Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for ActiveCollab are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Effective Billing and Invoice Feature: Many users have found ActiveCollab's billing and invoice feature to be highly effective for time and materials teams. They mentioned that the current version, ActiveCollab version 5, allows for direct time tracking to tasks using the Timer app, making it convenient to create invoices based on the time entries.

Useful File Sharing Capability: The file sharing feature of ActiveCollab was highlighted as very useful for distributed teams. Users can easily share files and screenshots, improving collaboration and communication.

Easy-to-Use Interface: ActiveCollab is often described as easy to use by many users. With just a few clicks required to create a new project, they appreciate the well-laid-out dashboard and options, which are easy to navigate.

Reviews

3 Reviews

InformationComputer Software1Internet2

ActiveCollab has a simple interface and helps manage tasks easily, though design and some finctionality could be improved

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

April 20, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ActiveCollab is used across the whole organization to manage tasks of design, development, and marketing.

Pros

Activity log to see the general picture.
Ability to manage different projects.
Daily email report on things discussed the previous day.

Cons

Subtasks cannot be managed as full tasks, with comments.
No ability to make several assignees.

Likelihood to Recommend

When you manage a project or a task it is convenient to assign it to the appropriate colleague and track its status. ActiveCollab's user interface and design are a bit unusual after using Wrike for several years.

Julia Romanchenko

Digital Marketing in Marketing at Giveaway Club (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

We tried everything and Active Collab is above all.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 18, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ActiveCollab helps us run the day to day operations for our company and our clients. Our whole team uses ActiveCollab in order to keep everything moving in the right direction. It helps us keep track of everything we do and where any project as at in its timeline.

Pros

They give you the source code to use on your own server.
It is easy to sort clients and campaigns.
The email notifications work perfectly when tagging and talking to people. They allow you to subscribe to tasks as well to keep in the loop on what is going on.

Cons

They don' do Gantt charts well
Integrations aren't awesome yet
They don't have task dependencies

Likelihood to Recommend

We have a marketing company. If you are an agency of any size and work with clients, it's easy to give your clients full access to whatever you want them to see. We allow our clients to see how their projects/tasks are going, but there is even a hidden from clients button on any task that allows you to give full visibility into any task for any and all clients.

Chris Lesner

Founder & CEO in Marketing at Project World Impact (Internet, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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The best project management tool that you didn't know about

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 2, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Active Collab to manage all projects within our web design/digital marketing business. Having tried many other project management options, we found Active Collab to be the only one that offered all the features that we need at a sensible price point. Using it has enabled all of our team, including freelancers to keep up to date with all projects they are involved in whilst giving myself and my fellow directors an instant view of which stage each job is at.

Pros

The time tracking desktop app is great, giving both a list of assigned tasks and allowing time spent on them to be recorded quickly and easily.
Xero integration means that all time tracked can be used to create invoices within our chosen accounting package with the minimum of fuss.
Project templates ensure that each new project is quick and easy to set up and that all internal processes are included within each project.

Cons

Notification emails would benefit from being able to set up schedules for reminders when tasks are due for completion.
A time tracking app for Linus would be a welcome addition.

Likelihood to Recommend

For me, Active Collab is the ideal project management tool for a busy digital agency.

Kevin Horler

Project Director in Marketing at Vividfish Ltd. (Internet, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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