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ActiveCollab Overview

What is ActiveCollab?

ActiveCollab is a project management software that gives you complete control over your work. The tool is equipped with just the right set of features to help you organize your work and keep you free from distractions, even when you’re fully remote: workload management, time tracking, project profitability, task dependencies, invoicing, collaborative options, third-party integrations, in-app chat. Give your whole company a big boost and enjoy a smooth transition towards remote work with a 14-day trial offer. ActiveCollab is used by teams of all backgrounds - from large teams in international corporations to small startups, and everything in between.

ActiveCollab Details
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Czech, German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish
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Product Description

A Project Collaboration Hub for Your Team

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Unlike other project management tools, we offer a full work solution that includes time tracking, invoicing, and the ability to buy the software and host it on your own servers.


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Year Founded
2007
HQ Location
Norfolk, VA
Twitter
@activecollab
20,174 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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32 employees on LinkedIn®

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Chetan C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Best Discussion management tool for different projects"
You can create project easily Reminder for all taks for a day at once Easy to invite members to discussion We can create multiple discussion under ...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Practical, not on the go"
It's quite intuitive. Easy to handle and delivers timely notifications to the team working on the different projects effectively. It has a clean pr...
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Christian A.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Good platform for keeping our online office organized"
It's very ewasy to use, it was easy to implement in our company and it inegrated nively with Hubstaff (timetracking). It has a ton of features that...
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Senior Data Engineer
Information Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

It's an ideal tool for tracking project management activities during our weekly lineouts. In my sprint, I can see what everyone is working on, write notes, track time, and label it properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

Because you couldn't give a task to multiple people, items that required numerous resources required us to generate many duplicative tasks and allocate them out. It became overwhelming at times to attempt to find the best match Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We can view what our team is working on and what has been allocated to us at any moment. We can see notes if multiple people are working on a project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Senior SEM Strategist
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

Ease of use. ActiveCollab has a great UX design and makes it easy to find different tasks based on the company or project you are working within. I am able to complete deadlines and get the information needed to the necessary people in order to complete projects by their deadlines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

Based on the level of permissions users are given, some people may not be able to use certain features of the app. I wish ActiveCollab had a mobile app also so I could use it while I am away from my desktop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ActiveCollab:

I highly recommend ActiveCollab to keep your teams organized and on track to complete tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am able to work with various teams simultaneously to get different aspects of a project done when there are deadlines quickly approaching. It helps keep projects organized and on track. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Vice President, Event Strategy
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

Simple Project Management and Task Management Software. We also used as a CRM and this was not the best use of the product as it wasnt as searchable as we needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

Did not interface with as many of our other products as we would have liked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We no longer use ActiveCollab. We switched to a different PM software and CRM Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UA
Team Leader-PCB Design
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

You can add all the ongoing/upcoming/completed project details in active Collab so that you and team can continuously monitor it's status, add updates and multiple tasks to keep track of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

Sometimes it takes more time then usual to update the project status, it may be due to server issue, thoug it had not been observed multiple times, but sometimes it happens. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ActiveCollab:

You can manage your projects in a very professional and nice way and can track the progress of the project at any time, can comment and get all kind of estimation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Complete tracking of the project, day to day activities, updates by multiple teams, project time estimation, resource allocation, task definition and much more can be done so as to keep you up-to-date on your project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MP
Website Developer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

The "My Work" summary is a great way to see a summary of all the tasks you have across all projects.

Good tutorials, help system, video tutorials etc.

Frequent updates.

Tasks and sub tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

I have no issues with it yet.

No chat system yet, but that is on the way soon (it is still in beta). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ActiveCollab:

ActiveCollab is an easy to use project management tool, that is fast to use.

It is very cheap for a small team of 3.

If you need expense tracking workload management across teams etc then the extra cost is still very low. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Fast management of my projects and tasks.

It helps me keep everything organised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BB
Project Manager and UX Designer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

The workload view was very helpful for resource management, and the ability to switch between the kanban view and list view was helpful. The most useful area of the entire product was the timetables and users being able to easily and quickly track time towards similar or repeating tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

You could not make a task be assigned to multiple people, so items that we needed multiple resources on meant that we needed to create multiple duplicative tasks and assign them out. It at times got overwhelming to try and find the appropriate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Resource management, time tracking, and workload forecasting. There were many benefits, but because the system was not very useful to us when planning a full project, we had to make the switch to a new product to bring those functionalities together into one system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

The interface is easy to use. The learning curve is not very steep. Spend only 1-2 hours to get started easily without any hassle. The separation between tasks and discussions is very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

The platform is half CRM and half issue board, hence it is jack of all and master of none. The main focus should be either on CRM or issue board and the other thing can be presented as an addon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ActiveCollab:

Easy to use and simple to understand. Happy to recommend it to those who are small and looking for a CRM platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are using the active collab platform as our only CRM tool. We onboard our customers to the platform, and from there on, the support team takes over for both technical and business communication. Being easy to use and simple learning curve, the support team can be scaled without worrying about the deep orientation of the platform to the new hires. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HB
Project Manager
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

Project Creation is easy, Task creation, and Task List Creation is easy and simple, you can get any type of reports, be it resource-based or project-based, this tool covers it all Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

It's not UX friendly at Project Management tools like Gantt/Timeline, though it creates it, but its extremely hard to follow it. Rest, everything is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are using Active Collab for our Office's project management, Employee time utilization, and task management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

It's a great tool for tracking our project management tasks as part of our weekly scrums. I can see what everyone is working on in my sprint, add notes, track time, and categorize it appropriately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

I wish Active Collab would learn the proper categories for each task. I find that I have to switch back and forth a lot since I work with a lot of different categories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ActiveCollab:

Good for the desktop. Mobile app is a little more clunky and less intuitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are able to see what our team is working on at any given time and what is assigned to us. If multiple people are working on a project, we can see notes as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JH
Visual Space & Training Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

The way projects are organized makes information easy to access for both internal and external partners. Tasks, discussions and notes are all clearly delineated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

While this is a great platform, it can be difficult to manage all of the uploaded files. Having a "files" area where every attachment uploaded automatically appears is great, but the ability to sort them by type would be very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Active Collab makes it wasy to work with colleagues & customers all over the country. We are able to manage our active projects seamlessly and can maintain all the information in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.