What it does
ActiveCollab is a project and team-work platform positioned for service businesses. It brings project planning, task management, resource planning, collaboration, time tracking, client management, budgeting, reporting, and invoicing into one product. Its client-focused tools can help an agency keep delivery work and the business details around it in the same workspace.
A service team can use ActiveCollab to organize a client engagement from project setup through delivery. Create a project, divide the work into tasks, and use the planning and resource features to coordinate who is doing what. The project-management feature page describes project spaces, task lists, dependencies, recurring tasks, milestones, due dates, priorities, and a project profitability overview. The broader feature set also covers resource planning, time tracking, collaboration, client management, budgeting, invoicing, and reporting. That wider workflow is useful when a task's status matters alongside time spent, costs, or client communication.
For an illustrative design project, a team might list research, concepts, review, and handoff as work items, assign owners, and record time against the project. The product's pricing page shows paid plans and a fully featured 14-day trial; it also describes flat-rate and per-user options. There is no need to assume every feature is included in every plan, so confirm the current plan comparison before inviting a whole client team. See ActiveCollab and its pricing page.
Strengths
- Project management is paired with resource planning, time tracking, budgets, and reporting.
- Client management and collaboration features are part of the same service-business workflow.
- The pricing page offers a 14-day trial before choosing among paid plans.
Watch out for
- The paid plans use different billing structures and feature bundles, so teams should compare the current plan details before adoption.
Best for
- Agencies and consultancies coordinating client projects and billable work
- Service teams that need project status alongside resource and budget visibility