
Podio Overview
What is Podio?
A new level of project visibility
Podio makes deadlines, responsibilities and goals clear for everyone – and they’re always up to date. With transparent, organized projects, you’ll never need to slow your team down to get a status update. You’ll have the oversight you need to see if everything’s on track.
Incredible flexibility
You and your team define all the structure of your content, reports and overviews. So you can run projects your way, unhindered by workarounds imposed by rigid software. And your team will love how Podio reflects the way you already talk and think about your business.
Real time and your time
Whether you need an immediate answer from your team or just want to share some great resources and insights, Podio puts all your conversations in one place in the context of the work you’re doing. This enables you to tighten your communications without increasing everyone’s email load.
Podio grows with you
Want to do more than project management with Podio? Simply extend Podio to handle CRM, recruiting workflows or even your company intranet in minutes. Podio’s ability to connect teams and processes already helps thousands of companies run their entire operations in one place.
Podio Overview
Pricing
Pricing options
Unlimited free use for up to five people.
Basic: $9/employee/month (billed monthly) or $7.20/employee/month (billed annually).
Plus: $14/employee/month (billed monthly) or $11.20/employee/month (billed annually).
Premium: $24/employee/month (billed monthly) or $19.20/employee/month (billed annually).
Custom plans are also available for larger teams.
Podio Features
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Podio Reviews
Podio Reviews
Serves it's purpose
The big boss also loves this program, because it can generate many different reports for him, from bid activity, pending logs, securement logs, win percentages with different customers or geographic areas. allows him to see many different metrics with just a few clicks.
Project Management, Sales & Customer Relations Made Easy
Helped a lot tracking customers.
Very flexible software, but increasingly unreliable
Overall, pretty good for a budget CRM. But it feels like a platform with its better days behind it.
Use for Small Companies Only
Far more cons then pros. If you are a growing company I would recommend stay away from this software. If your a small startup I can see the attractiveness because its low cost, simple minded. We are hopefully going to switch off it soon.
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The best CRM and working software
Pros
It is amazing how it can integrate with so many things, send emails, sms, signatures. The files can be organized with just a click. It is also suitable for any type of business sin it can be customize. At a good price
Cons
Extremely difficult to set up. Requires additional help to do it
Serves it's purpose
The big boss also loves this program, because it can generate many different reports for him, from bid activity, pending logs, securement logs, win percentages with different customers or geographic areas. allows him to see many different metrics with just a few clicks.
Pros
The website is incredibly customizable, which allows you make this program perform many tasks that vary greatly. Our main purpose was to use this as a bid center for our company, allowing all of our branches to see who was bidding which jobs. After setting that up, we were able to have podio send out reminders after certain amounts of time to follow up on the bid results. If we were awarded the job, it will then send out notices to our purchasing department, project managers, and super intendents with the relevant information (start end dates, contract prices, labor hours estimated, location, contact info, etc). It is very helpful to make sure our branches do not double up estimating the same projects.
Cons
Being very customizable also means it can be quite tedious to set up initially. There are, however, many premade modules you can either use as is, or customize to fit you needs.
Response from Podio
Hi Justin, thanks for the review! Much appreciated. Cheers, Sara from Podio
Project Management, Sales & Customer Relations Made Easy
Helped a lot tracking customers.
Pros
It is so customizable and easy to use, you don't even have to do multiple clicks to reach every detail about a customer
Cons
Nothing to complain. It was lovely to use.
Very flexible software, but increasingly unreliable
Overall, pretty good for a budget CRM. But it feels like a platform with its better days behind it.
Pros
Podio is designed for project managers, but we used it as our CRM - which shows how flexible it is.
It worked well, the UI is nice, the workflows save you a lot of time and you can link up items well for automation (e.g. if you close a deal, mark the associated company item as 'customer').
The reporting worked quite well too. You can pull data into reports and create nice dashboards. And you can export to Excel.
Cons
Citrix aren't investing in Podio - it looks the same as when we started using it years ago. It's also increasingly unreliable - there have been numerous all-day outages in 2018. This is frustrating when you depend on Podio to run your business.
We have since moved onto a different CRM software because of these issues.
Response from Podio
Thanks for sharing your review of Podio! We are dedicated to improve the reliability and performance of Podio in the future. Please read more details here: https://blog.podio.com/2018/01/10/2017-year-in-review/

Use for Small Companies Only
Far more cons then pros. If you are a growing company I would recommend stay away from this software. If your a small startup I can see the attractiveness because its low cost, simple minded. We are hopefully going to switch off it soon.
Pros
Podio is one of those software that excels in a few key concepts but entirely falls flat everywhere else. There ability to tag, chat and communicate through each app is a unique feature that I think most programs do fail to get right. There workflows and ability to write any calculated field workflow in php or javascript is pretty decent and a unique concept when needing that custom options. Does take a bit to learn it though. I think most people dump money into 3rd party support developers do to this. which is what we were doing before I arrived.
