Free Salesforce Alternatives I Actually Use for a Small Consulting Business

Why I Stopped Recommending Salesforce to Small Consulting Teams The real cost of Salesforce hit me about three months into recommending it A five-person consulting firm I was helping adopted Salesforce Essentials at $25/user/month. Sounds reasonable. Then they needed a custom pipeline stage. That required a custom field. The custom field broke an existing flow. Fixing the flow needed permission set adjustments. The permission sets conflicted with the profile. Six hours later, nothing worked and