Productive

Vorteile

The main reason I chose Productive was to be able to track the profitability of each project, by assigning a cost by ressource (employee) and tracking billing + expenses on each project.
The reporting and customizable dashboard are very appreciated features.

I also like the fact that we can email directly to a deal to add entries in the crm.
I also like the Notion type documents. Could have more options though

Nachteile

- The CRM is a bit basic. Notes and followups could be more intuitive and organized.
- The navigation inside the app is not always clear and I found myself often searching for the way to get to where I need.
- When adding time outside the dates of a budget, the error preventing me from adding it was annoying. I would have prefferred a warning and be able to choose to add it anyway.
- I'd like to be able to quickly create a task from the time tracking entry on the calendar view if I found myself on working on something that was not initially listed.
- Managing billing and budget is not user friendly, especially when pre-selling hours.

Vorteile

Productive is a tool that brings together an efficient task management system, resource allocation, time tracking, leave request management, budgeting, and CRM under one roof. By integrating all these tools, it provides excellent reporting capabilities and real-time insights into project and company performance.

Nachteile

It is incredibly modular and rich in data, but for this reason, it can be a bit intricate and not very user-friendly at first. However, with time and some practice, this initial learning curve can be overcome.

Vorteile

Scheduling, Task management and Time management, Customers help

Nachteile

It is sometimes slow, after update a lot of things are not working, some updates make my job harder

Vorteile

flexibility to setup
easy to use
good reporting
good support

Nachteile

UI can be inconsistante, but they are improving

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Vorteile

I've found Productive to be an intuitive project management platform that significantly enhances the agencies productivity, streamlines our workflows, and it enables us to be integrated across all our specialisms. Enhanced settings for time tracking and financial management, and extensive reporting! The support team is FANTASTIC too.

Nachteile

Productive is constantly releasing new features, so this will most likely be resolved. However, you current can not report on Net Revenue.

Vorteile

Very clear and on the whole easy to use.

Nachteile

Time tracking can be a bit fiddly and could be more streamlined.

Vorteile

Productive features such as time tracking, time logs, scheduling and planning are crucial for optimized work of a IT development agency.

Nachteile

Analytics, Project planning, Sales board and 3rd party Integrations could be improved but those are minor things compared the value that Productive brings

Vorteile

What I liked the most about Productive is how easy it is to use and how it helps me stay consistent with my goals. The reminders are subtle but effective, and the progress tracking is super motivating. It’s great to see how small daily habits add up over time!

Nachteile

What I liked least about Productive is that some features are locked behind a subscription. While the free version is great, it would be nice to have access to a few more advanced tools without upgrading.

Vorteile

Easy to keep track of daily tasks, managing internal resources for projects, holidays.

Nachteile

The fact that I can't copy the day to day tasks, I have to duplicate a full day. There's certain tasks per day like Admin Work, Slack and Email checks etc. that I would want to add each day to my productive budgets, but you can only duplicate a full day, not just a certain task. By task I mean the bullets under the project itself.

Vorteile

The seamless cross functionality in Productive, from budgets to resourcing, makes it of the top platforms I've used so far in my career.

Nachteile

I would like more customisation in the resourcing view. For example, I would like to be able to reorder the resources on the left panel instead of the alphabetical order that is locked there now.

Vorteile

I thought this software offers more useful features than its competitors. The price is great. I like that you can assign team members and clients to tasks.

Nachteile

I thought the software was difficult to understand, so did my team. As the admin, I wish I got more of an overview of everyone in each project. I felt like I had to search a lot to find the information I wanted.

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Vorteile

I like how Productive has a lot of features and is still pretty simple to use. The logic behind everything works great almost always, and for me it became a tool that I use daily without much thought. I see great value in that. I also appreciate the documentation and the whole team behind.

Nachteile

Tasks are maybe still a bit sloppy, but maybe it's just because of the way we use it in the company. I'm not really sure.

