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CentralStationCRM: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

CentralStationCRM is an online CRM for small businesses, developed by 42he, a small team based in Cologne. It offers contact and address management, a complete contact history, delegable tasks, team notifications, filters and a sales and project pipeline, plus a few key figures such as revenue planning. The vendor targets small B2B service providers such as agencies, consultancies and trade agents, as well as trainers, coaches, associations and non-profits. It is cloud software that runs in a web browser on PC, Mac, tablet or smartphone.

According to the vendor, data is stored on its own servers in Germany, in secured data centres, and transfers are SSL-encrypted. The vendor is based in Cologne, Germany, and states that it takes no investor money; the page names no parent company. The product is proprietary and offered only as a hosted service, with no self-hosted or open-source edition described.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 1, 2026

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	CORE-BACKBONE - Core-Backbone GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category	CRM
Type	Product
Website	centralstationcrm.de ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to CentralStationCRM

The European alternatives to CentralStationCRM come from our knowledge base of over 7,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with CentralStationCRM

CentralStationCRM is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so CentralStationCRM scores best on data residency.

CentralStationCRM is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs CentralStationCRM together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to CentralStationCRM?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to CentralStationCRM include ADITO, Atomic CRM and Axelor CRM. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to CentralStationCRM?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to CentralStationCRM include Atomic CRM and Axelor CRM. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is CentralStationCRM GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

CentralStationCRM is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes CentralStationCRM an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 1, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA): centralstationcrm.com/privacy

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 22, 2026.

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CRM: Customer relationship management — sales pipelines, contact management. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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