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David M.
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I am the director of Right Brain Insights, and CFO for a company called T3 Group – T3 Facility Services Pty Ltd. I help SMEs use data to clarify their strategic direction and boost their business performance. In the case of T3 Group, that’s what we’ve been able to do with WorkflowMax. Eleven months ago, the only thing that could be vaguely understood was total sales to a client. However, in order...
- Customised reporting & data fields - Real-time tracking - Xero connection - Pricing (so much cheaper than GeoOp & Connect 2 Field at the time we researched) - Backed by Xero
- Dashboard design. Could be cleaner, maybe customisable - Not life or death, but stronger connection on the cost side. i.e. 'spend money' type transactions linking to Xero.
Eabyn F.
Design, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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Brings detailed project management workflows while offering portals and features that manage both the financial records and client facing invoices
Offers the benefits of both handling the financial and project management, this link is valuable for our company to monitor the integral efficiency of our organisation
A greater app integration list would benefit this platform
Anonymous Reviewer
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Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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It's OK for tracking jobs once the quote is accepted, and links with Xero quite well. If you have a simple business it'll probably be OK
Despite repeated requests, WFM is not interested in improving this side of the product. WFM cannot handle multi-line itemised quotes, is slow to use and has very limited functionality. While you can add profiles, and append them to orders it insists on blending all the profiles in together, making itemising a messy, manual process. The cost is OK, again if you have a simple business. Don't try to...
Uwais A.
Accounting, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Reasonably happy with the experiences
The ability to calculate and manage task time automatically without having people try to manually work out their hours is very helpful.
Planning for longer than a month is tricky if you only link jobs to projects that have been approved.
Maree M.
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Accounting,
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As Certified Implementation Partners, we have implemented and trained WorkflowMax for over sixty clients in the UK. Industries have included Creative Agencies, Architects & Engineers, Ecologists, Training Companies and General Consultancy firms.
WorkflowMax is highly flexible and every client will tend to use it slightly differently. Some of the key things our clients like about WorkflowMax 1. Easy time entry - Especially the weekly time grid where you can then easily track who has/hasn't submitted time if using the 'Submit Time'sheet' feature. 2. The ability to develop attractive quotes and proposals. 3. Being able to pull processes...
1. Capacity Planning. There is a Staff Availability grid, but time must be clearly allocated to staff and tasks for this to provide meaningful and accurate information. 2. Expenses Tracking. There are various options for Expense Tracking such as bulk purchase orders, but could be clearer and easier to use.
Daniel M.
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Construction,
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I am the Director of Melbourne-based commercial fit-out and property maintenance company, Symmetry Commercial. After migrating from MYOB to Xero, we were looking for a work scheduling and quotation software, and that’s when we discovered WorkflowMax. For us, the beauty of WorkflowMax has been creating a really tight process around purchasing and sending online purchase orders. Typically, paperwork...
- Inexpensive - Programmers are constantly improving WFM - Seamless compatibility with Xero - Easy to use and intuitive. Easy to train new comers on.
- Would prefer if it was a bit more Building/ Construction industry centric
Marc P.
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Used daily for 2+ years
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Easy to use similar to Xero accounting - integrates with accounting. Good mobile app and great reports. We're finding the leads and quotes very useful - especially for keeping track of projects and potential work, and converting to real jobs. Workflowmax has allowed us to improve our productivity as well as tracking work and hours that we previously would have missed.
A little bit of difficulty linking to Xero accounting - mainly due to our awkward setup. Looking forward to a smoother link between these apps.
Marc P.
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Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Huge improvement in our job workflow which means we captured more billable time and expenses.
Major benifit was the integration with its sister accounting cloud service. All time and project billing info is captured in Workflow and financial data is passed to Xero for accounting... huge improvement in our job workflow.
It was difficult to configure and setup from an invoicing perspective.
Anonymous Reviewer
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Accounting, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Great, would recommend
Ease of use day to day, product updates regularly
The report Centre can be difficult to access as in building reports
Jon R.
Construction, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Overall it has been ok but a steep learning curve for us
Tracking of costs for projects, purchasing and time writing
Lots of mouse clicks to get around, some terminology confusing for first time users but would have improved with training.
