ActiveCollab vs Harpoon

• Its billing & invoice feature worked pretty well for T&M teams. ActiveCollab version 5, the current version, allows you to directly track time to tasks using the Timer app and later create invoices based on those time entries. Their statuses will change through phases, as you are pending payment, or after they are set as paid.
• Here cost can be easily assigned to each team member, Team members can start the timer after they start their work, then allows you to export the time records of team members making it easy to complete the billing.
• File sharing feature is very useful for distributed teams as we can we can easily share files, screenshots.
• Also ActiveCollab ability to connect to Google docs, attach images and link to web pages make it unique from other project management tools.
• AC easily allows you to track your daily tasks & serves reminder if miss on the targets defined by giving daily / weekly reminders regarding tasks and any that have gone over due dates.
• ActiveCollab is quite easy to use. With just a few clicks, you can create a new project.
• The dashboard and options are easy to see and it is well laid out.
• Here user have an opportunity to select the number of emails they receive from ActiveCollab and for some email providers, such as Gmail grouping is enabled. So rather than getting multiple mails, it send you a summary of all the daily notifications in one mail.
• It allows users to upload several files at once on task comments, and if you are set with the owner role, or have the member role but are a project leader, you have a Batch Edit option available on project level. This allows you to edit multiple tasks at once and change all the details on them, such as assignee, due dates, labels, importance, and more.

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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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• It does not provide support to scaled agile frameworks like SAfe which is there for Rally & Agilecraft.

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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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• For T& M teams, it is very good tools not only to manage teams but billing & invoicing.
• we are able to generate invoices easily which earlier was a lot of headache & took lot of effort & time to do.
• Whenever we encounter any issue in using any feature of AC, we get lot of support from their support desk.
• Their customer service has been very responsive and helpful throughout.
• Task management is USP of AC. It supports active tracking of our daily tasks & serves reminder if we miss on the targets defined, this helping us keeping on track & meeting the customer SLA's.

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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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