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No features are behind a paywall even in the free plan of the ERP for agencies.

I have been developing Appleno, ERP software for agencies and small service businesses that combines CRM, project management, HR & payroll, finance & invoicing, team collaboration and a client portal into one workspace. Why: [the specific time that you found the tool-juggling pain in your business — e.g. when you ran one of your businesses on a separate CRM, project tool, invoicing app, HR tool, etc. that never synced with each other]. Three different systems for re-typing clients. Billable hours which were not invoiced, due to the separation of time tracking and invoicing. There is no real answer to ‘which clients are actually profitable' without three spreadsheets of exports and a fourth of creation. The "all-in-one" part I find makes it a different story — most of these "all-in-ones" overcome sprawl by introducing a new issue: access to half the modules is restricted behind a paywall, requiring customers to pay extra to unlock the features they were looking for in the first place. All of Appleno's features are open. All plans include the complete module package, including CRM, Projects, HR & Payroll, Finance, Collaboration and a brandable Client Portal. Plans are based on seats not on what you can touch. This is a real number – not a polished pitch, how long they've been beta users, anything you are comfortable sharing. So if you're currently running an agency or small team with a bunch of “best-in-class” individual tools and you have to cobble together a CRM + PM + invoicing app + spreadsheet — is it “all right” to replace all these best-of-breed applications with something more unified and less specialized, or is it not the life you want to live? If you want to do some poking around, you can go to the free website: appleno.com

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    Spot-on distinction. Most "all-in-ones" just throw separate widgets on one screen and call it unified — but the team is still copying data between them. With Appleno everything runs on one shared database. So when your team logs billable hours on a project task, those records are already tied to the client and the project. No exports, no re-keying stuff between tools. Your finance reports (income, expenses, AR aging, overdue tracking) are computed straight from the actual invoice and payment records — not from CSV dumps stitched together at month-end. The client portal pulls from the same live data too. Clients log in and see their projects, tasks, invoices, documents, tickets, approvals — all the same records your internal team is working on. Kills the back-and-forth status emails. There's also a universal workspace search (⌘K) that hits every module — clients, leads, invoices, tickets, documents — from one shortcut. For a 10-person agency the real time tax isn't having too many tabs open, it's the handoff friction between project delivery, time tracking, billing, and client communication. That's what we built this to eliminate.
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    Built on real pain (✓). Pricing model is smart (✓). Real test: does it actually reduce context-switching for a 10-person agency, or just consolidate dashboards? If the former, you've solved a genuine time tax.