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In our role as cloud app integrators and implementation experts, WorkflowMax is an essential app in Link Solutions' toolkit. We recommend it over and above any other workflow management app, and use it daily within our own business. The depth of features is significant and can be easily adapted to suit most business processes. The flow from lead management right through delivery and then to invoicing...
* Flexible and extensive feature set that can manage most business processes * General ease of use - while there are some traps for beginners, these are understable given the depth of features available * It's a Xero company, and benefits from the association in terms of a strong integration, customer support standards, and ongoing development * Pricing is excellent and suits a range of businesses from small operators through to large enterprises * Significant job and task templating abilities allow multiple activity streams to be systematised within one application * Powerful reporting engine with the ability to extend with custom reports
* Retentions and variations can be difficult to manage for construction companies * Inventory management is non-existent, which while understandable in a workflow management app does limit use for service-based firms that also provide product * The mobile app could do with further extensions to the range of features available * If you are looking for a fully featured CRM that you need to integrate with a email marketing system (like Mailchimp) you may need to use a standalone app
Ryan E.
Warehousing, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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We have used workflowmax for years with the integration to Xero accounting software. The software has been reliable and the added mobile upgrades have increased our insight from out of the office.
The software doesn't have too many features. I had just the right things that were needed for our internal staff to create basic tickets, projects and invoices for our clients. Straight forward and simple.
I think the software could gain a lot with a better landing page or dashboard for users. Especially Managers and the Billing side to watch the status of the jobs easier.
Mackenzie M.
Accounting, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Workflow max helps to solve the issue of effective invoicing of time worked on each client. Workflow max has also helped our firm when it comes to GST time - the way workflow max integrates with Xero makes filing GST returns with Inland Revenue very simple, and lets you easily keep track of GST returns and to make sure that all returns have been filed before the due date.
- Workflowmax has the ability to let the user create and design their own reports, which can come in very handy for workflow planning purposes. Saves staff all trying to navigate through a single spreadsheet! - This is an effective program to record staff hours, which also allocates your time entries to the jobs you are working on, which helps when it comes time to bill clients. - The tax alerts on the dashboard are a good way to double check tax returns after they have been assessed by IRD, which is a good reminder to check any returns that have been assessed as different as it raises a red flag and makes you look into it.
The custom reporting can be a bit hard to navigate around, especially for any newcomers to the system.
Suhas P.
Computer & Network Security, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Overall very happy with the product. I am able to allocate different tasks to my projects based on need and then track progress and budget against these individual tasks which is great because it provides an additional layer of granularity in terms of maintaining overview of things.
We use WFM for project management and timesheet management. It's easy to use and for managing small projects, it is a great product. I am not an administrative user, but from I understand it integrates well with various other products you might be using within the organisation.
As an end user, it does all that I need it to. No complaints. I don't use any of the reporting capabilities but as a project manager, it allows me track progress and the budget of my projects.
Phillip Q.
Graphic Design, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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If the support team fixes the timer issue, this would be the project management tool to go with hands down.
I like how the product has a timer that you can time your tasks against with start and stop timer functionality and see how much time you have spent on your project and each task. I like that it has Xero integration as well.
I don't like that the timer has bugs where maybe one out of every ten times that you attempt to stop the timer after finishing timing a job, it completely forgets the time that was recorded against it and resets the time to a lower time for some unknown reason. I have contacted support about this issue countless times but have always been pushed away even after following requests to send through supporting testing data.
Kenneth Jhim I.
Accounting, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Despite the interface being "crowded", the software is still good at what it does. It helps you manage clients well. If you have an accounting practice, especially in New Zealand, you will realize the benefits that it provides in terms of tax filing for your clients.
WorkflowMax (now XPM) provides most of the project management's functionality that you need in for your Xero client. From adding the client in Xero, assigning jobs to staff, budgeting hours, etc. It has all your needs.
The software's interface is a bit crowded. There's a lot going on at each screen. It really takes time to master the software. What I find also confusing is that you can add returns for individuals under the company account where they are owners or shareholders.
