Likelihood to Recommend It is well suited to my job requirements as I bring employees in, and I help offboard them as well. This tool helps me when I need to make sure all items are completed by a certain time frame, so I would say it holds us accountable. Someone who doesn't manage a group of people may not find this as useful when dealing with others but could use it for their own accountability when needing to track their accomplishments.
Read full review If you've never used software before and have low expectations, then you might be able to make it work out.
Abe Degnan President & Owner | Green Building Specialist | Energy Efficient Remodeler | Residential Designer
Read full review Pros It helps make various workspaces. Each workspace can be used for a different set of task management and can be shared with the people involved. Creating task lists. We can create various task lists, the list title could be the status of the task, for example, In progress, approval, completed, etc. You can slide your task cards from one list title to another. Trello cards have a huge set of features like adding the heading and description of the task, you can also attach certain associated links and documents to the cards as well. Read full review The beautiful user interface. It looks good. Their videos are professional. They have webinars. Abe Degnan President & Owner | Green Building Specialist | Energy Efficient Remodeler | Residential Designer
Read full review Cons Allow tables as content for comment or description in Cards Assign priority to certain cards (easy for sorting) Create an open invite link for others to join/view the Trello board, without edit rights (so people don't need to install/use Trello if they want a quick glance on what's going on) Read full review Their spell checker creates a squiggly line to tell you that you have a misspelled word, but, doesn't allow you to correct it. The spell checker lets you add custom words to a dictionary, but, it can only use one dictionary at a time to check spelling. So the default dictionary gets used, and your custom words still show up as being spelled wrong! You can't select-copy addresses, in order to paste them somewhere else. Using duplexing on my printer doesn't work right. It works for every other software I own, but not in UDA. There is a bug in the WIP date range that doesn't pull accurate data. "Options" in the estimate show only cost, not margin. So if you show your customer that report, you are revealing cost info, not selling price!! You can't import a PDF into bid notes, even though the premise of UDA is to try to make it a single repository for all your information. You can't use the arrow key to browse photos in UDA. You need to close, and click into the next one. No inuitive functionality. The estimating module separates material and labor, in ways that create a very confusing Scope of Work. You need to select the labor item from your database, then separately select the material from your database. You end up with two line items in your Scope of Work for the same thing. Instead of writing, "Supply and Install a new window" you have "Supply a new window" and then "Install a new window." It's hard for my estimator, and confusing for my client. UDA will WREAK HAVOC on your contacts in Outlook. It does a terrible job of managing husband/wife or partner/partner situations. You can't mail merge them properly, or, you get forced into combining their contact into into a single contact-- and then how do you know whether the cell phone is his or hers??? There is no good way to credit design fees against the construction contract, if you happen to use that paradigm for your contracts. There is no way to filter contracts by their date created. So, how do you find your newest contacts for entering them into something such as Constant Contact? If you try to use integration of QuickBooks(QB) and UDA, your ITEMS list in QB will either get expanded to hundreds or even THOUSANDS of items... or, your POs in QB will get created in a summary form such that they are virtually meaningless. The "lead funnel" graphic may look cool, but there is not a good way to actually report on the lead status, track the activities and calls that you make, note significant emails that you write, or keep track of when you send out thank-you cards or spiffs/gifts! They might tell you that these things work, but, after spending MONTHS with UDA, I found out that these problems are deal breakers. Within their customer service department, the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. They do not use a structure such as Zendesk that so many other great companies use. Even though I was paying for priority support, there were often days going by where I could not get a call or email back to assist me with a support request or provide a tutorial on how to do something. Had I not paid extra for support, this would be acceptable. But when paying for "TotalCare" priority support, there are times when the software had me stuck, and I was stuck for a day at a time waiting for an answer. Sometimes no answer ever arrived. Abe Degnan President & Owner | Green Building Specialist | Energy Efficient Remodeler | Residential Designer
Read full review Likelihood to Renew I am very likely to renew Trello, because it doesn't cost anything to do so. I am also very likely to use Trello's upgraded features in the future because a lot of my team's data is stored on there and they have already gotten used to the platform. Trello is very easy for new team members to pick up, making the onboarding and usability very streamlined.
Read full review Usability Overall, Trello is a great tool to use. It's very user-friendly, very powerful and we've set it up to work well for our team. I've recommended it to others who need something free or very cheap and it's worked well for them too. If you're wanting something with more muscle, then I'd suggest looking at either
monday.com or
Airtable .
Read full review Support Rating I haven't had much need to contact their support because the product is easy to use and pretty bug-free. I did reach out to them about swimlanes and I was able to find the information I needed very quickly and it was thorough and accurate information about current functionality. I love that they use their own product. That's always a good sign.
Read full review Implementation Rating For our small business, getting a few of us started well on Trello was the key, I think. As long as a couple of us were really comfortable with the interface, we could lead others and help them with any questions. From now on, anyone who works with us just naturally uses Trello for information sharing - it's just part of what we do.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Trello is easy for a non-technical person to use. Other management systems, like
MS Project , frighten away less computer-savvy users. I've found this to be instrumental in getting volunteers to agree to step in and get fully involved with projects--particularly those that might span the entire year or involve many different pieces to completion.
Read full review QuickBooks has great quality assurance and while they don't provide support, their software is nearly flawless. Co-construct provides great support and solves problems. In comparison, UDA Construction Suite is full of flaws, and their customer service department is disorganized and overworked.
Abe Degnan President & Owner | Green Building Specialist | Energy Efficient Remodeler | Residential Designer
Read full review Return on Investment Trello keeps me organized, focused, and on track. I could filter the Trello board to only see my issues and understand what I needed to work on and when. Trello helped our team implement an agile structure. It's a very simple kanban method of viewing all of your team's tasks and statuses. You can completely customize the columns to your team's specific workflow and create tags relevant to your work. Trello helps reduce unnecessary communications between teams. When I want to request translations, I simply create a card on the localization Trello board -- no need to directly message anyone on the team, and I can watch the status of the card change from "in progress" to "in review" to "translated," all without having to directly ask for updates. Read full review All my money was wasted. I could not get a refund. All my time was wasted. I spent much time on customer support, and even more time "stuck" where customer support could not be reached. My staff time was wasted, because it was hard for them to implement and then we ultimately abandoned it. Abe Degnan President & Owner | Green Building Specialist | Energy Efficient Remodeler | Residential Designer
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