Accelo vs Daylite

Accelo

It is really well suited for organizations that need to have a lot of tools but don't want a bunch of data silos. Our organization uses HubSpot as our CRM so we don't necessarily use the CRM portion of Accelo the way it is designed. Mainly because it isn't as agile as HubSpot from a CRM perspective.

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Chris Osterhout

Vice President of Business Strategy

WSOLInternet, 11-50 employees

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Daylite

If your team uses only Macs, then I suggest investigating Daylite 6, which is cloud-based. We've found upgrades to be tricky, sometimes users have difficulty connecting to the data-base on the main user's Daylite Server. My opinion is that it would be easier to begin fresh with 6 than upgrading and moving our current Daylite Server to the cloud. And there's no going back, once you move to the cloud, you're committed.

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Pattie Covert

Senior Graphic Designer

Membership Marketing Partners, LLCMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

9.7

Accelo

4.4

Daylite

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Quotes/estimates

3.5

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Invoicing

4.0

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Project & financial reporting

5.1

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Integration with accounting software

5.1

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Pros

Retainer Management - I am not sure we could run retainers effectively without it.
Hour Logging and Tracking.
Customer Email Tracking.

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Chris Osterhout

Vice President of Business Strategy

WSOLInternet, 11-50 employees

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Emails can be attached to projects and tasks, helping the user gain background knowledge
Reports can be produced and printed to be used in Progress Meetings
Other data such as passwords can be added as Notes to a project
Project deadlines can be moved easily in Calendar

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Pattie Covert

Senior Graphic Designer

Membership Marketing Partners, LLCMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Difficult to upload targets
Not easy to modify a target
When uploading targets you can not attach them to tags until after they are uploaded.
When listing opportunities in the system, you are limited with what stage the opportunity is in and the star system is not very helpful. The status' are very vague and not always accurate.

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Verified User

Professional in Marketing

Computer & Network Security Company, 51-200 employees

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We're using Daylite 5 and are soon abandoning it because: a. Daylite 5 is not cloud-based (6, is)
b. Daylite is for Mac users only, and we need a solution for our whole team
c. There are many "rabbit holes" that you can go down in submenus that it can be confusing

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Pattie Covert

Senior Graphic Designer

Membership Marketing Partners, LLCMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Accelo9.0

Based on 1 answer

Looking forward to seeing more refinement of features provided and upcoming features promised :)

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Brendon O'Sullivan

Managing Director

Bos Web SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We used Workfront prior to using Accelo, mainly for project management and retainer management. There is no comparison between the two as Accelo blows it away.

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Chris Osterhout

Vice President of Business Strategy

WSOLInternet, 11-50 employees

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As noted earlier, we're abandoning Daylite and moving to another project management system that a. allows both Mac and PC users b. is cloud-based. We think we could benefit with an company-wide system, and Daylite 6 won't fit the bill. Our group is currently vetting different products, and Teamwork is the top of our list.

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Pattie Covert

Senior Graphic Designer

Membership Marketing Partners, LLCMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

It substantially reduced the number of systems we use to run our business.
It reduced the need to train our staff on a variety of platforms.
It gave us the ability to have a client-facing portal that directly integrates with our backend systems.

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Chris Osterhout

Vice President of Business Strategy

WSOLInternet, 11-50 employees

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Daylite has been very helpful for new employees to answer their own questions about contacts/passwords, etc.
We found the tiny notification bell to be weak, sometimes a project comes in with a tight deadline and we have to double-check and ask an employee if they saw the notification. More time would be saved by just chatting about the project and its expectations.
A huge benefit is the institutional knowledge that can be had by reading past projects. We've tracked everything, so the history is there.

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Pattie Covert

Senior Graphic Designer

Membership Marketing Partners, LLCMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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