Real estate CRM with no lock-in: why it matters for your agency

Staying is the silent enemy of many software contracts. It seems a minor detail until you decide to change the tool and find out that you have 8 months left, a penalty for early discharge and a process of data export that seems designed to frustrate you.

Why real estate hate permanence

The real estate sector is cyclical. There are months of much activity and months in which the market slows. If you have a 12-month stay with a CRM that costs 80 €/ month, you are committing 960 €without knowing if your agency will have the same workload within 6 months.

In addition, permanence eliminates pressure on the supplier. If you're already tied up, why would they improve the support or add functions? The non-permanent CRM has to earn your month-to-month renewal, which results in better service.

The traps of permanent contracts

These are the clauses that are usually hidden in the small letter:

• Minimum stay of 12 months: If you leave before, you pay the remaining months.
• Non-refundable discharge fee: You pay 200 €per configuration and they don't return anything if you don't like it.
• Automatic price rise: after the first year, the price rises by 20% without notice
• Exports of complicated data: When you want to leave, you find out you can't export your contacts easily.

How to protect you before you sign

Before committing to any CRM, check these points:

• Is there a minimum permanence? If there is, how many months?
• Is there a discharge fee? Is it refundable?
• Can I export my data at any time?
• Is the price fixed or can it go up?
• Can I pause the account temporarily?

If the answer to any of these questions gives you doubt, negotiate or seek another option. Don't sign contracts that kill you without giving you real value in return.

The alternative: non-permanent CRM

Some real estate CRM offers plans with no lock-in or discharge fee. You can start for free, try it for as long as you want, and if it doesn't convince you, you leave at no cost. That model exists, but it's not the most common because suppliers are interested in tying you.

InmoProCRM It works exactly like this: no lock-in, no discharge fee, no credit card to start with. If you like it, you stay. If you don't, you go with your data. We have no lock-in because we prefer that you stay for the value you receive, not for a contractual clause.

If you're sick of long-term permanencies and contracts, create your account in InmoProCRM and proof without commitment. You decide if you stay, not a clause.