Korfix for Freelancers: CRM and Tracker for Free

Count how many places your work life currently lives in. Clients — in notes and message threads. Tasks — in Trello or in your head. Deadlines — in a calendar. Who's paid, who owes — in a spreadsheet you update when you remember. Agreements — in Telegram, searchable when you need them.

That's not a system. It's five systems, and you're the manual sync layer between them. And every "real CRM" for freelancers either costs as much as a gym membership or is so corporate you need a week just to learn it.

You need something different: clients, projects, deadlines, and payments in one place, free, and running by today. Let's build that with Korfix.

What a freelancer actually needs

Strip it down, and the core is three things:

• Clients — who they are, how to reach them, what stage they're at.
• Projects — what you're doing, for whom, by when, what status.
• Payments — how much, for what, paid or waiting.

Everything else — tasks, notes, reports — layers on top of those three. Start there.

Build a CRM without building it yourself

In Korfix data lives in catalogs — typed, linked tables. You could create three catalogs by hand, but that's still work. There's a shorter path.

Option one — install something ready-made. The Korfix marketplace has mini-app applications. A freelancer CRM app deploys the needed catalogs on install — Clients, Projects, Payments — with the right fields and relations. You click Install, and a minute later you don't have an empty account, you have a working structure. Open it and add your first client.

Option two — describe your own. If you want not "a CRM in general" but exactly your process, and you use Claude — connect the korfix-devkit plugin and describe it in plain words:

I need a freelancer CRM: clients, projects with deadlines and status, payments. Dashboard: how much I'm owed and which deadlines fall this week.

AI will clarify details — do you need hourly projects, should it calculate tax, what are the payment statuses — and build the app: catalogs, installer, widgets. You install it the same way, one click. Want a change — tell AI, it updates.

Both paths lead to the same place: a working CRM, and you didn't design a database schema. The difference is only whether you take the generic one or order the exact one.

Relations: data is connected, not scattered

The main thing your five systems didn't have — relations. In the Projects catalog the "client" field points to a record in Clients. In Payments the "project" field points to Projects.

That means "how much does this client owe me?" no longer requires joining three tables in your head. The relation is in the data itself. One client — and you immediately see their projects, and through the projects — their payments.

Connect AI: "who owes me money"

Korfix catalogs are open to AI via MCP. Grab your token from settings, paste it into Claude — and ask in plain language, not by scanning tables:

Which clients owe me money and how much?

AI reads Payments, filters by status "waiting for payment", follows the relation to clients, sums the amounts, responds with a list.

What project deadlines are this week?

Reads Projects, filters by date, responds.

You didn't export a CSV or explain the column structure. AI sees the catalog structure — field types, relations — and works from it. In the morning one sentence gives you a picture of the day.

Free — and that's enough for a long time

Honest on money, since the headline promises zero.

For a user, Korfix is free. Not "14-day trial" — permanently. Catalogs, records, marketplace, MCP access to data — included in a free account. For a personal freelancer CRM this isn't a stripped-down version, it's the full thing: the data volume you'll accumulate over years of work, a free account won't notice.

On Korfix, users don't pay. Developers who want to publish their own mini-apps in the marketplace pay: $30 per year, not per month. As a freelancer managing your own work, there's nothing to pay for.

When you'll want more

The free tier is enough for a long time, but not forever. Reasons to look at paid plans appear when:

• work stops being solo — you need access for a partner or subcontractor;
• you want not "an app from the marketplace" but several custom ones tuned to your process;
• you need different MCP tokens for different tasks and higher API limits.

This is an upgrade by necessity, not a wall you hit on day two. While you're solo and managing your own projects — the free account is enough.

Build your CRM in one session. Registration at vibe.korfix.info is free and requires no credit card. Install a ready-made CRM app from the marketplace or describe yours to AI — and in 15 minutes you'll have a place where clients, projects, and payments finally live together and work the way you need them to.