I’m leading up a small agency that has no timesheets. No pm tools. Nothing. Looking for suggestions. My basic needs are timesheets, resourcing, financial reporting - burn and scope tracking. NOT invoicing as that’s covered and too much change. I’m not opposed to a simple tool and using smartsheet too. I love smartsheet but it doesn’t do timesheets. I don’t want to have huge barriers to usage so want simple and not worrying about asset tracking or task tracking. What would you suggest?

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Everhour for time tracking. It has an integration with Asana if you’re looking to also implement a PM tool.

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If you have a budget for PM software, go Smartsheets or Monday. If you don’t, go with Excel online and make stuff from scratch… it’s painful but possible.

BTW, if you’re in a small agency, do you really need timesheets? Plenty of places do fine without them… they annoy creatives to no end, and can be pointless unless your boss is asking for them.

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They can’t be if they are not billing the client for the work.

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Try programs like ClickUp, Monday or Wrike

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Workfront you can do all these things. I believe Monday as well. I’m so sorry. When did you start? Was this mentioned in the interview? Someone on my team just walked me through Workfront. I def saw the reporting & resourcing. You can also I believe upload your timelines. You can also use excel and make a quick budget tracker.

I've used WF and Monday. WF is very robust and can grow with the company. I found Monday very simple and not great. Keep in mind it's not an out of the box tool and you'll need to build it out according to your needs, etc.

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