Productive Reviews & Product Details

I really like the budgeting system. It lets me organise my projects in a simple, easy-to-navigate way.

The resourcing capabilities are another big benefit, because they make it easy to track projects and quickly see who’s working on what.

Overall, the tool feels smooth and straightforward to use. It’s also very easy to learn, pick up, and share with others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One area that could be improved is project navigation, especially when moving between budgets within the same project. On the desktop experience, it forces me to back out to the main project list and then search again just to get where I need to go.

Also, it’s frustrating having to manually add users to projects even when they’re already part of the dedicated team I’m sharing with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tool’s game-changing dashboards and resource planning. Keeping track of capacity is super easy, seeing who’s busy, and time tracking is automated. I also rely heavily on the budget vs actuals dashboard and love the visuals as well as the immediate flags for projects that are at risk of going over budget.

The interface is clean and intuitive, so I can onboard new contractors quickly and monitor performance metrics in real time. I especially appreciate the automation features, like automated commission calculations and detailed reporting, which save a lot of manual work. All in all a true “All-in-one” Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The reporting could use more flexibility, and the mobile app feels a bit stripped-down compared to the web version. Wish I could pull more detailed reports on the go, and send them over from my phone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Productive platforms big best aspect is that it does a great job in combining project management time tracking budgeting and resource planning tools all under in a single platform eliminates hopping on multiple tools like on websites platform also provides a financial visibility specifically our own project profitability and budget which are their biggest advantage the resource planning and forecasting futures in this platform are very useful for managing cross functional teams capability and capacity it also avoid bottlenecks for approval. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The platform might sometimes feel slightly complex during the initial setup, specifically when configuring budgets and financial tracking. There is a learning curve compared to other simpler tools out there, and some users might also find the user interface a bit dense due to the amount of data present in it. Their integration ecosystem can be made with extensive in terms of integrating with 3rd party apps and tools, effective in this competitive space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I discovered Productive a year ago, and it became the lifeblood of our agency. We use it to manage the full end-to-end experience of client prospecting pipelines, onboarding, brief intake, team workload management, time tracking, invoicing, and reporting. It ensures no dropped balls when it comes to delivery, aligning our global team on deliverables and coordinating marketing campaigns and strategy execution. I really like its ease of use and the speed of its page loading. The constant feature updates, where the product team listens to the user community, are great. The dashboards are beneficial, aligning the team on progress in real time. I find the feature updates introduce new tools that enhance our productivity, and these features are easily accessible to learn from the website and YouTube channel. Real-time dashboards make data accessible and are incredibly versatile and customizable. The initial setup of Productive was seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We need global task templates like there are for project and deal templates. In the template center, there should be an option for making, editing a template for a task, and then you should be able to load that template into any project quickly and easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love how the Productive team is incredibly focused on shipping and frequently listening to the community and its users, providing great updates month after month, week after week. The product is very easy to use and highly customizable, which I appreciate. Being able to set up custom permission sets for everybody is a real positive experience. I use it daily, especially for its reliable and fairly speedy custom reports and customizable dashboards. The resource planning functionality is top-notch, one of the best I've used, which helps in managing and planning resources effectively. I also find the coordination between delivery and sales, with the ability to flow a deal right into a project, to be tremendously useful. The scenario builder tool and the ability to see forecasted profit margins on projects are tremendously valuable. I appreciate the very responsive and amazing customer success team who always get back to us within twenty-four hours. Additionally, the integrations with tools like Outlook for quicker time entries, HubSpot, and QuickBooks have been really beneficial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's nothing that I can think of that I dislike about Productive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The budgeting and financial tracking for projects. A lot of our projects have fixed deal prices and they easily go off track. When we started using Productive we got a much clearer view of how budget each project consumes, it also tells us if we're profitable or not, shows us our margins and capacity. It's also much easier with the reporting tool for managers to track and review performance without wasting time on spreadsheets and back and forth check ins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a very powerful tool to handle once you get the grip, but onboarding and setting everything up required time and help from Productive’s team… Interface was a bit overwhelming for our beginner team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Speaking as someone who looks at the numbers every month, I like that I don’t have to chase five different people to understand how an account is performing. I literally have everything in one place. Time tracking and billing are connected, so what we deliver and what we invoice actually matches up. Managing retainers used to be a bit messy behind the scenes (matching and re-entering timesheets, seeing with everyone onboard how much time was actually spent) now it’s much clearer and calmer (click here and click there and export) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's not the simplest tool on day one. You do get a bit overwhelmed by all the possibilities and modules, and It takes a bit of discipline from the team to log time properly (automatic time trackers FTW), and some parts of the interface could be more intuitive. Luckily we had amazing support and help docs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We’re using Productive for little over 2 year as of now and it has become our literal operational backbone. The resource planning and forecasting capabilities are EXCELLENT. Basically, our operations, finances, resource planning and forecasting are in the same place. We went from struggling with reactive thinking to a structured approach and projects being more data-driven. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Customizing certain reports takes some experimenting. Flexible, but you need time to tailor it exactly to your needs. We spent a lot of time in Productive’s help docs to figure everything out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's easy to use and administrate. Time tracking is seamless, and I like that there is an app that I can use to manage time on the go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Gantt chart UI is a little busy but it's an improvement over other vendors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most helpful thing for us as an agency is the visibility we have over everything that is going on in the business. From an initial quote/budget, through the life of a project and into invoicing, the tight integration of relevant data makes errors far less likely. Being able to see all of our resourcing and utilisation (did I mention you can pull a report for just about anything?) all in one dashboard is really useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the Xero integration could be better. In particular, things like a PO number not populating the correct field when an invoice is pushed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.