Productive Erfahrungen

Vorteile

The features are designed for an agency so we use most of them, all day, every day. What we really like is:
1. The user interface is superb - intuitive and fast to use. The best we have seen.
2. Help files and customer services is excellent. There hasn't been a question without a really satisfactory answer.
There isn't another system we use that is anywhere near as easy to use as Productive is.
Remote working puts more pressure on the system and it has supported the team now spread out over thousands of miles.

Nachteile

Not much - would like slightly more customisable templates to allow us to add more text and graphics to them.

Vorteile

We haven't had a single issue with Productive and have yet to hit a limitation or thing to improve. It has been such a breath of fresh air to come across an out-of-the-box solution that fits our team and way of working. It's clear that Productive listens to user feedback and quickly implements features and fixes. Their support is also outstanding - going above and beyond to provide excellent customer service.

Nachteile

Having tried 6 other project management and team collaboration software, I am pleased to say that Prodocutive has surpassed my expectations and there isn't anything that we don't like.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen

Teamwork.com

Warum Productive gewählt wurde

The cluttered user interface, lots of small bugs like issues with bulk actions, inconsistent and unreliable emails, and much more. It really put us off from using the software.

Zuvor genutzte Software

Teamwork.com und Nifty

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Productive

Teamwork was much more limited and basic. The UI alone was what helped us choose Productive as everyone was able to use it without training or worrying about "where is this or that". You get what you see with Productive.

Vorteile

Scheduling, Task management and Time management, Customers help

Nachteile

It is sometimes slow, after update a lot of things are not working, some updates make my job harder

Vorteile

Productive shines in its range of features that just click with our wishes in managing projects. It keeps track of alle important aspects of tasks, budgeting, time, invoicing and reports we need to do our best job for our customers.

Nachteile

Productive could become better when it has a translation in Dutch, for our customers who are not as tech savvy as we are. The way projects can be invoiced could get some improvements, also bulk editing budgets.

Vorteile

The product is robust yet streamlined at the same time. They simplify the UI to enhance the UX and make it easy for team members to jump right in. The flexibility with budgets has been the best feature for us, as we are able to put all shapes of budgets into the system and track them correctly and effectively across all of our projects.

Nachteile

I wish there was some way to create a production schedule within the projects so they could easily be visible at all times. Everything is tracked within this system EXCEPT for production schedules, so I feel most strongly about that element missing.

Vorteile

The thing I liked most is the speed and design of the UI/UX alongside the feature set. We have tried most PM tools and this covers all that and more to help us run more efficiently and see the data we need.

Nachteile

I would really have to dig to find something I didn't like about the software. Most of the issues fell on me at the beginning with ways I should have been operating my agency before getting on Productive. So really there is nothing that I dislike.

Vorteile

Productive gives us an all-in-one view of our current and forecasted capacity, ideal for tracking team time, availability and profitability. Lots of insights available to help inform our business and excellent and reactive customer support team

Nachteile

We've had to implement a number of workarounds as it wasn't really designed for PR agencies with monthly retainers, more for project-based resourcing at ad/creative agencies. Also the holy grail is to link time (hours) and money (billings) into one view rather than separating them out - that is apparently in the roadmap but has been for a while!

Vorteile

Great product that is easy to use with a nice inteface. Love the updated design and we rely most on the project management and time reporting function. They work really well.

Nachteile

Kind of expensive if you have a bigger team. Works good for us since we are a small team.

Vorteile

I like how Productive has a lot of features and is still pretty simple to use. The logic behind everything works great almost always, and for me it became a tool that I use daily without much thought. I see great value in that. I also appreciate the documentation and the whole team behind.

Nachteile

Tasks are maybe still a bit sloppy, but maybe it's just because of the way we use it in the company. I'm not really sure.

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Jira

Vorteile

- Features catered to agency needs
- Great customer service
- Budget management
- Simplified time tracking
- Budgeting and invoicing in one place

Nachteile

- Lack of very top level resourcing (overview of at least 4 months within one view)

Vorteile

Future-focussed and a modern software for agencies

Nachteile

Hard to make full use of Productive and some features - such as the sales funnel - don't act enough like a CRM.

Vorteile

The whole scheduling structure: Company -> Project -> Budget -> Service -> Scheduling. It gives us a lot of flexibility.And the team is awesome! Super easy to reach, very helpful with and with amazing attitude <3

Nachteile

Insights are pretty complicated if we want to connect data from different sources. THough I know it is a challenging topic

Vorteile

Productive was easy to set up, user friendly and responsive to issues

Nachteile

Still some lack of integration and functionality on the CRM but improving. Would be great to integrate to sender.net or Mailchimp etc

Vorteile

Productive worked great for us at the beginning, and really helped us to keep track of our projects and costs.

Nachteile

Pricing was a bit high compared to other tools and there were some features missing like real time board updates.

Vorteile

Productive is a very powerful tool covering basically all the tasks and processes related to project management, account management, reporting, planning of resources, managing the sales pipeline and many more.
It feels very modern and easy to use with really powerful features. Also, the product is constantly being improved with an active customer service.

Nachteile

It takes some time to really onboard everyone and use it as a day to day tool. But that would probably be the case with every new tool introduced to the organization. Thus, not all the features must be used or be introduced at the same time.

Vorteile

Productive is a good product to track projects and time spent on it.

Nachteile

Strict methodology brings some rigidity.

Vorteile

it's still growing. Productive develops new features and keeps evolving.
Client support and chat is really nice. They try to help you within a day.

Nachteile

Scheduling is till pretty hard, and you can't track hours on sales efforts for a client wihout making a project.

Vorteile

Connecting my words with photos using just one monkey :)
Schedule option is great too, and I like and use a lot of custom tags.

Nachteile

Boards. Let's say, one project has 5 boards, and when moving tasks from one board to another, I don't know where does it go. It's easy if I'm the owner of the project, but when I'm doing some things in other project, I just don't know where to put it. Suggestion - maybe when the user is in one board, he can just see task lists from that board?

Vorteile

If everything is configured properly, the flow of a project is very easy, from sales over project management towards invoicing, everything works very nicely.

Nachteile

It is not very customizable, although they are working on it.

Vorteile

The main features are awesome and so far we've used almost daily the task list, time tracking, sales board and the project's management section.

We're also very happy with the customer service provided by Productive.io

Nachteile

I'd like to be able to customize more our quotes (ie: change colors, fonts, layout, add additional text like our terms and conditions etc.).

Sometimes, I'm also confused about small details (where to click, what's the link between sales, projects, the pricing ie: hourly or not), but in a few weeks we've already seen the software update and improve a lot so we're convinced the team behind Productive.io is working making everything on point.

Vorteile

The time tracking for each team member combined with the project management.

Nachteile

For me, it still needs a lot of back and forwards between the menus to execute some tasks. But it's not something critical.

Vorteile

Productive as a One stop shop for agencies is so easy to use and has a solid stack of features

Nachteile

Some small stuff that is missing, but I know that you guys are on it.

Vorteile

Great for staying organized for large multi purpose businesses

Nachteile

Is not integrated with social media as it could be

Vorteile

We managed to transition 4 different software applications into 1, saving us monthly costs as well as improving our efficiency in running our studio.

Nachteile

So far there really isn't much I can say in a negative way, there are a few additional features we would like, but its great that they publish their development roadmap so we can see these features are coming.

Vorteile

Very simple to navigate through. It is easy to set up collaborative tasks and track team productivity.

Nachteile

You have to enter your tasks manually to track your tasks and timing. It also does not seem to give you an accurate overview of your weeks tasks productivity.