Used For

• +**Your sales proposals get lost in email threads with 47 versions** → Everyone edits one doc with comments right on specific cells and paragraphs
• +**Deal status meetings waste 30 minutes figuring out what changed** → Live data from Salesforce updates automatically in your documents
• +**Project feedback requires forwarding files between 6 people** → @mention teammates directly in docs, they respond inline
• +Embeds live Salesforce data directly in documents - no copy-paste between systems
• +Cell-by-cell commenting on spreadsheets instead of vague "looks good" emails

Best For

• >Sales teams drowning in email chains about deal documents
• >Account managers who live in Salesforce and hate switching tabs
• >Teams already paying enterprise Salesforce prices anyway

Not For

• -Teams under 50 people — you're paying enterprise prices for features basic Google Workspace does cheaper
• -Anyone not using Salesforce heavily — most of Quip's value comes from that integration
• -Companies wanting granular permissions — it's just admin or member roles, everyone sees everything in shared folders

Pairs With

• *Salesforce CRM (where the magic happens - live deal data flows into your documents automatically)
• *Slack (because even Salesforce teams need somewhere to complain about mandatory field updates)
• *DocuSign (to actually close those deals you're collaborating on)
• *Tableau (for pretty executive dashboards since Quip charts look basic)
• *Smartsheet (embeds project data when Quip's task lists aren't robust enough)
• *Microsoft Teams (for video calls since Quip doesn't do meetings)

The Catch

• !No public pricing means "contact sales" enterprise negotiations that start around $25-100/user/month
• !Members automatically get read/write access to all shared content — no fine-grained document permissions
• !The cool Live Apps features require 1-2 hours of setup and auth configuration, not the "15 minutes" they claim

Bottom Line

Google Docs for teams who can't escape the Salesforce ecosystem.