CRM is more or less a staple of the SaaS (software as a service) market. Salesforce does it. Zoho does it. SugarCRM is in the game. Microsoft, too. All to better enhance management of customer relations across a workforce sized large and small. We can now add one more name to the list: Bizroof.
Recently launched and sporting a group of features eminently simple to operate, San Francisco-based Bizroof is constructed with four primary components in mind: the dashboard; sections for people and organizations; and events. Items can be tagged for quick search if needed. Important notes can be recorded. Files can be uploaded. And a calendar is available to pool schedules together and null any worker confusion. Basic management, really. An RSS feed is also offered to keep track of account activity.
Everything arrives with a nicely polished interface, courtesy of Prototype and script.aculo.us, and a recipe of PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, Amazon S3, plus some Zend APIs to finish the dish. Unfortunately, a negative I witnessed when using the service is that it is somewhat slow in displaying pages. You won’t have to wait too long to enter information, but just be mindful that there may be minor delays when navigating around the place.
There are two subscription plans for Bizroof, which are very clearly distinguishable from one another:
Basic, which the company plans to offer indefinitely, won’t cost you a cent, and it’ll accept 3 users, 30 contacts and 30 organizations every month, limitless event scheduling and data tagging, and 10MB of file space for uploads.
Pro, will take $120/year and give 1,000 users access, 20,000 contacts and 20,000 organizations per month, 1GB of room for data, and zero advertisements.