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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Upland PSA

    Score5.8 out of 10
    N/AUpland PSA helps professional services teams grow their business.

    $15

    per month

    Worksection

    Score10 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Worksection is a project management platform that brings tasks, planning, time tracking, team communication, and file storage into a single system. It provides task and subtask management, Gantt charts, Kanban boards, and a calendar for planning; built-in time tracking with hourly rates for client billing; per-task discussions, role-based access permissions, and reporting dashboards. Pricing is charged per user, with a free plan for up to five users. It is used by teams of 5 to 50+ employees in…

    $5

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Upland PSAWorksection
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Free
    $0
    Basic
    $5
    per month per user
    Business
    $10
    per month per user
    Premium
    $15
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Upland PSAWorksection
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—All paid plans are priced per user. Annual billing −25%; 2-year billing −30%. Free plan for teams of up to 5 users.
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    Features
    Upland PSAWorksection
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Upland PSA and Worksection
    Feature
    Upland PSA
    -
    Ratings
    Worksection
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Upland PSA and Worksection
    Feature
    Upland PSA
    -
    Ratings
    Worksection
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Planview AdaptiveWork
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    Microsoft To Do
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    User Ratings
    Upland PSAWorksection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (11 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Upland PSAWorksection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Upland Software
    We have discovered over the last few years using Tenrox that we could adapt our needs or processes to fit in the Tenrox box rather than adapting Tenrox to fit in ours completely. I feel like Tenrox would be better suited for a company that has fewer clients and projects over the course of a year, as well as fewer users. We have approximately 350 clients, 21,077 projects in Tenrox at this exact moment (we close projects as we can), 188 active users currently, and 415,635 tasks (some of course assigned to now closed projects).
    With this much information hosted through the Tenrox cloud server, we experience increased lag time frequently. This causes a lot of unwanted rejection towards Tenrox in our company.
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    Worksection
    I can prescribe Worksection for computerized offices, for organizations that consider the season of their representatives and who pitch time to their clients
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    Pros
    Upland Software
    • We love that our timesheets are pre-populated with all our employee's assigned contracts and we get to control what is on their timesheet as far as funder and contract codes.
    • Tenrox did very well with our integration and getting a timesheet that exports well with our payroll provider.
    • Tenrox has a great email reminder system for when people need to submit or approve timesheets.
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    Worksection
    • I like adaptable assignments and subtasks, extended security for errands and remarks (since we are working with our customers inside Worksection) and inherent clock with hourly rates.
    • Worksection encourages us to break down complex undertaking into assignments and subtasks, set due dates and control time spent.
    • We additionally share reports from Worksection to our customers, it encourages us to assemble straightforward relations with our customers. What's more, we figure pay for our representative in view of these reports.
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    Cons
    Upland Software
    • Tax calculation per state tax rules. Tenrox's current capabilities relative to tax codes is extremely limited and we have to do several time-consuming work-arounds in order to apply the tax as needed for our business. What is particularly frustrating about this aspect is that our need is based on tax laws and codes set by states and I feel a financial system should be able to sufficiently structure for legally-defined tax codes.
    • Tenrox Project Planning add-on module. This portion of the system has never worked as seamlessly as you would assume given they were designed to work together. We've run in to many bugs and just oddities over the years. It's very finicky in my experience. We only use TPP for a small portion of our projects - those being our smaller or need to have huge task lists per client naming requirements.
    • (The bad that became the good!) In the past, we have had significant customer-service challenges with Tenrox and then Upland, however over the past several months we have noticed a marked change in this. If we had not previously experienced issues with the customer service, I would not have any issue with the level of service that we are currently receiving. Given the history, I am cautiously optimistic that our current level of customer service will continue. I think our service concerns finally reached the 'right' people and I am reasonably confident the positive changes are here to stay!
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    Worksection
    • Issues with composing editorial - must reload page to write
    • Old style design
