About ViveLead, India's Affordable CRM for Small Businesses

ViveLead is an affordable CRM built in India for Indian SMBs, with an optional HRMS and payroll add-on. Founded by Akash Gupta. From ₹299/user.

About ViveLead

ViveLead is an affordable CRM for Indian small businesses, built to capture leads, follow up, and close. When you grow, HRMS and payroll are an optional add-on on the same login. One platform, one subscription, one team to call when something breaks.

We built it because the alternatives were either too expensive, too complicated, or built for someone else.

Why We Built This

Look at what an Indian SMB owner is supposed to do today: pay HubSpot or Salesforce ₹1,500-₹2,000 per user per month for a CRM, then pay Keka or Zoho People another ₹150-₹300 per user for HRMS, then pay a CA for payroll, then stitch it all together with Zapier or by re-typing data into three systems.

That stack costs more than most small business owners earn in profit. And none of it is built for the way Indian businesses actually work, the WhatsApp-first sales process, the PF/ESIC/TDS payroll rules, the Hindi-speaking field teams, the ₹299 price point that makes the math work.

We wanted one platform that does the job, costs what an Indian SMB can afford, and treats Indian compliance as a first-class feature, not a regional plugin.

So we built ViveLead.

What Makes ViveLead Different

CRM first, HR when you need it. ViveLead is a sales CRM at its core: leads, follow-ups, pipeline, and closing. As you grow, you can add HRMS and payroll on the same login, so when sales closes a deal, attendance tracks the team that delivered it and payroll pays them at month-end, all from the same data. You start with the CRM and add HR only when it earns its place.

Priced for Indian businesses. ₹299 per user per month for the Starter plan. ₹499 for Professional with sales pipelines and WhatsApp. ₹999 for Business with built-in calling, AI, and REST API. Need HR and payroll? Add the HRMS module to any plan for ₹99 per user. No setup fees, no enterprise sales calls to find out the actual price.

Built for India’s compliance reality. PF/ESIC/TDS payroll calculations are baked in. WhatsApp lead capture works with the actual templates Meta approves. DLT-aware outbound calling. GDPR principles plus IT Act 2000 compliance. The things foreign tools don’t handle, we built first.

Mobile-first, because your team is mobile. Native Android and iOS apps. Field sales reps log calls from the road. HR runs attendance from the office. Owners check pipeline from anywhere. Same data, same login.

What You Get

CRM: Lead management, sales pipelines, custom fields, automated follow-ups, WhatsApp lead capture, deals and quotations, team analytics, role-based access.

HRMS: Employee profiles, attendance with geo-fence and selfie, leave management, document storage, performance reviews, org charts.

Payroll: PF/ESIC/TDS compliant payroll runs, salary slips, statutory filings, Form 16, integrated with attendance.

Integrations: WhatsApp Business, Meta lead ads, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Razorpay, Tally, accounting exports.

Reporting: Real-time dashboards, custom reports, exports, owner-level analytics across CRM and HRMS.

Our Principles

Honest pricing. Whatever the website says is what you pay. No enterprise sales call to discover the real number. No annual-only contracts hidden in the trial flow.

Indian by design. Built in Delhi. Tested with Indian businesses. Priced for Indian budgets. WhatsApp first, English-and-Hindi support, INR pricing.

One team, one product. When something breaks, you talk to the people who built it. No Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 support routing. We are small enough that you can email the founder and get a real reply.

Your data stays yours. Hosted in India. Encrypted at rest with AES-256. We never sell your customer data, your team data, or your payroll data. Period.

Who We Are

ViveLead is founded by Akash Gupta and built by AI SphereX, based in Delhi, India. Akash is a serial founder behind AI SphereX, ViveLead, and Unnati, building products for Bharat.

We are not a big company yet. That is on purpose. Small means we ship faster, fix bugs the day they are reported, and answer customer emails ourselves.

Founder: Akash Gupta Founded: 2024 Location: Delhi, India Mission: Affordable, integrated business software for every Indian SMB.

How We Built This

ViveLead did not start as a startup pitch. It started as a problem.

Indian SMB owners kept telling us the same story: paying ₹2,000 per user for HubSpot, another ₹200 for Keka, another ₹500 to a CA for payroll. ₹2,700 per employee per month, three logins, three vendors, three places where data goes out of sync. For a 20-person team that is ₹54,000 every month before anyone makes a sale.

The “Indian” alternatives were either too basic to run a real sales process, or copies of foreign tools with prices to match. The ones that did work for Indian compliance treated WhatsApp as an afterthought. The ones that handled WhatsApp had no payroll. The ones that did both wanted ₹50,000 per month minimum.

We asked a different question: what would a CRM look like if it was built by Indian engineers, for Indian SMBs, from Indian compliance up?

That meant integrating CRM and HRMS at the data layer, not bolting them together. Lead-to-cash and hire-to-payroll on the same database. WhatsApp Business API as a first-class lead source, not a checkbox. PF/ESIC/TDS calculations done correctly the first time, with audit trails. INR pricing that matches what Indian SMBs actually budget for software.

We started with three CRM plans: ₹299, ₹499, ₹999. The Starter plan has the full core CRM. Professional adds sales pipelines and WhatsApp. Business adds built-in calling, AI, and API. HR and payroll are an optional add-on at ₹99 per user, on any plan. That is the entire pricing model.

Who ViveLead Is For

This product is for the SMB owner who has outgrown spreadsheets but cannot stomach enterprise pricing.

If you are running a 5 to 50 person team and you have customers, leads, and employees to manage, ViveLead is for you.

If you are in real estate juggling broker leads, site visits, and follow-ups across WhatsApp and phone calls, ViveLead is for you.

If you are an EdTech coaching center managing student leads, demos, batches, and counselor performance, ViveLead is for you.

If you are an IT services firm managing project leads, billing, and a team that needs structured payroll, ViveLead is for you.

If you tried HubSpot and balked at ₹1,500 per user, tried Zoho and got lost in the modules, tried Excel and lost data when someone deleted a row, ViveLead is for you.

This product is not for enterprises with 500-plus employees, businesses outside India, or anyone looking for a free CRM forever. We are paid software because real software costs real money to build. We just keep that price honest.