Resource Guru Pricing

The best part about Resource Guru is the reporting system. Given how fuss-free the management tools are to use, the reporting system is the proverbial icing on the cake, as it aggregates all your available data in one easy to use panel. Not to mention, it is so intuitive to use and has such a remarkably low barrier to entry, that I onboarded all my team managers in a single day, and have never looked back.

Some parts of the UI look a bit dated, like the "adding resources" panel, but it's honestly not a big deal because you only use it once when adding your resources, and hardly touch it ever again. Other than that, changing the default working hours is a bit tedious, but again - do it once and you never need to adjust it again.

Hi Timothy Thanks for sharing your review of Resource Guru :) I'm pleased to say that we have some enhancements planned for the Resources section, which I hope you'll be pleased to see when they're released! Can I suggest that you sign up for our newsletter in the footer of our homepage if you haven't already - http://resourceguruapp.com. That way we can keep you in the loop about new features and other news. If you have any other questions or feedback at any point, please don't be a stranger. We love to help and we're always keen to hear any feedback. Thanks! Kat

Can't believe how cheap this software is and all the built in capabilities! It's great, we are a team of 7 and this has helped us with our project management bookings. You can clearly see what work is booked in over the weeks/months and allows you easily to move stuff round.

I would like there to be an option to have specific colours per clients. It would also be good if it retained hours per project. For example we have big animation projects in that are broken down into sketches, moodboard, animation etc and would be good to have some sort of log if the time gets moved.

Hi Emma Thanks for sharing your feedback when you responded to the survey we recently sent you :) Customisation of the colour palette is firmly on our roadmap, but in the meantime if you have any programming capabilities at your end you can use our API to add custom colours. You can assign your own custom colours via API right now if you'd prefer. You can find all of the API documentation via our...

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The user interface is very intuitive and it is easy to scroll through the entire team's schedule for the week.

The cost is considerable, but if your team needs something beyond Outlook calendar to view everyone's schedules in one place, it's a great option for that. I wish there was more compatibility between our Outlook calendars and RG though. Often it feels like we need to have duplicate information in both places.

Hi Spencer Thanks for sharing your review of Resource Guru! I wanted to check in to make sure you knew about the availability bars? It sounds like you're using a workaround to highlight when people are available, but the availability bars will give you excellent visibility of when each of your resources has availability, right there on the schedule. You can learn about using them here: https://help.resourceguruapp.com/en/articles/2942098-using-the-availability-bar I hope this helps! If you have any questions at any point please don't be a stranger - we're always very keen to help. Thanks, Kat

Colour-coded projects, ability to mark projects as confirmed or tentative, able to sync the software to individual calendars, easy to customise reports, everything on one screen, easy to add and customise new resources. I could go on but, this software has grown with our company over the past 4 years and we are all very happy with it.

The new features that are added are not always in the order we want. For example, it took 4 years for the confirmed/tentative option to be added - a very useful feature for us but I understand that the Resource Guru Team needs to prioritise features based on the overall needs of their customers.

You can add clients and project and move things around very easily with drag and drop functionality. The look and feel and their calendar is extremely helpful and clear. With RG you can schedule people and easily manage annual leave, sick leave, and hours dedicated to each task, client or project. We never required any sort of training and the whole team was able to start using straightaway.

It would be nice to have a Project view. To make it easier on the hours management on a project basis.

Hi Patricia, Thanks for sharing your feedback! A more project-oriented view is definitely on our roadmap for the near future. In the meantime, you may find the Projects section of the Reports useful for tracking time booked on projects. If there's anything else we can do to help please just let us know. Thanks, Michelle

Easy to use, simple for all team members. Looks visibly pleasing. I have implemented Resource Guru to my previous and current working places. Very good value for money.

Needs to have an action for users to click once they have completed the task. I have been waiting for this for a few years now. Still not very mobile friendly.

Intuitively easy to use, good usage of colors to present a quick glance of resource versus objectives deliverables

Integration with existing calendars, tools may not be smooth and sometimes not synced.

Hi there Thanks for sharing your review of Resource Guru :) I wanted to let you know that our calendar sync feature is currently a one way sync, but we do have firm plans to support 2 way syncing in the future. Once 2 way syncing is released, you should find it easy to keep external calendar events synced in Resource Guru. Can I suggest that you sign up for our newsletter in the footer of our homepage if you haven't already - http://resourceguruapp.com. That way we can keep you in the loop about new features and other news. I hope this comes as good news! If you have any further questions please don't hesitate to reach out and we'll be very happy to help. Thanks, Kat

very easy to use and the calander view is great give me a sense of what is going on 2, 3, 4 weeks out.

would like to have a feature that allows the employee to be able to mark a task or a project complete, which would than send a notification back to me or the PM that they are available to do additional works.

The product is easy to use and allows the administrator to manage teams, plan and review previous activities. It can be used for recording or planning and gives a level of visibility that is lacking in a number of products. Although the team are constantly looking at ways to improve the product, it never strays away from its core and prime functionality. Many products try to grow into a bigger, wider space and lose the key elements that attracted customers to the product in the first place. A customer of ours was so impressed with the product that they too purchased it after seeing the value it afforded us.

It would be great if there was an App which could be opened rather than a web browser, although this is only a minor consideration with the number of browsers out there.

