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Bonsai

Score10 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is Bonsai?

Bonsai is a complete project management tool designed for agencies, consultancies, and professional service providers. It enhances project, client, and financial management with features like task management, team collaboration, and revenue tracking.

Top Performing Features

  • Task Management

    This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.

    Category average: 9.1

  • Resource Management

    Resource management is workload planning to maximize resources.

    Category average: 8.6

  • Gantt Charts

    Gantt charts are charts that show tasks or events along the y-axis displayed against time along the x-axis.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Invoicing

    Ability to create, manage and send invoices to clients during or after completion of a project

    Category average: 7.6

  • Project & financial reporting

    Ability to analyze project and financial data based on custom criteria to gather insights and improve business performance

    Category average: 8.4

  • Integration with accounting software

    Real-time, two-way sync with accounting or financial software to facilitate project and financial reporting

    Category average: 8.3

Best project management tool for our agency

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As an agency of over 15+ professionals, Bonsai has transformed our workflow. We started using them when we were only 2 people on the team, and we used Bonsai only for a few features at the beginning (proposals, contracts and invoicing).

But as our team grew to nearly 20 people now, we started needing more features, and surprisingly, Bonsai grew as well and launched the features we needed like project management, budgeting, team resource planning and business profitability overview. It made our daily operations way more efficient and simplified the overall project management process and working with clients.

We also tested a few other tools in the meantime but Bonsai was the only one that hit the sweet spot of ease of use and a comprehensive list of features that seem to be specifically built for agency workflows.

Additionally, the customer support is top-notch, always responsive and knowledgeable.

Pros

  • Business reporting
  • Client management
  • Automated billing
  • Team time tracking

Cons

  • Client portal - could have more customization

Return on Investment

  • It made our daily operations way more efficient and simplified the overall project management process and working with clients.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Teamwork.com, ClickUp and monday.com

Other Software Used

Notion