What is Avaza?
What do you like best?
Avaza is streamlined, simple to use and accessible. Their invoicing system is easy and interfaces with Quickbooks properly to ensure our books are correct, which has been a problem with other systems. And their customer service team is incredible – I have brought them some complex problems, and they always go above and beyond to tackle and fix the issue quickly. They are patient, even when I ask ridiculously obvious questions, and are kind, dropping the tech jargon to simplify explanations. We tried multiple systems before we settled on Avaza, but their features and awesome help team won us over – and we’re happy they did!
I’ve tried at least 35 project management programs, and NOTHING works as well as Avaza. You can build task inventory, easily create estimates, easily convert those estimates into tasks, convert the tasks into invoices, which you can then send to clients who can approve them in a second with one click. The navigation is completely intuitive; you never have to guess to get from one function to the other. And it integrates well with QuickBooks. We have been using it several years now and have not run into any show-stoppers (which always happened with the other programs). It has grown with us easily and we can’t imagine using anything else.
My team’s experience with Avaza has only been positive. Not only is the price extremely competitive, but customer service is top-notch, the platform is user-friendly, and the PM abilities are exactly what my team was searching for.
Reporting is very powerful but for us as a business, the timesheet facility was the deciding factor. It has revolutionised the way we work
What do you dislike?
Compared to other systems I’ve used, some of the project management functionality is slightly limited. However, they are constantly improving and are very open to suggestions for improvement
Honestly, there hasn’t been a downside. We ran into one restriction recently, but checked with support, and there was an easy way to get around it (sending invoices to someone who is in two different companies, which can happen when we are working with a company that has a division or affiliated company with the same accounts payable email address for both). You just have to type the addresses in the “to” file manually. If you consider that we have numerous people working on numerous projects every day, and that’s about the biggest problem we’ve encountered, you know it’s one great application. Highly recomended.
I dislike that when you search in external contacts, you have to spell the full name from the beginning; it would be nice to have a search system that pulls up the title with keywords.
Although the customer service team and our sales representative were helpful, the onboarding process was very hands-off with the Avaza team. Other platforms that we were exploring had designated team members to walk us through onboarding and customizing Avaza to fit our team’s needs. Luckily, Avaza is simple to use (one of the biggest pulls for my team on our decision to sign on with Avaza), but we had to figure a lot of settings out for ourselves.
I haven’t been able to fully nail down approval settings. It seems that a few expense and timesheet submissions are being sent to everyone on the team, and I haven’t been able to figure out a way to stop this from happening – although, this may be user error. I would love to implement daily timesheet reminders for team members as well!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We tried Avaza because we needed to upgrade our invoicing system, but we’ve since found that we use multiple other components of the software, like time tracking, expenses and reports.
Just moving smoothly from estimate to tasks to invoices is wonderful. Information flows with little to no need to enter in any additional data for each new phase.
Expense/Budget tracking – the reporting abilities in Avaza are great! The resource booking feature has also been an added plus! It’s a great all-in-one system that has allowed my team to better streamline our work.
Timesheet management, improvements to manual administration, project reporting and financial analysis
Features
- Multi-Currency
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Time & Expense Tracking
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Expense Tracking
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Approval Process Control
Pros
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“The more I use Avaza, the more I like it and the more I can see us using additional features. It’s been positive and we’re glad to have chosen Avaza over the many other options out there.”
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“The free functions of the product are very impressive.”
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“Avaza makes it easy to collaborate on projects and tasks with clients and teammates. Especially, I appreciate the fact that notifications and messages are sent directly to my email.”
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“Easy to understand and it’s very full of useful working features.”
Cons
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“I wanted to use on a recent flight, but without purchasing wifi, I was unable to. I don’t like giving airlines any more $ for wifi.”
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“Some features are still missing- in exporting and working on projects offline.”
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“Offset days” for recurring projects is a bit confusing, and I wish that there was a way to remove collaborators we are no longer working with.”
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“I slightly dislike the fact that Avaza lacks offline access capabilities to
synchronize data while offline.
Avaza Pricing
$0 /month
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Yes, has free trial
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Yes, has free version