Avaza Erfahrungen

The most comprehensive free Project Management Tool I know

Kommentare: I wanted to plan the founding process of my new agency and AVAZA helped me a lot with it.

Vorteile:

It's richness on features. Gantt-Charts, easy import and export of data, integrated time tracking.

Nachteile:

It's not as fast and beautiful as other tools.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: MeisterTask

Warum Avaza gewählt wurde: I was looking for something more sophisticated.

Zuvor genutzte Software: Trello

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Avaza: It has more features.

Work smart with this great PM software

Kommentare: There are both hard-working teams and smart ones. In this case, the latter is more accurate; Avaza is an excellent tool for any group working on numerous projects together, especially those with a high volume of interrelated tasks. Time tracking for teams, individual work hours, and even smaller tasks and subtasks are all included.

Vorteile:

Avaza is mostly utilized by our company for PM and tasks. By removing mundane, time-consuming tasks, it frees up a significant amount of our time each week. Our actions are closely tracked and evaluated by Avaza. The process aids in locating bottlenecks and other trouble spots. Avaza is vital to the smooth functioning of our Admin, BD, and TS departments.

Nachteile:

Although the quoting mechanism is solid, it lacks the adaptability necessary for our purposes. We'd love it if large projects could be broken up into stages. It would be nice if screenshots of attached images could be shown in the chat window.

Excellent Business Tool for Time Sheets, Invoicing and Project Management!

Kommentare: It has been excellent, for years. I am always impressed with their quick responses when I have a question about how to use something. Their customer service is also very polite which I really appreciate these days!

Vorteile:

I've been using Avaza for years to organize my small business. Their product us great, from organizing my project schedules, to invoicing and time sheets. When I've come across something that I can't figure out their customer service is personable and quick to fix. There have even been times they take requests for new or updated options! Top quality.

Nachteile:

I haven't had any issues with Avaza. I'm still working on using the scheduling component but I think that is more me than them! I would like the option to be able to customize invoices a bit more (font size, etc.) but not a dealbreaker.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Quicken, Basecamp und Asana

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Avaza: Avaza offered the services I needed for my business, including excellent time sheet options, mobile time sheets, easy invoicing, and reporting, among others. The other products were more project management and did not offer invoicing. Avaza let me do it all with one product.

Functional but not a perfect fit

Vorteile:

I liked the clean structure of Avaza, and the budget features. It's a good option for a business who doesn't rely heavily on project management to drive their productivity. Their customer service was very helpful though when I was letting them know we were going in another direction and they genuinely seemed to want to know what was driving our decision.

Nachteile:

We run a marketing/PR based business, and we were looking for a one-stop-shop project management and back office system. While we knew that was a long shot, we tried Avaza for several months and even gave them a second go when our current system wasn't doing everything we needed as well. I would have liked to see Avaza have different dashboard customization views so we could tailor the system to be more project centered instead of a financial view upon logging in. Since we use a different billing and accounting software, this data on our dashboard would remain blank and the dashboard wouldn't even be utilized. Also by the time we added all of our employees and contractors to have timesheet accessibility, we would have been paying a lot more in extra monthly fees than we were looking to spend. It just started really adding up for us when other software companies offer these options within their pricing tiers.

Avaza is the best tool for managing your team and tasks

Kommentare: Fantastic, could not recommend it highly enough, very cost effective too as your team grows.

Vorteile:

I absolutely love Avaza as it helps me run my team from one place. We use it for project management, managing annual leave, task management, team comms and time tracking. I also love the automated reporting, which saves me so much time. The team at Avaza are great too and are very responsive and always open to suggestions to improve the system.

