Most CRM budgets do not fall apart at the proposal stage. They fall apart months into the build, when invoices start arriving for work nobody scoped in the first place. The hidden costs of custom CRM software development rarely show up in that first vendor quote, yet they routinely add 25 to 50 percent to the number your team signed off on. A project that looked like a $40,000 build can quietly become a $70,000 one once data migration, integrations, and user adoption enter th