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Nutshell
4.3
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Nutshell Reviews & Product Details

Nutshell Overview
What is Nutshell?

Nutshell is a customer relationship management (CRM) software that helps businesses manage their sales and marketing activities. It offers a range of features such as lead management, sales forecasting, and email marketing automation. Nutshell is best for small and medium-sized businesses that want a user-friendly, affordable, and customizable CRM solution and wants to manage their sales and marketing activities on the go.

Company Nutshell CRM, Inc.
Year founded 2010
Company size 11-50 employees
Headquarters Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Capabilities
API
Segment
Small Business
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone
Training Documentation
Languages English
Nutshell Features
API Access
Appointment Scheduling
Call Logging
Collaboration Tools
Contact Management
Customer Feedback Management
Customer Segmentation
Customer Support Ticketing
Customizable Dashboards
Data Import/Export
Document Management
Email Marketing
Lead Management
Live Chat
Marketing Automation
Mobile Access
Order Management
Product Catalog
Quotes/Proposals
Reporting & Analytics
Role-Based Access Control
Sales Forecasting
Sales Pipeline Management
Social Media Integration
Survey Management
Task Management
Territory Management
Third-party Integrations
User Permissions
Workflow Automation
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977 Nutshell Reviews
4.3 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 02, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
DW
Dean W.
Founder
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"A re-imagined CRM, in a Nutshell."
What do you like best about Nutshell?

Flexibility / customizability, super helpful, nice and knowledgeable team, US-based and "contactable," high-quality product, and price.

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

I wish it was a little "smarter" when it came to connecting new leads with people or companies - perhaps add a prompt that suggests this? Let's get some AI involved, eh?

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

Nutshell keeps my business development self organized and integrates with my other systems. It's simple to use and ideally suited for entrepreneurs.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 01, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
DK
Danielle K.
Founder
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"Extremely pleased!"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

The platform is user-friendly, easy to set up and easy to make changes to as needed. The support from all the reps I have worked with since the beginning has been exceptional andI have not had a single question go unanswered!

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

Honestly, I do not have any complaints. If I had tried to set it up without assistance, I would have complaints; everything I have brought up to the reps has been handled effectively.

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

We had an extremely archaic system of tracking leads with excel and OneNote, numerous Teams messages among staff, post-it notes, copy and pasting e-mails, whiteboards, etc. Nutshell has completely removed all that and given us one platform to manage our entire CRM.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 01, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
MD
Matthew D.
Founder
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"The Nutshell onboarding team has been incredibly helpful as we transition from another CRM"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

Although Nutshell is not active in our environment just yet, I find the system to be very user-friendly. Everything appears to be well organized, and it is easy to find what we need. So far, it seems to be a simplified version of other CRMs. We can't wait to get started.

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

Nuthsell is not active in our environment just yet, so I have not identified any issues. It would be nice if Nutshell could automatically segment contacts into different audiences based on the information they entered into a form.

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

We are still in the process of setting up Nutshell. We plan to use the platform to collect customer information and create segments within our CRM. We would also like to use the pipelines in Nutshell to follow the progress of our leads.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 10, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AB
A B.
Founder
Share
"FLAGSHIP"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

The email follow-up reminders go to the salesperson directly.

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

By linking to my Outlook, unnecessary contacts have been added when our company only wants to track the incoming prospects/leads from our website.

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

Tracking the incoming leads turned to wins or losses.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 09, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
CR
Carolyn R.
Founder
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"Great, user-friendly and customer focussed"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

When I first started using Nutshell, I had a few questions and Nutshell answered promptly. The interface itself is super intuitive, which means that the initial learning curve is manageable.

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

I haven't found downsides, it's way better and more user-friendly than the alternatives that I tried.

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

I can see what I have on the go all in one place. That makes it easier to stay on top of things and I don't need to got to several different platforms to see all the info.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 08, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Christine J.
Owner
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"3 Years of research led us to Nutshell!"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

There are many things... the ability to customize the program to my customers' needs and the ability to get a human being on the phone to work directly with me, when needed.

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

The few things that I felt were missing, that I shared with NS, they eventually added and/or fixed. They really listen to their customers and are always evolving and improving their products when needed.

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

Keeping track of new leads, sending marketing emails and ease of tracking the necessary follow ups to those emails.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 26, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
SC
Steve C.
Ceo
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"Easy to use and…wait for it…100% buy in!"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

Nutshell is both simple & powerful. It's simple enough that our sales team actually likes using it and there's no pushback. It's powerful enough that we're able to get valuable insights into what's working, what's not and how to do better.

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

The mobile app isn't as powerful as we'd like. A lot of our sales people prefer to do a lot of their work on phones and sometimes it's just not as powerful or simple as the web version.

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

Our business is very sales centric and Nutshell is our single source of truth. One place that shows who we're workign with, our customers, the activities and results we're getting and insight into ways we can improve.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 19, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Penelope E.
Operations
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"Easy to use - Customer service exceptional"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

CRM system easy to use - was able to get my team up and running easily.

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

Nothing really to not like - anytime we have had an issue we call and we actually get a live person .

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

Client tracking - job tracking. project planning.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 13, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AB
Amanda B.
Project Manager
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"VALUE AT ITS BEST"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

The friendly support. They are a customer service-based company, not a sales company. No " Do you want fries with that?" here.

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

Nutshell kinda stops where we want to start. With some meddling, I think we can make it work for what we need.

