Epicor CPQ vs Vendavo 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.

Vendavo CPQ combines product configuration, quoting, agreement management, and approvals in a SaaS workflow for business sales teams. Configurable product logic checks compatibility and dependencies, updates available options, and turns selections into quote-ready outputs. Pricing guidance and recommendations are intended to help sellers protect margins and align deals with margin targets. The platform centralizes customer-specific and contract pricing, discount rules, and negotiated terms for use in quotes. Approval routes can reflect pricing thresholds, discount levels, and commercial risk indicators. Vendavo Analytics provides dashboards and margin analysis across quotes, agreements, customers, products, and sales segments. Machine learning models identify possible cross-sell and whitespace opportunities using purchasing patterns and product relationships. Named integrations include Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, AWS, and Microsoft Dynamics, with APIs, batch processing, and file-based connections also supported. Vendavo says customer data is encrypted at rest and in transit, with SSO, role- and attribute-based access controls, and data segmentation. It states that it undergoes annual ISO 27001, SOC 1 Type 2, and SOC 2 Type 2 audits and aligns with EU and UK GDPR and California CPRA requirements. Pricing is on request.