Flowlu

Flowlu is only partly a CRM. It is a business-operations tool for service companies, and the pipeline sits alongside project management, task tracking, invoicing and basic finance, on the theory that in an agency or a consultancy these are all views of one job rather than four systems.

The pricing is remarkable for what is included. There is a free tier, and the paid plans are US$6 and US$11 per user per month on yearly billing — which is a low rate for a product carrying project management, invoicing and finance alongside the pipeline.

The value case is the strongest thing about it — very little else asks so little for so much surface. The downside is the arithmetic of breadth. Nothing at this price is deep, and a company that mainly needs a sales CRM will find the pipeline module competent rather than considered, with the design attention spread across modules it may never open. The right way to read Flowlu is as an operations tool that happens to include a CRM, not as a CRM that happens to include invoicing.