SmallTeamStack

Software stack for a real-estate team

Three illustrative stacks, priced from rates read off each vendor's own page. At five people they run from $109 to $402.95 a month — and the expensive one is not the best one.

Typically 2–15 people · figures computed from the pricing tracker at build time · newest check

What shapes this business's software

Phone-first, document-heavy, and e-signature is not a nice-to-have — it is how deals close. Desktop software matters much less than it does for an accounting firm.

The three stacks at a glance

Stack1351025
Lean $41$63$109$224$569
Practical $69$147$249$504$1,269
Feature-rich $130.95$266.95$402.95$742.95$1,738

Monthly, at the annual-billing rate, for the whole team.

Lean — $109/month at five people

The least you can pay and still run the business properly. Free tiers where they genuinely work.

Covered free:

  • Pipeline tracking (HubSpot or Capsule free tier, to 2 users)

Deliberately not included at this size:

  • Desktop Office. Almost nothing in this workflow needs installed Excel.
  • Dedicated project management — the pipeline IS the project list.

Per person: $21.80/month · $1,308 a year for five people

Practical — $249/month at five people

What most teams this size actually end up on, once free tiers stop fitting.

Deliberately not included at this size:

  • Separate storage, while 30 GB pooled per person holds documents rather than media.

Per person: $49.80/month · $2,988 a year for five people

Feature-rich — $402.95/month at five people

More capability, and more cost. Not an upgrade — a different trade, and often the wrong one at this size.

Deliberately not included at this size:

  • Team chat — at this size it usually duplicates the group messages people already use on their phones.

Per person: $80.59/month · $4,835.40 a year for five people

The thing generic stack advice misses here

E-signature pricing is where this stack gets decided. Docusign Standard is $30 per user per month but allows 100 envelopes per user per YEAR — about two a week. A team closing more than that needs to check the allowance, not the headline rate, and SignWell Business is $30 a month total for three senders with unlimited documents.

What this page is not

A recommendation. We have not run most of these products in a lab, and two businesses of the same type and size can have genuinely different right answers — the variable that matters most is how your team actually works, which no table can see. These are priced illustrations, good for checking whether your bill is in a sane range and for seeing what a tier deliberately leaves out.

To price what you actually pay for rather than an illustration, the stack auditor takes your real list and flags overlap, seat-minimum waste and what happens when somebody leaves. If your bill is well above the feature-rich row, the cause is usually paying twice for a capability you already own rather than one expensive mistake.

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