India's Best Free CRM — 200 Leads, WhatsApp, ₹0 Forever

Most "free" CRMs available in India come with a catch. HubSpot's free plan stores your customer data in the United States — a problem for DPDPA-compliant businesses. Zoho Free limits you to 3 users and doesn't include WhatsApp. Freshsales Free restricts pipeline stages and has no AI features. HelloGrowthCRM's free plan is genuinely free for the first 200 leads — with WhatsApp integration, full custom pipeline stages, DPDPA-compliant Indian data storage, and no time limit. When you outgrow 200 leads, you pay ₹899/user/month in INR — no dollar conversion, no exchange rate volatility, UPI-supported billing.

Indian businesses run on WhatsApp. Your customers expect a response on WhatsApp, not email. Your sales team already sends proposals and pricing on WhatsApp. Your customer service is happening in WhatsApp threads on personal phones. HelloGrowthCRM brings all of that into a structured CRM at zero cost for the first 200 customers — with every WhatsApp conversation logged against the contact record automatically. No more lost follow-ups. No more customer history disappearing with a departing employee.

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 requires Indian businesses to handle customer data responsibly — including storing personal data with a designated Data Fiduciary and providing customers with rights to access, correct, and delete their data. HelloGrowthCRM operates under Meru Technosoft Pvt. Ltd. as the DPDPA Data Fiduciary, stores data within India, and includes consent management and data subject request handling built into the platform. Starting your CRM on a DPDPA-compliant platform from day one avoids the compliance migration headache later.