LiquidPlanner Reviews & Product Details

Our company like the ability to change the priority of jobs on a daily meeting schedule. We've grown to rely on this system as the backbone of our weekly schedule.

When we work with LP, we find that our ability track our work doesn't get to the level we want to reach, as well as having to create a false person to hold the hours and dull them from is a pain.

We can deliver accurate reports to our clients on where time was spent on a projected how much is left to do. Our morning meetings have dropped from an hour and a half to fifteen minutes. Why? We all enter in our notes at night on what we did that day so our PM knows what is happening and where the project is headed. The morning meeting is now focused on what are we doing that day, rather then what as been done and where are we headed.

How easy the click/ drag scheduling works and allows for an easy real time impact.

I wish there were more options for creating dependencies. Specifically I tend to need to assign dependencies to a LARGE number of smaller projects to a larger one, and this is cumbersome and time consuming currently having to click each one, one at a time.

We are using LP for future work forecasting as well as assessing current workload capacity.

I like the fact that is easier to get a sense of the time a project will take especially with large cross-functional teams. It helps to get a sense id the deadline will be meat or not and how long will the delay be. It is specially useful when choosing suppliers for a certain project.

I don't like that the system allows you to log more than 24 hrs a day even though it is probably a mistake. Also, it is easy to have user assign themselves to tasks without previous approval. The projects time line should be more readily available. I would like to see the overall project timeline more easily as it is puts in perspective the impact of what I am working on. Aside from motivating it helps with some positive reward when you see it and how much you contributed to the success of said project. It could also help the team keep motivated.

Assigning resources to a task. I like that I am able to understand how free or how busy an employee is in order to make sure everyone is being used equally and have the best collaboration for a project. Also, it allows to understand how many resources said project needs and an understanding of the initial assumption needed at the start of the project and what happened at the end. With this information it is easy to plan future projects.

Liquid Planner helps me and all of my co-workers on track with all of our projects. With the ability to log our daily hours per project, it is easy to see how many hours are being put into different tasks. With the ability to have several people work on the same project, it allows us to se who did what work, and what still needs to be complete. Overall it has made logging hours a much easier and streamlined task.

While using liquid planner, the software does everything that I personally need it to do. When it comes to assigning new tasks for projects or logging hours that I have worked on said projects, it preforms all of these task with ease running into not one problem. If anything I would suggest making the UI of the software a but more streamline as at some points it can be hard to navigate to specific things, such as check boxes and different menus. But this has not been an issue when it comes to actively using the software.

Before liquid planner, we had to submit out hours into projects individually in our system. This did not allow us to see what hours were contributed to which task. The benefits I have found using liquid planner include but aren't limited to hour management, project management, task assignment, and project time logging. All of this has helped us to keep track of each projects tasks individually, allowing us to pin point what can be improved or changed in the future, allowing for more efficiency.

Liquidplanner is a real project and tasks management tool that allow us o plan,schedule and organise all of our projects on the go. It fully eases monitoring and tracking he progress of our projects and tasks on the go. It collaborates our teams hence maximise their perfomance.

Liquidplanner has been meeting all of our projects management needs and solve them once, so no complain this far.

-Collaborating our teams and maximising their productivity. - It eases accessing of our projects folders. - Organise,plan and schedule our projects according to priority of needs. - Classifies our projects. - It is very easy to implement it and flexible across various devices so its availability is guaranteed. - We use it to prepare projects' budget and invoices. It has a lot of benefits.

Intuitive - most features are straight-forward and the ability to drag and drop or change and rename tasks, projects, folders and workspaces etc on the fly is a big time-saver. Customer support has always been very responsive and helpful and they listen to feedback from users. Although I don't use it nearly as much any more working remote, the mobile app is nice for those on the go who want to stay current on the projects and teams status. My team has also taken advantage of the occasional live webinars and online tutorials to get the most of Liquid Planner which we find to be very helpful.

There isn't much to dislike in my opinion but it is a bit higher priced than some of the other competitors we have tried out. However as the saying goes, you often get what you pay for and Liquid Planner is a top notch product so the value is still there.

Tracking large-scale data and technology projects across multiple teams within the organization. The ability to run various analytics reports and easily extract my teams hours and budgeting by projects/tasks has made certain aspects of my job much more efficient. The search functionality makes it very easy to locate tasks, projects, documents or notes even from years ago which can be a big help. Sharing files and information securely is very easy which has never been more necessary with most working remote these days.