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Vorteile

Great for staying organized for large multi purpose businesses

Nachteile

Is not integrated with social media as it could be

Vorteile

Easy to use and uploads documents fast and seemlessly.

Nachteile

Don’t like how tasks under an umbrella task can’t have the same specifics applied (ie r for tasks to individual due dates or a single due date for all of them)

Vorteile

Productive was easy to set up, user friendly and responsive to issues

Nachteile

Still some lack of integration and functionality on the CRM but improving. Would be great to integrate to sender.net or Mailchimp etc

Vorteile

The features are designed for an agency so we use most of them, all day, every day. What we really like is:
1. The user interface is superb - intuitive and fast to use. The best we have seen.
2. Help files and customer services is excellent. There hasn't been a question without a really satisfactory answer.
There isn't another system we use that is anywhere near as easy to use as Productive is.
Remote working puts more pressure on the system and it has supported the team now spread out over thousands of miles.

Nachteile

Not much - would like slightly more customisable templates to allow us to add more text and graphics to them.

Vorteile

Productive is a very powerful tool covering basically all the tasks and processes related to project management, account management, reporting, planning of resources, managing the sales pipeline and many more.
It feels very modern and easy to use with really powerful features. Also, the product is constantly being improved with an active customer service.

Nachteile

It takes some time to really onboard everyone and use it as a day to day tool. But that would probably be the case with every new tool introduced to the organization. Thus, not all the features must be used or be introduced at the same time.

Vorteile

The software has been extremely stable and reliable. Constant new features, as well as regular design updates. Features like forecasting and insights are next-level features.

Nachteile

Maybe the area around customer/company data could be better handled.
I see the reason why it was set up in the way it was, but some more form in this area would have actually helped us.

Vorteile

Productive is a great all round tool for managing an agency, giving us time and budget management to understand the profitability across each client engagement & new business business pursuit.

Nachteile

It can take a while for new starters to get up to speed as some parts aren't very intuitive.

Vorteile

- you can track tasks, estimates, worked time, billable time, revenue, costs, invoices, scheduling, time off and a lot more in one tool
- checkups and reporting is easier than ever since you can filter and sort all the parameters you want and just export into .xls, .csv or .pdf - voila
- their support is easy to reach (through the chat integrated to the same tool) and they are really responsive and fast
- they are constantly improving features, so every few weeks you can expect some beta to be released and tested with the real users

Nachteile

- I don't like Productive's search functionality - it's not accurate enough nor fast enough
- Boards and tasks are sometimes hard to manage, especially if the project is big

Vorteile

Productive is great because I have an overview of every segment of my company in one place. From sales, scheduling projects, communication management, employee management all the way to the reporting. We were paying multiple software apps, which was not only expensive but also confusing and time wasting. With Productive costs were cut down significantly. The support team is very responsive, always available and fast in helping us solve our issues.

Nachteile

It takes some time for setting up the organization and getting everybody on board, but with Productive help center and their support team that was done in a jiffy. The software is a bit robust due to its wide pallet of functionalities, so it has a bit steep learning curve.

Vorteile

Productive as a One stop shop for agencies is so easy to use and has a solid stack of features

Nachteile

Some small stuff that is missing, but I know that you guys are on it.

Vorteile

Really great task management software with good ui. Regularly adding features and improving the product. I am a big fan.

Nachteile

Better ui for sales would be good. Overall though the product is valuable for my team.

Vorteile

If everything is configured properly, the flow of a project is very easy, from sales over project management towards invoicing, everything works very nicely.

Nachteile

It is not very customizable, although they are working on it.

Vorteile

Like how I can access it from anywhere with the mobile app or from any browser.
Great tool for sharing projects with team mates in real time.
Great project management tool!

Nachteile

Wish there was a way to create a unique number for each project to track projects numerically as new projects come in and make it easier to archive and retrieve in the future.

Vorteile

The balance between flexibility and clarity is so much on point in Productive. We've used a lot of tools before that claim to be flexible but where we eventually hit a major roadblock for our business. On the other hand, we have used more complex tools too but those lack clarity very often. For us, Productive is perfectly on the crossroad of these two very important aspects.

