FREE Forever to Start — Upgrade Only When You Need More

Starting HelloGrowthCRM free as a Canadian business

The Free Forever plan works the same way in Canada as everywhere else: create an account with no credit card, get 1 user and up to 200 leads, and keep the tier for as long as you want. Where the Canadian experience differs is what happens when you grow into a paid plan — pricing is shown in Canadian dollars on the Canada pricing page, payment works by credit card, Stripe, PayPal, or Interac e-Transfer, and invoices are issued in CAD so your bookkeeper never has to reconcile FX drift on a USD subscription.

Data handling matters for Canadian teams too. HelloGrowthCRM is designed with PIPEDA in mind: consent records, opt-out handling for email and SMS cadences, exportable customer data for access requests, and SOC 2 Type II attested security controls. If you sell into Quebec as well as English-speaking provinces, you can keep separate EN and FR message templates in the same workspace instead of running two tools.

What Canadian small businesses typically test in the first two weeks

A Toronto mortgage broker imports the spreadsheet of pre-approval enquiries that has been living in a shared drive, sets three pipeline stages — new enquiry, documents in, submitted to lender — and lets automatic reminders chase the files that stall. Nothing falls between the broker and the assistant any more, because both see the same board.

A Calgary HVAC company routes missed-call and web-form leads straight into the CRM, so the office manager can send a same-day quote instead of finding the voicemail on Thursday. With winter service season spanning five time zones of suppliers and customers, the follow-up queue — not memory — decides who gets called first each morning.

A Vancouver design studio replaces a "leads" Slack channel with one Kanban pipeline. Proposals get a follow-up date the moment they are sent, and the founder checks likely revenue for the quarter from the phone app on the ferry. When the team outgrows 200 leads, the upgrade path is the Growth plan in CAD — no migration, no re-import, the data simply stays where it is.

How to evaluate the free tier properly

Give it two weeks with real leads, not sample data. Import your current spreadsheet on day one, rename the pipeline stages to match how your business actually sells, and agree one team rule: every call logged, every quote followed up from the CRM. Setup takes 15–30 minutes for most teams. If you would rather see the product before importing anything, book a live demo first — and if you want someone else to run the pipeline entirely, our Managed RevOps service for Canada pairs the CRM with a bilingual specialist who works your follow-up queue for you.