Nachteile:

It could be better at helping manage monthly retainers, but I know that is on their development list.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: monday.com und ClickUp

Warum Avaza gewählt wurde: Team work was too expensive and did not provide all the functionality I needed

Zuvor genutzte Software: Teamwork.com

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Avaza: Cost, the interface was how I like it, it felt like a smaller company

An Incredibly Helpful Productivity Tool

Kommentare: Avaza is an incredibly helpful productivity tool. It has allowed to me do my freelance marketing and production work efficiently, to share projects as part of a team, to breakdown billing for invoicing, and to have a variety of information requested by my clients at my fingertips at a moment's notice.

Vorteile:

The reports have been incredibly helpful to me in assessing time spent on different tasks and projects, as well as breakdowns of billable hours.

Nachteile:

I wish the timer was based on actual clock start and stop times, rather than a stopwatch system. I often leave the timer running because I've forgotten to turn it off, and calculating back to my actual stop time is tedious.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Harvest

Warum Avaza gewählt wurde: I was using it in conjunction with Toggl at the time, because, at the time, Asana did not have time tracking functionality.

Zuvor genutzte Software: Asana

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Avaza: Avaza had enough of everything in one place for the right price.

Avaza is actually fantastic

Kommentare: We're a service company with people spread out all over North America. Billing used to be a hassle before Avaza, but now it's far easier. Our team members enter their timesheets into Avaza and our finance team creates the billing twice a month. We've more than tripled our line items for billing and are spending about half as much time as before in getting our bills to customers. Customer support has also been fantastic, and open to our suggestions for new features. When they do roll out a new feature, it just works.

Vorteile:

It's great for tracking time, invoicing, and has loads of great reports.

Nachteile:

Email integration. It would be great if it had a way to email directly into and out of tasks.

Great all around tool to keep track of agency estimated and projects.

Kommentare: We're mostly happy with avaza. It's great to kep track of all steps of a project. It would be great if there could be a budget alert function per section of a project and if we would dare to dream estimates were you can add a float in amount of hours would be amazing.

Vorteile:

Finally we have one tool to make estimates, convert them to projects, track time spent and report on profitability! No more going back and forth between different tools and losing overview.

Nachteile:

The search could be better. We have a lot of comments on tasks and it's not always easy finding a specific thing back.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Teamleader und monday.com

Warum Avaza gewählt wurde: Because we wanted one tool to do everything.

Zuvor genutzte Software: Harvest und Basecamp

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Avaza: The demo was easier and it had more of th efeatures we needed for a competitive price.

Great for admin

Vorteile:

The billing, reports y and invoicing.

Nachteile:

The project management, I Believe it should be mora automated, like click up.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Trello, monday.com und ClickUp

Warum Avaza gewählt wurde: Cost mostly, it was a better fit financially speaking

Zuvor genutzte Software: monday.com

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Avaza: Because of the billing and administrative features

A great project management tool for businesses

Kommentare: We have been using Avaza since 2019 and it has transformed the way we manage tasks and projects. It has simplified our quotation and invoicing process and we are able to produce insightful reports that we are able to filter or customise for Finance and Project Management. We have also made suggestions on features we would like to see and later they have been implemented, which is great to know they listen to their customers.

Vorteile:

Avaza is reliable, simple and easy to use. They are very quick to respond through their webchat too if you ever need help or have any queries.

Nachteile:

Nothing in particular, however it would be nice to a have a toggle to switch off/hide sections that we don't use.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: monday.com, ClickUp und Asana

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Avaza: As an off the shelf product, it did 90% of what we needed it for.

An excellent, intuitive, and easy-to-use project & task management system

Kommentare: Right from the outset, the sales process and demonstration walkthrough made the decision to migrate to Avaza easy. Avaza's importing process enabled us to export tasks from our old system and import into Avaza. Avaza's support is very responsive - and they've even made changes based on suggestions from me.

Vorteile:

I have used a raft of alternative task & project management SaaS (software as a service) solutions. Additionally, I have trialled around 15-20 different task & project management SaaS solutions. With out a doubt, Avaza is the best solution I have ever used; it is intuitive, easy-to-use, very responsive in speed, has a great smartPhone app to compliment the web-based system, it integrates with Xero (for accounts), and has a raft of sophisticated features and views (Kanban-styled boards, Gantt Charts, task lists, priority views, status views, etc, etc etc!). The features we don't as yet use include Estimate and Invoicing creation, but we may well move to using these too.

