Epicor CPQ vs Hive CPQ

Epicor CPQ helps manufacturers configure, price, and quote complex custom products while connecting sales, engineering, and manufacturing. Buyers can explore products in 2D or 3D, augmented reality, and virtual reality; prices recalculate as options change. Centralized product and pricing rules help enforce design requirements and prevent invalid configurations. A configuration can produce quotes with renderings, supporting documents, and bills of materials, as well as CAD drawings, assembly instructions, and other production outputs. Epicor names AutoCAD, SolidWorks, and PTC Creo for CAD generation. Integration options include REST APIs, native connections to Salesforce, Teamcenter, and Magento, and MuleSoft connectivity. Analytics collect information about website visitors’ product interactions. The cloud platform includes administration for products, integrations, configurators, buying channels, and users. Epicor positions CPQ for engineer-to-order manufacturers, including automotive, construction and engineering, hardscapes, process manufacturing, and retail. It can be used standalone or integrated with Epicor Industry ERP Cloud. Pricing is paid and available on request.

Hive CPQ is configure, price, and quote software for manufacturers selling complex products. It brings product configuration, pricing, and quoting together for sales teams, dealers, distributors, and online customers. Its rule-based configurator is designed to reduce configuration and order errors. The pricing engine supports option-, attribute-, bill-of-materials-, grid-, cost-plus-, volume-, price-list-, and custom pricing models. Teams can create quotes with visuals and bills of materials, generate technical and calculation sheets, order summaries, manuals, and safety instructions, and turn approved quotes into orders. Quotes can be generated in over 20 languages. Hive AI processes incoming RFQs, guides buyers through configurations, and helps teams build and maintain configurators. Listed integrations include Microsoft Dynamics products, Salesforce, Zoho CRM, inriver, Bluestar PLM, and Ridder IQ; a backwards-compatible REST API supports customer-built integrations. Hive says it is ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant, stores data in Germany and Europe, and has 99.8% average uptime. Pricing is on request, based on project scope, complexity, and user count. A 30-day trial includes a dedicated sandbox and Hive Academy training.