Accelo vs. Brightpod

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Accelo
Score 8.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Accelo provides cloud-based Professional Services Automation (PSA) software designed to unify and streamline client, project, resource, and financial management for service-based businesses. By centralizing operations into a single, intuitive platform, Accelo eliminates the need for fragmented tools, delivering a comprehensive solution that improves efficiency, transparency, and collaboration across teams. Serving industries such as consulting, engineering, architecture, IT…N/A
Brightpod
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Brightpod is a cloud-based project, task and content management software built with marketing & creative teams in mind. Brightpod helps bring visibility to all the work across teams. With Brightpod, teams can create workflows, delegate tasks, setup their editorial calendar, and manage digital content strategies in the cloud. A few practical uses include i) collaboration on an upcoming social media campaign, ii) keeping a working editorial calendar, iii) creating workflows to help similar…
$19
per month
Pricing
AcceloBrightpod
Editions & Modules
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Brightpod
$19.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AcceloBrightpod
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Features
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Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Accelo
-
Ratings
Brightpod
8.0
2 Ratings
6% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Team Collaboration00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Document Management00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
Email integration00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
AcceloBrightpod
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(8 ratings)
8.0
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.9
(3 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(3 ratings)
6.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AcceloBrightpod
Likelihood to Recommend
Accelo
Accelo is a system that can do it all. It's extremely sophisticated. Depending on the sophistication of your organization, or specifically the abilities of the people you put in charge of the implementation, it can almost be too sophisticated. It all just depends on your situation. The more you use it, the more data you give it, the more you'll be able to see and do. It's incredibly powerful. But it's definitely not a tool that would be appropriate for smaller boutique type organizations that have only basic needs.
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Brightpod
I like Brightpod. We used their previous product, DeskAway, which we actually liked a bit more for our needs (cannot remember why now as we've found workarounds over the last three years!). It is good for us, and we need to organize multiple task lists for multiple clients. We need to be able to monitor task progression and completion, as well as to track time by resource. We need to prioritize and focus our resources, and we need to review time tracking/performance reports. All possible in Brightpod. We especially like the access we can give to clients, which is on a task list basis, so they can see some task lists in their pod but not others, which allows us to not overwhelm them with unnecessary info, but at the same time, accomplish the detailed tracking we need.
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Pros
Accelo
  • Timing Client Work: You are able to better manage your time on your clients.
  • Housing Client Info in one Area: You can view all you need for any given client in one area.
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Brightpod
  • A very visually pleasing layout of projects in a Kanban style view.
  • Keeps all communication on a task or project in one place, so that everyone is on the same page.
  • Great template system for recurring projects like onboarding or deploying a specific service that has a defined timeline.
  • Flexile recurring tasks.
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Cons
Accelo
  • Accelo is excellent on the adaptation to its deep functionalities.
  • Managing multiple project is very challenging.
  • Not easy to collect multiple reports across platforms.
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Brightpod
  • Reports.
  • Team Member workload.
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Likelihood to Renew
Accelo
Looking forward to seeing more refinement of features provided and upcoming features promised :)
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Brightpod
It's working very well for our organization.
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Usability
Accelo
No answers on this topic
Brightpod
Brightpod is easy to use. We have several levels of users, some are from outside the USA and some are here. We needed something that could be used by programmers, coders, technical project managers, marketing individuals, and administrators. We get a thumbs up from all these user types. The system is hardly ever down, so we are able to use 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
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Support Rating
Accelo
From the beginning the Accelo team has been very invested in ensuring our success and overall happiness with the platform. The initial implementation specialists and trainers did a fairly good job of learning our company and needs, and tried to tailor the trainings accordingly. However, once we made the formal switch to the platform, meaning we no longer were using our legacy systems, we found that we had a lot of questions....and a lot of ideas and recommendations. The support team is extremely responsive and seemingly happy to receive our continual feedback. And if we encounter an issue that seems to be a system issue, they work diligently to fix it (we've actually had an engineer join a call with us to learn of the issue - and subsequently fix it)
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Brightpod
Customer Support was fast and helpful.
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Implementation Rating
Accelo
No answers on this topic
Brightpod
SaaS is the way forward :)
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Alternatives Considered
Accelo
Accelo doesn't really exceed any competitors in any one area of their product, but in 2015 when we made the move this was the best option that included all the tools we wanted. However, user adoption was low in some areas due to the UI, so we scaled back Accelo and added other tools.
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Brightpod
Brightpod was definitely the most attractive and we felt like it had the least amount of clutter. We hated how Wrike handled recurring tasks. ActiveCollab just seemed to have some complexity that we didn't need. The Brightpod developers are very responsive and were able to fix bugs quickly.
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Return on Investment
Accelo
  • 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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Brightpod
  • Increased employee efficiency
  • Ability to have remote teams
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ScreenShots

Accelo Screenshots

Screenshot of the PSA / Platform - a client profileScreenshot of the included CRM functionality, used to communicate, track and engage with leads and clientsScreenshot of the Sales interface, providing lead management functionalityScreenshot of quote creation, where users can compose, modify and send professional work proposalsScreenshot of projects, the interface to plan, manage and collaborate on client deliverablesScreenshot of ticket generation, where users can submit, monitor and complete ad-hoc work requests