Projector's cloud-based Professional Services Automation (PSA) software helps project-based services organizations track time and expenses, invoice clients, schedule resources, and manage projects. Its three modules span a more comprehensive set of uses than typical project management software. The Accounting module helps the user track time and expenses and manage invoices and billing. Also it syncs with the company's accounting systems as a sub-ledger. The Resource Scheduling module matches…
$15
per user
Scoro
Score8 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Scoro is a professional services automation (PSA) software purpose-built for consultancies, agencies, IT firms, architecture companies, and other professional services businesses. It unites projects, resources, and finances in one system, combining functionality for planning, tracking, and billing. Features include: - CRM & pipeline – A complete overview of a sales funnel and upcoming…
$23.90
per month per user
Pricing
Projector PSA
Scoro
Editions & Modules
Team Edition
$15
per user
Professional Edition
$25
per user
Enterprise Edition
$30
per user
Core
$23.90
per month per user
Growth
$38.90
per month per user
Performance
$59.90
per month per user
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Projector PSA
Scoro
Free Trial
Yes
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
Optional
Additional Details
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Up to a 16% discount available for annual pricing.
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Features
Projector PSA
Scoro
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Projector PSA and Scoro
Feature
Projector PSA
7.4
11 Ratings
4% below category average
Scoro
-
Ratings
Task Management
9.510 Ratings
00 Ratings
Resource Management
9.510 Ratings
00 Ratings
Gantt Charts
6.03 Ratings
00 Ratings
Scheduling
8.511 Ratings
00 Ratings
Workflow Automation
9.07 Ratings
00 Ratings
Team Collaboration
7.57 Ratings
00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology
5.82 Ratings
00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology
5.23 Ratings
00 Ratings
Document Management
8.57 Ratings
00 Ratings
Email integration
7.65 Ratings
00 Ratings
Mobile Access
3.77 Ratings
00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking
9.511 Ratings
00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management
5.23 Ratings
00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management
8.19 Ratings
00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Projector PSA and Scoro
We think Projector PSA is a great tool to track and manage people in a professional service environment like management consulting. This system is easy to set up, easy to understand and should easily suit the needs of smaller and medium sized firms. It may be less appropriate for firms that rely very heavily on project management through another system (like MS Project) or firms that rely very heavily on a sales pipeline tracking system. While still very much possible to use, you would (I believe) have to do some re-keying between systems
Scoro would be ideal for a larger business who is truly interested in developing a stronger and more efficient workflow. I honestly would have recommended it had it not been for the cost, the hidden fees, and the fact that I'd have to upgrade to an even more expensive plan if I wanted to get the most of the program for our level. We only needed one item, so would have ended up paying much more to not use a great deal of additional features. So, if you want to increase your workflow and have the funds, use them - absolutely. You will not regret it. But I cannot recommend it to someone who is on a tight budget
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Projector is a very well designed tool for project management. It has allowed us to eliminate a number of auxiliary tools for project timelines and WBS for the vast majority of our projects.
Time and expense entry is intuitive and quick for our staff.
Our forecasting and resource management capability has improved greatly with Projector and allows us to grow our team efficiently with minimal additional administrative burden.
Reporting is extremely robust. It does require some time to really get a handle on the full functionality of the reporting tool, but once you do, you can get almost any kind of report you want out of the system!
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Release management process needs to be improved. Currently no facility is provided to test the impact of new releases in a sand-box. This introduces business risk if there are interfaces into Projector PSA as part of it's use in the business.
Cost. I ended up not recommending this product simply because of the cost alone. There are hidden costs you will not know about until it is too late. Their pricing model is geared for bigger businesses, and can cripple smaller ones. The pricing is by user. If you get the most basic of plans (with a 900 onboarding charge), you will realize that all the things you actually need to make the program effective are on the next tier up...
Quickbooks. At the time I was exploring this, Quickbooks was not very well integrated. If you wanted to include billing (which they do show promise for), then you will have issues here.
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We have been using this tool for a year now and find our use of it continually evolves and broadens. We are also very excited about the overhaul that's under way and feel many of the improvements being put in place will help make us that much more effective and efficient. The Projector team is also very responsive and collaborative in terms of user feedback and improvement suggestions, which helps us know they will work hard to help us get what we need out of the tool.
We did pursue Quick Arrow another tool that was similar. We found that be in inflexible in use. Projector allows a lot of flexibility in setup. Our organization has very specific business processes and we were able to set up Projector to work with those processes. Several other systems we tried were not as flexible in allowing set up to our needs.
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Even in the small time that I stayed to see Projector PSA reporting I saw ROI projections become more realistic. There was real data to analyze that proved we were spending way too much and charging way too less on some projects.
Although employees were not used at entering their hours, this single reporting improved operations management and validated employees concerns that more people were needed to manage workload
Project proposals were more realistic because they were driven by real data.
Decision making overall for the department became more efficient and effective
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Scoro could have had a wonderful impact on the workflow of the business. It allows for integrations most programs don't, including accounting and time tracking, and could have easily eliminated the need for an FTE through the streamlining of tasks alone.
If we had implemented this program, we would have saved time, but all of the gains would have gone to pay for Scoro. It would not have balanced out, especially if they ever were to raise their rates.
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