Stop paying $150+/user/month for features you never touch

Your Small Business Doesn't Need Salesforce

15 users at $150/month = $27,000/year. Over 3 years, that is $81,000 -- for a CRM your team barely uses. There is a better way.

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The Salesforce problem for small businesses

Salesforce is a powerful platform. It was designed for companies with 500+ employees, dedicated IT teams, and six-figure CRM budgets. If that is not you, keep reading.

$150+/user/month

Enterprise pricing for features your 15-person company will never use. That is $2,250/month before you even add integrations.

3,000+ features, you use 12

Salesforce was built for Fortune 500 companies with dedicated admins. You need contact tracking, deal pipeline, and maybe email integration. That is it.

Complexity you did not ask for

Training new employees takes weeks. Simple changes require a consultant at $200/hour. Your team dreads using it because the interface was designed by committee.

Locked in to their ecosystem

Your data is in Salesforce. Your workflows are in Salesforce. Leaving means starting over -- and they know it. That is the business model.

Let's do the math

Real numbers for a typical 15-person small business.

Salesforce

Per-user cost $150/month
Users 15
Monthly cost $2,250
Annual cost $27,000
3-year total $81,000

Custom CRM

One-time build $5,000 - $8,000
Users Unlimited
Monthly maintenance $200 - $400
Year 1 total $7,400 - $12,800
3-year total $12,200 - $22,400
3-year savings: $58,600 - $68,800

What you get instead

A CRM built around YOUR workflow. Only the features YOU need. Your UI. Your integrations. Your data.

Contact and company management built for YOUR sales process
Deal pipeline with YOUR stages, YOUR fields, YOUR terminology
Email integration that works the way you actually send emails
Reporting dashboards that show the metrics YOU care about
Mobile-friendly interface your team will actually want to use
Role-based access so everyone sees exactly what they need
Integrations with YOUR existing tools (QuickBooks, Outlook, etc.)
Full data ownership -- export everything, anytime, no restrictions

What you lose

We believe in honesty. Here is what you give up when you leave Salesforce.

Salesforce AppExchange ecosystem

Thousands of third-party apps and integrations built specifically for Salesforce.

Automatic feature updates

Salesforce ships three major releases per year with new features you do not have to build.

Brand recognition

Investors and enterprise clients sometimes expect to see Salesforce on your stack.

Community and support forums

Huge user community with Trailhead training, forums, and certified consultants.

Should you stay or leave?

Salesforce is the right choice for some businesses. We will tell you honestly if you are one of them.

Stay on Salesforce if...

You need 50+ third-party integrations through AppExchange
You have a dedicated Salesforce admin on staff
You are an enterprise company with 200+ users
Your investors or partners require Salesforce specifically
You use deep Salesforce automation (Flow, Apex triggers) extensively

Leave Salesforce if...

You are paying for seats nobody actively uses
Your team avoids Salesforce because it is too complicated
You spend $200+/hour on Salesforce consultants for basic changes
You only use contact management, pipeline, and basic reporting
You want to own your data without export restrictions
You are tired of price increases every renewal cycle

Break-even timeline

Based on 15 users at $150/month for Salesforce vs. a $6,500 custom CRM build with $400/month maintenance.

Month 0
Salesforce total

$0

Custom CRM total

$6,500

Custom CRM built and deployed

Month 3
Salesforce total

$6,750

Custom CRM total

$7,700

Salesforce cost overtakes custom

Month 6
Salesforce total

$13,500

Custom CRM total

$8,900

Month 12
Salesforce total

$27,000

Custom CRM total

$11,300

You have saved $15,700

Month 24
Salesforce total

$54,000

Custom CRM total

$16,100

You have saved $37,900

Month 36
Salesforce total

$81,000

Custom CRM total

$20,900

You have saved $60,100

$60,100 saved over 3 years

That is the money you keep by building a tool you own vs. renting one forever.

How the migration works

We do not just build a new CRM and wish you luck. We handle the entire transition.

Step 01

Audit

We map every Salesforce feature your team actually uses. Usually it is 10-15 out of hundreds.

Step 02

Build

Custom CRM with only the features you need. Your terminology, your pipeline stages, your workflow.

Step 03

Migrate

We export your Salesforce data and import it into the new system. Contacts, deals, history -- everything.

Step 04

Train

Your team gets hands-on training. No Trailhead courses needed -- because the tool was built for how they already work.

Get a free Salesforce replacement assessment

We will audit your current Salesforce usage, identify exactly which features you need, calculate your break-even timeline, and give you an honest recommendation -- even if that recommendation is to stay on Salesforce.

Request Free Assessment (864) 335-9223