Built for a sales team — or for the owner who is one?
Nutshell is a well-regarded CRM for teams with dedicated salespeople. Depot CRM is for the business where selling is one of the twelve things the owner does before lunch.
Who Nutshell serves well
Nutshell has earned its reputation with small and midsize sales teams, and it deserves it. The reporting gives managers a clear read on pipeline and activity, the onboarding help is genuinely hands-on, and per-seat pricing makes sense when every seat is a full-time salesperson. If you have reps making calls all day and someone whose job is coaching them, Nutshell is a solid, honest choice.
Where Depot CRM fits
Depot CRM assumes something different: the owner is the sales team. There are no reps to manage and no team activity to report on — just customers to remember and follow-ups to keep. Depot puts contacts, a simple pipeline, dated tasks, and email broadcasts in one calm place, sized for the fifteen minutes a day you can actually give it.
Reports for managers vs. reminders for owners
Sales reporting earns its place when reviewing it is someone's job. When you're the owner, you don't need analytics about your own activity — you need this morning's list of who to call back. Depot's dashboard leads with the follow-ups that are due, not charts about last quarter.
Per-seat pricing assumes seats
Pricing per salesperson is fair when each seat produces revenue all day. Depot prices for the business that may only ever have one or two people in it: start free, $5 a month base, and small add-ons as you grow — no seat math required.
A CRM that fits between jobs, not between calls
A sales-team CRM assumes the CRM is where you work all day. For an owner-operator, the CRM gets the minutes between the actual work — so Depot is built for those minutes. Log a note, set the follow-up, send the broadcast, and get back to the job.
Enough tool, honestly
Contacts with tags and custom fields, a pipeline for open quotes, tasks that surface on your dashboard, broadcasts with reusable templates, forms, and simple automations — that's Depot's whole footprint. For a business without a sales department, it's the right amount of CRM, not a compromise.
A CRM sized for the owner who sells.
No credit card required. Set up your customer home base in a few minutes.