Anonymous Reviewer
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Management Consulting, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Using an app to enter hours saves us time - we are a small company so a large ERP system isn't appropriate. Workflow Max isn't perfect, but it does what we need - let's us do project costing relatively easily while integrating with the accounts system we use. There are lots of 'help' videos easily found to show you how to do things.
The phone app makes it easy to enter time, wherever you are, and the admins can see easily who has completed and submitted time and who hasn't.
The reports aren't as customisable as we'd like - you can see that it's built from database fields from different tables, but only certain combinations of fields are available and it takes a while to work out which basic report is the one you need. There are no 'sub jobs' or cost categories, so we need to use subfolders to categorise costs, or separate out project phases, which is a bit clunky.
Mark S.
Accounting, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Easy to use
WorkflowMax has excellent reporting and export functions which allows for production of meaningful management reporting. Client profitability is easy to calculate and more importantly, the productivity of team members. An excellent overall reporting system.
Navigating from one client to another can be cumbersome. Also, unless the different levels of jobs, tasks, and activities are set up properly, this can result of reports which provide incorrect information. In comparison to CCH iFirm, I think WorkflowMax have a few edits to perform to bring this up to standard
Mitch C.
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11-50 employees
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I’m a Partner at Greengage - a London based sustainability and environmental consultancy providing advice to a range of different clients on how they can integrate sustainability into their core operations as well as making their developments more environmentally responsible. We used to employ a cumbersome system of spreadsheets for time & project management that would often involve duplicate information....
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Justin E.
Construction, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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overall we really like it. It is perfect for a small business with limited needs.
We really like workflowmax. We started using it right after it was first released. It is very easy to use and gives us very good visibility into the costs of our projects. Back costing is so easy when all products and labour get reconciled against the project.
No really bad comments to be made about workflowmax. It does what it says it will and doesn't pretend to be be bigger than it is.
Kyle P.
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering,
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Workflowmax is a fantastic job mangement program that has saved APT a lot of time in book keeping. The software covers our complete workflow from Quoting and Scoping a Job, Managing the Job and Invoicing. The Stopwatch feature for time keeping adds a level of detail which makes it hard for cutomers to argue - everything is recorded in real time. WFM allows document storage and collaboration straight to the job, all emails, files and notes can be accessed by anyone working on the job - no searching for lost information.
There are a few integrations that are available for WFM (eg Xero) which work really well but It would be great if WFM had Zapier integration.
Keith B.
Machinery, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Fantastic product for the price. used it to meet all requirements of a quality system. custom reports are great. It kept us on track with schedules.
Basic needs to schedule task. A basic purchase section allowing areas for notes and visibility. Track job progress at an affordable cost for software. Was great to be able to Port data directly into XERO accounting package.
Quotes and jobs required a lot of retyping.
Anonymous Reviewer
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Marketing and Advertising,
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As the director of Threerooms, a graphic design agency in Nottingham, UK - I was watching my company struggle to grow because the admin demands were becoming overwhelming. We used to have job bags and job sheets, keep the record of time spent on paper — thats just seem like a historic way of doing things. But since we implemented WorkflowMax, it’s been smooth sailing. We use WorkflowMax to manage...
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Nathan C.
Construction, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I liked the overall workflow of the software, including the quoting/pricing modules. They were pretty flawless and helped me make sense of a pricing system on the fly. Also, there is the intergration with Xero, which is the platform I use for accounting.
I wasn't a fan of how WorflowMax's calendar system worked. I also wanted a task system with Kanban style layout, and that just isn't in there..
Simon W.
Government Administration, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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I particularly like the WorkflowMax app which I have loaded onto my work phone (iPhone). I prefer to use the WorkflowMax app on my phone than the PC as I have a large number of codes and sub-codes that I have to choose from and once I have selected the 'client' it filters out all of the potential entries that I don't need, then I enter 'job' and again it filters down to just what I need to choose from. Like most people, I reeeeeally don't enjoy doing timesheets and yet I can do them in my car or anywhere out of the office quite quickly and I know that it will be updated centrally immediately . The app helps a lot in streamlining the timesheet entry process.
I don't like doing timesheets but that's not WorkflowMax's fault! :) I suppose if I was really picky I'd say that the PC version is a bit clunky compared to the app.