Excel is a fine first CRM. It costs nothing, everyone knows it, and at a handful of leads a week it genuinely works. It stops working quietly: a follow up lives in someone's memory, a site visit is a claim in a WhatsApp group, and commission is a formula nobody trusts. Leadvio is a real estate CRM built for Indian channel partners that takes over exactly those jobs: leads arrive on their own from Facebook, 99acres and WhatsApp, follow ups are tracked until done, site visits carry location proof, and commission slabs and payouts are tracked until the developer pays. This page is a fair comparison, including the cases where you should stay on the spreadsheet.
Side by side
| Area | Leadvio | Excel or Google Sheets |
|---|---|---|
| Audience | Indian channel partners and their sales teams | Anyone, for any purpose; nothing about it is specific to real estate |
| Focus | The channel partner workflow end to end: leads, follow ups, site visits, EOI, booking, commission and payouts | Storing rows and doing calculations by hand |
| Pricing | Free for up to 3 users; then Team 5 ₹4,995/mo, Team 10 ₹8,490/mo, Team 20 ₹14,980/mo, Team 50 ₹32,450/mo, plus GST. | The sheet itself costs little or nothing; the real cost is the hours your team spends typing, copying and reconciling it every week |
| Leads arrive directly from WhatsApp into the CRM, and conversations sit with the lead's full history | Leads sit in personal WhatsApp chats on each agent's phone, invisible to you | |
| Voice AI | Voice AI Agent that makes instant lead qualification calls when a lead arrives | None. Every first call waits for a free telecaller |
| Commission tracking | Commission slabs and payout tracking per developer and project, visible until the money is paid | Manual formulas that break when a slab changes, a row is edited or a partner disputes a number |
| Listing pages | Pages Studio: branded property listing pages with enquiry forms that feed the CRM | A sheet cannot publish a property page or capture an enquiry |
| SIM dialer | Native SIM Dialer app: calls go through the agent's real SIM number and every call is logged automatically | Calls happen on personal phones and leave no record unless someone types them in |
Stay on Excel if
- You handle only a few leads a week and one person speaks to all of them.
- You have no team yet, so there is nothing to track across people.
- Your developers pay commission simply and on time, every time. (If this is true, you are lucky.)
Choose Leadvio if
- Leads arrive from Facebook, 99acres and WhatsApp and some of them never reach your sheet at all.
- A follow up depends on an agent remembering it, and you find out a lead went cold from the buyer, not from your system.
- You cannot answer, right now, which site visits actually happened this week.
- Commission discussions with developers turn into your sheet against their sheet.
- Your team has grown past the point where one shared file stays clean.
Frequently asked questions
For a one or two person team with low lead volume, honestly, Excel can be enough. The moment leads come from three or four sources and more than one agent works them, the sheet stops being a record and becomes a rumour. That is the point Leadvio is built for.
Your existing lead lists can be brought into Leadvio, so the pipeline you already built in the sheet becomes the starting pipeline in the CRM. New leads then arrive on their own from Facebook, 99acres and WhatsApp instead of being typed in.
No. WhatsApp stays where your buyers are. Leadvio connects to it, so enquiries land in the CRM and conversations are visible with the lead, instead of living only on one agent's phone.
Leadvio is free for up to 3 users, with no time limit. For bigger teams, pricing is by team size: Team 5 is ₹4,995 per month, Team 10 is ₹8,490 per month, Team 20 is ₹14,980 per month, and Team 50 is ₹32,450 per month, plus GST. The honest comparison is against the cost of the leads a sheet loses and the commission it fails to track, which for most growing firms is the larger bill.
Try the comparison on your own sheet
Start free for up to 3 users, import the leads from your current spreadsheet, and run both side by side for two weeks. Keep whichever one loses fewer leads.