I love being able to track my daily, weekly, and monthly tasks. The addition of milestones to monitor project success has been vital it helping us to track key project elements during and after project completion.

It’s not super colorful or creative in design. I’d love for there to be other elements to draw my attention or have items stand out differently.

We’re able to figure out where the hangups or issues arise with client projects through task and milestone completion. It’s great to be able to see a visual representation of how to improve the process or explain the timeline to clients throughout the process. Looking at the timeline of projects and hangups allows us to look at the overall cost of the project to determine if we’re on track for pricing, etc.

The Task Distribution and best that we can create different folder for different tasks.

I dont think I dislike anything about Liquid Planner till now.

Project Management and we can monitor all the tasks. Best thing is we can create different tasks checklist inside the task as well as create a notes, share links, and documents.

The ability to determine an individual person's capacity and availability to get a task done. Our ability to easily see our labor costs on a project. The ability to manage resources overall projects, adjust project timelines and adjust priorities of tasks.

It takes time for team members to learn how to use the tool. Project managers have want to still use spreadsheets to create a plan before putting it into LiquidPlanner.

Grouping of efforts by the client and able to see billable hours by department and team. The dashboards by the client and my team assist us to identify successes and potential problems.

In LiquidPlanner I like having multiple tagging and filing systems for tasks. I like being able to have maximum effort and daily limits to tasks.

The overall style of the software seems outdated. I do appreciate that it's not overtly flashy. But I do believe that the style could be improved while maintaining the simplicity of the design and functionality.

This is how our company tracks our time devoted to client and internal projects. It helps keep everything organized in one place and provides visibility to the whole company on what we're working on. There are so many benefits to using LiquidPlanner from a time management perspective.

It organizes projects and data in one place. Easy search feature and easy uploading of documents. Perfect team tagging and great in time keeping as well as recording.

There is one thing that makes it odd ,when it comes to navigating UI it becomes a bit hectic.

For all project management and resource planning .It has been the most reliable.

The ability to have discussions, updates, and share information easily across different teams, and keep the history. To be able to see the entire history of a project, any issues that came up, and things that impact timing. How employees can talk to multiple people at once, with the same message, is critical.

Least helpful is simply the reporting feature, as it's very generic for all uses. While each company is different, it takes a little bit of time to learn how to pull the information you want, and sometimes it's a lot of work depending on the format which you want.

Miscommunication and lack of communication has greatly been prevented, and our lead times have been adjusted and we've meet all of our delivery targets for the entire year. It's been extremely helpful!

All of the organization's project data is in one place where all of management can view it and get the same picture. Stagnant schedule files no longer exist; project managers are given accurate, dynamic status based on project priority as set by senior leadership and task progress as reported by individual contributors. Great reports, dashboards, analytics automate much of the tedious work required of project managers when providing project status.

Setting predecessors and successors not possible by task ID as it is in project There is only one dependency type (finish to start) , others (start to start, finish to finish), not allowed Needs a "work in parallel" function in addition to work in order, work independently, to allow all of the resources to get assigned to start at the same time on the task when everyone is available to start

We can see the impacts of shifting priorities quickly and easily. We can manage a larger number of projects with fewer project managers. Our individual contributors don't need to report their status many times to many different people; it's all in the same place. Our resource managers can easily see who is working on what through the course of a day, week, month, etc. We can use the collaboration functions to encourage note taking related to time spent on individual tasks, showing us areas for improvement, sources of waste, etc.

LiquidPlanner provides a comprehensive breakdown of projects and tasks, analysis, time tracking, and many features that make our daily needs for all people my team easy to stay organized. It's a great all-in-one tool.

The UI is a little tough to navigate sometimes. I hope that LP moves towards a more colorful and visually stimulating look. There are other tools out there that have nice "looks". It would also be great if there were options to customize the interface by using different colors, or fonts, or even layout. Not major customization, just a few options...specifically the colors. Another place where Liquid Planner could improve would be allowing a "Virtual User" login, for Virtual Users to be able to track hours without using a complete license. We occasionally need to bring in other folks and having this option would be a benefit.

