Hi guys

 

In the process of building an All in One solution for web designers.

 

I have all the key features in but I am looking to the community to see if there are any specific things people would like to see to help manage clients, projects and domains etc.

 

It can be as wild as you like but it must help improve your workflow.

 

Thanks in advance for any responses.

Do we get to demo this new platform, might help with any new ideas.

Sure thing. You can try it out here with the demo account.

 

http://sublimecrm.co.uk/login.demo

 

Just a note. Its still under development so some features/pages may not work.

 

Thanks

I love the look of it, it's really really nice!

Edited July 9, 201511 yr by Lyndsey
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I love the look of it, it's really really nice!

 

Thanks Lyndsey. Please have a good look around and let us know if there is something missing that should be there (new features).

 

What would you like in it that would help improve your client/project workflow

 

Thanks!

Be careful offering the world. You could end up offering too many features which makes it harder to use and/or expensive.

 

A system like this boils down to cost for freelancers. I'd consider using it but it would have to be reasonable. Have you any ideas around costs for using this yet?

 

Thanks for your response. Yes we have already sorted this.

 

We offer 3 plans:

Freelancer $8 per month (£5) - 10 Customers, 10 Projects, 10 Domains, 10 Invoices, 1 User.

Studio $15 per month (£10) - 100 Customers, 100 Projects, 100 Domains, 100 Invoices, 15 User.

Agency $30 per month (£19) - Unlimited

 

 

Please let me know what you think

 

The entry level one looks quite good value. For me, there's a steep difference between having 10 customers and 100. Might there be a 'Busy Freelancer' option between the Freelancer and Studio levels that might cater for say, 50? If I saw a tier like that then I might be more tempted to take out an entry-level package knowing that the price wouldn't DOUBLE if I grew from 10 to 11 clients.

 

What price would you suggest for the Busy freelancer package?

Adding to what Nock mentioned, what about a variable rate based on the number of clients you have rather than paying a fixed, for example, 1-10 clients £0.50 per client per month, 11 - 100 £0.10 per client per month etc...

 

I think this would certainly help newer freelancers that are working on a limited budget, possibly even having your first client as a free option that way you are giving designers the chance to use your platform for free hoping that they get on well and upgrade to a paid account for more than 2 clients.

Freebies

 

Seriously though, speaking from my current situation, I don't have any clients to speak of as I'm only just taking up freelancing on the side. And like Nock I would certainly use this if there was a free option to start off, and if it operates as good as it looks I would be more than happy to pay once I'd built up my client base.

 

When starting out keeping costs to a minimum I think is a must, you could also add other benefits for paying users.

 

I'm not saying give us freebies or no one will use it, I'm saying I personally would rather have the option of a limited free option with the ability to upgrade once I've gotten use to the platform and built up my client base, (based on a new freelancers point of view)

 

Is it something that you would host or would there be the option to developers/designers to integrate it into there current website?

Freebies

 

Seriously though, speaking from my current situation, I don't have any clients to speak of as I'm only just taking up freelancing on the side. And like Nock I would certainly use this if there was a free option to start off, and if it operates as good as it looks I would be more than happy to pay once I'd built up my client base.

 

When starting out keeping costs to a minimum I think is a must, you could also add other benefits for paying users.

 

I'm not saying give us freebies or no one will use it, I'm saying I personally would rather have the option of a limited free option with the ability to upgrade once I've gotten use to the platform and built up my client base, (based on a new freelancers point of view)

 

Is it something that you would host or would there be the option to developers/designers to integrate it into there current website?

 

 

The more I think about it, maybe make the entry level 'Freelancer' free. And then charge £5 for busy freelancer. This would get a lot of people using it I'm sure. I know I'd certainly consider it.

 

I had originally planned to keep the demo account open for if people wanted to try it out first hand.

 

I would defiantly consider giving a free account option and then having a "Busy Freelancer" option.

 

I was originally planning as releasing this software as Open Source, but quickly decided against it. Just don't really want to give away the back end. However as i'm sure you will know you if you wanted to host it on a sub domain you could setup a DNS record to support that. Clients and Admins can login via the same login screen so that would be okay i guess.

