Loan leads are handled differently
Loan leads are handled differently at every branch, with no standard follow-up.
Microfinance & Collections CRM
CRM for NBFC Microfinance Lenders and MFIs Across India
Build trust, and track every rupee of pipeline.
A field officer collects EMIs at a centre meeting, and the branch sees them two days late. A borrower asks for a top-up, and the branch has to check three books to answer. A group misses a repayment, and head office hears only at month-end. Right now that runs across field officers' phones, branch registers and an Excel sheet only one person can read, and a borrower due for a repeat loan is known to nobody. CIPHER CRM puts every lead, loan, EMI and branch on one screen, made for how an Indian NBFC actually runs.
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CIPHER CRM is an 🇮🇳 India-first CRM for NBFCs and microfinance companies, built by 🏢 CIPHER Craft Pvt. Ltd. (est. 2018).
📩 It captures loan leads, moves each through a pipeline, coordinates field officers, and gives owners one pipeline across branches, on one screen 🖥️.
Used by 192+ businesses across India, ⭐ rated 4.8/5, 💰 flat-priced, ⚡ live in 1-3 days.
Success stories What Financial Services teams say about CIPHER CRM
The car showroom's insurance desk kept taking our motor renewals. Each renewal date has a reminder for whoever handles that client, so we call before the showroom does.
Revathi Sundaram Team Lead, RenewalsCoimbatore
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The owner cannot see the pipeline
The owner cannot see the pipeline and disbursals across all branches live.
Field officer activity is invisible
Field officer activity is invisible until a monthly report lands.
Follow-ups on prospective borrowers depend
Follow-ups on prospective borrowers depend on individual memory.
Client history is fragmented across
Client history is fragmented across branches and staff.
The difference From the old way to the CIPHER way
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NBFC & Microfinance Companies enquiries scattered across notebooks, calls and WhatsApp
Every nbfc & microfinance companies enquiry captured in one list with a named owner
Nobody is sure who was meant to manage leads and client follow-ups
A named owner and a due date on every nbfc & microfinance companies follow-up
Quotes rebuilt by hand and sent hours late
Branded quotes from saved item rates in minutes
No single view of how you track policies and renewals
A progress board with deal values, and a live overdue flag on unpaid bills
NBFC & Microfinance Companies history walks out of the door when staff leave
Every deal, quote and note kept on the customer record
Definition
What is a NBFC & Microfinance Companies CRM?
An NBFC and microfinance CRM is one place to run lending at scale: it captures loan leads, moves each through a pipeline, coordinates field officers and branches, and gives owners one view of the pipeline, instead of disconnected spreadsheets.
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Who it's for
NBFCs, microfinance institutions and small lenders across India running loan pipelines and field teams across multiple branches.
Core capabilities
- Lead capture from online enquiry forms, calls and walk-ins
- A sales pipeline that fits how you work
- Logged follow-ups and reminders for your team
- Estimates and invoices with GST and other taxes on each line
- Payment tracking with receipts
- A branded customer portal
- It keeps working offline on a weak signal.
CIPHER CRM has a purpose-built CRM for NBFC & Microfinance Companies (part of its Financial Services edition); trusted by 192+ Indian businesses, rated 4.8/5, with lead management, quotations, invoicing and reminders included in every plan.
Why a CRM
Why teams like yours need a CRM
See how CIPHER CRM solves this
Never lose a nbfc & microfinance companies enquiry
Every enquiry from calls, online enquiry forms and walk-ins lands in one list, gets an owner, and gets followed up.
Follow up on time, every time
A reminder on each nbfc & microfinance companies lead keeps it warm until they decide.
Quote and collect faster
Send branded quotes in minutes, turn a yes into an invoice, and see every overdue balance at a glance.
Finally track policies and renewals
One progress board shows exactly where every deal stands, with the value sitting in each stage.
Keep nbfc & microfinance companies customers for life
The full customer history stays with the business, not with whoever leaves.
Features
Everything your team needs
Twelve things that cover nbfc & microfinance companies work from the first enquiry to the collected payment.
