What users are saying about

Accelo vs Podio

Accelo
37 Ratings
Podio
117 Ratings

Accelo

37 Ratings
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Score 8.7 out of 100

Based on 37 reviews and ratings

Podio

117 Ratings
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Score 8.6 out of 100

Based on 117 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

    Project Management

    Accelo

    Feature Set Not Supported
    N/A
    8.7

    Podio

    87%
    Citrix Podio ranks higher in 14/14 features
    Citrix Podio ranks higher in 14/14 features

    Task Management

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.0
    90%
    23 Ratings

    Resource Management

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.4
    84%
    20 Ratings

    Gantt Charts

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.3
    83%
    8 Ratings

    Scheduling

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.3
    83%
    20 Ratings

    Workflow Automation

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.8
    88%
    24 Ratings

    Team Collaboration

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.7
    87%
    25 Ratings

    Support for Agile Methodology

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.0
    90%
    14 Ratings

    Support for Waterfall Methodology

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.4
    94%
    11 Ratings

    Document Management

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.1
    81%
    21 Ratings

    Email integration

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.0
    90%
    21 Ratings

    Mobile Access

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.9
    89%
    21 Ratings

    Timesheet Tracking

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.1
    81%
    13 Ratings

    Change request and Case Management

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.5
    85%
    18 Ratings

    Budget and Expense Management

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.6
    86%
    15 Ratings

    Professional Services Automation

    Accelo

    Feature Set Not Supported
    N/A
    8.7

    Podio

    87%
    Citrix Podio ranks higher in 4/4 features
    Citrix Podio ranks higher in 4/4 features

    Quotes/estimates

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    9.0
    90%
    8 Ratings

    Invoicing

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.9
    89%
    9 Ratings

    Project & financial reporting

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.0
    80%
    9 Ratings

    Integration with accounting software

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.9
    89%
    6 Ratings

    Attribute Ratings

    • Accelo is rated higher in 4 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability, Performance, Support Rating
    • Citrix Podio is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Renew

    Likelihood to Recommend

    8.8

    Accelo

    88%
    8 Ratings
    8.3

    Podio

    83%
    41 Ratings

    Likelihood to Renew

    9.0

    Accelo

    90%
    1 Rating
    9.1

    Podio

    91%
    17 Ratings

    Usability

    7.0

    Accelo

    70%
    1 Rating
    6.0

    Podio

    60%
    2 Ratings

    Availability

    Accelo

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    8.0

    Podio

    80%
    8 Ratings

    Performance

    10.0

    Accelo

    100%
    2 Ratings
    8.0

    Podio

    80%
    4 Ratings

    Support Rating

    7.5

    Accelo

    75%
    5 Ratings
    7.0

    Podio

    70%
    10 Ratings

    Implementation Rating

    Accelo

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    7.0

    Podio

    70%
    2 Ratings

    Product Scalability

    Accelo

    N/A
    0 Ratings
    10.0

    Podio

    100%
    2 Ratings

    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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    Charles Fashana, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Charles Fashana, MBA
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    Podio

    [Citrix Podios's] customer support is very quick and they provide you an option to convert your
    project into small tasks so that you can better assist your team and extract
    maximum work out of them hence I will totally recommend its usage. I could not think that keeping track of tasks could be this much easier and smart. It is a fully customizable tool that manages my tasks efficiently and deal with them effectively.

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    Gill Riskoff | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Podio

    • Very easy for people without coding or technical skills to set up and maintain information in "Apps".
    • Platform is very easy to learn and adopt--it's intuitive.
    • Project management potential is awesome--instead of having to fit your projects into a structure that is industry specific, you can build an app that tracks what you want, in the order you want it.
    • Has a "relationship" field that allows you to relate an individual item or record to a record in another app. It effectively gives some of the functionality of a relational database.
    • Very useful for information sharing when staff members are in different regions or places.