 

I guess i could change it so it goes 5, 50, 100, 500? or would you think 500 should be replaced by unlimited?

 

Thanks for the feedback so far everyone!

Unlimited is probably a better option.

 

Thanks Lyndsey. Please have a good look around and let us know if there is something missing that should be there (new features).

 

What would you like in it that would help improve your client/project workflow

 

Thanks!

 

I don't really use this kind of thing ( I don't do freelance or anything like that ), so I wouldn't know where to start

 

I do love the look, though. It scales well down to mobile, too.

What do we all think of these prices then?

 

If I was using it I'd probably prefer to host it myself on a UK server.

 

its already on a UK server . We're based in the UK.

THEN WHY USE DOLLARS!!!!!

 

 

sorry had to do it!!

THEN WHY USE DOLLARS!!!!!

 

 

sorry had to do it!!

 

Do you want me to explain haha?

So other than pricing is there anything else you guys would like to see added to the CRM?

It looks great. Couple of issues I saw:

 

Some of the data tables break in the 1000px-1200px viewport range.

 

There's an error being logged to the console: Uncaught Error: Invalid dimensions for plot, width = null, height = null

 

I'd prefer not to have to scroll left and right in the data-tables on mobile. I use a method similar to this https://css-tricks.com/responsive-data-tables/ for relaying out tables on mobile, as I really don't think it's intuitive for users to scroll sideways. You can populate the content of the psuedo elements from html data-attributes like this:

<td data-header="product">someValue</td>

and in your css you can reference the data-attribute

td[data-header]:after {
   content: attr(data-header);
}

Aside from the issues above you've done a great job on the UI so far, It's not to dissimilar to something I've been working on (In terms of the UI not the system)

It looks great. Couple of issues I saw:

 

Some of the data tables break in the 1000px-1200px viewport range.

 

There's an error being logged to the console: Uncaught Error: Invalid dimensions for plot, width = null, height = null

 

I'd prefer not to have to scroll left and right in the data-tables on mobile. I use a method similar to this https://css-tricks.com/responsive-data-tables/ for relaying out tables on mobile, as I really don't think it's intuitive for users to scroll sideways. You can populate the content of the psuedo elements from html data-attributes like this:

<td data-header="product">someValue</td>

and in your css you can reference the data-attribute

td[data-header]:after {
   content: attr(data-header);
}

Aside from the issues above you've done a great job on the UI so far, It's not to dissimilar to something I've been working on (In terms of the UI not the system)

 

Cheers. Will look at getting this added. Looks like a much better idea.

 

At the risk of making myself look stupid, why have you listed things in dollars?

 

As this crm system is designed to be worldwide I personally believe dollars (although it kills me to shame the great £) is a better know worldwide currency than the £.

 

That's my look into it anyway.

 

Feel free to counter this

I'm not a designer but a developer and i'd like to just say the project looks very promising and well designed however I would personally stay with just the features u currently have. Adding anymore would make it to complex to use possibly. Just my thoughts tho All in all good work

I'm not a designer but a developer and i'd like to just say the project looks very promising and well designed however I would personally stay with just the features u currently have. Adding anymore would make it to complex to use possibly. Just my thoughts tho All in all good work

 

Thanks for the feedback! I will do just that

 

Would you possibly consider using this software after its launch? Also whats your opinion on the pricing (You can find that above).

 

Thanks Again

 

Thanks for the feedback! I will do just that

 

Would you possibly consider using this software after its launch? Also whats your opinion on the pricing (You can find that above).

 

Thanks Again

To simply test it for bugs I would would need some type of free option for that tho considering i'm not a designer I myself would not pay to use it.

Also if you need a second php developer i'd be willing to code some also

Il let you know. It's nearly finished though haha. There will be a free option available but with limited areas

To simply test it for bugs I would would need some type of free option for that tho considering i'm not a designer I myself would not pay to use it.

Also it's not specifically designed for designers. I myself am also a developer of you hadn't guessed. It's designed for anyone that deals with clients, domains, projects etc. the idea is to bring all of that into one easy to use system to allow you to focus on what you do best. Develop/design