Propertybase Salesforce Edition

Database management, ease to export reports on various metrics about our clients, dashboards to track our sales vs. our goals.

Can be a challenge to get some team members comfortable with it but that's with any cloud based CRM.

We've been working with PropertyBase for about a year or so now, and the platform has absolutely served its purpose for our real estate org and provided tenfold value. The program is rather intuitive to control in the Lightning Experience side of things, and comes out of the box with a lot of great additional features that Salesforce does not (the Matching Tool for matching Inquiries to Listings, for example). The platform is quite customizable, due to it being made on Salesforce's backend platform. Because Salesforce is the leading CRM tool and has been around the block for a bit, you should have no problem finding solutions or best practices to COMMON problems inside of the software itself.

...However, I gotta say, I'm really quite "meh" about the customer support for PropertyBase. It seems like the response time on inquiries generally is around a day or two (which is quite quick!), but a lot of the support team end up giving generic, link-to-a-help-article responses, and rarely take any additional time to really provide a thorough answer or workaround solution. There is no type of customer support live-chat or number you can call for immediate support - I've found this very unfortunate in times where you're caught in a pinch.

Further, I dislike that certain objects and fields/layouts are "managed" in PropertyBase. This means that, for those specific fields and functions, you have very, very limited control of what you can edit, not even the title (at the very LEAST, we should be able to change the title!). This is far too many fields to count - the workaround is making your own field with the same values, but it causes a headache for regular, non-admin platform users to know which fields to use for reports/list views.

It appeared at first that it could meet the needs of our company

We had such a terrible experience with both this product and this company. We tried for months to make it fit the needs of our company and were told we needed to work with a developer to implement it. I consistently brought up issues where I didn't think it would be a good fit and was constantly told how I either didn't understand what my own company's needs were and that it would work for our company, but that since we don't have the exact same work flow that every other brokerage has (not sure if this is really true), that it would need to be customized for us. Ultimately I think you could say it was buggy at best, and totally worthless in other areas. Eventually I got to the point (6 months in) where I just realized we needed to cut our losses and move on. Then when we tried to cancel, we were told we were terminating our contract early and that wasn't allowed (not to mention that we had spent thousands on a product we never were even able to use and thousands more for a developer to try and make it work for us) [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] at the company told us that was our fault and that we needed to pay a large cancellation fee (which he said was very generous as we should have had to just pay for the rest of the year since they don't allow people to cancel). It's not just the money that was wasted, but all the time I spent trying to make it work (they have great, convincing sales people, but ultimately it was my fault for not trusting my gut and just saying no earlier in the process)