The short answer
- Moving from Salesforce Pro to Bigin Express at 10 seats saves $10,260 in the first year, after setup and upkeep time (Stackcut's model: modeled, not measured).
- Bigin's official migration guide moves 5 kinds of data in full; 1 thing stays behind. What moves
- 1 public account of making this switch: 1 switched. Read them
- Switching help: Free migration assistance and data-import help for new users: Bigin says its support team helps if the Salesforce export gets awkward, and every paid plan includes a 30-day dedicated onboarding service plus data-import assistance. bigin.com
What Salesforce and Bigin cost
List prices from each vendor's pricing page, as stored in the Stackcut catalog. Each price links its source.
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly (per month) | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salesforce Starter Suite | $25/user/mo | $25/user/mo | Per user, billed monthly or annually. Lead, account, contact and opportunity management; sales flows and lead routing; email, event and contact sync; email marketing; 10 GB data storage per org |
| Salesforce Pro Suite | not shown | $100/user/mo | Per user, billed annually only. Adds customization and automation, quoting and forecasting; 10 GB per org |
| Salesforce Core | not shown | $195/user/mo | Per user, billed annually only. Sales Cloud with AI, Slack Business+ and Tableau Next |
| Salesforce Advanced | not shown | $395/user/mo | Per user, billed annually only. Adds enhanced security, more AI and data capacity |
| Bigin Express | $9/user/mo | $7/user/mo | 3 team pipelines; 50,000 records; 30 automations; email and WhatsApp integration; mass emails; 10 custom fields per module |
| Bigin Premier | $15/user/mo | $12/user/mo | 5 team pipelines; 100,000 records; 50 automations; multiple currencies; data enrichment; 1,000 AI credits a month |
| Bigin 360 | $21/user/mo | $18/user/mo | 15 team pipelines; 1 million records; 100 automation rules; 5 GB file cabinet; 3,000 AI credits a month |
- Salesforce free plan: Free Suite: $0 with 2 user licenses, no contract or credit card; lead, opportunity and case management, simple email marketing, connected Slack. Paid editions also have a 30-day free trial salesforce.com
- Bigin free plan: 1 user; 500 records; single pipeline; 3 automations; built-in phone; 1 booking page. After the 15-day trial accounts move to this plan bigin.com
Moving from Salesforce to Bigin
What Bigin's importer carries over, what it leaves behind, and any help it offers switchers.
To Bigin
Official guide bigin.com · Tools: Bigin import (CSV / Excel / vCard), Salesforce CRM Extension for Bigin
Moves: contacts (full); companies (full); deals / pipelines (full); notes (full); products (full). bigin.com
Doesn't move: Vendor pages do not state whether Salesforce activity history, attachments or custom objects move; only the modules above are documented.. bigin.com
Watch out for:
- Salesforce is a file import: Bigin one-click migration covers only Pipedrive, HubSpot, Insightly and Zoho CRM bigin.com
- The import creates records, not fields, so fields must exist in Bigin before you import bigin.com
- Standardize picklist values first, because small naming differences break reporting and automation later bigin.com
Switching help: Free migration assistance and data-import help for new users: Bigin says its support team helps if the Salesforce export gets awkward, and every paid plan includes a 30-day dedicated onboarding service plus data-import assistance. bigin.com
Switching help: 15-day free trial with no credit card required; when the trial ends you drop to the Free plan rather than being charged automatically, and Bigin adds a money-back guarantee (45 days on annual plans, 30 days on monthly). bigin.com
From each destination's own migration docs and switching pages, plus community write-ups where no official guide exists, each checked against its page. Confirm terms on the linked page before you rely on an offer.
People who moved from Salesforce to Bigin
1 public accounts of leaving Salesforce: 1 switched. Summaries are ours; each links the original, and each was checked against its page before it appeared here.
A Galway software consultant who had explored Salesforce Essentials and found it limited and hard to use discovered Bigin while in development in November 2019, adopted it for his own firm, and now runs client and supplier pipelines on it and recommends it to small-business clients. Bigin by Zoho CRM
How to leave Salesforce
Export first, then cancel. Every step links the vendor's own help page, checked on the date shown.
How to leave Salesforce
Export first
- All your data: Setup → Data Export → Export Now or Schedule Export (ZIP of CSV files). Weekly exports need Enterprise, Performance or Unlimited; other editions export monthly. The ZIP files are deleted 48 hours after the email, not counting weekends. help.salesforce.com
Cancel
- Export your data first (see export).
- For a paid subscription, contact Salesforce's Customer Service Billing Department: its help page offers no self-serve cancel.
FAQ
Is Bigin cheaper than Salesforce?
Modeled, not measured: moving from Salesforce Pro to Bigin Express at 10 seats saves $10,260 in the first year, after setup and upkeep time at $50/hour. It depends on your plan, seats and usage. the math
Can I move my Salesforce data to Bigin?
Bigin's official guide moves: contacts; companies; deals / pipelines; notes; products. It doesn't move: Vendor pages do not state whether Salesforce activity history, attachments or custom objects move; only the modules above are documented.. bigin.com
Does Bigin help people switch from Salesforce?
Free migration assistance and data-import help for new users: Bigin says its support team helps if the Salesforce export gets awkward, and every paid plan includes a 30-day dedicated onboarding service plus data-import assistance. bigin.com
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