Productive

Vorteile

Great for staying organized for large multi purpose businesses

Nachteile

Is not integrated with social media as it could be

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

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

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.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Todoist, Paymo, Zoho Projects, Pipefy, Front, monday.com, ClickUp und Asana

Warum Productive gewählt wurde

Made the switch from Accelo, as the email integration caused all kinds of issues and our email got placed on blacklists, so we had to switch our domain name completely for our website and email. We originally used Teamwork, then switched to Accelo because of the email integration. Teamwork was great, but missed some key features at the time we used it.

Zuvor genutzte Software

Teamwork.com und Accelo

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Productive

Had almost all of the features I needed. Others were missing features.

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

•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

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

Everything is all in one place without the need of multiple softwares

Nachteile

Some features that are a no-brainer (eg. tracking non-billable proposal hours) should have been able to be directly tracked from the sales function instead of having to be tracked as internal hours. But these are nitty gritty details which should make way to Productive sometime in the near future

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

ClickUp

Warum Productive gewählt wurde

Complex and not used to its full advantage

Zuvor genutzte Software

monday.com

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Productive

Clickup was similar to other flexible-tasks allocation management system and does not offer the overall suite of features that Productive does

Vorteile

In theory, Productive has the perfect set of tools for the modern agency. Powerful project budget tools including weekly or monthly budgets for retainer clients make it easy to make sure you are utilizing 100% of budgeted time but no more. Reporting tools are in theory very flexible and easy to spit out exactly the right data you want - from team utilization to billing to profitability, task completion - you name it! Productive is also pretty easy to set up and the UI is very clean, modern, and not clunky in the least bit like many competitors.

Nachteile

There are SERIOUS bugs that totally defeat the purpose of using this product. All of these I've brought to their attention but they have dragged their heels on fixing. Here are some of the top bugs:

#1: When you/your team logs time and goes to create an invoice from it, the date for every single time entry is off by one day as it appears on the invoice, vs. the date you actually logged that time. You can get the accurate dates with time logs from the reporting module and when you compare, you'll see every date on the invoice is incorrect and your customers will start questioning why you logged time on the weekend...

#2: When you go to download a custom report made in the report module, e.g. the hours report mentioned in #1, you get a blank PDF. Try CSV format? Also blank file, with only the header row filled in, 0 rows of data.

#3: Invoice formatting - if you use Productive with Quickbooks Online, when your invoice syncs over you will end up with some random HTML code as part of the descriptions e.g. <ul><li>Notes about this time entry</li></ul> on each line of the invoice. Have fun manually cleaning these up!

Vorteile

Productive is a product management software which offers many useful features, custom workflows, time tracking, resource allocation or reporting. As the most valuable I consider the resource management tool which enables to manage the resources (team members, equipment) effectively.

Nachteile

Due to the complexity of the application It is quite difficult to learn using all the features available. Some features are available at a higher price, so the price can be quite high.

Vorteile

UI, UX, Covers a lot without overcomplicating the experience. Competitive cost, great support service. Constant updates and features getting added.

Nachteile

(Small) Still fine tuning in some areas, so not everything is perfect , but lots of roll out of good updates which shows its only going to get better

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Polaris PSA, Harvest, Scoro, Resource Guru, ClickUp, Forecast und Accelo

Warum Productive gewählt wurde

Cost, experience, selection of tools, scalability

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Productive

Ticks most of the boxes that others cannot

Vorteile

My main issue in the past with other software was that they were too complex, had too many features or had too much of a learning curve. Productive on the other hand is easy to get your head around and start working with from day one.

Our team has now been using Productive for almost 2 months and we're active on it daily. The main features we use are creating sales (which is essentially leads), creating projects (in our case new client projects), calculating project costs, creating tasks and assigning them to team members and sharing the project with clients via the dashboard.

What's more is that Productive have outstanding customer service, I actually just received a letter in the mail today written by their team which proves they're ready to go above and beyond for their users.

Lastly, their price point is unbeatable. The Pricing page says it all and compared to the other software out there, Productive is easily the best value for money.

Nachteile

Small bug with the hourly rate when creating a new project.

Vorteile

I love the time tracking, budgeting, reporting, invoicing features. From a managers standpoint, this software covers all our business needs. The reporting system gives us an in-depth review in terms of cost/ revenue structure, profitability, time spent, project success, employee utilization etc. The data really helps us make better business decisions.

Nachteile

Our developers struggle using the task management feature, and we're currently developing a new framework that can easily be used in Productive.

Vorteile

It really has the potential to unify the agency processes and eliminate the need for several tools. It brings together time tracking, project management, CRM and sales, financials, invoicing. One of the really cool options is the fact that you can use as much or as little features that you need. You adjust the software to your sales and business process not the other way around.

