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25 reviewers had the following to say about ActiveCollab's features:
Time management and project management made a lot easier.
Pros
The fact that you can manage very easily multiple tasks in categories and edit them.
Cons
The fact that I cannot live track the time under a task directly in the projects interface and that I cannot add meetings in the Agenda section.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Workflow efficiency. Team project management.
Pros
Discussions, notes, tasks, lists. Third-party app integration if needed.
Cons
It's frustrating when I can't scroll through our long list of active jobs, or when the status doesn't appear in my toolbar for easy reference.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
and time tracking to some extent.
Pros
easy to use , labels are a great way to manage the priorities. lists help a lot with task delegation and the comments are also helpful . subtasks can be assigned too which is a great help .
Cons
really wanted to have images in subtasks and tasks description . and if the image attachment can be just drag and drop will be perfect.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Easy to track time and manage tasks.
Cons
Search doesn't work so have to search through a list of projects, completed projects aren't searchable, timer disconnects at times.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
- Ease of use - Kanban, traditional tasklists, or gantt view - Time tracking - Project deadlines - Task's start and due dates
Cons
- Tasks can not have multiple assignees - The text editor for tasks descriptions, notes and comments is a bit nasty - Sometimes moving stuff around is difficult / buggy
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Project management became easier and enjoyable.
Pros
My company used another project management tool before ActiveCollab and it was defintely not the same thing.
Cons
There's nothing to dislike on ActiveCollab, but I'd really love to see a built-in chat feature with group chats generated automatically for each team.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It is great for tracking the progress and edits on tasks within projects and campaigns, although some functionality could still be bettered.
Cons
We use the commenting feature to include everyone, and the subscribers feature, but it doesn't show in people's My Work tab which does cause us some problems.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Pros
the ability to track hours and project management is great. the interface is simple enough, our clients are able to easily navigate the program .
Cons
active collab is built to function as your one-stop shop for all project management, billing, hour tracking, calendar management, etc. we don't need all of those features for our company - so it would be great to just plug events on the calendar without creating/assigning tasks.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
The combination of project management, team+client collaboration, time tracking, expense tracking, and project templates, API, and accounting add-on integrations made this hard to beat.
Pros
The combination of features, the API, the add-ons, permission management, project template creation, and UX.
Cons
We haven't found anything significant that we would improve about it so far.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Recommendations to others considering ActiveCollab
This is allowing us to manage software, mobile, and web application development projects with team of developers which very mixed experience. The ability to create templates has been invaluable. Permission management, and client or client+ users has been really helpful. Tracking time and expenses, project goals, tasks, and deadlines has been invaluable. The platform is really well thought out and UX is WAY better than everything else we've tried. The mobile app could use some work but its on its way.
It is our primary task tracker that we use for each and every project we work on.
Pros
Ability to estimate and then track time for a given task. 4.
Cons
At some point we decided to move to a self-hosted version of ActiveCollab. By that point we've been using ActiveCollab for a while and our database (including all the files) was about 150GB. Unfortunately, it took about 6 weeks (from 16/10/2017 to 30/11/2017) for the guys over at ActiveCollab to provide us with a link to download our data.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
- daily reports - put a project in favorite list - time tracking - makes me very organised - nice interface
Cons
- no chat for members - tasks can´t have multiple assignees - no crm - not enough free limitations of users
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Remote work flexibility. Collaboration. Time Management.
Pros
On the task list, we can drag/drop tasks.
Cons
Minors: Recurring tasks are a bit of a pain to setup the first time Multiple different calendars confuse people sometimes and they end up creating a calendar for themselves.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Easy project management and flexibility
Pros
Easy view of tasks and milestones Ganntt chart and its view Email collaboration Privacy and visibility settings
Cons
For any new fresh email, it should create a task automatically and assign to that project's manager.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Mostly useful for me to track projects and easy to mention and assign projects and different tasks in the same projects, easy to put time in mobile app too and even if im outside of office it is easy to track my works
Cons
Need to imporove scroll options if thae task list is more than 20, it will be better to improve this section and moreover good
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Help with project management and organization, as well as, keeping support departments on task.
Pros
I great way to keep customers and support departments up to speed, and on task on many ongoing projects at once.
Cons
The way we utilize the software is constantly evolving and improving. I have not had any negative experiences so far that have not been solved with additional training from support.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
better project management. and have a history of projects done.
Saved time on recording project data and improvements/lessons learned, saved time invoicing thanks to time tracking and integration with accounting software, and have a centralised document store for internal use (apart from client projects) without needing to manage a duplicate access permission system.
Pros
Customer support has pointed some out when I put in what we thought was a feature request... but it already existed and I'd missed it.
Cons
Without Elastic Search, there's not even a simple text search available for project/task/comment description.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
The total ease of use - in the organization, archiving, comments, checklists.
Cons
Off the top of my head, tracking time - there are so many clicks to enter a single time entry through the time log page.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Pros
- Simple, clean UI - Easy to learn - Clear structure (teams, projects, categorized task lists) that works well for us - Ability to sort things in the My Work list, so I can arrange my priorities for the week and then easily reorder things as tasks are completed
Cons
- AC emails you every time you're added to a project, and you need to be part of a project to see what's going on in it - we use this for workplace transparency, so there are a lot of projects and the notifications are irritating - Can't easily transform a task into a project - The My Work interface doesn't automatically refresh when there's an update on one of my projects, so I can be in AC all day and still miss some notifications (unless I enable email notifications, which I dislike).
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Flexible, robust project management with great support.
Pros
You can easily manage milestones, tasks, files, discussions, time-tracking et al. however needed and have every feature you'll need or want available.
Cons
A responsive design and more fluid UI would also be a welcome change.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Collaboration improvements: every one knows what we are up to in which part of the project and as a manager you can keep track of results and challenges.
Pros
Plus it works seemed on Mac - even with an own desktop app and Mobile app.
Cons
Export functions of graphs and reports can be improved.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
A pretty straightforward project management system with handy communication tools, easy collaboration, and a pretty simple interface.
Cons
The terminology was a bit confusing, and the UI themes left a bit to be desired.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
The ability keep better track of all of my projects.
Pros
I love that I am able to create templates for the ongoing Projects/Tasks I generate often.
Cons
I wish Active Collab was able to integrate with other tools we use such as Slack.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It was very helpful in prioritizing tasks and keeping up with what's coming next.
Cons
I wish there were a lot more functionality and integrations with the software.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Cleaner workflow, project organization and time management.
Pros
Also, setting up sub-tasks and timelines is intuitive.
Cons
There's a bit of repetition needed when creating sub-tasks clearly if you're avid users of the Timer [which we are].
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
