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      <title>Any good CRM for long-term client management?</title>
      <dc:creator>Andžs</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2018 22:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/pilskalns/any-good-crm-for-long-term-client-management-2m9g</link>
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&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Let me try explain a problem, I know there must be solution, but don't know what it is. I hope you could help me finding it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In my workplace, we provide a lot of different IT services and configuration to each client (B2B) around the core product (&lt;em&gt;not relevant here to explain&lt;/em&gt;). Those extra features all are optional, but we can provide if needed.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For example, some of them answers to:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Do they have FTP server, or we should provide one?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Can they do their own monitoring, or should we do it?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Do they have AWS (any other) cloud account or do we setup it?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;All servers for app on cloud or barebone, or both?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Any 3rd party licences, do they buy them or we?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I imagine a system where could I go to client profile and add a recurring service like &lt;em&gt;FTP (500GB) (AWS)&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;Monitoring (basic to email)&lt;/em&gt;, and the core product as well. These are simple examples, but IRL it gets more detailed.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Workflow I ideally imagine:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sales enter new clients / PoC details, contact info (multiple persons per each client)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Then we (production team) realize a solution, change things over time&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Accountancy could see &lt;em&gt;standardized&lt;/em&gt; list of services and send out a bills each client&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The CRM's I've checked are directly towards sales / leads, closing a deal. Work again, sell a product, but this is completely not that. Also, this is not accountancy system I am looking for, many options are not generating costs, but still need to remember, like which cloud(s) are used for each client or simply timezone they operate.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Suggestions can be OSS or paid subscriptions, maybe with some API available&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Do you track services you provide to clients? Any system for that? Can you suggest anything? Please halp!&lt;/p&gt;

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