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Looking for a Carrotsuite alternative for your real estate company?
Carrotsuite and Estarivo both serve Nigerian property companies. This page sets out, fairly, how they differ, using Carrotsuite's own public pages as the source for every statement about Carrotsuite.
Reviewed 1 November 2026. Products change: check Carrotsuite's current pages at carrotsuite.com.ng before deciding. Carrotsuite is a trademark of its owner; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by Carrotsuite.
Carrotsuite may suit you if…
- · You want one general ERP vendor across several kinds of business, with real estate as one of them.
- · You prefer to start on published per-user pricing and add portals, multi-level commission or white-labelling as you need them.
- · Its real estate features already match how you sell and collect.
Estarivo may suit you if…
- · You want software built only around real estate: installments, allocation, realtors, construction and rentals connected to one ledger.
- · Payment verification, maker-checker approvals and an audit trail matter to your finance team.
- · You want realtor incentives and leaderboards, customer and realtor portals, and interactive estate maps from the same system.
- · You want help moving years of records and training each team, not just a login.
Side by side
“Not found on public pages” means we could not confirm it from Carrotsuite's public website on the review date. It does not mean Carrotsuite lacks it; ask them directly.
| Area | Estarivo | Carrotsuite (public statement) |
|---|---|---|
| Estate, plot and unit inventory | Estates, phases, blocks, plots and units with prices and live status; reservations and allocation. | Stated: unit and plot reporting (sold, part-paid, available) and allocation to clients who complete payment. Source |
| Installment plans and tracking | Per-sale schedules (monthly, quarterly, custom), part-payments, overdue tracking, reschedules, allocation eligibility. | Stated: aimed at installment buyers across estates, with expected payments and payment-status filters. Source |
| Payment verification and receipts | Customer- or staff-reported payments verified by a second person before they count; numbered receipts with verification codes. | Stated: automatic e-receipts for each payment. Source |
| Online payments | Company's own Paystack or Flutterwave account; built and tested against provider test environments, live test per company. | Stated in general terms: Paystack among payment options; online payment links in reminders. Source |
| Accounting | Double-entry ledger posted from sales, receipts, bills, payroll and commissions; trial balance, P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, aging. | Stated: general ledger, journals, bank reconciliation, financial statements, VAT. Source |
| Realtor commissions | Direct plus up to ten generations; milestone-based from verified payments; approvals, payouts, reversals, caps. | Stated: commission management with uplines; a multi-level marketing module offered as a paid add-on. Source |
| Realtor incentives and leaderboards | Incentive campaigns with reward tiers, live leaderboards and progress in the realtor portal. | Not found on public pages (sales targets and performance comparison are mentioned). Source |
| Customer and realtor portals | Branded customer portal and realtor portal included. | Stated: client and marketer portals, listed as add-ons on the pricing page. Source |
| Construction and procurement | Projects linked to estates: budgets, contractors, materials, verified site reports, buyer updates; purchase orders and supplier bills. | Stated: construction management (projects, site logs, budgets, materials) and procurement. Source |
| HR and payroll | Staff records, leave, attendance, payroll runs and payslips. | Stated: HR and payroll, with advanced HR on its Business plan. Source |
| Rentals and facilities | Leases, rent schedules, deposits, service charges, maintenance, owner recharges. | Stated: tenants, rent and service charges, maintenance requests. Source |
| Company's own WhatsApp Business number via Meta's Cloud API: notices, verified linking, keyword commands. Live use after Meta verification. | Stated in a Carrotsuite blog post: a CRM product integrating the WhatsApp Business API. Source | |
| Interactive estate maps and 360° tours | Estarivo Explore (optional module): clickable layouts with live availability, 360° tours, 3D models. | Not found on public pages. Source |
| Data migration | Assisted migration from exports, 13 record types, validation, second-person approval, rollback. | Stated: data migration offered as a paid add-on; import and export with vendor help. Source |
| Training and setup | Role-based training and assisted setup included in onboarding. | Stated: setup and training fee by user count on the pricing page; the homepage also mentions free implementation. Source |
| Scope | Built only for real estate companies. | A general cloud ERP serving many industries, with a real estate offering. Source |
Pricing and implementation
Carrotsuite publishes per-user pricing with optional add-ons on its pricing page. Estarivo's pricing depends on the modules and scale you need and is discussed during the demo. Whichever you choose, budget time for cleaning existing records and training each team: that, more than the software, decides how quickly a company settles in.
Moving from Carrotsuite
We work from the export files your current system provides. Estarivo has no connection to Carrotsuite's systems; its import tool includes a sample mapping for common column names that is checked against your real export before anything is imported.
See also: installment management, accounting, realtor management and migration.
Compare them on your own records.
Book a demo and bring your questions about how your records are kept today. We'll show you how that work looks in Estarivo.