ActiveCollab vs OpenText Hightail

• 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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• Easily send a large PDF to a contact
• Track when the email is received and when the document is download, even if more than one person downloads it
• Website is fast and it doesn't take long to upload and send files

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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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• It would be nice to track who is downloading, not just unknown.
• Files often expire within a few days, it would be nice if they lasted longer. We sometimes have to resend if the client didn't click right away.

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• 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!).

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• We use Hightail for sending out proposals to prospects. It is a major part of that process for us.
• Hightail is one of the first touchpoints a client has with the agency.

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