Key Takeaways
Short answer: The main Salesforce CPQ alternatives for manufacturers are Wabric, Agentforce Revenue Management, Tacton, Configit, Epicor CPQ, and CRM-based tools like DealHub and PROS Smart CPQ. If you're staying inside Salesforce, Agentforce Revenue Management is the default path; if you need drawings and 3D building files out of every quote, Wabric is built for exactly that.
- Salesforce CPQ is being phased out, and manufacturers are already looking at what comes next.
- Most alternatives handle pricing and quoting well, but few also produce the CAD drawings and 3D files manufacturers actually need.
- Wabric turns one online configuration into a price, a drawing, and a 3D building file, automatically.
- That same connected data is also what new EU rules will soon require, so picking Wabric solves two problems at once.
- Which alternative is right for you depends on whether your real bottleneck is pricing and approvals, or engineering output.
If you use Salesforce CPQ, you've probably heard the news: Salesforce isn't selling it to new customers anymore. The official successor is Agentforce Revenue Management, what Salesforce called Revenue Cloud Advanced until recently, and there's no simple upgrade button between the two. Salesforce's own estimate is 3 to 6 months to move over, longer if your catalog or pricing rules are complex.
For most companies, that's just a hassle. For manufacturers, it's a chance to fix something that was never quite right. Salesforce CPQ was built to price deals inside a sales team, not to hold the drawings, the 3D models, or the compliance records a physical product actually needs. So most manufacturers already run a second system, or a second team, where engineering redraws the signed quote into something production can actually build.
If you're switching systems anyway, this is a good moment to ask for more than a price and a PDF. Here's how Salesforce CPQ and the manufacturing alternatives stack up, and which one fits your situation.
Salesforce CPQ Alternatives at a Glance
Competitor details reflect what's publicly listed as of September 2026, not confirmed directly with each vendor.
6 Salesforce CPQ Alternatives for Manufacturers
1. Wabric
Best for: engineer-to-order manufacturers who want production-ready files, like drawings and 3D building files, out of every quote.
Wabric is built for manufacturers who sell complex, engineer-to-order products: pipes, railings, prefab buildings, doors, facades, and similar. When someone configures a product on your website, they're working with a real 3D model, not just a list of options. The moment they confirm it, that same model turns into a price, a bill of materials, a production drawing, and a 3D building file, all at once. Nobody has to redraw anything by hand.
That matters most if your engineering team currently spends time redoing quotes that sales already sent out. Saku Metall cut its sales cycle from 2 weeks to 2 hours and moved 90-95% of orders to self-service, with 80% fewer errors. R-Fix automated its quoting and now saves hundreds of engineering hours every month.
Wabric is modular, so you pick the pieces you actually need. Wallenium is a good example: they just needed 2D drawings out of every quote, not the full BIM package, so that's what they run.
Other manufacturers configure the full stack, quote, drawing, and 3D building file together. You set it up around what your engineering team needs to produce, not the other way around.
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2. Agentforce Revenue Management (Salesforce)
Best for: teams staying inside Salesforce whose bottleneck is pricing and approvals.
This is Salesforce's own successor to CPQ, which it also markets as Revenue Cloud. It covers configuration, pricing, and quoting, plus contracts and billing, all inside Salesforce. It doesn't produce CAD drawings or 3D building files, and moving over means rebuilding your quoting setup rather than upgrading it. Listed pricing is $150 to $200 a user a month, on top of your Salesforce CRM license.
3. Tacton
Best for: manufacturers with a huge number of product variants who already run a separate CAD program.
Tacton is built for manufacturers and connects to most major ERP systems, as well as Salesforce CRM. It can produce drawings, but only if you also buy and run a separate CAD program like SolidWorks or Inventor alongside it. It doesn't publish pricing or a way to generate a 3D building file.
4. Configit
Best for: manufacturers with very large option sets whose main need is configuration and pricing, not drawings.
Configit is built to handle huge numbers of product options at once. It's strong on configuration and pricing, but doesn't publish anything about generating drawings, and setup tends to take longer than the other options here.
5. Epicor CPQ
Best for: manufacturers already running Epicor's ERP.
Formerly KBmax, Epicor CPQ plugs straight into Epicor's ERP and offers 3D visual configuration. Like Tacton, it produces drawings only through a separate CAD program, and it doesn't publish a way to generate a 3D building file. Third-party listings put it at around $150 a user a month.
