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ADP vs Outreach

ADP logo

ADP

Accounting & Finance

Always Designing for People

From
$29/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
Outreach logo

Outreach

CRM & Sales

Sales execution platform for revenue teams

From
$100/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: ADP no pricing is published; every quote is custom and driven by employee count and which services are taken; Outreach pricing not transparent, requiring custom quotes for most implementations
  • They diverge on capability: ADP covers Payroll, Outreach covers Sales engagement.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which ADP and Outreach actually diverge.

Attributes where ADP and Outreach differ
AttributeADPOutreach
Starting price$29/month$100/month
PlatformsWeb, Ios, AndroidWeb
CategoryAccounting & FinanceCRM & Sales
Founded19492014

Identical on both: pricing model (subscription), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in ADP

  • Payroll
  • Tax services
  • HR management
  • Time & attendance
  • Benefits administration
  • QuickBooks
  • Sage
  • Oracle

Only in Outreach

  • Sales engagement
  • Conversation intelligence
  • Revenue intelligence
  • Pipeline management
  • Analytics & reporting
  • Salesforce
  • Microsoft Dynamics
  • LinkedIn

Both cover

  • Web support
  • Ios support
  • Android support

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

ADP

  • Payroll processing and tax filingnot Outreach
  • HR administration and employee recordsnot Outreach
  • Time and attendance trackingnot Outreach
  • Benefits administrationnot Outreach
  • Talent management on the mid-market and enterprise productsnot Outreach

Outreach

  • Sales outreachnot ADP
  • Pipeline managementnot ADP
  • Revenue forecastingnot ADP
  • Team performancenot ADP

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

ADP

  • No pricing is published; every quote is custom and driven by employee count and which services are taken
  • Split into three separate products by company size, RUN for 1 to 49 employees, Workforce Now for 50 and above, and Lyric HCM for enterprise, so growing across a threshold means changing product rather than plan

Outreach

  • Pricing not transparent, requiring custom quotes for most implementations
  • Complex setup requiring deep Salesforce configuration and customization
  • Primarily designed for enterprise SDR and sales teams, less suitable for small businesses

Pricing, plan by plan

ADP

$29/month
  • Essential$79/month
    • Payroll
    • Tax filing
    • Direct deposit
  • Enhanced$139/month
    • HR tools
    • Background checks
    • Job posting

Outreach

$100/month
  • Standard$100/month
    • Email sequencing
    • Task management
    • Basic analytics
  • ProfessionalFree
    • All Standard features
    • Conversation intelligence
    • Advanced analytics
  • EnterpriseFree
    • All Professional features
    • Revenue intelligence
    • Custom integrations

Which should you pick?

Choose ADP if

  • You need payroll.
  • You work on Web, Ios, Android.
  • You also want tax services.
ADP review

Choose Outreach if

  • You need sales engagement.
  • You also want conversation intelligence.
Outreach review

Questions people ask

Is ADP or Outreach better?
Neither clearly leads. ADP starts at $29/month and Outreach at $100/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, ADP or Outreach?
ADP starts at $29/month and Outreach at $100/month.
Does ADP or Outreach run on more platforms?
ADP runs on Web, Ios, Android. Outreach runs on Web.
What is ADP best used for?
ADP is most often used for payroll processing and tax filing, hr administration and employee records, time and attendance tracking, benefits administration. Of those, payroll processing and tax filing and hr administration and employee records are not what Outreach is typically brought in for.
What can ADP do that Outreach cannot?
ADP covers Payroll, Tax services, HR management, Time & attendance. Outreach covers Sales engagement, Conversation intelligence, Revenue intelligence, Pipeline management. Both handle Web support, Ios support, Android support.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Outreach: What channels does Outreach support for sales engagement?

Outreach enables outreach across email, phone calls, SMS, and social media with multi-channel sequencing and automated cadences.

Source
Outreach: Does Outreach integrate with Salesforce?

Yes, Outreach deeply integrates with Salesforce to automatically log emails, calls, and tasks back to CRM records, keeping both platforms synchronized.

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Outreach: Can Outreach sync with calendar systems?

Yes, Outreach syncs calendar events to Salesforce as Events records, supporting two-way synchronization between Outreach meetings and Salesforce Events.

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