ArchiOffice vs Pivotal Tracker

ArchiOffice

Archioffice is only suitable for architect and interior design firms.

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Manager in Marketing

Architecture & Planning Company, 1-10 employees

Pivotal Tracker

If you're in a team using an agile workflow, organize your work by sprints, and need a very task-oriented approach to completing work - then Pivotal Tracker should work for you.

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Kyle Taylor

Senior Drupal Developer

LevelTen InteractiveInternet, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

ArchiOffice

4.7

Pivotal Tracker

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Task Management

3.2

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Resource Management

3.0

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Gantt Charts

3.0

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Scheduling

3.1

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Workflow Automation

4.0

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Team Collaboration

3.0

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Support for Agile Methodology

4.0

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Support for Waterfall Methodology

4.0

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Document Management

5.7

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Email integration

2.9

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Mobile Access

3.9

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Timesheet Tracking

8.9

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Change request and Case Management

7.0

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Budget and Expense Management

9.8

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ArchiOffice

8.6

Pivotal Tracker

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Quotes/estimates

5.0

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Invoicing

9.8

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Project & financial reporting

9.8

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Integration with accounting software

9.6

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Pros

Time tracking because you can account for almost every single minute of your day with detailed descriptions attached. The reporting of time came in very good use when clients questioned billing.
Robust billing portal that was pretty customizable.
Could track employee costs well once the correct numbers were placed into the system. Came in very handy for billing and company budgeting and projections.

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Manager in Marketing

Architecture & Planning Company, 1-10 employees

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User story creation and management (discussions around stories)
User story estimations
Grouping stories under epics to show progress
Add blocking tasks or tickets to stories

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Kyle Taylor

Senior Drupal Developer

LevelTen InteractiveInternet, 11-50 employees

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Cons

The overall layout and physical design of the portals could be simplified greatly. The program is anything but intuitive to use.
I found myself clicking what felt like a 1,000 times just to complete one small task. Billing was very cumbersome and the program did not integrate smoothly with Quickbooks as was previously promised.
Saving and making templates for billing etc. was a tedious process that also cost extra!
The program is as good as what you put into it, but they designed the software for a more particular one-sided way to work and manage, so it made customizing a project to your companies methods tricky.
Overall a very cumbersome program that looks as if it was designed at the start of the millennium and note 16 years into it.

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Manager in Marketing

Architecture & Planning Company, 1-10 employees

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Used to have a newsfeed-type feature with all the updates from the previous day. They removed it. I liked getting a snapchat of what changed from before.
When signing up for email alerts, can be inundated with emails for every change to the status of a story.
Communication on stories through the comment section can be a little difficult, and not very organized.

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Roy Maultasch

Project Manager

General AssemblySports, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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Pivotal Tracker10.0

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I love the simplicity, non-configurability, and price/performance of this tool. Hands down my favorite project management tool for agile.

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Project Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Support

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Pivotal Tracker10.0

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Super fast turn around time

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Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I love Harvest, especially compared to Archioffice. It's very intuitive, simply designed and easy to use. Perhaps the billing isn't as robust or customizable as Archi, but I would take it over Archi any day.

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Verified User

Manager in Marketing

Architecture & Planning Company, 1-10 employees

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I personally prefer Pivotal Tracker to Trello, but Trello has it's advantages. Trello, through its card system, allows for more organization at a more specific level than Pivotal Tracker does. Pivotal Tracker has better bug tracking with its status updates, and gives a project manager a better idea of the state of a story.

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Roy Maultasch

Project Manager

General AssemblySports, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

It positively organized our time tracking and the reporting was robust enough to use for client meetings.
It negatively took up more time to do certain tasks that shouldn't be so time consuming.

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Verified User

Manager in Marketing

Architecture & Planning Company, 1-10 employees

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Everything has been positive with this product. It is easy to pick up and dive in.
As far as organization and transparency, I have found no better product.

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Chris Barretto

CTO

CureusPublishing, 1-10 employees

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