Nachteile:

A great SaaS solution and I think if I was to want to additional features added, then one would be chat integration (currently comments are available, but no chat). And the 2nd would be an enhanced file management facility, whereby you could upload to a File Repository/Folder, tag the image, assign it to a project, rename the virtual file name, and move it to another folder for housekeeping.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Kantata, Teamwork.com, Zoho Projects, Trello, LiquidPlanner, WorkflowMax, Basecamp, monday.com, Wrike und Asana

Warum Avaza gewählt wurde: We found ProofHub clunky, lacking in features, slow support help when needed, and expensive for what it provided. Avaza solved all these issues - and is a lot cheaper than ProofHub.

Zuvor genutzte Software: ProofHub

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Avaza: User interface experience, modern framework, task creation/update speed, simplicity but with superb functionality, support, and price.

With Avaza, everything is streamlined, easy, and available

Kommentare: We've simplified and made Avaza easy to use so that everyone may have access to it. When compared to previous systems, their straightforward billing process and seamless integration with Quickbooks have made all the difference in the accuracy of our accounting records. Their support staff is fantastic; I've brought them some difficult issues, and they've gone out of their way to help me.

Vorteile:

One of Avaza's strongest points is how comprehensive it is as a tool. What I like best is that I can manage my time, expenses, and projects all in one location. Furthermore, I appreciate the ability to keep track of expenses and the app's compatibility with others, such as Xero and Trello.

Nachteile:

Avaza seems to have its limits at times. The tools are straightforward, although the interface occasionally presents obstacles. Additionally, I believe there is room for improvement in the reporting functionality and would welcome the addition of additional adaptable report types.

We use Avaza to track client billable time

Kommentare: The intelligent product has been the primary data management and business orchestration platform. My staff is able to keep better tabs on financial data and chances for investment thanks to the computerized system.

Vorteile:

My team is able to cooperate more efficiently on projects because to Avaza's trustworthy tools. The network's secure chat features have helped businesses develop closer ties with their clients. When people are working together, they are able to accomplish more and have less problems with task management.

Nachteile:

There are no unfavorable aspects that could disrupt processes. With reliable Avaza services, everything has been proceeding as planned. There appears to be a variety of ways we can collect the data needed to foresee customer service workloads.

Streamlining studio processes

Kommentare: Before we discovered Avaza, we were seriously looking into designing and developing our own software because we just couldn't find one programme that did everything we needed. It's early days, but I'm very optimistic that Avaza is going to save us from having to take on that huge project!

Vorteile:

As a young company, we are learning every day. We want the software we use to have a wealth of features, so that our team members only need to have one window open. Previously, we were having to use slack for one thing, 10,000ft for another, and excel to track timesheets. It just wasn't streamlined. We're only very new to Avaza, but so far it looks as though it might be the answer to all our previous issues.

Nachteile:

This isn't a con of the software, as such, but we're used to how we used to do things and now we're having to learn something new, around our actual jobs! So, the change is currently causing extra work, but that will settle down. As a design studio, we are mostly visual people, so I do find the schedule views quite hard to follow. The team view is actually easier for me, but as a user I don't have access to that. Also, we collaborate daily, so being able to see what everyone is working on would just be an added benefit.

Best project management system out there 5*

Kommentare: Really good on the whole. Love the fact that I can estimate, proj manage and invoice from the same system.

Vorteile:

It's a complete solution and shares most of the best features of it's competitors. The fact that you can not only project manage but also use it for account keeping is a game changer. Very reasonable pricing too. Best product on the market be a LOOOOOONG way!

