Productive.io Review

A. Are we making any money on this project?

You’re managing a software development firm and just nabbed a fixed price deal with a client. You’ve made estimation that the project is going to take 1400h to accomplish and this is what the client agreed upon. If the estimations were erroneous and you’ll require extra time to get the job done, this project will have you losing instead of earning.

With Productive.io, your team tracks their own time on a regular basis and getting notifications when you spent 80% of estimated hours is easy. Every aspect of the project is viewable and you can see all expenses such as hosting, licenses, etc. The numbers look good and the project is profitable.

Features: pricing models (fixed price/hourly), setting up a budget, time tracking, tracking expenses, notifications, profitability reporting

B. When is this project going to be finished? What’s taking up so long?

As a project manager, you have delegated tasks to your team. Team members check their tasks and calculate how much it’s going to take to finish a particular task. At the end of the day, they track their time and put down the exact number of hours spent on their tasks. Productive.io helps them evaluate their tasks and address questions like whether the task was easy or complicated, or did it demanded more time than they thought.

As a project manager doing SCRUM daily standups, you have the most accurate information about the project since your team is doing estimates on daily basis and tracks their time. You can immediately identify possible problems and talk to your client that something is going to take more time than you thought.

You have a client that wants to be informed of everything that’s going on. You can just send timesheets to this client and they can view all the tasks your team was working on and how much time they spent. Of course, nothing is visible to clients unless you approve it.

Features: task management, task estimates, time tracking, timesheets reporting, client project access

C. Did you send the invoice to the client? Have they paid yet?

The project is finished and it’s time to deliver your client an invoice. Productive.io simplifies this process with just a few clicks. You can specify the date when it’s due and mark it as sent. For every finished project, you can see if the invoice was delivered, when it’s due and if it’s not settled yet. You don’t need to look this up in another software. Everything is in one place.

Features: invoicing, mark as sent, mark as paid, list of due invoices