Marque CRM vs Dubsado

Dubsado is loved by freelancers and solo creatives. But for agencies with teams, Marque CRM offers deeper project management, billing, and support tools. Compare them honestly here.

Claims about Dubsado last verified 2026-09-26. Pricing and features change — tell us if something here is out of date.

The short version

Choose Dubsado if…

  • • You're a solo freelancer or very small team (1–2 people) with a proposal-heavy workflow
  • • You love highly automated client onboarding sequences and form-based questionnaires
  • • Your work is creative services (photography, design, events) rather than ongoing digital agency retainers

Choose Marque if…

  • • You have a growing team with multiple people working on client accounts simultaneously
  • • You need proper project management — Kanban, Gantt, resource scheduling — not just task checklists
  • • Support tickets, site monitoring, and client health scores are part of how you operate
  • • You bill on time tracked against retainers and need those numbers to reconcile automatically

What Dubsado does well

Dubsado's greatest strength is its onboarding automation. The visual workflow builder lets you design multi-step sequences — lead comes in via form, gets an automated welcome email, receives a proposal, signs a contract, pays a deposit, and gets a welcome questionnaire — all without anyone touching it manually. For a creative freelancer handling dozens of new client enquiries per month, that automation is transformative.

The proposal and contract builder is polished. Templates are flexible, the client-facing experience is clean, and the combined proposal-contract-invoice document flow is genuinely well-designed. Few tools match Dubsado on this specific workflow.

Where Marque has the edge

Dubsado was built for a solo operator. Adding team members is possible but the experience doesn't feel designed for it — there's no capacity planning, no view of who's working on what across the agency, and no way to see team utilisation at a glance. Marque's resource scheduling and team views were built from day one for teams: who is overbooked, what's in the queue, and where the bottlenecks are.

Dubsado has project checklists. Marque has full project management: Kanban boards, Gantt charts with dependency tracking, milestone tracking, file proofing workflows, and a shared inbox for project communications. For an agency running five concurrent client projects with multiple team members, checklists don't cut it.

Pricing

Marque is a flat fee per agency, not per seat: Starter £29 , Grow £79 , Agency £149 a month, with 90 days free and no card to start. Hiring somebody does not change the bill until you run out of seats on your plan.

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