ActiveCollab vs Harpoon

Likelihood to Recommend

Active Collab is great for small teams who want a web-based project management platform to help them on their day-to-day workflow tasks, billing, estimations, vendor assignments and even client communications. It is also great for agencies with users who are sometimes remotely working. Active Collab starts to show shortcomings when you have an immense amount of projects in the system (1000+), and, being a web-based platform, can sometimes experience downtime.

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Jorden Beatty

Digital Marketing Director

LGD CommunicationsMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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If you're freelancing or running a small marketing agency, I'll steer you strongly towards Harpoon. It's such a terrific fit for this business type. It provides easy invoice management so if that's all you care about, use Harpoon this way. If you want a tool that will guide you towards success, Harpoon helps you do this when launching your account. Know what you want to earn, what it takes to get there, and how you're doing along the way. What financial software for freelancers provides simple project tools? Harpoon.

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Jason Montoya

Virtual Chief Growth Officer (CGO)

JasonScottMontoya.comMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

ActiveCollab

7.2

Harpoon

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Task Management

8.8

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Resource Management

7.3

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Gantt Charts

5.8

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Scheduling

6.6

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Workflow Automation

7.0

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Team Collaboration

8.4

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Support for Agile Methodology

6.8

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Support for Waterfall Methodology

7.0

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Document Management

9.0

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Email integration

8.0

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Mobile Access

6.6

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Timesheet Tracking

8.5

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Change request and Case Management

4.9

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Budget and Expense Management

6.8

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ActiveCollab

5.9

Harpoon

—

Quotes/estimates

5.3

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Invoicing

5.8

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Project & financial reporting

7.8

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Integration with accounting software

4.8

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Pros

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.

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Jorden Beatty

Digital Marketing Director

LGD CommunicationsMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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Makes Sending Invoices & Collecting Payment Easy, for Freelancers
Tracking Financial Goals (Monthly & Annual) & Projecting Future Results
Provides Insights On AR, Earned Income, Top Clients, and other helpful but highly relevant data points.

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Jason Montoya

Virtual Chief Growth Officer (CGO)

JasonScottMontoya.comMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Cons

They don' do Gantt charts well
Integrations aren't awesome yet
They don't have task dependencies

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Chris Lesner

Founder & CEO

Project World ImpactInternet, 11-50 employees

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The automatic expense management is basic. It does sync with banks, but I've had some duplicate entry issues that are being worked out of the system.
I'd like to see additional reports that dive deeper into some of the dashboard widgets.

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Jason Montoya

Virtual Chief Growth Officer (CGO)

JasonScottMontoya.comMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

ActiveCollab is 100% better than any of the other tools we have used. We had previously spent thousands of dollars trying out different software that was comparable, but this has been one of the best decisions we have made as a company. It's also the cheapest ongoing option, especially if you get the self-hosted version.

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Chris Lesner

Founder & CEO

Project World ImpactInternet, 11-50 employees

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I've used Less Accounting and & Quickbooks Online. After Less Accounting was acquired, its development was mostly stopped. While the tool was a simple way to manage invoices and expenses, its directional philosophy changed with the new owners. Quickbooks Online was a solid tool, but the company support was unhelpful and hard to work with at times. Harpoon provides a great tool, with a company that cares about its users.

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Jason Montoya

Virtual Chief Growth Officer (CGO)

JasonScottMontoya.comMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Return on Investment

We began to finish projects on time, which undoubtedly will influence the return of customers

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Иван Шайхисламов

CEO

Remeslo Branding agencyDesign, 1-10 employees

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Clear and precise visibility of my financial status.
Projections of how I'm doing today, this month, and this year.
Clarity on what needs to happen with client development to reach my goals.
It shrinks the amount of time I spend on getting clients to pay my invoices.

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Jason Montoya

Virtual Chief Growth Officer (CGO)

JasonScottMontoya.comMarketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

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Member annually	6.25¹
Addition - Get Paid Bundle Annually	$3¹
Addition - Get Paid Bundle Monthly	$4²
Member monthly	$7²

ActiveCollab

Harpoon

Likelihood to Recommend

ActiveCollab

Harpoon

Feature Rating Comparison

Task Management

Resource Management

Gantt Charts

Scheduling

Workflow Automation

Team Collaboration

Support for Agile Methodology

Support for Waterfall Methodology

Document Management

Email integration

Mobile Access

Timesheet Tracking

Change request and Case Management

Budget and Expense Management

Quotes/estimates

Invoicing

Project & financial reporting

Integration with accounting software

Pros

ActiveCollab

Harpoon

Cons

ActiveCollab

Harpoon

Alternatives Considered

ActiveCollab

Harpoon

Return on Investment

ActiveCollab

Harpoon

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

ActiveCollab Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

SaaS Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Harpoon Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

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