Productive
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.
Key benefits of Productive
Images
Not sure about Productive?
Compare with a popular alternative
Starting Price
Pricing Options
Features
Integrations
Ease of Use
Value for Money
Customer Service
Alternatives
GitHub
Planless.io
Kanboard
Slack
Reviews
Already have Productive?
Software buyers need your help! Product reviews help the rest of us make great decisions.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Really good and it solves so many problems for me (with great customer care)
Reviewed on 31/08/2023
Pros
Really simple to use and so effective and saves time and energy of you know what you want.
Cons
Nothing specific to say here, did not find something that is that bad.
- Industry: Graphic Design
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great project/task management product!
Reviewed on 31/08/2023
Implementation was easy with the Design team and easy with clients once they were trained a bit on...
Implementation was easy with the Design team and easy with clients once they were trained a bit on the product. Overall my team likes Productive way better than previous Project Management tools we've used. The reporting has also been amazing! Seeing how profitable the company is as a whole and each employee. That's a game changer!
Pros
Project managemement, task management, time tracking, invoicing, there isn't much I don't love about Productive!
Cons
I wish there was a way to better implement email into the product. Right now email and Productive are separate. Having them tied closer together would help eliminate on additional product.
Alternatives Considered
Todoist, Paymo, Zoho Projects, Pipefy, Front, monday.com, ClickUp, Hive, Asana and ClientFlowReasons for Choosing Productive
Made the switch from Accelo, as the email integration caused all kinds of issues and our email got placed on blacklists, so we had to switch our domain name completely for our website and email. We originally used Teamwork, then switched to Accelo because of the email integration. Teamwork was great, but missed some key features at the time we used it.Reasons for Switching to Productive
Had almost all of the features I needed. Others were missing features.- Industry: Design
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Fatal bugs ruin an otherwise promising product
Reviewed on 09/02/2021
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: Design
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Every tool you need for an agency
Reviewed on 27/06/2022
It's a great tool and the only one we found that ticks all the boxes for our business.
It's a great tool and the only one we found that ticks all the boxes for our business.
Pros
Fully-featured with a continually improving product roadmap and excellent customer support.
Cons
Sometimes it's difficult to work out how much budget is remaining as the calculations don't always tally with my own figures. Some nuances in how the calculations are done I think. Some features have started to move to the 'premium' tier.
Reasons for Switching to Productive
It had everything we wanted and more. Could consolidate our tools into one.- Industry: Design
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
-
Review Source
Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Fantastic Support Team
Reviewed on 11/04/2022
I love it. I've looked at other tools, and turned them down simply because of their lack of...
I love it. I've looked at other tools, and turned them down simply because of their lack of reporting and all-in-one capabilities. Despite smaller features like automation, note taking, and dependency being really attractive.
Pros
We love that this tool is agency management in one tool! We can track projects / tasks, as well as record employee PTO, schedule work to manage capacity, and bill ALL IN THE SAME PLACE. Customer support is responsive and immensely helpful. Especially for explaining the parts of the tool that applies to areas outside our expertise (like finances).
Cons
The list layout leaves things to be desired in terms of design and organization of information. Would love to see automation, and the ability to mark tasks as dependent on / blocked by others come to the tool. The note taking tool is really basic and not co-write-friendly.
Alternatives Considered
ClickUpReasons for Choosing Productive
The comprehensive reporting / time management / resource management tools. ESPECIALLY the overhead tool.Reasons for Switching to Productive
The comprehensive reporting / time management / resource management tools. ESPECIALLY the overhead tool.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$9.00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Free trial available.
Q. Who are the typical users of Productive?
Productive has the following typical customers:
11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000
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:
ADP Workforce Now, AlexisHR, BambooHR, CharlieHR, ExactSpent, Fortnox, Google Calendar, Gusto, HubSpot CRM, Humaans, Jira, Justworks, Lucca, Microsoft Outlook, Personio, QuickBooks Online Advanced, SAP SuccessFactors HXM Suite, SAP SuccessFactors Work Zone, Slack, Visma, Xero, Zapier
Q. What level of support does Productive offer?
Productive offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat
Related categories
See all software categories found for Productive.
Capacity Planning Software