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

Keeping track of communication with customers and between management. It's been so nice having the phone ring and simply entering in the customer information and setting a task for myself. Helps me really stick to the follow-up I promised the customer or my team.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 12, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
JL
Jonathan L.
Vp Of Services
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"Nutshell: A powerful CRM for growing businessess"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

Nutshell has become the backbone for our social media marketing agency. It allows for tracking of our leads and new sales; our clients and their communications, tasks, scheduled meetings, and communication logs; our monthly project management for each client; and helps to compile reports on the growth of our agency.

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

Even when using fields such as CURRENCY, Nutshell does not offer the ability for spreadsheets to provide totals for each column. This requires me to export the data as a spreadsheet in order to view certain sum totals.

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

Nutshell works as our CRM for customer information and communications across our team. Our team is able to work nimbly and everyone in the organization is able to help out when required due to this transparency. It also works well as our project management tool thanks to tasking and custom events that we utilize as a work order form.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 28, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
KK
Katrina K.
Managing Partner
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"Nutshell for the win!"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

Nutshell is very easy to install and intuitive to use. Between the browser and the app, you always have access to what you need.

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

Honestly, can't think of anything that I really dislike. It's a well designed, easy to use solution.

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

Nutshell has solved the organization of contacts, managing follow-ups, and keeping focus on momentum through the sales and engagement processes.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 17, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
GL
Gordy L.
Manager Business Development
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"Great CRM product with excellent customer service!"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

Simple to use intuitive user interface. I'm a first-time user of any CRM system, and getting up to speed on all the different functions has been easier than I had anticipated.

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

Nothing to this point. I'm too new to the system to have found any shortcomings.

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

Our company adopted Nutshell CRM to capture our day-to-day customer interactions and move away from a spreadsheet-based system.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 12, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
GG
Grant G.
Gm
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"Fine tuning Nutshell to fit my business"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

I love how Nutshell is layed out. It is Professional and easy to customize.

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

I use Nutshell on my iPhone, and it needs a serious revamp. I also use the web version on my Ipad Pro, and it's fantastic. When I receive calls on my iPhone, my contacts don't show who is calling in when they are in Nutshell. It would be very professional if that could work. I'd love to see a Dashboard on the iPhone that is useful. Show my appointments, activities and tasks for the day.

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

I have a large customer with numerous locations. I have to account for them all during the year to ensure I've inspected them. Nutshell gives me the ability to do that in a visual way using maps. Customer service showed me some enhancements to improve my daily processes.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 27, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
KC
Kerri C.
Account Manager
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"Playbook to follow along"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

The good thing about nutshell, is it gives you all the steps that you need to get from the beginning of the process to the end. There are checkboxes to help you follow along and make sure that you haven't missed steps.

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

There can be an over abundance of steps as well. It's not as obvious when there are duplicates all the time. I wish it maybe looked a little bit more old school, all the graphics can be distracting.

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

We are tying to better determine our sales pipeline so that we can more accurately forecast our future earnings and keep track of potential clients for future revenue.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 30, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
BC
Brook C.
Partner
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"Functional, Flexible, and Wildly Intuitive"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

I've used a number of the "leading" CRMs in my career, and Nutshell is far and away the most accessible and intuitive system that I've used. I never feel as though I've had to give up any of the integrations and connectivity that I was used to, but whether on the mobile app or the webapp, Nutshell just works without drama or complexity.

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

There is certainly less configurability and customization than with other CRMs, but I'm part of a SMB with fairly limited requirements around customization. At some scale, I suppose we'd need the "ecosystem" capabilities afforded by the leading CRMs, but Nutshell is perfect for our SMB (and I'd assume most others).

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

Nutshell serves as the single source of truth for all of our sales and marketing efforts. Like all CRMs, it's only as valuable as the buy-in it receives from its users, but it's intuitive and easy to use in a way that even our most reluctant team members will utilize it. It also provides enough horsepower for our more advanced, power-users in terms of email syncing and automation capabilities.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 26, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
KA
Kelley A.
Owner/Director Of Coaching
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"Nutshell is our organizational system to manage and communicate."
What do you like best about Nutshell?

I enjoy the easy accessibility of the website and the different options in terms of sharing information and tracking data. The organization between people, businesses, etc. is very helpful!

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

The difference between boxes prompting notes, comments, descriptions, etc. can be tricky to distinguish between (where to add information, how to communicate it, etc.)

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

For what we do it can be difficult to compile information all in one place, and this serves that purpose. It is the place that we go to once coaches or locations are officially secured, and it helps us distinguish between secured vs leads.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 23, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
MW
Matt W.
Coo
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"Nutshell"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

ease of use, excellent and easy-to-navigate screens, the tracking stages from first contact to sales is great

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

wait time for customer service via chat. It would be nice to link my MS Outlook to Nutshell

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

Im satisfied so it is difficult to effectively answer this question. I will say that Nutshell seems to always be introducing new and useful programs

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 11, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
HK
Hiede K.
None
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"It makes keeping up with everyone and updates so much easier"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

everyone in the same place makes it easier to keep everyone together

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

that it deletes after so many days losing contact

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

We can keep up with updates at work and have a side group for other things that we may need or want to talk about

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 05, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
FZ
Fatima Z.
Ceo
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"We love nutshell"
What do you like best about Nutshell?

workflows are intituive, customer service is great, and we love the different pipeline visuals.

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

Drip marketing campaign set up is not intuitive

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

Helps me keep track of my sales leads in a very methodical and organized way

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 02, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
MR
Matthew R.
Managing Partner
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"Great system and efficient for automations."
What do you like best about Nutshell?

Ease of use of the CRM System. This makes training much easier and faster for my staff.

What do you dislike about Nutshell?

There is no auto text of VM drop. This would be much more helpful if it was a one-stop shop.

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

Client management.