A special hat-tip goes to the support team. They were readily available, helpful, really went an extra mile to help out, even came to our office and did a presentation and training even before we signed up for the software. I am in this industry for more than a decade and rarely does one see support team with so much passion about their product and their willingness to explain all the possible details. Highly recommended!

Nachteile

In some rare occasions there are minor issues with synchonisation between time entries made from the website, mobile app and desktop widget. However, when we reported those issues, team was quick to fix them and continiously offered help.

Vorteile

- All-in-one solution
- The help/support of the team
- Reporting options and financial insights
- The clear flow from sales pipeline to project

Nachteile

- Invoicing/quotation features limited
- Dashboard view is not visual/customizable enough
- Project management features are limited
- Roles and user rights are not customizable enough
- The Desktop App is more 'buggy' then the browser version
- Integration with local finance software (Yuki)

Vorteile

easy to pick up and onboard team members, we switched from another program and uploading tasks was a breeze

Nachteile

inability to easily delete tasks. this process can be convoluted and annoying at time. Dont understand why things can only be archived

Vorteile

I appreciate the built-in time management. The ability to bill to two different business entities is crucial for our combined organization.

Nachteile

The design could use some polish. No notes on individual tasks. Really, though, my biggest hang up is the design is not great.

Vorteile

The time tracking and the insights. we almost never forget to track our hours and i can see easily how much time we spend on each project.

Nachteile

The invoicing features! We can't make our invoices like we want to and have to do double work now. :(

Vorteile

Integrated sales, project management, time tracking, team scheduling and invoicing software. Most of the tools you need to manage an agency in one.
If you want to run your agency the Productive.io way, this tool will integrate your whole business.

Nachteile

The tool does everything. Which means that you'll be best of running your business and using the tool exactly as the developers intended, which takes some getting used to.
For a tool that is meant to do everything it doesn't really cater to the power-user a lot, there are few keyboard shortcuts and you'll be clicking a log.
The tool can be buggy and slow at times. And there is no off-line support.
Using Productive.io will create a HUGE single point of failure for your company.

Vorteile

It eliminates email from the process and provides an effective way to track profitability and hours

Nachteile

The closing of a project is somewhat unfortunate and the notification process could be integrated into the browser.

Vorteile

The main features are awesome and so far we've used almost daily the task list, time tracking, sales board and the project's management section.

We're also very happy with the customer service provided by Productive.io

Nachteile

I'd like to be able to customize more our quotes (ie: change colors, fonts, layout, add additional text like our terms and conditions etc.).

Sometimes, I'm also confused about small details (where to click, what's the link between sales, projects, the pricing ie: hourly or not), but in a few weeks we've already seen the software update and improve a lot so we're convinced the team behind Productive.io is working making everything on point.

Vorteile

The breath and scope of the product - There is a lot of functionality available and we have only begun to scratch the surface.

Nachteile

Due to the extent of functionality, getting set-up on the system took a bit of time - minor gripe

Vorteile

My favorite thing about Productive is being able to organize and personalize my own dashboard layout. I am someone who works better when I can make task lists and productive allows me to make private lists for myself to use throughout the day.

Nachteile

I wish this software would allow subtasks under the original task -- sometimes a task isn't complete unless multiple subtasks are completed first. This would allow our workflow to move more smoothly.

Vorteile

The project financial management is very strong for a tool at this price. The UI is modern and easy to use for our staff.

Nachteile

The reporting is designed to conform too much to a specific model, as opposed to being more open ended. Also it would be good to have custom fields or more ways to categorize projects.

Vorteile

Ease of use. And the ability for everything to be self contained within the software...no need to email...or to email docs/elements.

Nachteile

We have found nothing as yet. We are new users but don't anticipate any issues. We will be eliminating Clients and Profits over the next few months and begin using Intuit for billing. That too looks to be an easy transition.

Vorteile

We managed to transition 4 different software applications into 1, saving us monthly costs as well as improving our efficiency in running our studio.

Nachteile

So far there really isn't much I can say in a negative way, there are a few additional features we would like, but its great that they publish their development roadmap so we can see these features are coming.

Vorteile

The profitability is the most compelling part to us. Knowing exactly how much we actually spent on a proejct and how much came in.

Nachteile

Learning to use it took some time because it has some interesting requirements. I wish it were a bit more flexible (ie deleting vs archiving if a mistake is made, archiving with live budgets)

Vorteile

Very simple to navigate through. It is easy to set up collaborative tasks and track team productivity.

Nachteile

You have to enter your tasks manually to track your tasks and timing. It also does not seem to give you an accurate overview of your weeks tasks productivity.

Vorteile

It has a nice interface so I like it. The budgets' features are helpful and flexible- there are options for Fixed, Hourly, etc.

Nachteile

The reports have limited very filters and not that flexible. Especially on the time forecasting for the people per project, etc.