Nachteile:

I use the estimates to generate my projects. If you have to make changes to the estimate (eg. client asks for something additional within a project) you cannot update the project you created and have to make a whole new project and then manually update any time you have captured against tasks. Bit painful that.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: monday.com und Wrike

Warum Avaza gewählt wurde: Streamtime pricing and limitations

Zuvor genutzte Software: Streamtime

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Avaza: Better solution. Accoutn keeping features Better pricing Better trial terms

Delivering Client Projects Is Easy With Avaza

Kommentare: Avaza is not overly complex, so it cannot accommodate really heavy projects with large teams or complexities. It does, though, provide amazing results for teams with a more direct approach to project delivery. I was able to implement its use in a software development firm that specialized in cloud applications. Specializing in Microsoft's online SharePoint environments, Avaza was the tool of choice to manage projects dealing with migrations and customization of such sites. It did include large projects and small ones, and managed time tracking for billing, as these were on an hourly basis. The features were just right. But because there was no custom coding and developing for which unit testing or QA department involvement, Avaza worked extremely well for them.

Vorteile:

Avaza has all the core functionality that lets any business successfully manage and deliver client projects. It is not just for development projects. It can be used in a wide array of industries because of this basic general core of features. For starters, Avaza manages contacts and distinguishes them between clients (external contacts) and team members. It uses this to connect projects to its clients and the resources that will be working on these projects. The roles for the contacts are manage in the contacts section as well, allowing the admin to connect just the right resources and the features they need. Adding projects is fairly simple, as well. Create a new project and allocate the client to it. That is it. Then add the necessary tasks for the project, allocating team members from the contact list. You can even group into sections that can represent milestones, features, epics, or any description that fits your project or organizational business needs. Project views can also be customized. You can view projects in a Kanban styled board, as a Gantt chart or even as a list. Team members track time against the tasks until completion and the process is quite simple and straightforward. Avaza also provides team scheduling and provides forecasting capabilities across one or more projects. You can also manage timesheets, expenses and recurring expenses for all the projects in Avaza. Avaza offers the capabilities of providing your clients with quotes or estimates for projects, as well as managing invoicing, recurring invoices, credit notes and payments. And you can track all the work via an extensive library of reports.

Nachteile:

Avaza is not a feature rich product for large enterprises or large projects with large teams, as these must track defects, reworks, testing and a host of other tasks that often have dependencies upon others. This is something Avaza does not manage and trying to track this level of effort is not something that can be done. So, this is definitely for smaller organizations or teams with basic projects.

Awesome Value Robust Features

Kommentare: Overall it is a GREAT value for the money, they are spot on with value/$. While I miss some of the enterprise level features that SmartSheets and their competitors offer, I find the variety and quick to implement features of AVAZA to be outstanding!

Vorteile:

The price point on this software is PERFECT for small startups, the support is included without heavy add on cost and the support is VERY GOOD, quick and EASY to understand!. Architecturally the layout is very nice, the user interface is easy to navigate and the color schema is pleasant. Working in the tool is mostly straightforward and easy to figure out without watching a ton of self help videos.

Nachteile:

The reporting tool could use a minor update to the user interface so things are a little easier to use, The collaboration features could also use an update to have some sort of chat like function making collaboration easier. Zapier connection is nice but seems to be picky, one of my zaps to create Avaza tasks works for everyone on the team except one person. Kind of weird but not critical.

Very good, easy and valuable software

Vorteile:

It's very easy to use for me and my team. I'm using it to manage my remote team

Nachteile:

The mobile app is not a native one. Push notifications are not working on mobile app.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: ClickUp

Warum Avaza gewählt wurde: Price

Zuvor genutzte Software: Asana

We as a startup company were looking for 360 degree solution.

Kommentare: Our startup company PowerPoint Geek. We started using this software from day 1. In between we tried another software and our customers were not happy. The reason was they were not able to pay from other software. Our customer asked to send invoice from Avaza only. As they find it very easy to make payment online from the direct invoice web version link.

