Alternatives to Pipedrive
Pipedrive CRM: won, and then what?
Nobody leaves Pipedrive because the pipeline is bad.
Pipedrive
Spodus- Third-party app marketplace
- Included
- Not offered
- Capabilities sold as add-ons
- Included
- None, all included
- Invoicing, tax rates and recurring schedules
- Not offered
- Included
- Help desk with SLAs and a portal
- Not offered
- Included
What actually pushes people off Pipedrive.
The Pipedrive CRM system is a good sales tool.
Won is the end of the record
The CRM system Pipedrive sells stops at won.
The rest is sold as add-ons
Capabilities beyond the sales pipeline come as separate add-ons on top of the seat.
Everyone downstream is guessing
Support cannot see what the customer was promised, finance cannot see why the discount was given, and the account manager reconstructs the deal from an email thread.
What a Spodus seat is instead.
The same pipeline, and then four more products on the same customer.
The invoice drafts on the same customer
Convert a deal or its quote and the invoice starts from that record, with the contact, the amounts and the tax rate already on it.
The ticket knows about the deal
A support ticket shows the customer's company and contract, and that company record holds the deal and the balance, so nothing needs an integration.
Nothing sold on top
All five products are in every plan.
What you would be giving up.
As a pure sales tool, Pipedrive CRM software is simpler and faster to live in than anything carrying five products.
Side by side.
| Spodus | Pipedrive | |
|---|---|---|
| Pipeline, deals and activities | ||
| Custom fields and stages | ||
| Third-party app marketplace | ||
| Capabilities sold as add-ons | None, all included | |
| Invoicing, tax rates and recurring schedules | ||
| Help desk with SLAs and a portal | ||
| HR, time off and org chart | ||
| One record from deal to invoice to ticket |
Pipedrive's pricing structure above was read from their own pricing page on 28 August 2026. Spodus is priced per seat, from a three-seat minimum; customers in the support portal are free.
Contacts, organisations, deals.
Spodus ships a CSV importer with a Pipedrive preset, so exported contacts, organisations and deals map onto records with your stages and custom fields carried across.
Thinking about the rest of the stack?
The same honest read on the other tools teams try to leave.
Two ways
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Start fresh today, or bring the clients, deals and history you already have.
Start fresh
Free for up to three people.
You get every product: CRM, invoicing, support, team, chat and Spodus AI, which asks before it changes anything. Upgrade when your team grows.
Start for freeBring your data
Bring your data from the tool you use now.
Your deals arrive with their stages, owners and dates. Connect your work email, and each client's emails land on their record. On a paid plan, we'll move it all for you, free.
Try it before you cancel anything.
Start today, or bring your own data to a demo and see it there.
Questions, answered
Close, for most sales teams: custom stages, drag-and-drop deals, weighted forecasts and reminders on close dates. Pipedrive is more focused and a team that only sells may well prefer it. The difference is what happens after won.
Invoicing on the same customer, a ticket queue with SLAs and a free customer portal, HR with time off and an org chart, and internal team chat. Alongside Pipedrive today, those are three or four separate subscriptions.
Free covers up to three people. Starter and Growth are priced per seat, at one flat rate, with a three-seat minimum, and our prices are on our pricing page. We do not quote Pipedrive's here: theirs change and a stale figure is worse than none. Check their pricing page, add the add-ons and the tools that sit outside it, and compare.
Yes, and it is one of the seven presets in the importer. Export from Pipedrive, map the columns once, and your deals arrive with their stages intact.
Yes, and the right one depends on what the agency does after the sale. Agencies that plan delivery on Gantt charts and resource schedules should look at Scoro, Productive or Teamwork. Agencies that want the deal, the timesheet, the invoice, the ticket and the client portal on one record are who Spodus is for. Agencies that only sell and hand the work off elsewhere can stay on Pipedrive.