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Propel
PLM, quality and product information management built on the Salesforce platform
As of 31 August 2026, Propel's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Cloud PLM, QMS and PIM running natively on Salesforce, so engineering, quality and commercial teams share one record. Softwr lists it under Manufacturing. Propel is made by Propel Software Solutions, Inc., available on Web, iOS, Android, Cloud.
Overview
What Propel does
Propel is a product lifecycle management suite delivered as a native Salesforce application. It manages items, bills of materials, engineering change orders, documents and approvals, and extends into quality management with CAPA, non-conformance and audits, and into product information management for the marketing and commerce side of a product record. Because it is built on Salesforce, records, workflow, reporting and sharing rules use the same engine as the CRM, and a customer complaint can be traced to a part revision without an integration. The Salesforce foundation is the fact that decides the purchase. It buys you a configuration model that administrators already understand, a real API and reporting layer, and no separate identity or workflow engine to maintain. It also means your product data sits in a Salesforce org, your customisations are Salesforce customisations, and your negotiating position at renewal is with a vendor whose platform is not its own. Propel resolves the obvious objection by including Salesforce platform access in each Propel licence, so end users do not buy separate Salesforce seats. Buyers are mid-market and upper mid-market hardware, medical device and consumer product companies who want PLM without an on-premise programme. Propel publishes indicative bands on its own pricing page: roughly 10,000 to 150,000 US dollars a year for a small deployment with 10,000 to 25,000 of setup and about three weeks to go live, rising to 250,000 to 500,000 a year with 50,000 to 400,000 of setup and three to six months for a large one. Those bands are wide enough that the quote is still the only number that matters, but they are more than most PLM vendors disclose.
What people use it for
- A medical device company needing linked design control and CAPA records for an ISO 13485 audit without an on-premise PLM programme
- A consumer products firm publishing the same product record to engineering, packaging and e-commerce teams
- A company already standardised on Salesforce that wants product data governed with the same admin skills as the CRM
- A hardware manufacturer routing customer complaints straight to the part revision and supplier that caused them
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Propel.
- Your product data lives in a Salesforce org, so a future decision to leave Salesforce becomes a PLM migration as well as a CRM one, and the extraction is not trivial.
- CAD data management is handled through connectors rather than natively; Propel manages metadata and files well but is not a substitute for a CAD vault on large assemblies.
- The published cost bands are extremely wide, from 10,000 to 500,000 US dollars a year, and setup can approach the annual licence, so early budgeting without a scoped quote is close to meaningless.
- Licence roles are split across Performance, Quality, Enrichment, Collaboration and Partner types, and buyers frequently discover mid-project that a user needs a more expensive role than budgeted.
- Salesforce platform limits such as governor limits, API call ceilings and storage allowances apply, and organisations with very large BOMs or heavy integration traffic hit them in ways a purpose-built PLM would not surface.
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Pricing
What Propel costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Propel
On request
- Annual user-based licensing in role types
- Salesforce platform access included in each licence
- Indicative small deployment band of 10,000 to 150,000 USD a year plus 10,000 to 25,000 setup
- Indicative large deployment band of 250,000 to 500,000 USD a year plus 50,000 to 400,000 setup
- Quote required, no per-seat list price published
Capabilities
Features
Item and BOM management
Multi-level bills of materials with revision and effectivity control
Change management
Engineering change requests, orders and structured approval routing
Quality management
CAPA, non-conformance, audits and training records for regulated products
Product information management
Marketing and commerce attributes on the same product record as engineering data
Supplier collaboration
Partner-facing access for suppliers and contract manufacturers
Native Salesforce
Salesforce sharing, workflow, reporting and API with platform access included
Licence types
Separate Performance, Quality, Enrichment, Collaboration and Partner licence roles
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Questions people ask
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Do I need to buy Salesforce separately?
No. Each Propel licence includes Salesforce platform access, and end users do not need their own Salesforce licences or Salesforce expertise.
Does being on Salesforce lock me in?
Practically, yes. The application, its configuration and your product data all sit in a Salesforce org, which is a real consideration at renewal.
What does it cost?
Propel publishes indicative bands rather than list prices: roughly 10,000 to 150,000 US dollars a year for a small deployment and 250,000 to 500,000 for a large one, plus setup.
Is it suitable for regulated medical devices?
Yes, that is a core segment; the quality module covers CAPA, non-conformance, audits and training records with electronic signatures.
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