Teamleader
CRM · From €37/moEuropean SMB platform combining CRM, project management, and invoicing in one product — built for agencies, consultants, and service businesses.
Visit Teamleader →Sellsy bundles CRM, invoicing, and marketing for French SMBs — but euro-only pricing, a 12-month lock-in, and shallow modules send teams looking. Six fits.
European SMB platform combining CRM, project management, and invoicing in one product — built for agencies, consultants, and service businesses.
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Feature-rich sales CRM covering lead management, workflow automation, AI forecasting, and multi-pipeline support — all at a price point well below Salesforce. Free for up to 3 users.
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All-in-one CRM with marketing, sales, and service tools. Generous free tier, massive ecosystem.
Visit HubSpot CRM →
All-in-one business platform combining CRM, project management, team collaboration, HR, and internal communications. One of the most feature-dense options in the market at any price, including free.
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Sales-focused CRM built around visual pipeline management and activity-driven selling. Popular with SMB sales teams for its clean interface and strong automation across its mid-tier plans.
Try Pipedrive →
Intelligent B2B CRM for small and mid-sized sales teams that auto-fills itself from email, calendar, and LinkedIn so reps spend time selling, not logging.
Visit Salesflare →Sellsy's pitch is consolidation: CRM, quoting, legally-compliant electronic invoicing, marketing campaigns, and cash-flow forecasting in one French-hosted product, from €35/user/month on a two-seat minimum. For a French SMB that values RGPD-compliant data sovereignty and wants its commercial and administrative workflows under one login, that's a genuinely strong package — and if local hosting and integrated billing are why you bought it, there's little reason to move.
The cracks show up at the edges. Every plan carries a 12-month commitment, so there's no month-to-month escape hatch when priorities change. Pricing and the interface are built around the French and broader European market, which gets awkward the moment you hire outside the eurozone or sell into the US. And because Sellsy spreads itself across five categories, no single module — CRM depth, marketing automation sophistication, pipeline analytics — matches a tool that does only that one thing. You should leave if your team has outgrown one of those modules, if your invoicing needs are now better served by dedicated accounting software, or if you're internationalizing and need a platform that thinks in dollars and English-first support as fluently as it does in euros.
Don't replace a five-in-one tool with another five-in-one tool out of habit. Name the module that's actually failing you. If it's the whole bundle and you simply want it outside France's pricing-and-hosting frame, Teamleader is the cleanest like-for-like and Bitrix24 the cheapest at scale. If it's marketing, HubSpot is the upgrade. If it's the CRM itself, Pipedrive or Salesflare each fix a different version of that — Pipedrive the pipeline, Salesflare the data hygiene.
The subtler decision is invoicing. Sellsy's legally-compliant e-invoicing is a real asset, and only Teamleader and Bitrix24 keep billing in-house here. Choose Zoho or HubSpot and you're accepting a split stack — CRM in one place, invoicing in dedicated accounting software — which is often the better setup once each side needs to be best-in-class, but it's a deliberate trade, not a free one.
Because Sellsy locks you in for twelve months, time the switch to your renewal rather than eating an early-exit cost. Export your contacts, deals, and — critically — your invoicing data, and load your top two finalists. Run a real billing cycle through each: issue a quote, convert it, send an invoice, and confirm the compliance and payment-reminder flow holds up, since that's the piece a generic CRM will quietly drop. Most of these tools are live within a day or two, so you can validate the move well before the lock-in window closes.