NBFC & Microfinance Companies CRM features and capabilities
Lead capture
Website forms drop enquiries straight in; calls and walk-ins take seconds to add.
Sales pipeline
Move every deal through clear, visible stages.
Follow-up reminders
Never miss a follow-up, renewal, or callback.
Quotations
Build branded quotes from saved item rates and share a link to accept online.
Team chat per customer
Every lead, customer, project and bill gets its own team chat.
Payment tracking
Record full or partial payments, with a PDF receipt for each one.
Works offline
Keeps working on a weak signal and syncs the moment you are back online.
Customer portal
Customers sign in to see their quotes, invoices, balances and projects.
Customer database
Keep every customer and contact in one searchable place.
Checklists
Tick off each step on the record and see progress without opening it.
Roles and access
Control what each person can view, create, edit and delete.
Calendar
Every due date, reminder and document date on one month or week view.
192+ Businesses in 31 industries
4.8/5 Average rating
92 Tools included
1-3 Days to go live
In practice
A day in your business with CIPHER CRM
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A branch lead
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Trigger: A borrower enquires at a branch.
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CIPHER CRM: It goes into the same pipeline every branch uses, assigned to a field officer.
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Outcome: The lead is handled consistently, wherever it comes from.
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An owner's view
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Trigger: The founder wants to know today's disbursals.
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CIPHER CRM: The progress board shows every loan by stage across branches, with the amount in each stage.
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Outcome: Decisions are made on today's picture, not last month's.
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A quiet borrower
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Trigger: A prospective borrower goes silent.
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CIPHER CRM: A reminder set on the record nudges the field officer to follow up.
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Outcome: More enquiries turn into loans.
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Questions, answered
Common questions
Question: 1
How does a CRM help NBFC & Microfinance Companies teams manage leads?
A CRM puts every nbfc & microfinance companies enquiry from calls, online enquiry forms and walk-ins in one list, gives it a named owner, and reminds them to follow up, so nothing is missed and owners can track policies and renewals as it happens.
Every nbfc & microfinance companies lead is tagged by source, so you know which channels actually bring you business.
Question: 2
Which CRM is best for NBFC & Microfinance Companies in India?
For most NBFC & Microfinance Companies businesses in India, CIPHER CRM is a strong fit. It is India-first, works in the browser on any phone or laptop, is flat-priced with no per-user fees, and goes live in 1-3 days. Compare options against your own workflow before deciding.
CIPHER CRM: India-first, works on any device, flat pricing, live in 1-3 days.
Question: 3
Does a CRM help NBFC & Microfinance Companies teams follow up faster?
Yes. A reminder on every nbfc & microfinance companies enquiry means it is followed up on time, not when someone remembers. Each call is logged on the lead with its outcome, so the whole team can see who was contacted last and when.
Pick a lead source once and its starter checklist is added to every new nbfc & microfinance companies enquiry from that source.
Question: 4
How do NBFC & Microfinance Companies teams track quotations and payments?
Your team builds branded quotations from saved nbfc & microfinance companies item rates, shares each one as a link the customer can accept or decline online, turns a yes into an invoice, and records full or partial payments as they come in.
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A live overdue flag on anything unpaid past its due date
Question: 5
Can NBFC & Microfinance Companies teams message customers from the CRM?
Yes, in a few ways. One click on a lead or contact opens a call, an email or a WhatsApp chat. Customers on your portal get their own support thread with your team. And every nbfc & microfinance companies follow-up is logged on the record with an owner and a date for the next one.
Nothing about a nbfc & microfinance companies customer lives in a personal phone; the whole story sits on their record, where the next person can pick it up.
Question: 6
How much does a NBFC & Microfinance Companies CRM cost in India?
CIPHER CRM uses flat pricing with no per-user fees, so a nbfc & microfinance companies team can add every user for one predictable cost. What you pay depends on your team size and whether you pay quarterly or yearly, so call +91 97122 00017 for a quote and a free demo.
Two plans, Flexi and Growth. Both include unlimited staff and unlimited clients.
