# MaestroCR Reviews **Vendor:** Lena Solutions **Category:** [Freelancer Management Systems ](https://www.g2.com/categories/freelancer-management-systems) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 8 ## About MaestroCR MaestroCR is a project management tool that simplifies the process for all parties involved. It enables project owners, solution providers (software developers, copywriters, designers etc.), stakeholders and contributors to track the project's progress on a common platform. What distinguishes MaestroCR from other project management tools is that it enables you to control every stage of the project from estimation to delivery. MaestroCR cascades the project into proposal, estimate, effort, delivery, approval and invoice. At each of these stages, the project owner and the solution provider must agree on expectations. Thus, communication breakdowns due to missed emails, calls or messages are prevented and transparent communication is assured. Running multiple projects can lead to unnoticed deadlines, missed messages or overlooked requests. MaestroCR is created to help you to overcome these challenges. From your dashboard you can view each project's tasks and their status. While the project's milestones are celebrated, discussions and agreements of possible change requests and revisions are managed with MaestroCR to ensure the project runs smoothly. MaestroCR's integrations with Jira, Trello, Basecamp, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Asana, Wrike, GitHub, GitLab Slack, Webhooks.io, Google Drive, Zeplin, Inc., draw.io allows you to share your work with your in-house team and outsourcing partners without interruption. Thus, communication breakdowns between emails, calls and different applications are prevented and transparent communication is ensured. https://www.itechpost.com/articles/108459/20211227/best-project-management-tools-for-startups-and-businesses.htm ## MaestroCR Reviews ### 1. Transparent communication tools **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ceylan A. | Enterprise Architect, Financial Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2024 **What do you like best about MaestroCR?** MaestroCR is particularly good at properly organizing the interaction between project owners and freelancers. The integrated approval modules allow everyone to have the same understanding of the project before proceeding, which saves time and minimizes changes. **What do you dislike about MaestroCR?** It is convenient that all depends on me, and looking at everything at once makes it difficult to prioritize actions and define the main problems. The MaestroCR dashboard may feel rather cluttered if there are many active projects. **What problems is MaestroCR solving and how is that benefiting you?** MaestroCR has really helped us in the collaboration with my distant design team. The mentioned stage gates are helpful in ensuring that projects stay on track and that there is little to no miscommunication. ### 2. Secured approval and payments on time **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** BURGOS EDUARDO S. | Marketing Manager, Research, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2024 **What do you like best about MaestroCR?** I like the systematic way that MaestroCR applies for controlling projects. It track proposals, estimates, effort, approvals, and invoices makes everything clear and convenient not only for me but for my clients as well. **What do you dislike about MaestroCR?** There is no detailed coverage of phenomena such as productivity of a team member or budget consumption rate. This hampers assessment of project performance and deteriorating areas within projects to be enhanced on. **What problems is MaestroCR solving and how is that benefiting you?** MaestroCR has been useful for organizing freelance projects with several clients. In doing so, it also eradicates communication confusion that can be caused by the use of emails, and the presentations of proposals and invoices. ### 3. Overseeing projects with different partners **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** LEGON L. | Support Analyst, Building Materials, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2024 **What do you like best about MaestroCR?** I value MaestroCR's emphasis on clear correspondence and endorsements all through the task lifecycle. Having each step recorded and requiring sign-offs from both myself and the client. **What do you dislike about MaestroCR?** I can only with significant effort perceive how long is being spent on unambiguous undertakings or how activities are moving against financial plan. I need to send out information and control it in bookkeeping sheets to get the data I want. **What problems is MaestroCR solving and how is that benefiting you?** MaestroCR has been a really great for overseeing client assumptions and guaranteeing smooth undertaking conveyance. The organized work process keeps everybody responsible. ### 4. MaestroCR Master **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jesse T. | Manager of Provider Relations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about MaestroCR?** I love that MaestroCR offers a single sign-on to other systems like slack, basecamp, GitHub, and more. It makes working from home easy when it's one click to sign on to all systems. **What do you dislike about MaestroCR?** I do not like that it does not save your password and you have to enter it every single time you sign in. **What problems is MaestroCR solving and how is that benefiting you?** Account Management retail work ### 5. IT Project Manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2020 **What do you like best about MaestroCR?** It's easy use to manage the contractors of the project and the project budget for the change requests. **What do you dislike about MaestroCR?** Log work feature would be great for the contractor side. **What problems is MaestroCR solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing the change requests can take more time when your contractor count increase in a project. So MaestroCR helped us to manage the change requests, and it's proforma invoices in a single platform. That's why we love to use it in your project management cycles. ### 6. Best change request management product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2020 **What do you like best about MaestroCR?** Easy to use interface Budget tracking Ready-to-use integrations with the project management tools like JIRA, Trello, Gitlab, Github, Asana, Wrike, Slack **What do you dislike about MaestroCR?** More integrations can be made based on other pm tools **What problems is MaestroCR solving and how is that benefiting you?** In most of the projects, i need to get change requests from our clients and i have to respond back about the statuses. All of these are pain for us to use e-mail for the communication. With Maestro, we have an opportunity to make these processes automatic and from a single point easily. ### 7. Happy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2020 **What do you like best about MaestroCR?** Simple UX and UI design Invoice tracking is also useful If you have multiple clients with your projects you'll see its real power btw **What do you dislike about MaestroCR?** More integrations would be better - for other SaaS products **What problems is MaestroCR solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing multiple clients for gathering software project change requests made simple. After a successful CR cycle, you can also track your monthly effort and invoice cycle too. ### 8. Efficient IT project management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2020 **What do you like best about MaestroCR?** -Multiple contractor management at same page -Easy maintenance of customer developments and implementations **What do you dislike about MaestroCR?** Onboarding can be detailed more. I want to complete more settings with the helper. **What problems is MaestroCR solving and how is that benefiting you?** The product is focused on a very specific problem. After i started to use, i realized that CR management is an interesting efficiency point for ongoing live projects to be managed. ## MaestroCR Discussions - [What is MaestroCR used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-maestrocr-used-for) - [View MaestroCR pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/maestrocr/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+22%3A15%3A39+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=13d62239-9821-42f3-8151-31644ec4ab34&secure%5Btoken%5D=e018341a5b9e8cdca4238603ca4c997cf8a08db5d42321780ec82ea6a52677e2&format=llm_user) ## MaestroCR Features **Platform Basics** - Payment - Project Management - Dashboard **Generative AI** - AI Text Summarization **Platform Performance** - Interoperability - Performance - Monitoring **Platform Content** - Contracts - Request Tool - Selection Management - Invoicing Tool - Proposal Tool **Platform Additional Functionality** - Reporting - Mobility - Portal ## Top MaestroCR Alternatives - [Deel Hire](https://www.g2.com/products/deel-hire/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (5,775 reviews) - [Upwork](https://www.g2.com/products/upwork/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,075 reviews) - [Oyster](https://www.g2.com/products/oyster-oyster/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (1,415 reviews)