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EspoCRM is a lightweight self-hosted CRM — contacts, accounts, leads, opportunities, sales pipelines. PHP-based, MySQL-backed, with a clean modular UI. Designed for small-to-medium businesses managing customer relationships without Salesforce's overhead or pricing.
EspoCRM is a lightweight self-hosted CRM — contacts, accounts, leads, opportunities, sales pipelines. PHP-based, MySQL-backed, with a clean modular UI. Designed for small-to-medium businesses managing customer relationships without Salesforce's overhead or pricing.
For sales teams paying Salesforce $150/user/month, EspoCRM self-host is dramatically cheaper for similar functionality.
Concrete scenarios where teams pick EspoCRM over the SaaS alternative.
contacts, accounts, leads, opportunities pipeline
deal stages, win/loss reporting
single source of truth for customer data
track customer email correspondence
separate visibility for sales / support / marketing
If your team profile matches one of these, EspoCRM is a strong fit out of the box.
with 5-50 person sales teams
managing client pipelines
keeping customer data on-prem
moving off Salesforce / HubSpot per-seat
offering CRM-as-a-service
When evaluating self-hosted options for this category, here are the dimensions on which EspoCRM consistently lands above the alternatives.
The stack you'll plug EspoCRM into — services, protocols, and adjacent apps in the BluixApps catalog.
espocrm/espocrm:latest (release-tagged)Operational guidance from running this in production — what to do before you scale, what to lock down, what surprises people.
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