In My Opinion, Please, Don't Go with ConnectWise Automate Unless You Never Want to Reduce Your Client Count
October 03, 2022

In My Opinion, Please, Don't Go with ConnectWise Automate Unless You Never Want to Reduce Your Client Count

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with ConnectWise Automate

We use it with clients on their computers. ConnectWise Automate is supposed to do a lot of things, but it's still called Labtech within the program, which you'd think after all of these years, they would have fixed since it was purchased and renamed years ago. ConnectWise Automate requires a client license for each computer that it is installed on, but you can only add licenses and never remove them. If you don't have enough licenses, you can't use it properly. If you have too many licenses that you aren't using, you have to pay for them no matter what happens. Imagine if Microsoft did the same thing with Office and made you pay for the licenses that you don't use. In my opinion, this isn't a company that wants partners, this is a vendor only interested in making money without regard to their clients. As an MSP, my client count fluctuates, and ConnectWise Automate removes the ability to allow my client count to fluctuate as needed, which to me, that just isn't acceptable.
  • Ironclad contract
  • Inflexible terms
  • Requires licenses to use
  • I would appreciate it if you could please value your clients.
  • Also, please allow us to add and remove clients as needed so the product scales with our needs.
  • I believe you should rename the product from LabTech.
  • I would like it if you could make it easier to use.
  • Computer updates
  • SIEM data gathering
  • Doesn't effectively patch
  • Clunky interface difficult to find integrations
  • Slowness with online cloud
  • Program will crash multiple times a day
I regret using ConnectWise Automate since we can't effectively add and remove clients and I feel like we're locked into a multi-year contract where only ConnectWise seems to be happy.

Do you think ConnectWise Automate delivers good value for the price?

No

Are you happy with ConnectWise Automate's feature set?

No

Did ConnectWise Automate live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of ConnectWise Automate go as expected?

No

Would you buy ConnectWise Automate again?

No

In my opinion, it is extremely difficult to use and set up. I find the interface tough with multiple nests and folders to access different things. I also do not like the inability to add or remove clients easily when your computer count changes.

ConnectWise Automate Feature Ratings

Remote monitoring
1
Network device monitoring
1
Patch Management
1
Policy-based automation
1