Flow Technologies in British Columbia offers the Flow task management app, featuring a range of tools like kanban board, checklist, timeline, and other features for tracking projects from start to finish.
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Smartsheet
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Smartsheet is an online project management and collaboration tool. It includes automated alerts, instantaneous updating and sharing across team members, resource management, nested tasks organized in a hierarchy, a Gantt chart view, exportable and automated reports, and integration with email.
$12
per month per user (up to 10 users)
Pricing
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Smartsheet
Editions & Modules
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Pro
$12
per month per user (up to 10 users)
Business
$24
per month per user (3 user minimum)
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Free Trial
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Yes
Free/Freemium Version
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No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
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A discount is offered for annual billing.
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Features
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Smartsheet
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Flow
9.3
Ratings
19% above category average
Smartsheet
9.0
Ratings
16% above category average
Task Management
9.30 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Resource Management
10.00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Gantt Charts
10.00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Scheduling
10.00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Workflow Automation
10.00 Ratings
8.10 Ratings
Team Collaboration
10.00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology
8.30 Ratings
7.00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology
7.40 Ratings
8.90 Ratings
Document Management
10.00 Ratings
8.90 Ratings
Email integration
10.00 Ratings
9.90 Ratings
Mobile Access
7.20 Ratings
8.00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking
10.00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management
10.00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management
7.70 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Flow is great for a team that is managing many projects with a lot of different players involved. It lets people really drill down into the projects that they are a part of without getting distracted by everyone else's work. The features like "focus work" and muting notifications are great for a fast-paced workplace which creates distractions. It is too robust for smaller teams or individual work.
The Smartsheet platform is extremely similar to Microsoft Excel, so if you are familiar with Excel, you will pick Smartsheet up quickly. Even if you aren't Smartsheet has a relatively simple user interface, meaning just about anyone can learn it. One thing to note is that the interface is that some may consider the interface so simple that they feel the need to look for more robust platforms. If you have a small to medium project that needs to be manages in a central hub, Smartsheet would be a great fit. If you have a very large project, I might consider looking into more advanced platforms.
The “catch up” tab is especially helpful for staying up to date with all the projects you are part of.
Being able to overview all of the projects and their status within a team helps give our top-level leaders a snapshot of where we are at any given moment.
Smartsheet set up is similar to Excel, yet when you upload an Excel file, things like conditional formatting are lost. Smartsheet has its own conditional formatting, and you have to reinstate the rules. It would be great if those would apply automatically once a file is uploaded
Some Smartsheet management and access rules can take some tweaking to work properly. This may be a case of offering more info to admins so they can apply these better and with more efficiency
Smartsheet has made my work life easier. Reduced my email significantly. Smartsheet and SaneBox have got me leaving the office with 0... Yes 0 emails in my inbox. My inbox would reach 150-250 email per day. Smartsheet brought that number down significantly and SaneBox took it the rest of the way. Do yourself a favor and check out SaneBox, too.
Smartsheet is very easy to learn. However, while I have been able to pick it easily, Microsoft Excel and Project super users that I have trained on Smartsheet get bogged down in the differences and can find it frustrating. Explaining the differences ahead of time and why Smartsheet is being chosen instead of a different software seems to counteract those reactions
They're a smaller company but they've always given great service when we rarely need to reach out. Pretty good online content but a bigger user base would help to produce more content in a self-sufficient community much as we see with Salesforce. To be fair we haven't needed their direct customer support very often. The sales guys are nice and not too pushy!
Work with the Smartsheet support team to get the best overall. If no one in your organization has used Smartsheet before, the support team will get things started. We had a couple of people who had used this product before and it was a great help in getting our framework together how we wanted to use it.
Asana and Freedcamp are similar, but I feel Flow is easier to hit the ground running with. Add a strong mobile component (apps) and great customer support I feel they are doing PM software the right way. However, Asana is huge and constantly adding features, so over time the big players may easily address their pain points. There are so many similar programs like this now.
Smartsheet is a dedicated project management tool that is built on spread sheet principles. When compared to Microsoft's own offering, Smartsheet came out on top in some areas like dedicated project management features vs having to build custom features to Microsoft 365. However when you compare them on price, Microsoft 365 definitely has more value than Smartsheet.
