LiquidPlanner Information Reviews & Insights

Score8.3 out of 10

33 Reviews and Ratings

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

Pros

Powerful and Flexible Project Management: Many users have praised LiquidPlanner for its powerful and flexible project management capabilities. They appreciate the ability to create packages, folders, sub-packages, and tasks, which helps them keep projects organized and prevent tasks from getting out of order.

Dependent Actions: The feature of setting up dependent actions has been highly valued by users. This feature allows users to assign tasks to team members but ensures that they only see the task once the preceding task is marked as done. Users find this helpful in maintaining order and ensuring that tasks are completed in the correct sequence.

Task Assignment with Estimated Hours: Users have found great benefit in being able to assign tasks with estimated hours in LiquidPlanner. This feature helps them track how much work they have assigned to a team or individual, preventing them from overloading them with more work than they can handle in a week. It also allows users to ensure that everyone has a manageable workload.

LiquidPlanner Reviews

4 Reviews

InformationComputer Software2Internet2

LiquidPlanner - Good Planner

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

February 21, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Liquid Planner to manage the in-house projects. The tool is very good for what it is designed to do. It has the greatest asset of set reporting information that allows for customization to meet our needs. It has done this job for us very well. The support provided has been timely and effective. LiquidPlanner helped with capacity planning, tracking and utilization. The dashboard was quite simple and intuitive and made our collaboration fun

Pros

Ease of use
Great Tech support
Dynamic scheduling of work
Reports can be exported in CSV format
Integration with Drive ,Dropbox

Cons

Need a training to use it effectively
Little expensive
Its helpful only for Project Management
Reports can't be exported in PDF
accessing LP on mobile is tiresome
Some link mostly external doesn't open

Likelihood to Recommend

Its good for small team and where you have ample time to get started . Due to cost can't used can be used only for customersManages a huge amount of information related to projects and tasks.Offers different views and search options to get the information you're looking for.Estimation and time tracking work well and help keep everyone on the same page.

Kalavati Singh

Program Manager in Information Technology at Thougthworks (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Powerful, useful, and slightly cumbersome.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 7, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our entire organization uses LiquidPlanner to manage projects and tasks. Our Production department uses it primarily, while our Marketing department has been using it to interact with the Production department on their tasks, and also has been starting to track their own tasks. It addresses the problem of not having a cohesive system for tracking various projects and tasks together. It does an effective job of managing an entire company's tasks.

Pros

Manages a huge amount of information related to projects and tasks.
Offers different views and search options to get the information you're looking for.
Estimation and time tracking work well and help keep everyone on the same page.

Cons

The interface is messy and cluttered. The best way to find things and see what you actually want to see is the main Projects view which is also the most cluttered and hardest to maneuver in.
Clicking an external link someone posted in a comment or task description doesn't open in a new window by default, so we are constantly having to go back to get to LiquidPlanner again.
The way that the interface saves your state globally (rather than per tab instance) means that if you click a link from someone else to a task that's not yours, then it adjusts your filters on the Projects page. Then if you refresh another LiquidPlanner window where you were on the Projects tab, suddenly all of its filters are updated and what you were looking at may no longer be there.
It might just be the way that we use the system, but the Home and My Work tabs are fairly useless for us. They typically don't show the tasks we're actually looking for.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is suited well if the whole company is on-board and if you take the time and effort to train everyone and to use LiquidPlanner as it was designed. Used in such a scenario, I think it could be a very effective project management and task tracking tool. If you have custom needs and need a solution that will bend to support almost any scenario, you might end up fighting with the system to get it to do what you want.

Ben McClure

Head of Development Technologies in Research & Development at Top Floor Technologies (Internet, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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A great tool to get an overview of your project workload + time tracking

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 26, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our entire company uses LiquidPlanner to schedule projects across all team members and track time. It's great for tracking time and it also really helps us see the big picture of what we're currently working on as well as what's in the pipeline. It allows our sales team to better predict how soon a new project can get on the schedule, and it also helps us better support our existing customers by budgeting hours each week to address any concerns or new items that pop-up on the schedule.

Pros

Time tracking
Gantt chart views of scheduling
Multi-user collaboration

Cons

Steep learning curve
High per-seat price point
You can use it to manage projects but I find other tools work better for that need

Likelihood to Recommend

It is great for large companies or small -- basically any company where you want to be able to get both a high-level overview and a granular look at your current and future workload. It's also great for time tracking, particularly if you want/need to track on a granular and/or task level.

Verified User

Strategist in Marketing (Internet company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

LiquidPlanner Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 20, 2014

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use LiquidPlanner for to manage software implementation projects for new customers and customers that upgrade or add on new modules. In the past, we used Netsuite to try to manage projects, but since that wasn't a true project management software things were easily lost or buried. LiquidPlanner provides a detailed look at projects' status and provides a quick snapshot of who is working with each customer.

Pros

Ease of use
Notifications - emails members when tasks are assigned or updated, and you can follow tasks that are not yours so that you can keep track of their status.
Well designed UI
Unique mail addressees for each task to keep track of correspondence

Cons

Reporting - sometimes I can't filter on the fields I need to report on
Personal reporting - without administrative access users cannot easily export a list of all tasks they have outstanding
Not responsive - hard to view on phone/tablet

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have complex projects with many steps and many people working on them, or if you have a desire to report on many small aspects of a project, LiquidPlanner might not be the best fit. If you have smaller scale projects and are ok with doing some manipulation of project data outside of LiquidPlanner, it's a great software.

Verified User

Team Lead in Professional Services (Computer Software company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Powerful, useful, and slightly cumbersome.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 7, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Manages a huge amount of information related to projects and tasks.
Offers different views and search options to get the information you're looking for.
Estimation and time tracking work well and help keep everyone on the same page.

Cons

The interface is messy and cluttered. The best way to find things and see what you actually want to see is the main Projects view which is also the most cluttered and hardest to maneuver in.
Clicking an external link someone posted in a comment or task description doesn't open in a new window by default, so we are constantly having to go back to get to LiquidPlanner again.
The way that the interface saves your state globally (rather than per tab instance) means that if you click a link from someone else to a task that's not yours, then it adjusts your filters on the Projects page. Then if you refresh another LiquidPlanner window where you were on the Projects tab, suddenly all of its filters are updated and what you were looking at may no longer be there.
It might just be the way that we use the system, but the Home and My Work tabs are fairly useless for us. They typically don't show the tasks we're actually looking for.

Likelihood to Recommend

Ben McClure

Head of Development Technologies in Research & Development at Top Floor Technologies (Internet, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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