Reliental vs. Epicor CPQ

It's tempting to line these up as cheap-versus-expensive versions of the same thing. They aren't. Epicor CPQ is a platform for running a quoting organisation — seats, approvals, pricing governance, and a deep hook into the ERP that manufactures the thing. Reliental builds a tool for the person deciding what to buy, before your sales team is involved at all.

That means the honest comparison isn't feature-by-feature. It's which bottleneck is costing you more: your reps struggling to produce compliant quotes, or your buyers unable to work out what to ask for.

Epicor does not publish complete pricing. Per-seat figures above are as reported by third-party software review platforms in 2026 and should be treated as indicative, not quoted — confirm directly with Epicor for your seat count and modules.

We'd rather you read a fair page than a flattering one, so here is the case for the other side — and it's a strong one in the right company:

The CAD point deserves particular weight. Epicor's ability to regenerate native parametric assemblies from a configuration — feeding engineering and the shop floor directly — is a category of capability, not a feature. If that is the project, a project-built configurator is the wrong tool and we'll say so on a call rather than waste your time.

The pattern we see most often: a manufacturer sits through a CPQ demo, is impressed, gets a six-figure number and a nine-month timeline, and quietly shelves the whole idea for two years. Meanwhile the actual daily cost — reps answering “what does that look like in anodised?” forty times a week — carries on unchanged. The configurator is the part that stops that, and it doesn't require the platform underneath it.

Three questions settle this faster than any demo:

1. 1Do you already run Epicor Kinetic as your ERP?If yes, Epicor CPQ's native integration is a real and specific advantage that no project build matches on equal terms. Weight it heavily. If you run something else, that advantage largely evaporates — you're integrating either way.
2. 2Does a customer ever need to touch this tool?If buyers, dealers, or distributors need to use it unsupervised, you need a buyer-facing configurator regardless of what else you buy. Most CPQ deployments never face a customer, and retrofitting one to do so is not the path of least resistance.
3. 3Is the hard part your product rules, or your pricing governance?Product rules — what can combine with what — is configurator territory. Pricing governance — who may discount how much, under which contract — is CPQ territory. Whichever generates more internal email is the one to fix first.

We build custom configurators for a living, so we profit if you pick our side of this comparison. That's exactly why this page concedes the CAD automation and ERP-native arguments rather than talking around them — a comparison that only ever concludes “buy ours” is marketing, not information, and it's worth nothing to a manufacturer trying to make a real decision.

If you send us your catalogue and the honest answer is that you need enterprise CPQ, we will tell you on the first call. It costs us an hour and saves you a year.