applications.


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Steven S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Workbooks does a good job of keeping everyone on the team up to date with accurate status"
It is in the cloud and updates made by an resource is live. It keeps everyone on the same page regardless of when they have work hours or their loc...
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4.0 out of 5
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Dave K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The easiest CRM, wherever you are"
Workbooks is an easy to use, fully cloud based CRM solution perfect for Small and Mid-sized organisations alike. Easy to setup with no installing o...
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JG
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Workbooks?

Workbooks is a good tool and allows for lots of options to create reports and analyse our sales data and customer behaviour, manage email campaign, track cases, and more. The customisation options are useful to make it work in ways that best suit your specific needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workbooks?

Certain things can be finicky, such as setting up reports and displaying tables in a particular way, or it can be difficult at first to know where to look in the settings to make the changes that you want. Additional external assistance is sometimes necessary to get over this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Workbooks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Workbooks is helping us better keep track of sales, KPIs, and customers in easily accessible dashboard forms. Automatic emails help remind our salespeople of opportunities and customers that require attention. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jean Hardie-Matthews of Workbooks

Hi Julien. Thanks for submitting a review of Workbooks. We're glad to know you're able to analyse your sales data and have been able to customise the platform to suit your needs.

Hopefully you're finding it easy to access the help you need in terms of any reporting requirements or configuration queries you may have. You can get this help via our partner from whom you purchased your licences or directly from us. You've probably found our Knowledge Base, but in case not, here's the URL: https://www.workbooks.com/knowledge_base

HD
Middle School Social Studies Teacher
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Workbooks?

I like combining all sales, marketing, outreach, and team collaboration. The "Shared Success Program" was a highlight for our customers to work with us. Workbooks allowed them to meet with our team, have check-ins, schedule meetings, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workbooks?

This program was great for our company's size, but as our company grew, Workbooks did not have the functions we needed to handle a larger clientele. The free version is minimal and the cost of upgrading may not be worth it for everyone Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Workbooks solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were a small organization trying to tap into a market of financial clients. We needed a platform that could handle every aspect of our operations smoothly. The onboarding was rather simple and it took our new company through the first stages of growth. We outgrew it eventually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SK
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Workbooks?

Allows us to build whatever report we need, add custom fields, and is fundamental to our business processes for Sales, Marketing, Account Management, Support and Finance. All encompassing CRM, at affordable rate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workbooks?

Probably not the most modern slickest looking UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Workbooks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Business Reporting, Customer Service, managing contractual relationships, insight into our customer base, ownership of accounts and allocations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CS
Training Advisor
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Workbooks?

The reminders you can set really help keep focus on what task is next. So you can call a client and set a reminder when it's best to call them next. Great for if you have terrible memory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workbooks?

I dislike the fact a double click brings up the option you clicked twice. Very much used to double clicking to open something up so when it's just workbooks that operates this way it can be annoying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Workbooks solving and how is that benefiting you?

We aren't problem-solving. We're using workbooks to keep track on where our sales are going. The main benefit is knowing what we've spoken about with a company previously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CW
CRM Consultant
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Workbooks?

It has everything you need to store the contact information for your accounts & contacts (customers, prospects, suppliers etc.) You can be reminded about your most important activities from the CRM or Outlook & you can track marketing campaigns & sales performance using its views, reports & dashboards. You can even use it to send sales orders & issue invoices, credit notes, contracts & supplier orders! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workbooks?

Like any application you need to invest time to learn the software but Workbooks is pretty intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Workbooks solving and how is that benefiting you?

A repository of contact information (prospects, customers, suppliers).

Email marketing.

It's much quicker than using spreadsheets! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VK
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Workbooks?

Lead nurturing at its best, selects suitable timing of user activities and trigger mail campaigns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workbooks?

Gasification suggested , but not required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Workbooks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Nurturing leads, lead management, email marketing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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IT Program Manager
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What do you like best about Workbooks?

It is in the cloud and updates made by an resource is live. It keeps everyone on the same page regardless of when they have work hours or their location. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workbooks?

The UI is still a bit clunky in my opinion. Nothing the best UI for new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Workbooks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Collaboration between the team and all the different divisions. This CRM tool has help break down walls that held certian information to only individual people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jean Hardie-Matthews of Workbooks

Hi Steven. Thanks for submitting a Workbooks review, we appreciate you taking the time to do this.

I'm glad to hear that you're finding it helpful in terms of team collaboration, which can often be a problem for businesses, so that's great.

I hope you find the UI less clunky as you use it more but if you have any particular feedback, please let your Authorised Support Contact know and they can relay that to our support team.

MM
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Workbooks?

not much really I find it difficult to navigate and unintuitive and its workflows overly complicated, logical but overly complicated from a users perspective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workbooks?

the windows all look very similar and open on top of one another and you very soon lose where the hell you are in the system, its generally quite annoying Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Workbooks solving and how is that benefiting you?

it creates a record of events and collects KPI's for the business but for me as a user, it adds very little value Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jean Hardie-Matthews of Workbooks

Hi Mark. Thanks for taking the time to complete a G2 review, which is appreciated. As you can imagine, however, we're disappointed to hear that you find the system unhelpful and difficult to use.

In terms of the interface, I noticed that you're using an old version. In June 2022 we released a Beta version of an interface called 'Clean', which went on general release in September 2022. The changes include making the records less cluttered in terms of buttons and the shading of the background and also applying a coloured border to each type of record, making it easier to distinguish one from another. The feedback we've received has largely been extremely positive, so if you haven't tried it, I'd really recommend giving it a go. The URL below takes you to information on our Knowledge Base about themes.

In terms of your workflows, I'm unsure whether you mean 'out of the box' configuration or something that's been customised to meet your company's requirements. I will, however, drop a line to our main contact at your organisation to check how things are going.

In the meantime, I hope you do try the Clean theme and find it helpful.

See how Workbooks improved
KR
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Workbooks?

Its Easy and quick understand, Not much training needed to know how to do simple tasks. Its also got a nice clean layout that shows all information.Its quicker to bill cases or set timesheets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workbooks?

when Saving time to case and editing the stage on workbooks it sometimes dosnt load straight away and you have to set stage and resave its not a big issues just abit annoying Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Workbooks solving and how is that benefiting you?

As its alot quicker it saves times for all workers using it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CD
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What do you like best about Workbooks?

There are so many possibilities on workbooks, it is effective at gathering information and is relatively intuitive to use. The categorisations are helpful and the system holds almost limitless information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Workbooks?

Sometimes it can be challenging to get used to the jargon, categories and the way things all link together on Workbooks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Workbooks solving and how is that benefiting you?

How to capture information for the countless stakeholders that we work with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Jean Hardie-Matthews of Workbooks

Hi Cameron. What a great review of Workbooks, thank you so much for taking the time to submit it.

It's great to hear that you find the platform intuitive to use and that you're able to store all the information that your business requires.

I hope you keep enjoying using our software and if you have any queries, please do let your Workbooks Authorised Support Contact know so that she can either help directly or raise any queries with us.