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Basecamp Reviews: 4.1/5 — Solid Choice
Basecamp has evolved as a project management platform since its launch in 2004 but its mission to help remote teams stay organized, productive, and efficient remains. One new feature that Basecamp recently added is called Basecamp Hill – a visual representation that divides the component of a project into a phase of uncertainty, unknowns, and problem-solving (uphill) and a phase of certainty, confidence, and execution (downhill). This is on top of Basecamp’s core features which include a Message Board, To-dos, Calendar, Documents and Files, Group Chat, and Automated Check-ins. It’s a top-down and bottom-up platform for everyone in a business or organization – from proprietors and C-level executives to project managers and individual team members.
| Capabilities |
API
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| Segment |
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
Basecamp Pros and Cons
- Excellent for schedule and to-do list management
- Automatic check-ins and group chat for remote work
- Helpful message board
- Useful for finding crucial documents
- Easy and customizable environment
- Requires third-party integration for time tracking
- Features need to be a bit more flexible to achieve better functionality
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Collaboration is a breeze with a group. It is easy to keep track of threads on topics. The assignable to-do list w/ built-in reminders are amazingly useful. As well as programmable regular reminders for those traditional things you ask for, like agenda items
Nothing really. It takes a good user/regular activity from at least one person to keep everyone active and engaged in learning the platform. After a while it becomes second nature for the group
Organizes what can be a messy process especially when working on a large scale effort or project that has multiple pieces and efforts
I love to consolidate in one place, my organization, my teams, the info and fup of all the projects
There are no downsides for me in basecamp, that's why I haven't changed the past 12 years.
Keeping track and collaboration bw coworkers has been fundamental in our company success
You can centralize all the project information, channel communication with your client in a very orderly manner and you can also maintain privacy with your team colleagues
The way you now create new customer contacts you work with and add them to the new project. Also the monthly price is high.
It helps me centralize the information of each project and channel it in an orderly manner with the clients.
Assignments and communication for our remote team.
Calendars could be better. Like a separate vacation one
Have a remote team in different countries. By holding folks accountable to their assignments,
The format and flexibility of BC are unlike any system I've tried. The BC team has always been open to suggestions and improvements to the system. BC is straightforward and excellent for remote teams; we are a 50/50 group. It has allowed us to keep projects on task, assign work to outside members, and set follow-up reminders. I'd highly recommend BC to any company, BUT like any system, I suggest there be a person in charge of that system and its structure. Without it, like any system, things can get lost.
I don't really have one. We've worked in the parameters of the system to make it work for us and become one of our most relied-upon company tools. If I had to pick one thing, it would be there's no discount for long-standing customers :)
Workflow is key to our company, and its functionality. We have
We've tried them all and Basecamp is the easiest to use, and the easiest to share. Our clients love it. We don't have to train anyone how to use it. And we get more work done. If your team can use email, they can use Basecamp. It really is that easy. Ever client we being in is pleasantly surprised.
500 GB of storage should be increased to 1 TB Lacks voice and video call function (we prefer to not use video so it works for us, but an option call a team memeber from within Basecamp would be great).
Basecamp makes remote work easy. We needed a clean and simple to use task list. We needed a clean discussion board, and we needed a way to organize our documents in a digital space that allowed us to comment and collaborate on each file.
Honestly, the best feature in Basecamp is the recently released Card Tables feature. It makes the process of completing tasks from start to finish so much easier than the list of to-dos.
There's not a whole lot I dislike about Basecamp. I wish the cards had the option of selecting a date range to complete a card, rather than a single date as it does now.
It helps me get through my day to day tasks and keeps me in close contact with my clients and the tasks they assign to me. Before Basecamp I was using emails to get everything done but now I make sure all my clients use Basecamp or I can't guarantee I will get their tasks done.
I really appreciate how basecamp helps our organization stay organized and responsible!
Minor frustrations with having to scroll down to the end of a message thread to see the most recent postings, etc. But overall great project management tool!
Basecamp continues to improve with time, so that is very helpful.
Basecamp has been helpful as we have been able to organize different projects within our organization and we are able to follow up with questions by using the to-do's
What I don't like about basecamp is that it is not in another language as we are bilingual, and our staff members are not able to use it and we have to train them in English to be able to learn how to use it.
The business problem for us is organization solving, following up, and having data storage. We haven't been able to have data update until we were able to use basecamp
The project management tool simple and effective, but I also love having all of our team communications in the same place.
Like any software, there's a small learning curve. But this is methodology related, not necessarily technical.
Task management, project management and internal comms all handled in one spot. Keeps our team focused and productive.