Cons
This is a software I think any growing company is going to find out real quick that they will outgrow real fast. Podio is slow. Apps do not work between workspaces. You can build relationship but not share apps between workspaces. Permissions and overall platform structure is very confusing. Podio was built of the idea that any Joe off the street can build a workspace/app and share it around, versus having a platform that is company down managed. The design of podio is single column form layout, this is a decent concept if your tracking like 5 fields. But the minute you need more then that you are going to find yourself just doing endless scrolling, and can't find anything. Views are a mess to build. Graphs do not exist at all.
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Podio Pricing
Podio Pricing
Unlimited free use for up to five people.
Basic: $9/employee/month (billed monthly) or $7.20/employee/month (billed annually).
Plus: $14/employee/month (billed monthly) or $11.20/employee/month (billed annually).
Premium: $24/employee/month (billed monthly) or $19.20/employee/month (billed annually).
Custom plans are also available for larger teams.
Unlimited free use for up to five people.
Basic: $9/employee/month (billed monthly) or $7.20/employee/month (billed annually).
Plus: $14/employee/month (billed monthly) or $11.20/employee/month (billed annually).
Premium: $24/employee/month (billed monthly) or $19.20/employee/month (billed annually).
Custom plans are also available for larger teams.
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Podio Features
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Additional information for Podio
Additional information for Podio
Key features of Podio
- 24 hour personal support from the Podio team
- API
- Activity management
- Activity tracking
- Automatic notifications
- Automatic reminders
- CRM
- Calendar management
- Calendar sync with Google
- Chat functionality
- Collaboration tools
- Collaborative review
- Collaborative workspace
- Collections management
- Commenting
- Communication management
- Configurable workflow
- Content sharing & feedback workflows with clients
- Document management
- Document storage
- Dynamic card boards
- Email integration
- File management
- File sharing
- Gantt charts
- Indexing
- Instant messaging
- MS Exchange integration
- Mobile apps for Android, iPhone & iPad
- Progress reports
- Progress tracking
- Project budgeting
- Project management
- Project templates
- Project time tracking
- Recurring tasks
- Reporting
- Sales pipeline reports
- Simple CRM & sales tracking
- Software development kit
- Status tracking
- Task assignment
- Task management
- Third party integration
- Time tracking by project
- Tracking features
- Video chat
- Web forms
Benefits
The increased transparency and structure made possible by Podio will save your team hours on organization and status meetings, so you can focus on the task at hand. Interfacing with clients on Podio makes feedback loops simpler – helping everyone get better results and build stronger relationships.
Podio FAQs
Podio FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Podio.
Q. What type of pricing plans does Podio offer?
Podio offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: US$9,00/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Unlimited free use for up to five people. Basic: $9/employee/month (billed monthly) or $7.20/employee/month (billed annually). Plus: $14/employee/month (billed monthly) or $11.20/employee/month (billed annually). Premium: $24/employee/month (billed monthly) or $19.20/employee/month (billed annually). Custom plans are also available for larger teams.
Q. What are the main features of Podio?
Podio offers the following features:
- 24 hour personal support from the Podio team
- API
- Activity management
- Activity tracking
- Automatic notifications
- Automatic reminders
- CRM
- Calendar management
- Calendar sync with Google
- Chat functionality
- Collaboration tools
- Collaborative review
- Collaborative workspace
- Collections management
- Commenting
- Communication management
- Configurable workflow
- Content sharing & feedback workflows with clients
- Document management
- Document storage
- Dynamic card boards
- Email integration
- File management
- File sharing
- Gantt charts
- Indexing
- Instant messaging
- MS Exchange integration
- Mobile apps for Android, iPhone & iPad
- Progress reports
- Progress tracking
- Project budgeting
- Project management
- Project templates
- Project time tracking
- Recurring tasks
- Reporting
- Sales pipeline reports
- Simple CRM & sales tracking
- Software development kit
- Status tracking
- Task assignment
- Task management
- Third party integration
- Time tracking by project
- Tracking features
- Video chat
- Web forms
Q. Who are the typical users of Podio?
Podio has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Freelancers, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does Podio support?
Podio supports the following languages:
Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
Q. Does Podio support mobile devices?
Podio supports the following devices:
Android, iPhone, iPad
Q. What other apps does Podio integrate with?
Podio integrates with the following applications:
Bitium, Campaign Monitor, Constant Contact, Cronforce, GlobiFlow, GlobiMail for Podio, PieSync, Resource Guru, Zapier, Zendesk
Q. What level of support does Podio offer?
Podio offers the following support options:
FAQs, Forum, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials