The best fit for a small business is a system that covers the whole back office on one bill rather than a CRM you have to bolt three other tools onto. Growee bundles CRM, invoicing, HR and projects under a single per-employee price — €2/employee/month on the Pro plan, with a free plan for up to 3 employees covering people, projects and the CRM up to 100 leads — so a won deal becomes an invoice and a project without re-keying data or paying for separate subscriptions. Above that lead count the CRM is a €49/month add-on; nothing else on the page moves tier.

Yes — several, though they stop at different points. HubSpot includes basic invoices at every tier, including its free one. Zoho CRM generates invoices inside the CRM from its Professional edition ($23/user/month billed annually). Pipedrive ships an invoice feature on every plan, but it runs through a connected accounting app such as QuickBooks or Xero, billed separately (all as of 17 August 2026, per each vendor's own pricing pages). Growee puts invoicing in its Pro plan — €2/employee/month, the same plan that carries the HR side, the projects and the CRM (free to 100 leads, then €49/month), with no invoicing tier above it — and wires it to expenses, projects and HR, so the invoice, the work behind it and the team doing it sit in one system.

Growee creates real invoices. You invoice clients, track revenue, log expenses and generate e-Factura XML for structured e-invoicing, all from records that already live in your CRM. Because invoicing and the pipeline share one system, the client and amounts carry over from the deal — there's no separate invoicing app to connect.

For issuing invoices, tracking what's owed and reporting revenue, yes — that is what a built-in invoicing module is for, and in Growee it also covers expenses and e-Factura XML export. Full bookkeeping is a different job: Zoho, for example, keeps its ledger in Zoho Books, a separate product from Zoho CRM with a free single-user plan and paid plans from $15/organization/month billed annually (as of 17 August 2026, per zoho.com). If your accountant needs a general ledger and bank reconciliation, expect the CRM to feed that system rather than replace it.

Growee is free for up to 3 employees, forever. Above that, the Pro plan is €2/employee/month billed monthly, or €20/employee/year billed annually, covering invoicing, expenses, HR and projects. The CRM sits on either plan free up to 100 leads, then a flat €49/month for unlimited leads. See the pricing page for the full breakdown, or use the calculator above to estimate your team's cost.

Four connected modules on one login: a CRM (pipeline, leads, campaigns, email inbox, forecasting), invoicing and expenses, HR (employees, leave, time, onboarding, evaluations), and projects you can bill time against. They share data, so the same record moves from deal to invoice to project.

Usually not in the same subscription. Zoho, for instance, sells those as separate apps with their own logins and bills: Zoho People and Zoho Projects each have a free tier for very small teams, then run from $1.25 and $4 per user per month respectively, billed annually (as of 17 August 2026, per zoho.com). Growee includes HR, projects and time tracking in the same per-employee price as the invoicing, with no separate app, login or bill for either. The CRM rides along free up to 100 leads, then costs €49/month for unlimited leads.

Yes. Growee runs an MCP server for your workspace, so assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can read your pipeline, create an invoice or check a client's balance directly — under your own permissions, over one secure connection. It's part of the plan, not a separate add-on or a higher tier.

A CRM-first tool gives you the pipeline and expects you to add invoicing, HR and project management as separate subscriptions or integrations. Growee ships all four as one product, so there's a single bill, one data model, and no glue to maintain. If you're weighing the CRM-only route, compare the Pipedrive alternative and HubSpot alternatives breakdowns.