LiquidPlanner Reviews & Product Details

Real time workload for the team and being able to see the entire portfolio and priorities of the work

That you can't resource plan without multiple windows being open.

Analytics and managers being able to see all aspects.

The ability to classify tasks in multiple ways to track activities.

Sometimes reporting is a bit unclear in selecting some data fields.

The ability to project required time needed for future projects base in the past.

Time management - it's very simple to add time and export the data

Design - its robust which also means a bit difficult to use

Task management - I can very easily keep track of my work

LiquidPlanner truly is the best way to capture both the most minute details and the most important big picture aspects of a project. One of its biggest strengths allowing all project contributors to log time on a task by task basis, then summarizing that work output in customizable, easy to understand dashboards for management to make decisions off of.

It does take some time to learn. Some of the less tech-savvy members of my company continue to have issues using it, even though we have been phasing it in for about 6 months. Probably the biggest drawback is that, at least for my company, anyone can reorder or rename a project. This is a big deal for us, because each box under the "All Projects" tab corresponds to a different engineering R&D project. The order of these determines the allocation of resources, so that order makes a big difference in which projects get priority. To my knowledge, there is nothing stopping any user from manually reordering that list. It would get corrected immediately, of course, but that power is disturbing. Plus, anyone can rename any project. A colleague of mine accidentally renamed one of the R&D projects to his domain login password! He did not realize his error until someone else in the company brought it to his attention half an hour later. Anyways, this seems to indicate that LiquidPlanners biggest strenghths (user empowerment, flexibility, customizability) can also be its biggest risks.

Solves the problem of prioritizing R&D projects and allocating company resources based on that priority. Brings all the resource groups (design team, machining center, lab testing etc.) together to work off of one priority list

Liquid planner allows me to easily keep track of the projects I am working on and track my time against tasks I complete. The ability to add a custom field to track the current state of tasks further enhances the granularity and detail of the reporting.

The interface can be a little cumbersome sometimes I feel. I still haven't figured out how to work well out of the Timesheet view and work mainly in the projects view.

LP allows my organization to accurately keep track of billable time and ensure projects are on schedule. It has improved our time management and tracking.

Anytime we thought we might want to find a new product to suit our needs we spoke to an agent with LP. Every time we contacted the company they showed us different functionality that we could integrate and grow our LP involvement.

A bit expensive for the amount of work we had to put into using it. It's not as intuitive as other products.

Our marketing/creative team is using LP as a project management and agile tool.

Liquid Planner has so many built-in capabilities. I personally like the way I can create tasks for a project, assign them to resources, and immediately see the completion date. I can set deadlines on tasks or folders and see where there might be problems in the timeline. I also use this software for its timesheet capabilities. It is easy to see how much time has been logged against a task and if that is over or under the estimate. Liquid Planner has a great support team that we have leveraged as well.

One thing I disliked most was the inability to understand what was causing risk on a particular project or individual task. However Liquid Planner just came out with a release that highlights exactly what I was looking for.

Wow, I can't even imagine my daily work without Liquid Planner. We schedule all of our work in Liquid Planner and track all of our time there. We have tried a few other project management platforms and time tracking software but this one is the best all-around option by far. I love having everything I need in one place.

I like that you can easily direct comments to specific people. However, you are able to keep all comments in a specific place so that it is easily searchable and you can look through the history, as opposed to an email chain, in which certain emails might not be accessible to all. I also like that things are organized by project, so that it makes it easier when you need to go back and look for an old comment or project.

The search function is a little too restrictive. If I want to search for XX-11 but I'm not sure whether it is "XX 11" or "XX-11", searching for "11" will not find "XX-11". You have to know to search for *11.

We use this software to list out projects and specific project tasks. It has allowed us to delegate tasks to specific people, and keep track of tasks that need to be done. We do not use the time management parts of the software.

Straight forward to get started, most actions are easy to take and the display is clear to the user.

The delay between changes and the server catching up is not ideal, group changes and cloning of items in the planner could use some further refinement, simple access breakdowns for people or time ranges would be a plus.

We are using Liquid Planner to manage the various projects being worked on. It allows us to clear express to the teams in the company what priorities are, what progress is being made and when milestones are expected to be hit.

The user-friendly interface and predictive planning algorithm help us know where we are and what's next. I enjoy working in LiquidPlanner.

LiquidPlanner does not provide basic financial features that would allow our team to know where we are on project scheduling AND budget.

LiquidPlanner solves our problem of always building projects from scratch – the templates section allows us to quickly bid out a project and then quickly schedule it when we are ready. It takes a lot of the guesswork out.

Flexibility, ability to play out multiple scenarios.

GUI is not as modern as it could be. Could be more dynamic.

Product development planning.

Easy communication between team members and even people on the outside i.e. clients

I would love if it would easily track where you started from and not by using a baseline which you need to think of to capture.

Easy communication with team. Easy output of a timeline for our clients and also the addition of what our budget and hours estimated are.

See where are my team's hours are being spent.

Not counting the hours marked as complete towards the total hours of the project.

Helping ensure the hours worked towards projects are the hours being billed.

It is easy to categorize tasks and projects for all the different departments in our company. I like that a task can be scheduled to go from one team to the next until the project is completed.

It is hard to find a completed task if you don't know EXACTLY how to search for it. It doesn't pull up similar results in the search bar, only exact matches.

LP helps our company keep track of tons of tasks from hundreds of clients and categorize them by being a high importance deadline or putting them on hold until we need it again.

I like that we can track all the work being done for clients and project the availability of our team members to bring on new projects without becoming overwhelmed.

I don't like how LiquidPlanner schedules work for individuals by using a prioritized hierarchy system based on the order from top to bottom because we have some things that are of the same priority and it pushes and adjusts team member's schedules based on that.

We are really keeping tabs on how long it takes to complete certain tasks which gives us a better idea of what to charge clients and how to be more efficient with our time as a company.