Markate alternative:
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Markate or WorkTime CRM?
Markate prices as published on its own pricing page ↗ on October 3, 2026. They may have changed since.
What Markate costs
- Owner Operator: $49.95 a month, or $39.95 a month when billed yearly.
- Team: the same base price plus $5 per employee per month.
- Several features are paid add-ons at $10 a month each — the website lead form, online booking, the branded customer portal, Zapier — and the AI receptionist is $1 per call.
What WorkTime CRM costs
- One plan: $99 a month per company, paid monthly, cancel anytime.
- Team members are included — no per-user fee and no user tiers.
- First month free, with a card on file.
Where Markate is the better choice
- A lower starting price: a one-person business pays about half of what WorkTime costs.
- Built-in marketing sends — SMS and email blasts to your customer list.
- It has an AI receptionist and an AI estimator of its own.
What is different in WorkTime
- One price — $99 a month per company. Team members, the website lead form, online booking and the client portal are part of the plan, not add-ons.
- Leads connect directly: Thumbtack (with an automatic first reply and two-way chat), Google Local Services Ads, Facebook and Instagram Lead Ads, and Angi. When we checked, Markate's integrations page did not list these platforms; it offers Zapier.
- The whole app works in English and in Russian, including the AI assistant.
Example: a company with five employees, per month
| Markate | WorkTime CRM | |
|---|---|---|
| Base plan | $49.95 | $99 |
| Five employees | $25 ($5 each) | Included |
| Website lead form | $10 | Included |
| Online booking | $10 | Included |
| Customer portal | $10 (branded portal) | Included |
| Zapier connection | $10 | Included |
| Total | $114.95 | $99 |
Markate at its monthly price. Without any add-ons the same company pays $74.95 on Markate — less than WorkTime. Phone features are extra on both: Markate charges per call, and WorkTime's phone assistant runs on your own Twilio and Vapi accounts, billed by them.
The short version: If you work alone and need none of the add-ons, Markate is the cheaper tool. WorkTime pays off once you have a crew, or when your work comes from Thumbtack, Google and Facebook leads that have to be answered fast.
Markate is a trademark of its owner. WorkTime CRM is an independent product and is not affiliated with Markate.
Moving is the easy part
Three things that make the switch a day's work, not a month's.
AI matches your columns
We read your Markate export and figure out which column is the name, phone, email, address and more — no manual mapping.
Skips duplicates
Clients you already have (same phone or email) are detected and skipped, so nothing doubles up.
Or we do it for you — free
Send us whatever you exported, even messy or multiple files, and our team imports it, usually within one business day.
How to move from Markate
- 01In Markate, export your customers, estimates and invoices.
- 02Save the files as CSV.
- 03Upload them here — the AI maps the columns.
- 04Or use our concierge and we'll import everything for you.
Official guide: Markate ↗
What comes over
And where it lands: every customer on a card of their own, with their history and their jobs.
Clients
Names, phones (two per client), emails, addresses, notes and lead source.
Jobs
Past and active jobs become projects with status, contract value and dates.
Invoices
Paid and unpaid invoice history, attached to the right client.
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