Adding 'CRM' features to a Django website

Question

I'm building a website in Django. I want each user of the site to have some basic client management tools - add a client and contact information, add certain events around the clients, text/email clients, etc.

The CRM feature will be an important feature for the site members, but the overall site is a community and not a CRM platform, so I'm not really loooking to build on sugarCRM or similar.

My question, are there any Django or python packages that I could plugin that would add CRM tools? Or should I just roll my own? If so, any design pattern resources out there I could follow? Another option I'm looking into is integrating with a web service like SalesForce api, but I'm not sure if its overkill or costly.

Answer 1

I think django-addressbook or django-crm might be good starting points. If you come up with something great, open source it :)