Item: Plutio
Rating: 10
Author: Michael Naylor

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We manage a number of different projects for different clients. We use Plutio to track milestones for each project, deadlines, and tasks and sub tasks within each project. We use Plutio to assign tasks to team members, to communicate with our suppliers and within our teams. We store account and login information for each client and task.

Pros and Cons

Track tasks.
Deadlines and alerts.
Progress within a project.
Highly customizable.

Calendar function shows ALL tasks, not ones that are open or that are upcoming.

Return on Investment

Keeps my project managers on task and focused.

Alternatives Considered

Basecamp and Trello

Basecamp threads discussions by task, which is fine but in practice we found that it functioned more as a message board than as a task or project management option.
Trello is good for a single user, it felt messy when we tried to use it for our whole team. Trello also lacked some key functions.

Support Rating

Interacted directly with the CEO after we signed up, he responded to our questions and built a lot of confidence in the product. Afterwards, we recommended some improvements to the calendar and task list, and they implemented them.

Key Insights

Do you think Plutio delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Plutio's feature set?

Yes

Did Plutio live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Plutio go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Plutio again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Very good for a big team with disparate tasks within a project.
Not that great for task management for a small team of only one or two individuals.
Great at customizing--you can build out your tracking as deep or as shallow as you wish, do whatever makes sense to you.

Fairly straighforward task management, plus extras

Overall Satisfaction with Plutio