💼 Krayin
Krayin is a F/OSS solution for Laravel (PHP) based solution for Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Krayin (Code) is a Laravel (PHP) based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. Krayin makes it easy to manage communication, conversations and sales with customers and clients, so your business never skips a beat.
While this functionality is pretty business centric (something sales teams would use), it's great to know about for entrepreneurial hackers, and those obsessed with streamlining business processes.
One of the things we love is online easy-to-use demos, and Krayin has one:
Once you've loaded up the demo (it does take a little while), you're greeted with a fully functional dashboard, and can click around. For example the leads page looks like this:
🌠 Features
While Krayin might not be needed by the average hacker (more business-focused), there are a ton of features to dig into.
- Contact management
- Access controls and permissions
- Support for custom fields
- Web-based, easy to deploy (where PHP can be deployed)
- Various communication integrations (email, SMS, etc)
- Phone integration
- Integration with existing ERP systems
🤖 As described by AI
Krayin is an open-source CRM (Customer Relationship Management) application built on the PHP Laravel framework. It is designed to help businesses manage their customer interactions, sales, and marketing efforts efficiently. Leveraging Laravel's robust features, Krayin offers a modern, user-friendly interface with modules for leads, contacts, accounts, and opportunities, making it a comprehensive solution for tracking and optimizing customer relationships. Additionally, it supports extensive customization, allowing businesses to tailor the CRM to their specific needs without extensive coding knowledge.
A key feature of Krayin is its modular architecture, which enables seamless integration with other systems and third-party applications. This flexibility allows businesses to extend the CRM's functionality through plugins and extensions, ensuring it can evolve alongside their requirements. The platform also emphasizes data security and scalability, providing a reliable foundation for companies of all sizes. With its community-driven development model, Krayin benefits from regular updates and improvements contributed by a global network of developers, ensuring it remains a cutting-edge tool for managing customer relationships.
📺 Watch this
Krayin is luckily very easy to search due to it's unique name, and they also have a YouTube Channel which is easy to find. Here's a guide that's somewhat old on how to create leads in Krayin:
👟 Getting started
While there is an official Krayin docker image, it's not maintained (over 1 year old currently) – hopefully this changes in the future.
To install Krayin, you should start at the documentation:
In general, you can also follow the regular PHP process for building projects, which generally starts with/uses Composer (composer) heavily:
composer create-project krayin/laravel-crm
php artisan krayin-crm:installOnce krayin-crm is installed, you'll want to edit the .env files to your liking, make sure to configure the database and email settings as well.
After that, you can clear and serve the application:
php artisan route:clear
php artisan serveOnce it's running, you can log in with the following default credentials:
- email:
admin@example.com - password:
admin123
They should be updated to sufficiently secret and randomized values that an Administrator uses to log in (preferably managed by a password manager).
🧑💻 Want to contribute?
Krayin is an open source project like any other, with a huge amount of stars (7.7k⭐), it's incredibly popular with over 24 contributors.
You can check out their issue tracker here:
krayinIt's quite amazing that there are only 10 issues open with close to 600 closed – the project is clearly very actively maintained and you can probably expect to get feedback from maintainers very quickly which is great.
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