Productive Bewertungen

Wir hatten einige Jahre Asana genutzt, allerdings einige Funktionen hinsichtlich des Projekt Controllings (Auslastung, Rentabilität & Co) vermisst. Die Flexibilität, mit der man Projekte bei Productive anpassen und verwalten kann, ist sehr hilfreich. Auch die Integration von Zeitverfolgung und Berichterstattung ist ein großer Pluspunkt, da sie es ermöglicht, die Produktivität und den Fortschritt effektiv zu messen und zu analysieren.

Die mobile App ist (noch) nicht so reichhaltig an Funktionen ist wie die Desktop-Version. Dies ist für Nutzer, die häufig unterwegs sind, etwas einschränkend. Außerdem empfand mein Team die vielen Funktionen und Anpassungsoptionen am Anfang zunächst überwältigend.

Wir nutzen Productive vor allem vor vorausschauende Kapazitätsplanung im Team und die Vergabe von Aufgaben und Briefings. Auch für die persönliche Zeitverwaltung und das Setzen von Zielen ist das Tool sehr nützlich und bietet wirklich sehr granulare Aufschlüsselung von Informationen. Gerade bei Zeit gegen Geld Modelle bietet Productive sehr hilfreiche Möglichkeiten zur Einsicht von abrechenbaren Stunden.

I use Productive every day together with my colleagues, and it has become an essential part of how we work. From the moment you start using it, it’s clear that the system is thoughtfully designed. It’s very user-friendly, yet incredibly complete, with a clear structure and intuitive navigation that makes it easy to find your way around. One of the biggest strengths of Productive is the way it creates a solid overview of your work. The dashboards and reporting features give instant insight into project status, workloads, and performance. This makes it much easier to stay in control and make informed decisions. Monitoring projects and managing budgets is also very efficient. Everything is well integrated, allowing you to track progress and financials without switching between tools. It really helps keep projects on track and within scope. Another standout feature is the help center. It’s impressively fast and responsive, which makes a big difference when you run into questions or need guidance. On top of that, the team behind Productive is very open to feedback. Whether you suggest new features or report bugs, they actively pick it up and respond. What I appreciate most is that they genuinely ask for your opinion and make you feel involved. There’s a strong sense that you’re not just using the system, but actually contributing to building a better, more tailored solution for your company.

Of course, no system is perfect. Sometimes, I do miss a specific functionality that would match our exact way of working. However, what really stands out is how open the Productive team is to feedback. They genuinely listen, and in some cases, they implement new features surprisingly fast.

Productive helps us keep a clear overview of our projects, budgets, and team capacity all in one place. It solves the challenge of scattered information and makes it much easier to monitor progress and make informed decisions. The biggest benefits are better control over projects, improved collaboration within the team, and increased efficiency since everything is integrated in one system. The dashboards provide quick insights, and we spend less time searching for information. Additionally, the fast support and openness to feedback make Productive a tool that continuously improves and adapts to our needs.

I work for a design agency and if I am designing for one client for a longer period of time (therefore I regularly spend 8 hours on the same project) it is easy for me to copy hours from the previous days (i think you call it "duplicate"). It saves me a lot of time! Second thing that helps me to organise my work is the ease of requesting holidays and self development days. I like that it is instantly visible how many hours for each category i have left and also that I am able to ad notes for my employer. Last but not least, I think it is great that i can quickly find out how many hours I have left on the project that I am booked on.

I think the tool works great. It does what it needs to do. I only use it for managing my time so my use case is limited (asking days off + filling in my hours). I think one thing that could be done better is the dashboard. I never use it because the information on it is not relevant to me. it would be nice if I would have shortcuts to the actions that I perform often for example. Right now, I only see a feed of notifications from the actions that my colleagues take. Or other project that people are booked on. It could be made more visual (with graphs in the focus for example).

It helps us track how many hours we work on projects and therefore keep track of how much money our clients need to pay us (whether we have hours left over or the hours are running out too quickly).

Man merkt an jeder Stelle, dass das Produkt von Menschen gemacht wird, die selbst in der Agenturwelt zuhause sind. Dadurch wird Productive für uns zur Single Source of Truth: Projektmanagement, Finanzen, Mitarbeiter – alles für eine Agentur relevante lässt sich an einem Ort verwalten und miteinander in Relation bringen der Reporten. Habe ich doch mal ein sehr Deutschland- oder Agentur-spezifisches Thema gefunden, dass nicht schon von Productive abgedeckt wird, hilft der bezaubernde Support sehr sehr gut weiter oder nimmt einen Feature Request auf, der oft auch sehr zügig umgesetzt wird. So war die Möglichkeit von E-Rechnungen pünktlich im Dezember 2024 implementiert, nachdem ich das Thema im Spätsommer/Herbst 2024 bei Productive auf die Agenda brachte. Im Gegensatz zu Lösungen wir awork sind die Interface Designer:innen auch nicht als Kind in den Topf mit den überflüssigen Schlagschatten und Emojis gefallen – Das Interface ist klar und übersichtlich gestaltet, trotz der riesigen Funktionsvielfalt habe ich mich noch nie so schnell in ein so komplexes Produkt eingearbeitet und dabei so viel Freude empfunden.

