CONSULTING SOFTWARE
Run Each Client Like a Separate P&L
Plan and allocate resources for ongoing and future projects
Know where your team’s time is going—both billable and non-billable
Forecast revenue and compare it to actuals to see exactly where your business stands
Consultancies Trust Productive To Run Their Operations
What Stops Consultancies from Thriving
Spreadsheet Bottlenecks
Spreadsheets are often outdated, clunky, and fail when you need real-time answers.
Inefficient Resource Planning
New projects keep coming, but you struggle to see who to assign to work?
Blind Spots in Project Profitability
How much are you actually making? Is non-billable work eating into your profits?
Get Full Visibility Into Resources and Revenue With Productive
FLEXIBLE TIME TRACKING
Time Is Money, We Show You Where It’s Going
- Let your team log hours in seconds using timers, time sheets, or automatic time tracking suggestions
- Logged time is linked to budgets, so you can see the impact on profitability instantly
SMARTER RESOURCE PLANNING
Allocate Resources by Skills & Availability
- Use custom fields to filter your teammates by skill, seniority, and see who’s available or who’s booked
- Plan for upcoming projects with placeholders to forecast resource needs and estimate hiring costs
- Map out future work with tentative bookings for new contracts or upcoming projects
POWERFUL BUDGET MANAGEMENT
Track Project Profitability in Real Time
- Build and manage budgets for any project type—fixed price, time & materials, or non-billable work
- Track billable and non-billable time against different service lines
- Log time and expenses to track budget spend and avoid budget overruns
CREATE ACCURATE FORECASTS
Forecast Every Scenario With Confidence
- Forecast profit for individual clients, projects or your entire consultancy
- Track current and future billable utilization by month, person, or team to anticipate capacity changes and hiring needs
- Explore different financial outcomes with Productive’s Scenario Builder
Purpose-Built Reports for Consultancies
BRENDON NICHOLAS
CO-FOUNDER AND TECHNICAL DIRECTOR,
DOTDEV
If I had to describe the one thing that Productive does for us it’s decision-making. We make key commercial decisions about how we’re running the business, running our accounts, how we’re hiring and managing resources. It really is the tool for helping us make decisions.
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.
BRENDON NICHOLAS
CO-FOUNDER AND TECHNICAL DIRECTOR,
DOTDEV
If I had to describe the one thing that Productive does for us it’s decision-making. We make key commercial decisions about how we’re running the business, running our accounts, how we’re hiring and managing resources. It really is the tool for helping us make decisions.
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.
Optimize Operations With Productive
Integrate Tools and Reduce Manual Work
Integrate with the rest of your business tools like Xero, JIRA, Slack, or QuickBooks and deliver projects faster.
With You From Quote to Cash
Build Proposals
Quickly build estimates by importing default or client-specific rate cards for services and expenses. Export proposals as PDFs.
Turn Deals Into Projects
Seamlessly convert a deal into a completely new project, or add it as a new budget within an existing project.
Create Invoices
Bill clients for your services in a couple of clicks—be it time and materials, expenses or fixed fees.
Frequently Asked Questions
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