AceProject vs Avaza

AceProject

It is well suited if you have a specific work force or are working in a production or an assembly line style environment. It is also well suited if you have small teams that have to get out a certain amount of product in set periods of time. AceProjects is great for monitoring how long each individual spent on their specific task and subsequently how long the team took to complete their work.

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Kyle Culpepper

Project Manager

FACTS EngineeringElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 11-50 employees

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Avaza

We are a pretty unique business because we deal with bookkeeping, marketing, and HR and across all 3 departments, we have been able to successfully use the tool. Other software we have tried usually caters to one industry at a time.

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Veronica M Duckett

Managing Partner

MAVENTRIMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

AceProject

3.2

Avaza

8.9

Task Management

5.0

10.0

Resource Management

6.0

9.0

Gantt Charts

3.0

8.0

Scheduling

4.0

8.4

Workflow Automation

1.0

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Team Collaboration

5.0

8.3

Support for Agile Methodology

1.0

—

Support for Waterfall Methodology

1.0

—

Document Management

1.0

—

Email integration

2.0

9.5

Mobile Access

1.0

8.0

Timesheet Tracking

8.0

9.7

Change request and Case Management

4.0

—

Budget and Expense Management

3.0

9.5

AceProject

2.0

Avaza

8.3

Project & financial reporting

2.0

8.5

Quotes/estimates

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8.0

Invoicing

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8.5

Pros

Time Tracking
Resource allocation
Easy to implement, small adoption curve.

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Kyle Culpepper

Project Manager

FACTS EngineeringElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 11-50 employees

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Project Management - Creating projects and tasks is really easy
Timesheets - Logging time is super quick and simple.

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Veronica M Duckett

Managing Partner

MAVENTRIMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Cons

Expand on data tracking
Improve report generation
Break out from just being a time clock manager.

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Kyle Culpepper

Project Manager

FACTS EngineeringElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 11-50 employees

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Recurring Projects - Right now you can create recurring tasks with a project, but if you have a project that recurs monthly with a client, as we do, you have to manually create it. Ideally, we want to be able to have this happen automatically.
Xero Integration - If you create an invoice based on hours, you aren't able to adjust the inventory type. Also, for the integration, you are not able to have endless inventory types mapped to GL accounts in Xero. You can only have one catch-all if you are creating invoices from timesheets.
Stripe/ACH Integration - Since it already integrates with Stripe to accept payments, it would be great if the user can choose ACH through Stripe instead of just Credit Card. The functionality already exists on the Stripe end, but it has not been integrated with Avaza, yet! Recurring payment options would be great as well.
Estimates - It would be awesome if invoices worked more like Quotes or Proposals where the client can choose an option, accept and provide a signature.

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Veronica M Duckett

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MAVENTRIMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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Avaza10.0

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Because it has been amazing and easy to work with.

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MAVENTRIMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Support

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Avaza10.0

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They are always available and open to doing a call or a shared screen to walk through the issues.

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MAVENTRIMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Kyle Culpepper

Project Manager

FACTS EngineeringElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 11-50 employees

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This is miles ahead of ActiveCollab. It has more features, the interface is easier to use and the invoicing is easier to use. Across the board better. We migrated from ActiveCollab, but that was just essentially a Fancier Wunderlist. If you just need one project and a few tasks it works, but for company use, it is overly complex, yet missing a lot of features as well.

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Veronica M Duckett

Managing Partner

MAVENTRIMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

We were able to track our production teams work and refine our methods to improve deliverable dates.
Once our staff reached a certain size the capability of the software began to lag. Diminishing returns.
The lack of reporting features made data regression and extrapolation difficult.

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Kyle Culpepper

Project Manager

FACTS EngineeringElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 11-50 employees

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It has streamlined a lot of our work.
It keeps us, as admins, in the know with all the projects for our team.

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Veronica M Duckett

Managing Partner

MAVENTRIMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

AceProject

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

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Additional Pricing Details

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Avaza

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Additional Pricing Details

Basic Integrations are available (via Zapier) for free, whereas Advanced Integrations with Quickbooks Online and Xero are available as an add-on (at $20 USD per month per integration) on paid plans.