I love how eay it is to book. The reperating of project work and consulntans has made it so much easier.

It needs mor colurs to choose from, as I sometimes end up with duplicates. Extracting of reports, would prefer to just extract one specifc report at a time.

Hi Jean Thanks for sharing your review of Resource Guru :) Did you know that you can apply any custom colours to your resources, projects and clients via our API? You can find all of the API documentation just here https://resourceguruapp.com/docs/api. I hope this helps, but if you need any further assistance please don't hesitate to reach out; we're always happy to help! Thanks, Kat

Cost. We don't have to limit how much we add to the schedule (people or equipment) because of the licensing cost. Because of that we use it more extensively and therefore get even more value from it.

The pictorial Guru and daily saying I like personally, but I have heard the comments from the [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] and [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] that it takes away from the professional feel of the program.

Really easy to use and makes all resource planning very visible. Highlights the problem areas and upcoming projects really well

It turned out to be far too expensive for a fairly small company to justify. There was limited functionality around moving/altering/copying lines and resources input although the team are looking into this. The colours are limited for the lines also, which may seem like a small thing but the colours help to show visually what is planned. It would also be handy to be able to zoom in and out more to see full years as well as weeks.

That it does exactly what it should. No complex features such as budgets or projects.

We were hesitant at first because of the pricing but after using it for a few months we realized that it became a most for our Staff Augmentation business model. Our Capabilities team couldn’t survive a day without it.

Our use of Resource Guru is sort of out of the box. We use it for scheduling barn space in the Agriculture Industry. The support team has always stepped up to find ways to enable Resource Guru to fit with our unique needs. If it works this well for our out of the box use, imagine how well it works for it's intended purpose. For us, the reasonable price has been worth the gamble of using a software not meant for our intended use.

In our out of the box use, the biggest con - is the speed at which the software moves from page to page. However, this might not be Resource Guru's fault. It could be our internet capabilities, or the amount of data we plug in for our purpose. For our use, I'm looking a 15-17 week time frame, like most people look at a 8-10 hour work day. If you use the software as it's intended, this probably wouldn't be a problem.

As our company grew, we needed a better way for people to get organized access to equipment. We needed to be able to request help from our support staff. Resource Guru was our solution and it was very well received. It has surpassed it's intended use because of how great the reporting and analytics are. We have since incorporated Resource Guru's easy-to-pull reports in our quarterly project accounting.

I would love to see Resource Guru support the ability to upload documents. It would be wonderful to have a single place for our employees to go to find the manuals or protocols they need for the equipment they are booking. It would be great to have our quotes able to be uploaded into the projects. Especially for the price. We have a good amount of Resources, and since you are charged per Resource, it would be great if the software was less of a "uni-tasker".

Easy to record time against different projects/customers.

Reporting is powerful but misses some core details like how much time is remaining on a certain customer (for fixed price, or limited POs)

Ease of Use, User interface, Visual appearance, cost

Filters don't transfer to reports, need a search function

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Thanks for the review Ossian! While I understand your frustration at the low frequency of new feature releases recently I'd like to correct you on a few things. It's not true that we have failed to deliver anything since launch—for more information on our product updates you can go to the "Product Updates" section of our blog http://blog.resourceguruapp.com/category/product-updates/. We are sorry that...

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It's very easy and intuitive to use. Although they don't do much the Project Code and Skill was something that the closest competitor did not offer and made resource guru more desirable

The closest competitor had 2 features that I would like to have seen, to be able to have the project marked as tentative. And to add a budget to the project - Other competitors had the budget and you could define a price per resource - however, for me a bucket of hours per project would be enough

Hi Daniel Thanks for your feedback! We do plan on releasing a budgeting feature in the future which you will be able to use to see the requirements of the work you're taking on, but I'm afraid I can't give you an accurate release date for this just yet. In the meantime, I'm pleased to say that you can mark bookings as tentative until they get confirmed, please find the following walkthrough useful: https://help.resourceguruapp.com/en/articles/5415523-creating-tentative-bookings I hope this helps, but please let me know if there's anything else I can do for you. I'm always happy to help! Thanks, Michelle

Easy to add, administer and record time. We can also integrate to the API to easily see who has free time and surface this through other channels. It also allows the whole company to get a view on who is free and when

It's quite expensive for what we use it for, so this makes it a decision point as the company grows.

The ease of use. View of all the resourses at once Good functionality

The pricing is just a bit step to put our complete team on.

Resource GURU focus on resource management . It doesn't provide a ton of unnecessary gadgets just driving the cost and complexity up. In a small company of app. 20 engineers, the GURU makes an excellent overview for the daily and weekly planning, provides a good forecasts of utilization looking ahead, and the ability of synchronizing with outlook makes it very easy to inform about our expectations to our colleagues.

A nice feature to work on, would be an 'autofit' function, where a new project could be thrown into the bunch of existing projects and let GURU do the initial planning. A smooth looking app as other software provide would also be nice.

Ease of use & great pricing - great software for small-large organizations.

I don't have anything that I like least about this software.

As we are mostly working remotely, we mainly value Resource Guru as a resource tracker tool. Who is doing what next week? Who is where next week? Who is available when next week? We like the very user-friendly interface.

Even if the user interface for mobile devices has been recently improved, there is no Android/IOS App. Not yet?