Essential CRM Features for Small Businesses, Made Simple

No bells and whistles – just the essential CRM tools UK small businesses need to manage leads, nurture prospects and close more sales.

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CRM BASICS
SALES TOOLS
MARKETING TOOLS
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
REPORTING TOOLS

CRM Basics

The everyday CRM tools that help you stay organised and know what needs doing next.

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Daily Dashbaord

Today’s tasks, reminders and a pipeline – one screen that you’ll never need to leave for you daily activites.
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Contact Management

Find anyone, instantly

Access any contact from anywhere in the platform with one click, and see everything about them - notes, history, activity, finances, etc - in one place.

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Company Management

See the whole account

The same one-click view, at organisation level.

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Activity Timeline

Know the full story

Email, WhatsApp, website visits and reminders - every touchpoint, one place.

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Email & WhatsApp Sync

One inbox, one team

Every 1:1 message, synced automatically into the timeline - so the whole team sees the full conversation.

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Data Segmentation

Target your Prospects

Filter any list, target it, or save it as a report - one click.

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Visual Reminders

Never miss a follow-up

Manage every reminder, for you or your team, in one place.

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“I can see at a glance who I need to call, and exactly what to say when I do.”

Aaron Hall, BD Director at Frank Exchange

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The smaller details that keep everything running smoothly.
Custom Fields – shape your contact records around the information that matters to your business.
Notes & Tasks – Track conversations and tasks - always know what to do next
30-Day Undo Tool – Deleted something by accident? Recover it within 30 days, no drama.
Gmail & Outlook 365 – connect your business email and keep conversations against the right contacts.
Integrations – FreeAgent, Zapier and more - our integration library is always expanding, with new connections added regularly.
Click-to-Call – call a contact directly from their CRM record.
Team Collaboration – give your team one shared view of contacts, activity and sales opportunities.
Import & Export – Bring your data in, or take it with you - always yours, always portable
Files & Documents – keep useful documents alongside your customer information.
Permissions – Control exactly who on your team can see or do what.
Automation – automate repetitive sales and marketing activity so prospects keep moving without everything relying on memory.

Sales Features

Manage every deal, target and opportunity – and know exactly where your team stands.

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Sales Dashboard

One page, everything that matters – targets, deals, team activity, and what needs your attention today.

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Sales Pipelines

Built around how you sell

Create a fully customisable customer journey - add contacts, companies and deals, track reminders, and see potential value at a glance in every column.

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Deals & Opportunities

Every deal, one record

Track an opportunity from the moment you hear about it - profit margins, deal status, shared quotes and every note, all joined up in the relevant timeline.

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Quoting & Proposals

Full control over every price

Create products and services in seconds, set cost prices, and apply discounts - full visibility on every quote you send.

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Hot Prospects / Lead Scoring

Know who's ready to buy

Scored automatically on real activity across email, WhatsApp and your website.

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Pipeline Health

Know instantly if you're on track

Target progress, Won value, and conversion rate - the health of your whole pipeline, at a glance.

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Team Sales Activity

Compare like for like

See up to 10 workspaces side by side - deals, pipeline value, hot prospects, calls made, and more.

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We are in complete control of our prospects and pipeline. popcorn mirrors our business’ sales process.

Charlotte Thorp, Comms Specialist, Kinetic Communication

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The smaller details that keep your sales process moving.

Sales Targets – Set customisable targets per workspace or individual, with a monthly visual review
Sales Weighting – Set a win probability for each pipeline stage, so you see a realistic weighted value, not just the raw total
Transactional Sales messages – Find a contact and send a message straight from their record, in seconds.
Sales Message Templates – Send a templated message straight from the contact popup, in one click
FreeAgent Invoice Sync
FreeAgent Invoice Sync – Sync invoices to and from FreeAgent - popcorn is the only CRM that does this
Accountancy Integrations – Connects to all major accounting systems, so your customer and financial data stay in step, wherever you keep your books.

Marketing Features

The smaller details that make your marketing sharper.

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Marketing Dashboard

Every campaign, every result, one page – see what’s actually working.
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Email Marketing

Target your contact in minutes

Drag-and-drop editor and personalisation, with built-in spam checks before you send.

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WhatsApp Bulk Message

Reach prospects where they reply

Send branded, bulk WhatsApp messages to segmented contacts - tracked the same way as email.

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Landing Pages

On-brand, in minutes

Build responsive, branded pages with our in-system editor, or clone one of your own website pages and make it fully editable in seconds.

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Forms

Capture leads automatically

Add a form to any page - or connect interactive tools like quizzes - and every response flows straight into popcorn.

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Website Tracking

See real intent

Know exactly which pages a prospect visits, for up to 3 months after they engage.

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Marketing Automation

Nurture while you sleep

Set the rules once - campaigns, pipeline stages, page visits and much more trigger the next step automatically.

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We get the results we want, in the quickest and most effective way possible!

James Ellis, Business Development Manager, Creative Alliance

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The smaller details that keep your sales process moving.

Tagging – Organise and find contacts fast with custom tags and the Tag manager
Template Manager – Save your best-performing messages, organise them into folders, and apply one at the click of a button
Multiple Workspaces – Group contacts into target audiences - a contact can belong to more than one
Reporting – Custom reports you can act on to re-target the right contacts instantly
GDPR & Compliance – Every campaign includes a one-click, GDPR-compliant unsubscribe - no extra setup, no risk left to you.
Segmentation for Marketing – A powerful filtering tool that lets you segment your data, so you can easily target the right people with the right message
Email Statistics – See genuine opens and clicks, filtered to real human engagement - plus full delivery stats, including which messages avoided the spam filter
Email Deliverability Checker – Test before you send, and improve your inbox placement every time
Dedicated Delivery Servers – Popcorn's own carefully managed sending infrastructure - combined with the Deliverability Checker, built for genuinely high inbox placement
Export Your Reports – Take any report data with you, whenever you need it, in the format you need.

REPORTING TOOLS

Boardroom reports aren’t what most small businesses need.

Platforms like HubSpot are built for managing a business from the boardroom – which is why they’re stacked with advanced reporting most people will never touch. Popcorn is built for small businesses who are hands-on, still doing the selling themselves.

What we’ve deliberately left out is HubSpot-style advanced, boardroom-level reporting – because that complexity is one of the biggest reasons small business owners give up on CRM software in the first place. Here’s what real, useful reporting looks like at popcorn, so you can get the info you need as fast as possible and focus on delivering your job:

One-Click Reports – Click any statistic to generate an instant, actionable report
Advanced Filtering – Slice your data however and when ever you need it, without the complexity
Export Your Reports – Take any report data with you, whenever you need it
Sales Performance – Targets, Won value and conversion rate (see Pipeline Health in Sales →)
Campaign Reports – Act on results to re-target the right contacts (see Marketing →)
Activity Reports – See exactly what your team's been doing, at a glance

The simplicity, insight and control popcorn gives us is absolutely invaluable.

Julie Lawler, Managing Director, JLP Payroll

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

We won’t pretend to be something we’re not.

Popcorn isn’t a dedicated project management tool. Most people start by using their sales pipeline like a simple Kanban board – moving contacts along the delivery stages once a deal’s won. That works well early on.

As you grow, we’d rather point you toward a specialist project management tool than stretch popcorn into something it wasn’t built for. Popcorn stays focused on what it does best – sales – and connects to your accounting software to join the whole journey together: pre-sales, finance, and delivery, all in step.

popcorn has given me clarity and control over my sales process!

Stefania Pellegrino, Co-Founder, Purely Plantain Chips