Software aktuell nur in englischer Sprache verfügbar (aber Mehrsprachigkeit steht schon in der Roadmap). Einige Deutschland-spezifische Regelungen sind nicht 100% umgesetzt und brauchen hier und da einen eigenen Trick 17. Rechnungsdokumente lassen sich nur sehr rudimentär stylen und sehen sehr amerikanisch aus. Die Ressourcenplanung ist noch sehr statisch (Aufgaben verteilen sich immer gleichmäßig auf die Tage bis zur Deadline, statt als gebündeltes Arbeitspaket zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt) – aber dazu habe ich auch bereits einen Feature Request gesendet, der auf Umsetzung wartet. Jammern auf sehr hohem Niveau.

Wir haben die komplette Verwaltung der Agentur in Productive integriert. Neben Productive gibt es eigentlich nur noch Lexoffice, Slack und den Fileserver. Durch die Integration aller relevanten Agenturprozesse und -aufgaben haben wir eine einzige Datenquelle, die für alle Lebenslagen die richtigen Antworten liefert.

I worked daily using Monday.com as CRM for five years and used Timely as a time-tracking system. This resulted in a lot of extra work having to move projects from Monday.com to TImely as soon as they were tracked. Furthermore, we kept invoice details in an Excel document. Today we got Productive.io for all of this and even though I loved Monday.com, I am never going back. Productive has made our business much more efficient and is the best software for us. We got an all-in-one system which is the closest we'll ever get to perfection! Did you get a lead from your website? There are integrations to automatically push the leads into the Productive CRM. When the deal is closed, you create the project for people to track time in a few seconds. And also - you can automatically send a notification to your Slack channel - letting everyone know you're the sales master of the company! Get a full overview of stats, invoices, time tracking, and how people work with fully customizable reports and widgets. Create boards with the most important information for every single person in your company. Got any questions? The Productive support team is world class and the most helpful support team I've ever met! Being a Partner of a fast-growing design agency in Norway, using Productive has transformed my days in all the right ways!

Sometimes, it might feel a bit big, and therefore, people in the company may use Productive differently. As long as your company has good routines and is well-structured, this is no problem.

CRM System, Project Management, Invoicing, Resource Management and streamline the way we work. We get a full overview with fully customizable reports and widgets.

Combination of salesfunnel, budget management, projectmanagement, time and expense registration AND planning. Great support organisation.

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Gives great insights in the performance of the agency and insights where and how to improve

That almost everything in the system is loading very very quickly and most things are connected together, with that last thing I mean for example customers, budgets, projects. Also the api is very connectable and easy to understand.

I dislike that I can't multihome tasks. This makes it way more difficult to work on multiple projects at the same time. Also forms connected to task creation removes the formatting of bodytext, that results in getting 1 big piece of text that you have to format with titles and enters first.

Running the agency business. That means shifting in projects a lot of times. We are also managing support tickets via the tool and a custom inflow via the api.

productive doesn't force you in a specific way of working. You can set it up to be compatible with your processes. The interface feels up to date (our previous tools lacked a lot in this part). Creating your own dashboards and reports is very easy. The helpdesk is very quick and helpfull and when you ask for a feature request they get followed up.

The UI can be a bit inconsistant, not on the important parts, but when you get in the deeper parts of the program. Long reports can be a bit slow (but this is improving a lot)

It allows to plan you resources on a high level. It doesn't force you to plan each task, you can plan your resources on a project level. It also gives good insights in billability on user, project and company level.

The interface is intuitive and ergonomic. The tool itself is flexible with many opportunities to expand, and has a great support.

Separate databases for planning, realisation and budget. Would have been great if we could create more professional reports instead of exporting to excel and pivoting.

Our project-resource-budget management and time tracking processes are much more efficient.

The AI intergrated function. Report section, where you can create reports to your own liking. The overview you have, you can show sidebars or easily hide them.

whish to see more possibilities in automations. With use of financial locking, you should still be able to turn time tracking off on a service line

giving project management more insight on how their projects are doing. quicker insight to see which budgets needs invoicing

It's one single source of truth, it combines all the processes in the agency: planning, time registration, project administration, CRM and Reports. It provides realtime insights in the performance of the agency and helps us to manage processes. The support staff is great, what ever the question is, the answer is always fast and accurate

Nothing. If I really have to name something, it takes some time to really understand the principle. But once you get the hang of it, it works like a charm.

Fragmentation of data across different systems which causes us to not have clear insights into agency performance.

Simple in its use, has great UX/UI and expansive features. Functional, and practical for our team to adopt, given that we're a 360 marketing & branding agency that needed to centralise all of its operations.

Complex deployment and steep learning curve for admins/backend team, and getting used to the terminology that the system utilises. Holistically, deploying this solution across a 12+ person team with various technological experiences has been great once the early adopters were comfortable.

Sales tracking, project tracking, general business organisation and accountability tracking. Very useful for ensuring that all team members are easily looped in, and information is easily accessible.

Productive is a powerful tool which is really comprehensive for keeping track of your projects. The reporting section gives you a lot of insights as to how you're doing.

The tool is not really intuitive. We have to explain the structure of Productive a lot to new users and even existing users sometimes have trouble with this.

We were able to reduce the amount of (manual & project manager specific) Excelsheets for managing our projects.

That everything is in one place and I have an overview of everything from planning to margins. Before productive, we needed to use 3 tools to get everything that we do now, so it saved us time and improved our business.

The only thing, that it still doesn't have all of the features that we would need, but I know that they are in progress and we will get them at some point

Teams can focus more on actual work and less on administrative overhead, thanks to streamlined task and time management. It helps us track project budgets, expenses, and profitability in real time, preventing overspending and ensuring financial transparency. Reporting is amazing, we use lees excel sheets