As a startup-ready solution, freelancers or small businesses can get started right away. Anyone who wants to use FrankCRM as a development basis saves many months of development time and benefits from a clean and easy-to-understand project structure in which almost everything is configurable. This not only facilitates adjustments, but also shows how to keep track of complex developments and move forward faster.

The full version is an open FileMaker file and can be customized and extended as you wish. So you create exactly the customizations you need for your business in no time. Everything for further development is built in, from user management to multi-language support. In the full version, there is a “developer dashboard” with an extraordinarily large number of setting options. Configuring is easier than programming.

FrankCRM is based on FM Starter, but adds many functions that are important for CRM software. The start file focuses on addresses and sales documents. That may not seem like much, but the starting position is robust and modern. FrankCRM is multilingual from the ground up and can distinguish between user interface and customer language.

Country-dependent settings, such as for paper formats, VAT and many other things, help with the correct allocation of the necessary details. Customer groups, discount groups, products and much more can be created. Output can be made via the printer or as a PDF. Invoices can be sent to the customer by e-mail, for example. Sales lists, overdue invoices and reminders have also been added. All multilingual, of course. There is a user administration, a preconfigured connection to DeepL for translations and a semi-automatic currency conversion. FrankCRM can be used worldwide and adapted to local customs.

FrankCRM shortens the development time, has a largely modular structure and offers well thought-out initial functionality on which to build.

Requirements

FrankCRM is a FileMaker file and also requires a current FileMaker license to open and use the file. As a rule of thumb, the currently valid and the previous FileMaker version are supported.

FrankCRM can’t do everything (hooray!)

Less is often more. FrankCRM was deliberately reduced to the essentials. Micro businesses can get started immediately and may never need more functionality. Other companies, however, would like to adapt FrankCRM to their own needs. Both are possible.

Because FrankCRM only provides the basic functions, you can focus on building and enhancing and don’t have to deal with deconstructing solutions you don’t need.

The principle on which FrankCRM was developed is this:

1. Create a universal CRM solution that is ready for further development.
2. Configuring is easier than programming. As many settings as possible have been made easily accessible in custom layouts.
3. Create a separate interface for the developer as well, the Developer Dashboard.

The result is a clear, easily configurable standard solution. With this setup, many adjustments succeed without having to intervene directly in the scripts. Everything becomes easier, both for the user and for the administrator or developer.

There is a simple and intuitive project structure. This allows new modules and functions to be built and accessed in a similar way. FrankCRM is not only an ideal startup file for a CRM, but at the same time a showcase for learning how to develop with FileMaker.