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Fundpilot: Buy vs Skip (Investment Reporting Retainers)

IF your agency already serves fund managers or advisory clients who report to investors in CZK, EUR, or USD, THEN Fundpilot's Professional tier at 249 €/month is the entry point that matters, because it is the first plan with CZK, EUR and USD views, your own domain, unlimited investment funds, and unlimited data history. IF your client book is under 20 investor accounts and reports in a single currency, THEN the Starter tier at 166 €/month covers the work, but you are capped at 5 investment funds, one admin user, and 5 years of data history. IF your clients sit outside investment or fund management, THEN Fundpilot's narrow vertical focus makes it the wrong portal regardless of price.

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Decision Frame

Fundpilot: Buy vs Skip (Investment Reporting Retainers)

“IF your agency already serves fund managers or advisory clients who report to investors in CZK, EUR, or USD, THEN Fundpilot's Professional tier at 249 €/month is the entry point that matters, because it is the first plan with CZK, EUR and USD views, your own domain, unlimited investment funds, and unlimited data history. IF your client book is under 20 investor accounts and reports in a single currency, THEN the Starter tier at 166 €/month covers the work, but you are capped at 5 investment funds, one admin user, and 5 years of data history. IF your clients sit outside investment or fund management, THEN Fundpilot's narrow vertical focus makes it the wrong portal regardless of price.”

When is it the right choice?
  • Your client roster includes fund managers or EU advisory firms whose investors expect quarterly and yearly performance reports in more than one currency, which only the Professional tier at 249 €/month supports with CZK, EUR and USD views.
  • You want to sell reporting as a retainer rather than bill hourly, and the single fund-level performance entry that recalculates every client portfolio is the delivery mechanic that makes a fixed monthly fee defensible.
  • At least one client needs a portal on their own domain (portal.yourfirm.com), a Professional-tier feature, because a yourname.fundpilot.app subdomain will not pass their compliance or brand review.
  • Your delivery team is one or two people, so the 5 admin users included in Professional at 249 €/month is enough seats without buying the Enterprise tier at 499 €/month.
  • You can populate the admin workspace from CSV historical imports and existing fund performance data, which keeps setup inside a focused sprint rather than a multi-month implementation.
When should you skip it?
  • Your clients are marketing, creative, or professional services accounts that need file sharing and project approvals, since Fundpilot is built for investment portfolio reporting and does not cover other client reporting verticals.
  • You need a portal that handles invoicing, project management, and task tracking alongside client access, because Fundpilot's scope stops at portfolio dashboards, reports, deposits, and documents.
  • A prospect reports in a currency outside CZK, EUR, and USD, as the multi-currency capability does not extend past those three.
  • Your largest client holds more than 100 investor accounts, which pushes past the Professional tier's included 100 accounts and toward the Enterprise tier at 499 €/month before you have proven the retainer.
  • You want a horizontal portal you can resell across every vertical in your book, because Fundpilot's investment-management focus limits the addressable client base compared with general-purpose client portal tools.
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