Nachteile

Sometimes, we think about a feature that would be nice to have and isn't there yet. But almost always, we find it back in the roadmap. A roadmap that is transparent and doesn't overpromise, which we like!

Vorteile

Very efficient and user friendly tool that caters a broad aspect of agencies' needs: project management, time logs, budgeting, reporting, etc. Amazing customer service (kudos to [sensitive content hidden])!

Nachteile

It would be great if it was not as expensive, but it's worth it.

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Vorteile

Productive includes all the features we wanted and nothing we didn't. We used ClickUp for some time, but found it was hard to use and customise to our needs. Productive gives us the tools we need to keep projects on track and assigned to the right people and gives us business metrics that keep us aligned and on-point. It's been a game-changer for us, and we can only see it getting better.

Nachteile

Productive is expensive, especially as you add more users. Other products are cheaper, but they aren't tailored to what we need, so they end up costing in other ways.

Vorteile

Very friendly interface.
Loads of reports possibility's
quick with update's and support

Nachteile

forcing update's without informing. This is now taken care of.

Vorteile

Total end to end solution. Only took a few plays to find the basic functionality, and then a few months to be totally proficient.

Nachteile

The line that delineates the current day does not update and needs to be refreshed.

Vorteile

Me gusta tener todos mis proyectos en una misma aplicación, con posibilidad de facturación, de incluir gastos y tiempo invertido en cada uno y conocer la verdadera rentabilidad de mis trabajos.
Cómodo e intuitivo.

Nachteile

No tiene un buen calendario/agenda pero se puede sincronizar con google o con Microsoft

Vorteile

Smooth usage, cues make it natural to use

Nachteile

TIme reporting, it always assumes current day as default. My suggestion is: If there's time report missing for previous days, use the oldest missing day as default.

Vorteile

- Features catered to agency needs
- Great customer service
- Budget management
- Simplified time tracking
- Budgeting and invoicing in one place

Nachteile

- Lack of very top level resourcing (overview of at least 4 months within one view)

Vorteile

The whole scheduling structure: Company -> Project -> Budget -> Service -> Scheduling. It gives us a lot of flexibility.And the team is awesome! Super easy to reach, very helpful with and with amazing attitude <3

Nachteile

Insights are pretty complicated if we want to connect data from different sources. THough I know it is a challenging topic

Vorteile

Project managemement, task management, time tracking, invoicing, there isn't much I don't love about Productive!

Nachteile

I wish there was a way to better implement email into the product. Right now email and Productive are separate. Having them tied closer together would help eliminate on additional product.

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Vorteile

It feels stable and polished. Jira integration works very well compared to Clockify for example.

Nachteile

The UI might be simpler. The way how I use it doesn't require all the bells and whistles. What I'm essentially doing is logging the time for given tasks within projects.

Vorteile

Really simple to use and so effective and saves time and energy of you know what you want.

Nachteile

Nothing specific to say here, did not find something that is that bad.

Vorteile

•This tool is fantastic from project tracking, budgeting, time tracking and scheduling.
•This is an all in one tool. With features that can sync information to different tools, it's very promising and efficient.
•Productive support team listens to feedback and quickly respond to inquiries.

Nachteile

Having tried other project management software, I am grateful to be able to use Productive and there is no single thing I don't like.

Vorteile

I love the reporting system that provides me with actionable data so I can make more informed decisions and optimize profitability.

Nachteile

I sometimes have difficulty customizing certain aspects of the platform especially when it comes to the user interface.

Vorteile

What I like most about productive is the Dark mode. They nailed that frature.

Nachteile

Useless reports. Customer service. Clutter of code. Buggy.

Vorteile

Frequent updates and changes to the platform. It's getting better with every update. Has great customer support and makes collaboration really smooth!

Nachteile

Milestones could be a little clearer, but there is nothing I dislike about Productive.io. Productive.io is better with every update.

