#1 most frequent
United States of America
54.5%12 installations of 22
What is Avaza?
Avaza is a software suite targeted for all business sizes. It includes modules for project management and collaboration, resource scheduling, team chat, time tracking, expense management, quoting and invoicing. Depending on their business needs, companies can use as many, or as few, of the modules as they need.
Avaza offers reporting functionality, and the project management module is designed with both list view and Kanban style task management, so users can choose how to view their projects and tasks. Avaza can be used in the cloud, and accessed from any device whether it’s a desktop, tablet or mobile.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
Task Management
This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.
Category average: 9
Team Collaboration
Team collaboration capabilities let team members work directly with each other and provide team updates.
Category average: 8.8
Quotes/estimates
Ability to create, manage and send project fee proposals to customers
Category average: 7.7
Areas for Improvement
Support for Agile Methodology
Agile is a time boxed, iterative approach to development that builds software incrementally instead of trying to deliver it all at once near the end.
Category average: 8
Support for Waterfall Methodology
Waterfall methodology is a tradition development method that is linear and sequential.
Category average: 7.9
Timesheet Tracking
Timesheet tracking is the ability to track all billable and non-billable hours for each project.
Category average: 7.9
Who Buys & Uses Avaza
#2 most frequent
Canada
18.2%4 installations of 22
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
13.6%3 installations of 22
Avaza is a great product
Pros
- Invoicing
- Project management
- Time tracking
- Reporting
- The app is very useful
Cons
- The quoting system is good, but isn't quite flexible enough for our use case.
Most Important Features
- Invoicing
- Time tracking
- Reporting
Return on Investment
- Massively reduced administrative work
- Improved time management
- Given us a very clear picture of our business' performance and KPIs
Alternatives Considered
Basecamp, Trello, Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, Bitrix24 and FreshBooks
Other Software Used
Google Drive, WordPress, SiteGround
Everything you want, nothing you don't
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Avaza for project management, estimates, and invoicing. For projects, we use it for both retainer clients and one off work orders. Our clients can approve estimates easily online. The recurring invoice feature is essential for the retainer side of our business. We invoice everything through Avaza and collect payment through Avaza. Then, everything syncs with Quickbooks.
Pros
- Project Management
- Estimates
- Invoicing
- Reports
Cons
- Employee Time Tracking
Return on Investment
- Eliminated using multiple different software to accomplish the same tasks
Alternatives Considered
Asana, Sage Timeslips and Basecamp
Other Software Used
QuickBooks Online, Microsoft 365
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Pros
- Project Management - Creating projects and tasks is really easy
- Timesheets - Logging time is super quick and simple.
Cons
- Recurring Projects - Right now you can create recurring tasks with a project, but if you have a project that recurs monthly with a client, as we do, you have to manually create it. Ideally, we want to be able to have this happen automatically.
- Xero Integration - If you create an invoice based on hours, you aren't able to adjust the inventory type. Also, for the integration, you are not able to have endless inventory types mapped to GL accounts in Xero. You can only have one catch-all if you are creating invoices from timesheets.
- Stripe/ACH Integration - Since it already integrates with Stripe to accept payments, it would be great if the user can choose ACH through Stripe instead of just Credit Card. The functionality already exists on the Stripe end, but it has not been integrated with Avaza, yet! Recurring payment options would be great as well.
- Estimates - It would be awesome if invoices worked more like Quotes or Proposals where the client can choose an option, accept and provide a signature.
Return on Investment
- It has streamlined a lot of our work.
- It keeps us, as admins, in the know with all the projects for our team.
Alternatives Considered
ActiveCollab
Other Software Used
Practice Ignition, Xero
Work smart with this great project management software!
Pros
- It switches between Kanban view, List view, and Gantt charts which fits varying preferences!
- It helps us work smart by creating dependencies and linking tasks to calendars
- It has a clean, intuitive dashboard that's very easy to navigate
Cons
- I wish sub-tasks could also have due dates
- For really big projects, we hope there could be phases (aside from sections)
- In the chatbox, it would be great if photo attachments could be displayed as screenshots (instead of downloading the file)
Most Important Features
- Task tracking
- Gantt charts
- Team schedule
- Overall Project Schedule
Return on Investment
- It saves us dozens of hours tracking and backtracking tasks for multiple projects
- We now skip frequent Management meetings and just review Avaza's dashboard
- Avaza helped us a lot in organizing our tasks and projects
Other Software Used
Avast Email Security, Avast CloudCare
Working with Avaza
Pros
- Helps keep track of time spent on each project
- Helps employees break down their time spent throughout the day
- Encourages better time management skills
Cons
- More introduction to the features provided
- More detail on how to work with the day/week functions for time logging
Return on Investment
- Improves client relations with easier billing
- Improves employee time management
Other Software Used
Airtable, Microsoft Office 365
