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title: "Salesforce CPQ alternative: Why GTM teams choose Nue"
description: "Looking for a Salesforce CPQ alternative? Nue unifies quoting, lifecycle management, billing and collections on one Salesforce-native platform."
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# More than 70% of high growth companies choose Nue over Salesforce CPQ

## Summary

Looking for a Salesforce CPQ alternative? Nue unifies quoting, lifecycle management, billing and collections on one Salesforce-native platform.

Nue vs. Salesforce CPQ

Quote-to-cash (CPQ, lifecycle management, billing, and collections) all under one platform.

Trusted by high-growth companies

## Four reasons companies are switching to Nue

- **Secure and reliable**: Nue runs natively in Salesforce on standard objects, with enterprise-grade security and SOC 1 and SOC 2 compliance.
- **Better TCO**: Business users manage Nue themselves, with no additional FTEs. Salesforce CPQ costs 3 to 10 times its platform price to own.
- **Usable and agile**: Reduce technical debt and empower your team to make changes faster, using clicks not code.
- **More capabilities**: CPQ, lifecycle management, billing and collections on one platform, for subscriptions, usage, services and physical goods.

## Don’t let legacy tech hold back your RevOps

See why SaaS leaders are switching from Salesforce CPQ to Nue

- **Salesforce CPQ isn’t evolving**: With no further investment or product innovation, Salesforce CPQ leaves you stuck with outdated features and limited capabilities. Why settle for less in a fast-moving market?
- **Slow, complex, and expensive**: Salesforce CPQ requires heavy customization, long implementation times, and costly ongoing maintenance due to its outdated architecture.
- **Not built for recurring billing**: B2B SaaS companies need flexible pricing, fast deal execution, and seamless RevOps workflows. Salesforce CPQ can’t keep up.

## Stop siloed tools from killing your RevOps

Figure: A rep surrounded by disconnected billing, pricing, reporting and analytics tools, each flagged with an error

## A single, integrated platform, from quoting to billing

Figure: The Nue Revenue Lifecycle Platform: channels feed Nue CPQ, Lifecycle Manager and Everything Billing on one unified data model, with Price Builder, Quote Builder, Lifecycle Manager, Billing and Usage Accelerator from land to expand to accelerate, and pre-built integrations for ERP, payments, revenue recognition and tax

## With Nue, companies accelerate performance across RevOps, Sales, CS, and Finance

- **200%**: Increase in sales rep efficiency
- **266%**: ROI from finance efficiency alone
- **4 weeks**: Implementation time for quoting and lifecycle manager
- **100%**: Rep adoption within one quarter
- **20%**: Time saved for Finance
- **100%**: Ownership of revenue expansion by CS
- **0**: FTE hires for Finance order management
- **1**: Quote-to-cash platform
- **360°**: Customer lifecycle view
- **4**: Teams using one tool
- **15x**: Faster customer proposal turnaround time
- **10x**: Less expensive than typical quoting implementations
- **3x**: Annual contract value increase
- **12 hours**: Of quoting done in minutes
- **4**: Pricing models managed together

## Business priorities: Nue vs. Salesforce CPQ

| Business priority | Nue | Salesforce CPQ |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ownership costs (TCO) | Business user managed internally. No additional FTEs needed. | Higher TCO (3-10x platform cost) |
| Quoting and pricing | Agile pricing, quoting, and discounting with real-time pricing calculators. Built for usage + subscription + physical goods + services. | No ability for business users to quickly change and experiment with pricing |
| GTM channels | Direct Sales + Website + In-app Self-Service + Channel Partner Sales | Built for direct sales only |
| Customer LTV | 360 customer view with upsells, changes, usage, renewals in Salesforce | Built primarily for new business; additional integrations required for end-to-end management |
| Revenue intelligence | Out-of-the-box revenue analytics, including pre-built reports for pipeline, booking, billing and collections | No historical trending analytics / revenue intelligence |
| Integrations | Pre-built integrations that power the entire quote-to-cash, across ERP, payment, taxation | Billing integration required, often resulting in data misfires |

## Staying on Salesforce CPQ is costing you.

Unlock more revenue, efficiency, and scalability by moving beyond Salesforce CPQ

## Align and empower teams from quote to revenue

### Nue for RevOps teams

- All-in-one revenue platform
- Faster deal execution
- Real-time revenue insights
- Seamless integrations

### Nue for Sales & CS teams

- Close deals faster with a plug-and-play UI
- Seamless contract changes and renewals
- Automate contract co-terminations
- Automate e-signing (Adobe, DocuSign, etc.)

### Nue for Finance & Accounting teams

- Bridge sales, operations and finance data
- TCV, ARR, MRR and more, in real-time
- Seamless connection with QBO, NetSuite, RightRev and other SFDC native integrations
- Clarity in revenue recognition

## RevOps efficiency. In one place.

Eliminate point solutions through a seamless, end-to-end platform

## The Nue Revenue Lifecycle Platform: Unified quote-to-cash.

Built for recurring revenue. Enterprise-ready. CPQ, billing and analytics for every revenue model, every stage of the customer journey, under one unified data model.

Quote Builder

### Flexible, dynamic quoting reps actually love

Become a RevOps champion with our quote builder. Say goodbye to painful, rigid quoting tools. Give your sales team a spreadsheet-like experience right in Salesforce to easily quote any price. Sit back, relax, and let the quotes and sales orders fly.

Price Builder

### Deploy pricing and promos in minutes

Create a unified customer experience with one easy-to-use pricing process for all your sales channels: direct, self-service and partners.

Lifecycle Manager

### Streamline your customer lands and expands

Nue helps you manage your customer lifecycle with a holistic view so no more quotes, orders, upsells, and renewals ever fall through the cracks.

