KudosCRM vs StudioPlus Stratus

KudosCRM is a customer relationship management tool for organizing sales activity, available on the web, iOS, and Android. Its listed features include a visual sales pipeline, email sync, marketing automation, and AI features. The free plan lasts indefinitely and covers up to 3 users, 1,000 contacts, and 1 pipeline, with tasks, activities, and one email inbox. Basic is $9 a month billed annually, with limits of 25 users, 25,000 contacts, 3 pipelines, and 10 automations; meetings, forms, and invoicing are also included. Professional is $24 a month billed annually and provides unlimited users and pipelines, up to 250,000 contacts, 50 automations, Kudos AI allocation, webhooks, API, and lead scoring. Enterprise is $49 a month billed annually for 50+ seats, with SSO, SAML, SCIM, unlimited audit log and export, a dedicated customer success manager, and a 99.9% uptime SLA. A 14-day trial is listed. The maker is based in Hong Kong.

StudioPlus Stratus brings client records, scheduling, communications, workflows, invoices, payments and reporting into one system for photographers and service businesses. Its client records can hold history, lead sources, referrals and family-member details. Scheduling includes online booking, Google Calendar syncing, conflict checks and daily, weekly and monthly views. Sessions and projects can use custom types and workflow statuses, with tasks and triggered communications. The listed integrations include Google Calendar and contacts, Microsoft Office, QuickBooks Desktop, MYOB, Simply Accounting, Global Payments Integrated and eWAY, as well as meeting links for Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet. Stratus runs on Android, iOS, web and Windows. Standard costs $54.95 a month month-to-month; Professional costs $74.95 a month month-to-month. Each includes one user license and 5 GB of Stratus Drive storage, with additional licenses at $10/Month. A 30-day free trial requires a credit card, and billing begins afterward unless canceled.