10-second breakdown:
With a dead simple easy to use interface and wonderful design, Teamwork Projects offers a great project management online software service for companies of all sizes.
Teamwork is used in small (0-50 employees), medium (51-1,000 employees) and enterprise companies (1,000+ employees).
The good:
Very budget friendly with multiple pricing options and even a free account for up to 2 projects. Intuitive interface and navigation, easily allowing breakdowns of projects into tasks and milestones. Project managers will love that they can be notified directly by email when someone comments or updates a project.
The bad:
It can be time consuming to fill in all the drop-down options when building a task, but once a task is made it can be set to recur. Their billing and budgeting systems seem to be lacking some functionality.
How it works:
With a lot of competitors, ‘more features’ is usually synonymous with ‘more complicated.’ Sure, everyone loves it when their software packs more punch for the price, but if it’s not user-friendly that usually translates to more time spent on the phone with support.
Teamwork Projects flips the industry on its head with a contemporary, intuitive interface and bundles all of the most popular features in easy to reach buttons visible in most screens. There are a lot of functions like setting up a new task that come off as easier to use than competitors because a pop-up comes up asking for the information, instead of directing you to another page and then back again when you fill it out. Part of the magic also comes from color-coding parts of the activity stream. Milestones are brown, tasks are pink, file attachments are blue and all daily activity gets an orange tag.
Just because it looks nice doesn’t mean Teamwork Projects is lacking in substance. They make it easy to create tasks, drill down to sub-tasks, create dependencies, set priority and more. The Gantt charts are a little more hidden than in competitors programs but they are super easy to modify. When you select a task, little icons pop up that you can use to log progress on the task, reassign it to another team member and more.
Billing is included standard with Teamwork Projects as well, if you use it to track billable hours it’s very easy to send out invoices to clients or manage expenses. ‘Timesheets’ are thrown in for free as well, you can see what employees are up to and for how long in a handy report.
A dedicated instant message system is notably missing from Teamwork Projects. They do offer ‘Teamwork Chat,’ which is a free standalone desktop app for Windows and Mac. It’s currently in beta, you can use your existing Teamwork ID to log in and it will automatically add everyone else from your organization to your list. Remember though it’s a separate entity, Teamwork Projects is a webpage in your browser but Teamwork Chat is an installed program on your computer.
If you like options then you’ll love Teamwork Projects’ pricing system. They have no less than 6 paid options and a free plan, all slightly different than the rest. If you want to get started on the free plan, you’ll have to do a little digging. On Teamwork’s pricing page the ‘Forever Free’ plan doesn’t get a button, or even an honorable mention. It’s towards the bottom, next to the last green checkmark. Although they make you hunt for it, the free plan is truly free. It comes with literally everything the paid plans do minus some integrations, but does limit you to 2 projects and a meager 100MB storage space.
Teamwork’s cheapest plan is their ‘Personal’ package and it comes with the same unlimited users but boosts the number of projects to 5 and the storage to 1GB. Personal will set you back a flat $12 per month.
‘Startup’ is a little more expensive at $24 flat per month but gives you 15 projects and 5GB storage space. They also toss in an integration with Google Drive.
‘Small Office’ and ‘Office’ are very similar. They give you the same perks as Startup but also toss in a DropBox integration, a Box.com integration and your own custom domain name you can use. At these packages and above you can also set up integrations with other 3rd party apps including FreshBooks, QuickBooks, OneDrive and more. Small Office comes with 40 Projects, 20GB storage and will cost you $49 a month. Office is Teamwork Projects’ most popular option, it comes with 85 projects, 45 GB storage and costs $99 a month.
‘Professional’ and ‘Businesses’ are also very close to the same thing. Both of them come with all of the integrations the lower priced tiers do, the custom domain, but also toss in the ability to apply custom CSS coding to your site. If you want to change some colors, add your logo, or even re-arrange how some screens look you’re welcome to get a web developer and have at it! Professional comes packaged with 200 projects, 100 GB storage and will cost $149 a month. Business steps it up to 500 projects, 400 GB storage and costs $249 flat rate a month.
No matter which of the many plans you pick all of the paid ones come with a 30-day free trial and 90-day money back guarantee in case you decide you’re not a big fan.
Teamwork Projects establishes itself as an approachable software system that is still packed with features but won’t take years to learn. Not only that but all manner of businesses from tiny startups to Fortune 500 mega-cooperations find value in Teamwork, it really is meant for all sizes!
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