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July 2025

June 2025

May 2025

April 2025

NEW FEATURE • apr 23 2025

Productive AI – The Smarter Way to Work

Tired of endlessly clicking, scrolling through updates, or wasting time on repetitive tasks?
With Productive AI, you can skip filters and find the data you need by simply asking in plain language. It also provides instant summaries of lengthy comment threads and Task updates, saving you time. Additionally, it can convert receipts and invoices into Expense forms in seconds. Furthermore, Productive AI allows you to write project specifications, meeting summaries, and marketing content with ease.

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March 2025

February 2025

NEW FEATURE • FEB 18 2025

Create Professional Looking Documents

Easily create and send invoices, proposals and budgets PDFs that reflect your brand. Customize the design, add your logo, and send them to your clients.

See how

January 2025

NEW FEATURE • JAN 28 2025

The Scenario Builder

What if you could test-drive your project decisions before risking your budget? The Scenario Builder in Productive makes this possible. Using it, you can model potential project outcomes and develop strategies to optimize utilization and profitability. Create multiple project scenarios where you can adjust who does the work, when they start, and how much it will cost—then see the impact of your decisions before making them.

Productive’s Scenario Builder empowers you to create scenarios, compare outcomes, and check team availability with confidence.

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NEW FEATURE • JAN 6 2025

eInvoicing: Create and Download Invoices in XRechnung Format 🇩🇪

XRechnung is Germany’s standard for e-invoicing, allowing invoices to be sent as XML files with all necessary details. Starting in 2025, it will replace paper and PDF invoices as the required format.

Watch the video to see how easy it is to create XRechnung-compliant invoices in Productive.

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December 2024

mONTHLY UPDATES • DEC 11 2024

Monthly Updates: Productive AI Takeover

This month, we’re bringing you a suite of powerful AI-driven features designed to make your work more efficient.

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November 2024

NEW FEATURE • NOV 26 2024

New: Track Workload to Prevent Burnout and Boost Efficiency

The Workload view for Tasks gives you a clear snapshot of your team’s weekly workload. See all daily and weekly project assignments in one accessible location, and use color-coded indicators to quickly identify overloaded or underutilized team members. It also accounts for personal time off and holidays, helping you adjust due dates and keep your projects on track.

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mONTHLY UPDATES • NOV 11 2024

Retainer Rollover Hours, Improved Reports and Projects

From managing rollover hours on retainers to new Automations, dive in to see how these updates can simplify your work, and improve team collaboration.

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October 2024

mONTHLY UPDATES • OCT 10 2024

New Sharing Options, Tax Rates, Champions

As the fall season approaches, we’re continuing to roll out exciting new features and improvements for Productive.

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September 2024

WEBINAR • SEP 23 2024

Office Hours Webinar: Dashboards

Learn how to create and customize Dashboards: Add reports in the form of widgets to create the control center for your agency.

Watch now

VIDEO • SEP 9 2024

Sandbox, Improved Reports, UI improvements

Usually, August is a slower part of the year, but not for Team Productive. Keep reading to discover what we have in store for you right now.

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VIDEO • SEP 3 2024

Office Hours Webinar: Vacation and Time Off

We’re kicking off our new webinar series with a topic that’s relevant to agencies of all sizes: Vacation and Time Off. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to manage time off requests and approvals, understand how time off impacts project delivery and more.

August 2024

NEW FEATURE • AUG 20 2024

Sandbox: Onboard teammates and try Productive features without messing up your data

A sandbox is a secure test environment where you can experiment without affecting your actual data.
It functions like a metaphorical playground where you can explore the system to better understand how it works or test new ideas.

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VIDEO • AUG 8 2024

Multiple Sales Pipelines, Custom Permissions, Push Expenses to Xero

From multiple sales pipelines to refining invoicing settings and custom permissions, we’ve been hard at work making Productive even more efficient for you. 

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July 2024

BLOG POST • JUL 11 2024

Productive Updates June: New Automations, Status Sync, Simple Budget Editor

As we head into summer season, we’re still not exactly backing down when it comes to new feature we released in June.

VIDEO • JUL 9 2024

Track Daily and Weekly Workload (BETA)

Now you can check your team’s daily and weekly workload and use it to improve utilization.

Using Workload, you can check estimated and worked time per each task, which is then compared to the person’s availability. If a teammate has too many Tasks on their hand, you’ll notice a visual warning. On the other hand, you’ll also see if they need more work. Read this article to learn more.

June 2024

VIDEO • JUN 27 2024

New in Time Off: Status Sync, Time Off Tab, Attachment Upload

You can set your status in Productive to let your teammates know if you’re in the office, working from home or absent. Now the status will sync automatically with your time off categories, meaning that your teammates will instantly know if you’re off.

You can also add attachments when requesting time off – perfect for documentation HR might request. Also, we’ve added the Time Off tab to Profiles, where you’ll find all the booked time off.

May 2024

BLOG POST • Jun 14 2024

Productive Updates May: Budget Templates, Automations, Time Off

This May, we’ve introduced several updates designed to make your work more efficient. From budget templates to enhanced Permission sets, we’ve made it easier to manage projects and collaborate with clients. Plus, our latest Automations and Time off improvements will save you loads of time.

VIDEO • DEC 18 2023

Parakeeto and Productive: Time Tracking – Best Practices

Watch our webinar with Marcel Petitpas, CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto and learn all about the importance of time tracking in the agency world. In this webinar, we covered the main reasons agencies struggle with time tracking and how to fix them.

April 2024

March 2024

BLOG POST • apr 18 2024

Productive Monthly Updates: March

We’re very proud of our latest innovation: The Permission Builder, which has been in development for several years and is currently the most flexible permission system on the market. But there are so many other features that you don’t want to miss, so be sure to dive in and continue reading the article in full.

VIDEO • MAR 27 2024

Permission Builder – Control Who Sees What In Productive

The Permissions Builder allows you to define what each teammate will have access to. Fully customizable permissions protect your sensitive business data while providing teammates with access to the data they need to complete their work.

February 2024

BLOG POST • mar 14 2024

Productive Monthly Updates: February

We’ve added significant improvements to resource management so you can get even more from it. You’ll also find improvements in document templates and a brand new integration.

VIDEO • FEB 12 2024

Utilization And Forecasting In Crisis Times

In this webinar hosted by The Agency Collective and Fran Vižintin, BDR at Productive, we covered the metrics that help you run a healthier agency business: utilization, forecasted utilization, revenue forecasting, cost & profit forecasting, and budget burn.

January 2024

BLOG POST • FEB 12 2024

Productive Monthly Updates: January

You can automate your agency with Automations, add bookings for Sales deals, define custom cost rates for Budgets, and more.

VIDEO • JAN 17 2024

Automations in Productive: Save Time Spent on Common Actions

Powerful automations that are easy to configure, with no coding required. Define actions that happen automatically, from opening Tasks, posting comments, or sending messages to Slack. From simple everyday actions to complex multi-step workflows, there is an Automation that fits your way of working.