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Scenarios where ActiveCollab works well 1) ActiveCollab works well for small teams specifically T&M teams.Its invoicing feature is unique & can make your life easy. 2) It is very easy to use & posses good range of filters like on the task list, we can drag/drop tasks, Filter by assignee's,tasks lists, due dates, or completed tasks. 3) It has some simple but awesome features like when you're inthe middle of writing something i.e a comment on story and get interrupted,it retains what you wrote. 4) It allows you to tag team members in threads of comments to grab their attention, its really needed when teams are distributed. Thus helping team members to collaborate easily & stay on same page. 5) It integrates pretty well with other web apps like quickbooks , Slack, Trello, HubSpot, Zapier etc Scenarios where ActiveCollab did not work well 1) Tasks can not have multiple assignee's here so if two members are working on same task it did not allow you to reflect that. 2) Sorting capability is not their under invoicing 3) It did not work well for larger teams 4) Search option is not very detailed & you may end up wasting lot of time searching one particular bug or issue. Incentivized
Expesite seems to be a good program for a client to communicate with their general contractor. It allows the GC to log in to one portal to handle all forms of communication rather than having to email certain things and use DocuSign for others and follow up via email to make sure that tasks are completed.Incentivized
Great for project and task assignments, project workflow and communications.Solid web-based platform that doesn't require software downloads, also includes great mobile platform.Great reporting tools for managing billing, estimating, project workflow and other essential project details.Allows for both the agency and its clients to interact on a single platform using role-specific permissions.Incentivized
Provides a dashboard where you can see all jobs that are going on with a particular client.Makes submitting and tracking change order requests simple.Makes tracking the status of pay applications simple.Incentivized
It isn't possible to set members of staff as part time, so if someone is unavailable on certain days you must manually enter them as OOO every single day that they are not in, that other teammates work. Hours also can't be edited individually - everyone is treated as working the same hours in a day, rendering capacity planner useless for flexi working teamsSubtasks cannot be assigned their own hours and deadlines, meaning the To Do list view can't be seen in actual date order and capacity planner does not reflect all time allocated to an individual's schedule unless every task is set up as a separate task rather than subtaskThere is no way to see all tasks of a certain type across multiple campaigns (e.g all copywriting tasks vs all technical tasks) - support team suggested exporting data and making spreadsheetsKanban view isn't available for people's own task lists ('board' view here shows a list)Not possible to have one task be assigned to more than one personNotifications are not sent when tasks are updated, so you have to leave comments and tag people each time
User-friendliness. My biggest gripe about Expesite is that nothing is intuitive. I wouldn't intuitively think to look for anything in the place that I can actually find it. For example, why would I go to my "inbox" to see where all of my jobs are? I would think that would be what the dashboard would be for.I understand it's a security measure, but changing the password so frequently gets challenging and this is the only program that I use that it changes as often as it does..Finding documents on Expesite is a nightmare. As a GC I need to be able to quickly log in and see if there are any brand new documents that I should be aware of, and perhaps I'm just using it wrong, but I haven't found any easy way to do that. It's very frustrating to have to dig through all of the files to figure out what has been updated.Incentivized
We have not required support for ActiveCollab as it works pretty seamlessly. We didn't have any issues with using the platform or with any billing issues. The self-service aspect of the platform is robust and easy to navigate so we have not encountered any errors that required assistance from the support team.Incentivized
ActiveCollab is easier to use and simpler in its setup. It has the right mix of features and simplicity. It's also project-oriented which is important for our workflow. Other tools are often too task-oriented, making it hard to track projects. Overall, ActiveCollab has a great mix of simplicity with good features.Incentivized
Allows our team to stay organized and keep conversations on tasks.The To-Do List email every morning helps me mentally prepare and know exactly what I should be doing as soon as I start work.Powerful and useful integrations save lots of time (Google Drive, Slack, Dropbox, Zapier and more!).Incentivized
It has made communicating with our important clients easier by centralizing the communication.It has made submitting change order requests quick and simple.It has helped to speed up the accounting process because we can log in at a glance and see a status.Incentivized