6. DealHub and PROS Smart CPQ
Best for: teams whose real bottleneck is deal approval and pricing, not engineering.
Both are guided-selling and pricing tools built around a CRM rather than product configurators, so they fit standard products better than engineer-to-order ones. DealHub, for example, connects to Salesforce, HubSpot, and Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Want the full breakdown of all 9 platforms manufacturers compare, including HiveCPQ and Salsita? See our guide to the best CPQ software for manufacturing.
It's Not Just About Salesforce
Salesforce isn't the only thing pushing manufacturers to rethink their tools. The EU's Construction Products Regulation and its Digital Product Passport rules are rolling out through 2026 to 2030, and they require manufacturers to track exactly what's in every product they sell, in a structured digital format, not a PDF spec sheet.
None of the other alternatives in this guide solve that. If your configuration data already lives in one connected system, tracking that information is mostly a side effect of how you already sell. If it's scattered across spreadsheets and email, it's a multi-year project on its own, on top of whatever you pick to replace Salesforce CPQ.
How to Choose
- Your problem is deal approval and pricing, not engineering. Agentforce Revenue Management, DealHub, or PROS Smart CPQ will probably get you there.
- You need to handle a huge number of options, and you're fine running a separate CAD program too. Tacton or Configit are built for that, though setup takes a while and neither publishes pricing upfront.
- You're already deep in Epicor's ERP. Epicor CPQ plugs in natively, with the same separate-CAD setup as Tacton.
- You're staying inside Salesforce no matter what. Agentforce Revenue Management is the native path, but budget 3 to 6 months to rebuild your quoting setup since there's no direct upgrade from legacy CPQ.
- Engineers keep redrawing what sales already quoted. That's what Wabric is built to fix. It connects sales to production, so every confirmed quote comes with the files your factory needs, like the bill of materials and production drawings, plus a 3D building file for architects. It's modular, so you pick what you need, and Wabric PIM runs underneath as the backbone of the configurator, keeping every product rule and price in one place.
Summary
Salesforce CPQ isn't disappearing overnight, but there's no easy path forward with it either. If you're evaluating what's next, you're choosing between Agentforce Revenue Management if you're staying in Salesforce, a manufacturing CPQ tool paired with a separate CAD program, or a tool that makes the quote and the engineering output together. Pick based on what's actually slowing your team down.
See If Wabric Fits Your Products
If your engineers keep redrawing what sales already quoted, or architects need a real 3D building file to spec you into a project, book a Wabric demo. We'll talk through your products, what you need, and which modules fit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Not right away. Salesforce stopped selling it to new customers in March 2025, but if you're already using it, you keep support and can still renew. There's no confirmed end-of-life date yet.
Agentforce Revenue Management (ARM), which Salesforce also markets as Revenue Cloud. It covers configuration, pricing, and quoting, plus contracts and billing, all built natively on the Salesforce platform.
No. It's a different system underneath, so moving over means rebuilding your quoting setup, not a simple upgrade. Salesforce's own estimate is 3 to 6 months, longer for complex catalogs.
Moving to Agentforce Revenue Management takes 3 to 6 months by Salesforce's own estimate, longer for complex catalogs. With Wabric, the first configurator usually goes live in 6 to 8 weeks.
Yes, with several of the alternatives. Wabric connects to Salesforce CRM, and so do Tacton and DealHub, so you can replace the quoting tool and keep your CRM.
Does Salesforce CPQ make CAD drawings or 3D building files? No. It handles pricing and quotes only. Manufacturers who need drawings or building files usually add a separate CAD program on top, or switch to a tool built to produce those automatically.
It depends on what's actually slowing you down. If it's pricing and approvals, staying inside Salesforce with Agentforce Revenue Management covers it. If it's engineering, drawings and 3D files that need to come out of every quote, Wabric is the only option here that makes both automatically, without a separate CAD program.
Wabric starts at €490 a month plus a one-time setup fee, which is scoped and fixed before you sign. CAD and 3D building file exports are on the Enterprise plan. Agentforce Revenue Management runs $150 to $200 a user a month. Most manufacturing-focused CPQ tools, including Tacton and Configit, don't publish pricing at all.
