A great tool for minimal budget and hours tracking, very little to no collaboration - Recommend for large companies!
- Tracks freelance resource hours.
- Tracks multiple small projects and milestones within the projects.
- Tracks budget information and scope creep.
Cons
- It's often confusing to use and find things, I sometimes find it to be a little counterintuitive as to where functions are (e.g. for tracking budgets and pulling reports).
- When pulling a budget I always struggled to comb through the large amounts of data and time inputted. When I select a filter the page often wouldn't refresh or i'd forget to de-select a filter as it wasn't in an obvious place, which sometimes left me with pulling an incorrect budget.
- The data is only as good as the people entering the time. Often with so many small tasks people would enter time incorrectly, in the wrong milestone or project. It lists all of your projects on one page, so it's not easy to enter it and there's a lot of room for error.
- Positive - We were able to track multiple projects at the same time and record accurate hours.
- Positive - Able to pull budget and excel reports which can the be analyzed further and relatively simply.
- Negative - There were a lot of times when hours were entered inaccurately which left us in a bind with budget and freelance billing.
- Tracking budget and pulling reports
- Tracking timelines
- Logging freelance hours
- Freelance billing - This was interesting but freelancers would enter their time for this and would be paid out based on their hours inputed
- Team members - There is a tab to view all team members in the department, you could list if you were working remote or offline (including last active) which was helpful when trying to track someone down for a project.
- Organizing hours data - There were various filters to organize budget/hours reports which you could then export. It enabled us to see hours by date, deliverable etc.
- If they could build out the collaboration aspect, that would be helpful for future use. The design teams could work less in silos and start to share their work.
- Logging individual project milestones within a project, so we can more closely track where we are