Teams are staying on track, we can better predict available resources, estimated levels of effort, timelines, and communicating within tasks. We've seen an increase in productivity and efficiency since using the tool in the last few years.

I can see all my projects at a glance. My employees and I all track our individual time on individual tasks. I can assign multiple people to anything. The folder/sub-folder structure is intuitive and allows me to manage micro projects within larger projects. I can easily reorder and prioritize tasks simply clicking and dragging. And I think the best part for our company is the ability to forward emails and messages from my inbox directly to LiquidPlanner either as a new task or to an existing task. It's truly an amazing platform for any project manager who has to juggle multiple projects and make sure that communications from their clients get routed quickly the right place and people.

Honestly, the only feature that I've ever requested that hasn't been implemented is the ability to color-code folders. The initial setup and learning curve was the only thing that may have been a deterrent in the beginning. But once I realized that I didn't HAVE to use every single feature and just focused on the stuff I need for my company -- it was pretty easy. And all my employees over the years were able to use it just fine. I was afraid they would balk, but it's no different than learning the basics of a new point-of-sale program at any retail store.

I run a fast-pased print shop and web development company. Each customer order would have so many moving parts, that I as project manager, was completely losing my mind trying to stay on top of all the orders, where they were in the process, and all the communications with each client. Also, trying to collect timesheets on projects from each client and account for all the labor, supplies, etc. was the most time-consuming thing I had to do each week. Billing would sometimes be held up for days because I would get so backlogged. LiquidPlanner let me and my staff keep everything together in one place. Everyone knows exactly where to look to get answers and can also answer client's questions without running around the shop asking individual people, "Do you know where this job is?" "Is that job done?" "Have these supplies been ordered?" Etc. etc.

Unlike other tools, it schedules your tasks based on your availability per hours in the week. It does not allow you to overschedule yourself or your team. This is HUGE for planning. Also it allows to create priorities across multiple projects without you having to remove tasks from their folders in order to create a hierarchy. This feature is also HUGE. I have tried about 20 different PM tools and honestly, nothing comes even close to Liquid Planner. Plus their customer support is incredible. I have been a customer for 5 years and I HIGHLY recommend it.

The user interface is a little confusing and it's not as pretty as Trello ...but the immense value of all of its tools far outweighs this downside.

No longer overpromising on projects and underestimating the time it takes to complete tasks and milestones. The prioritization features have enabled us to focus on what is truly important instead of just using high / low / medium which dont have that much meaning in reality. The reporting features have enabled us to constantly stay on track and identify areas of key importance that have been neglected.

My favorite function of liquid planner is the dashboard tool. To be able to view all my upcoming tasks, milestones and meetings prioritized in one place is super helpful!

I wish I could view the job costing easier. I would like to know how to view how a job is financially doing after putting in the contract amount, and have the ability to view the tasks time allotments interacting with the overall all contract amount.

Liquid planner helps me solve the problem of juggling multiple jobs and tracking all the tasks, milestones and deadlines associated.

It's got a very robust feature set with simple prioritizing options. Love the time tracking features, easy to drag and drop tasks into place. I love the different view options. I use a pretty basic set of features, but it's not overwhelming or too complex to be simple to use.

There is nothing that I dislike. It works great for me.

Time tracking, billing reports, project planning, resource planning, project management, keeping track of all todos.

Liquid Planner gives a clear picture of what needs to be done, who need to do it, and when. Team members no longer need to spend time figuring out their daily agenda, and everyone's schedule is visible. The automatic scheduler keeps estimated completion dates continually accurate. Project managers don't have to manually move large chunks of tasks/milestones/etc when the project inevitably experiences delays or scope changes.

The interface design is a bit dated, and could probably use a refresh. Because it's so customizable and data-heavy, it can seem daunting at first use. Also, the mobile app seems to have been ignored for years.

Our team is able to track the progress of projects better, and is gaining much more insight into what causes delays/overages. Individuals feel much more comfortable with their clearly defined expectations, based in the reality of actual available hours. It's much more difficult to over-promise/under-deliver when the scheduling system warns of conflicts ahead of time.

I think it's very easily navigable, and an easy place to be able to house all internal communication and even documents that pertain to particular projects.

The overall layout can be very intimidating at first practice. It get's much more frendly the more you're in it however.

Id' say definitely solving overall internal communication, especially during the quarantine and remote working.