HELLOHQ ALTERNATIVE
Agencies Choose Productive, a helloHQ Alternative, to Grow Their Businesses
Complete agency life cycles—from Sales to Billing—with no need for additional tools. Productive is the only tool you need to run a profitable agency.
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End-to-end Agency Management
One scalable platform for software agencies of all shapes and sizes.
Focus on Profitability
Run each project like a separate P&L.
Full Onboarding and Support
We help you set up your first budgets and import your data.
One Scalable Platform
for Agencies of All
Shapes and Sizes
- Consolidate data in one agency management system
- Run projects from prospect to payment and everything in between
- Use one tool for complex budgeting and resource planning
- Have a single source of truth for all your financial data, leads, budgets, and team communication
27%
GROWTH
Born social grew 27% in under a year using Productive
50%
GROWTH
DotDev grew over 50% YoY for three years
350
PEOPLE
Infinum scaled from 70 to 350 people in 5 years
+10%
UTILIZATION
Hike one increased billable utilization by 10%
2h
SAVED TIME
Brigada saves 2 hours a week on project management
Swap Multiple Tools for Productive and Save Money
Productive Professional Plan
$240 per month for 10 users
Project Management
Time Tracking
Vacation Tracking
Resource Planning
Sales CRM
Financials
Docs
Reporting
vs
helloHQ
$169.92 fixed fee per month + $254.90 per month for 10 users
Harvest Forecast
$50 per month for 10 users
Notion
$80 per month for 10 users
Spreadsheets
Free
Vacation tracking app
$15 per month for the account*
$240 per month for 10 users
billed yearly
Save $234.82
per month
$474.82 per month for 10 users
combined cost, billed yearly
The comparison above was calculated using the most comparable pricing plans as of October 2023
*The average pricing of industry-standard vacation tracking apps
Check Who’s Overbooked and Who Needs More Work?
Balance your team’s workload and assigned tasks. Learn who’s overbooked and who can take on more work by casting an eye on heatmaps. Check who’s on vacation or sick leave.
Orion Jensen
CEO, Clear Launch
Our project management team looks at all their projects and balances all their resources and sees if we have any holes or if we’re fighting over the same resources. We’re able to trade and plan through it, which is not something that we did before.
Check Your Agency’s Financials In Real Time
Monitor your revenue, costs, profit, average rate, hours worked, and everything spending-related. Use history and present data to predict and plan future decisions.
Orion Jensen
CEO, Clear Launch
We’ve always known how we were doing as a company on a monthly basis, but knowing on a per-project level, in real time—we never really had that visibility.
Users Love Productive
Running a profitable agency shouldn’t imply using endless tools and platforms—we believe that you need only one.
Access Over 50 Agency-Focused Reports
Need to zoom in on profitability by client or utilization per team member? Want to see revenue by business unit? Visit the Reports Library.
patricK osburn
service operations manager,
quintica
Before using Productive, I would have to spend 8 hours to figure certain numbers out. Now, I have those numbers in real time, at a glance.
Estimate Tasks and Track Their Progress
Estimate how much time your teammate will need for a task
Let your team member start tracking
Compare estimated time with actuals
With an overview of estimations and tracked time, you’ll improve estimations and budgeting in the future.
brendon nicholas
co-founder and technical director,
dotdev
Having a platform that considers everybody’s salaries, as well as operating expenses, and feeds that into project budgets gives us a much more real-time and accurate view of the profitability of specific projects.
NIKA SERDONER
PROJECT MANAGER
ENKI
From a managerial point of view, the main benefit of the tool is seeing your profitability in real time. It’s there. We don’t have to calculate it or ask for financial reports from our accountant.
MARKO BARIĆ
CEO
TYPEQAST
If it wasn’t for Productive, we would have struggled to steer our company’s growth. We tripled in size since we started using it.
