Apptivo

Apptivo sells a suite of business applications, roughly fifty of them, under a single per-user subscription. The core is CRM with contacts, leads, opportunities and territory management, but the same licence also opens invoicing, estimates, project management, timesheets, expense reports, field service work orders, a help desk, procurement and inventory. Everything shares one customer record and one set of custom fields, which is the genuine argument for it: a small business gets quote-to-invoice-to-project without buying and integrating four products. The commercial fact worth checking is the tier ladder, because the number of apps you can use is what the tiers gate. Lite at 15 US dollars per user per month billed annually opens 18 apps and 25 workflows. Premium at 25 opens 46 apps and 25 custom dashboards. Ultimate at 40 raises limits to 350 custom fields per app, 150 workflows and 50 dashboards. Enterprise is quoted. Buyers routinely pick Lite on price, discover the app they actually wanted sits above the line, and pay a 67 per cent uplift to Premium at renewal. Read the app list per tier before committing, not the headline price. Monthly billing costs about a third more at every tier. Buyers are small and mid-size businesses, often service firms and distributors under a hundred staff, that want one vendor rather than a stack. The trade-off is depth. Each app is competent but shallower than the specialist tool it replaces, the interface density is high, and the mobile apps lag the web product. Apptivo does not offer a free tier; there is a 30-day trial.

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