05 — Support & Maintenance

The engineering team behind your CRM, on retainer.

Open source without a steward is a liability. With us on retainer you get upgrades, security patches, new feature work and a predictable monthly — not another subscription that grows with every seat.

What's on the plan.

Version upgrades

Regression-tested SuiteCRM 7 → 8 and point-release upgrades on a schedule you agree.

Security patches

CVE monitoring, emergency patching, and quarterly hardening reviews.

Performance tuning

Indexing, query optimisation, Elasticsearch, Redis — we diagnose and fix the 95th percentile.

Bug fix SLA

Named engineer, documented response windows, clear escalation paths.

Proactive monitoring

Uptime, error rates, job queues, integration health — alerts before your users notice.

Direct engineer access

No tier-1 scripts. No ticket triage theatre. You talk to the person building your CRM.

The cost of CRM downtime

50 users × 8 hours of lost productivity ≈ $2.9k — per outage. A competent retainer is an order of magnitude cheaper than a single bad week.

From $1.8k / month.

Month-to-month. Less than the cost of a junior developer. Monthly audits, quarterly reviews, and a real engineer on the other end.

Talk about a retainer

Let's scope your support & maintenance.

30 minutes. No slide deck. We'll map what you have, flag the risks, and tell you whether we're the right fit.