G2

Lila B.

Digital Content & E‑Commerce Visual Production Specialist

Marketing and Advertising

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/1/2026

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"All-in-One Task, Time, Expense & Reporting Hub That Keeps Our Work Centralized"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Avaza?

What I love most about Avaza is its all-in-one platform that combines project task tracking, timesheet logging, expense tracking and client reporting, all tailored for our e-commerce visual production team. As a Digital Content & E‑Commerce Visual Production Specialist, I juggle multiple client visual asset projects at our Miami e-commerce marketing agency, ranging from product photo edits, social media clip creation, to banner design for online store pages. Avaza keeps my creative tasks, tracked work hours and project receipts centralized, so I don’t bounce between three separate apps to manage my production workload.

I use the My Tasks and Timesheets modules on the left sidebar every single workday. The way tasks link directly to time tracking saves me hours each week. When I start working on a batch of product image retouching for a retail client, I open my assigned task inside Avaza and start the built-in timer right on that task card. I log all my editing time, watermark removal work, and short promotional clip edits directly against the project. For example, last month I handled a large batch of 120 product photos and 8 social short clips for an apparel client. I split this work into separate tasks in Avaza: photo cleanup, clip editing, and final asset QA. Every time I switched between editing jobs, I simply stopped one timer and started another on the matching task. At the end of the week, all my logged hours were automatically attached to the client project, ready for our account team to use for billing. Before Avaza, I manually wrote down my hours in a spreadsheet, which often led to forgotten time entries and guesswork.

I also regularly use the profile and notification settings panel visible in the screenshot. I can adjust my timezone, set my profile details, and toggle notification preferences. I turned off daily task reminders, because I prefer to check my task board manually each morning instead of getting flooded with automated alerts. This cuts down on distractions while I’m focused on detailed image editing work, which requires long uninterrupted sessions.

An unexpected benefit I discovered is the Expenses tool. When I purchase licensed stock photos or small stock video clips for client campaigns, I log the expense and attach the receipt directly to the relevant project in Avaza. Our finance team can review these expenses and pass them on to the client for reimbursement. Last quarter I bought a stock media pack for a seasonal product campaign, uploaded my receipt in Avaza, tagged it to the project, and our team added this line item to the client quote seamlessly. This eliminated the old process of emailing receipts and hoping they got filed correctly.

Avaza’s reporting functionality also helps our team review production efficiency. Our project manager pulls reports showing how many hours visual production tasks take across different clients. This helps us set more accurate timelines for future photo and video asset projects, and keeps our client project estimates realistic. It also supports our US copyright best practices: we add notes inside each task documenting stock media licensing information, so all asset sourcing records stay attached to the project. This creates a simple audit trail for our client deliverables, proving we follow proper copyright rules on all edited visuals.

The project dashboard also makes handoffs simple. Once I finish editing product assets and upload links to the finished files in the task comments, the account and QA team get instant access to my task notes and time logs. There is no more digging through email threads to find the status of photo retouching work. All of this lets me spend less time on admin and more time focused on creating clean, high-quality e-commerce visuals for our clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Avaza?

The biggest pain points I run into using Avaza as a Digital Content & E‑Commerce Visual Production Specialist are its weak native media preview, lack of Adobe Creative Cloud integration, limited bulk asset management, and rigid automation rules, all of which create extra manual work for our visual production team handling large photo and video batches for e-commerce clients. Avaza works great for task tracking and time logging, but it was clearly built for general project management rather than creative media workflows, and these gaps slow down our asset production cycles.

First, native preview support for high-resolution images and short video clips is very limited. When I attach edited product photos or social promo clips to Avaza tasks, the platform often fails to render a usable full-size preview. I have to download every asset locally just to review details, check watermark removal quality, or verify color accuracy. Last month, I delivered a batch of 130 retouched product photos for an apparel client, uploaded all assets to the task, and our QA team had to download every single file to inspect them. This added nearly two hours of repetitive download work for our QA reviewer and created risk of them opening outdated local copies instead of the final uploaded version. A simple improvement would be adding high-quality inline preview for PNG, JPG, MP4 and MOV files, so reviewers can examine assets directly inside the task without downloading.