Vorteile

The time tracking for each team member combined with the project management.

Nachteile

For me, it still needs a lot of back and forwards between the menus to execute some tasks. But it's not something critical.

Vorteile

La función de gestión de proyectos ha sido la las útil y eficiente.

Nachteile

Puede mejorar su interfaz ya que puede tornarse lento

Vorteile

Fully-featured with a continually improving product roadmap and excellent customer support.

Nachteile

Sometimes it's difficult to work out how much budget is remaining as the calculations don't always tally with my own figures. Some nuances in how the calculations are done I think. Some features have started to move to the 'premium' tier.

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Vorteile

We became an early client of these folks a few years ago. They are constantly rolling out new features, including a lot of specific requests we've made to them. They ALWAYS respond to our requests and update us on their status. They have, far-and-away, the most responsive customer service of any SAAS product we subscribe to. And the product is head and shoulders above any of the other tools we used over the years (we've trued dozens including all the big ones you've heard of)

Nachteile

It's meant to be an end-to-end solution for small-ish agencies. So beyond project management, there's financial reporting, invoicing, expense tracking (including Quickbooks integration), and sales tracking. The Sales tool is probably the least developed. It works great, and we use it, but it would be nice if it were more tightly integrated with the rest of the tool so revenue forecaster would be more accurate. There are a number of customization features, so were able to cobble together an adaquate tool (we previously used both Salesforce and Hubspot)

Vorteile

I love that we can set up project budgets and track our progress against them in real-time so we can better allocate resources and determine our profit margins. I also appreciate that the company has a robust roadmap and is constantly adding new features. It is fundamentally easy to set up on the project side. There is a ton of flexibility with different views you can have for tasks. The ways you can slice and dice your data in here is a major win for agency owners.

Nachteile

The biggest thing we need is a way for our clients to submit tickets to our team so that we can tie it back to the project and if needed, add a new project scope, but there is no interface for clients to submit requests to us via Productive. We haven't found any ticketing software that will integrate with Productive either (maybe by Zapier, but we'd really just prefer to stay in Productive as much as possible).I would also like to be able to see more history on staff time off/vacation time. Once a year has been completed, the data got removed when their new allocation was given. The Dashboard view can use some improvement based on the priority of actions. I would also like to see time chronically from when my timer was started so I can see when it happened during the day, but if you use the timer feature and then switch to the calendar view, it throws all the entries to the top of the day for some reason.

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Vorteile

We love that this tool is agency management in one tool! We can track projects / tasks, as well as record employee PTO, schedule work to manage capacity, and bill ALL IN THE SAME PLACE. Customer support is responsive and immensely helpful. Especially for explaining the parts of the tool that applies to areas outside our expertise (like finances).

Nachteile

The list layout leaves things to be desired in terms of design and organization of information. Would love to see automation, and the ability to mark tasks as dependent on / blocked by others come to the tool. The note taking tool is really basic and not co-write-friendly.

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Vorteile

The intuitiveness. Even the most complex features of the product are being made very easy to use.

Nachteile

Honestly, none I can think of currently.

Vorteile

Productive shines in its range of features that just click with our wishes in managing projects. It keeps track of alle important aspects of tasks, budgeting, time, invoicing and reports we need to do our best job for our customers.

Nachteile

Productive could become better when it has a translation in Dutch, for our customers who are not as tech savvy as we are. The way projects can be invoiced could get some improvements, also bulk editing budgets.

Vorteile

We haven't had a single issue with Productive and have yet to hit a limitation or thing to improve. It has been such a breath of fresh air to come across an out-of-the-box solution that fits our team and way of working. It's clear that Productive listens to user feedback and quickly implements features and fixes. Their support is also outstanding - going above and beyond to provide excellent customer service.

Nachteile

Having tried 6 other project management and team collaboration software, I am pleased to say that Prodocutive has surpassed my expectations and there isn't anything that we don't like.

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