Salesforce is the world's most powerful CRM — but it's built for enterprise sales teams, not recruitment agencies. Kolvera delivers recruitment-specific BD tools with Australian data sources at a fraction of the cost, with zero implementation overhead.
The Salesforce Tax for Recruiters
Salesforce Professional at A$120/user/month sounds reasonable until you need campaigns (add Pardot at A$1,500/mo), enrichment (add ZoomInfo or Lusha), e-signatures (add DocuSign), and a dialler (add CTI integration). A fully-equipped Salesforce stack for recruitment easily exceeds A$400/user/month — and still doesn't have SEEK scraping or AU-specific data.
Built for Your Workflow
Kolvera was designed around how Australian recruiters actually do BD: scrape SEEK for hiring signals, find decision-makers, send personalised outreach, call them, book meetings, and close with e-signed terms of business. Every step is native — no integrations to configure, no consultants to hire.
When Salesforce Makes Sense
If you're a 100+ person agency with complex approval workflows, multi-division reporting, and a dedicated ops team, Salesforce's customisation is valuable. For agencies under 50 people focused on AU BD, Kolvera is faster, cheaper, and purpose-built.