A CRM for small businesses that you own outright
Track customers, follow-ups, and repeat business in a CRM you buy once. No per-seat fees as you hire, no AI upsell, and your customer list stays on infrastructure you control.
The daily friction.
- Per-seat pricing turns every new hire into a bigger software bill, which is the opposite of what a growing small business needs.
- Enterprise CRMs are a maze of features built for sales orgs, when you just need to remember customers and follow up on time.
- Your customer list is the most valuable thing the business owns, and renting it back from a vendor's cloud feels backwards.
How small business run it day to day.
Keep every customer in one place
Store contacts, history, and notes on a single record, so anyone on the team can pick up a conversation without digging through inboxes.
Never drop a follow-up
Set tasks for quotes, callbacks, and check-ins, so the customer you meant to call back this week does not slip through and go cold.
Run a simple pipeline that fits you
Track inquiries from first contact to won using stages that match how you actually sell, without a heavyweight sales process you will never use.
Bring repeat customers back
Tag past customers and schedule periodic check-ins, so the people who already trust you stay warm and return instead of forgetting you exist.
Then bend it to exactly how you work.
The role setup is a head start, not a cage. Rename pipeline stages, add the fields your team actually fills in, build the views you check every morning, and wire up automations for the busywork. You own the source, so nothing is off-limits.
- Custom fields and record types
- Rename or add pipeline stages
- Saved views, filters, and automations
Questions, answered.
- No. The license is one-time, and you add the whole team without a per-seat charge. Growing the business never raises the software cost.
- No. You run only what you need, usually one pipeline and a contact list. Because you own the source, nothing forces enterprise sales features on you.
- Completely. It lives in your own Postgres database on infrastructure you control, ready to export or query directly. You are never renting access to your own data.
- No. There are no AI features and no AI tiers, so nothing is inflating the bill or sending your customer details to a third party.
Do we pay more every time we hire?
Is this too complicated for a small team?
Do we own our customer list?
Is there AI we have to pay for?
A growing business should not be punished for hiring
The cruel math of a per-seat CRM is that it costs you more exactly when things are going well. You land more customers, you hire someone to handle them, and the software bill goes up because you added a head, not because the tool did anything new. For a small business watching cash flow closely, that turns a routine hire into a recurring cost decision, and it makes the CRM feel like a partner that wins when you grow whether or not it helped you get there.
Nanobox CRM takes that meter off the table. You buy the license once ($399 for a single domain, or $1,999 for the Agency license) and add the whole team for free. Hire two people next quarter and your customer records hold more activity, not a bigger invoice. If you would rather not run a server, Hosted is a flat $29/month for the entire team, never per person.
Just the parts a small business actually needs
Most CRMs are built for sales organizations with quotas, territories, and managers, and they bury the few things a small business truly needs under features you will never open. What you actually want is simple: keep every customer in one place, remember to follow up, run a light pipeline from inquiry to won, and bring repeat customers back. Nanobox does those well and lets you ignore the rest. Because you own the full source, the tool stays as straightforward as your operation is, instead of nudging you up a ladder of tiers built for companies ten times your size.
And your customer list, which is genuinely the most valuable asset the business owns, stays in a Postgres database you control rather than a vendor cloud you rent access to. With no AI features anywhere, nothing is quietly scanning your customer details or padding the bill. See pricing for the full breakdown, or read about Hosted if you want to be running today.
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Own the CRM your role deserves.
Start from a setup built for small business and shape it to your workflow. One-time price, no per-seat fees, full source.