Piggles or HubSpot: a sales machine, or the whole small business?
HubSpot is one of the deepest customer-relationship tools there is, and for a team that lives in its pipeline and its marketing, it earns its reputation. Piggles is for the business that also has a shop, a calendar, stock and a team to pay. Here is the honest comparison.
- Free for 14 days
- No card needed
- All sixteen apps included
Where HubSpot is the better choice
HubSpot is a customer-relationship platform for marketing, sales and service teams. These are the things it does better than Piggles, said plainly, because the right answer for your business matters more than this page.
Depth in sales and marketing
Lead scoring, sequences, reporting, attribution and years of refinement for teams whose job is the pipeline. Piggles has a pipeline, lead scoring and email lists, but HubSpot goes much further for a dedicated sales or marketing team.
A free place to start
HubSpot’s free tools cover a small team’s customer list, forms and email at no cost. Piggles has a free trial, not a free plan.
Text messages
HubSpot can send text messages from the same place as its email. Piggles does not send text messages.
HubSpot is built around winning the customer. Piggles is built around serving them once they have said yes.
Where Piggles fits better
Selling, with no extra hub
An online shop, counter sales, stock, suppliers and trade accounts are part of Piggles. HubSpot does not list an online store or stock control.
Appointments, not just meeting links
Bookings handles services, staff calendars, reminders, moving and canceling, and no-shows. HubSpot books meetings through links, which suits a sales call more than a haircut.
A price that does not count seats
HubSpot’s paid tools are priced per seat. Piggles includes three team members in one flat price, and each person after that is a small, fixed extra.
Quotes and invoices included
On HubSpot, full quotes and invoices come with a separate subscription. In Piggles, quotes that become jobs and then invoices are one of the apps in the price.
Piggles and HubSpot, one need at a time
What each one offers for the things a small business looks for, read from HubSpot’s own website on September 30, 2026. Where we could not confirm a feature on their site, the table says so rather than guessing.
| What you need | Piggles | HubSpot |
|---|---|---|
| A website | Built in Finished sections you arrange, on your own domain. | Built in Website, landing pages and blog, in Content Hub. |
| An online shop | Built in Products, services, checkout and trade accounts. | Not confirmed Not found on its product pages. |
| Selling in person | Partly A counter sale is recorded as an order. There is no card reader or till app. | Not confirmed Not found on its product pages. |
| Appointments | Built in Services, staff calendars, email reminders and booking online. | Partly Meeting links for booking calls. |
| Quotes and invoices | Built in Quotes that become jobs, then invoices, with a payment link. | Sold separately Full quotes and invoices come with Revenue Hub. |
| A customer list | Built in One record per customer with orders, bookings and messages. | Built in Its core product, the Smart CRM. |
| Customer requests | Built in Requests with an owner and a time to answer by. | Built in Tickets and a shared inbox. |
| Email to your customers | Built in Emails to a list, from your own address. | Built in Email marketing and sequences. |
| Text messages | No Piggles does not send text messages. | Built in Text messages. |
| Posting to social media | Built in Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google, TikTok, YouTube and Threads. | Built in Social posting. |
| Stock in more than one place | Built in Counts per location, reorder points and transfers. One location included. | Not confirmed Not found on its product pages. |
| Ordering from suppliers | Built in Write, approve, print and receive orders, with supplier prices and scorecards. | Not confirmed Not found on its product pages. |
| Staff hours and shifts | Built in Clock in and out, timesheets, a published schedule and time off. | Not confirmed Not found on its product pages. |
| Payroll | No Approved hours download as a file for whoever runs your payroll. | Not confirmed Not found on its product pages. |
| Automations | Built in Routine steps that run on their own when something happens. | Built in Workflows. |
| An AI assistant | Partly Bring your own Anthropic or OpenAI account, or connect Claude or ChatGPT. | Built in Its Breeze assistant. |
| Bookkeeping and accounts | Partly Profit and loss, spending, bills and money owed, with a spreadsheet for your accountant. No ledger, bank matching or tax returns. | Not confirmed Not found on its product pages. |
How each bill is put together
No HubSpot prices here: they are theirs to publish and they change. This is the shape of each bill, which decides what happens to it as your business grows.
Piggles
- One plan, $99 a month, with every app included.
- Three team members, one location, one website and 10,000 customer records included.
- More room costs a fixed amount: another location, another person, more storage.
- No fee on your sales. Your payment company charges its own card fee.
- Fourteen days free, with no card needed to start.
HubSpot
- Free tools for up to two users.
- Paid tools are priced per seat. View-only seats are free.
- Tools are grouped into Hubs, and each Hub has its own tiers.
- Full quotes and invoicing come with Revenue Hub, its own subscription.
Moving from HubSpot
HubSpot’s exports and Piggles’ Move in understand each other well. Drop in HubSpot’s own export files, or paste one read-only key and Piggles reads your account for you. You see what will happen to every row before anything is written.
How moving to Piggles worksWhat comes across
- Contacts, with their notes, and anyone marked as a non-marketing contact kept off your mailing lists
- Companies, with their address, website and phone
- Deals, with their stage and value
- Tickets, as customer requests
What stays behind
- The dates and status of old tickets: they arrive as open requests, so close the finished ones
- Workflows and sequences: build the ones you still need as Automations
- Your HubSpot website pages: rebuild them from Piggles sections
So which one?
Choose HubSpot if
- You have a sales or marketing team whose whole job is the pipeline.
- You need advanced marketing reporting, attribution or sequences.
- Text messages to customers are part of how you sell.
Choose Piggles if
- You sell products or services as well as winning customers.
- You take appointments, carry stock or schedule a team.
- You want quotes and invoices without buying another subscription.
- You want one flat price rather than one per person.
Questions about Piggles and HubSpot
Where these facts come from
Everything this page says about HubSpot was read from HubSpot’s own website and help pages on September 30, 2026. Products change; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will check it again.
Try Piggles beside HubSpot for fourteen days, for free.
No card needed. Nothing to cancel if you decide not to carry on.
