Productive Reviews & Product Details

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.

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.

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.

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.

The ability to set recurring budgets for monthly retainers was the deciding factor for us - something we rely on strongly as an agency.

The tool is easy to use, with integrations with a large amount of other tools - including Xero.

As someone who lives in productive daily to get things done, its simplified a large amount of things for our workday that used to be long and manual. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Configuring particular reports can be difficult, especially when you have to think about what specific data field is going to give you the answers you need.

But - the standard report library covers a large amount of standard use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our company started using Productive more than 2 years ago, and we love it! It is a perfect solution for 360 project management that allows us to truly bring all our management processes under a single roof. These days, we try to utilize every single feature that Productive offers as we use it across the whole team on a daily basis. We particularly like the flexibility of the tool, which allows us to customize any views and reports in very easy and intuitive ways. Onboarding for new team members is very easy, and it helps our managers keep on track with budgets, tasks, and resource planning. Overall, it has a great user experience and a very intuitive interface. We also appreciate fast customer support that often helps us to troubleshoot if we have any questions. Productive reps took multiple calls with us when we had more complex questions and topics to cover. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We don't see any downside, compared to other tools we tried in the past this was a great experience all around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Productive is a comprehensive solution for agency management. I've found it to have just the right amount of features and functionality to handle project planning, delivery management, billing, and sales pipeline management for our agency. I'm impressed at the app's attention to detail, and am confident that our agency will be more efficient – and profitable – by using Productive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While the overall UX is excellent, I wish some of the modules where more integrated with each other. Specifically, the task management in the Sales CRM is different from the Project Management module, which means I need to maintain two workstreams. Also, the collaborative docs are great, but the formatting of exported PDFs leaves a lot to be desired. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love how intuitive and user-friendly the interface is—it made onboarding quick and effortless. In addition, the collaboration tools are fantastic, keeping my team connected and aligned, even across different time zones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The layout can be a bit overwhelming at first, which might make it harder for new users to navigate. Also, I found the reporting tools a bit limited compared to other software, as they don't allow for as much customization as I expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have used many other tools in this space, as well as previously built our own and also configured very bulky Salesforce instances with so much complexity. I'm really, really impressed with Productive and would recommend others to use it. Our CSM Luka has been really helpful and overall it's a great tool. It's very easy to customise to get what we need and the integration to Xero for invoicing is really smooth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are a small agency 40 people so I can't say how it would scale, the formulas aren't as complex as I'd like for the reporting but the pros balance this out, it gives us what we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For us, the most powerful thing by far about Productive has been the ease with which we can create custom reports to have all the key metrics and data about our business at our fingertips. That has streamlined the need for more manual processing and allows us to focus on making decisions in light of the data, rather than spending a lot of time producing the data in the first place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We don't have a model where we charge for time and Productive seems particularly suited to those use cases. That said, we've been able to adapt it to work well for our setting still so it's not been any great hindrance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.