Function Point vs Streamtime Comparison

Excellent price point, beautiful design, web-based functionality....

Looking forward to more in-depth reporting features

The To Do and scheduling function. Easy of use, less clicks. Support is good

A few minor bugs, but the support team are good easy to deal with and take advice

The road map is amazing, and the team always listen to feedback on how to improve the software. Plus the design team love to use it!

It can be a bit buggy at times which slows things down.

The ease of use. The design is really good from a UX point of view and also aesthetically. It's big and bold and the dragging is good.

Not sure yet, I'd say though maybe the quick access as just one of the users to see how much time I've spent on a particular job. Like a quick view would be good

It's extremely clear and easy to use. When there's limited time in the day then you need a programme like Streamtime which is straightforward and to the point.

Nothing! You've addressed the problems I had with the last version in terms of looking through jobs .

The interface – it just makes sense. I'm a pen and paper man and this is the closest thing.

The filtering of jobs is a little confusing but I think I just need to spend some more time with it.

The daily time-tracking and to do functionality is an amazingly visual way of mapping out daily and weekly schedule. The adjustable project time blocks have helped to improve our time management skills as it feels awful adding more time and great reducing the time taken. Also, being able to invoice the client directly from Streamtime based on the hours spent on a project fits seamlessly into our work flow.

Originally, we found it frustrating that there was no timer function. However, after using the adjustable project time blocks for a couple weeks, this became a big positive!

Cheers Zak, Its amazing how many people think they need a timer but they are so demotivating and demoralising - Humans not Robots! I haven't come across anyone yet who regrets ditching a stopwatch while they are working.

I love how easy it is to organise and complete tasks on a daily basis making it easy to manage my jobs and be productive

Sometimes there is some functionality that is missing (because it's so simple). In particular I would love to see a function for having selectable options in a quote.

It's is clear & beautiful visually, and that's a crucial starting point. Then filling your timesheet is really easier, especially you can combine with your agenda (so external meetings can be added too). You have also a clear overview of your task/to do.

I heart from our financial and accounts that sometimes report needs more details.

Streamtime provides a very clear visual idea about how each of our projects are going. It gives us direct insight on how profitable we are at any point in time. The visual nature of time tracking is also a really refreshing take on a frustrating and mundane task.

It took us a while to get used to the system of filters for reporting, but we caught on eventually. After setting up a few favorites, we have exactly what we need.

Simplicity of user setup is fantastic. And even though the support is not really needed, the support team goes out of their way to ensure your questions are answered in relation to your organisation. This is a subtle but important point. The ongoing additions to the original release are not adding clutter as in many iterative software releases, but adding value. The recent release of the analytics console was brilliant.

It cannot read my mind. I would like the developers to put some energy into a direct interface with my brain.

Hey Sam, mind reading is on our TO DO list - I actually knew you we're going to say that.

It's pretty simple and easy to use. I like that I can log in from anywhere and do a quote. Our old filemaker based system was old and clunky and not easy to access remotely. I like the reporting functionality and how easy it is to see how a job is tracking. Customer service is excellent.

It would be good to be able to merge and keep the cost against each line item. I have repeatedly asked for this to be looked at. Having a heading and a line item for each service offering makes the quote way too long. Clients want short concise and explicit quotes. There is no spell check letting you know something maybe misspelt. The quoting function is a bit clunky and you can end up having multiple drafts everytime you go back to alter a cost etc.

(1) Simplicity. Easy to pick up and a minimal/clean interface that responds quickly on the mouse and trackpad. Whip those cards into the Done pile as quickly as you can. (2) Quickness from job > job plan > quote // or from job plan > invoice // or a quick task added straight in the ToDo list for all of those 'urgent' jobs clients ask for. The pipeline from creating a job to completion and every...

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(1) Still suffers a little bit only at this point in time because it is so new. One or two invoicing features haven't arrived yet but are in the short-term pipeline. You can get around these whilst in Xero for the moment though. Once these bad boys come in... i'll come back here and bump two of the categories up from 4 stars to 5 stars along with the other three categories to give it a perfect score... it's that good... And i've used many good systems over the past decade. It's worth jumping on board now to experience the software as it's certainly made dealing with our WIP much easier.

Thanks for your support Chris!

We have been using Streamtime for a number of years and the cloud-based platform is a vast improvement on previous iterations. It is very straightforward to log in and check the status on individual projects. You can easily add a new stage to a job, revise a quote, then send it off to the client for approval. One thing I really like about that process is having the client `approve a quote by clicking the button (although many of them don't seem to bother!). Support is good, always get a good response from the development team service is a key differentiator for me.

Generally speaking the system is quite intuitive, but there are some elements of the interface that are not immediately clear the USED / PLANNED figures in the budget section of a quote, for example. That doesn't make sense to me, I think the total should include also include expenses, that would give us a running total that tell you when you've overspent. I haven't managed to output any useful reports...

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Thanks for the review Paul, We're looking at how we can improve that data on the job screen to better reflect the used / planned better.

Organising employees time with per day to-do lists with hour estimates is *brilliant*. We used to rely on Teamweek - which was excellent for high level project tracking. But now when fleshing out project timelines, it automatically sets up peoples weeks for them. Thats what makes Streamtime killer af. The rest of the features just make *that* feature more and more useful and harder to give up. The...

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The performance of the Schedule>To Do view is really problematic but performance on all pages needs work. In particular: - Scrolling sideways often leads to jumps in whole months when I only wanted to see the next/previous week. - When I do scroll to the next week/month it often reloads existing tiles and then takes quite a while (rarely less than 5s - we have 100mb/s down and 40mb/s up so our connection...

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This is an awesome review Jonny and the good news we are addressing speed and these things, I'll reach out to you personally and see if you can help with our testing.