4.8 What Financial Services teams say about CIPHER CRM
Every family we advise has a risk profile. It is a field on each client record in CIPHER CRM, so no RM has to dig through old emails to recall if they are cautious or aggressive.
Rupal Mankad Principal, ManagementVadodara
A new SIP client means PAN, Aadhaar and a cancelled cheque. Each client's checklist shows what is still pending, so I never ask anyone for Aadhaar twice.
Nayana Shastry Senior Executive, OperationsMysuru
Home loan files sit on one board, from login to sanction to disbursal, with the amounts added up at the top of each stage. When the bank's sales manager calls asking what is coming this month, I read it off the board instead of ringing each of my executives.
Gopal Khandelwal Chief Executive, ManagementJaipur
Most of our centre meetings happen in villages with one bar of signal on a good day. Loan officers update each member's record from their phone's browser even there, and it all syncs when they reach the main road. By evening the branch can see the whole day's work.
Dhruba Kalita Area Manager, OperationsGuwahati
Every July the phone rang all day with clients wanting last year's ITR. Now they sign in to a portal with our firm's logo and find it themselves.
Aniruddha Paranjpe Managing Partner, ManagementNagpur
Each SME that comes to us for a bank loan rating gets a project in CIPHER. The audited financials, the CMA data and the agency meeting are tasks under it, each with an owner and a due date. When the promoter calls, I see at once what is stuck.
Ipsita Mohapatra Senior Analyst, RatingsBhubaneswar
The numbers Where we stand today
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Tools included
465
Sub-industries
99.9%
Uptime
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Days to go live
Compare CIPHER CRM vs spreadsheets vs a generic CRM
| Criteria | CIPHER CRM | Spreadsheet | Generic CRM |
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 Built for NBFC & Microfinance Companies | Pipeline stages, fields and item rates set up for nbfc & microfinance companies | Whatever the last person set up | Generic sales pipeline you configure yourself |
 Helps you handle enquiries and documentation | Pipeline & reminders set up for it | Manual, easy to forget | Custom build or add-on |
 Lead capture | Straight in from your online enquiry forms | Copy-pasted by hand | Manual or paid add-on |
 Follow-ups | Reminders and logged follow-ups | Memory & sticky notes | Limited / extra cost |
 Conversation history | On the customer record | Personal phones | Varies |
 Quotations & invoicing | Built in, with GST and other taxes per line | Word / Excel templates | Add-on or none |
 Pricing model | Flat, unlimited users | Free but manual | Per-user fees |
 Weak signal | Works offline, syncs when back | Paper only | Varies |
 Onboarding speed | Live in 1-3 days | Immediate but chaotic | Weeks to months |
 India-based support | Hindi & English, included | None | Overseas / email only |
Decision
Best CRM for NBFC & Microfinance Companies businesses in India
For most NBFC & Microfinance Companies businesses in India, CIPHER CRM is a strong fit. It is India-first, works on any device, is flat-priced, and goes live in 1-3 days. Evaluate options against your own workflow before deciding.
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CIPHER CRM
India-first, flat-priced, works on any device, and built for how Indian teams actually work, the best fit for most.
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Generic global CRM
Powerful, but built for overseas sales; rupee billing with GST is often an add-on and per-user pricing adds up.
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Spreadsheets & WhatsApp
Free and familiar, but leads slip, follow-ups are missed, and there is no single view of your pipeline or payments.
By the numbers
By the numbers
92
features included in every plan
ciphercrm.co
1-3 days
to go live with free migration
CIPHER onboarding
Methodology directional figures based on aggregated CIPHER CRM usage; actual results vary by team and workflow.
Connected
Works anywhere
On any phone
CIPHER CRM runs in the browser, so your nbfc & microfinance companies team can add enquiries, update deals and raise quotes from a phone on site or on the road. It keeps working on a weak signal and syncs the moment the connection is back. Everything lands in the same pipeline the office sees, and your customers get a branded portal of their own.
Built in
- Online enquiry forms
- Customer portal
- Share links for quotes and bills
- Offline mode
- Your own web address
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Ready when you are
See CIPHER CRM in your workflow
Book a 20-minute demo, see it live, decide after.
