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RedditSep 27, 2026By u/beach280801

r/CRMSoftware

I’m using 6 different tools to run one business. Is there a better CRM?

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I run a commercial cleaning company in Pennsylvania with 8 people handling sales, scheduling and customer accounts. Our current tech stack has turned into a collection of tools that all do one small part of the job: RingCentral - incoming calls and textsAircall - outbound sales callsGoogle Sheets - sales tracking, commissions and job issuesBrevo - email campaignsMake - connecting everything togetherPandaDoc - quotes and proposals It works, but every time we add something new, there’s another integration to set up or another place where someone has to update information. What I really want is one system where we can manage leads, calls, texts, follow-ups, quotes, customer records and basic reporting without having six different tabs open. We have around 40–50 new leads a month, so we're not a huge operation. I don't need an enterprise platform with 200 features. I just want the core stuff to work together without spending a fortune on integrations. I've looked at a few all-in-one CRMs, but some seem to sacrifice the sales features we need while others become expensive once you start adding phone, automation and integration features. Has anyone moved from a setup like this to one CRM and been happy with the change? I’m more interested in something that works smoothly day to day than a platform with the longest feature list.

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  • [comment u/No-Project-3002] you can use hubspot which support most of these features natively and if you need to use other tools you can use integrations.

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  • “you can use hubspot which support most of these features natively and if you need to use other tools you can use integrations.”

    u/No-Project-30021 points · Sep 27, 2026View

  • “Jobber is what we use”

    u/Impossible-Charge7051 points · Sep 27, 2026View

  • “Highlevel can do nearly all of this, there's a ton of people that resell it (including me) there's thousands of hours of youtube videos explaining how to do most of it. It will be time consuming, but once it's set up it can easilay handle all of this. Depending on what you're using Google Sheets for, it can either replace it or directly connect to it, same for Make.”

    u/FlaTech181 points · Sep 27, 2026View

  • “I've setup GHL for a local home service in Illinois, addressing all the tools you mentioned in one CRM. The only thing that might require some thought is the commissions tracking, but that won't be complex either. You can read the case study here https://mazayadigital.com/case-studies/painting-north-shore/ (though it doesn't go in depth with all the CRM functions we setup).”

    u/MazayaDigital1 points · Sep 27, 2026View

  • “Hello my friend Ring central and aircall can be replaced by twillio or similar platform API within your custom CRM. The custom CRM can have sales cycle from cold lead to quotation to performa invoice to tax invoice system to team schedule and project management ( we have this readymade at my company) Brevo is a great tool, but we can build an integration with it to run the campaigns from one”

    u/Diligent_Pension36751 points · Sep 27, 2026View

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        "excerpt": "We went through a similar consolidation not too long ago. The thing I would test hardest in any trial is the quoting and follow up workflow. Most all in ones handle contacts and pipelines fine, but quoting with e signature plus automated follow up sequences is where we ran into friction. I would also check call logging for both inbound and outbound before committing, since that is half your stack",
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