ActiveCollab Reviews & Product Details

We use ActiveCollab primarily for time tracking. I like that you can assign a task as non-billable or billable by default. It's also easy to see what hours you've tracked and where those hours were tracked to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A lot of my job involves quoting future projects, and I like to look at past project time reports to help with this. I find that really difficult to do in ActiveCollab's new interface. I sometimes need to pull a particularly old project, possibly several years old, from a list of hundreds of projects. I may not know the exact name of it. From there, I need a list of the time entries. I use the legacy time report to do this, but it's not easy.

I also wish that ActiveCollab supported assigning different billing rates at the project level. For example, I have an internal project that runs at a discounted billing rate. I bill as a web designer. I wish that the web designer rate could change on that project instead of remembering to bill a different rate every time. Or, if a project could have a default billing rate set, that would be easier too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's effortless to use. It didn't take a long time to adapt to the platform. It has all the features needed for a perfect project management system. We were able to plan ahead of all of our tasks and assign them with deadlines and also to implement sub tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing yet to dislike. I will update if there is a problem. So far, so good. and for the improvemtn I think they should bit more improve their user interfaces. It didnt affect me but its someting to think about in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Keeping all the communications in a single thread. There's no need for losing an email from a back and forth conversation. Also, the files upload are all in high resolution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The timer for timetracking on each task is inaccurate. And it doesn't translate to data-driven analysis. Also, it kinda cluttered in terms of tagging and organizing each tasks per period. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy to navigate and assign tasks but no way to do recurring tasks by day Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Layout is not easily formatted and colors clash Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how you can track your time and see what you've done. I also like how you can see the layout of your week! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I disklike how it is not in alphabetical order and its easy to miss tasks! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the look. It's very modern and clean. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are so many bugs. From time allocations not loading in workload view (which they took forever to roll out). When searching for a project, old and completed projects clog up the autofill results so it's hard to find what you're looking for quickly. Most recently, we have tasks acting like they have dependencies when they in fact, do not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that it makes it simple to chat and work together on projects! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish I started using this platform earlier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is easy to manage multi projects within an agency. Active collab easily allows multiple departments to manage tasks for one client, while also deciding what communication is and is not visible to the client.

Additionally, you can easily tag in other members of the team to review your work.

Tasks can be sorted by project, or by due date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Active Collab can be slow with a high volume or projects.

It can be clunky to try and go look back on past tasks that you have closed out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Activecollab allows my company and me to organize projects, track time and much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes specific tabs don't open or they take a while to load. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the ability to collaborate with team members even when I'm in a separate state or country. Being able to know where I am on a project and what or who I am waiting on to finish a task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the UI for writing tasks could be better to format text. Not a necessity, but it would make it a bit easier to flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.