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Hi, I'm a long time user of Drupal, newbie when it comes to CRM's and I'm unsure even if that is what I need. The requirement I have for a site I am working on is the following and I'd like to know if CiviCRM would make my life easier for this.

I have a visitor form that is filled out with a zip code. I have a supplier form that is filled out with a zip code. When a visitor submits a zip code that matches a suppliers zip code they get an email with the suppliers info. Suppliers don't get notifications.

The way things have been working for the last couple years is that suppliers submit info via our site and their info is placed into an excel spreadsheet. Then when a visitor submits there information the same staff person checks their location against our suppliers locations and sends them an email. We're basically desiring a way to automatate this process.

The original site was a custom site built with php form to emails, the new site I am developing for this client is a Drupal based site which is why I'm interested in learning about CiviCRM, as well as our sales team has mentioned that they wanted to purchase licenses for Salesforce as it supposedly has a way to do this. I'm unfamiliar with salesforce myself so don't know if that is true, but I'd rather use an opensource method if possible to keep our budget down.

mhurston, the description you posted contains no particular functionality that I can see that warrants CiviCRM. I would suggest you code this in pure Drupal.

Thanks for the responses