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ActiveCollab
Streamlined Project Management
4.2
(93)
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ActiveCollab Pricing Overview

ActiveCollab Pricing Plans
Subscription
ActiveCollab has 4 pricing 4 plans , from $9.00 to $14.00. Look at different pricing plans below and see what tier and features meet your budget and needs.
Pro
$9.00
/ month
Pro
$9.00
/ month
Plus
$11.00
/ month
Pro+Get Paid
$14.00
/ month
Pricing information for ActiveCollab is supplied by the software vendor or retrieved from publicly accessible pricing materials. The pricing details were last updated on February 18, 2024 from the vendor website and may be different from actual. Please confirm with the vendor website before purchasing.

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ActiveCollab Pricing Reviews

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 26, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
EG
Eric G.
Founder
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"Very usefull"
What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

Very nice to get good team collaboration! Can use billing custumers too and love to know that our custumers can go in that software to give order too with custom pricing.

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

need more fonction to custumize our report!

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

better communication and tracking on project. Can track work time on projet too and that's really nice.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 19, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
DR
Darius R.
Freelance It Professional
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"Powerful collaborative project management, amazing UX, stellar support"
What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

We migrated to Active Collab abount 2 months ago after attempting to work with Basecamp, Trello, and NutCache. The combination of project management, team+client collaboration, time tracking, expense tracking, and project templates, API, and accounting add-on integrations made this hard to beat. The UX is also the best that we've come across.

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

We haven't found anything significant that we would improve about it so far. The integration could be tighter more extensive with platforms like Xero, but its more than other providers are doing, and the API makes up for it.

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

This is allowing us to manage software, mobile, and web application development projects with team of developers which very mixed experience. The ability to create templates has been invaluable. Permission management, and client or client+ users has been really helpful. Tracking time and expenses, project goals, tasks, and deadlines has been invaluable. The platform is really well thought and UX is WAY better than everything else we've tried. The mobile app could use some work but its on its way.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 17, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Very UX/UI"
What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

retainer-based clients where they are paying a fixed monthly fee for our services.

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

when user change devices, or reinstall, recovery password is complicate

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

I would recommend Active Collab to any agency looking for a good overall project management tool.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Aug 30, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
KA
Kamran A.
Senior Project Manager
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"ActiveCollab – undeniably great project management platform!"
What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

ActiveCollab is a great platform to manage our projects but without a missing dashboard it is quite bothersome and wondersome as well. We would love to see a great, visually appealing dashboard to view and manage most of the features. A project involves so many factors; from task assignment to tasks completion alongside status, invoices, billing, communication, reporting, transfer of and so on. There are many good platforms out there but none of them offer a complete range of variety which ActiveCollab has to offer, it is your all-in-one solution.

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

Some people might not agree with me, but visual representation of the data is very much appealing as well as easy to understand in one go, however, the supporting features for visual data are missing here and we really don’t understand why. It is quite an unfortunate situation with all the good features it offers you.

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

ActiveCollab has been with us for a long time and we love using it to manage simple and complex projects all under one roof. The management of projects is relatively easy as compared to its competitors and people find it an easier option to work with while handling already complex projects. Highly recommended to anyone who is looking for an all-in-one solution when it comes to project management. It not only helps with the management of projects but you can also make the most out of it by handling, billing, invoices budgets alongside clients all under one roof and in incredibly low pricing plans.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 27, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Great Client Management Software for Freelance Web Developers"
What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

There is no reoccurring cost. It is easy to use and feature rich

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

I wish the one time cost, $500, was little less. Also I wish it integrated with other services & software

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

Managing client projects and invoices. Benefit is an all-in-one solution for client management.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 28, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Felix C. avatar
Felix C.
Advanced Analytics
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"A simple, powerful and reliable solution for personnel and project management."
What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

Great tool, its interface is simple, practical and easy to see. In addition, I love how projects can be displayed and searched, and it also has multiple features that make it irreplaceable. It covers the integration of the calendar, task management, expense and time tracking, customer estimates and billing. integrated, discussions with customers are organized and organized at all times. And what I like most is its customization function.

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

ActiveCollab is undoubtedly a great tool, however its mobile version is not what we expect, some of its tools are slow and sometimes it does not perform what I want, but in general the computer version has worked very well.

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

In our organization we use it for our traditional and digital services, but also as a project management tool. For our digital services, we use it to manage agile workflows along with task management and the timeline. ActiveCollab helps us to execute the daily operations of our company and our clients. This great platform has helped us keep track of everything we do and where any project is in your timeline. It is a great tool for our entire team.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 09, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
Somaroy G. avatar
Somaroy G.
General Manager
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"Awesome Project tracking system with minimal investment"
What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

ActiveCollab 5 has improved User interface and looks great and very intuitive. The provides great flexibility to include Project team members from various geo locations as well as providing to 3rd party consultants working on the projects. ActiveCollab also offers on-premise installation option apart from the hosted SaaS model which makes it very flexible catering to companies with varied data security and clod hosting policies. Sharing project files and assigning tasks to 3rd party consultants through single point. Overall the collaboration component has become a lot easier. Team task

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

The system does not have the flexibility to integrate with any thrid-party file storage like a Google Drive, Dropbox or Amazon S3 which makes it cost effective easier to manage, especially when we are using a self-hosted version. All the files related to a specific project are not presented in a very easy to sort manner where we can navigate through files without having to dig through the tasks related to the files. Theme/branding customization options are harder

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

Managing teams of software developers and consultants across multiple geographic locations to deliver support services to customers. The project members are not always full time employees of the same company but would need access to specific projects and files and information. All the project submissions including the code files as well as documentation are submitted, exchanged and collaborated through activecollab.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 18, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Really great workflow solution with a pricing structure that won't be more expensive as you grow"
What do you like best about ActiveCollab?

ActiveCollab is about the only high quality workflow product that doesn't charge per user. It has a clean no-nonsense UI that is easy to stare at and use. Project, to-do's, and team management are intuitive and flexible enough to mend to all types of products and team organizations. It has customer facing views/logins, a time-tracking app, and an ever increasing amount of other integrations like Slack or Quickbooks. It is the best bang for the buck as far as workflows and project management is concerned and if you're willing to deal with a few of its fundamental quirks, you can shed a number of other apps you may be using.

What do you dislike about ActiveCollab?

ActiveCollab seems a little confused as far as being an all inclusive software that fundamentally lacks features other project management (or time management) softwares have. I wish ActiveCollab had a chat feature (although it does interact with Slack) and the time management only allows a user to time track on to-do's that they're assigned (although in the backend in the software, anyone can add a time entry to any task). Likewise there's no simple way to look at all of your projects and see them labeled by client (you have have to click a drop down tab and sort everything you'll ever need to see in a more focussed view). Reporting works similarly- there's not an easy way to create your own report (although you can save certain parameters within pre-determined reports). Some info on the reports are only viewable by downloading .csv, not in the actual app. There seems to be a few easy intuitive features like those that were dropped, or were half thought through when implemented.

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

We have solved the yearn for an inclusive project management system that stores time entries, allows multiple contractors and clients access, has some sort of customizable reporting, and on top of all of that looks good. It's pretty much in a league and price range of its own, and I think with a few minor additions could be the best project and workflow management software out there. It has allowed us to easily track projects, rates, budgets, and time entries in one place for us and our clients to see. I'm always surprised ActiveCollab isn't much much bigger than it is.