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
Shortcut
Score8.4 out of 10
N/A
Shortcut is a project management platform designed for software development that unites issue tracking, sprint planning, roadmaps and goals. Formerly known as Clubhouse, Shortcut is headquartered in New York City.
$10
per month per user
Pricing
Projector PSA
Shortcut
Editions & Modules
Team Edition
$15
per user
Professional Edition
$25
per user
Enterprise Edition
$30
per user
Team
$10
per month per user
Business
$16
per month per user
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Projector PSA
Shortcut
Free Trial
Yes
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
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Up to a 25% discount for annual pricing.
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Features
Projector PSA
Shortcut
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Projector PSA and Shortcut
Feature
Projector PSA
7.4
11 Ratings
4% below category average
Shortcut
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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 Shortcut
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
Shortcut is very useful to organice your teams, we use it for Devs, Sales, Marketing and Customer Support areas. Each team has different objectives but the topics where 2 or more areas are involved, is when it shines with the categorization, sub-stories and story relationships. Everyone can see the updates and progress of the stories and receive notifications so the communication between the teams flows naturally
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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!
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.
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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.
As I said before Shortcut helped us to implement the SCRUM Methodology in our company we are using it since it was known as Clubhouse.io, the user-friendly interface and flexibility is great
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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.
Shortcut is a more robust platform to organice our teams and, it uses the "kanban model" as trello but the customization and the organization via stories and epices are preferred by our devs
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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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