ERVIN JAGATIĆ
HEAD OF CLIENT SERVICES
INFINUM
Insights have become our central place to follow key metrics, analytics, numbers, graphs, and—simply said—the pulse of our agency. Currently it’s hard to imagine what our jobs would look like without insights. It’s a lock-in feature for us, for sure.
brendon nicholas
co-founder and technical director,
dotdev
Having a platform that considers everybody’s salaries, as well as operating expenses, and feeds that into project budgets gives us a much more real-time and accurate view of the profitability of specific projects.
nika serdoner
project manager
enki
From a managerial point of view, the main benefit of the tool is seeing your profitability in real time. It’s there. We don’t have to calculate it or ask for financial reports from our accountant.
marko barić
ceo
typeqast
If it wasn’t for Productive, we would have struggled to steer our company’s growth. We tripled in size since we started using it.
World-class Support
Don’t take our word for it, let our customers do the talking.
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST
NAZIRUL IBRAHIM
FULCRUM
It is a very helpful system, easy to implement and the customer service is always available online. Well done!
Chiara Pedrazzini
SNCE
…Just wanted to say thanks again for how responsive your team is. I submitted two bug reports to Productive and two other bugs to another company this week and the responses could not be more different. I speak highly about your support/accounts team and I think it’s something that other companies could learn from.
bryan casler
4site interactive studios
Thanks, your support has been great so far, best of any SaaS product I’ve tried!
Chris wilson
keep studio
Very responsive team, great interface, easy to work with
Thijs Honselaar Honselaar
Article 36 design
Every time your team writes to me, I wonder why the other systems we use can’t manage customer service anywhere near as good as you do.
zen holmgren
my own marketing team
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST
NAZIRUL IBRAHIM
FULCRUM
It is a very helpful system, easy to implement and the customer service is always available online. Well done!
Chiara Pedrazzini
SNCE
…Just wanted to say thanks again for how responsive your team is. I submitted two bug reports to Productive and two other bugs to another company this week and the responses could not be more different. I speak highly about your support/accounts team and I think it’s something that other companies could learn from.
bryan casler
4site interactive studios
Thanks, your support has been great so far, best of any SaaS product I’ve tried!
Chris wilson
keep studio
Very responsive team, great interface, easy to work with
Thijs Honselaar Honselaar
Article 36 design
Every time your team writes to me, I wonder why the other systems we use can’t manage customer service anywhere near as good as you do.
zen holmgren
my own marketing team
As always, your responses and support are exceptional, and appreciated.
Ben de jong
the cut
Thanks for an update and quick action. I give 5/5 for your support.
shiza shoaib
pinchforth
Productive is a great product but I must say that from the beginning the best thing about it is the people. Everyone is always very friendly and helpful. Thanks again!
torin stefanson
innovate by day
…And as always, thanks for the prompt support! Also, the roadmap is looking awesome. Love what the Productive team is doing!
Kevin pohl
growzilla
I need to point that Productive has the best support team ever!
Rositsa Tsankova
Visual meaning
As always, your responses and support are exceptional, and appreciated.
Ben de jong
the cut
Thanks for an update and quick action. I give 5/5 for your support.
shiza shoaib
pinchforth
Productive is a great product but I must say that from the beginning the best thing about it is the people. Everyone is always very friendly and helpful. Thanks again!
torin stefanson
innovate by day
…And as always, thanks for the prompt support! Also, the roadmap is looking awesome. Love what the Productive team is doing!
Kevin pohl
growzilla
I need to point that Productive has the best support team ever!
Rositsa Tsankova
Visual meaning
As always, your responses and support are exceptional, and appreciated.
ben de jong
The cut
Productive is a great product but I must say that from the beginning the best thing about it is the people. Everyone is always very friendly and helpful. Thanks again!
torin stefanson
innovate by day
I speak highly about your support/accounts team and I think it’s something that other companies could learn from.
BRYAN CASLER
4SITE INTERACTIVE STUDIOS
Thanks, your support has been great so far, best of any SaaS product I’ve tried!
Chris wilson
keep studio
Productive is a great product but I must say that from the beginning the best thing about it is the people. Everyone is always very friendly and helpful. Thanks again!
TORIN STEFANSON
INNOVATE BY DAY
Every time your team writes to me, I wonder why the other systems we use can’t manage customer service anywhere near as good as you do.
zen holmgren
my own marketing team
Thanks for an update and quick action. I give 5/5 for your support.
shiza shoaib
pinchforth
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The Right Answers
Median first response time
6m 16s
for first response to incoming message
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