No lock-in contract and no card needed - and 192+ Indian businesses already run on CIPHER CRM.
Switching
Moving your NBFC & Microfinance Companies data across
Switching is handled for you with free data migration - no spreadsheets to rebuild, no data left behind.
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What we migrate
- Contacts
- Quotes
- Enquiries
- Payment history
How long it takes
Most teams are live in 1-3 days without rebuilding a single spreadsheet. Your data stays encrypted, and you choose who sees what.
Success story
How a business like yours grew with CIPHER CRM
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The client
A Lucknow NBFC lending across several branches, tracking loans in branch-level spreadsheets.
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The challenge
Branches worked differently, the pipeline was invisible to the owner, and field activity was unclear.
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The solution
They moved to CIPHER CRM: one pipeline across branches, field-officer coordination, and a board the owner can open any time.
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The result
Consistent lead handling, a pipeline the owner can see, and better follow-up on every borrower.
Get started
How to set up CIPHER CRM in 4 steps
- Step: 1
Import your nbfc & microfinance companies contacts & enquiries
We migrate your existing nbfc & microfinance companies contacts, customers and open deals for free, so you rebuild nothing.
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Set up your pipeline & item rates
Your stages, fields and pricing are configured around how nbfc & microfinance companies teams track policies and renewals.
- Step: 3
Invite your team
Add your whole team with no per-user fees, and set who sees what by job role.
- Step: 4
Go live and start selling
Most nbfc & microfinance companies teams are live within 1-3 days, with hands-on onboarding from our India-based team.
Success stories Loved by Financial Services businesses across India
The car showroom's insurance desk kept taking our motor renewals. Each renewal date has a reminder for whoever handles that client, so we call before the showroom does.
Revathi Sundaram Team Lead, RenewalsCoimbatore
Textile traders send their papers in bits and pieces. Each trader's record has a checklist for the month's sales bills, purchase bills and bank statement. My juniors tick items as they come in, and the count on each row shows who is still short before the return is due.
Jignesh Vasani Senior Consultant, AdvisorySurat
My dealers kept quarrelling over whose client a big trader was. In the CRM each dealer sees only their own clients, while I see the full book. That quarrel has not come up since.
Piyush Bakliwal Chief Dealer, EquityIndore
We keep books for shops and clinics, and a few always pay late. The Overdue flag on their invoices tells me who gets my Friday call.
Ancy Varghese Office Manager, AdminKochi
We file every director's DSC in the Documents tab on the company's record, along with the date it expires, and put a reminder on it for the executive who handles that client. We renew in good time, not on the night of an ROC filing.
Sravani Kondapalli Senior Manager, SecretarialHyderabad
DSA partners bring us a good share of our personal loan leads, so in CIPHER each partner is set up as a lead source. When a partner rings about a borrower's file, anyone on my team can filter by that source and tell them where each case stands.
Pranav Kamath COO, ManagementBengaluru
Students call about tuition fee remittance, parents ask about forex cards on WhatsApp, and some fill in the form on our site. Every enquiry goes on one lead list and gets an owner before the rate moves.
Simran Bajwa Branch Head, SalesJalandhar
Pitches used to get discussed in one crowded WhatsApp group. The discussion now sits in the chat on each startup's record, so the deck stays with that deal.
Zubin Bharucha Associate, InvestmentsMumbai
A family often holds deposits in the husband's name, the wife's and a parent's. We file them all under one customer record in CIPHER, with each depositor and nominee saved as a separate contact. When a deposit matures, I know who to call and whose signature the form needs.
Sabiha Zaidi Coordinator, Back OfficeDelhi
NBFC & Microfinance Companies CRM frequently asked questions
Still thinking it over? NBFC & Microfinance Companies CRM - frequently asked questions
The things Indian business owners ask us most, answered straight.
What is the best CRM for NBFC & Microfinance Companies in India?
CIPHER CRM is a strong choice for NBFC & Microfinance Companies in India. It is India-first, with lead capture, a sales pipeline, follow-up reminders, quotations, invoicing and a customer portal in one place, flat-priced and live in 1-3 days. Compare it against your own workflow before you decide.
