Folk vs Dolibarr
Dolibarr is the stronger choice for organizations that want a self-hostable, open-source CRM embedded in a broader ERP covering sales, invoicing, accounting, stock, purchasing, projects, and HR. Folk remains the better fit for teams centered on relationship context, multichannel interaction history, and AI-assisted follow-ups and recaps; those capabilities are not established for Dolibarr by the supplied sources.
Decision guide
The practical reasons to choose either option, based on documented capabilities.
Choose Dolibarr if
- Organizations consolidating CRM, billing, accounting, purchasing, inventory, projects, and HR in one suite
- Teams requiring self-hosting, source-code access, or deployment on an internal LAN
- Businesses wanting modular CRM and ERP functions with customizable fields and user permissions
Stay with Folk if
- Email, WhatsApp, meeting, note, and LinkedIn activity must be unified in relationship profiles; equivalent Dolibarr coverage is not documented
- Context-aware follow-up drafting and relationship recaps are core workflows; Dolibarr lists general AI API support but not comparable assistants
- Native embedded webmail is required; Dolibarr explicitly says it is not yet supported produces native embedded Webmail support absent; it can send emails to contacts but does not provide native embedded Webmail per the r
Deployment and operations
Dolibarr is a PHP web application licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later. It can run as a standalone or LAN/Internet web application and supports packaged Windows and Linux installs, a Docker image, or a conventional PHP web server with MariaDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL. Commercial hosted offerings also exist. Self-hosters must manage backups, supported PHP versions, files, database infrastructure, and the documented browser-based upgrade process. Some dependencies use other licenses, and third-party add‑/
Migration considerations
Dolibarr documents general data import/export and calendar import/export through iCal/vCal, but the supplied sources provide no Folk-specific importer, field mapping, interaction-history transfer, or compatibility guarantee. A migration would therefore require validating exported Folk data against Dolibarr’s available import paths.
Feature fit
What Dolibarr covers
- Contact and prospect records
- Lead and opportunity management
- Custom user fields
- Mass email capability
- APIs for integrations
- Data import and export
What’s different or missing
- No documented Folk-specific migration path
- No documented WhatsApp history capture
- No documented LinkedIn activity capture
- No documented context-aware follow-up assistant
- No documented relationship recap assistant
- No native embedded webmail
- No fully supported project-task dependencies
- No payroll module
Project snapshot
- GitHub stars
- 7,521
- Contributors
- 1,199
- Language
- PHP
- Last commit
- Aug 19, 2026
- Latest release
- May 26, 2026
Categories: Workflow Automation, Customer Relationship Management, Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Customer Data Platforms, Marketing Automation, Customer Support, Sales Intelligence
Sources and editorial review12 linked sources
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Dolibarr ERP CRM is a modern software package to manage your company or foundation's activity (contacts, suppliers, invoices, orders, stocks, agenda, accounting, ...).
repository description · github.comCustomer/Sales Management - Customers/Prospects + Contacts management; Opportunities or Leads management; Commercial proposals management; Customer Orders management; Contracts/Subscription management
readme · github.comHighly customizable: enable only the modules you need, add user personalized fields, choose your skin, several menu managers
readme · github.comYou can use it as a standalone application or as a web application to access it from the Internet or from a LAN.
readme · github.comThe Docker image
readme · github.comDolibarr ERP & CRM is a modern software package that helps manage your organization's activities (contacts, quotes, invoices, orders, stocks, agenda, human resources, ecm, manufacturing…).
verdict · github.comYou can use it as a standalone application or as a web application to access it from the Internet or from a LAN.
deployment · github.comDolibarr is also available as a [Docker image](https://hub.docker.com/r/dolibarr/dolibarr). Installation instructions are available [here](https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr-docker).
deployment · github.comDolibarr is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either Version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version (GPL-3+).
deployment · github.com- Customers/Prospects + Contacts management - Opportunities or Leads management
shared feature · github.com- Data export/import
migration · github.com- Native embedded Webmail, but you can send email to contacts in Dolibarr with e.g. offers, invoices, etc.
missing feature · github.com
