You prefer an industry-specific CRM: HubSpot is a general-use CRM because it’s built to support a wide range of different industries.Users can subscribe to Zoho Projects for free or use one of the low-cost paid plans which are $4 or $9 per user, per month. Alternative: Insightly offers a free project management module, and Zoho CRM offers a free, native integration with Zoho Projects.Also, project tools are not available until you subscribe to the Professional plan. It cannot, however, provide multi-viewing capabilities on Gantt, Kanban, calendar, or chart views, nor can you associate a project with a contact or account record. You need solid, low-cost project management features: HubSpot has basic project management, letting you view deliverables and tasks in a list and store project templates.There are also advanced capabilities, however, like email campaigns, ads management, website analytics, blog hosting, and Facebook messaging at no cost. HubSpot’s free CRM plan offers an intuitive platform with all the CRM essentials, like contact and deal management. You are a startup contracting business: Despite tight budgets, startup trade contractors must find ways to build brand awareness and generate prospective clients.

Contractors can send payment links within quote documents to collect revenue via automated clearing house (ACH) or integration with Stripe for credit and debit card payments.

You want to process client payments in your CRM: A unique feature in HubSpot is the payment processing capabilities.

Teams can configure automation to schedule campaign deployment based on time or actions, such as recipient clicks, and even host a blog from the CRM system. Users can create detailed audience segments and design email, advertisement, and social media campaigns to target contacts on those lists.

You need a complete marketing platform: HubSpot’s greatest capabilities include the marketing and campaign automation features.

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