“Collaboration tools, especially those suitable or positioned for project management, is popping up like dandelions after a spring shower. But what’s amazing is that they all exhibit certain uniqueness that make them suitable for some situations. This brings up two points for all project managers: 1) Innovation matters. Successful project managers need to think differently as evident by the hundreds of tools out there. 2) There is a market. For those project mangers discouraged by the job market and prospects, just look at this tools market. Are you ready to compete?”
Te Wu’s comments on the article by Pratik Dholakiya titled 4 Greatest Online Collaboration and Project Management Tools (see below)
Pratik Dholakiya for SmallBizTrends.com writes: Collaboration and project management plays a key role in the growth of a business. This is especially applicable for small businesses as all the work in such companies is based on a few resources who are responsible for both communicating and developing the workflow.
Another reason why small businesses need these online collaboration and project management tools is that they are increasingly working with remote employees and offshore partners. Proper collaboration is an absolute necessity.
In fact, small and medium size businesses find Web-based or cloud collaboration and project management tools more beneficial than traditional project management tools.
Below are 4 online collaboration and project management tools and solutions that help businesses of any size maximize their productivity, efficiency, project profitability and revenue effortlessly.
You can use them to track your projects, set milestones, manage your team members, schedule work, upload your files, and send invoices and so on.
Better yet, you can even sync these tools with your mobile and access them from anywhere, anytime.
1. Nutcache
Nutcache is a cloud-based collaborative project management system that comes with integrated invoicing and time tracking applications. Designed to help businesses of all sizes work smarter, it largely appeals to companies striving to better plan, organize and track the work of their teams, helping them from ideation to completion and beyond.
Using the collaborative boards of Nutcache, you can invite your team members, clients and other collaborators to work on your project, share ideas and documents, create lists and cards, track the time spent on each assignment, create automatic invoices, and get paid with a click of a button.
The features of this online collaborative project management system include:
- Build projects for specific clients and assign hours to a particular project
- Attach files, videos and/or images to a project
- Allocate expenses to projects
- Bill projects with worked hours as well as expenses for a specific period
- Compare actual and estimated data on a project and also analyse billable vs. non-billable ratio
- Create collaborative boards for specific projects and organize it with lists and cards
- Invoice an entire board
- Track the time spent on a particular assignment
- Manage expense and create reports
- Create invoices and estimates in seconds and choose various recurring frequencies, and more
Nutcache also helps you track your overdue invoices and allows you accept credit cards and online payments. It is integrated with Paypal, Authorize.net, Stripe and 2Checkout. Besides, it is available in eight languages and its time-tracking app is available on both Android and iOS devices.
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