Product-Led Growth

### Bring together self-service expansion and direct sales in Salesforce

Combine product-led growth initiatives with your direct sales motion. Nue enables you to easily empower not just your sales team to sell but your customers to buy more inside your application, and see all transactions in Salesforce.

Everything Billing

### Accurately bill subscriptions, usage, or any revenue model

Nue unifies and automates invoices for subscriptions, usage consumption, physical goods, and services. It captures real-time changes from expansion to ERP for collections so you have complete, accurate, and real-time visibility into revenue.

Usage Accelerator

### Grow usage revenue throughout your customer relationship

Nue delivers real-time usage pricing, rating and billing your Sales and CS teams can see in Salesforce. Give your product and engineering teams a full suite of usage APIs to get started fast and experiment with what works.

## Leading SaaS businesses are reinventing their revenue lifecycles

- “Nue has built one of the most flexible yet reliable CPQ solutions I have observed across my career.” Keith Jones Head of GTM Systems, OpenAI
- “With Nue, configuration is a non-issue. It’s purpose-built on Salesforce with a modern, intuitive UI.” Brad Smith Co-Founder, President & CCO, Sonar
- “It’s been a huge efficiency gain. Our finance team used to be involved with every proration. Now it’s automated.” Elise Fujimoto CS Operations, Betterworks
- “Nue helps organizations enact what they want to do and breaks down silos between teams.” Julian Hannabuss Director of RevOps, Procurify
- “Investing in Nue gave us a ton of advantages over what Salesforce CPQ could provide.” Aaron Hill SVP of Growth Strategy, Arbinger Institute

FAQ

## Get started with Nue

Start your journey toward a streamlined, integrated revenue lifecycle today.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is Nue?

Nue streamlines SaaS pricing models in an era of growing complexity. Unlike traditional CPQ and billing systems, it’s purpose-built for SaaS, offering Salesforce integration and flexibility. You can streamline quote-to-revenue, reduce SKUs, and gain robust reporting. Our Salesforce-native platform empowers end users for quotes, subscription management, billing, and insights, supporting every B2B SaaS pricing model.

### Why do high growth companies choose Nue over Salesforce CPQ?

Big incumbents in the CPQ and billing market, such as Salesforce CPQ, weren’t made for the unique SaaS pricing models of today or the amount of upsells and changes required to grow customers. The underlying model of Salesforce CPQ, while a great product, was developed 15 years ago for manufacturing companies. It’s meant to handle physical product orders (hardware, shipments, etc.) and is OK at handling basic subscription terms. Nue is intentionally built as a modern quote-to-revenue platform for diverse SaaS use cases, and helps companies quickly design and roll out pricing models (across both self-service and direct sales motions) while reducing SKU proliferation and maximizing reporting capabilities.

### How easy is it to migrate from Salesforce CPQ to Nue?

It is easy to migrate from CPQ to Nue, and does not require expensive consultants. Nue is native to Salesforce, which means we are using standard Salesforce objects across pricing, products, and quoting.

### What are the primary use cases of Nue?

Nue was built for SaaS companies on any recurring billing model, along with capabilities for one-time services or entitlements. Additionally, Nue also handles co-terms, upgrades, downgrades, and cross-sells within clicks. The platform shines with more complex pricing models like: Pricing tiers: Seat-based, volume-based, or term-based; Usage-based pricing: Credit burndown, pay-as-you-go, or usage overage; In-app or product-led website sales Because all this data is stored in your CRM, Nue can write complex product and invoicing data over to tools that historically couldn’t support sophisticated SaaS billing.

### What is the benefit of Nue for RevOps and Sales?

Nue is a Salesforce-native tool that leverages standard objects and minimizes custom objects to create quotes, orders, and invoices which can be seamlessly integrated with your ERP. The platform is structured so end users (Sales and CS/Account Management) never have to leave Salesforce. They can see a customer’s purchase history in an easy-to-understand UI. From a single page, sales teams can see past orders, subscriptions, usage, invoices, and billing history. They can also quickly create upgrades, downgrades, or cross-sell quotes, with a full view of product usage and what’s been invoiced. Keeping sales teams in Nue has proven to be a big efficiency boost and easier adoption of the platform, in addition to other benefits such as unified data and analytics.

### What is the benefit of Nue for Finance?

Nue bridges sales, operations and finance data, so Finance sees TCV, ARR, MRR and more in real time, from the same records Sales quoted. It connects with QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, RightRev and other Salesforce-native integrations, which brings clarity to revenue recognition.

### Can Nue work with usage-pricing?

Yes. Nue is well-prepared to handle usage-based pricing, and our platform gives end-to-end visibility for sales, product, and finance. Nue allows API connections, including a connection to your product and its usage data. This means that usage-based pricing is possible in Nue, as well as in-app purchases or user-led expansions. Because quoting and pricing interfaces in Nue are highly customizable, you can present customers with a curated list of possible upsell options. Moreover, because these quotes and purchase approvals are managed in Salesforce, companies no longer have to scramble to update monthly or quarterly usage calculations or in-app purchases at the end of the month.

### Does Nue integrate with other systems?

Yes. Nue integrates with NetSuite, QuickBooks, Stripe, Avalara, RightRev, and NetSuite ARM. Our platform also works well with any other Salesforce integrated partners.

## Related pages

- [See Quote Builder](https://www.nue.io/quote-builder/)
- [See Price Builder](https://www.nue.io/price-builder/)
- [See Lifecycle Manager](https://www.nue.io/lifecycle-manager/)
- [See Product-Led Growth](https://www.nue.io/product-led-growth/)
- [See Everything Billing](https://www.nue.io/billing/)
- [See Usage Accelerator](https://www.nue.io/usage-accelerator/)

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