Savio Designs: Web Development for Small Businesses, Non-Profits, and Entrepeneurs!

Web Design & Development for Small Businesses, Non-Profits, and Entrepeneurs!

Managed Website Plans

If you want a customized website with low start-up cost, and low maintenance as it will be managed and updated by Savio Designs, this plan is for you! Take the stress out of worrying about your website and let Savio Designs take care of that - so you can take care of your business!

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Unmanaged Full Ownership Sites

If you want ultimate control over your site, then our "Unmanaged Full Ownership Sites" are for you! We will code your site from scratch, install a Content Management System (CMS) for you to update your site, and put the site on your server so you have 100% control of it! Of course, we will also be around if you need help in the future, but the managing and updating of the content for your site will be all yours!

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One Page Scrolling Sites

Not all sites are multiple pages! One Page Scrolling Sites that utilize "sections" for content verses several pages are great for those that want a great web presence without needing to post a ton of content!

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Speed Site Plans

In a rush or on a tight budget? Not in need of a lot of custom features? Our Speed Site Plans might be for you! This is the only plan that uses templates and our "Site Builder" for speed. We will build and host your site and be able to get you live in most cases within 72 hours!

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What Software Do You Use for your Client Portal?

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Having a good CRM is an essential part of any business. One that combines Project Management is crucial for a business like Savio Designs. Every iteration of our Client Portal was carefully chosen to meet the needs of our business and cater to our clients. Hopefully our choices can help you in your business as well! Please take a look at the history of our Client Portals and see if any are right for you and your business!

SuiteDash (1/1/2021 - present)

https://suitedash.com/

Replacing Ultimate Client Manager was no easy task. We wanted/needed a platform that had similar features that we were used to, while offering a modern approach and some new features. We also didn't want it to be too different for our long-time clients, so it was important that the Client end had a fast learning curve.

After looking at several different CRM's over the course of several months, SuiteDash kept reigning at the top of our list. It is packed with features (we are learning them as we go along) and offers a fairly simple and intuitive Client Portal experience for our Clients.

While setting up any CRM in a huge time endeavor (only minimal amounts of data were able to be imported from Ultimate Client Manager - most of the data had to be imported manually, and there are a lot of features, settings, and templates to configure!), having a fully featured and powerful CRM at the helm of your business makes everything that much smoother when you are tackling several projects at a time!

Ultimate Client Manager (12/19/2013-12/31/2020)

https://ultimateclientmanager.com/

Ultimate Client Manager was our first paid platform Client Portal. It had a one-time fee and was self hosted. It featured a clean interface with a ton of features. It was the creation and work of primarily one developer: dtBaker. We were thrilled to be part of the UCM community, often giving feature request ideas - even funding a lot of them. Sadly, it ended up being abandoned by the developer and we knew we had to find a replacement in order to stay current and offer our clients an easy to use Project Management system.

If you are looking for a cost-effective, single payment CRM, and you don't mind something that is no longer being developed, at the time of this writing Ultimate Client Manager is still available.

QDPM (6/13/2011 - 12/18/2013)

http://qdpm.net/

QDPM was our first Client Portal. It is (at the time) a free, open-sourced CRM. While it was pretty fast and free, the features were lacking. It also proved to be a bit complex for some of my Clients. If you have a techy type mind, then it made sense, but it just lacked a straightforward and clean layout for the clients.

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