Ours keeps suppliers from chat: add a supplier, its contacts, categories and notes, and pull a list or CSV export. A general CRM (e.g. HubSpot's free tier) manages contacts and deals in the cloud. A spreadsheet is the manual option. The facts below are read from each product's own material; the spreadsheet column describes the approach, not a product.
| Fact | Ours | HubSpot (free CRM) | Spreadsheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it records | Suppliers with contacts, categories and notes; list and CSV export | Contacts, companies, deals, tickets, and activity tracking in a cloud CRM | Whatever columns you create; no validation |
| Supplier specifics | Supplier-oriented: category, contact, notes per vendor | Company records are sales-oriented; supplier details are custom fields you add | Manual |
| Network / account | Local MCP server; no network call, no account | Cloud account; free tier exists, paid tiers per seat per month | Wherever the file lives |
| Install path | One-click supplier-list.mcpb bundle or hosted URL from /mcp/connect | Sign up to the CRM | Open the file |
| Price | Free to add and export; Pro $19 once | Free tier available; paid seats per user per month (commonly tens of dollars and up) | The spreadsheet licence, typically already paid for |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary | Varies with the spreadsheet product |
Pick a CRM when your suppliers sit alongside customers, deals and tickets and you want one cloud record with reporting, email integration and pipeline. HubSpot has a free tier with paid per-seat tiers above it; that is a sales CRM first, with suppliers as custom-field company records. Pick a spreadsheet when the list is small and static and you already keep it in one, accepting no validation and no history beyond what you type.
Pick ours when you just need the vendor list: add suppliers with contacts, categories and notes in chat, and export CSV, with no account, no per-seat fee and no network call. It is free to add and export and Pro is a $19 once unlock. It is not a CRM: no deal pipeline, no email integration, no reporting suite. If suppliers are part of a sales relationship you track, a CRM fits better; ours is the lightweight list between a spreadsheet and one.
Ours, one click: download supplier-list.mcpb from
the latest release and open it in Claude Desktop. No JSON, no terminal.
Or by URL, with nothing installed. /mcp/connect mints a free token and prints the ready line:
claude mcp add --transport http supplier-list https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/supplier-list/t/<token>The npm package is not published yet, so the line below returns a 404 today. It is here because it is what the config becomes the day that changes:
claude mcp add supplier-list -- npx -y @theluckystrike/mcp-supplier-listExact config file paths per client are on the setup pages.
No. Ours keeps a supplier list with contacts, categories and notes, plus a CSV export. A CRM adds deals, tickets, email integration and reporting.
HubSpot has a free CRM tier with paid per-seat tiers above it. Ours is free to add and export, Pro $19 once, with no per-seat fee and no account.
Ours. It is a local MCP server with no network call and no account. A cloud CRM needs a sign-in; a spreadsheet needs only the file.
HubSpot's free tier and paid seat pricing are at hubspot.com/pricing/crm. The spreadsheet column describes the approach rather than a product. Read on 2026-09-17.
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