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    ActiveCollab

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AActive Collab is a project management solution built around features such as task management, collaboration, time tracking, and invoicing.

    $8

    per member/per month

    Teamwork.com

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ATeamwork.com is a project management platform built specifically for client work. The platform helps users deliver work on time and on budget, eliminate client chaos, and understand profitability. Teamwork.com’s customers track and manage their projects with a suite of integrated solutions such as helpdesk, collaboration, knowledge sharing and customer relationship management add-ons, enabling Teamwork.com to be the ‘one-stop shop’ solution for business owners. Teamwork.com…

    $13.99

    per month per user

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    ActiveCollabTeamwork.com
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    ActiveCollab Project Management
    $8
    per member/per month
    Self-Hosted Plan
    $999.00
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    per month per user
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    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup Fee$6.25 per member, per month, annual billingOptional
    Additional Details—A discount is offered for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    ActiveCollabTeamwork.com
    Considered Both Products
    ActiveCollab
    Chose ActiveCollab
    Unfortunately, I find that every single one of these alternatives is a better tool. ActiveCollab is a legacy tool my organisation had in place when I joined because their team had been much smaller and had less need for collaborative views and workload management within a tool …
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    Teamwork
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    60%
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    88%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    60%
    Happy with the feature set
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    92%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    79%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    Features
    ActiveCollabTeamwork.com
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of ActiveCollab and Teamwork.com
    Feature
    ActiveCollab
    3.6
    13 Ratings
    72% below category average
    Teamwork.com
    6.2
    80 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Task Management5.112 Ratings10.080 Ratings
    Resource Management1.08 Ratings6.311 Ratings
    Gantt Charts3.07 Ratings4.471 Ratings
    Scheduling1.011 Ratings5.426 Ratings
    Workflow Automation7.01 Ratings5.322 Ratings
    Team Collaboration6.113 Ratings8.123 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology7.07 Ratings7.115 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology7.01 Ratings8.116 Ratings
    Document Management3.08 Ratings7.171 Ratings
    Email integration4.09 Ratings7.163 Ratings
    Mobile Access1.110 Ratings4.462 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking2.09 Ratings7.123 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management1.08 Ratings2.517 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management2.07 Ratings3.415 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of ActiveCollab and Teamwork.com
    Feature
    ActiveCollab
    5.7
    8 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Teamwork.com
    5.1
    33 Ratings
    40% below category average
    Quotes/estimates6.97 Ratings5.012 Ratings
    Invoicing6.96 Ratings5.012 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting1.07 Ratings5.215 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software7.94 Ratings5.028 Ratings
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    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ActiveCollabTeamwork.com
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.6
    (13 ratings)
    10.0
    (82 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (21 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    8.8
    (27 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ActiveCollabTeamwork.com
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ActiveCollab
    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 in
    the 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.












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    Teamwork
    Teamwork is awesome for teams who need a flexible tool that supports all types of projects. Since it supports kanban it makes visualizing the work to be done and the work in progress very easy. The Gantt chart support is decent and helps to understand how a team is doing when it comes to getting work done in a given time frame. Teamwork isn't a great option for companies that have a bunch of projects going simultaneously due to the way Teamwork structures their billing based on a number of active projects.
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    Pros
    ActiveCollab
    • 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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    Teamwork
    • I am a believer that simple and easy should be the key to create great opportunities.
    • Teamwork has helped me to turn simple task management into the execution of large, massive projects.
    • It has certainly worked great in helping to maintain workflow in my department.
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    Cons
    ActiveCollab
    • 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 teams
    • Subtasks 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 subtask
    • There 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 spreadsheets
    • Kanban 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 person
    • Notifications are not sent when tasks are updated, so you have to leave comments and tag people each time
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    Teamwork
    • Visualization needs to be improved, charts graphs are limited
    • Value stream mapping should be available to determine and prioritize the work.
    • Documentation should be available stepwise with export and printable facility.
    • It should be configurable like ERP with cross functionalities of different users, where users login, assign and approve the work, job or project details, where it should be collectively effected on a project.
    • Add many examples, little more AI, Machine learning required for suggestion and recommendation. It would be a plus point
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ActiveCollab
    No answers on this topic
    Teamwork
    We are already at an annual contract, and have been for the past 5 years; so far the system has delivered, and our personal is already trained in it. A major overhaul of our entire infrastructure (as in moving everything to a single, unified platform) might change the current continuity of Teamwork Projects on our organization, but that's not feasible in the near future.
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    Usability
    ActiveCollab
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    Teamwork
    I give it a 9 out of 10, because there is a bit of a learning curve when you first start using Teamwork Projects because there is a lot to learn & recognize where to find it. They do offer a good range of tools that can be applied to every project - So say you're working on an internal project and don't need Milestones or Billing, you can shut those modules off. This can help simplify the interface for beginners. Once you've had a few days in Teamwork Projects, I think it's a 10/10 usability. It's very easy to accomplish your tasks and keep track of what you're managing.
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    Support Rating
    ActiveCollab
    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.
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    Teamwork
    We've been able to meet with the customer success team on multiple occasions to discuss the roadmap and learn about the company culture. Being based in Ireland, we occasionally have to wait until they wake up to get support requests handled in the states and larger conversations about big enhancement requests were politely collected but not followed up on
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    Alternatives Considered
    ActiveCollab
    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.
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    Teamwork
    I spoke about this quite a bit before, but as far as usability goes, Microsoft Projects is totally useless for me, so I avoid it at all costs. Basecamp was just a task management app and had very small feature set beyond that. We had to rig it to do other things for us, but it failed at that. Asana was a very nice app to trial, but it lacked many of the features that we were looking for.
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    Return on Investment
    ActiveCollab
    • 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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    Teamwork
    • Teamwork was a great starter into project management software. We were WAY more organized and efficient than we ever were with Trello boards and the PM software included with our accounting system.
    • Clients were mostly pleased with interacting with Teamwork, and appreciated the ability to track their comments and requests in one place.
    • Ultimately, we stopped using Teamwork after about 6 months because we need something more focused on web development projects specifically
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    ScreenShots

    ActiveCollab Screenshots

    Screenshot of the dashboard with an overview of projects.Screenshot of multiple task views currently showing a Kanban view of the tasklists and tasks.Screenshot of Overview of all recent activity.Screenshot of Calendar view with task dependencies.Screenshot of Permission settings (owner, member, client, client+).Screenshot of List of available Add-ons.

    Teamwork.com Screenshots

    Screenshot of Project's viewScreenshot of Task viewScreenshot of Board viewScreenshot of Project's tabScreenshot of Calendar view