Second, there is no native Adobe Creative Cloud integration, which is the core tool stack our team uses every day. I edit photos and short clips in Photoshop and Premiere Pro, but I cannot sync my Creative Cloud library assets directly into Avaza tasks. I have to manually export finished visuals, upload them to storage, then paste links into Avaza. When we iterate on multiple versions of product banners, it becomes hard to keep track of which Photoshop source file links belong to which task. Adding native Creative Cloud connectivity would let us attach source project files directly and keep all asset versions linked to the relevant client task.

Bulk file management is another major limitation. We often upload dozens of assets at once for e-commerce product shoots, but Avaza does not support bulk tagging, batch renaming, or mass file organization within task attachments. When I upload a full photo batch, I have to add licensing notes and copyright documentation one file at a time. This is tedious when we need to document stock photo source information to uphold US copyright best practices. Last quarter, I spent more than 90 minutes manually adding copyright notes to over 80 individual image attachments for a seasonal campaign. Adding bulk editing for file metadata and tags would cut this admin work drastically.

The platform’s automation logic is also too basic for creative workflows. I cannot set up triggers like “auto create QA review task once visual assets are uploaded to a task.” Right now, after I finish editing a batch of product visuals, I have to manually create and assign the QA task. On our recent product launch campaign, I created over 25 separate QA tasks by hand, which ate up valuable time I could spend editing visuals.

Finally, audit trail functionality for file edits and asset uploads is limited. While we log copyright notes on task comments, Avaza does not log who uploaded, downloaded or replaced media files. When we need to verify asset version history for client copyright audits, I have to manually capture screenshots of task activity. Adding a dedicated file activity log would help us maintain cleaner records for our US copyright compliance work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Avaza solving and how is that benefiting you?

We struggled with disconnected systems for task tracking, time logging, and project expenses while creating e-commerce visual assets for our agency clients. Before Avaza, I tracked photo retouching and short video editing work in a separate spreadsheet, logged receipts in a different file, and shared asset updates through email threads. I often forgot to log small chunks of billable editing time, and our team wasted hours reconciling all these records manually at month-end. Now we can manage creative tasks, start timers on individual work items, log project expenses, and attach copyright documentation all inside one platform, which has resulted in us cutting weekly admin overhead by roughly 65% and recovering lost billable hours that previously slipped through the cracks.

For our recent large apparel product photo production project, the workflow shift was very clear. Before Avaza, I would manually jot down every editing session, record time after the fact, and email stock media receipts to our finance lead. This method meant I underreported my work time by around 10% on every project, and we had to cross-reference three separate files to compile client billing information. With Avaza, our project manager set up dedicated tasks for photo batch cleanup, social clip editing, and final QA. I start the built-in timer directly on each task card while I work on removing watermarks and refining product imagery. When I purchase licensed stock photos or video assets, I upload the receipt as an expense entry and tag it to the client project. Once all visual production wraps up, our finance team pulls all approved timesheets and billable expenses directly from Avaza to build the client invoice. This entire process took us about 2.5 hours of admin work for this campaign, compared to over 8 hours using our old spreadsheet method.

Avaza also solves the problem of scattered project context and copyright records, which matters a lot for our US copyright best practices. I add notes to each task documenting stock media sources, license numbers and usage limits, so all compliance information stays attached to the visual asset project. Previously, these licensing notes were buried in email replies or separate word documents, making it hard to locate records when clients requested proof of media licensing. Now anyone assigned to the project can view these notes in the task history, so our audit trail for creative deliverables is far easier to maintain.

The notification and profile settings panel also helps reduce workflow interruptions. Since I work on long, focused editing sessions, I turned off daily task reminders in my profile settings. This prevents constant pop-up alerts from breaking my concentration while I retouch high-resolution product photos. I still get notifications for comments and QA feedback, so I stay updated without unnecessary distractions.

We also benefit from Avaza’s team scheduling and reporting features. Our project lead can view workload reports across all active client projects, so they avoid assigning too many visual production tasks to me during busy campaign seasons. Before Avaza, resource planning required polling every team member individually, which took half a day for each quarterly planning cycle. Now workload reports generate instantly, so our team can balance creative workloads ahead of time.

Even though Avaza lacks native Adobe integration and strong media preview for creative files, the unified task, time and expense tracking eliminates the biggest administrative pain points for our visual production team. The time I save on manual logging and file reconciliation gets redirected back to actual creative work, improving the quality and turnaround speed of product photos and social visuals for our e-commerce clients. We also reduced our annual software costs by canceling our separate timesheet and expense tracker subscriptions, saving around $5,800 each year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.