    • Unfortunately there is no work area customer, it would be exceptionally valuable. Continually fixing to the Internet, extremely awkward when it isn't. I have this happens all the time. I'm sitting tight for new forms and I trust that I won't be disillusioned.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Upland Software
    I am not in charge of renewing the Tenrox contract. However, if it was up to me, I would renew in a heartbeat. Tenrox is an asset to our organization and it keeps us focused. I am not aware of other products similar to Tenrox that provide the depth that they do.
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    Worksection
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Upland Software
    I feel like if the user interface could combine time and expense for users to be entered on one screen rather than two completely separate locations it would greatly improve usability. If the expense entry process could be improved completely, it would greatly improve the usability as well. Everything else within Tenrox, makes everything very user friendly.
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    Worksection
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Upland Software
    The support team is always very helpful and strives to ensure they have met your needs and corrected your issues in a timely manner. If they need more information or cannot recreate the issue themselves, then they will follow-up to gather the necessary data themselves. They are constantly striving to meet the needs of all users and understand so many different industries and types of environments out there, it is very impressive.
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    Worksection
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Upland Software
    The main thing with implementation is to make sure you have taken full advantage of the "sandbox testing" site that Tenrox provides to you during development. Try out every scenario you can think of, have other people enter information if needed, so that you can make sure you have not missed any big items. If you have the opportunity, roll out implementation to small groups of users. Depending on how your company is set up, I would choose groups that are not all in the same department so that you can address questions across all areas before adding in more users in the next wave of implementation.
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    Worksection
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Upland Software
    The Tenrox software looks and feels older and is not as user friendly! Harvest, for example, is an upgraded version that is easier to track and compile. This is what I'm comparing it to and it's not even close! We only selected Tenrox because it was cheaper and we had a connection in the company with someone at Tenrox to use that platform. We are currently looking for a change.
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    Worksection
    I like flexible tasks and subtasks, expanded privacy for tasks & comments (because we are working with our clients inside Worksection) and built-in timer with hourly rates. Worksection helps us to decompose complex project into tasks and subtasks, set deadlines and control time spent.
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    Return on Investment
    Upland Software
    • Tracking, tracking, tracking. It keeps the data we need and gives us the ability to look at it in countless different ways with just a few clicks, which is a big time saver. Without Tenrox, we would definitely have to increase our headcount in order to accomplish billing and payroll.
    • We recently were able to automate a huge portion of business that was still (yes, still in 2014!) being managed out of an Excel spreadsheet. We experienced a great deal of resistance to the change with our own employees, however now that we have it going we have cleaned up our invoicing and impressed the highest-financial officer for two consecutive months - our first/only two months billing directly from Tenrox for that group.
    • A newer development for our team - Some client managers in the other divisions our company have begun to look at what we are able to do with Tenrox and our other primary system and get some of their work moved over to our group. This is great and is giving us new opportunities - we will likely need to increase the headcount of our admin. team, but for a good reason (too much work coming our way!).
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    Worksection
    • With this application, we have essentially enhanced the nature of our work, because everything is organized and reasonable. It is exceptionally advantageous that we can interface the customer to Worksection, which streamlines activities.
    • Incredible cost. The greatest arrangement of 250 GB and a boundless number of "ventures", "organizations" and "individuals" on the record, makes this program the most beneficial - now it is $120 every month, considering the markdown when paying yearly. This is finished opportunity and trustworthiness - lead somewhere around 10 distinct organizations and 1000 individuals.
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    ScreenShots

    Worksection Screenshots

    Screenshot of Project Dashboards with AI - Key project indicators are centralized — progress, workload, time and budget. Interactive charts and AI summaries help analyze the whole project at a glance.Screenshot of a Gantt chart - Visualizes the project timeline with task dependencies, drag-and-drop dates and milestones.Screenshot of a Kanban board, with Automations. The visual board lets status-based automations move tasks, assign people and cut routine clicks.Screenshot of the Task view, with subtasks, checklists, files, deadlines, time and a discussion thread.Screenshot of Team Collaboration - Built-in chats in every task keeps discussions, files and decisions right next to the work — no switching to a separate messenger.Screenshot of Customizable Reports used to analyze status, time and costs for any period.