About Productive
Productive is an end-to-end project management tool made for agencies and professional service business. Productive comes with an integrated Sales Pipeline, Resource Planning, and powerful Project Management features. With a strong focus on profitability, Productive also includes employee cost rates and company overhead costs into your profitability reports. As a cherry on the cake, we can also predict your future revenue with our resource planning and progress reports.
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Pricing starting from:
US$15,00/month
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Compare with Popular Alternatives
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Features
Total features of Productive: 89
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- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Activity Dashboard
- Agile Methodologies
- Alerts/Notifications
- Approval Workflow
- Attendance Tracking
- Billable Items Tracking
- Billing & Invoicing
- Budget Control
- Budget Management
- Budgeting/Forecasting
- CRM
- Calendar Management
- Capacity Management
- Client Management
- Client Portal
- Collaboration Tools
- Commenting / Notes
- Contact Database
- Cost Tracking
- Cost-to-Completion Tracking
- Customizable Templates
- Desktop Notifications
- Document Generation
- Drag & Drop
- Email Management
- Event Tracking
- Expense Tracking
- File Sharing
- Forecasting
- Goal Setting / Tracking
- Idea Management
- Invoice Management
- Invoice Processing
- Issue Management
- Kanban Board
- Leave Tracking
- Lifecycle Management
- Mobile Access
- Mobile App
- Monitoring
- Multi-Currency
- Multi-Department/Project
- Multiple Projects
- Order Management
- Overtime Calculation
- Pipeline Management
- Planning Tools
- Prioritization
- Profitability Analysis
- Progress Reports
- Project Accounting
- Project Management
- Project Planning
- Project Planning/Scheduling
- Project Time Tracking
- Project Tracking
- Projections
- Proposal Generation
- Quotes/Estimates
- Real Time Notifications
- Recurring Tasks
- Recurring/Subscription Billing
- Reimbursement Management
- Reporting/Analytics
- Reporting/Project Tracking
- Resource Allocation & Planning
- Resource Management
- Resource Scheduling
- Search/Filter
- Skills Tracking
- Surveys & Feedback
- Task Management
- Task Progress Tracking
- Task Scheduling
- Team Calendars
- Testing/QA Management
- Time & Expense Tracking
- Time Tracking
- Time Tracking by Client
- Time Tracking by Project
- Timesheet Management
- To-Do List
- Traditional Methodologies
- Utilization Reporting
- Vacation/Leave Tracking
- Workflow Management
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- Industry: Design
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Great software that has everything I need to run a profitable business.
Reviewed on 2018/05/24
Pros
Productive is great because I have an overview of every segment of my company in one place. From sales, scheduling projects, communication management, employee management all the way to the reporting. We were paying multiple software apps, which was not only expensive but also confusing and time wasting. With Productive costs were cut down significantly. The support team is very responsive, always available and fast in helping us solve our issues.
Cons
It takes some time for setting up the organization and getting everybody on board, but with Productive help center and their support team that was done in a jiffy. The software is a bit robust due to its wide pallet of functionalities, so it has a bit steep learning curve.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Gave me a running start
Reviewed on 2019/09/05
I use Productive for my day-to-day operations and was able to do an integration with Trello using...
I use Productive for my day-to-day operations and was able to do an integration with Trello using their API. This makes my invoicing a breeze and allows me to give time reports to my customers. There is a ton of other features (sales pipeline, scheduling, financial reports) I am not using, but just for the small part I am using, it is a big time saver.
Pros
Productive has:
- comprehensive feature set
- ease of use
- a tutorial to get you familiar with the different modules of the product
- a decent price
- customers can access the platform (when you grant them access)
- an API to allow integrations with other components
- responsive support (some bugs get fixed really fast)
Cons
- some structure elements may not be an exact match to your business (like with any product)
- support is only during business hours, being a solo entrepreneur, problems don't always happen between 9-5 Monday-Friday
- support could benefit from a ticketing system instead of a chat-based system
- the task component have few features when compared with Trello. Strange for a company that brands itself as "more powerful than Trello and simpler to use than Jira" (https://www.productive.io/tour/project-management/).
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Fatal bugs ruin an otherwise promising product
Reviewed on 2021/02/09
Productive could be a very promising product but there are bugs littered throughout the product...
Productive could be a very promising product but there are bugs littered throughout the product especially in critical modules like timesheets and invoicing which makes us very hesitant to switch over to it. Their support team is slow to answer if you are in the US since they are in Europe, and they don't fix bugs quickly.
Pros
In theory, Productive has the perfect set of tools for the modern agency. Powerful project budget tools including weekly or monthly budgets for retainer clients make it easy to make sure you are utilizing 100% of budgeted time but no more. Reporting tools are in theory very flexible and easy to spit out exactly the right data you want - from team utilization to billing to profitability, task completion - you name it! Productive is also pretty easy to set up and the UI is very clean, modern, and not clunky in the least bit like many competitors.
Cons
There are SERIOUS bugs that totally defeat the purpose of using this product. All of these I've brought to their attention but they have dragged their heels on fixing. Here are some of the top bugs:
#1: When you/your team logs time and goes to create an invoice from it, the date for every single time entry is off by one day as it appears on the invoice, vs. the date you actually logged that time. You can get the accurate dates with time logs from the reporting module and when you compare, you'll see every date on the invoice is incorrect and your customers will start questioning why you logged time on the weekend...
#2: When you go to download a custom report made in the report module, e.g. the hours report mentioned in #1, you get a blank PDF. Try CSV format? Also blank file, with only the header row filled in, 0 rows of data.
#3: Invoice formatting - if you use Productive with Quickbooks Online, when your invoice syncs over you will end up with some random HTML code as part of the descriptions e.g. <ul><li>Notes about this time entry</li></ul> on each line of the invoice. Have fun manually cleaning these up!
- Industry: Media Production
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Game Changer
Reviewed on 2019/09/11
Productive has helped our team be more efficient on time and stay on budget. From an owner...
Productive has helped our team be more efficient on time and stay on budget. From an owner perspective, it has allowed me to closely monitor profitability, which I had slacked on before.
Pros
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.
Cons
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.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A great project management tool for us
Reviewed on 2020/11/24
Pros
For us it is one of the best options out there. And I recommend it especially if you want to better understand, analyse and forecast the profitability per resources, services offered, projects and tasks.
In terms of task management it works smooth and easy, like any other premium task manager. The big differentiation comes in terms of budget tracking, expenses and resources overview. In the past 1.5 years since we use Productive.io it helped us to see some trends in terms of services that are profitable and see which clients / projects are not profitable. This way we managed to improve the overall performance of our business.
Cons
- The onboarding / initial setup can take a bit. Nothing too bad, but you might need a couple of days to get used with the UX.
Productive FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Productive.Q. What type of pricing plans does Productive offer?
Productive offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$15,00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Try Productive free for 30 days, then: Billed annually = $12 per month, per user Billed monthly = $15 per month, per user Non-profits and charities get 50% off.
Q. What are the main features of Productive?
We do not have any information about Productive features
Q. Who are the typical users of Productive?
Productive has the following typical customers:
2-10, 11-50, 51-200, 201-500, 501-1 000, 1 001+
Q. What languages does Productive support?
Productive supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Productive support mobile devices?
Productive supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Productive integrate with?
Productive integrates with the following applications:
QuickBooks Online Advanced, Xero
Q. What level of support does Productive offer?
Productive offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
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