Changing the startup life with SuiteCRM- An open source CRM

SuiteCRM is an open source CRM forked from SugarCRM and maintained by SalesAgility. A perfect CRM plays a significant role in making life easier for any company.

For a startup, it is even more significant to adopt cost-effective and highly customizable CRM which can improve productivity and manage the data effectively.

SuiteCRM is an award-winning open source CRM and being used by enterprises of all level, be it a start-up, medium enterprise or fortune 500 company.

Let's meet and discuss how SuiteCRM can make life easier for startups.

Why SuiteCRM Fits the Startup Stage

Early-stage companies live or die by the speed at which they can convert a lead, ship an invoice and follow up on a churn risk. The problem is that the moment a startup signs onto a proprietary CRM with per-user pricing, the cost of the CRM scales with hiring, and the second a founder wants to add a custom field or a workflow, they hit either a paywall or a consulting hour bill. SuiteCRM removes both constraints. The platform is free to self-host, the code is fully accessible for customisation, and the data stays inside the customer's own database where it can be queried, exported and integrated without vendor permission. For a five to fifty person company, this combination is hard to beat.

The second advantage is depth. SuiteCRM covers accounts, contacts, opportunities, quotes, invoices, projects, cases and a configurable workflow engine out of the box. Where proprietary tools push founders to buy additional licences for marketing automation or service ticketing, SuiteCRM rolls these into the same install. Redian customers have used it as the system of record for everything from B2B SaaS sales pipelines to insurance broker portals to non-profit donor management.

How Redian Helps Startups Get Live Fast

Our SuiteCRM practice has produced seven published extensions on the SuiteCRM Store, including Twilio messaging, document automation and productivity add-ons, and we run fixed-scope startup packages that take a company from blank install to operational CRM in a matter of weeks. Details are on the SuiteCRM expertise page(/expertise/crm/suitecrm), the broader methodology on CRM and ERP implementation services(/services/crm-erp-implementation), and selected rollouts on our case studies page(/case-studies).

If you are a founder evaluating CRM options, please contact the team(/contact) for a no-pressure scoping conversation.