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    Amy Smoucha | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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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    Johnson Martins | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Johnson Martins
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    Podio

    • More filter options for calendars.
    • Customizable views for Relation fields.
    • Full featured Podio mobile App for iPad.
    • A customizable profile status – would love to work with Podio in silent mode (logged in while working, but "not available" for requests when in heavy work mode)

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    Jan Florian Maas | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Jan Florian Maas
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    Pricing Details

    Accelo

    General

    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    —
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level set up fee?
    Optional

    Starting Price

    $39 per user

    Accelo Editions & Modules

    Edition
    Projects (Per Month on Annual Contract)$391
    Sales (Per Month on Annual Contract)$391
    Retainers (Per Month on Annual Contract)$391
    Service (Per Month on Annual Contract)$391
    ServOps (Per Month on Annual Contract)$791
    1. per user
    Additional Pricing Details
    ServOps is the all-in-one solution which includes Projects, Retainers, Sales and Service together.

    Podio

    General

    Free Trial
    —
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    —
    Entry-level set up fee?
    No

    Starting Price

    $9 per month

    Podio Editions & Modules

    —
    Additional Pricing Details
    A discount is available for annual pricing.

    Likelihood to Renew

    Accelo

    Accelo 9.0
    Based on 1 answer
    Looking forward to seeing more refinement of features provided and upcoming features promised :)

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    Brendon O'Sullivan | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Brendon O'Sullivan
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    Podio

    Podio 9.1
    Based on 17 answers
    Podio customer service is great. The cloud and mobile service is fast (almost instant, continuous syncing). With a solid user base, and backed by Citrix, this is a serious business solution. They're also constantly working on improving and making it more powerful. I anticipate it only getting better

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    Nando Cabán-Méndez | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Nando Cabán-Méndez
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    Usability

    Accelo

    Accelo 7.0
    Based on 1 answer
    No answer on this topic is available.

    Podio

    Podio 6.0
    Based on 2 answers
    It is usable, for sure. Requires a bit of thinking to be really useful.

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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Verified User
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    Reliability and Availability

    Accelo

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Podio

    Podio 8.0
    Based on 8 answers
    I have not experienced any down time

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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Verified User
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    Performance

    Accelo

    Accelo 10.0
    Based on 2 answers
    No answer on this topic is available.

    Podio

    Podio 8.0
    Based on 4 answers
    It works all the time and if I have a question, support get back to me ASAP

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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Verified User
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    Support Rating

    Accelo

    Accelo 7.5
    Based on 5 answers
    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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    Charles Fashana, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Charles Fashana, MBA
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    Podio

    Podio 7.0
    Based on 10 answers
    Podio support was always responsive and very quick to provide answers and assistance during the history of using this product, their support team has always been top notch. There have been several cases where calling podio support a feature was not available and they provided either workaround solutions or added the features straight into their roadmap.

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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Implementation Rating

    Accelo

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Podio

    Podio 7.0
    Based on 2 answers
    Could of got more help sooner and mapped out structure after the 1st month. Future planning

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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Verified User
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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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    Ryan Freeman | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Podio

    Compared to Salesforce: Podio is not as robust as a tool for CRM tracking. It also doesn't have the in-email capabilities that SF offers. Compared to Basecamp: Podio is somewhat similar to Basecamp but doesn't offer the same functionality with checking items off and archiving projects.Compared to Zoho Projects: Podio is vastly superior to Zoho Project's lack of flexibility (requiring a development team to build) and accessibility by all members (Zoho Projects requires a very limited number of "owners" of projects which makes it difficult if multiple owners need to assign one or more people to a project).

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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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    Scalability

    Accelo

    No score
    No answers yet
    No answers on this topic

    Podio

    Podio 10.0
    Based on 2 answers
    As you business grows, so does Podio. There seems to be no limit to the workspace and apps you can create on the platform

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    Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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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    Chris Osterhout | TrustRadius Reviewer
    Chris Osterhout
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    Podio

    • Podio is great for task assignment and tracking. The ability to enter and assign tasks from mobile and track their completion saves me several phone calls a day.
    • Podio outdoes email as my go to place to search for information. The ability to forward emails into the system, organize by projects and contacts, and search it all saves considerable time and confusion.
    • Podio has considerable potential to reduce overall admin time spent organizing information (filing, tracking, etc) The ability to keep a single record of a given piece of information without being tied to email vs file structure works very well.

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    Keller Baum | TrustRadius Reviewer
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