Vorteile:

We found Avaza from google. First we tried a free trial and after that we subscribe for premium. We send customer estimates and invoices from Avaza. Also, whenever someone approves or disapprove estimates is done directly from the online web version of estimates. When we send customer a invoice, he can directly make paypal payment from the web version and it get updated directly to our dashboard. Now we have started using projects to assign task to our designer and that also work great. Live support are quick to reply. PowerPoint Geek are permanent member of this software and we are quite comfortable in using this software.

Nachteile:

No Cons. Really good online software. We have tried many other and found this to be the best. So no cons at all.

My Expereince With Avaza

Vorteile:

I like the business management features of Avaza It makes billing and invoicing easy and comes with great project management features It facilitates remote work thanks to its advanced features.

Nachteile:

No quite issues with Avaza. It is an all round business management software.

H Dichtl - sole consultant

Kommentare: I am a fan and recommend to my acquaintences.Really useful, prompt and to the point help support. I am still on free subscription only because I am still reeling from the aftereffects of COVID related economic matters.

Vorteile:

Timesheets - web based, ease of use. Interface to invoicing

Nachteile:

I do not like the formatting of Excel based reports. I would like a simple Excel list rather than the pre-formatted version ( alignment, hidden gridlines, white as cell shading) .I am a friend of codes (recommend the welcome implementation of Project numbers some time ago

Keeps you in the know every step of the way

Kommentare: We use Avaza to coordinate with multiple freelancers around the country and world, and to keep track of both projects and invoices that we send to clients. Previously we were using two programs to do what Avaza is doing, so this has been far preferable.

Vorteile:

There are lots of ways that Avaza has helped our small business (I know for a fact that it has made a HUGE difference in the amount of time it takes to invoice, for instance!). For my own personal use, though, what I probably like best is the notifications sent straight to my email - including the fact that I can directly access finished projects/documents from those emails. It may seem like a small thing, but this is a huge time-saver when I'm receiving multiple projects on a daily basis. It also serves to keep me on track and aware of where things are in the pipeline.

Nachteile:

"Offset days" for recurring projects is a bit confusing, and I wish that there was a way to remove collaborators we are no longer working with.

Awesome Gem!

Kommentare: Overall, I really love this platform and would definitely suggest to others for their business needs.

Vorteile:

I love that this system provided both time tracking and invoicing elements. This definitely helps with quickly providing clients with project and payment information. I also loooove that when calculating the QYT ( in my case I use it as hours), I'm able to include the exact number of hours instead of just whole numbers ( for example: 3:37 vs. 4 and this software calculates my clients cost per my unit price.

Nachteile:

I really wish there were more payment providers for clients to choose from. It would also be awesome if there was an option for creating client contracts, this would be a great template addition.

Avaza with CAP Learning

Kommentare: We have been using Avaza for five years and extremely satisfied. It is an excellent and intuitive tool!

Vorteile:

1. Customer support, quick response less than 3 minutes via chat. 2. Reliability on data

Nachteile:

1. Reporting screen when you get into a particular report sometimes it seems overcrowded, ie user needs to scroll down to select parameters. It might be a good idea to group parameters by buttons instead of scrolling down. 2. When reports are exported into MS Excel, some of the fields columns are merged. Simple MS Excel export would be more efficient. Customer can group data by its own via pivot to get totals.

Avaza is absolutely amazing

Kommentare: The software is really amazing in that I have used it for so much more than what I initially anticipated. I now use it for recurring invoices too and managing support contracts. It is so easy to use overall

Vorteile:

The huge list of functionality and ease of use. Great set of standard reports. The software replaces a few other tools - project management, financial, timesheets, tracking expenses, reporting

Nachteile:

I feel the project scheduling part of the software can be enhanced and the Gantt Chart view. That does not mean that it is not useful - it just does not work easily when the plan changes or for advanced scheduling