Timeline CRM
Free offline CRM for small businesses. Lead and deal pipelines, quotations, invoices, multi-user access, sales reports, all on Windows.
$0
Per-Seat Fee
4 hrs
Lead Response
Built-in
Multi-User
01Timeline CRM: The Challenge
Salesforce and HubSpot Pro start at $50 to $150 per user per month. A 5-person sales team is paying $9,000 a year before integrations. Small consultancies and freelancers were stuck in spreadsheets, losing leads and chasing invoices manually.
02Timeline CRM: The Solution
Built a Windows-based CRM with lead/deal pipeline, contact management, quotation and invoice generation, multi-user role-based access, and offline-first SQLite storage. Free forever, no per-seat charge, no feature lockout.
03Timeline CRM: The Results
Active across small consultancies, freelancers and B2B sales teams. Average lead response time improved from 2 days to under 4 hours after teams switched from email-only tracking. Companion pages rank for "free CRM for small business" and "free CRM software".
Technology Stack
Services Provided
Outcomes that mattered
The numbers above are the headline. Below is what they mean for the sales & crm saas operations team: what they stopped doing, what they started doing, and what changed for end customers.
$0
Per-Seat Fee
Headline metric, measured against the pre-launch baseline.
4 hrs
Lead Response
Captured 90 days post-launch with the same methodology used during discovery.
Built-in
Multi-User
Operational impact reported by the client team in their post-launch review.
Why this tech stack
We pick technology based on the production load, the integration footprint and the long-term maintenance reality, not the latest framework on Hacker News. For Timeline CRM, the stack we chose:
Electron
Production-grade choice for sales & crm saas workloads at this scale.
Windows
Production-grade choice for sales & crm saas workloads at this scale.
SQLite
Production-grade choice for sales & crm saas workloads at this scale.
Node.js
Production-grade choice for sales & crm saas workloads at this scale.
TypeScript
Production-grade choice for sales & crm saas workloads at this scale.
Services used on this build
Timeline CRM was delivered by combining the following Timeline Digital services. If your team needs a similar engagement, these are the entry points.
Custom Software Development
Off-the-shelf software forces your team to adapt to it. We reverse that by building business software around your exact workflows, data structures, and approval processes, so the tool fits the work rather than the other way around.
Business Automation Solutions
We automate the boring, repeated tasks that slow your team down. This saves hours every week and helps your business run itself.
Common questions about this case
How long did the Timeline CRM build take?+
5 months. We worked with short, regular updates and a working demo at each check-in, so Timeline Digital (in-house product) saw progress continuously.
What technology did Timeline Digital use to build Timeline CRM?+
Electron, Windows, SQLite, Node.js, TypeScript. We pick the stack based on the production load, integration requirements and the team's long-term maintenance capacity, not the latest framework on Hacker News.
What industry was Timeline CRM built for?+
Sales & CRM SaaS. The patterns we used here transfer to similar businesses with comparable scale and regulatory requirements. Reach out if you operate in this space and want a similar build.
Can Timeline Digital build something similar for our team?+
Yes. We start every engagement with a paid discovery phase that produces architecture, a clear written scope and a proposal, and we agree the full scope up front. Mutual NDA signed on day one, full IP assignment, no agency overhead. Cost depends on scope, features and integrations. Book a free call and we will walk you through it.
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