Per-agent CRM costs eating your commission share?
Agencies and property firms run on CRM, listing portals, e-signatures, accounting, and marketing stacks. Every tool priced per agent, per month. Growing team = growing bill. Self-hosted alternatives give you the same workflows without the per-seat penalty, and keep buyer + tenant data on SA infrastructure for POPIA peace of mind.
R 230K
Typical annual licence spend
Across 7 common real estate tools
R 207K
Recoverable each year
After self-hosted OSS migration
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Sector pain points we cover
From licensing to compliance to access control
The real estate stack, on the books
Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.
Bars show what the typical real estate firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.
Typical Real Estate stack
7 tools · R 230K/yr in licences
Replace
DocuSign
E-Signatures · R 60K per year
With
DocuSeal
Self-hosted on your infra
Annual savings
R 54K
After hosting · approx 90% reduction
Current annual spend
R 230K
Estimated OSS hosting
R 23K
Annual savings
R 207K
Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving
Where the real estate bleed starts
Three things we hear on every real estate discovery call.
Per-agent CRM pricing scales badly
Salesforce, HubSpot, and vertical CRMs charge per seat. A 20-agent office pays the CRM vendor more than a junior conveyancer.
E-signature per-envelope fees
Every offer, every lease, every FICA document. Self-hosted Documenso or LibreSign removes the per-signature tax.
Buyer and tenant data spread across vendors
POPIA data-subject requests get ugly when personal info lives in four different SaaS tools across three jurisdictions.
How we handle the real estate edges