Which CRM works for NBFC & Microfinance Companies businesses?
A CRM that fits how NBFC & Microfinance Companies teams actually work, capturing enquiries from calls, online enquiry forms and walk-ins, reminding the team to follow up, and tracking quotes and payments in one place. CIPHER CRM is built this way for Indian businesses, with flat pricing and no per-user fees.
Does NBFC & Microfinance Companies CRM handle GST on invoices?
Yes. Every estimate and invoice can carry GST and any other tax on each line, with the customer's tax number printed on the document. Your team raises the bill, shares it as a link or PDF, and records payments against it without leaving the CRM.
How do NBFC & Microfinance Companies manage leads and follow-ups?
Every enquiry from calls, online enquiry forms and walk-ins lands in one list, gets assigned to a person, and carries a reminder for the next follow-up so nothing goes cold. Owners see each lead's stage on the progress board as it changes.
Is CIPHER CRM good for NBFC & Microfinance Companies businesses in India?
Yes. CIPHER CRM is used by 192+ businesses across India and suits teams like yours. It brings leads, follow-ups, quotations and payments into one India-first system, with flat pricing and go-live in 1-3 days. 192+ businesses across India run CIPHER CRM across 31 industries, with a 4.8/5 average rating.
How much does a NBFC & Microfinance Companies CRM cost in India?
CIPHER CRM uses flat pricing with no per-user fees, so a nbfc & microfinance companies team can add every user for one predictable cost. What you pay depends on your team size and whether you pay quarterly or yearly. Call +91 97122 00017 for a quote and a free demo.
Can a NBFC & Microfinance Companies team WhatsApp a customer from CIPHER CRM?
Yes. One click on a lead or contact opens a WhatsApp chat, a call or an email. The nbfc & microfinance companies team logs each follow-up on the record and gets reminded before the next one, so no reply is lost in a personal phone.
Can a NBFC & Microfinance Companies team use CIPHER CRM on a phone?
Yes. CIPHER CRM runs in the browser on any phone, tablet or laptop, so your nbfc & microfinance companies team can add enquiries, update deals and raise quotes on site or on the road. It keeps working on a weak signal and syncs when the connection is back, and your customers get a branded portal of their own.
How long does CIPHER CRM take to set up for NBFC & Microfinance Companies?
Most nbfc & microfinance companies teams go live within 1-3 days. Setup includes free migration of your existing records, a pipeline configured around how you track policies and renewals, and hands-on onboarding from our India-based team in Hindi and English.
Can I migrate my NBFC & Microfinance Companies data to CIPHER CRM?
Yes. Your existing nbfc & microfinance companies contacts, customer history, past quotations and open deals are migrated for you at no extra cost, so nothing is rebuilt by hand and no enquiry is lost in the switch. 192+ businesses across India run CIPHER CRM across 31 industries, with a 4.8/5 average rating.
Is my NBFC & Microfinance Companies customer data secure?
Yes. Your nbfc & microfinance companies records travel encrypted over HTTPS, sit behind access set by job role, with protection against password guessing, and are protected by regular backups on a platform built for 99.9% uptime. 192+ businesses across India run CIPHER CRM across 31 industries, with a 4.8/5 average rating.
Which CRM is best for a small NBFC & Microfinance Companies business?
For most small nbfc & microfinance companies businesses in India, CIPHER CRM is a strong fit: flat-priced, works on any device, and live in 1-3 days with free setup. It is built to help you manage leads and client follow-ups without adding admin work.
Quick assessment
How CRM-ready is your business?
Questions: 1/3
How do you track enquiries today?
Questions: 2/3
How often do follow-ups slip through?
Questions: 3/3
How big is your team?
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Choosing a CRM for NBFC & Microfinance Companies
The right CRM for NBFC & Microfinance Companies is the one that matches how your team already sells - how enquiries arrive, who owns the follow-up, and how quotes turn into payments. Everything below is covered in depth on our guides.
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